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The Chameleons – "Strange Times," an Emotional Black Hole Disguised as a Post-Punk Masterpiece

The album featuring "Swamp Thing" and other gems, steeped in nostalgia for a lost innocence and shaped by the awareness of having to inhabit "strange times"

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Deep Purple - Ian Gillan on the Reunion with Ritchie Blackmore: "It Was Magical, By the End He Was a Bit Tipsy"

Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore recount the emotion of Deep Purple's historic reunion, which took place on August 12th in Wantagh, New York

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Release Surfer – The most interesting upcoming releases of the week

This new column will accompany you every Thursday, helping you pick which wave of new releases to ride the next day

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Paolo Benvegnù – Piccoli Fragilissimi Film, the Burnt Frames of Benvegnù

The Milanese artist's masterpiece. A genuine clinical treatise on human vulnerability, standing as one of the absolute peaks of Italian singer-songwriting in the new millennium.

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King Crimson - When King Crimson wrote a song about the end of the Beatles

The story of the satirical tribute to the Beatles by Robert Fripp and co.

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Andean Music: Prog, Hard Rock and Folk from Bolivia

Between psychedelic rock, progressive, Andean folklore and protest song, between 1966 and 1990 Bolivia built one of Latin America's most original and least-known music scenes: 15 essential albums and 25 more to dig deeper tell its story

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Songs in TV series

From "Let Down" in "The Bear" to "Bad Boys Get Spanked" in "The Shards": the new instalment of our disorganised journey through TV series soundtracks

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Lucio Battisti - When Battisti discovered prog and (Latin) America

The story of the musical turning point that marked a watershed in the career of the artist from Poggio Bustone

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This month's singles - From Fontaines D.C. to Peter Gabriel: the most interesting new releases

The most interesting new tracks released over the past month, from "Marianne" by Fontaines D.C. to "Looking For The Happy" by Peter Gabriel

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Paul McCartney - The album the ex-Beatle called "a complete disaster"

The story of the album disowned by the ex-Beatle and torn apart by critics. Was it really this "complete disaster"?

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U2 – OndaTop: U2's 10 Best B-Sides

The other side of the Irish band's worldwide success, gathered in 10 gems mysteriously left off the LP tracklists and relegated to B-sides

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Pink Floyd - The incredible story behind one of Pink Floyd's most iconic album covers

The incredible story of how one of the most celebrated and iconic covers in the Floydian saga came to be

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Dolly Parton - Rediscovering a progressive country icon

A tribute to the artist who has just passed away, through a handful of songs worth rediscovering

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Vasco Rossi - Vasco reveals: "Here's how Vita spericolata, the most misunderstood song ever, came about"

The Emilian singer-songwriter revisits his most famous hit, recounting its genesis and once again clarifying its meaning, which is almost always misunderstood

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The Calendar – September's Most Anticipated Concerts: From Wilco to CSI

From Wilco to CSI, from Carmen Consoli to Caparezza, from the Black Keys to Judas Priest: here are next month's most awaited live shows.

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Genesis - How Phil Collins became the singer of Genesis

We retrace the delicate period when the English band, left without frontman Peter Gabriel, went looking for a replacement - until they found one right at home...

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Fabrizio De André - The femicide that inspired De André's first hit

The brutal story that inspired Faber's first hit, later made famous by Mina's version too. Today, a plaque has been proposed in Milan to remember that victim

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Fontaines D.C. - The two poetry books that gave birth to Fontaines D.C.

Before forming a band, Chatten and his bandmates were a group of young men united by a passion for poetry. Here's how that passion led to the band's formation

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Aaliyah - When Aaliyah brushed up against Trent Reznor's shadow

Fate plays with the lines of time. Sometimes two souls brush against each other, ready to merge, and then the spell breaks. R&B and industrial in a story that few know