Author: Press Room

The Mountain Goats have announced Days, a swift follow-up to the album they released last November, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan. Leading the record—and a tracklist of typically colorful song names—is “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds.” (Delve in further for such titles as “Best Hard Rock Albums 2013” and “Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums.”) Check that out below, along with their previously announced tour dates.John Darnielle said in a press release that the album started life as Grunges, a sequel to their 2017 LP Goths, after he made “a joke on social media about writing…

YHWH Nailgun have signed to vaunted British label 4AD. The news comes on the heels of the experimental rock outfit’s set at C2C Festival NYC, where they played 11 minutes of new material from something called ‘Magazine’—ostensibly an as-yet unannounced album—and then promptly left the stage.45 Pounds, YHWH Nailgun’s debut full-length, came out last year on AD 93, which Pitchfork named our Label of the Year for 2025. They currently have performances lined up at Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party, Barcelona’s Sonár Festival, End of the Road in Wiltshire, England, and Form Arcosanti.Read about 45 Pounds at No. 29…

There is a festival in Versilia that for five years has been trying to distance itself from all the others on the Italian scene and aims at the world. To do this it doesn't chase artists in the charts, it's not “a mixed fry”, nor yet another event where music is an excuse for something else. The First Summer returns in June for the fifth year to Lido di Camaiore at Parco BussolaDomani with a line-up that brings together Jack White, Nick Cave, Gorillaz, Richard Ashcroft and Marlene Kuntz, confirming a precise direction: «Even before asking ourselves whether an artist…

It doesn't take much for Annie Clark, alias St. Vincent, to start talking freely about guitar solos. He remembers very well the first one he learned to play, that of Alive by Pearl Jam. Today, after about twenty years of career, he plays phrases as if nothing were as he testifies Live in London! which documents the concert with orchestra he did at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC (listen for example Black Rainbow or Live in the Dream in which he seems like a sharper David Gilmour). But what do you think is the best guitar solo ever?…

There are moments of emotional stalemate in which the world seems to flow at a different speed than ours. It is the “solitude of the non-aligned”, that sense of strangeness that strikes those who do not recognize themselves in the superficial dynamics of everyday life. To give face to this metropolitan isolation, the band chose the evocative images of the Dutch director Ben Brand. The video clip is an adaptation of the award-winning short film “97%”, shot among the carriages and metro stations of Amsterdam. Music – The Governess Texts – Salvatore Micalizio Recorded and mixed by Michele Musarra Director…

What are U2 doing on the roof of a school bus in Mexico? Of course they play. And what do they play? Street of Dreamswhat should be the first single from the band's new album. The video of this performance appeared on U2's social networks during the night and features the entire band – in fact there is also Larry Mullen Jr. returning from the various operations that had forced him to stop and lose the group's residency in Las Vegas – during the shooting of a video clip. The scene is in a small square in a town where…

Artist also performed “Carolina” at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday Eric Church was born and bred in North Carolina, and he gave back to his community on Saturday when he gave a moving commencement speech to graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by a rendition of his “Carolina.” Church, who wore a graduation gown and sunglasses, strummed his guitar during the speech and used its strings as a metaphor for living a harmonious life. “Six strings, six strings of life and willingness to keep them in tune,” he told the students.…

We are well and truly in the thick of a worldwide girl group renaissance. Heralded by the continued success of K-pop acts across the 2010s, this current decade has welcomed not only the return of all-female groups in the West, including NME Cover stars FLO and Say Now, but it has also given way to the ascension of those from Southeast Asia to the global stage for the very first time. The latest act to break out of the region, and following in the footsteps of T-pop favourites 4Eve and Filipino stars BINI, are Indonesia’s powerhouse performers No Na. Comprising…

“You are the hell that I made for myself,” repeats Lip Critic frontman Bret Kaser on ‘Two Lucks’, the opening track to the band’s second album ‘Theft World’. An anxious, self-lacerating spiral, the song throws you straight into the album’s central tensions of obsession, possession and destruction. As synths buckle and percussion hits like machinery tearing itself apart, Kaser frames desire as something terrifyingly corrosive. It’s hard not to draw a line from that mindset to the real-life fan who stole Kaser’s identity and made hundreds of purchases in his name. When the band eventually tracked him down, he was…

The man who connected Matthew Perry with “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha and personally delivered 51 vials of ketamine to the Friends actor's assistant, including the dose that resulted in Perry's death in his backyard jacuzzi, was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday. “I am haunted by the mistakes I made,” Erick Fleming told the court before hearing his fate. “I'm profoundly ashamed of myself and the pain I caused. If there was any way I could bring Mr. Perry back and undo what I did, of course I would.” Federal prosecutors had recommended a 30-month prison sentence, far…