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Oliver Tree’s family have launched a new foundation in the singer’s name to provide grants to young artists. The eccentric singer-songwriter died in a helicopter crash in Brazil on June 14 at the age of 32, in an incident that also took the lives of five others. Now, Tree’s family have launched Dr. Oliver Tree’s Extremely Epic Art Grant for Baby Geniuses, in accordance with plans explicitly put in place by Tree during his lifetime. “Oliver believed the most valuable way for artists to master their craft was not through studying, but by physically getting their hands dirty and creating things,” the foundation has said in its mission statement.…

Giuseppe Tornatore's precious documentary on Morricone, “Ennio”, has been in theaters for a few days, and collects an impressive quantity of testimonies of gratitude towards the composer. From Gianni Morandi to Quentin Tarantino, from Quincy Jones to Bruce Springsteen to colleagues John Williams, Hans Zimmer and Nicola Piovani, the film makes clear how many artists are aware of a strong artistic debt towards the Italian author who, perhaps alongside Giorgio Moroder, can be said to be the most influential of the second half of the twentieth century in music. “Ennio” combines words and music, and reviews the artist's entire career.…

In a musical context like the current one, dominated by female pop stars, Holly Humberstone is standing out as one of the highest quality proposals. English from Nottingham, born in 1999, Holly made her debut in a far from simple moment, in 2020, with the EP “Falling Asleep At The Wheel”, followed by “The Walls Are Way Too Thin”, the first work released after signing the contracts with Interscope and Polydor. In 2022 Humberstone wins the Brit Award in the “Rising Star” category. Not bad. A year later the first album “Paint My Bedroom Black” arrives. In 2024 another EP,…

“Ice Ice Baby” rapper, one of the last music artists standing at the ill-fated Great American State Fair, has gig canceled Friday after inclement weather hits Washington, D.C. Vanilla Ice’s performance at the ill-fated Freedom 250 concert was canceled Friday due to “inclement weather” in the Washington, D.C. area. The “Ice Ice Baby” rapper was among the last artists standing at the Trump-backed “Great American State Fair” after the majority of the lineup — including Morris Day, Martina McBride, Young MC, Bret Michaels, and more — all dropped out. Vanilla Ice defended his decision to remain a part of the…

Inspired by Lorenzo Pagani's special “I sinister ten”, we went in search of “dark” covers of songs from the most disparate genres: from pop to beat, from glam to punk, from new wave to folk. And we discovered a mine of treasures.The bands of the genre gothic, in fact, they often experimented with covers, concentrating their efforts on the music of the 60's and 70's that influenced them the most, from the Stooges to Marc Bolan and the Velvet Underground (starting from key bands of the movement, such as Joy Division, Bauhaus and Sisters Of Mercy, all duly represented here…

Over the years, some songs by the Ministers have accumulated which have lived a lateral existence, written in different periods and remained on the margins of the official discography, without any real diffusion, but capable of maintaining their expressive power intact, in the words of the authors: “Pieces sitting on the opposition benches waiting to go into action”. In 2022 some of these songs left the bedroom, shared with fans through the group's newsletter, a gesture thought of as an intimate exchange with one's communitybypassing any intermediation, accompanied by just one simple recommendation: safeguard them without spreading them online. An…

Metallica covered The Proclaimers’ ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’ in Glasgow and The Pogues‘ ‘Dirty Old Town’ in Dublin this week – check out footage below. The metal icons played Glasgow’s Hampden Park on Thursday (June 25) as part of their ongoing ‘M72 World Tour’, where guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo used their mid-set ‘Kirk and Rob Doodle’ section to pay tribute to two Scottish acts. The pair first played Nazareth’s ‘Hair Of The Dog’, before leading the crowd through a rendition of The Proclaimers’ ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’. Check out fan-shot footage here: Four days earlier, Hammett and Trujillo played Ewan MacColl’s…

Oliver Tree's family has established a new foundation, as per the late singer's wishes, to provide grants to young artists. Just two weeks after Tree died in a helicopter crash in Brazil at the age of 32, his family launched Dr. Oliver Tree's Extremely Epic Art Grant for Baby Geniuses on Saturday. “Oliver believed the most valuable way for artists to master their craft was not through studying, but by physically getting their hands dirty and creating things,” the foundation said in its mission statement. “The foundation provides grants to artists working in music, film, installation, and performance art.” The…

Trap, Italian hip-hop, the explosion of dubstep with “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”. The long wave of return eurodance of the various David Guettas, Calvin Harris, who soon became one with the omnipresent sound of Max Martin and his most prominent disciples. Reggaeton-pop from “Despacito” onwards. The landing in the West of k-pop. Adele and Bruno Mars; Taylor Swift and Pharrell Williams' hits. Justin Bieber. “Somebody That I Used To Know”, “Call Me Maybe”, a long line of summer hits (from Shakira to Fedez + J-Ax). There is more, besides this, in the range of mainstream Ten years? I understand…

The second day of the La Prima Estate festival, in Lido di Camaiore, was dominated by the only Italian date of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, protagonists of a concert lasting over two and a half hours which transformed the BussolaDomani Park into a sort of collective ritual.Accompanied by the Bad Seeds, with Warren Ellis in the foreground and Colin Greenwood on bass, Cave proposed a repertoire that spanned his entire career, also giving ample space to the latest album “Wild God”. The opening with “Get Ready For Love” and “From Her To Eternity” immediately lit up the concert,…