"If you want to understand what good Lucio saw, my advice is to immediately take a punch to the stomach... ‘We could have looked into each other’s eyes instead of losing our minds.’"

 "Lucio is the singer-songwriter who more than any offers an alternative reading, digs into the soul until it wears it out, cultivates the memory, and projects it into the future with his always quirky, ironic, and at the same time laden with profound and human visionary songs."

 Discover Lucio Dalla’s visionary 'Viaggi Organizzati'—listen now and explore a masterpiece of Italian musical storytelling.

 Like good wine, this film needed to be decanted to appreciate the content, the photography, the symmetries, and the musical choices.

 This is the essence of the film to preserve beauty and love in the heart, everything else is boredom.

 Dive into Sorrentino’s rich and emotional world—watch 'This Must Be the Place' and discover a film that grows deeper with every viewing.

 The second album by the Georgians Stillwater, released in 1978, is their best; better played and produced than their debut the year before, and more varied.

 Stillwater will remain confined to the club scene, entertaining a hundred or two people at a time. Honor to them... there’s no place for everyone on the winners’ wagon.

 Discover Stillwater's soulful southern rock gem—listen to 'I Reserve the Right' and experience 1970s rock fusion today!

 pure, unhealthy, and gruesome Goregrind here, so I really recommend those with a weak stomach to stay far away

 21 minutes of ultra-fast tempos, blasting and studded drums like the best of Last Days Of Humanity, putrid guitars and toilet brush-like vocals always front and center

 Explore Feeble Inducer's brutal goregrind debut—listen now to feel the raw intensity and dark humor!

 "One Day Remains marks the beginning of an artistic journey characterized by incredible compositional and vocal quality."

 "Myles Kennedy, Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall, and Scott Phillips have left a clear mark on the hard rock and post-grunge scene of the past twenty-five years."

 Discover the powerful origins of Alter Bridge with the One Day Remains 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition—listen now and experience rock history.

 Guitars everywhere, on the right, on the left, and center; layering, concatenations, guitar duels, one at a time, two at a time, even three occasionally.

 The riff is vaguely reminiscent of Led Zeppelin’s 'Rock’n’Roll', only more lyrical and intimate, less brash but more elegant.

 Dive into Stillwater’s classic Southern rock sound—listen to their 1977 debut and experience guitar-driven rock storytelling.

 "Throughout the film, there isn’t a single positive character, not one to care for."

 "Each of us has three lives: a public one, a private one, and a secret one. It is the paraphrase of a famous line by Gabriel Garcia Marquez."

 Discover the gripping drama and hidden truths of Perfetti Sconosciuti—watch it today and see why it’s a modern Italian classic.

 Friedkin is a top-notch director, and the alternation of highly-paced scenes with moments of dialogue is mixed in an exemplary way.

 It was a triumphant success and won 5 Oscars (Best Picture, Director, Leading Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Editing) and created a path that many would follow with varying success.

 Discover the raw power of New Hollywood cinema—watch ‘Il Braccio Violento Della Legge’ and experience crime storytelling at its finest.

 Talisman was a band that played with conviction and executed flurries of notes... all without resorting at all to attitudes, poses, costumes, and glam pretenses.

 I consider it the best of Talisman, a band responsible for one of the not so many glimpses of serenity in the compromised hard rock scene of the nineties.

 Discover the soulful energy and virtuosity of Talisman’s Humanimal album—listen now and experience one of 90s rock’s hidden gems!

 I wanted to share a beautiful experience, that of feeling understood, for once, about everything, absolutely everything.

 It is well written, reports real facts and people (not created by AI!) and at the end of Unintended Successes.

 Read Gianrico Carofiglio’s insightful mini essay and experience a thoughtful journey on ignorance and error.

 The album presents itself as a series of mantras, like a perfect meditative exercise, suitable for any time of day.

 All Living Things travels from youth to old age, heralding eternity, perhaps for comfort and encouragement in the thought that we are and will remain travelers of time and possible worlds.

 Listen to Park Jiha’s All Living Things and immerse yourself in soothing sounds inspired by nature’s endless cycles.

 The album is a concept set after the end of World War I and fundamentally consists of the reading of a family’s father’s will, a will revealing shocking family secrets.

 The variety of solutions, riffs, and rhythms is impressive, there is a thread but it never repeats the same riff.

 Explore Opeth's renewed sound with The Last Will And Testament—listen now and experience the thrilling fusion of metal and prog rock.

 In this album, two-thirds are rubbish, but the rest is okay, with inside a masterpiece (of its kind).

 The grand ballad “Sara,” which at the time was perfect, perhaps now dated but still perfect.

 Listen to Starship's Knee Deep in the Hoopla and discover the 80s pop-rock hit 'Sara' that stands out among classic melodies.

 Menschen am Sonntag is a time capsule: a 73-minute silent film, often regarded as a forerunner of neorealism.

 Despite its apparent lightness, the film portrays the brutality in relationships between the sexes, with raw realism devoid of moral judgments.

 Watch Robert Siodmak’s 'Menschen am Sonntag' and step back into 1930s Berlin—available now for free on YouTube.

 "Castle in the Sky is, in every sense, the foundational work on which the entire narrative and visual imagination of Miyazaki’s thought is based."

 "A truly schizophrenic Italian distribution... reappeared mysteriously, with different and better dubbing, in 2012 following the theatrical release."

 Discover the magic and meaning behind Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky—watch the classic that shaped a genre and inspired generations.

 Listening to his music feels like delving into the deepest, most hidden, and darkest depths the human mind has ever conceived.

 Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is the worthy successor of the first chapter, matching it in terms of malignancy and ominous mental journeys.

 Discover the dark depths of Leviathan’s 'Massive Conspiracy Against All Life'—listen now and experience a haunting black metal masterpiece.

 The album plays it all on a direct and overwhelming atmosphere, but without strong melodies or themes that truly distinguish the songs.

 With €10 I could’ve listened on Spotify, liked it so-so, and moved on, but instead, now I have this CD that I probably won’t listen to again.

 Dive into the shoegaze revival with Kimono Lights’ Trick or Thriller and decide if its raw charm speaks to you.

 She might have an enormous musical talent, she’s the muse of the noise drone collective Vibracathedral Orchestra, in short, the creator of ghost music.

 Bridget Hayden’s delicate voice lowers and glides, evocative in its most primordial soul level, as haunting as it is eternal.

 Dive into the mystical folk world of Bridget Hayden and let 'Cold Blows The Wind' enchant your senses today.

 "Women are a constant instigation to risk, to audacity... Despite everything, alive!"

 "A piece like 'Mother' releases the silence of suffered violence and rips off your testicles to cook them as if they were two fried eggs."

 Dive into Fontanelle and experience the raw, unapologetic power of Babes in Toyland today!

 The works of Ichiko Aoba...are an immersive experience in a universe of fairies and crystal.

 A peaceful and consciously varied minimalism, a voice and a guitar, sometimes a harp and a piano; words do not do justice to this ethereal music.

 Experience the serene beauty of Ichiko Aoba’s Luminescent Creatures—listen now and immerse yourself in this ethereal musical journey.