Author: Press Room
What are we calling the past few years in underground dance pop? Surely it’s not “indie sleaze,” a theme-party dress code that’s been kicking around for years. Today’s sleaziest indie producers are blending in cloud rap, 2010s EDM, and hyperpop to assemble dance-pop music that sounds simultaneously dirty, sweet, and Xeroxed to hell.It’s the sound associated with burgeoning acts like Snow Strippers, Frost Children, MGNA Crrrta, and Fcukers; it’s everywhere on the season’s standout new alt-pop records, in slushy and sarcastic synth tracks from Slayyyter, Ninajarichi, Six Sex, and Tiffany Day; it’s the sound of still-underground stars like Cannelle, Suzy…
Tributes have been paid as police confirm that the woman who died at Houghton Festival in Norfolk was Ibiza DJ Santanna Oush. Earlier this month it was revealed that police were investigating the death of a woman who was found dead in her tent at the 2026 event. Her identity was not shared at the time, but it was confirmed that she was found unconscious in a tent on a campsite on the last day of the festival. She was pronounced dead at the scene on Sunday (August 9), despite efforts by on-site personnel to save her. Police said they…
Democracy Forward is a national legal organization that has made a habit of filing lawsuits against the federal government since Donald Trump retook office in 2025, challenging everything from the administration’s actions against immigrants to its proposed “anti-weaponization” fund. Skye Perryman, the group’s president and CEO, is publishing Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times, a new book about resisting authoritarianism and the actions big and small people can take in their lives to do so, on August 25 via Penguin Random House. In the following excerpt, Perryman writes about how the only way to lift the nation out of oppression is for…
Footage has been unearthed from Jimi Hendrix’s iconic Woodstock performance, which was filmed by a drama student who snuck onto the stage. The now-legendary gig took place at Woodstock in Bethel, New York, in 1969, where the guitar icon took to the stage with his newly formed band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, a.k.a. Band of Gypsys. That band included bassist Billy Cox, guitarist Larry Lee, and percussionists Juma Sultan and Jerry Velez, and drummer Mitch Mitchell – the latter of which also being a part of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The set closed out the festival, and is now set…
Sen Morimoto has unveiled the follow-up to their 2023 album Diagnosis. The genre-spanning Chicago singer-songwriter will release Time Is on Your Side on October 23, via Sooper, their own label; trudge into the woods to join them in the video for “Overthinker” below.In a press release, Morimoto said, “I’m not fighting time anymore. I treat it as an ingredient. Some of these songs only need a pinch—a couple of improvised takes. Others sat for years, like wine in a barrel, until they became equal parts of my past and future. My hope is that it could inspire the freedom to…
Rex Orange County is back with the introspective new single ‘Indecision’, which sees him join forces with Daniel Caesar. The British singer-songwriter, real name Alexander James O’Connor, first collaborated with the Grammy-winning Canadian star back in 2025 when they dropped the collaborative double single ‘Rearrange My World / There’s a Field (That’s Only Yours)’. From there, Rex went on to co-write and co-produced some of the tracks from Caesar’s album, ‘Son of Spergy’, which was released that same year. Now, the two of them are back with another single – a heartfelt, introspective track that captures that feeling of uncertainty,…
Phoebe Bridgers covered Nirvana’s classic track ‘Lithium’ on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, which you can watch below. The singer performed a haunting acoustic rendition of the song, from the grunge icons’ 1991 album ‘Nevermind’, on the Wednesday August 19 edition of the long-running music show. She also treated fans to performances of ‘Lost Boys’, the lead single from her new album ‘Lost Weekend’, as well as the track ‘Bobby’. You can listen to the whole episode here, or hear audio from the performance of ‘Lithium’ below. The session appears to have been recorded before Bridgers became ill from appendicitis,…
It’s about time the wider world caught up with Silica Gel. Since initially forming a decade ago, the South Korean band have consistently made records that surge with creativity, from the wiry ’80s alt-pop of their 2016 self-titled debut’s ‘Everybody Does’ to the majestic sprawl of 2023’s ‘Ryudejakeiru’. But although they’ve already been hailed as heroes of Korea’s indie scene, they’ve yet to receive the widespread acclaim they deserve further afield. ‘Ballad Of You’, their third album, could change that. When the four-piece spoke to NME last summer, around their Japanese Breakfast collaboration ‘NamgungFEFERE’, drummer Kim Geonjay told us: “We…
Apple Corps Ltd have formed a unique partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG) to handle the licensing and merchandising for The Beatles. Apple Corps, founded in 1968 by The Fab Four to handle their business interests, and UMG announced yesterday (Wednesday August 19) that they had reached a “holistic agreement” that will see the latter “take The Beatles’ iconic story to fans across generations and around the world”. The deal relates to digital and physical merchandising, licensing, and e-commerce surrounding the legendary band. The announcement comes ahead of Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic, described as a “cinematic event”, due for…
He said people wanted revenge against those responsible for Shakur’s murder. McDonald claimed that Davis and his nephew were “the main subjects of a gang war – they were in the middle”, while acknowledging that he was part of the war too. When addressing Davis again, McDonald said: “What you are going through, brother, is what you [are] going through. I don’t want to be a part of it.” Reggie Wright Jr – a member of Shakur’s security who became Death Row Records’ general manager in 1997 – also gave testimony in court. In the days ahead of the trial,…
