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Eurovision 2022 - Guide to the Eurofestival in Turin

Guide to the Eurovision 2022 contestants, the first Italian edition of the festival since 1991

Lorenzo Barbagli - Altprogcore

A blog and an essay, recently released as an ebook, exploring the "forgotten revolution" at the crossroads of alternative and prog. Interview with the author

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The power of an icon - What does Klaus Schulze mean?

Klaus Schulze has left us at the age of 74, the pioneer of cosmic music, the young drummer of early Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, who later became the composer par excellence of German kosmische musik. Here is a brief reflection

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Electro/club 2022 - Ten EPs/12″s for electro-club winter 2022

Club culture heads back toward a rediscovered normality: a rich selection of EPs/12"s featuring the best dance music from the first 3 months of 2022

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Baxters Psychedelia - Playlists with a high lysergic content

An ongoing series of playlists aiming to offer a look at the worldwide psychedelic scene

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60s UK Psych-Pop - From the UFO Club to Swinging London

An overview of the British psych-pop underground of the '60s: from Kaleidoscope to Tomorrow, all the way to (early) Pink Floyd

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Russian artists against the war - The sound of dissent

A survey of internal Russian dissent against the war willed by Putin

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Sanremo 2022 - Report cards and analysis of the Festival

Impressions, reflections, report cards and awards. What happened this year on the stage of Italy's biggest song contest

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Black keys and white keys - Mellotron and beyond

With its mechanism of pre-recorded magnetic tape strips, it anticipated the explosion of polyphonic synthesizers by at least a decade. Secrets and adventures of rock's strangest keyboard

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Sanremo 2022 - Guide and playlist to the 25 competing singers

The essential information, plus a few curiosities and links to listen to the competitors' most famous songs

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Black keys and white keys - The sound of the Clavinet in 40 tracks

From "Superstition" to rock and reggae: the story and hits of the keyboard that could rival the electric guitar

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Electro/Club 2021 - Twelve Eps/12” celebrating electro/club autumn

The club scene amid the ongoing pandemic: 12 Eps/12'' try to take stock of electro/dance in the era of shuttered dancefloors

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Laurent Garnier - Off The Record: the docu-film

In theaters from January 10th, the film documenting the career of the famous French DJ and producer

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Twenty Years of OndaRock – 2001–2021: We're Still Standing

OndaRock turns 20. We take the opportunity to look back on our work, and let some of our favorite musicians throw us a party.

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The Beatles - Get Back

Peter Jackson's in-depth exploration of one of the most delicate moments in the Liverpool quartet's saga

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Thirty years without Freddie Mercury - Remembering the White Queen

What remains of Freddie Mercury 30 years after his death? A look back at the White Queen, between success and tragedy

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Måneskin - Music in the Age of the Metaverse

At the end of a crazy week that saw Måneskin first on stage with the Stones, then at the center of a surreal media frenzy, we attempt a measured reflection on the phenomenon of the moment

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Electro/Club 2021 - Ten EPs/12"s to Soundtrack the Summer of Club/Electro

Club culture on the eve of the long-awaited reopening of venues: ten EPs/12"s try to take stock of the dancefloor scene and beyond

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Black Keys and White Keys - Wurlitzer & Co.: the Electric Pianos

One hundred songs to relive the saga of the e-piano through gems and hits

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Mattia Merlini - Le ceneri del prog

An interview with the musicologist behind the essay that overturns the standard narratives on the death of progressive rock. Often confined to the Seventies alone, it's actually everywhere, running through many key genres of recent decades

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Iron Symphonies - A Listening Guide to Glenn Branca

A listening guide to the monumental symphonies of the American composer, whose discography spans nearly 40 years, between avant-garde and guitar explosions