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After years of building chemistry across a string of collaborations, London based Nigerian artists Maka and Phlow finally deliver the project fans have been waiting for. Produced entirely by longtime collaborator Teck-Zilla,Hard Shell, Soft Centeris a sleek blend of R&B, soul, lo-fi and contemporary hip hop that explores love, heartbreak, self-awareness and personal growth with honesty and finesse.The album opens strongly with “Lose My Mind,” a playful take on modern dating culture, before sliding into the warm, euphoric love anthem “No One,” the single that first sparked the idea for a full length collaboration. Maka’s solo turn on “Dive In”…
Irish poet, music journalist, and publicist Danielle Holian returns with Growing Pains, her fourth and most personal poetry collection.Structured across five sections — Honeymoon, Handcuffs, Hangover, Hindsight, and Homecoming — the book traces toxic love, emotional control, survival, and self-reclamation.In this FM PRO 10Q, Holian discusses the story behind Growing Pains, turning lived experience into poetry, and protecting personal writing in a culture obsessed with content.Q1. What made Growing Pains the right story to tell now?The idea for Growing Pains had been in the back of my mind for years. During one of the most difficult periods of my life,…
Bang on target: 19 shells from the Waits and Brennan cannon.Since Tom Waits’ last studio album, Bad As Me (2011), apart from the odd reissue and a contribution to Marc Ribot’s Songs Of Resistance 1942 – 2018, big-screen appearances have kept the Waits fire burning – with the likes of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Dead Don’t Die and Father Mother Sister Brother. Until this year, when, out of the blue, came the sound of Boots on the Ground, a collaboration with Massive Attack that sent this Bristol-based reviewer scurrying to the local supermarket hoping to catch sight of…
Photo by Scott J FarrellI can already hear the cries, “Jackson Browne, a bad album – what heresy is this.” After a moment, though, those same voices say more reflectively, “Well, there is his recent output,” or “Well, there was that time in the 80s; that decade wasn’t kind to many people”. Then they would, as you are doing, wait for me to put clarity and arguments together, and then disagree with me totally. And I expect it.I am going to start with that cliché that leads this feature on many occasions; Jackson Browne has not actually made a bad…
Still in a dream: shoegaze, slackers and the reinvention of rock, 1984-1994Published: White RabbitRelease date: 18th June 2026Still in a dream primarily spans the period at the start of renowned music critic Simon Reynolds’ career, writing reviews, feature interviews and front cover stories for the weekly ‘inkie’ music paper Melody Maker on all the glorious bands that defined the era and the man, 1984-1994, according to Reynolds “…the most exciting period of my life…” C86, dream pop, daydream daze, Reynolds own buzzword (ROBW), shoegaze, slackers, revisionaries (ROBW), a thought-tingling definition of indie that I’ll be quoting till kingdom come, rockers…
In this new entry in our ‘Diamonds In The Rough’ category, we would like to introduce you to artist Pops Conerly and his brand new single titled “Miracles” (Remix). Veteran singer, songwriter, producer, and ordained minister Pops Conerly returns with an inspiring new release, “Miracles” (Remix), available now. Blending Contemporary Gospel, Soul, and R&B, the uplifting single delivers a heartfelt message of faith, perseverance, and the extraordinary power of hope. For Pops Conerly, “Miracles (Remix)” is more than just a song; it is a personal testimony. The track was inspired by his own life-changing experience following emergency surgery, a moment…
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea remembers exactly what he was doing on the evening of June 27, 1988. Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell had called over to his home in Los Angeles to play him his band’s new album, Nothing’s Shocking, and then he and his wife Loesha went to a friend’s house to watch the Mike Tyson versus Michael Spinks world heavyweight boxing title fight on TV. When the couple got back home, Flea saw “39 messages” on their phone’s answering machine, with friend after friend asking him to call them back. When he made the first call,…
Ahead of their Main Stage gig at Download this weekend, unpeople have announced that their debut album, we are unpeople, will drop on October 9 via SharpTone. To celebrate, The Midlands riff machine have also released a new single, the heavy friends, which singer/guitarist Jake Crawford explains is about love, and being worried about it. “It’s essentially a love song from the perspective of someone who is wholly sceptical about the very concept of love and what it’s come to mean in a modern context” he says. “I am essentially saying I am going to kill the very concept of…
French alt-emo band Paerish are ready to make a statement withtheir new single ‘Wait For Dark’, out today via SideOneDummy Records. And it’s a heavy one. Once again working with Grammy-winning producer Will Yip, Paerish have really focused down on what makes for a vibrant live show and distilled those visceral elements onto record. The result is an onslaught of riffs, driving rhythm and emotion. “Sometimes in life and at work, you come across people who make it quite clear that they don’t like you—which isn’t a problem in itself,”pontificates vocalist and guitarist Mathias Court.“But occasionally, those people will go…
The director of such memorable chills’n’thrills classics as Halloween, The Thing, Assault On Precinct 13, They Live, Escape From New York, Escape From LA and Village Of The Damned, John Carpenter surely needs no introduction. In recent years, Carpenter has focused more on music-making than film-making, expanding upon his pioneering synth-driven soundtracks for most of the above movies to create a fascinating catalogue of new electronic music in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and his godson Daniel Davies (son of The Kinks’ Dave). At 78, he’s about to add another new string to his bow: Carpenter has just announced…
To celebrate his 49th birthday, Kanye West releases a brand new song, which is titled “GEMINI SEASON”. The rapper will release the deluxe edition of hisBULLY album on June 19th. Listen below: Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here
When two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman first read the script for the indie film, “Tuner,” he was astonished by how Academy Award-winning documentary director Daniel Roher (“Navalny”) had navigated his first narrative fiction thriller. Credit: Black Bear Pictures “This was the first time in over 50 years of doing this, a guy came up to me and said, I wrote this for you,” he acknowledged during a recent press chat. Hoffman plays Harry Horowitz, a gifted tuner who is well-versed in fixing pianos. “The role of a piano tuner immediately resonated with me on a personal level,” he said. At…