After a reorganization break in October, Ondarock's monthly playlists are back: an appointment with the latest news, an easy guide through the multiplicity of today's musical panorama. As is now customary, the invitation is to be carried away by the selections organized according to each of the sections of the site: certainly, there is something for everyone's tastes.
Rock and surroundings
Among the best autumn releases of 2025, our playlist hosts – among others – the new project Snocaps (Waxahatchee + MJ Lenderman), bar italia, Jay Soms, Sprints and the surprising Agriculture, authors of what could be recognized as the metal album of the year… (Claudio Lancia)
Pop music
Rosalía conquers the mainstream world: is her the pop album of the year? (Daniel Moore)
Dark corner
An autumn full of interesting releases: with the most relaxed atmospheres of Rose Anschütz and some surprising Nightbuses we move on to designer industrial-pop pearls Patriarchy (dark crest of the month) and Pixel Grip. There's also room for a dark club bomb from the band's recent EP Years Of Denial and for the new single by the Colombians Noromakina. Finally, we fly high with the superb return of Anna Von Hausswolff and with an appendix dedicated to the blackest and most visceral metal, where the historic Samael and the always valid Blut Aus Nord stand out. (Paolo Chemnitz)
Electronics
The new EP by Kelly Lee Owens leads a long series of proposals for dancing, but not only. Here is our roundup with some of the best releases of the last few months… (Claudio Lance)
Songwriter
A selection from mood autumnal to combat the advancing cold. To be accompanied with a nice hot chocolate, strictly with extra cream. (Daniel Moore)
Other sounds
We are approaching the end of the year with no shortage of notable releases. Anna Von Hausswolff, our album of the month for November, convinces, as do Shedir and Claire Rousay's return to emo-ambient, both chosen as the crest of the section. Then on the list we have the always fascinating Širom and Necks and much more. (Peppe Trotta)
Italy
The highly appreciated new albums by Venerus and Andrea Laszlo De Simone, plus the duet Baustelle & Tananai are just some of the proposals that characterize the selection dedicated to the most interesting Italian productions of recent weeks. Happy listening… (Claudio Lancia)
Jazz
In recent months we hope to have convinced you: to be passionate about the current jazz scenes you don't necessarily need to be an avid fan of bebop, free and other glorious styles of the past. The panorama is full of stylistic mixes, for which jazz patterns become a lingua franca, facilitators of exchanges. Anything but an anchor of fixity, in short, and the November playlist also tries to confirm this: leaving orthodoxy to others, it focuses precisely on the most hybrid proposals – from the post-punk/jazz-rock of the Polish Varieté to the nu jazz-tinged hip hop of the appreciated Alfa Mist. And then the dark and electronic shades of Dictaphone, the chanson reinvented by Cécile McLorin Salvant, the guitar-like post-rock of Eli Winter, the London explorations of Tom Skinner, drummer of Smile. (Marco Sgrignoli)
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