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vote7.5 Bands: TEMPLE GUARD Duration: 00:25:12 Available from: 11/06/2026 The fire evoked in the title is not just a metaphor: in the Temple Guard it is almost a permanent condition. For years the English band has been building its trajectory around an idea of music experienced as a declaration of war, a mixture of urgency and hardcore ethics, metal heaviness and militant vision that leaves little room for half measures. “Citadel in Flames” therefore arrives as a new chapter in a saga carried forward with surprising consistency: a job every two years or so, regular live activity and an increasingly…
«It's another song that took a while to mature. It had to make it into the album in some form at some point Ibut we didn't get to finish it, but it's always been one of my favorites.”Full moon, new song. Peter Gabriel published another piece from o\ithe album he will release later in 2026. It's called I Belong to the Sky and from a sound point of view it starts from a tom-tom pattern played with timpani sticks, the ones with felt heads, inspired by the 1960 documentary Jazz on a summer day which chronicled the 1958 Newport Jazz…
Guitarist Bob Britt has spoken out about his departure from Bob Dylan‘s live backing band. Over the weekend, Britt was reported to have left the touring line-up after he shared a brief social media post that was later deleted. He had played with Dylan since 2019, and been a regular fixture during the ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ tour. The news came after electric guitarist Doug Lancio was replaced in the live group by acclaimed jazz guitarist Julian Lage. Lancio had toured with the legendary singer-songwriter since 2021, but was absent from his June 17 show in Santa Barbara, California. According…
After attracting attention with the first three singles and gaining space in Spotify's editorial playlists, i Lovvbömbing! they reach the finish line of their recording debut with PISS! PEAS! PEACE!album released by Vina Records. For this work, the band from Cesena chooses the spontaneity of direct recording, a rough, instinctive and visceral sound. Between art punk, garage, psychedelia, noise and hardcore, the ten tracks on the album tell of an authentic expressive urgency and an attitude that favors energy over perfection. Pitchfork included them among the best publications of the period and we met them to talk about the birth…
Let's remember Irene Fargo four years after his death: the voice that brought the opera to Sanremo Four years ago he disappeared Irene Fargosinger and performer with an elegant voice who in the early nineties managed to carve out an important space for himself in Italian music thanks to his participation in the Sanremo Festival. On the anniversary of her death we retrace the career of an artist who, despite having garnered the affection of a faithful public, today is remembered less than her career deserves. Originally from Palazzolo sull'Oglio, Flavia Pozzaglio in art Irene Fargo he began to make…
Laptop twee, or indietronica revival, or whatever we’re calling the insane ways Gen Z is torturing singer-songwriter music inside Ableton nowadays, is, by nature, an intersection: a place where everything from skramz to cloud rap to glitch pop collide. This wide range of influences allows artists to apply the ethos to a wide range of styles. They can go full micro-sample bricolage, as early progenitors ear did on their latest Rumspringa; they can push further afield into lo-fi outsider folk, like London duo Bassvictim on ?. Or they can embrace the mess and blow it up into Age of Adz…
Viviamo in un’epoca curiosa: per anni il rock ha alimentato il mito dell’eterna giovinezza, salvo ritrovarsi oggi con i suoi protagonisti principali che hanno superato abbondantemente i 70 anni (e spesso anche gli 80) e che continuano a salire sul palco con una naturalezza che, più che sorprendere, dovrebbe ormai indurre a cambiare prospettiva. Parlare di rock geriatrico, espressione che ciclicamente torna fuori ogni volta che Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Who o Neil Young pubblicano un disco o annunciano un tour, significa probabilmente osservare il fenomeno in modo sbagliato. La vera domanda non riguarda tanto la loro età, quanto la…
Lykke Li was in the car listening to the news on the radio when a strange sensation came over her. Maybe it was the Los Angeles sun's fault, but suddenly she felt like she was watching the world fall apart from a distant spaceship. «It is the era of AI, of war, of capitalism, of climate change. We're at the afterparty. There are still a few moments of euphoria left before total chaos.”From that thought was born his sixth studio album, entitled precisely The Afterparty. It revolves around one question: “How can we continue to have hope and believe in…
Almost forty years after the original releases, Litfiba announce the reissues of “17 Kings” and the live “12/05/87 (Open your eyes)”, two central titles of the era of the so-called “Trilogy of Power”. Pre-orders of the new editions are already available. “12/05/87 (Open your eyes) Live”, recorded at Tenax in Florence during the last date of the “17 kings” tour, will return from June 19th on double vinyl, both black and colored. The album documents one of the most representative phases of the formation composed of Piero Pelù, Ghigo Renzulli, Antonio Aiazzi, Gianni Maroccolo and Ringo De Palma. For the…
Most of Delia Beatriz’s work since 2019’s breakthrough System EP has been experimental, anthropological, and rooted in software. First there was The Long Count, where the Mexican American producer and NYU adjunct professor, better known as Debit, used machine learning to reproduce the sounds of ancient Mayan instruments, infusing ghostly ambient with dread and a sense of wonder. Then she took on cumbia rebajada, a slowed-down subgenre of cumbia from Monterrey, and slowed it even more, using granular synthesis to create an album of equally unsettling drone. Both those records came out on Modern Love, a UK imprint known for…
