Miscellaneous

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The Sanremo Effect - Who Gained the Most Listeners Thanks to Sanremo? The Rankings One Week After the Festival

Who gained the most listeners thanks to Sanremo? Let's find out, one week after the Festival wrapped up

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Joni Mitchell - Archives – Volume 2. The Reprise Years

The second volume of the "Archives" series traces Joni Mitchell's artistic evolution through mostly unreleased home, studio and live recordings

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Contortions - Buy, the pure no wave madness of James Chance and co.

James Chance, one of the greatest showmen of punk-funk, in his band's unbridled debut. A cornerstone of the entire no wave movement

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R.E.M. - Perfect Circle - Lifes Rich Pageant

The new chapter of "Perfect Circle": Stipe and co.'s comeback with the record that tells the "human comedy" in their own way

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R.E.M. - Nightswimming

The melancholy portrait of Stipe and co.'s youth, between midnight swims and painful memories

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OndaFritta 2 - Between Dream Pop and Ambient Pop

A musical selection covering dream pop and ambient pop, between classics and hidden gems worth rediscovering

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U2 in the '90s - The Depeche Mode song Bono wished he'd written

In the period when the Dublin band edged toward the '90s electronic rock of Gahan and co., one track bewitched the frontman

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R.E.M. - Perfect Circle - Fables Of The Reconstruction

We reopen the "Perfect Circle" book. In the 3rd chapter, the rediscovery of Stipe & co.'s Southern roots with Fables of the Reconstruction

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Swans – To Be Kind

"To Be Kind" is, in its eight minutes, the perfect synthesis of the band's monster-era phase

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Sanremo 2026 - Report Cards and Analysis of the Festival

Comments and report cards on Italy's most popular music showcase, which this year saw Sal Da Vinci triumph

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Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the classic "Teaser And The Firecat", a box set arrives with no fewer than 5 versions of the album

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Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail, 50 years of the first post-Gabriel album

The first album released by the English band after their leader's departure turns fifty, marked by a "cleaner" kind of beauty

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Chaos in Vienna - When a Rolling Stones Concert Ended in 154 Arrests – Video

An episode that captures the more turbulent side of the '60s, when concerts became a battleground of tension with the crowd

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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Charisma Years 1970-1978

A whopping 17 CDs and 3 Blu-rays reconstruct the work done by Peter Hammill's band between December 1969 and July 1978

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Charly García, Sting – In The City

The brilliant elder statesman of Argentine rock reworks one of his own songs with Sting's help, and the result is surprising

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R.E.M. - Perfect Circle - Reckoning

We reopen the "Perfect Circle" book. In the second chapter: "Reckoning", the record with which the former Athens freshmen came of age

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Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock, the expressionist madness of a punk nun

Grotesque, mad, unbridled: the godmother of German punk in one of her pivotal albums

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The Cover of the Cover - Sanremo 2026: The Story of "Ragazzo solo ragazza sola", the Italian Cover of Bowie's "Space Oddity" Chosen by Renga-Ferreri

The "cult-bad" cover by the Renga-Ferreri duo gives us the opportunity to tell the story of how "Space Oddity" and its Italian version came to be