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Lucio Dalla: The Astronaut Who Played Clarinet in the Alley

Lucio Dalla looked like your eccentric uncle—the one who reads Rimbaud in dialect and believes jellyfish are psychic. He wore fisherman’s caps and round glasses like he was both blind prophet and jazz pirate. But behind that disarming appearance was one of Italy’s most unclassifiable musical minds: part chanson, part prog, part street ballad, part prayer. He didn’t write songs. He built them like strange, little cities—populated with time travelers, […]

todayJuly 10, 2025 4

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Haruomi Hosono: The Eternal Tourist in a Synthesized World

There are musicians who chase the zeitgeist, and then there’s Haruomi Hosono, who gently taps it on the shoulder, hands it a tropical drink, and invites it to dance to a steel drum inside a spaceship. If you’ve ever stumbled upon a 1970s Japanese album cover that looks like it belongs to a Hawaiian lounge band made entirely of aliens, congratulations—you may have entered the sonic Bermuda Triangle that is […]

todayJune 23, 2025 7

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Mina: The Voice That Disappeared but Never Left

If the gods of pop decided to whisper secrets into human ears, they’d probably sound a bit like Mina. To call Mina just a singer is like calling the Colosseum just a pile of rocks. This woman didn't just dominate the Italian charts for decades—she redefined what it meant to have a voice, a face, and then, gloriously, no face at all. That’s right. In 1978, she walked away from […]

todayJune 21, 2025 6 3

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The Holy Minimalist: Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru and the Sound of Sacred Solitude

In a world that rewards noise, speed, and spectacle, the music of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru arrives like morning fog drifting through a sunlit chapel—gentle, quiet, and utterly unbothered by the demands of modern life. A classically trained pianist turned Ethiopian Orthodox nun, Emahoy’s life is a journey through war, exile, silence, and spiritual transcendence. Her compositions, mostly written in solitude and humility, feel like whispered conversations with the eternal. […]

todayJune 20, 2025 9 1 2

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Carol Kaye Said No—And Rock ‘n’ Roll Might Finally Deserve It

Some legends wear leather. Some wield Stratocasters like swords. And some—like Carol Kaye—lay down the bottom-end thunder of an entire generation while looking like your friend’s unassuming cool aunt who happens to know exactly where the beat belongs. Carol Kaye, the bass-playing polymath behind hundreds of your favorite songs (even if you don't know it), reportedly turned down an invitation to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of […]

todayJune 20, 2025 7 1 2

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Finale Furioso: When Musicians Die Weird

There are some guitarists who play the instrument.And then there are the rare few who become it. Terry Kath was one of those rare few. Long before Chicago became a household name for soft rock ballads and prom night slow dances, it was a wild, gritty, horn-blasting rock band—and Terry Kath was its thundering heart. His guitar tone? Raw, roaring, full of chaos and beauty. His voice? Soulful, deep, and […]

todayMay 30, 2025 10 2

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Yoko Ono

When most people hear the name Yoko Ono, their first thought is often “the woman who broke up the Beatles.” It's an oversimplification that has clung to her name for decades, obscuring a rich and radical career in avant-garde art, experimental music, and activism. In truth, Yoko Ono is one of the most misunderstood and underappreciated cultural figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. To reduce her to a footnote […]

todayMay 24, 2025 5

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Sonic Cults, Chaos, and Beautiful Noise

If rock music were a dusty thrift store full of forgotten gems, broken radios, velvet jackets, and acid-stained notebooks, then The Brian Jonestown Massacre would be the slightly unhinged shopkeeper handing you a tambourine and inviting you to a séance behind the curtain. Founded in the early ‘90s by the infamous Anton Newcombe, BJM didn’t just form a band — they summoned a swirling, psychotropic entity. The name alone is […]

todayMay 23, 2025 8

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Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue

Step aside, Beethoven. Take a seat, Duke Ellington. Today we’re talking about Moondog — the blind, self-fashioned Viking who pounded the streets of Manhattan with a staff, a beard like a Norse god, and a mind full of music that defied every tidy label and genre box the 20th century tried to impose. Born Louis Thomas Hardin in 1916, Moondog was a composer, poet, street performer, and proto-minimalist who saw […]

todayMay 22, 2025 10 2

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