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When filmmaker Christopher Nolan decided to adapt The Odyssey to the big screen, he wanted the movie not only to look like ancient Greece but to sound like it too. So when he approached composer Ludwig Göransson about the score to the picture, out July 17, he challenged the Oscar winner to source authentic instruments. A new featurette, premiering here, shows how Göransson created a Homeric score with a lyre, an aulos, and instruments made of bronze since the setting was the Bronze Age. “Chris had mentioned early that he was interested in aulos,” Göransson says in the short film…
The Bad Seeds also played some rarities at the concert, including the first performance of “Stranger Than Kindness” in more than a decade Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan were close friends — close enough, at least, to try to cheer each other once with a duet of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” On Wednesday, Cave paid tribute to his late friend by performing “A Rainy Night in Soho,” a song by MacGowan’s band the Pogues, during a concert on MacGowan’s favorite island, Ireland. The concert took place at Malahide Castle & Gardens. Cave, who is on tour with the…
Listening to “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” today, it's hard to believe there was a time when Shaboozey's massive crossover single didn't exist. Built around an interpolation of J-Kwon's 2004 house-party hit “Tipsy” and an acoustic strum-clap rhythm, the song has become more than a hit: It's a pop-culture milestone. In his digital cover story for Rolling Stonewhich includes his first-ever podcast appearance, on Rolling Stone's Nashville NowShaboozey recalls the response when “A Bar Song” was released to streaming services on April 12, 2024. “Within the first 10 minutes of it coming out, it was having 100,000 streams on Spotify. My…
It's officially the summer of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes. The festivities began June 4 in Troutdale, Oregon, when Dylan played the Basement Tapes extreme deep cut “Baby, Won't You Be Me Baby” for the first time since recording it in the basement of Big Pink 59 years ago, continued June 6 in Woodinville, Washington, when he opened the night with the first “You Ain't Goin' Nowhere” since 2012, and then carried on June 9 in Eugene, Oregon, when he stunned fans by closing out the show with his first live take of “I Shall Be Released” since 2008. There have…
“It's moments like that where I feel music is just so magical that you just can't really describe it,” singer says of playing iconic UK fest Olivia Rodrigo revealed in a new interview that she nearly suffered an “anxiety attack” before her headlining performance at Glastonbury in 2025. Speaking to the BBC ahead of her new album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love — and fresh off a surprise set at this week's Primavera Sound in Barcelona — Rodrigo talked about her stress of headlining the UK's most iconic festival prior to taking the stage. “I…
vote7.5 Bands: LUNAR SHADOW Duration: 00:47:19 Available from: 04/08/2026 Player not yet available. The release of “The Pall Of A Past World”, Lunar Shadow's fourth studio album, took us by surprise. After years of silence and sporadic communications, many had now considered the path of German education to be over. No preview, no single and no promotional campaign, but only a long message published on the band's official Facebook page by guitarist Max Birbaum in which he announced the existence of a new work, saying that he had created it far from the logic of the contemporary music industry -…
A film inspired by the poor and daring beginnings of Green Day, when the trio was an independent Californian punk-rock band with no hope of success. But also a road trip starring three kids who hope to open for Green Day and luckily reach the concert venue. And ultimately a film with Green Day.The trailer for is out Nimrods: A Green Day Comedywhich is neither a biopic nor a film in which Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are at the center of the story. It's a comedy starring the fictional band Analog Dogs (or Anal OG Dogs,…
Yungblud has teamed up with War Child to raise money and change lives at Bludfest 2026. The Doncaster singer will once again stage and curate his festival, this time kicking things off in Czechia on June 27. So far, Biffy Clyro, Primal Scream, Pale Waves, Palaye Royale and many more are set to play at the 2026 instalment. Now, Yungblud has announced that he’s collaborating with War Child to launch a new crowdfunder, with all proceeds going toward the charity. War Child helps support children in conflict zones by providing emergency support such as food, clean water, hygiene kits, clothing,…
As football fans await the kick-off of the 2026 World Cup tonight (Thursday June 11), the man behind a viral unofficial anthem for Scotland has spoken to NME about getting behind his country with an LCD Soundsystem-esque banger. Long before Belle & Sebastian dropped their heartfelt 'It Only Takes One Lion' and Susan Boyle, Franz Ferdinand and Irn Bru teamed up for 'We're Made In Scotland From Girders', football writer and musician JJ Bull lit up social media with his parody electro number 'The Very Unofficial Scotland World Cup Song'. With the cool, nonchalant delivery like James Murphy over a…
The artists' concerts are starting from Olso and Ireland, soon in Italy Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
