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The Durutti Column are set to release their first album in 16 years, ‘Renascent’, following a special tribute show at Harry Styles‘ Meltdown Festival. Find all the details below. The Manchester post-punk band will drop the follow-up to 2010’s ‘A Paean To Wilson’ on Friday July 31. Pre-order/pre-save here. Per a press release, the LP “signals a symbolic return to origins, carrying a Factory Too catalogue number in collaboration with Oliver Wilson, continuing the legacy of Factory Records”. “Musically, Renascent exists in a dialogue between past and present,” it adds, with songs like ‘Time Present And Time Past’ evoking “a…

“I can't be responsible for a man sexualizing me.” After days of controversy and online indignation for the babydolls she wears and which even promote pedophilia, Olivia Rodrigo has had her say.In the weeks leading up to the release of the third album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So In Lovethe pop star was seen dressed in her typical style that combines the preppy toedgy. On the album cover, for example, she wears a pink dress while fluttering on a swing, in the video Drop Dead she has a blue one with ruffled fabrics, in the performance she…

Joan Baez said she wishes modern-day pop musicians would use their platforms to speak up about political and social issues. During an interview on the podcast Wiser Than Me With Julia Louis-Dreyfushost Julia Louis-Dreyfus asked Baez about her feelings on younger artists who haven't voiced concerns about the abuses of the Trump administration. “There's a whole generation of really talented artists who are quite silent about the current assault on democracy,” Louis-Dreyfus said. “Do you find that unbelievably frustrating or do you understand, perhaps, where those artists are coming from?” “I think I understand where they're coming from,” Baez replied.…

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Jimmy Kimmel focused on the upcoming primary election in Los Angeles on the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, calling it a “very LA race for mayor.” “Let’s be honest, this city is a mess,” Kimmel said. “That is something that became especially obvious during the fires. But the people running the city—when you say ‘This city is a mess,’ they go, ‘No, actually it isn’t and we’re doing a lot.’ And then we look around and say, ‘I’m not seeing it.’” He added, “And this makes the people who live here upset. Especially people whose homes and neighborhoods burned…

The GRAMMY Award-winning American rock band EVANESCENCE she's back! Their new single, “Who Will Your Follow”, already available digitally, previews their eagerly awaited new album, “Sanctuary”, due out on June 5th and already in pre-save. “Who Will You Follow” is co-written and produced by Zakk Cervini (Bad Omens, YUNGBLD, Bring Me The Horizon, Spiritbox) and Jordan Fish (Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, House of Protection, Architects). In the new album “Sanctuary” will feature tracks produced by Cervini/Fish, along with songs produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Korn, Foo Fighters, Rush) and will be available in physical and digital versions from June 5th.…

The Florentine rock band Spleen releases his debut album Gushavailable in digital stores from May 22, 2026. The album contains everything that has happened so far: live shows, kilometres, English pubs, Italian stages and shared writing. In the last two years, the Spleen they built their path above all live, between Italy and the United Kingdom. Gushpublished by Contempo Records and distributed by MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchantsarrives after a series of EPs, concerts and major openings. In the 12 tracks that compose it, the band condenses all the creative material developed since the birth of the project. SPLEEN collect in…

Justice Washam is 30 years old, a travel agent, lives in Illinois, has three children and creates travel and parenting-themed content on TikTok. Despite having 250 thousand followers, until the beginning of April he had not earned much from the platform. Her goal of reaching one million followers by the end of 2026 seemed decidedly unrealistic until a friend sent her a TikTok in which screenshots of some messages received on her phone had been transformed into the lyrics of an AI-generated song.“Your daughter's messages are perfect for this trend,” the friend told him. Washam did, collecting messages in which…

Some of the most beautiful songs about pain unfortunately talk about the pain of those who no longer want to live. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM

After four years of recording silence, Matteo Faustini returns with a new single. Is called We were born freecomes out on Friday 29 May on the radio and on all digital platforms, and is the first step in a new path after the Sanremo Festival and the two albums released in recent years. There have been years in which Faustini he didn't really stop: he continued to play live, on Italian stages, building a relationship with those who follow him which has become the basis of this return. What changes is the perspective of this new song. “We were born…