Author: Press Room
PinkPantheress has one of the sharpest ears in pop, and she’s using it to build an empire. The British singer-songwriter and producer began her career as an elusive internet figure with a skill for crafting intriguing earworms. Over the past five years in particular, she’s risen up the pop ranks with sharp, deliberate strides, driven by endurance rather than impulse. There’s a misguided conception that PinkPantheress has been routinely overshadowed in favor of her collaborators, like Ice Spice on “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2” or Zara Larsson on the “Stateside” remix. From the outside, it could look like their guest…
Vermont senator praises band for “standing up for economic justice, fighting racism, and understanding that healthcare is a human right” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders made a surprise onstage appearance Friday to introduce the Strokes prior to the band’s concert at Queens, New York’s Flushing Meadows. With a crucial Election Day just over a month away, both New York-born politicians praised the Strokes’ stance on issues before reminding the 40,000 or so fans in the crowd to vote. “The greatest city in the world is now welcoming the greatest rock band of our generation who have always been committed to…
On a recent London afternoon, Gabe Simon is feeling rather uneasy. Though, as one of the most in-demand producers currently working in popular music admits, that’s exactly how he planned it. “We’re on an adventure right now,” says Simon, who recently uprooted his family from the comfortable life he’d built in Nashville for more than two decades to relocate across the pond and set up shop as producer-in-residence at London’s famed RAK Studios. “I wanted to be uncomfortable.” It’s hardly a shock to hear him admit this: in many ways, stepping outside of his comfort zone, and specifically challenging himself…
AC/DC brought out Dave Grohl to join them on “Highway to Hell” during the band’s concert Friday at East Rutherford, New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, the final show of their Power Up Tour, and possibly longer. The MetLife gig was originally scheduled for September 25, but a nor’easter along the East Coast pushed the date to Friday, making it the last date of AC/DC’s two-year-long Power Up tour. When the show was rescheduled, it was also announced that Foo Fighters would be the gig’s surprise opening act. With Dave Grohl already in the building, it was only natural that the singer…
2026 show will take place at Capital One Arena, home of basketball and hockey teams, while the performing arts center is “temporarily closed” for the foreseeable future The Kennedy Center Honors will still take place in 2026, albeit at a Washington, D.C. arena, even as the performing arts venue remains closed amid the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the building. A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center announced Friday that this year’s honors will take place December 7 at the Capital One Arena, home of both the Washington Wizards and Capitals. The recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors will…
At first, Unmasking a Monster: Aileen Wuornos, ID’s new true-crime documentary, seems like a familiar look into America’s most famous female serial killer. As the first episode starts, there’s an archival voiceover from Wuornos, who was executed in 2001, professing that she has to tell the truth about the seven murders she was accused of committing; there’s a homicide detective who was on the case, recounting how he came in contact with the murderer; there’s a friend of Wuornos’ talking about the disbelief she felt when she found out about her crimes. Over the audio clips, images cut between trial…
In March, Dexter and the Moonrocks released “Freakin’ Out.” By May, the grunge-laced song had cracked the Top 40 of the Billboard 200. In June, the group opened a series of arena dates ahead of Turnpike Troubadours and Muscadine Bloodline. Come September, they announced an album release concert. Within a day, all 13,000 tickets were gone. “Pretty good for an industry plant,” says drummer Ryan Fox. Unless the industry in question is peak grunge, Fox is joking. After the pandemic, country music was pulled toward emo and then toward honky-tonk, but the shift with the most buzz right now is…
It’s a punk rock dream come true: the legendary Nineties rebels in Team Dresch are back with new music, for a world that needs them more than ever. The Pacific Northwest queercore band made noise in the Nineties, with two classic albums, Personal Best in 1994 and Captain My Captain in 1996. The former just made Rolling Stone’s list of the greatest punk albums of all time, with its candid tales of queer youth finding their voices in bangers like “Fagetarian vs. Dyke” and “Screwing Yer Courage.” Olympia, Washington rocker Donna Dresch started this DIY lesbian all-star crew when she…
In 2017, Janet Reitman was reporting a story for Rolling Stone. It was about two months after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and she was sitting in the living room of Walter and Chris Oneschuk, a couple whose 19-year-old son, Andrew, had just been killed. “He was a member of the Atomwoffen Division,” Reitman explains via Zoom. “They were a neo-Nazi group, and he had been murdered by another neo-Nazi kid that was in the group. It was a terrible story, and the parents were completely blindsided, as you can imagine. They kept saying to me, ‘I…
When Roger Ebert reviewed Bob Dylan’s 2003 box office bomb Masked and Anonymous, he blasted it on almost every front in a vicious one-star review, calling the film a “vanity production beyond all reason” with a screenplay he dismissed as “incoherent raving juvenile meanderings.” The incredible cast — which included Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson, Angela Bassett, Bruce Dern, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Cheech Marin, Chris Penn, Giovanni Ribisi, Mickey Rourke, Christian Slater, and many more stars — received not a word of praise. “In a film where salaries must have been laughable, these people…
