Miscellaneous

Rock History

Outrun 2006-2020 - A History of Synthwave

An analysis of the movement that has taken over the electronic underground and redefined the very concept of a music scene

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Italy in Odd Times - A Guide to Italian Prog in 50 Records

A guide to Italian prog in fifty records and a phenomenology of the movement

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A History of Britpop - Cool Britannia 1992-1999

The development, chronology, essential discography and social analysis of the quintessential British movement

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The Other Prog - 151 Records from Iceland to Indonesia

Prog was the universal genre of the Seventies, the only one able to take root on every geographical coordinate. Here's the guide to a phenomenon like no other

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Psych-Rock in the USA - An American Lysergic Dream

A long journey through utopia, freedom and fear, tracing the bands that shaped the history of 60s American psychedelic music

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Kraut-Rock - Germany's Rebirth

Born from the rubble of a country devastated by Nazi barbarism, the kraut-rock movement represented a genuine rebirth for Germany and one of the most vital, original chapters ever written outside the dominant Anglophone culture

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Canterbury - The Story of a Non-Scene

The Canterbury scene, a niche musical school that added new forebears to rock music while it was still a child of the classic blues-folk-country triad. A scene that, at the time, no one thought they were even part of

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Grindcore - Grind Your Fucking Head: an invitation to grindcore listening

Born in the late 80s from a radicalization of punk-hardcore and some of the most extreme strains of thrash-metal, grindcore gave rise to one of the most visceral and extremist sagas in the rock universe

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Black metal - Lay down your soul to the gods rock’n’roll

From the lo-fi satanism of Venom and Hellhammer to the dreamy elegance of Alcest and Negura Bunget, by way of the tragic chill of the Norwegian scene, here's a rundown of essential albums for getting to know the most popular form of metal in the underground

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Hardcore Punk - The Kids' Charge

From the pioneers of Detroit to California, by way of New York and the vast American hinterland. We retrace the hardcore saga through Tommaso Franci's book

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Trip-hop - The Long Wave of the Bristol Sound

From the nights of the Wild Bunch to trip-hop's golden age. From chill-out and lounge languor to electro-pop nostalgia. The long wave of Bristol, a laboratory of a thousand alchemies

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Glam-rock - All the young dudes

Sequins and paillettes, transgression and ambiguity. But also an exciting new musical season. The saga of glam, the rock'n'roll with lipstick on that set the 70s ablaze

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Progressive Rock - Prog, When Rock Grew Up

Introduction It used to also be called romantic rock, baroque rock, symphonic rock, classic rock, art rock. All misleading terms, partly ridiculous, inaccurate, incomplete, childish. Still all better than progressive. Every reader with even a passing interest in rock music knows what this genre is, one that reached its peak in the early […]

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New Wave - The Thousand Souls of a Revolution

Introduction New wave is an extremely multifaceted cultural and musical movement, rich in ideas, directions and trends that ferried rock music through the essential resettling earthquake triggered by punk, from the many-colored yet uniform rainbow of the Sixties and Seventies to today's sprawling kaleidoscope of sounds and moods. The new […]

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Metal - An Epic Saga

Definition of the term metal Metal is a musical species of the rock genre (as such, played with three instruments: guitar, bass, drums) typical of the 80s, characterized: ideologically by a morbidly and irremediably pessimistic view (hence the systematic, obsessive adoption of the color "black"), when not by a sadistic vendetta against, the human condition […]

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Hard-rock - And Rhythm and Blues Turned Aggressive

Hard-rock ("heavy rock") is a genre on the border between rock and blues music, created in England in the late 60s and characterized by aggressive sounds obtained by pushing rhythm and blues devices and instruments to their extreme

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Grunge - The epic tale of the Seattle sound

Defining the term "grunge": its historical, social and stylistic context. "Grunge" is a cultural phenomenon specific to the rock genre, spanning the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 90s. From the state of Washington - which is really to say from Seattle (which had never known such fame) - the "trend" spread out to […]