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How much Phil Collins trivia do you know? Let's find out! On Nov. 14, 2026, a tremendous injustice will finally be rectified when Phil Collins is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. When you consider his achievements outside of Genesis in the 1980s and 1990s, it's absolutely wild that it took this long. He created the sonic palette for the Reagan decade with “In the Air Tonight,” and then landed hit after hit after hit, while somehow keeping busy with Genesis, and working with his buddies, including Eric Clapton and Robert Plant. Collins'…

Born close to the Seventies thanks to Nigerian musicians Fela Kuti and Toni Allen, Afrobeat is more relevant today than ever. Its fusion of funk, jazz and typical West African call-and-response dynamics, already at the basis of Talking Heads' “world breakthrough”, is the model for a new explosion of styles. For some time now it has been back in vogue in North America with groups such as Antibalas and Souljazz Orchestra, and in recent years nu jazz has been the number one reference for the young and kaleidoscopic London jazz scene. The compilation guides the exploration of this varied musical…

Last night, Friday June 26, 2026the Visarno Arena in Florence was the beating heart of world rock, hosting the only, highly anticipated Italian date of “From Zero World Tour” of the Linkin Park. Beyond 60,000 people responded to the call, pulverizing the tickets in record time and confirming a visceral bond between our country and the band, exactly two years after the publication of “From Zero”the album that redesigned the boundaries of their path. Four acts of pure power and vulnerability The show was structured as a real cinematic journey divided into four distinct acts, capable of bringing together the…

Yesterday, June 26th, was the first birthday of VirginLorde's latest album.For the occasion, the artist “gave” fans 49 unreleased demos from the making of the album – the dates go back to 2022. “Happy birthday Virgin”, this is the message shared on social media. And then the link where you can listen to the tracks for free, for a total of approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes of music.The tracks were also accompanied by a letter, in which Lorde shared some of the experiences she had over the last year and during the making of the album: «On Sunday evening…

BBC DJ and presenter Trevor Nelson has announced he is taking a break from his BBC Radio 2 show for medical reasons. The Radio 2 and 1Xtra presenter, who has been off air this week after undergoing tests, announced that he is “taking a little break from my work commitments” due to “health issues” yesterday (June 26). He did not go into detail about his diagnosis, but told his Instagram followers that he was now “concentrating on getting better”. “Some of you may already have noticed that I’ve not been on my daily Radio 2 slot this week,” he told…

The path of Italian punk immediately crossed that of the so-called “crazy rock”: above all Skiantos and very early Gaznevada, from Bologna, progenitors of both strands; the movement expresses an antithetical approach to that of “committed” songwriting, well represented by “Largo all' avant-garde”: “All singer-songwriters buy / As oarsmen do / When they want to do choirs / That smell of flowers” or by the provocations of “Nevadagaz” (“At midnight on the streets of East Berlin / automatons in SA uniforms / sprinkle the streets with Nevada Gaz / neon swastikas on the city walls”). It is just one of…

Welcome to the BadlandsWhere the sky expands and you and I expire With “Little Wide Open” Kevin Morby creates a new (the third) heartfelt tribute to the places of the Midwest. Between myth and material reality, the “badlands” now relocated by Morby to the center of America (“Javelin”) devour those who pass through them: under the overwhelming grandeur of the firmament and along the expanses of lavender “we are just passengers passing through”. But they are also places far from the frenzy of the metropolis, perfect for rest, at least until the tornado sirens sound. Heaven or hell, then? If…

Hachiko public SUPERHYPERTROIAthe deluxe of HYPERTROIAthe album released in February 2026. Out everywhere for La Crème Records, the reissue expands the imagery of the original album with new songs and a long list of collaborations. But to understand why we are talking about it, it is best to start from a question that many have asked: who is Hachiko really? Who is Hachiko: the disguised project that no one can identify Hachiko it is one of the most particular cases on the recent Italian scene. Behind the name there is not just one person, but a project: a performer who…

This weekend sees the launch of the inaugural Everywhere At Once festival – with huge names and rising stars taking to hundreds of stages in grassroots venues across the UK in a bid to entertain the masses while we sit out Glastonbury. Rizzle Kicks and Inspiral Carpets are among the artists taking part, explaining to NME why this event matters. Hundreds of thousands would have flocked to Worthy Farm this weekend, however with the festival taking its traditional fallow year to allow the land to recover, an opportunity arose for the Music Venue Trust and the many essential gig spaces…

A city for singing. That is, the story in music of the great international metropolises, but also of the small urban centers that they have inspired the great historical singer-songwriters, the chansonniers, the folk minstrels, but also a myriad of pop-rock groups of every generation. We start from the docks and the sailors of the port of “Amsterdam”, expertly narrated by Jacques Brel in one of his classics, for a long journey that takes us to the cold of Copenhagen (a vintage Scott Walker), Warsaw (the Bowie of “Low“) and Berlin (the heterogeneous tandem Lou Reed-Alphaville), up to the fascinating…