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I bought Sergeant’s self-titled 2023 debut without having heard it because of its album art. I was at All Night Flight, a really good record store outside Manchester, and the cover beckoned me: deep green, covered with English text made to look bizarre and unintelligible. Its song titles split the difference between life-changing koan and Jaden Smith tweet: “Seduced by Each and Every Shiny Object I Became an Infant in a Sea of Glance”; “This Song Emanates From the Common Man Claiming His Right to Poetry”; “The Annoying Got Interesting Because the Interesting Got Annoying.”You absolutely can judge Sergeant by…
Has Axel Wilner changed, or has the world changed? The artist who built an impressive career on making the same album over and over—and making every single one compelling—sounds a little different on his new EP Now You Exist, his first record in eight years. Maybe it’s because it’s on Studio Barnhus instead of his usual home of Kompakt, but it comes off loose and relaxed, unmoored from the clinical techno beats of his most revered work; it sets off on the wide-open path Infinite Moment laid out in 2018 and then veers ruggedly off road. With its over-the-top emotions…
In un’epoca di bulimia fotografica, dove siamo quotidianamente bombardati da una quantità spropositata di immagini destinate il più delle volte a vivere il tempo di uno scroll, pare impossibile che ci siano stati anni in cui una foto in bianco e nero, scattata quasi per gioco, poteva diventare prima la copertina di un disco e poi, grazie a quella, una delle immagini più iconiche tra quelle legate a un’epopea trasfigurata nel mito: quella del punk. La foto è quella scattata da Roberta Bayley ai Ramones e poi usata per il loro disco di debutto, ma è solo una delle tante…
vote7.0 Bands: VANESSA VAN BASTEN Duration: 00:41:57 Available from: 05/08/2026 Label: Subsound Records Vanessa Van Basten was born in 2004 as a project by multi-instrumentalist Morgan Bellini, who was joined shortly afterwards by Stefano Parodi on bass. The duo's goal is to build soundtracks for non-existent films, capable of making up for the lack of images thanks to a series of post-rock, sludge and shoegaze suggestions, adopting an approach not far from many post-metal realities that emerged at the beginning of the new millennium. In this context, their debut “Swedenborg's Room” must be counted among the most significant releases in…
How to resurrect yourself and carry forward, head held aloft, after the biggest kill shot in hip-hop history? One way might be to hone a single, perfect statement—something narrow and vicious, a shiv to the ribs of the world that cheered your demise as your rival threw a Cheshire-Cat grin at you from the Super Bowl halftime show.That might have been wise, but Drake has never been wise—or concise. Drake’s career has been predicated on the belief that there are endless ways to rephrase and restate the same two or three vague notions that have been swimming around like goldfish…
On the occasion of the panel 'Contemporary popular music in places of identity' Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
The Smashing Pumpkins have detailed an extensive run of concerts they’re calling The Rats in a Cage Tour. Each show on this fall leg will feature “two unique sets” celebrating Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ recent 30th anniversary, as well as other “unruly hits and dark treasures.” Find their complete list of tour dates below.In 2024, the Smashing Pumpkins released Aghori Mhori Mei, their first album since the departure of their longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder. Instead of calling on a friend or session musician to fill Schroeder’s shoes, they held an open call for applications — eventually resulting in…
The seven-time ACM Award winner loaded up on sausage and double entendre as she performed the lead single from her latest album, Middle of Nowhere Kacey Musgraves hit the stage at the 2026 ACM Awards for the first time ever on Sunday night breaking a shocking dry spell with a performance of her own single… “Dry Spell.” The seven-time ACM Award winner's performance was filled with cheeky double entendre. It opened with Musgraves sitting atop a washing machine before picking up some sausages at the butcher's counter of a makeshift grocery store (à la the “Dry Spell” music video). Even…
vote7.0 Bands: LACASTA Duration: 00:33:57 Available from: 05/08/2026 Label: Argonauta Records “Olibanum, also known as frankincense, is a precious aromatic resin extracted from trees of the Boswellia genus, widespread in Africa, India and Arabia. It is famous for its millenary use in incense, perfumes and religious rituals”. Six years after the debut “In Æternvm”, the LaCasta project reappears on the scene with the clear intention of refining its language and further 'metallising' the content of its proposal, ensuring that the hardcore/grind influences, today, are reduced to little more than a brushstroke on a painting that can be placed in the…
Ella Langley brought her song “Be Her” to the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night in Las Vegas. Langley, in a white gown, chose to strip down the track, off her latest album Dandelion. Langley played acoustic guitar, with two acoustic players behind her, as she sang, “I just wanna be her so bad.” Most would prefer to be Langley on Sunday night. The Alabama singer-songwriter won Female Artist of the Year and Artist-Songwriter of the Year, while her crossover smash “Choosin’ Texas” was named both Single and Song of the Year. Langley discussed how “Be Her” came…
