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Olivia Rodrigo - The interview – Olivia Rodrigo talks about her new album with Apple – Video

The American popstar opens up in a chat with Zane Lowe

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Tribal ambient - Drums for an imaginary world

Born to pay homage to the world, it ended up inventing a new one: the story of ambient's most ancestral genre

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - John Frusciante - When Frusciante ruined a band show – The video of the disastrous Saturday Night Live performance

The story of the Californian band's disastrous performance that traumatized their relationship with the guitarist

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U2 - Bono Vox and the 60 songs that saved his life – Playlists

The U2 frontman and the famous playlist where he gathered his 60 favourite songs, from Bowie to Kraftwerk, from Prince to Billie Eilish

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Vasco Rossi - Vado al massimo, Vasco's "diss track" from the Sanremo stage

The story of the singer-songwriter from Zocca's famous "musical revenge" against his most notorious detractor

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Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger picks his three favourite Rolling Stones albums

In an interview, the English band's frontman looks back on the 25 albums they've made, but he's not done chasing new horizons

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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Siouxsie and the records that changed her life

In an interview with Melody Maker, the queen of goth revealed the records that changed her life, complete with a "playlist"

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Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin: when their only Italian concert turned into a nightmare

It was meant to be a historic night, but it became one for all the wrong reasons: the story of Plant and co.'s disastrous concert in Milan in 1971

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OndaRock Turns 25 – A Little \"Best Of\" to Celebrate a Quarter Century (2001–2026)

OndaRock turns 25! We throw ourselves a party with this selection of the articles our writers hold dearest.

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Ambient drone - The music that stretches time

Ambient drone is the format par excellence for long, meditative sonic excursions. A sonic universe that the 10 albums collected here attempt to capture

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Prog from no man's land: 15 albums from the '80s worth revisiting

Too new for the old guard, too old for the new one: 15 often maligned albums, caught between pop turns, synths, new wave and a progressive identity that somehow survived

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Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde, sixty years of the best Dylan of the Sixties

To mark sixty years since its release, we retrace the story of Mister Zimmerman's masterpiece, the first double album in rock history

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Police - When the Police reunited in 2003, Copeland: "It was sad" – Video

The drummer looked back on the 2003 reunion on the occasion of the English band's induction into the Hall of Fame

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Antonello Venditti - Why do Italian high school graduates still listen to "Notte prima degli esami"?

What makes this song by the Roman singer-songwriter a classic still chosen by students today? Let's find out in this in-depth feature

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Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd: the album most hated by Waters and Gilmour

The story of the English band's most controversial album. Or: how a masterpiece can be despised by its own creators...

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Iran - The Golden Age of Persian Pop

Between divas, revolutions and censorship: the rise, suppression and diaspora of pop music in Iran

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Portraits Of Past - Portraits Of Past: the existentialist essence of screamo

A journey inside the only LP by one of screamo's pioneering bands, the most intensely existentialist variant of hardcore

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Litfiba - Politics and antimilitarism in the lyrics of Litfiba

New wave heroes in the '80s who later turned to hard rock in the '90s, Pelù and co. have always stood out for their distinctively political lyrics, which sketched out a personal vision of the world

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Lucio Battisti - Battisti and Mina, the magic couple of Italian song – Video

History, songs and TV appearances of the magic couple of Italian music

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Beatles - Who's still alive among the characters on the "Sgt. Pepper's" cover?

The story behind the Fab Four's iconic ensemble cover art, and a "tally" of the survivors, sixty years on

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Alcalà Norte - Alcalà Norte – Post-punk y vida de barrio

A Madrid-style revisiting of post-punk in the Spanish band's cult work

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Cure - Robert Smith on the BBC: "The new album is already done. And the third one will be pop and bright"

On BBC 6 Music, the frontman revealed the English band's future plans following their comeback with "Songs Of A Lost World" in 2024

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Ambient dub - The new school of half-asleep music

Ambient dub is no longer good for anything, and that's exactly why it's become the most interesting electronic music of the last decade

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The best singles of the month: from Xiu Xiu to the Strokes, from Arab Strap to Charli XCX

From Xiu Xiu to the Strokes, from Arab Strap to Charli XCX, the past month's new singles, with their videos