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Without pretensions of completionism, but not even that of giving full voice to the editorial staff's rankings, we thought we'd let you listen to the playlists that best represent each person's “musical year”. The songs that stood out within a certain genre, the symbolic songs of revelation artists or great confirmations – or, more simply, the songs that meant something to us who listened to them. Gabriele Benzing “The day is getting dark”. From a forest of whispers, Daniela Pes's voice emerges like the echo of a ghost. The day that is turning to dusk is filled with creaks, time…

It is the result of a slow rhythm, of a construction defined to the millimeter with infinite patience, the collaboration between Alessandro Sgarito and Roberto Mares. An exchange activated in 2024, which lasted for the necessary amount of time and which finds its name in a real architecture – an air raid shelter from the Second World War – located in the garden of one of the two authors. A place, therefore, even before a story, a record that aims to be a comfortable listening environment, an all-round sensorial experience. The key word for the activated synergy is balance, the…

Who is the new jazz guitarist who joined Bob Dylan's band without any explanation?When His Bobness took the stage at the Santa Barbara Bowl in California last June 17th, guitarist Doug Lancio, who joined the band permanently five years ago, was not at his side. In his place was Julian Lage, 38 years old, a former guitar prodigy, little known in rock but well established in the jazz scene. Teacher at the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, he has collaborations with a lot of people in his CV, from Nels Cline of Wilco to Yoko Ono,…

Phoebe Bridgers has shared her first song in four years ‘Lost Boys’, the first taster from her forthcoming album ‘Lost Weekend’ – check it out below. The soothing single sees the singer-songwriter portraying a mystical elf at a Renaissance faire surrounded by knights. Licorice Pizza star Skyler Gisondo also makes an appearance. Her Boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker also feature on vocals while Christian Lee Hutson lends a hand on acoustic guitar. Jack Antonoff also plays various instruments on the track. It arrives after Bridgers announced her new album – her first since 2020’s ‘Punisher’, earlier this week. It is…

Over the course of 2025, Debbii Dawson released four brilliant singles – including ‘Chemical Reaction’, one of NME’s best songs of that year – that charted the course for her future sound: glittery disco, ’80s synths and a dash of country for good measure. That path has led the singer-songwriter to her third EP, ‘Where Have All The Good Men Gone?’, an explosion of bright, dramatic pop production coupled with the dread of living in ever more unprecedented modern times. In the past, Dawson used her sharp, witty writing to reflect inwardly, but the EP’s title track shows how strong…

Muse’s Matt Bellamy has spoken to NME about overcoming “personal struggles” to rediscover his need for music on new album ‘The Wow!’ Signal’. The Teignmouth space rock trio release their 10th LP today (Friday June 26), with NME hailing it as “undoubtedly their most consistent and satisfying album since 2006’s ‘Black Holes & Revelations’ – doubling up as either a knowing gift to the fans or at least a response to any concerns that Muse had long disappeared too far up their own supermassive blackholes.” Named after a powerful and mysterious signal received in 1976 and believed to be from…

It was a rich year, for jazz and for OndaRock's look at jazz. Known above all for its articles in the pop and rock fields, in 2023 our magazine further strengthened its proposal in the jazz field. The interest in the sector of a growing number of editors has helped to broaden the range of in-depth styles and artists, and develop an increasingly recognizable slant. OndaRock's perspective now places names at the center of the attention of “jazzophiles” alongside artists with a more hybrid character, often also linked to areas such as electronics, rock, hip-hop, traditional and avant-garde music. Aware…

An important new piece is added in the long career of Calibro 35, who have been a point of reference on the international scene for years for their ability to combine music for images, experimentation and cinematic grooves in a unique stylistic signature. On October 9th, the band will release the original soundtrack for Record Kicks “Ellroy vs. LA”documentary by Francesco Zippel for Quoiat Films. The album's release will be accompanied by a European tour which will start at the end of September with a series of events in Italy. September 24thTurin (IT), Hiroshima Mon Amour October 16thMestre (IT), YouTheater…

Charli XCX has shared her cheeky new single ‘Wink Wink’ with a raunchy music video – check it out below. READ MORE: Charli XCX – ‘Wuthering Heights’ review: delicious gothic pop for a winter of yearning The track, which is her third from her upcoming album ‘Music, Fashion, Film‘, after gritty lead single single ‘Rock Music’, and the edgy ‘SS26’ sees the pop star’s accompanying Aidan Zamiri-directed video opening with her lying in a field snacking on a strawberry underneath a cloudy sky before we see her sitting on the roof of her home. She then delivers the eye-watering lyrics: “I used…

C’era una volta il beat. Ovvero, quando l’Italia iniziò ad affrancarsi dalla sua tradizione nazionalpopolare per lasciarsi contagiare dalla British Invasion e dalle vibrazioni rock’n’roll d’oltreoceano. Un genere e un movimento giovanile che si diffusero nel nostro paese durante gli anni 60, con sporadici revival nei decenni successivi. La musica beat era – come tanti generi – tutto e niente. Era soprattutto un’attitudine – vagamente contestataria – e un approccio più internazionale al formato canzone, che si sposava però spesso a un gusto melodico di marca prettamente italiana. Quasi impossibile stabilirne i confini, ma c’è chi, come il critico Cesare…