Author: Press Room

Brad Paisley shared a few details surrounding Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding held at Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. While the ceremony itself may have been massive in scale, the arena has a seating capacity of 20,000, the country star said that it was “one of the least pretentious weddings” he's ever attended. Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, were among the lucky guests invited to witness the nuptials, who were shrouded in mystery as even those attending were given little detail about the event. Swift opened for Paisley during her 2007 tour when…

Nineteenth album for the band Telescopes, a creation of Stephen Lawrie who has now defused the shoegaze and noise impulses in favor of a dark and narcotic psychedelic rock. The static charge (“Static Charge”) evoked by the title of the project is actually the main protagonist of a record which, compared to the controversial previous “Halo Moon”, offers a more solid backbone thanks to the contribution of the band, who recorded the entire project live in the studio.The cathartic black mass psych of the Telescopes offers more and more references to blues and gospel, and tries once again to capture…

Tributes have been paid following the death of soul singer Ray King, an influential artist who helped inspire the ska and 2 Tone movement. The artist was born Vibert Cornwall, and played a vital part of the music scene in Coventry having emerged in the ‘70s. News of his passing was confirmed over the weekend, and he was aged 87. Having moved from St Vincent in the 1960s, King helped form multiple groups over the years and had bandmates that would later go on to be a part of groups including The Specials and The Selecter. His first group was…

Violence! It fears the law which tries to contain it through punishment, it is the enemy of ethics and morality which relies on religions to keep consciences at bay, but can violence become an artistic language? Haven't cinematography and visual art been nourished by violence, even if by decontextualizing it and exalting its purely aesthetic charm? For Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Gustav Metzger or Marina Abramović, violence was part of art itself, but not even music remained immune to the ambiguous charm of violence. Punk, noise, brutal death metal, speedcore are just some of the most extreme and violent forms of…

Journey‘s Jonathan Cain has slammed Bruce Springsteen as “an annoying, bitter old man” who “should shut up” about politics. The multi-instrumentalist made the remarks to The Complete Disaster Network, where he spoke about the importance of keeping politics out of art. “Guys like Bruce Springsteen should shut up,” Cain told the podcast. “Honestly, shut up, Bruce. Who’s the other one? Robert De Niro. I mean, who cares, guys? Really? Do your art.” “I try to keep politics out of my music,” he continued, adding: “Now I’m releasing this patriotic song [‘The Winds Of Freedom: A Salute To America’ in celebration…

Andrew Tate, the infamous internet misogynist and human-trafficking suspect, was arrested in Miami alongside his brother Tristan on Saturday after the U.K. leveled new charges of rape and child exploitation against them. A one-minute clip of U.S. marshals putting the two in handcuffs quickly went viral, with their ill-fitting outfits and especially Andrew’s gaping purple blouse inspiring widespread mockery. But the new charges brought by the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are no laughing matter, and the Tate brothers are currently being held in a federal detention center awaiting an extradition process to potentially face trial in the U.K. This…

Offset will avoid jail time on a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from an altercation with a security guard at a marijuana dispensary — at least for now. A Los Angeles judge has approved the rapper and Migos member's request for a diversion program, according to an order obtained by Rolling Stone. Under the terms of the agreement, the criminal charge will be dismissed if Offset completes 50 hours of community service, attends an anger management program, and avoids any further legal violations over the next 12 months. The rapper, whose legal name is Kiari Cephus, had asked for a six-month…

The violent storm that hit Milan on the evening of Saturday 18 July forced the organizers to interrupt the Bad Bunny concert at the La Maura Hippodrome and to order the evacuation of the public for safety reasons. The rain, accompanied by a strong hailstorm, gusts of wind and intense electrical activity, made it impossible for the show, which over 80 thousand people were watching, to continue. Shortly after 9pm, a first message was released by the organizers, inviting spectators to wait about ten minutes in the hope that the bad weather would ease. However, as the weather conditions worsened,…

Fedez he was admitted to the Fatebenefratelli hospital in Milan, where he arrived by ambulance at the emergency room just before 10pm on Monday 20 July 2026. According to what was reported by Adnkronos, the rapper was accompanied to the facility due to gastric problems. His conditions, according to what ANSA has learned from health sources, are not serious, but only tests will be able to establish with certainty the extent of the problem. Given the clinical precedents, the doctors decided to proceed with some further investigations. At the moment there are no official press releases from the management nor…

In partnership with Electric Castle  Words: David Renshaw and Laura Molloy Electric Castle Festival has drawn to a close for another year, after four days straight of 24-hour music and partying. This year, we’ve seen Twenty One Pilots crowdsurfing, Sleaford Mods surprising us with high-octane remixes, Teddy Swims covering rock greats and Yung Lean celebrating his 30th birthday in the grounds of a Transylvanian castle. It’d been one to remember, to say the least. As well as all that, we’ve danced the night away to a truly eclectic selection of DJ sets that have taken us on a trip around the…