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Erupting from the talented North, Hull band BREEZE are setting the standard for upcoming artists within the Indie world. Formed back in October 2021, brothers Albert, Harry and Alfred Anderson teamed up with mate Declan Rodgers to release their debut single “Touch the Sky”, thrusting the unknown four piece into orbit and turning heads across the country with their own brand of explosive indie rock. Now a few singles in, the band release their latest track “lei She lei ‘s Got It” on 26th May 2023.BREEZE creatively channel their influential heroes Oasis, The Pixies, Kasabian, Muse and (of course) The…

Many people think that Claudio Rocchi was only a hippy guru. For a certain period of his career he was also this: disseminator (not only as a musician, but also as a radio host) of all that he was peace, love & good vibrations. Author of songs that spoke the language of the young people of the time, of their sensitivity, desire to escape and non-acceptance of social schemes. In his colorful universe there were mysticism and esotericism, the celebration of certain drugs as a means to open consciences, sounds from various parts of the world, psychedelic folk and a…

A journey full of grooves from Palermo to Oran, from Italy to Algeria. It’s ‘Scuru Cauru’, the Crimi album released two days ago. They are French, but listening to their music one gets the idea that they live in an imaginary place in the Mediterranean that encompasses many and transcends them all. We asked frontman Julien Lesuisse, French of Sicilian origin, to compile for us a small playlist of songs that have influenced the group’s blend of funk, raï, ethno jazz, new wave and soul.BeautifulRosa BalistreriHis voice goes straight to the heart. As with raï singers, it’s incredible to hear…

It is true that the first Queens of the Stone Age are composed of three quarters of Kyuss (Josh Homme on guitar and vocals, Nick Oliveri on bass, Alfredo Hernández on drums), but while the latter were still firmly anchored in the past, the hard sound psychedelic blues from the 70s with their typical lysergic and obsessive instrumental expansions, Queens of the Stone Age (as producer Chris Goss jokingly called Kyuss during a recording session) re-enact the sound of the parent band in the form of more structured songs, easily accessible and memorized: no longer the low tunings and the…

Protective like Max Gazzè; resentful as Courtney Love; wistful like Cat Stevens; passionate like George Michael: the sign of Cancer is one of the most complex and multifaceted of the zodiac. He throws the stone, takes his hand away; he seems naive and harmless, but he tangos with your emotions and, if he wants, he can get you to do anything. A large part of his accomplishment lies in his ability to build places in which to feel safe, and he takes a genuine and authentic pleasure in looking after the people and things he loves: home, hearth, people and…

The new album by Andrea Poggio, the second, entitled The futurealready anticipated by individuals The new world and the most recent Words in mid-air.An album in which the Piedmontese singer-songwriter played with classic and modern, mixing genres and worlds. As if to create an unusual bridge between Paolo Conte and the Dirty Projectors, between Franco Battiato and Chassol. And for this very reason we asked him to tell us what inspired him in the manufacturing process. Happy listening.Velvet MotelEiichi OhtakiI discovered this song a few months ago, yet it’s one of those songs that I feel like I’ve known forever.…

There are questions about everything from politics to religion to how pasta is cooked. On one thing, however, there are none: the greatest bass player in the world was Jaco Pastorius. Anyone who is questioned on the subject brings up his name, from Flavio Paulin, former singer and bassist of Cugini di Campagna to Red Canzian of the Pooh, who after seeing Pastorius live got a fretless and introduced it into Italian pop, up to Pino Palladino and Robert Trujillo of Metallica, which not surprisingly took four years to produce Jacobthe documentary about his life.He is usually credited with innovating…

If this debut album from Kim Petras feels like it’s been a long time coming, well, that’s because it has. The German pop savant began gathering “Bunheads” – the singer’s loyal fanbase named after her early signature hairstyle – when she dropped the strutting, tongue-in-cheek single ‘I Don’t Want It At All’ in August 2017. These days, breaking into the mainstream is a tall order for any female pop artist, but Petras has faced an additional obstacle: the industry’s tacit transphobia. When she initially tried to land a major label deal, she was told: “How do we market this? There…

The last couple of years have seen a huge rise in browser-based puzzle games, tasking players with working out a certain kind of answer using limited guesses. Framed is one of the newest, following in the footsteps of Wordle, but offering a slightly different twist. You’ll still need to work out the answer using limited information and only six tries, but it’ll be movies that you’ll be guessing. You see, Framed focuses on individual frames, or stills, of an ever-changing roster of movies. Some show a fair amount of action at the start, while others will take careful analysis and…

Melodies on Hiatus is a title that sounds better suited to Julian Casablancas, the Stroke who spends his spare time peddling noise skronk with the Voidz. Is Albert Hammond Jr. really trying to tell us that he’s turned his back on hooks? The tongue-in-cheek framing of this tuneful solo album underscores the guitarist’s sense of humor, a quality often obscured by his day job in a band that prizes affectless cool.There’s not much conventional cool to be found on Melodies on Hiatus. The extended release strategy—the first nine tracks dropped digitally last month—may be a calculated response to an oversaturated…