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Oasis - 30 Years of "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?", the britpop elixir that turned the Gallagher brothers into stars

The album that made the Gallaghers' band turns 30: born "on the shoulders of giants", it turned them into stars, amid melodies and nonsense lyrics

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Intelligent Dance Music - The IDM Scene Is Still Alive, and We'll Prove It with Five Albums

Five albums to prove that the new wave of IDM still has plenty to offer

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Kate Bush - 40 Years of "Hounds Of Love", a Miracle of Total Art-Pop

The album with which the English singer-songwriter dethroned Madonna from the top of the charts turns 40. Thanks in part to the hit "Running Up That Hill"

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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, 50 years of a regret turned into universal meditation

One of the English band's most beloved albums turns fifty, born out of a troubled period with an occult inspiration named Syd Barrett

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The Anniversary - "Highway 61 Revisited", the album of Bob Dylan's definitive electric turn, turns 60

Sixty years of one of the Duluth man's masterpieces, the album of "Like A Rolling Stone" and of the definitive electric turn

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The Beatles - “Help!”: sixty years on from the Fab Four's cry for help at the peak of Beatlemania

Sixty years ago came the album of "Yesterday" and "Ticket To Ride", which perfected Beatlemania before the turning point of "Rubber Soul"

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Singles and Charts - Free from Summer Anthems

The stunning absence of a killer hook on Italian beaches, for a summer that's never been so hard to decode

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The Power of an Icon - What Does Ozzy Osbourne Mean?

Ozzy Osbourne left us on July 22, 2025. In his own way. Like a legend. Just days after the triumph of his farewell live show "Black To Beginning". It's hard to imagine a more epic exit for the Prince of Darkness

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Ten Ambient EPs of 2025 - What's Happening Today in the Ambient Underground

The underground layers of a scene still in motion: whether through droning meditations or liquefied ambient dub

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40 Years Later - Live Aid, the Day Music Changed the World: the Anniversary, the Podcast, the Book and the Songs

On July 13, 1985, the show promoted by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to help Africa took place. We revisit the event in this in-depth feature

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A scorching July of concerts - From Nick Cave to Morrissey, from AC/DC to The Who and Patti Smith: all the unmissable live events

A month of great concerts: here are all the major international live dates on the calendar for July

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Brian Wilson - Beach Boys - Tracing the path of "Pet Sounds" and the legendary "SMiLE"

Just days after Brian Wilson's death, we retrace the path that led the Beach Boys' brilliant leader to create two monuments of pop music

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Ten Italian Modern Classical Albums - Contemporary Italian Music Worth Rediscovering

(Re)discovering ten modern classical gems by ten homegrown composers, released over the past fifteen years

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Aphex Twin - Forty years of methodical elusiveness

If we were to look for a musical equivalent of Kafka's elusiveness, the most likely name would probably be Richard David James, the man hiding behind one of the most influential pseudonyms of the last forty years: Aphex Twin

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Prog Calling Hip Hop - A Love Story Told Through Sampling

Anglo-American music criticism tends to love hip-hop and look down on prog, but artists themselves don't seem to care about these divides

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A Violin Wizard of Electronics - Simon House, 1948-2025

A look at the career of the violinist and keyboardist who left his mark on 1970s British music, from High Tide to Hawkwind and on to David Bowie

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One To One: John and Yoko - A Couple's Utopia in 70s New York

In the crowded landscape of John Lennon documentaries, Kevin Macdonald's film proves it has a soul of its own

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The Reviewer - The Best Albums of the Week (05/19/2025)

A selection of albums released over the past week, live every Monday from 7pm on Radio Legends with Alessio Belli and Claudio Lancia

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No requiem for rock - As new trajectories keep multiplying, too many are still searching for a center that no longer exists

Why have so many music fans stopped noticing just how much independent music keeps evolving? An investigation into prejudice, algorithms, new maps and false apocalypses

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The Reviewer - The best records of the week

The Reviewer: a selection of records released over the past week, live every Monday from 7pm on Radio Legends

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Minimal techno - The club sound between hypnosis and abstraction

A selection of ten Eps from the Nineties minimal techno underground

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Farewell to Clem Burke - The beating heart of Blondie

Among the finest drummers of his generation, he helped give the sound of Debbie Harry's band its variety and depth thanks to his singular style

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Shadows of an Icon - The other side of Taylor Swift

From the exploitation of her own image to the cultivation of an aggressive fandom, an analysis of the problematic side of contemporary America's biggest pop star