Miscellaneous

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Mario Giammetti - In the name of Genesis

Our chat with one of the leading experts on the Genesis universe, founder and editor of "Dusk", the fanzine devoted to the legendary English band since 1991

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Primavera Sound Festival 2025 - Picking out the artists not to miss...

With just weeks to go, a few pointers to help navigate the sprawling lineup of the XXIII edition of the Spanish music event

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Deep house - Among the club's introspections

A selection of ten cult Eps from the deep house underground

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Led Zeppelin - Becoming Led Zeppelin, the age of innocence of hard-rock's greatest talents

The first authorized documentary telling the (early) story of Led Zeppelin arrives in theaters

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Ten new possible "paths" for the Ariston - An unprecedented shortlist of potential Sanremo names

In the wake of Lucio Corsi, a shortlist of ten names, more or less under the radar and more or less young, who would set the Ariston alight if called up

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Sanremo 2025 - Report cards and analysis of the Festival

Comments and report cards from the most popular music event on our peninsula, which this year saw Olly triumph ahead of Lucio Corsi and Brunori Sas

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The Engine of the Soft Machine - Mike Ratledge's Soft Machine: the live shows to rediscover an era

A journey through Soft Machine's forgotten phase, remembering the chief architect of their volcanic live sound

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Sanremo 2025 - The 29 singers of the 75th Festival in a nutshell

An essential guide to the 29 competing singers, the fruit of experience, guesswork and prejudice

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The Cure - Robert Smith and co. top Uncut's 200 greatest goth albums of all time

The Cure triumph in Uncut's goth top 200. More charts and in-depth features on the darkwave scene on our site

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So long, Marianne - The torn England of Lady Faithfull, icon of rock on the other side of the Channel

A tribute to the London singer-songwriter who left us yesterday at 78, together with a review of her masterpiece "Broken English"

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Hyperpop - Italy's new scene told from an inappropriate perspective

From SillyElly to Thru Collected, from Narcolessia to Yung Paninaru: a journey through Italy's new scene of synthetic, "hyperreal" pop, born on Soundcloud during the pandemic

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Bob Dylan - Dylan Cinematic Universe

As James Mangold's biopic "A Complete Unknown", starring Timothée Chalamet in the lead role, arrives in Italian cinemas, we revisit five emblematic films from Dylan's controversial relationship with the big screen

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Wikipedia by the Numbers - Part 3: the best-selling albums of all time

A data-driven analysis of the best-selling albums in history, drawing on Wikipedia and other specialized sites

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Fifty Years of Rimmel - What remains between the light pages and the dark pages of Francesco De Gregori

The Prince's masterpiece turns fifty. Nine songs that remain miraculously fresh and profound, while the reviews of the time have aged appallingly

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Claudio Poggi - Remembering Pino Daniele

Our interview with the man who discovered Pino Daniele, and who produced his first, historic album

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Hip-hop Italy 2024 - Opened by Dogo, closed by Marracash: the year of Italian rap and the end of an era

What happened this year on the Italian hip-hop scene, told through (some of) the albums of artists both famous and obscure

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Everyone Else's Charts - The best albums of 2024 as chosen by international magazines

2024 in music according to the major international music outlets: here are all their year-end lists

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Wikipedia by the Numbers - Part 2: the disastrous estimates on Italian music

A little taste of the wildly exaggerated claims about national artists' sales figures

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Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, half a century of a prog monument

The English band's most ambitious concept album turns 50. From its prog legacy to the new "expanded edition", a sonic monument that defies time

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Nick Cave and Giovanni Lindo Ferretti - Praying is (post)punk

A brief history of Nick Cave's and Giovanni Lindo Ferretti's conversions, and why they were already written into their irreligious beginnings

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Coal-Fired Jukebox - A history of alternative music in Carbonia

Directed by Andrea Murgia, a documentary telling the story of the Sulcis area and its music scene across more than half a century of history

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The Internet's Most Mysterious Song - Fex – Subways Of Your Mind

After seventeen years of searching, the song that mobilized thousands of people across the Internet has finally been tracked down

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Blitzed! - The new romantic era and its temple, in a documentary

Netflix's documentary chronicles the UK's new romantic era of the '80s, sweeping away tired clichés and unearthing the true essence of that movement

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The dark side of K-pop - Something's rotten in South Korean showbiz

A journey into the dehumanising mechanics of South Korea's entertainment industry