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Among the mists of San Francisco in the nineties and the integrated circuits of a digital revolution that was changing the world at supersonic speed, one of the most singular events of the US independent scene developed.Sweet Trip's is the seemingly impossible synthesis between dream and noise: the dreamlike encounter between the flesh of dream-pop and the cold steel of glitch. The sweet wandering of the melodies is joined by mechanical beats, cacophonous disturbances, memories of a shoegaze admired rather than practiced.Roberto Burgos and Valerie Cooper built a bridge between the ethereal romanticism of the Cocteau Twins and the electro-mathematical…

Roberto Carlos Lange and Fabi Reyna feel like kindred spirits. Long before they met two summers ago, they were making music—as Helado Negro and Reyna Tropical, respectively—building their names with heart-on-your-sleeve electronic and indie-folk songs that touch on diaspora, longing, and love. On their collaborative record, Helado Tropical, these two worlds naturally collapse into each other, as the seasoned emotional excavators lean into their shared strengths. The result goes down as easy as mango-champagne sorbet.These nine songs—or perhaps seven, since “Luna” and “Sol” (another iconic pair) flow seamlessly into and out of the floaty, syncopated standout track “Fluye”—were born from…

Country music ruined the pedal steel guitar. I am, of course, being at least a little flip—without country’s popular rise nearly a century ago, it’s entirely possible that the most expressive instrument this side of the human voice might not exist, let alone be so widespread. But country has circumscribed the pedal steel’s accepted emotional terrain to such a degree that, on a 2022 single, the Alabama bros of Muscadine Bloodline pled with it as though it were actually God incarnate, demanding that the “high lonesome sound” try a little less hard to evoke the memory of some lost love.…

Too tender to touch, too fragile to lustThese misty eyes are just enoughA little sign to guide the wayWe don’t need so very much(“Too Tender To Touch”, Lene Lovich) La Lili Marlene jugoslava, la danzatrice orientale che stregò anche Salvador Dalì, la chanteuse da cabaret, la urlatrice di film horror, la performer wave avanguardista, la musa dark con il soul caldo di Detroit nelle vene. In poche parole, Lene Lovich, al secolo Lili-Marlene Premilovich, professione artista globale. Una delle figure femminili più influenti della sua generazione, eppure, per qualche strano destino, evaporata in un oblio intergenerazionale, interrotto solo da qualche…

Jennifer Finch, historic bassist for L7, has died at the age of 59 after a long battle with an aggressive form of brain tumor, a disease she had spoken about publicly in recent weeks. The announcement was made by her bandmates with a message spread on social media: “With a very heavy heart we announce that today our beloved bandmate, friend and accomplice in many pranks Jennifer Finch passed away. She faced a long and courageous battle against brain tumor and was loved by many extraordinary friends, fellow musicians and fans all over the world. We love you, Jennifer”. Having…

Between the end of the Seventies and the beginning of the Eighties, the Cure contributed to redefining the language of post-punk, alongside groups such as Joy Division, Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees in the birth of a new musical aesthetic, darker, more introspective and experimental. A decisive role in this transformation was played by Robert Smith, who in 1979 temporarily joined the Banshees as guitarist during the British band's British tour, replacing John McKay. That experience profoundly changed his artistic vision. “The first night on stage with the Banshees I was overwhelmed by the power of that kind of…

Photo by Moon La Chimia Katy Perryone of the most iconic and successful artists of contemporary pop music, performed last night at the Historic Walls of Lucca as part of the Lucca Summer Festival. “Out Of Office Summer Tour 2026” – The Summer Tour The American pop star returned to Italy for a single date of his “Out Of Office” summer tour. A show built to involve the audience from start to finish, with spectacular sets, great hits and an energy that transformed each song into a collective party.A concert that was much more than a simple sequence of Katy…

Fear in San Salvo Marina, in the province of Chieti, during the concert of Naomi on Sunday 19 July. The Roman singer fell from the stage at the end of the show, while thanking the audience after singing Crumbs. According to what emerges from the videos released on social media in the following hours, she was then transported to the San Pio hospital in Vasto. The dynamics, which can be reconstructed from videos shot by the public and distributed online, is that of a banal accident and therefore even more insidious. Naomiwith sunglasses also worn in the evening, was advancing…

Kaizers Orchestra is one of the most important bands in the history of Norwegian music. Singing in a mixture of bokmål (Standard Norwegian) e jærsk (dialect of the southwestern area), on rough music with limited radio concessions and cinematic lyrics all set in the same alternative universe, have generated a career of nine albums at number 1 in the charts.Despite having zero exportability on paper, given that in their own country there are those who struggle to understand the lyrics, they have managed to gain a solid cult following in Denmark too (three albums in the top 20 over the…

Spain may be the 2026 World Cup official winner, but the game actually had two losers, thanks to Donald Trump. During a brief appearance on the jumbotrons around New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, the crowd of Argentina and Spain fans booed the U.S. president, who is set to present the World Cup trophy itself to the winning team. The moment happened just after Jennifer Hudson performed the national anthem. He was shown sitting in a box next to Melania Trump a few more times throughout the game. This isn’t the first time Trump has been booed at a sporting event, and it certainly…