Author: Press Room
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…
Long-time Yard Act fans are likely to be thrilled by the first words spoken by James Smith in Empty Pledgesthe piece that opens the band's third album You're Gonna Need a Little Music: “I have absolutely nothing new to say.” Don't worry, one of the most caustic lyricists on the British scene in recent years hasn't run out of topics. “It's just that when I came back to Leeds after a tour I happened to meet people I hadn't seen for four years,” he says, sitting next to bassist Ryan Needham in a pub in north London. «After the usual…
It's nothing new for Will Toledo to return to his old works; having at his disposal a boundless archive of albums recorded in his adolescence, the singer originally from Virginia has always considered it almost a compositional practice to fish out old songs from his repertoire, sometimes limiting himself to modifying them, other times completely reworking them, overturning their meaning and structure.Maybe it's because more than half of his discography is corrupted by poor audio quality, having been recorded by one-man band in his parents' car. Or perhaps it will be due to a personal conception of the songs which…
Lido Pimienta has never settled for silence. Since her Polaris Prize–winning album La Papessa came out in 2016, she’s brought meditations on anti-racism, colonialism, and feminism to every medium she touches, whether it’s singing, sculpting, painting, or writing for television: ceramics and textiles that carry Afro-Colombian and Indigenous identity into gallery spaces, a television show that smuggles hard conversations into variety-show comedy, and a trailblazing compositional credit for the New York City Ballet—the first score in the company’s history by a woman of color, let alone one who makes no secret of where she stands. Comparisons to artists like Björk…
Surrounded by 10,000 of his closest friends, diamond* doesn’t say a damn thing until he has to. Maybe it’s wrong to describe the svelte twentysomething as “coy”–he raps about swinging his dick and flashing jewelry too much for that–but that’s how he seemed when I saw him at a show in Manhattan a couple weeks ago. When he didn’t have a mic in hand, he silently blended in with the loud, proud blazers of ØWay, Atlanta’s biggest new rap crew. diamond* and Tezzus, SoundCloud’s very own Tasmanian Devil, are the figureheads of the collective; they both signed to Young Thug’s…
When Tricky made his solo debut in 1995 with Maxinquaye, few people would have bet that this pained, perverse, and cantankerous figure would still be active three decades on. And yet 31 years later it is Tricky, of all the Bristol crew, who has kept the music coming: While Portishead fell silent after 2008’s Third and Massive Attack haven’t released a new album in 16 years, Different When It’s Silent is Tricky’s 15th longplayer, give or take: a record of pointed modern blues that suggests an artist still driven to create.The new album differs significantly from 2020’s Fall to Pieces,…
Eighteen years passed between the essential “A Bigger Bang” and “Hackney Diamonds” to complete a new album of unreleased songs, then less than three to get to “Foreign Tongues”. It's not just a question of third or fourth youth (for the Rolling Stones the second arrived a few decades ago…), Keith Richards clarifies it in a recent interview: “The only reason why 'Foreign Tongues' came out is that we did so much work on 'Hackney Diamonds' that Andrew (Watt, the producer, ed) we looked at each other and realized that, in practice, this was a double album, only that we…
“A fucking rock concert!”. This is the sentence pronounced in the final farewells by Piero Pelù, after two and a half hours of performance without any flaw, 64 years carried in a truly enviable manner. The triumphal tour with which Litfiba are taking one of their manifesto albums, “17 Re”, around the peninsula, is exactly this, there couldn't be a more apt summary: a fucking rock concert! A concert of guitars and energy, a profoundly anti-fascist concert full of meanings, both musical and extra-musical. And anything but nostalgic, because the vision of Litfiba – which we espouse – is to…
