The Flower Kings
The progressive rock that reincarnates within itself... more
Slint
The cover of Spiderland is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen; it perfectly captures the essence of the album. more
Alfred Hitchcock
Genius artist. more
Bruno Bozzetto
An absolute (and misunderstood) genius of Italian animation cinema and beyond. more
Zu
Fucking autarkic schizoids. It seems impossible, but they are Italian. more
Slint
There's an anecdote from somewhere that goes something like this: "Slint started as a bland indie band, became the biggest band in the world, and then disbanded to general indifference." more
Gerard Damiano
A pioneer of ocular hyperrealism. more
Armin van Buuren
The ambassador of trance and progressive, if the spread of the genre is such in Western Europe and the USA, at least 50% of the credit is his. He took a genre considered dead for mass appeal after the '90s and propagated it across over 30 countries, refining his format time and again. All while providing some excellent personal evidence. Immense, often more than some of his well-known colleagues. more
Sinéad O'Connor
"Madonna?! But I sing!" Sinéad to an interviewer who compared her to Madame Ciccone. more
Patti Smith
The opening words of her version of Van Morrison's Gloria say it all. Patti and her art are there: intensity, poetry, and beauty. Female Rock in one of its best incarnations. more
Groucho Marx
a genius of comedy:

"I've always regretted dropping out of school in the fifth grade. It’s pretty tough when you find yourself out there in the big world trying to put on a sophisticated attitude. The hostess might be tossing around theories from Schopenhauer and Kafka. You, at best, could stretch to the seven times table." more
The Flaming Lips
The clowns who are afraid of dying! more
Alfred Hitchcock
English, fat, with a silhouette unmistakably known to the public and a tendency towards neuroses, even sexual ones, considered an absolute genius of cinema by many (including Godard and Truffaut), an absolute genius of suspense by all. There’s little to say; the images speak for themselves: Kim Novak thrown from the bell tower, Cary Grant climbing Mount Rushmore, Bodega Bay besieged by birds, Jimmy Stewart spying through binoculars, and, of course, the epoch-making blood shower of Janet Leigh. more
Cirith Ungol
In short: maybe these guys really do like pussy! more
Black Sabbath
A funeral carriage with tracks more
Sex Pistols
I quote the Venusians more
Cirith Ungol
No stuffed animal underwear, no dragons on the backpacks, no swords in the pencil cases. No fantasy orchestras, no pseudo-Gregorian choirs, no circus-themed special effects. Just a great guitarist and the angriest singer on the planet. Perhaps the best epic metal band of all time. more
Paolo Conte
another great one.
a uniquely distinctive voice. more
Sex Pistols
Sid Vicious died because he realized that it didn't make much sense to play the songs of the Sex Pistols after turning 21... more
Donald Fagen
An independent station...WJAZ... more