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Ductape - The Darkwave of the Crescent Moon

The rise of the duo made up of Çağla Güleray (vocals and synths) and Furkan Güleray (bass and guitar). A Turkish pair blending contemporary goth with the roots of Anatolian music, for one of the most original projects on the new dark scene

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Paolo Benvegnù - Storia di un poeta fragile

We retrace the career and work of the late Milanese singer-songwriter, from his beginnings with Scisma to the triumphs of his mature years, up to "È inutile parlare d'amore"

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Beatles - “Rubber Soul”, the album with which the Beatles grew up

The reissue of the classic 1965 Beatles album is out: we take the opportunity to dig deeper into a pivotal chapter in the history of the Fab Four

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Supertramp - Crime Of The Century, Supertramp's Perfect Crime

On the occasion of the reissue, we tell the story of the record with which the Hodgson-Davies duo's band rose again on a remote English farm, giving birth to 8 perfect songs

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Ghost - The Antipope and his nameless ghouls

How a Swedish satanic band became a pop-metal sensation

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The Smile – The Apocalypse Beyond Radiohead's Labyrinths

Not a mere side project while waiting for Radiohead to wake up, but an entity in its own right. Yorke, Greenwood and Skinner have taken the trauma of the new millennium and dissected it with a musicologist's cold precision, through the ferocity of a true rock band

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Nolan Effect - The Odyssey in Music: 20 Songs That Tell the Story of Ulysses' Journey – Playlists

Riding the Odyssey fever sparked by Nolan's film, we revisit 20 songs that tell, each in their own way, the story of Ulysses' voyage.

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Spider-Man - Spider-Man Is Rock: From the Ramones to U2, All the Musical Ties to the Web-Slinger

From the classic theme song and its famous covers (Ramones, Aerosmith, Flaming Lips) to film scores, U2's musical, and Spider-Punk: the Marvel hero's ongoing flirtation with rock.

JUKE-BOX

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

To mark the return of Ian McCulloch and co. with "Apples For Isaac", we revisit their most famous song, one of the masterpieces of the entire wave era

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Francesco Guccini – Guccini in 15 Essential Songs

We remember Francesco Guccini, who passed away at 86 in his beloved Pavana, with 15 of the most memorable songs from his catalogue

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Glen Hansard – Ten Essential Songs from The Frames, The Swell Season and His Solo Career

We remember the great Irish songwriter, who passed away on July 29, through 10 essential songs spanning The Frames, The Swell Season and his solo work.

Interview

Sirom – Folk Spells from Slovenia

The Slovenian trio is revolutionizing world music, between original albums and exhilarating live performances. Ahead of tonight's show at the Piedicavallo Festival, singer and multi-instrumentalist Ana Kravanj reveals the secrets behind a formula that is pure magic

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Kaelan Mikla – Magic and Esoterica Amid the Ice of the North

We trace the artistic evolution of the Icelandic trio, from their early experiments steeped in Nordic folklore, witchcraft and glacial melancholy, to their appearances on the bills of major European festivals. One of the most evocative bands on the contemporary post-punk scene

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Prog or Not Prog? 25 Artists Who Divide the Fans

From Pink Floyd to Radiohead, a zigzagging journey along progressive rock's most contested borders.

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Lene Lovich – The Wild Fable of Lili-Marlene

Oriental dancer, horror film dubbing artist, but above all a formidable singer and performer. The incredible story of Lili-Marlene Premilovich, one of the most eccentric and original figures in new wave. Her visionary art pop, enriched by theatrical vocals and refined arrangements, reached its creative peak on Stateless, though it wasn't her only triumph

JUKE-BOX

The Feelies – \"Loveless Love\"

Like a crescendo that implodes. A held-back orgasm. The New York band's Love without Love is a tour de force of rock that is at once cerebral and heart-wrenching

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OndaRock Turns 25 – A Little \"Best Of\" to Celebrate a Quarter Century (2001–2026)

OndaRock turns 25! We're throwing ourselves a party with this selection of the articles our editors hold dearest

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Nick Cave – Let Love In, the Bad Seeds of Love

The album that turned the Australian singer-songwriter into a world star, on the strength of a handful of desperate songs about love and death

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Space – "Magic Fly"

The story of a cornerstone of space-disco: melodic and irresistible, like an "Oxygène Part IV" hurled onto a dancefloor in some alien galaxy

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Anne Clark – A Poet in the Age of New Wave

A child of the punk and new wave era, the English singer-songwriter shaped a singular style that lives on today in the spoken word of Kae Tempest and others.

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David Bowie – Changes: The Thin White Duke's Ten Crucial Turning Points

Ten years ago, David Bowie left us. We retrace his legendary, ever-evolving career through ten defining turning points.

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Air – The Virgin Suicides, Air's Psychedelic Comeback

The memorable soundtrack by the French duo for Sofia Coppola's film, already nicknamed "The Dark Side of the Moon Safari"

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Madonna - Like a Virgin, the (lost) virginity of pop that turned Madonna into a diva

The record that crowned Miss Ciccone, cementing her image as the incurable Material Girl — a brazen, provocative diva, and a shrewd calculator too.

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Syd Barrett – Twenty Years Since His Death, a Lifetime Since His Farewell

Twenty years ago Syd Barrett died, but his artistic disappearance had already taken place at the start of the Seventies. We remember him through ten lesser-known, less celebrated tracks, in which his voice sounds more fragile, exposed and close

ROCK HISTORY

Blues – A Journey to the Roots of the Devil's Music

From the banks of the Mississippi to the cities of success, we retrace the epic story of the great pioneers of the "devil's music". A journey to the roots of the "blue" sound that lit the long fuse of 20th-century popular music

CHARTS & PLAYLISTS

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Siouxsie's 25 Best Songs

To mark her return to the stage after ten years (including a stop in Italy), we celebrate the queen of darkwave with a narrated playlist of 25 songs.

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Andrea Laszlo De Simone – The Craftsman of Unease

The French have embraced him, rewarding him with a César, but Italy too is finally discovering his talent. From "Ecce Homo" to his latest, splendid "Una lunghissima ombra", the Turin-born artist has forged his own path with a distinctive poetic consistency, built on a reserved, melancholic existentialism. Let's retrace his story

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Vera Sola – Tales of Demons and Ghosts from the Wild West

The artistically-gifted daughter of Hollywood legend Dan Aykroyd, the versatile Danielle has bewitched critics with her restless gothic folk.

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Malaria! – The Germs of Neue Deutsche Welle

Amid leaden electronic atmospheres, industrial clangs and dissonant saxophones, the fearless Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster forged, in the shadow of the Wall, one of the most original experiences of German new wave, as well as what remains, to this day, the most important German all-female band. We retrace their brief but dazzling saga, with a final chapter on the Autonervous offshoot

Live Report

PJ Harvey – Polly Jean's Spell in the Belfast Rain

The magnetic performance of the Dorset songwriter, marking her return to the Northern Irish capital after twenty years.

Live Report

Chelsea Wolfe – The Gothic Muse's Liturgies in Berlin's Rock Temple

The Sacramento songwriter bewitches the crowd at the Astra Kulturhaus with a mix of new songs and classics from her catalogue.

CHARTS & PLAYLISTS

Pink Floyd – Pink Floyd's 30 Best Songs

Our new narrated playlist: one of many possible \"Top 30\" rankings of the English band's best songs. Listen online.

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Darkwave – The History of Gothic Music in John Robb's Book

Through the English writer's encyclopedic volume, we retrace the milestones of dark and gothic music's epic story.

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Ultravox – Lament, 40 Years of the Wave Era's Romantic Epitaph

On April 6, 1984, Ultravox released their last great album — a distillation of the romantic, melancholic epic of the entire wave era, then already fading.

ROCK HISTORY

No Wave – The Aesthetics of Negation

New York's no wave of the late '70s is one of the most direct, authentic, explosive, far-reaching and multidisciplinary genres in the entire history of rock, a powerful but short-lived shockwave that has nonetheless shown it can reawaken in recent times

CHARTS & PLAYLISTS

The Cure – The Cure's 30 Best Songs

In our new narrated playlist, one of many possible \"Top 30\" rankings of the best songs by Robert Smith's band. Listen online.

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The Police – Synchronicity, the Final Triumph of Three Musicians at War

At the peak of both success and infighting, Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers brought their time together to a glorious close with "Synchronicity". 41 years after its release, and with a reissue on the way, it's time to revisit its precious grooves

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OndaRock - 2001-2021 – We're still standing

OndaRock turns 20. We're taking the opportunity to look back on what we've done, and to let some of our favorite musicians give us a proper send-off