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“Louder Than Love” or “Badmotorfinger”? This is the question we asked ourselves when choosing a Soundgarden album for Metalitalia's Bellissimi, and the answer is not at all… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM

Cancer Bats have announced a UK headline tour for later this year – see all of the dates and ticket information below. The Canadian hardcore band will hit the road in October for the first annual Marshall ‘Made Of Loud’ tour, which will see them joined by special guests Ignite and Knives at all dates. The run will take them all around the UK, kicking off at The Booking Hall in Dover on October 12 and wrapping up with a huge Halloween show at London’s Electric Brixton on October 31. “We are beyond excited to announce this Marshall Made Of Loud Tour!!” the band have said. “Playing all our favourite independent venues across the UK, with…

Indice Il decennio sbagliato 15 album prog anni 80 da rivalutare Il decennio sbagliato Per il prog, gli anni Ottanta cominciarono quasi come una smentita. Il genere che nel decennio precedente aveva trasformato l’album in un territorio espanso – suite, concept, virtuosismi, copertine visionarie, ambizioni sinfoniche – si trovò a fare i conti con un paesaggio sonoro che si stava ridisegnando rapidamente attorno a formati più brevi, suoni più sintetici, ritmi più diretti. Non sparì, naturalmente, ma perse terreno presso i pubblici più giovani, che guardavano altrove, e presso le radio commerciali e le televisioni, che dettavano nuove regole. Quello…

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood has likened his Israeli gigs being cancelled due to boycotts to “taking books off shelves”. In May 2024 and again in March 2025, Greenwood played in Tel Aviv with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa, incurring criticism from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. A pair of UK performances by the duo, scheduled for June 2025 in Bristol and London, were later cancelled following pressure from pro-Palestinian campaigners. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) said those cancellations followed “peaceful BDS pressure”, citing what it called the artists’ “clear and irrefutable links to whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Gaza that has killed at…

Last week, the Atlantic debuted a new AI detection tool that allows artists to see, with a brief name search, if their music appears in data sets used to train AI music generators. Created by researcher Alex Reisner, the tool draws on four different sets available to AI developers. These sets, which Reisner emphasizes is not comprehensive, encompasses over 21 million songs. They pull from the catalogs of massive stars like Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, and Beyoncé, and smaller, independent artists alike.In the days following the tool’s launch, multiple musicians have expressed anger and concern over discovering their work in…

A dissing as a full-blown rapper, applied to songwriting. Not the first, though. In 1976, in fact, Francesco Guccini had already transformed a song into a showdown with an opponent. In “L'avelenata” he had directly called into question the critic Riccardo Bertoncelli, guilty of having panned “Rooms of daily life” and having dismissed him as “a finished artist”: “What can I tell you? Go and do, there will always be, you know, a failed musician, a pious man, a theorist, a Bertoncelli or a priest who shoots bullshit”, the Maestrone had ruled in the final verses of his piece. In…

Soulwax have postponed their appearance at London’s Southbank Centre tonight (June 21) due to “unforeseen circumstances”. The Belgian duo had been scheduled to play at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Harry Styles-curated Meltdown Festival, with Pauli The PSM also on the bill. Tonight marks the final night of the programme, which kicked off on June 11. Ticketholders were informed this afternoon, however, that the event had been postponed, with organisers saying they were “continuing to work with the artist to reschedule the performance”. They said they would be back to customers in due course with any further information. Styles’ curation of the annual event included a…

Article by Umberto Scaramozzino When the festival The First Summer announced this second day of his first weekend, many of us were taken aback. Some perhaps even disappointed, still intoxicated by the announcements worthy of a top international festival with which the event presented its 2026 edition. Nick Cave, Gorillaz, Twenty One Pilots, Jack White. And who expected it? Also for this reason to read that on June 20, 2026 to play on the big stage of Lido di Camaiore they would all be Italian rock artists it was quite surprising. Yes! Boom! Voila! (the alt-rock/post-hardcore supergroup led by Roberta…

A week after wearing a “Taylor Swift Is a CIA Psyop” shirt, guitarist plunges into crowd during band’s Dublin concert Metallica’s Kirk Hammett suffered a bit of “Karma” Friday as the guitarist slipped off-stage mid-concert, days after wearing a shirt that inflamed Taylor Swift fans. At Metallica’s June 13 concert in Budapest, Hammett donned a shirt that read “Taylor Swift Is a CIA Psyop.” Photos of Hammett in the garment eventually caught the attention of Swifties, who lashed out at the guitarist on Reddit and social media. Trending Stories Kirk Hammett from the has-been band Metallica was wearing a “Taylor…

Ken Carson has a new album dropping next month. Xperiment, which follows last year’s More Chaos and 2024’s A Great Chaos, will arrive on July 3 via Opium/Interscope Records. Although Carson has yet to release any new music or a track list from his forthcoming fifth studio LP, he has shared the cover art, which you can have a look at below.Carson has been previewing music from Xperiment over the past few months, performing a few unreleased songs from the album—including one reportedly produced by 2hollis—during a headlining set at Rolling Loud Orlando in May. He’ll continue his festival schedule…