Fabrizio De André -La Buona Novella
Top 3 in the best Italian albums of all time more
Mr. Bungle
In reality, they make (in the sense of "used to make") perfectly normal music, as it should always be: free from constraints, based on the willingness to be tempted by an idea and finding the best way to throw it in. And this applies to any other band of the experimental, avant-garde, and prog genres. It’s everyone else (pop primarily but not only) who plays non-normal music, based on canonical structures created solely for the radio but that, in nature, do not belong to them... more
Daniela Casa
Mythical figure of the Italian library. Wife of Remigio Ducros, she is the author of several noteworthy works that encompass all genres, often winking at experimentation. She passed away prematurely at the age of 42. more
Alain Bernaud
French composer, active since the 1950s, he has dedicated himself to both the teaching of classical music and its composition. A winner of several international awards, he is also known as a composer of soundtracks for film. more
Cream -Goodbye
A worthy conclusion to a brief but intense career! more
Manilla Road
I won’t pretend that Mark Shelton was my idol, but he embodied everything I loved about metal, and what I no longer found at a certain point in metal. The ability to have a vision and to fully immerse oneself in it, he was the quintessential bard. This made metal alive, human, even brilliant, beyond its flaws and, indeed, precisely because of them. It’s something I no longer recognize in current metal, frankly mannered, lost among triggers, guitar technicalities, and overly polished singers. Goodbye, Mark, and thank you for everything you’ve given me. more
Gary Moore -Blues for Greeny
when 2 monsters meet!!! more
The Cramps -Songs The Lord Taught Us
Rock'n Roll will never die, someone said, and rightly so. At most it dies for a few years and then rises from the grave, more rotten, more macabre, more wicked, more decomposed. Like here. Psychobilly (excuse me, it’s the most beautiful name ever given to a music genre) in all its filthy splendor. Rock'n Roll and Garage from the '50s and '60s, rotten with the years, turning into a bacchanal of almost "tribal" ferocity. Most of the tracks are by the Cramps themselves, but there are excellent covers too (with "Strychnine," a cover by the Sonics, one of the toughest and wildest garage bands of the '60s, the Cramps hit the jackpot) like the fantastic duo that closes the album: "Tear it Up," the wildest and most psychobilly song on the entire record, and "Fever," which is instead a sublime, hallucinatory, passionate, and unexpected slowdown, a finale that deserves applause. An amazing record. more
Fernando Di Leo
The master of Italian noir, not only for the "milieu trilogy" but also for "The Cop is Corrupt." Less successful, but not trivial, are his excursions into other genres. more
Tony Banks -A Curious Feeling
a bit of Wind, so much And then & Duke....the latest prog bullets, probably leftovers from the Genesis production. more
George Michael -Songs From The Last Century
Considered by many as an useless album. Considered by me as a very good album of wonderful covers reinterpreted in a jazz style with the stunning voice of Michael, very comfortable in the crooner version. Directed by Phil Ramone. more
Helmet -Strap It on
Brutal chaotic, unpleasant in the good sense. more
Tuxis Giant
Rock trio from Boston, Massachusetts, creates atmospheric melodic rock, sometimes shoegaze, sometimes acoustic. They make albums with landscapes on them. more
Michael Carmichael -To Die In Oregon
Super-concise album, songs stripped to the essentials, but they work well. These are folk songs with a pop structure and melodies, lyrics reminiscent of '90s emo (to be clear, it vaguely reminds me of Sunny Day Real Estate, without the cliché '00s emo tropes about suicide and depression, but with a strong sense of melancholy). Clearly, the biggest limitation is the brevity of the songs and the simplicity of the arrangements. It's a great record to listen to if you have 20 minutes to relax. more
Michael Carmichael
Sam Trujillo from Phoenix, AZ shares his homemade music featuring voice, guitar, bass, some percussion, and a few backing vocals on web platforms under the moniker Michael Carmichael. more
Soccer Mommy
Young American singer-songwriter classified in the bedroom pop genre, she rose to fame in 2018 with her debut album "Clean" after several albums released on web platforms like Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Offstage, she goes by Sophie Allison, was born in Switzerland but is from Nashville, and is a huge fan of Avril Lavigne. She writes songs with catchy melodies and riffs, and often very personal lyrics. more
The Go-Go's
The bad girls of the Punk scene in Los Angeles more