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Sabine Réthoré è una cartografa e artista francese, autrice dell’opera Mediterraneo senza frontiere. Si tratta di una mappa del Mediterraneo ruotata di 90° rispetto alla rappresentazione convenzionale. Il nord si trova a est e il sud a ovest; lo stretto di Gibilterra è collocato nella parte superiore, mentre il Canale di Suez chiude il mare nella parte inferiore. Attraverso un gesto apparentemente semplice, Réthoré mostra quanto le mappe siano costruzioni culturali prima ancora che rappresentazioni geografiche.Osservando la Tunisia e l’Italia da questa prospettiva, i due Paesi sembrano quasi due mani che si allungano nel tentativo di stringersi. Le rispettive penisole…

An important year for indie rock, full of fundamental albums that laid the foundations for the music of the entire decade of the Nineties. There are many records released in 1990 that left their mark, as the golden decade of Britpop, but also of alternative rock and grunge, dawned. The Radio X webzine has decided to collect 25 of them in this list. Many of these records are absolute classics, several of them are also our milestones. Although obviously this is a very subjective and inevitably questionable selection, to be taken – as usual – only as a starting point…

In 2000, Jake Kaufman scored his first game as a professional chiptune composer: a mobile version of a silly little arcade game called Q*bert for the Game Boy Color (GBC). Q*bert is an archetypal 8-bit game: On essentially one single screen, with no substantial narrative, the objective is to step on squares to change their colors. It was a basic, consequence-free game, but the composing process was the opposite. With the GBC’s sound chip limiting him to just four individual instruments (bleeps and bloops), Kaufman could have taken the easy route and phoned in a simple score for a simple…

French electro-pop artist Cannelle Ferragu is from a tiny village in the south of France that you’ve probably never heard of. Where she lived, she’s said, there were no other Black girls and no one who shared her interests, “no alternative people whatsoever.” Only as a teenager did Cannelle discover an escape through Instagram and Tumblr: She’d go out into the meadows and stage self-photoshoots, pretending to be a “fairy in the forest” with her icy-blue hair.Since then, Cannelle’s world has opened up: On a whim, she began making music, and she’s played shows alongside Live From Earth in Paris…

Somewhere in the fashion industry, some smart people around a conference table are determining what’s getting produced next season: barrel-leg jeans out, giant jorts in, whatever. As far as I know they don’t do this in the underground pop scene, but if you need a guy, call CFCF’s Michael Silver, who is standing ready to give a just-back-in-fashion sound a bespoke makeover. In 2015 and 2019 it was new-age electronica, and in 2021 the Y2K-inspired cult classic Memoryland. On L.U.V., supposedly short for Life in Ultra Violet, the longtime electronic musician performs a similarly reverential refurbishment on some of the…

Diane Warren paid tribute to music executive Clive Davis following news of his death on Monday at his home in New York City at the age of 94. The prolific songwriter, who has nine Number One songs and 33 Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, mourned his passing and credited Davis for her success in the music industry, thanking the music mogul for always championing her work. “Dear Clive, losing You today feels like losing my father,” Warren began in her heartfelt remembrance shared to social media. “Because you were always family to me. It was my Dad…

More than twenty years after the Police's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stewart Copeland continues to remember that evening with mixed feelings. In the documentary “Copeland”, the drummer says he felt “heartbroken” and felt a deep “sadness” after what was supposed to be a celebration of the band's history.On March 10, 2003, Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland reunited at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, performing three classics from the Police repertoire: “Message In A Bottle”, “Roxanne” and “Every Breath You Take”. Yet, behind the scenes, the atmosphere…

Mad Cool have announced the final line-up additions for this year’s festival – check out the new names below. READ MORE: Mad Cool 2024: eight memorable moments from previous festivals The 2026 edition of the festival will run next month between July 8 and 11, and will see Pulp, Foo Fighters, Florence & The Machine, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds perform at the 10th anniversary instalment. This year’s milestone event is set to bring together over 70 of the biggest names in music, with names including Twenty One Pilots, Lorde, CMAT, Wolf Alice, Jennie, Moby, The Last Dinner Party, Kings Of Leon, The War On Drugs, Halsey, Teddy Swims, Pixies, The Black Crowes, David…

Ravyn Lenae is ready for the spotlight. The singer will bring her upcoming blend of R&B, pop, and new wave electronics on Blue Island to the stage this fall with a headlining tour of North America. The run begins on September 15 and lasts on through October 21, with Nourished by Time, Lexa Gates, and Q appearing at various stops as her openers. Find Lenae’s full list of tour dates, including performances at several European music festivals, below.Blue Island, Lenae’s first album since 2024’s Bird’s Eye and its massive song “Love Me Not,” will be out on August 7 via…

Vasco Rossi will celebrate his 50-year career with a long residency at the Olympic Stadium in Rome in June 2027. There will be ten concerts spread over three weeks: 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 24 and 25 June, for an event that aims to attract over half a million spectators to the capital.The announcement comes while the rocker from Zocca is engaged in the 2026 summer tour, welcomed by record participation since the first dates in Rimini, Ferrara and Olbia. After Bari, Ancona and Udine, attention is already shifting to next year's big event, which will represent…