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Bee Gees icon Barry Gibb is alive and well, his team have confirmed following a viral post claiming he had died. The 79-year-old was the latest celebrity to be targeted in a death hoax online, with numerous posts getting momentum online due to false claims over the past weekend. Now, family sources have told TMZ that the claims of his passing are false, and added that Gibb is “healthy, happy, and living life at his Miami-area home”. It appears that false claims of his death got momentum on Sunday (May 24) when a page popped up on Facebook called ‘R.I.P…
If an artist releases an album called ‘Experimental Rap’, what do you really expect you’ll get? Some emo-country? Brazilian funk? Amapiano? Probably not. But it’s hard to take JPEGMAFIA solely at his word, so you’d be forgiven for second-guessing yourself. Peggy – as he’s known to fans – has always thrived where irony and sincerity become indistinguishable: a visionary artist, but also a bit of a troll, equally comfortable covering Carly Rae Jepsen as pushing hip-hop’s boundaries. He spent this new record’s rollout dressed in all-black and leather, cosplaying dystopian supervillainy, engineering beef with his peers and proclaiming himself as…
The label created the record-breaking 'Kpop Demon Hunters' soundtrack Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Just over a month ago Roger Waters performed with the singer of Palestinian origin Mona Miari at an event at the SVA Theater in New York. The two performed with the accompaniment of a piano a piece called Sumudwith the typical flow of Waters' solo repertoire. The occasion was the presentation of Comfortably Numb Re-Imagineda review of the Pink Floyd classic transformed, reads a statement, «into a powerful battle cry to draw global attention to the genocide underway in Gaza. The new interpretation amplifies the original message of the song, which invites us to reject alienation and apathy.”Now the video…
Bathing Suits have been confirmed as the winners of The Steve Strange Award, as most exciting act from The Great Escape 2026. The award is in memory of the late music agent, live music champion and longstanding supporter of emerging talent, and looks to celebrate one artist each year who is making a standout impact at The Great Escape festival. With the victory, winners are given £5,000 cash to provide support as they take the next steps in their career. Previous winners have included Zetra, AGGRASOPPAR, Audio Books and more, and the 2026 winners are now confirmed as emerging Leeds…
Paul McCartney’s stock hasn’t been this high since about 1966. Strange though it may seem, there was a time – not very long ago – when the world was not crying out for a nostalgic album about his pre-fame days. This was before everyone rediscovered their older relatives’ Beatles records in lockdown and gratefully devoured all eight hours of Get Back, which restored Macca’s reputation to its rudest health in decades. Put it this way: there wasn’t quite the same appetite for his 2012 jazz and trad-pop covers album ‘Kisses On The Bottom’. Even Wings have been reassessed and come…
With “Wapakoneta”i MaveriX present a cowpunk ballad with folk nuances that transforms the story of growth, distance and desire to escape into music. The song moves on an essential but incisive balance: a dry groove, a sharp banjo and a direct voice, more interested in emotional truth than technical perfection. “Wapakoneta”tells the condition of those who grow up in a reality that is too narrow to contain their dreams, but at the same time too rooted to be simply abandoned. It is a song that talks about belonging and distance, about what is left behind and what inevitably remains. The…
Paul Heaton has announced a new Ian Broudie-produced solo album, ‘Jenius’, as well as a UK arena tour with The Lightning Seeds. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Paul Heaton on buying everyone a pint and why “the Royal Family is the one thing worth privatising” The former Housemartins and Beautiful South member will release the 15-track record on August 21, following up on 2024’s ‘The Mighty Several’ – which was also helmed by Broudie. Pre-order/pre-save here. Heaton has previewed the forthcoming LP with an infectious, romantic single called ‘Favourite Kind Of Idiot’, featuring his regular live vocalist Rianne Downey.…
Static Dress are easily one of the most ambitious rock bands around today. They introduced fans to second album ‘Injury Episode’ via an interactive art exhibit at a vintage London cinema and have put on a series of pop-up, phone free gigs that go against almost every rule in creating hype. Last week, they shared a terrifying survival horror game that ties the lore of the new record to 2022’s ‘Rogue Carpet Disaster’. “You can be bigger than my band, but you’re never going to do the things that my band’s capable of doing,” vocalist Olli Appleyard told NME recently…
This return of the Venetian Membrance is noteworthy, three years after “Undead Island” which showed a band whose proposal was still unfinished in the studio version, despite the writer having them… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
