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By Paul Salfen, Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine Matthew and Gunnar Nelson have spent decades fielding the same question: What happened to the hair? The identical twins—seventh-generation entertainers, grandsons of TV icons Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, twin sons of Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ricky Nelson—exploded onto the scene in 1990 as NELSON, their

By Paul Salfen, Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine In the pantheon of modern film composers, few have navigated the treacherous waters—or, in this case, the fiery ashes—of blockbuster storytelling quite like Simon Franglen. The English maestro, whose resume reads like a greatest-hits compilation of pop culture milestones, has long been the secret weapon behind some of

By Paul Salfen, Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine Berlin-based electronic musician Kangding Ray (David Letellier) has built a singular career bridging experimental sounds and club-driven techno. From his early releases on the legendary German imprint Raster-Noton to his more recent dancefloor-oriented output, Kangding Ray has navigated the unexplored territories between experimental music and dance music.

By Paul Salfen, Christine Thompson | AMFM Magazine | December 2025 In a franchise-defining twist, Predator: Badlands flips the script: for the first time, a Yautja—here, a young outcast named Dek—is the hero we root for. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg (Prey), the film plunges viewers into a hostile alien world filled with deadly flora, savage

By Paul Salfen | AMFM Magazine In a television landscape full of reboots and franchises, Vince Gilligan’s latest series PLURIBUS has arrived like a lightning bolt: a completely original show with the bonkers high-concept premise that the most miserable person on Earth is the only one who can save humanity from a forced, dystopian version

An Exclusive AMFM Magazine Interview with Paul Salfen When Hildur Guðnadóttir’s name appears in a film’s credits, audiences brace themselves for something extraordinary. The Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy-winning Icelandic composer (Chernobyl, Joker, Tár) has once again delivered a score that feels inseparable from the screen with Nia DaCosta’s bold 2025 reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda

By Paul Salfen, AMFM Magazine Following an electrifying summer packed with debut performances at major U.S. PRIDE events, a landmark slot at Colorado's iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and a high-energy set at Ushuaïa in Ibiza, GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter HAYLA is gearing up for her highly anticipated return to North America. The electronic music powerhouse has just

By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine – November 5, 2025 Best known as one half of Erasure—one of the UK’s most beloved award-winning songwriting partnerships—Andy Bell has a successful and varied parallel solo career with releases that include three solo albums under his own name, and a further two as offshoots of his one-man theatre

By Paul Salfen The late afternoon sun spills over the emerald hills of upstate New York, painting Matisyahu’s home in a warm, amber glow. Outside, the GRAMMY-nominated artist talks introspectively about his new release, Ancient Child. Tomorrow, October 3, 2025, his eighth studio album, Ancient Child, will burst into the world—a 12-track tapestry of reggae’s

Interview by Paul Salfen Kula Shaker, Photo by Ami Jay Kula Shaker has always existed in an alternate reality, a luminous anomaly in the midst of Britpop’s lad-culture swagger. Emerging in the mid-’90s with Sanskrit-laced lyrics, sitar-drenched feedback, and a mystical counter-narrative, they fused British psychedelia with Eastern mysticism in a way that felt less