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The “relentless” 1968 movie that terrified John Carpenter: “It’s just tremendous”
John Carpenter has described George A. Romero’s 1968 horror film *Night of the Living Dead* as a frightening and influential work, recalling that it scared him when he first saw it. He particularly praised its unstoppable zombie threat and its idea that loved ones could become monsters, arguing that the film helped define modern zombie…
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BTS’ ARIRANG, World Tour Drive HYBE Revenues to All-Time High
HYBE, the South Korean entertainment company behind BTS, reported record quarterly revenue of 1.45 trillion Korean won ($987 million) and record operating profit of 170.9 billion won ($116 million), driven largely by strong sales of the group’s ARIRANG album and their ongoing world tour. The results underline BTS’s continued commercial dominance following their return to…
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“What if the sweetest late-90s boyband love ballad suddenly turned into one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written?” Electric Callboy subvert the soppy tropes with surprisingly heavy new single The Way You Are
German electro-metal band Electric Callboy have released a new single, The Way You Are, which reimagines the sound of late-1990s and early-2000s boyband love ballads as a heavy deathcore track. The release matters as another taster for the band’s forthcoming seventh studio album, continuing their trademark blend of playful pop-culture parody with aggressive metal songwriting.…
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Laura Veirs Announces New Album ‘Temple Songs’
Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has announced her new album ‘Temple Songs’, due for release on 14th August via her own label Raven Marching Band Records. It marks her first full-length record in four years and has been shared alongside a new single, ‘Flying Into Darkness’, accompanied by a video filmed while she was touring in France.…
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Bernie Taupin Announces First Solo Album In Nearly 40 Years
Bernie Taupin, Elton John’s longtime lyricist and one of pop music’s most decorated songwriters, has announced The Sea Has No Mercy, his first solo album in nearly four decades. Due out this autumn, it marks a rare return to the spotlight for a writer far better known for the words behind other artists’ hits, including…
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Steve Lacy Seemingly Spoils Spider-Man: Brand New Day On Red Carpet Livestream
Musician Steve Lacy appeared to accidentally reveal a plot secret from Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day during a red carpet interview at the film’s premiere, ahead of its cinema release this Friday. Lacy attended the event because his song “oh yeah?” features in the movie, but when asked which character he was most excited about—without…
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Secures Epic Rotten Tomatoes Score Ahead of Box Office Debut
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the latest instalment in Tom Holland’s run as the web-slinger, has received strongly positive early reviews ahead of its cinema release on 31 July. The film currently holds a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes, a notable result given the high expectations following the success of the previous outing, No Way Home,…
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DANZIG’s 2010 Album ‘Deth Red Sabaoth’ To Be Reissued In Seven Different Physical Formats
Cleopatra Records is reissuing DANZIG’s 2010 album “Deth Red Sabaoth” on 21 August 2026, offering it in seven physical formats to satisfy collector demand. The ninth DANZIG studio album, and the band’s first since 2004’s “Circle Of Snakes”, it became their biggest commercial success since 1994’s “Danzig 4”, helped by an organic, bluesy sound achieved…
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The bassist Duff McKagan called out of everyone’s league: “He was a bad motherfucker”
Duff McKagan praised Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones as a bassist operating at an exceptionally high level, describing him as “a bad motherfucker”. The Guns N’ Roses musician’s comments underline Jones’s often understated but influential role in Led Zeppelin, where his playing added complexity and character beyond a conventional rhythm-section function. McKagan said his appreciation…