Author: Press Room
Almost forty years after the original releases, Litfiba announce the reissues of “17 Kings” and the live “12/05/87 (Open your eyes)”, two central titles of the era of the so-called “Trilogy of Power”. Pre-orders of the new editions are already available. “12/05/87 (Open your eyes) Live”, recorded at Tenax in Florence during the last date of the “17 kings” tour, will return from June 19th on double vinyl, both black and colored. The album documents one of the most representative phases of the formation composed of Piero Pelù, Ghigo Renzulli, Antonio Aiazzi, Gianni Maroccolo and Ringo De Palma. For the…
Most of Delia Beatriz’s work since 2019’s breakthrough System EP has been experimental, anthropological, and rooted in software. First there was The Long Count, where the Mexican American producer and NYU adjunct professor, better known as Debit, used machine learning to reproduce the sounds of ancient Mayan instruments, infusing ghostly ambient with dread and a sense of wonder. Then she took on cumbia rebajada, a slowed-down subgenre of cumbia from Monterrey, and slowed it even more, using granular synthesis to create an album of equally unsettling drone. Both those records came out on Modern Love, a UK imprint known for…
Brutalismus 3000, the Berlin electronic duo comprised of producer Theo Zeitner and singer Victoria Vassiliki Daldas, call their music “nu-gabber post-techno punk.” They deride Berlin’s techno scene as painfully serious and “unstylish,” cringing at ravers self-styled as revolutionaries. They shoot music videos with happy crews of children smashing and spray-painting TVs. And if they had to write a manifesto, they’d title it “Fuck Shit Up” (or “We’ll Kill a CEO”).This devil-may-care attitude befits the duo’s loud, aggro, in-your-face music: scrap-metal synths and air-raid sirens, jackhammering hardstyle kicks, and banshee shrieks that sound like they’re being shredded through chopper blades. Brutalismus…
Like the supermassive black holes they once sang about, Muse, too, have been collapsing in on themselves thanks to their own ludicrous gravity. Music historians tend to overstate the timeframe of this terminal condition; the band always had plenty of pomp and ceremony but, at its best, that brashness was paired with a poise which made you feel like the ship was at least being steadied by an able captain. Somewhere around the point of 2009’s The Resistance, though, Muse really did double down on the assumption that more is more: dabbling in whomping EDM, hopping on the Stranger Things…
The band pushed back two dates at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas Rush announced that its remaining two dates of a four-show run at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, have been postponed after lead singer and bassist Geddy Lee was diagnosed with laryngitis and bronchitis. In a statement shared to Rush's official Instagram account, the band said that the June 20 and July 2 shows will now take place on July 11 and July 13, respectively. Lee was advised by doctors to “rest and recover before returning to the stage,” the group said. “This is incredibly disappointing for…
vote7.5 Bands: HOC EST BELLUM Duration: 00:29:12 Available from: 06/29/2026 Label: Time To Kill Records Another coup scored by our local Time To Kill Records: with the present “Filth Majesty”, the Roman label celebrates the long-distance debut of Hoc Est Bellum, a Finnish trio whose mission, nomen omenis to bring us down through an act of ruthless sonic warfare.Black-death dark and primitive, wild and violent, acidic but, strange to say, orderly in its infernal pandemonium. On the one hand the compatriots Archgoat, on the other, kilometers and kilometers away, the Australians Bestial Warslut: these are the two main references that…
Peter Gabriel has released a new song. It's called “I Belong To The Sky” and is the new taste of “o/i”, the album expected by the end of the year. The song was initially conceived during the “i/o” sessions, released in 2023, but has only now been completed. The British musician himself considers it special: “It's one of my favorite songs ever.” Recounting the birth of the piece, Gabriel explained that it all started from a rhythmic intuition: “The starting point of the song was the timpani rhythm, inspired by an old film called 'Jazz On A Summer's Day', which…
vote7.5 Bands: WOW YOU Duration: 00:48:55 Available from: 06/26/2026 Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Vafurlogi return with “Gneisti af eldi Guðs”, the second attempt of a project that continues to stand out within the Icelandic black metal scene for a research that is not always comparable to the parallel experiences of its author. Just under two years after the appreciated debut “Í vökulli áþján”, the mastermind Þórir Garðarsson – former guitarist of fundamental groups in the local scene such as Svartidauði and Sinmara – reopens his archive of compositions, recovering material born in different periods: some more recent ideas in fact…
Chris Brown must pay $13 million in damages to the housekeeper who was mauled by a massive security dog on his property in December 2020, a California jury decided Tuesday. Billboard was first to report the news. The housekeeper, Maria Avila, gave emotional testimony at the two-week trial, breaking down on the witness stand as she described the Dec. 12, 2020, mauling at Brown’s home in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles. She said the attack left her with severe injuries to her arm and face, extensive scarring, and post-traumatic stress disorder. “I will never be the same again,” she…
There is a detail that is immediately striking when listening Agape: Deaf Kaki Chumpy never really stopped searching. After years spent recalibrating their identity – with a renewed lineup, one less drum kit and one more vibraphone – the collective returns with an album that does not represent a simple restart, but the natural evolution of an artistic path always refractory to labels. Agape it preserves all the elements that made the language of the gods recognisable Deaf Kaki Chumpybut deliberately renounces any search for an immediate effect. It's a less “paraculo” record, in the noblest sense of the term:…
