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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…

OndaRock compie un quarto di secolo. Nel frattempo, è successo di tutto: il mondo è radicalmente cambiato in ogni aspetto, inclusa l’informazione musicale: tante webzine concorrenti sono scomparse, altre ne sono nate. Ma noi siamo ancora qui: we’re still standing, come scrivevamo in occasione del 20° compleanno, citando il buon Elton John. Non certo per vivere di rendita e autocelebrarci, però. Il nostro obiettivo continua a essere quello di metterci in discussione, guardare avanti e rinnovarci, andando alla ricerca delle novità musicali più interessanti, possibilmente con strumenti e funzionalità nuove, per venire sempre più incontro agli interessi dei nostri lettori.…

​Gorillaz played a mammoth show at Tottenham Hotspur’s last night (Saturday June 20), and brought out an impressive run of special guests including Johnny Marr, Little Simz, Shaun Ryder and more. Check out footage, photos and the full setlist below. The night marked the first ever stadium show for the Damon Albarn-led collective, and followed on the heels of them releasing stirring and spiritual new album ‘The Mountain’ and playing a handful of UK arena shows earlier this year.​“You ready for some silliness?” the frontman asked, kicking off the headline set after support slots from Trueno and Sparks. The stacked…

“Diamonds,” with the late “Rhinestone Cowboy” on guitar, is the title track of the latest in a series of posthumous Waylon albums Shooter Jennings is continuing the rollout of previously unheard Waylon Jennings recordings. On Sunday — Father's Day — Jennings announced the release of the new LP Diamonds during an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning. The album, two in physical formats and to download on Nov. 13 and streaming in December, is the latest example of Waylon's commitment not to an outlaw aesthetic but to the music. “When somebody is gone, there tends to be…the public remembrance of them…

“We are deeply saddened and heartbroken to learn of the tragic event that occurred at tonight's show,” jam band says after 51-year-old man fell to death at sold-out show A 51-year-old man fell to their death Saturday during jam band Goose's concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. The concertgoer, who was not identified at press time, fell from an “elevated position” inside the arena to a lower tier. “At approximately 9:51 pm inside Madison Square Garden, officers observed a 51-year-old male unconscious and unresponsive,” the NYPD told the New York Post in a statement. The man was soon transported…

There are now just a few days left until the opening of the eighteenth edition of Collisioni, the famous Agri Rock Festival which, from 27 June to 5 July, will once again transform Piazza Medford in Alba into the beating heart of international and Italian music. This edition presents itself as a multidisciplinary story, capable of uniting the legends of world rock with the new promises of indie and the urban panorama, in a generational mix that attracts thousands of spectators from all over the peninsula to Alba every year. The Collisioni 2026 Line-up The festival opens on Saturday 27…