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Sixteen years after their last studio album, Durutti Column return with a new album. The group led by Vini Reilly will release “Renascent” on July 31st via London Records. The single “Liars” arrives ahead of it, the first extract of the work (you can listen to it below). The announcement comes a few months after the reissue of “The Return Of The Durutti Column”, the Manchester band's historic debut originally released in 1980. Mark Holt and Hamish Muir of 8vo, two graphic designers historically linked to Factory Records, were involved in the cover of “Renascent”.Alongside Reilly, percussionist Bruce Mitchell and…
As the online public continues to throw a temper tantrum over Olivia Rodrigo's choice to don a baby doll dress while promoting her third LP, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So In Love, the singer-songwriter weighed in on the controversy. After wearing a pink flouncy dress for the album's cover, a similar blue one for the “Drop Dead” music video, and rocking out at Barcelona's Teatro Greco for Spotify's Billions Club Live while wearing a floral babydoll dress with matching bloomers, the getup triggered a storm of criticism as many internet commenters lodged accusations that the 23-year-old pop…
The Radiohead frontman will be in the capital. In an unusual guise. The details. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
THE French Saints they're back with a new single. Is called Guerrillacomes out on Friday 29 May in all digital stores, and is the first step in a new recording chapter for the duo made up of Alessandro De Santis And Mario French: change of label, entry into the roster of Asian Fake under the umbrella of House of Music (HOM)distribution Sony Music. For the two twenty-seven year olds this is the first song released a year and a half after the EP It may not matterreleased in November 2024. A time openly spent looking around, composing and writing the…
Music executive Larry Jackson is suing to identify the anonymous person or people behind what he describes as a “coordinated, malicious, and ongoing campaign” targeting him, his independent label Gamma, and the label’s artists. He says the “reputational warfare” started after an article cast him as one of the masterminds of Kanye West’s “risky comeback.” In the 12-page complaint, filed in New York and obtained by Rolling Stone, Jackson says that shortly after Bloomberg published its story on April 23, an unidentified figure launched the websites “larryjacksonexposed.com” and “gammaexposed.com.” The sites published “false, misleading, and defamatory statements” about Jackson and…
While President Donald Trump huffs and puffs over his unfinished White House ballroom (after bulldozing the East Wing for the project and leaving a big hole in the ground), preens over his remodel of the White House Rose Garden, and oversees the construction of an octagonal cage on the South Lawn for UFC fights scheduled on his 80th birthday, a massive bash is set to take place at the National Mall to mark the United States' 250th birthday. Notably, Trump's UFC fight celebration is one of many events planned around the anniversary. On Wednesday, Freedom 250 — the self-described non-partisan…
Two episodes into Off Campusthe Prime Video hockey-romance drama that's become a gargantuan streaming hit, lead characters Hannah and Garrett are hanging out, looking at a laptop. The two of them have been deep into a fake-dating plot: Hannah has promised to tutor Garrett, a star hockey player, and in exchange, he'll pretend to be her boyfriend to make her crush jealous. But at this point in the series, they're starting to get closer — and Hannah, a music student, wants to show Garrett a band she absolutely loves. “Wait, have you heard of the Beaches?” she asks. “Their Coachella…
Glen Matlock returned to talk about the tensions with John Lydon and the accusations made against the current incarnation of the Sex Pistols, dismissed by the singer as a simple “tribute band”. The bassist, star of the new documentary “I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol”, also ruled out any possibility of a future one reunion with the ex-frontman.The film, directed by Andre Relis and Nick Mead and based on the autobiography published by Matlock in 1996, traces his role in the birth of British punk and above all his contribution to the Sex Pistols. Matlock was in fact co-author of…
Taylor Swift's trademark war with real-life Las Vegas “showgirl” Maren Wade kicked into high gear Wednesday, with the superstar's lawyer arguing in court that Wade's request for an immediate ban on album-related merch sales would trample Swift's right to free speech. At the hearing in downtown Los Angeles, Swift's lawyer said Wade's request for an immediate ban on sales of candles, tumblers, brushes, and other merchandise bearing the album title defied “common sense.” He said Swift's album, The Life of a Showgirldid not infringe on Wade's “Confessions of a Showgirl” trademark because it was “absolutely undisputed” that the album is…
1953: Arthur Morgan “Arto” Lindsay, guitarist, singer and experimental composer, formerly in the no wave band DNA, was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
