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Whether for study, or for pleasure, I often – and with unchanged enthusiasm – find myself leafing through the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Not only that: it is equally common to see a film, a TV series or artists belonging to the visual and figurative arts dedicating their efforts to the genius born in Boston on 19 January 1809. Having practically shaped a good part of the DNA of contemporary literature (from the deductive detective novel with Dupin, the forerunner of a certain Sherlock Holmes to the adventure novel, to horror: in the most psychological and complex forms to…

The only, historic Rolling Stones concert in Havana, Cuba. Directed by Paul Dugdale, “Rolling Stones: Havana Moon” – which Rai Cultura offers on Saturday 27 June at 11.05pm on Rai 5 – is the story of a record-breaking concert.Filmed at the conclusion of the 2016 “América Latina Olé Tour”, the film recounts an unprecedented event: a free concert that brings together over one million two hundred thousand spectators in Havana, transforming the Ciudad Deportiva into an enormous open-air arena. The full Rolling Stones on stage: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood.The setlist retraces the key moments of…

There’s been endless speculation about where and when Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding will take place, but fans finally have a few more clues about the most anticipated ceremony of the year: The New York Times reported earlier this week that the couple have rented out Madison Square Garden for a multiday bash over July 4 weekend. According to sources, they’re planning a gathering for about 100 people on July 2, and then a bigger celebration of about 1,000 guests likely in the arena, which has a “banquet capacity” of roughly 1,250 attendees, or the MSG theater, which can…

Tom Hardy is trading the silver screen for the recording booth, and releasing his debut rap album. Yes, you read that right. The English actor will embody his Frankie Pulitzer rap persona again for a full-length collaboration album with East Coast supergroup Czarface. The project has a very straightforward title, Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzerand it will be out on Aug. 28. The unacquainted don't have to wait to hear Hardy's bars, either. The actor-turned-rapper, or maybe it's actor/rapper, previewed the LP on Thursday with new single “Brothers Grimm.” Over a Nineties hip-hop beat, East Coast to be exact, Czarface's Inspectah…

The pop star has officially announced her highly-anticipated fifth album, out Aug. 14 It's official — we've entered an exciting, new Becky G era. The pop star announced her highly-anticipated new album Baraja Bendita on Friday, and it's ramping up to be her most unapologetic era yet. The LP, set for release on Aug. 14, marks her fifth album and the title translates to a “blessed deck of cards.” “I've spent years letting people meet Becky G first and let them figure out reBBeca later. this album stops explaining the difference, con las dos Bs — both showing up &…

Last weekend, the latest addition to New York's nightlife resurgence opened its doors. Pacha New York officially began its latest era with its new venue in Bushwick, starting with a sold-out weekend led by Michael Bibi and Black Coffee. For a global nightlife brand that has served as shorthand for Ibiza club culture for more than five decades, the opening was a test of whether one of dance music's most recognizable names could translate its global mythology into a city like New York. For Bibi, who headlined the venue's Saturday opening-weekend party on June 20, the moment landed with real…

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 We ended up in the timeline wrong? Pandemic, war, climate crisis… as Mattia Salvia tells us in “Interregnum”, the present increasingly resembles that episode of “Community” (now a meme) in which a…

“The language of snakes” is the new album by filoswordout on May 15th for Bradipo Dischi, created with the contribution of NewImaie. After a debut album that had positioned them among the most interesting realities of the new Italian independent scene, the second work marks a change in form and perspective: from a solo project by Filippo Spadafilospada becomes a full-fledged band, with the stable entry of Jacopo De Donà on drums ed Emanuele Malfatti on the bass. Three years after the debut album, “Gli Ulti 4 Disastrosti”, filosword consolidates a more compact identity: an organic, deliberately lo-fi indie-rock sound,…

Harmony Tividad is done with the intentional brain-rot pop of Gossip, at least for now. The former Girlpool member picks back up the acoustic guitar and, with it, her natural instincts for indie-pop earworms. Broadly recounting an endless cycle of becoming in the modern world, Lifetime is a detailed and thoughtful reflection that takes note of life’s smallest details and always cradles them with a gentle heart. “Mulholland Drive,” “Lifetime,” and “Your Strange Addiction” land like familiar staples of the past, with easygoing melodies that never sound fussed over, even when Tividad indulges in vocal effects.Listen on Apple MusicListen on…

When my dear coworker Hattie went to report on Phoebe Bridgers’ pop-up concert at Madison Square Garden, she told me she instantly knew which song “was gonna be the damn single.” It was the one that went, “Lost boys/Never grow up, never get old.” I wonder what gave it away. The lonesome trumpet line does immediately recall another Bridgers single, “Kyoto,” from her last album, 2020’s Punisher. And admittedly, that chorus stitched itself to me like my shadow the first time I heard it. Except the words won’t quite stick, so it becomes “Lost boys, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.”Bridgers is a strict…