Author: Press Room
Nel periodo d’oro del cantautorato italiano (anni 70–80), all’ombra di star di prima grandezza, è cresciuta una generazione di songwriter rimasti – più o meno – sottotraccia. Alcuni hanno avuto anche il loro momento di gloria, scalando le classifiche o sfornando almeno una hit, di altri si ricorda ormai a malapena il nome. Tutti avrebbero meritato miglior sorte rispetto a quella riservata loro da un crudele destino: trovarsi a competere con la più straordinaria e ineguagliabile generazione di cantautori della musica italiana. Questa playlist vuole essere un piccolo “risarcimento” nei loro confronti, oppure semplicemente un modo per riportare alla luce…
In these days of final exams you can hear it bouncing here and there, “Night before exams”, a 1984 song with which Antonello Venditti will probably have bought a couple of seaside villas thanks to the copyright.We imagine you all know the song. Furthermore, this is not the place to tell you about its historical references or its harmonic and melodic evolution. Let's rather take a few minutes to ask ourselves why after more than forty years this song is still the one that young, beautiful high school graduates sing outside schools on the fateful “night before” of the first…
Gregg Phillip previously claimed that he found himself “teleporting” into ditches Gregg Phillips, the far-right activist installed as a high-ranking Federal Emergency Management Agency official, is out of a job at the agency. Sources told CNN that he was pushed out after a series of wild remarks he made on right-wing podcasts, which included his claims that he had found himself “teleporting” into ditches, or even into a Waffle House. “Teleporting is no fun,” Phillips said in an interview last year. “It's no fun because you don't really know what you're doing. You don't really understand it, it's scary, but…
Italia 90 is not just the historic edition of the World Cup in our country, which culminated with the unfortunate semi-final lost on penalties to Argentina. Italia 90 also means a magical – and in some ways unrepeatable – season of national indie-rock. A period of extraordinary creativity on the scene underground tricolor, blessed by far-sighted record companies and the success of the public, which brought those sounds to the top of the charts for the first time. In the beginning it was the CCCP saga, which laid the foundations in the 80s. A decade later, converted into the new…
Iron Maiden wrote an unprecedented page in the history of Italian concerts by performing on June 17th at the San Siro stadium in Milan, thus becoming the first heavy metal group to take the stage at the Meazza. Around 45 thousand spectators attended the Italian leg of the “Run For Your Lives. From Iron Maiden To Fear Of The Dark” tour, the tour that celebrates the band's 50th anniversary by retracing the repertoire of the first nine albums released between 1980 and 1992.From the stage, Bruce Dickinson underlined the symbolic value of the event: “Milan, finally at San Siro! It's…
Kenny G, Dionne Warwick, and Barry Manilow will also be in attendance for the music mogul's ceremony Clive Davis' death has left much of the music industry and Hollywood in mourning. The beloved music executive, who founded Arista Records and J Records, fostered the careers of numerous artists including Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, the Grateful Dead, The Notorious BIG, Janis Joplin, Alicia Keys, and many others. This coming Monday in New York City, Kenny G, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow, Jennifer Hudson, Keys, and Springsteen will be among those attending his funeral, Rolling Stone has learned. The location for the ceremony…
Without pretensions of completionism, but not even that of giving full voice to the editorial staff's rankings, we thought we'd let you listen to the playlists that best represent each person's “musical year”. The songs that stood out within a certain genre, the symbolic songs of revelation artists or great confirmations – or, more simply, the songs that meant something to us who listened to them. Gabriele Benzing “Fuck the world”: in a world that seems a little more inhumane every day, how can you not agree with Vampire Weekend? But it's not just an outburst that opens the ride…
Published on his birthday, April 8, “A Shift In Perspective” arrives just in time to be played on stage at the 2026 edition of Coachella, the famous Californian festival in which Rezz appears as one of the most important attractions of the electronic section. The first weekend goes great: her set will be one of the best, not only thanks to the musical aspects but also thanks to a super effective light design, built between vortices and optical illusions, with the Ukrainian-Canadian producer who is an integral part of it, with her unmistakable LED glasses, now a sort of fetish…
The theatrical video features the duo in a medieval landscape as Boone battles a broken heart Benson Boone and Alix Earle take to the stage in the video for his new song “The Time of My Life,” a heartbreak anthem that carries rock flourishes and Boone’s signature soaring vocals. The Matt Easton-directed video features Boone and Earle starring in a theater play about a medieval meet cute. Soon, the duo are taking a romantic boat ride under a starry sky, fighting drunk knights at a pub, and battling a hapless dragon. Unfortunately, Boone has other things on his mind, and…
Non tutto il meglio del 2024 è finito sotto i riflettori. Con la rubrica “Gli imperdibili”, la redazione di OndaRock cerca di fare luce su alcune gemme del 2024, nascoste e meno nascoste, offrendo una selezione di venti titoli che meritano un ascolto attento. Non una lista esaustiva né una classifica: solo un modo per segnalare alcuni dischi che ci hanno colpito e che, forse, potrebbero rivelarsi preziosi anche per voi. Abbiamo scelto uno o due titoli a testa, pescando tra quelli non recensiti personalmente. Il risultato è una rassegna eclettica che attraversa i vari generi e che, pur raggruppata…
