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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.\"

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George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (Super Deluxe Edition)

With the Super Deluxe Edition of Harrison's masterpiece, a new column kicks off, curated by one of the site's veteran writers, Mattia Paneroni, who returns to talk to us about box sets, reissues and more

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The Reunion - Pink Floyd: how Waters and Gilmour were talked into getting back together

The story of an impossible reunion, which materialised out of the blue and remained the band's last performance together as a full lineup

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David Bowie - Life On Mars?

Taking advantage of its 52nd birthday on a 7-inch single, we're putting one of the White Duke's most beautiful and beloved songs back on the jukebox

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The best singles of the month - From Depeche Mode to Rosalía, from Nick Cave to Trent Reznor: the most interesting new releases

Rosalía, Nick Cave, Trent Reznor and Depeche Mode among the best musical comebacks of October

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When Anglophone Pop Speaks Italian (Without Knowing It) - From Elvis to Robert Plant, the secret history of Italian song within global pop

What connects Robert Plant to Ornella Vanoni, the Beatles to Umberto Bindi, Lucio Battisti to David Bowie? Seemingly nothing. And yet, between the '60s and '80s, some hidden threads begin to emerge...

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Move D and Benjamin Brunn - Let's Call It A Day, grammar without direction

Live-take jamming and a rejection of closed form: Moufang and Brunn's work builds a grammar with no destination, where repetition becomes contemplation

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Mauro Pagani - "A Fugitive's Life", the sacred fire of a restless musician

A documentary tracing the history of the legendary Lombard musician is coming to theaters, spanning Pfm, De André and solo projects

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Renato Zero - Un uomo da bruciare/ Madame

Class struggle filtered through the debunking glam lens of the inimitable Fiacchini in 1976, a step away from major success

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Best singles of the month - From Kasabian to Bob Dylan, from Nine Inch Nails to Stereolab: the most interesting new releases

Kasabian, Bob Dylan, Nine Inch Nails and Stereolab among the best new releases of September

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The Police paradox - The song Sting hated so much he buried the tape

It even won a Grammy, but the English band's frontman did everything he could to keep it from coming out: the story of Summers' "cursed song"

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Adriano Pappalardo - "Oh! Era ora", the hall of mirrors between Battisti, Panella and the Apulian singer

The jarring new wave experiment of 1983 that found the singer of "Ricominciamo" grappling with electronic sounds and cryptic lyrics

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Chris Rea - Josephine

The making and unmaking of one of the defining songs of Eighties soft rock

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OndaFritta 1 - The First Wave of Post-Rock

A musical selection on the early post-rock scene, featuring classics and hidden gems worth rediscovering