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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 cool detachment, through the ferocity of a true rock band

Interview

Prima Materia, Roberto Laneri – Harmonic Epiphanies

From the '70s to today, maestro Laneri has been one of the foremost practitioners and scholars of overtone singing in the West, a composer who abandoned the avant-garde to pursue a path of musical research that is geographically stateless yet centred on sound itself. We meet him for this exclusive interview

STARDUST

Kate Bush - When Kate Bush first topped the album charts

Already a teenage prodigy at 19 with the hit "Wuthering Heights", the British singer-songwriter found her full consecration with an album released in 1980

Interview

Florence Road - Four Irish Girls Take Trento by Storm

The day before they took the stage at Trento's Poplar Festival, we met Lily Aron and her bandmates, who topped the Irish radio charts with "Hanging Out To Dry". The four very young women are ready to revive the glories of Irish rock

MONOGRAPH

Grace Cummings – Cowboy, Freak, and the Dream of Authenticity 

The Australian artist reinterprets seventy years of folk music without fearing comparison to the past.

IN-DEPTH

The Nolan Effect – The Odyssey in Music: 20 Songs About 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.

IN-DEPTH

Spider-Man – Spider-Man Is Rock: From the Ramones to U2, All of Spidey's Musical Ties

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.

Interview

Sirom – Folk Spells from Slovenia

The Slovenian trio is revolutionizing world music, between original albums and thrilling live performances.

MONOGRAPH

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

We trace the Icelandic trio's artistic evolution, from early experiments steeped in Nordic folklore, witchcraft and glacial melancholy, to top billing at major European festivals — one of contemporary post-punk's most evocative bands.

IN-DEPTH

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.

IN-DEPTH

Francesco Guccini – Guccini in 15 Essential Songs

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

JUKE-BOX

Lloyd Cole – \"Forest Fire,\" the Slow-Burning Fire That Still Burns

The story of the manifesto-track of the British songwriter and his band, at the twilight of new wave and the birth of new pop.

IN-DEPTH

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.

MONOGRAPH

Lene Lovich – The Wild Fable of Lili-Marlene

Belly dancer, horror-film voice actress, and above all a formidable singer and performer. The incredible story of Lili-Marlene Premilovich, one of new wave's most eccentric and original figures. Her visionary art pop, enriched by theatrical vocals and refined arrangements, peaked with \"Stateless\" — though it was far from her only triumph.

JUKE-BOX

The Feelies – \"Loveless Love\"

Like a crescendo that implodes on itself. A held-back climax. The New York band's loveless love song is a tour de force of rock that's both cerebral and heart-wrenching.

IN-DEPTH

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

OndaRock turns 25! We throw ourselves a party with this selection of the articles our writers hold dearest.

VISIONS IN 33RPM

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

The album that made the Australian songwriter a global star, thanks to a handful of desperate songs about love and death.

JUKE-BOX

Space – "Magic Fly"

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

MONOGRAPH

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.

IN-DEPTH

Francesco De Gregori – 20 Songs with Lightning-Bolt Openings – Playlists

Disarming, sudden, and often \"in medias res\": a curated playlist of 20 of the Roman songwriter's most striking opening lines.

IN-DEPTH

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.

VISIONS IN 33RPM

Air – The Virgin Suicides, Air's Psychedelic Comeback

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

VISIONS IN 33RPM

Madonna – Like a Virgin, the (Lost) Innocence 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.

IN-DEPTH

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

Syd Barrett died twenty years ago, though his artistic disappearance had already happened in the early '70s. We remember him through ten lesser-known, more marginal songs 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 Mississippi Delta to the cities of success, we retrace the epic 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 adopted him, awarding him a César, and Italy is finally catching on to his talent too. From "Ecce Homo" to the splendid, recent "Una lunghissima ombra," the Turin-born artist has forged his path with a singular poetic consistency, marked by a shy, melancholic existentialism. We trace his story.

MONOGRAPH

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.

MONOGRAPH

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 German new wave's most original experiences — and still, to this day, the country's most important all-female band. We trace their brief but blazing saga, with a final chapter on the Autonervous coda.

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.

IN-DEPTH

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.

VISIONS IN 33RPM

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 late-'70s no wave is one of the most direct, authentic, disruptive, far-reaching and multidisciplinary genres in all of rock history — a brief but powerful shockwave that has shown it can still stir back to life today.

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.

VISIONS IN 33RPM

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 closed out their time together in glory with \"Synchronicity.\" 41 years after its release, with a reissue on the way, it's time to revisit its precious grooves.

IN-DEPTH

OndaRock – 2001–2021: We're Still Standing

OndaRock turns 20. We take the opportunity to look back on our work, and let some of our favorite musicians throw us a party.