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Next Wave #1205: Essosa
Essosa knew who she was from a young age. Growing up between Canada, Essex and London, often in the company of a creative family, Essosa was surrounded by musical influences, particularly in church, where her mother was a choir leader. “I’ve been writing since I was very young. I always… The post Next Wave #1205:…
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Hermanos Gutiérrez’s New Album Is a Journey Through the Andes. It’s Also a Journey Through Their Past.
Swiss-Ecuadorian duo Hermanos Gutiérrez have announced a new album, Los Ojos del Cóndor, due out on 25 September 2026, which draws on the Andes mountain range and their family history for inspiration. Following 2024’s space-themed Sonido Cósmico, the brothers describe the record as a “love letter to South America” that explores their dual heritage, having…
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Becky G Reveals Her ‘Freak in the Sheets’ Era to ‘Playboy’: ‘God Forbid She Talk About It’
Becky G has spoken candidly to Playboy about the sensual, adult-oriented direction of her fifth studio album, Baraja Bendita, describing it as her most explicit work yet and a deliberate rejection of the divide between her public image and private life. The 29-year-old, who rose to fame with “Shower” at 17, said she was pushing…
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Claire Cronin Announces New Album The Bruise: Hear “Black Water”
American singer-songwriter and author Claire Cronin has announced her new album, The Bruise, due out on 9 October via Ordinal Records/A Moth Object. It marks her first LP since 2021’s Bloodless and continues her uneasy, folk-inflected style drawing on doom metal and drone influences. The record was made largely at home in Berkeley with her…
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DomiNque Perry Signs With ColorCreative
Actress and singer DomiNque Perry, known for starring alongside Diarra Kilpatrick in Diarra From Detroit, has signed with ColorCreative for representation in all areas. The move gives the actress broader backing as her profile grows, coinciding with the series’ recent shift from BET+ to Paramount+ for its second season, in which Perry plays Aja, the…
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Jade Is Her Own Biggest Fan, and Has the Spotify Library to Prove It
Pop star Jade, formerly of Little Mix, revealed the eclectic contents of her Spotify liked-songs library as part of Rolling Stone’s Song Shuffle series, recorded backstage at Lollapalooza. She admitted she’d only recently discovered the platform’s “like” button, describing her selections as “quite eclectic” a mix reflecting her pop background, musical theatre interests and childhood…
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Foo Fighters to step in as support act for AC/DC for “one night only”: “This is literally a dream come true. So if you want blood, you’ve got it”
Foo Fighters have been announced as a last-minute replacement support act for AC/DC’s St. Louis show on 8 September 2026, part of the rock legends’ ‘Power Up’ world tour. Frontman Dave Grohl called the slot “literally a dream come true”, explaining that AC/DC’s 1980 concert film Let There Be Rock shaped his approach to live…
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The Song of Hiawatha review – Rafael Payare reveals the riches of Coleridge-Taylor’s hit cantata
Rafael Payare and his Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal gave the Edinburgh International Festival premiere of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha, a once wildly popular Victorian cantata trilogy that had fallen out of the regular repertoire. Festival director Nicola Benedetti’s decision to programme the work was a risk given its dated Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libretto…
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Tame Impala & Steve Lacy Hits Surge Thanks to Spider-Man – But Why is One Bigger Than the Other Abroad?
Two songs featured in the film Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Tame Impala’s “Loser” and Steve Lacy’s “Oh Yeah?”, are climbing several Billboard charts, illustrating how the blockbuster’s success is spilling over into music streaming. Domestically, Lacy’s track has the edge over Tame Impala’s on the US-focused Hot 100 and Streaming Songs charts, but internationally the…
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Dozens of ‘dangerous’ artworks are buried under dirt in Sydney, and visitors will be asked to dig deep
Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas is presenting Heap, an unusual installation in which 80 artworks by eight Australian artists are buried under tonnes of dirt in the foyer of Carriageworks, inviting the public to physically dig them up. The project blends exhibition, installation and mock archaeological dig, with each hidden piece representing a “dangerous idea”…