Author: Press Room

Fatima Al Qadiri has announced 3TWI (عتوي), a new EP arriving October 9, via Hyperdub. The title translates as “dirty old man,” press materials note; a single, “7ilween”—loose translation: “pretty young things”—is out now. Watch a video directed by the artist Sophia Al-Maria below.Two of the EP’s four songs feature Bobo Secret and Lama3an; on the other two, Al Qadiri’s Kuwali vocalist Gumar, the namesake of her 2023 EP, guests. Al Qadiri’s last standalone album was Medieval Femme; since then, the Kuwaiti musician/producer has released several film soundtracks, including one last year for François Ozon’s L’Étranger. Check out the EP…

Wednesday are releasing a deluxe version of their 2025 LP Bleeds to coincide with the album’s one-year anniversary. Out this Friday, September 18, from Dead Oceans, the 20-track expanded edition includes a couple of previously unheard songs in demo form, as well as remixes from the original record. Among those, Avey Tare will rework “Carolina M urder Suicide”; Fire-Toolz will give her take on “Bitter Everyday”; and DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ will do who-knows-what to “Elderberry Wine.” Below, check out the full tracklist and listen to “June 2 (Early Version),” a new track produced by Kenneth Blume.Earlier this summer,…

Everyone’s favorite polka-dotted microtonal duo Angine de Poitrine stopped by The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on Monday night to make their U.S. television debut. (True devotees know they first graced the small screen on Later…With Jools Holland in June.) The Canadian math-punkers marked the occasion with a brand new song, “Zugzek.” Although Fallon struggled to pronounce the title, guitarist-bassist Khn and drummer Klek had no trouble ripping through the mind-melding five-minute track. Watch their performance below.A self-described “Mantra-Rock Dada Pythagorean-Cubist Orchestra,” Angine de Poitrine shared their latest album, Vol. II, in April. They also played Newport Jazz Festival this…

Kenny Chesney is moving on from the Sphere this spring and taking old friends Eric Church and Sheryl Crow with him. Launching April 24 in Tampa, the Original Vibe Room Tour 2027 will comprise only stadium shows, including a date at the yet-to-open new Nissan Stadium in Nashville.  “When we started to talk about touring next year, all I could think about was how good those stadiums feel,” Chesney said in a statement. “To make it really hit, I called Eric, who’d come out that first weekend in [Las] Vegas and sang a few with me, to see if he’d…

Bob Dylan is set to release a huge new box set called ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings’ – check out all the details below. Set to be released by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the new launch will come as a huge 39-CD box set, which fully captures the legendary singer-songwriter’s 1976 tour. Ready for release on November 6, the audio fully captures the tour alongside a stellar company of backing musicians and guest artists. The trek kicked off on April 18, 1976 in Lakeland, Florida, and spanned 27 dates – concluding in Salt Lake City on…

Lambrini Girls are back and they’re coming in with a bang. The Brighton, England punk band, comprised of Phoebe Lunny and Selin Macieira, announced that their second album No Refunds will arrive on Jan. 15, 2027 via City Slang. Today, they’ve premiered the record’s latest single “Bang Bang Bang.” Like most Lambrini Girls tracks, “Bang Bang Bang” is a scorcher; frontwoman Phoebe Lunny said the song is about “a man who has been revered as a Christ-like figure but also as the devil.” The Harv Frost-directed music video is just as raucous, featuring Lunny and Macieira peforming in a sweaty…

@, the Philadelphia psych-folk duo of Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak, are sharing one more single from their new album, Autosmile, as well as news of a headlining tour. That single, “Bird,” comes with a surreal, Caity Arthur-directed video that seeks beauty in sadness, much like the song itself. Check it out below.Elaborating on the backstory for “Bird,” Filipczak said, “This song was inspired by dead baby birds that kept appearing on my deck. It was written on a bike ride through Druid Hill Park in Baltimore. The lyrics have lots of puns which hopefully offset their hopelessness.”Autosmile is out…

T HERE’S A VOICE in Rachel Accurso’s head. Right now, it’s also coming out of her tote bag — a recorded version of her alter ego’s cheerful tone made tinny by canvas. “This is so funny,” she says, wrestling with a rainbow-colored plastic toy with her face on it, which is doing the singing in question. “I was walking down the street, and it was like, ‘Hi, friends!’ I don’t know how to shut it off!” If she donned a pink headband, most people would recognize Accurso as Ms. Rachel, a children’s entertainer who started as an amateur YouTube host…

President Donald Trump is aware of the panic over the possibility that one day we will all be ruled — or worse — by machines. But when asked directly about artificial intelligence, he doesn’t seem all that worried. On Monday, the president claimed that fears about AI-driven social collapse were a “HOAX,” later describing himself as the “Hoax Buster” and comparing AI skepticism to the “Global Warming Scam.” “Concerning AI, when, in the History of Business, did anyone see the Leaders of an Industry call for Regulation that, if strongly implemented, will drive them into oblivion and bankruptcy?” Trump wrote…

Members of X-Ray Spex, The Raincoats, The Slits are set to come together and form a new supergroup for a punk 50th anniversary festival coming to London. The new festival, dubbed Up Yours! God Save The Queens, is set to launch in the UK capital soon, and designed to celebrate the past, present and future of female punk. It comes 50 years after X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene and a generation of pioneering women helped shape punk music, art and identity, and will feature artwork, photography, fashion and personal archival material from those who led the movement. A centrepiece of…