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R.E.M. - Perfect Circle - New Adventures In Hi-Fi

The captivating black-and-white travel diary that would come to stand as the swan song of R.E.M. at their best. Featuring Patti Smith

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Cristina - Sleep It Off, the manifesto of the no wave diva

Cristina Monet-Palaci, no wave's mysterious New York diva, in her personal manifesto

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Serial Songs - Songs in TV Series – Episode 2

From "Crapa Pelada" in "Breaking Bad" to Nena in "Dark": the new instalment of our journey through TV series music

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The frontman's peak - Led Zeppelin, the song Robert Plant called his finest performance ever

Led Zeppelin's former frontman has named what he considers his own unmatchable performance

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The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies/ Everybody’s In Show-Biz – Everybody’s A Star

The series of SuperDeluxe reissues celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ray Davies & co.'s discography continues, this time with two albums in one

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The Vicenza exhibition - Guido Harari, 50 years of photography to look at at full volume

From rock stars to Italian singer-songwriters: Vicenza's Basilica Palladiana hosts the celebrated photographer's exhibition until July 26th. Our report

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R.E.M. - Perfect Circle - Monster

One of the most disorienting chapters in the great R.E.M. story turns 25, caught between grunge nods and requiems for departed friends

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Manuel Agnelli - The future of Italian music inside “Suoni dal Futuro”

The GERMI collective has unveiled a project dedicated to Italy's new music scene, created to let creativity, copyright and live performance coexist. The promoter told us about this ambitious idea in a wide-ranging conversation

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Serial Songs - Songs in TV Series – Episode 1 – Pilot

A disorganized journey through the history of songs tied to TV series. First instalment: from Kate Bush in "Stranger Things" to Roger Waters in "The Sopranos"

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Robert Fripp - Exposures

The ninth box set in the series by the King Crimson leader, devoted for the most part to his celebrated 'Frippertronics'

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His free song - When Lucio Battisti was censored by the Caudillo

Long (and wrongly) branded in Italy as a right-wing artist, the singer-songwriter from Lazio faced his harshest censorship under Franco's regime in Spain

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Michael Jackson - Off The Wall, dancing to take flight

The story of the record that turned the Jackson Five's (and later The Jacksons') brilliant frontman into a world-class artist

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R.E.M. - Perfect Circle - Automatic For The People

After the triumph of "Out Of Time", R.E.M. wrongfoot everyone with their darkest, most pensive album, reveling in the ballad format...

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Beach Boys - Sounds Of Summer – The Very Best Of The Beach Boys

For the Beach Boys' sixtieth anniversary, Capitol remasters the colossal collection featuring nearly all of Brian Wilson & co.'s hits

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The Nirvana-R.E.M. connection - When Kurt Cobain met Michael Stipe: the story of a special friendship

An intense relationship, built on artistic kinship and sincere friendship, bound together the frontmen of R.E.M. and Nirvana. Until that tragic day of April 8, 1994

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"Ambiguous Desire" - Arlo Parks takes us to the dancefloor

In an exclusive interview, the British artist tells us about her hotly anticipated new album in her own words

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Virginia Astley - Hope In A Darkened Heart, the annihilation of the ego

The British author takes on an ambitious work that resembles a self-administered psychoanalysis session