The definitive soundtrack to the San Francisco band's vision of human devolution
A "minor" Cat Stevens classic reimagined "live" by the masterful pen of Carlo Massarini
From "Third", Robert Wyatt's astonishing on-record catharsis, in the last sung song in Soft Machine's history
The portrait of the "night porter" by Sylvian & co., for one of new wave's most captivating ballads
A raw, nerve-wracking tale of a painful breakup and the overwhelming therapeutic power of a pop song
The apotheosis of the Blitz Club's new romantic season, courtesy of Steve Strange's supergroup and his immortal hit
Hallucinations and transcendence open the Scottish band's great psychedelic trip
Inside the magic of the "forbidden colours" of the Sylvian-Sakamoto duo, in the theme for the film "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"
With the Le Havre folksinger, rediscovering a scabrous murder ballad of medieval origin, among the oldest songs in the entire French tradition
Greg Lake, who passed away on December 7, 2016, is the author of, among other things, one of the most beautiful Christmas songs of all time
The legendary punk hit by the five lads from Derry, Northern Ireland, which became John Peel's all-time favorite song
The mocking cry against the cheap trappings of patriotism and the "beautiful death in war", in one of the most celebrated songs by the legendary Texan trio
The great cosmic maelstrom, at once ecstatic and terrifying, of the most extreme cosmic couriers, and a manifesto-suite of Teutonic rock
The gorgeous indie rock anthem hurled by listeners of Polish national radio against the far-right government that took power in 2015
A concentrate of sweetness and melancholy in jangle-pop form. The track that opened "The Wishing Chair", the breakthrough album by Natalie Merchant & co.
The key track of the non-musician and his "oblique strategies", but also an irresistible metaphysical novelty well worth hearing (again)
One of the most staggering and overlooked songs of the Seventies, credited to Dion and Phil Spector
The forgotten hit of the "Madchester" scene, rediscovered and turned into an inescapable earworm at the dawn of the new millennium
A few months after his passing, we revisit one of the key moments of the "Gnome Trilogy", masterwork of one of the greatest freaks in rock history: Daevid Allen
The aesthetic perfection of the great New York outfit's early lysergic days
The Boss sings the end of the dream in an Atlantic City hotel room
The Stones' legendary anthem of death and despair, stamped with Brian Jones's sitar
The story of a magical song, born from a flash of inspiration by George Harrison and the fortunate involvement of Eric Clapton, initially "boycotted" by the band
The genealogy of rock's burnt-out minds, traced through one of the sweetest songs ever written by the prophet of psychedelia