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The Strokes' new album, “Reality Awaits”, released last Friday after a long series of postponements, is causing discussion not only for its musical choices, including the marked use of autotune on Julian Casablancas' voice. Also fueling the debate was a controversy between the frontman of the New York band and Anthony Fantano, popular music critic and creator of the channel The Needle Drop.The spark comes from “Lonely In The Future”, one of the songs on the album, in which Casablancas reflects on the legacy of the Strokes twenty-five years after the beginning of their career. The singer claims the band's…
It has been repeatedly underlined on these pages how absurd the contrast between prog and punk sounds (see also this in-depth analysis). But the long progressive wave reached even further, touching the frontiers of one of the dominant genres of the 90s: Seattle grunge. An elective affinity that can be summarized in a special bond: that of Kurt Cobain with King Crimson, and in particular with their 1974 album, the revolutionary “Red”. Red in the evening Just forty minutes to demolish decades of future progressive clichés. “Red” is first and foremost this: the compendium of an entire season now in…
Warning: this article contains distressing details Someone has hacked D4vd’s profile on Apple Music and uploaded a fake track called ‘I Did It’, amid the singer being suspected of murder. Earlier this year, the singer (real name David Anthony Burke) was accused by prosecutors of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and dismembering her body with a chainsaw in his garage after buying tools online. On April 20, he was charged with her murder. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering and sexually abusing the teen, whose remains had been found severely decomposed in the front boot of a Tesla registered…
The Swans definitively close the “Big Sound” era with “Newly Sentient Being”, a monumental live album that documents the last concert of the formation protagonist of the phase that began with the re-foundation of the American group in 2010. The album will be released on October 2, 2026 by Mute and Young God Records in North America. The record Recorded in Berlin on November 28, 2025, “Newly Sentient Being” photographs the final act of fifteen of the most intense and radical years in the history of Michael Gira's band. On stage, next to the leader, there were Kristof Hahn, Dana…
vote6.5 Bands: CHAMBER OF UNLIGHT Duration: 00:35:33 Available from: 07/31/2026 Label: Werewolf Records Streaming not yet available. The debut of the Finnish Chamber Of Unlight, “Realm Of The Night” (2021), had convinced although it did not pretend to be innovative, now with the release of the new album we can get a more complete idea of the stylistic direction that the mastermind Necrosis (Ajattara and ex Trollheims Grott, among others) wants to give to the project, which in the meantime has become a real band made up of no less than six elements.This lineup includes, among others, well-known figures from…
The Entertainment Festival returns to Milan from 6 to 8 November 2026 at Superstudio Più in via Tortona, and for the second edition extends the guest list with different names from Italian music. At the event created by TV Smiles and Songs are added, among others, Annalisa, Naomi, Gabry Ponte, Elettra Lamborghini, Cristina D'Avena, Malika Ayane hey Pooh. The new arrivals join the presences already announced, from Carlo Conti to Antonella Clerici, Marco Liorni, Nino Frassica and the Gialappa's Band. The program remains that of an event on all-round entertainment, with faces that also come from television and cinema, such…
Producer David Holmes has shared details of Sinéad O’Connor’s final, unreleased album, and revealed some messages he got from the late musician about the record. O’Connor died in July 2023 at the age of 56. Since her death, she has continued to be celebrated as one of Ireland’s most fearless and influential artists, both for her voice and for her willingness to speak out on political, religious and social issues. Taking to Instagram over the weekend, Holmes – who worked closely with the singer in the final few years of her life – shared insight into a new album that…
“One for them, one for me.” That’s a movie-making philosophy often attributed to Martin Scorsese, capturing the seesawing cadences of a film career: make a commercial project and then a personal one. It’s tempting to view Charli XCX’s eighth album, ‘Music, Fashion, Film’, through Marty’s mantra (he appears on the album cover, after all, alongside her other artistic GOATs John Cale and Marc Jacobs). The world turned her go-for-broke club-pop opus ‘Brat’ into the biggest album of her career and a cultural phenomenon, and Charli has responded by coolly spiking any and all ensuing expectations of her and her music.…
“Untitled (1—8)” by the new trio formed by Giuseppe Ielasi, Fabio Perletta and Giulia Bruno inaugurates not only an artistic synergy, but also and above all represents the starting point of fold/interval. An audiovisual platform of which the authors of the work themselves are supporters. The interpenetration between sound and image, the extreme editorial care in giving it a complete shape are the cornerstones of the project. Following a consolidated practice, Ielasi and Perletta establish a dialogue made of essential gestures, spaces of reverberation, changing dynamics. Reduction is the direction, accuracy in the choice of elements to relate to the…
Erwan Keravec is one of the Scottish bagpipe masters, known for his collaboration with Mats Gustaffson in the duo Luft. Keeper of tradition but also innovator, he is bold in his intertwining of minimalism with the sound of the bagpipe.Terry Riley and his album “In C” represented the first author revisited by the Breton musician; it then fell to Philip Glass the role of author to be plundered and reinvented for the excellent “8 Sonneurs Pour Philip Glass”. “Whitewater” is an adventurous work written by Keravec himself: three long compositions that favor experimentation at the expense of accessibility and pleasantness.…
