Author: Press Room
A new app described as “Letterboxd for clubbing” has launched, allowing music fans to give star ratings to DJ sets, festivals and live shows. Called Seen Live, the free app serves as a personal archive where users can record the club nights, concerts and other live music performances they have attended. It allows you to search for past and upcoming events, rate shows out of five stars, share your experiences, upload photos and videos and create a personal timeline of your nightlife and live music activity. Seen Live also includes social and discovery features, allowing people to follow friends and other music fans, browse popular performances…
BBC Introducing has announced a month-long programme of events for emerging artists across 10 UK locations. The string of shows will take place throughout November, hosting performances, workshops, educational panels, open mic sessions and networking opportunities in Belfast, Bridgend, Gateshead, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Sunderland. The announcement follows the confirmation last month that the BBC Introducing Stage had been axed from Reading & Leeds after 18 years. Launched in 2008, the festival stage had hosted artists including Ed Sheeran and The 1975 early in their careers, and the BBC said it had supported approximately 70 per cent of the British artists appearing across…
Dr. Dre has revealed he uses AI while producing music, defending the technology as a “new tool for creativity”. The rapper and producer discussed the divisive topic alongside his longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine in a new interview with the New York Times published today (August 23). Dre compared resistance to AI with the opposition that initially greeted drum machines and synthesisers. “I had a discussion with a few people a few days ago,” he said. “They were against AI and I’m like, ‘OK, you sound like the person that would have been against the drum machine when it came out’. Or synthesisers, right? It’s a new tool for creativity. Some people are afraid of…
“I may have just chosen to go sooner than I should have,” singer writes after comeback show following kidney stone removal. “We will come back better than ever” Bret Michaels has canceled the remainder of his 2026 tour dates in order to fully recover from recent surgeries the Poison singer underwent. Michaels, a Type 1 diabetic who recently had a kidney stone removed as well as a ureteral stent placed, returned to the stage following the surgery with a gig Friday night in Sugar Hill, Georgia. However, soon after the show, it was apparent that he hadn’t fully healed from…
The band also paid tribute to late drummer Taylor Hawkins in a short, effective set “It’s a celebration,” said Dave Grohl, chugging from a bottle of champagne toward the end of Foo Fighters’ sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, Aug. 22 — somehow, the first time the 32-year-old band has played the iconic venue in the heart of Hollywood. He wasn’t just referring to the band’s gig there, though. He was referencing the enormity of the whole night, which found the Foo’s digging through both deep back catalogs and hits, backed by the dozens-strong Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted…
Foo Fighters have performed a set of hits and rarities with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra – check out footage below. The band took to the stage at the Hollywood Bowl yesterday (August 22), backed by the full orchestra, as well as members of the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting. The concert was part of a series of shows celebrating Dudamel’s 17-year tenure at the LA Philharmonic, and it saw Foo Fighters play 15 songs, including hits such as ‘All My Life’, ‘The Pretender’, ‘Learn To Fly’ and ‘Best Of You’. The band also dug deep to play a few rarities from their back…
Don Toliver brought out Justin Timberlake during his concert in Miami last night – check out footage below. Toliver was performing at the Kaseya Center in the city yesterday (August 22) as part of his ongoing ‘Nitrous’ tour, and near the end of the set, he welcomed Timberlake as his surprise guest. Together, they performed Timberlake’s 2003 hit ‘Rock Your Body’, before moving into Toliver’s ‘Body’, which sampled the former song. Toliver had already played ‘Body’ earlier in the set, but revived it for the Timberlake cameo. It was Timberlake’s first public performance since January, when he paid tribute to his frequent collaborator Pharrell Williams at the…
On Saturday night, Aug. 23, in Nashville, fans arrived to Big Thief’s show at the Ryman Auditorium prepared for a standard (but no less great) evening of songs. Instead, they were in for a pretty epic surprise: the band would be playing their new unreleased triple album, Horsepower, in its entirety, alongside some of the people who helped create it. And those people? An incredible array of Americana and roots icons including Iris DeMent, Gillian Welch, and Lucinda Williams, as well as a renowned cast of players. There were signs on the way into the venue that something was up: the…
Nearly a year after Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress released their “Stateside” remix, they finally sung it live together. During her set at London’s All Points East Festival in London yesterday, Larsson brought Pink out to perform the Fancy Some More? standout and favorite of champions. “You guys are watching herstory being made right now,” Larsson told a howling crowd. Check out a video below.This is the first time Pink and Larsson have sung “Stateside” live, despite having performed together since its release. At Coachella in April, Pink brought the Swedish pop star out out to debut their rework of Larsson’s…
Cruz Beckham made a surprise appearance during The Kooks‘ headline show at Rock N Roll Circus Norwich – watch footage below. The 21-year-old musician – son of David and Victoria Beckham – had played earlier in the day with his band The Breakers at the Earlham Park event yesterday (August 22). He ended up returning to the stage during The Kooks’ headline set, playing guitar and sharing vocals with frontman Luke Pritchard on the ‘Inside In/Inside Out’ track ‘Jackie Big Tits’. The Kooks were playing their 2006 debut album in full as part of their tour celebrating its 20th anniversary, and the Rock N Roll Circus bill also…
