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When Sony and Marvel Studios struck their historic deal back in 2015 to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fandom was collectively holding its breath. We had already seen two distinct live-action iterations of the web-slinger in quick succession, and the prospect of yet another reboot felt, to some, like a dangerous exercise in brand saturation. Enter Tom Holland: a young British actor equipped with gymnast-level agility, an infectious boyish charm, and the terrifying task of stepping into boots previously worn by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.We love the animated Spidey but we are only talking live-action here, sorry.Fast…
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Birthday Boy” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more. Rocky’s first studio album, “Firestorm” is now available worldwide through…
Minneapolis-based troubadour draws upon the Creative Spirit in turbulent times.Dark Wings is the eighteenth studio album from the prolific Mason Jennings. With a significant following in the USA and worldwide, new releases from the Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter are eagerly awaited, and this collection of eleven songs will not disappoint his many fans.Onthis recording, Jennings returns to a band format after his primarily solo acoustic album,Magnifier, in 2025. Dark Wings was produced by Scott McPherson, a drummer who Jennings attests has played with “everyone”, the list including Elliott Smith, Beck and She & Him. Basing themselves in a studio workshop at McPherson…
During the almost 55 years since the release of her eponymous debut album, Bonnie Raitt has established herself as a top quality singer and slide guitar player; she has won many awards over her career, including 13 competitive Grammy awards (from 31 nominations), topped off in 2021 by a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also performed at nine Grammy Awards ceremonies.I Can’t Make You Love Me featured on Raitt’s 11th (and her biggest selling to date) studio album, 1991’s Luck of the Draw.Raitt used the sleeve notes to dedicate this album to legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who tragically…
Say She She|PonceauThe Drill Shed, Margate, Kent30th July 2026Say She She, supported by Ponceau, brought their “discodelic soul” and “dreamy harmonies” to the South-East coast to help Margate celebrate 25 years of its now legendary Soul Weekender. In the relatively new and repurposed event space of the 750 capacity Drill Shed, the incredibly talented New York trio of Piya, Sabrina and Alina transferred Manhattan chic to bohemian Margate.Below the lurid orange glow of the iconic Lido sign, and within a stone’s throw of the Kent seaside, Say She She, following in the footsteps of fellow New Yorker Madonna, made Margate…
Things are pretty dramatic in the Slipknot camp right now with the surprise, if unconfirmed, news that Sid Wilson may be out of the band. But then things have always been pretty dramatic when it comes to the most explosive metal band of the last 30 years.That was certainly the case around the time of their second album, Iowa, if producer Ross Robinson is to be believed. Speaking to Metal Hammer in a brand new interview just ahead of the album’s 25th anniversary, Robinson looks back on the internal and external pressures surrounding the band as they worked on the…
British singer-songwriter Chris Selman examines the stranger pressures of contemporary life on Today’s Malaise, the new 12-track album from his Celestial Skies project. Recorded with a live band and string players at Blueprint Studios in Manchester, then mastered at Abbey Road in London, the record pairs bright indie-pop arrangements with lyrics about phone dependency, influencer culture, political dysfunction, beauty standards and society’s appetite for instant solutions. Selman explains:The new album is a social comment on the state of the world in 2026. I’m looking at the realities of living in 2026 — whether that’s phone addiction, influencer culture, broken politics,…
1 The Bad Seeds rival The Beatles for rooftop gigs At 11am, 8½hours before their scheduled show in Preston Park, Cave and the Bad Seeds squeeze onto Resident Records’ roof to serenade passing shoppers with “Train Long Suffering” from 1985’s The Firstborn Is Dead, starting a four-song set. The narrow street is quickly packed with an impromptu audience, including some here from across Europe for the official gig and amazed to find themselves extras in Cave’s version of Let It Be. “What a thing to be doing,” Cave marvels, before thanking “the best fucking record shop in the world”. 2…
The Go-Katz: The Go-Katz Will Survive (Raucous Records)LP | CD | DLRel Date: 7th August 20264.0 out of 5.0 stars4.0For the uninitiated, The Go-Katz were a psychobilly band initially formed in Loughborough back in 1986; they were hugely popular within the then burgeoning UK psychobilly scene; their sound was the perfect combination of rockabilly roots delivered with punk energy and mindset; despite their profile their recording history is limited to just a handful of singles – with only The Go-Katz EP from the actual period, and a follow up compilation album entitled Real Gone Katz that was released in 2002.As…
Over the course of three albums, White Zombie gradually left behind their noise rock leanings to become that metal band you could dance to at your local rock club. According to J. Yuenger – their fifth guitarist by 1989 – this evolution wasn’t by accident, either.”The change in sound and attitude began well before I joined,” Yuenger told Revolver. “When I met them, they were adamant about becoming a ‘real’ metal band. They didn’t want to become more normal, but they did want to be more accessible, to play to a wider audience.””I was never happy with just playing at…
RAEGAN doesn’t treat heartbreak as a quiet collapse. On CRYING IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND, she gives it sweeping vocals, theatrical drama and enough glitter to turn emotional fallout into an act of self-devotion. The single sits at the centre of her upcoming RAEGAN CORE EP — a world built for outsiders, theatre kids, and anyone who has ever been told to make themselves smaller. Musical-theatre scale meets intimate pop writing, with vulnerability becoming part of the spectacle rather than something hidden behind it.In this FM PRO Quickfire 5, RAEGAN discusses her Princess Jasmine-inspired vision, building a safe community through…
Here’s our weekly overview of Hip-Hop and R&B album sales in the U.S., along with an update on where each album ranks on the Billboard 200 chart – this time for week 31 of 2026. This week’s recap includes the first-week sales of A*POP the new Tyla album, which debuts at No. 43. Source: HITS Daily Double Chart # Artist(s) Album title Sales Sales + Streams 6 Drake ICEMAN 130 52,558 13 Future The Real Me 383 31,489 17 SZA SOS 905 28,195 18 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 333 27,993 21 Don Toliver OCTANE 524 25,485 26 Drake Take…