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Citare Flaubert in un articolo sui System of a Down può sembrare un filo azzardato, ma stiamo pur sempre parlando di una gruppo che ha messo nello stesso disco una canzone dedicata alle storture del sistema carcerario americano e una sulla gioia di saltare su un trampolo a molla. Vale tutto. Flaubert esorta a essere «regolare e ordinato nella vita, così potrai essere violento e originale nel lavoro» e mi pare che la frase renda bene l’esperienza di Serj Tankian dentro e fuori i System. Del resto l’aforisma è citato nell’autobiografia del cantante Down with the System da poco pubblicata…

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The hard-blues opening leaves no doubt: “The Way To The Stars” is the passport to the stars signed by Revangels, a Milanese band now on their second album. Proud, visceral sounds, which smell of tube amplifiers, dust and sweat, with the ghost of Led Zeppelin walking arm in arm with the street urgency of Free and the sincere urgency of musicians who chew this music right down to their guts. The album thrives on wild dynamics and muddy slowdowns, sudden hard-rock flares and robust roundness that would work perfectly in theairplay radio (the final “A Spark In The Darkness” is…

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We must face a “global plague”, Genesis Owusu warns us. And the only way to do it is to look a frightening reality in the face and fight against it, bringing into play nothing less than our bodies which dance to the point of exhaustion. Animated by this urgency, the third work of the Australian artist of Ghanaian origins adopts an even more radically politicized posture than in previous albums. A red star, reminiscent of the flag of his native country, perhaps winking at a guerrilla war about to be triggered or perhaps already begun, appears on the cover and…

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Paul McCartney reportedly played ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ for the first time since 1964 at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. The couple were married at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Friday (July 3), with the star-studded ceremony reportedly officiated by Adam Sandler. While details around the ceremony have so far remained largely under wraps, it had been reported that both McCartney and Stevie Nicks performed at the event. Now, according to People, it has emerged that McCartney performed ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, in what is believed to be his first performance of the song since The Beatles played it in 1964. People reported that…

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Photo by Luca Moschini The stage of the Flowers Festival, in the historic setting of the Parco della Certosa Reale di Collegno, hosted one of the hottest and most anticipated events of the Piedmontese summer: the Negramaro concert. The Salento band brought a fundamental stage of the tour “An Still Simple Live 2026” tour under the Mole, a tour created to celebrate over twenty years of career and friendship, but which takes on an even deeper meaning, being the last opportunity to see them live before a long and well-deserved break. From the first notes, the concert revealed itself to…

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Harry Styles closed his record-breaking Wembley Stadium residency last night with an appearance from his sister Gemma and an onstage Pride celebration. The former One Direction singer wrapped up the London leg of his ‘Together, Together’ residency tour at Wembley Stadium last night (July 4), concluding a 12-night run at the venue. The stint set the record for the most performances by any artist at Wembley Stadium in a single year, surpassing Coldplay’s 10-night run in 2025 and Taylor Swift’s eight-night solo-artist record in 2024. Before Styles’ set, a special Pride celebration took place onstage, featuring ‘Together, Together’ dancers Rubia Veth and Aysia Ianiero alongside drag queens and kings Jonbers Blonde,…

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From poetry to sound art Luca Barachetti, born in Bergamo in 1983, is a poet, musician and performer who has made art a compendium of literature, music, avant-garde and experimentation whose ultimate aim is to communicate one's very personal vision of the world and to make the intimate dialogues of one's self perceivable. He made his debut with “White Out” (2016), created with Enrico Ruggeri Zambaiti, in which he recites, on post-rock bases, texts that describe a humanity enslaved by money and the market, powerless in the face of the ideology of infinite growth and annihilated by induced desires that…

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Former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra has returned to the stage just months after suffering a stroke. The punk icon, real name Raymond Pepperell, made a surprise appearance at TentacleFest in San Francisco on June 27, joining Wheelchair Sports Camp onstage for a performance of their collaboration ‘Make It Make Sense’. Footage shared by Alternative Tentacles, the independent label Biafra founded in 1979, showed Biafra returning to the stage for the first time since suffering a stroke in March. “Not only was TentacleFest an amazing show, it also featured the return of Jello Biafra to the stage,” the label wrote alongside the clip. “Check out this clip of Jello coming…

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She doesn't like the tough guysThey think that they can do anything they pleaseBut they're gonna get a surpriseWhen she brings them to their knees There are records that illuminate the career of a band almost without warning, arriving like meteorites to flood their musical planet with highly nourishing water, capable of instantly generating new life and bypassing even the fateful primordial soup. This is the case of “High Infidelity”, the ninth performance of the Americans REO Speedwagon, an album that brought the group led by Kevin Cronin (vocals, guitar and keyboard) suddenly towards a formula Adult oriented rock largely…

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The designer behind Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ artwork has opened up about his design process and the cover’s evolution. Brent David Freaney worked with Charli and creative director Imogene Strauss on the distinctive artwork for the 2024 album, and they went on to win Best Recording Package at the 2025 Grammys. Speaking at a recent conference in San Francisco, Freaney shared some of the inspirations for ‘Brat’, as well as early drafts of the green cover in different typefaces and colour variations. He explained that the project was shaped by the idea of the “death of the finished state”, and the question of when a piece…

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