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Representatives for Madonna have dispelled a viral rumour that she was in Donald Trump‘s suite during the World Cup final. READ MORE: Madonna – ‘Confessions II’ review: Queen Of Pop digs deep on thrilling return to the dancefloor The singer, whose latest album ‘Confessions II’ recently reached the top spot of the Billboard 200 Album Charts, performed during the Chris Martin-curated World Cup halftime show on Sunday (July 19). Since then, speculation has gone viral on social media that she was sitting in President Trump’s luxury suite at MetLife Stadium. It comes due to a brief shot of Trump’s box during the match…

Abbey Road will present Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Abbey Road Music Photography Awards. Best known for his 44-year collaboration with David Bowie, Sukita took the iconic cover shot for Bowie's 1977 Heroes album. He is also known for photographing Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan, Joe Strummer, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and David Sylvian. David Bailey received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025. Sukita was born in Kyushu, Japan, in 1938. In 1965 he moved to Tokyo, taking fashion photographs and filming TV commercials. He became a freelance photographer in 1970, and between 1970…

Jon Stewart yet again took aim at Donald Trump on a new episode of The Daily Showthis time for inserting himself in Spain's triumph at the World Cup final on Sunday night. “The Spain-Argentina final was like a reverse Super Bowl where the players spoke Spanish and the halftime show was in English,” Stewart quipped. “They had Madonna and Justin Bieber and, for some reason, the Muppets.” The host explained that Spain, “clearly the best team in this year's tournament,” celebrated their win with a trophy hoist. For some reason, Trump was involved in that hoist. “Traditionally, it's a moment…

On the occasion of the release of “Loneliness, Desire and Revenge” Antonio Ciarletta wrote: “talking about Maurizio Abate is difficult because his music is enough in itself, it really doesn't need to be told”. Eleven years have passed and things are still like this. Confronting the sound shaped by the Milanese composer is an experiential fact, difficult to translate exhaustively into words. This is demonstrated once again by “Sacre Stanze”, a long-gestating work conceived as a set of songs designed to be refined by the skilled arranging work of Marco Giudici. A process started in 2019, which has finally come…

The note released by the Ministry of Health in July 2026 spoke clearly. The new epidemic of tropical origin had been classified as Bad Bunny Acute Exposure Syndrome (SEABB) and, according to initial estimates, had already affected almost five million Italian citizens. The Ministry even admitted that the real figure could be considerably higher: many subjects, in fact, continued to declare themselves simple occasional listeners, despite already pronouncing the words Puerto and Rico with the nostalgic intonation of those who had spent their childhood there. Concert organizers invited the population not to be alarmed: the fatality rate was nil and…

Getting arrested is almost a cliché in rock star history. Usually, however, the causes are linked to excesses, drugs, fights or trouble with the law. Much more unusual is the affair involving Alex Kapranos, frontman of Franz Ferdinand, stopped in 2005 at Moscow airport and arrested mid-tour. The episode dates back to the end of May 2005, when the Scottish band was engaged in two concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow during the tour of their successful debut album “Franz Ferdinand”. In those months the group was at the height of its international rise and was already performing live some…

Edda releases his latest album digitally Dirty Massesreleased last October exclusively in physical format. To enrich this publication, available on platforms since July 24, 2026 For Woodworm/Universal Music Italiathere is an unreleased version of the song Ezekielenriched by the participation of The lover. The arrival in streaming gives a new dimension to the album and thus allows a wider audience to discover one of the most visceral works of the Milanese singer-songwriter, who reaffirms his rock identity without giving up the emotional fragility that has always characterized his writing. “Ezekiel”: when two generations find A MEETING POINT If Dirty Masses…

The Saturday Night Live star left the sketch show after seven seasons Four days after Chloe Fineman announced that she would not be returning for Saturday Night Live‘s 52nd season, the star opened up about her “bittersweet” exit from the long-running sketch show. When speaking to The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet for The Dink, which she co-stars in, Fineman said that she’s “really proud of everything, but it’s hard.” “I’m genuinely really good friends with everybody and I genuinely couldn’t love that job more,” she said, sharing that her former SNL cast member Colin Jost called her earlier since…

A song is three to five minutes long. Less is a sketch, more is an epic. This was decided by the storage capacity of early records and commercially reified for decades after the practical limitations fell away. Now imagine a world just like ours, but where everything is half its size. The average song would be a couple of minutes, and four would seem like an extravagant jam. On Sweet Thief, Luluc seems to beam their dream-folk transmissions to us from this speculative demi-world, each song compressed yet complete, rescaling our perspective to a bright point.On their sixth album, Zoë…

Olivia Wilde recalled meeting Elon Musk before his political associations with the Trump administration. In a wide-ranging interview with The Louis Theroux Podcastthe director-actress discussed the Tesla CEO, misogyny, and how her films examine relationships and intimacy. When looking back at her 2022 film Don't Worry DarlingWilde said that conservative commentator Jordan Peterson was an inspiration for Chris Pine's character. While Wilde said it may have been “unfair” for her to call Peterson a “pseudo-intellectual,” she was “disturbed by what I saw as this kind of misogynistic philosophy that was being obviously weaponized in a way that was leading us…