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American dad, Italian mom, and so the story goes. After a childhood spent in the golden foothills of California's Yuba County, Michelle Davis left the United States and somehow magically ended up in Florence. Named after The Beatles' song, music has always been an important part of Michelle's life and she's a firm supporter of Florence's indie scene.
2017 is already bearing its claws, eager to carve its indelible mark into the pentagram of our city’s musical history. We interviewed Giulia Sarno, founder and frontwoman of Florence-based trio ...
Some love stories have their own soundtrack – songs that are able to crush borders, wrap many languages into one and usher a sense of newfound courage and unity. It’s not ...
For a little over a year now, TRK. Sound Club has been ushering Florence into a new musical era, showcasing some of the world’s most interesting and obscure experimental young ...
On Wednesday December 21 at 9pm, Prato’s Centro Pecci for the Contemporary Arts will be launching the last concert of the season. This time, the museum’s spotlight will shine on Verona-born ...
Step aside Fiorentina: Florence has a new dream team and it’s sporting the colours of rock, dribble and roll. Sex Pizzul are a champion formation boasting the strength of three musicians among ...
The cat is out of the bag: when you’re looking for local excellence and one-of-a-kind beats, listen to your inner FELINE FUNK and the fun will follow. Feline Funk is a Florentine ...
On Saturday December 3, from 9.30 am to 11 pm, some of the most beautiful hidden gems in Florene will echo with the serenades of an extraordinary festival: at its first ...
Piqued Jacks. A name that rolls out like laughter, a moniker that tells a story of tunes and friendship traveling back to 2006. From the quaint medieval village of Buggiano, ...
A new name is setting Florence’s musical horizon ablaze, a pirate ship charged with groovalicious ammo just waiting to be unloaded on our unsuspecting shores (and hips!). RIVA is a ...
Florentine band Beyond the Garden is ready to rumble! You might recognise these fresh under-20 faces from our September issue’s article “8 up-and-coming bands in Florence” and although just two ...
Although newborn, Prato’s Centro Pecci is making its voice heard with a calendar of collateral events spanning from cinema, movies, performances and, last but not least, music. On Sunday ...
Struggling with the billowing undercurrents of a life-threatening illness, at the beginning of the 2000s British scholar and contemporary musician Stephen Davismoon found shelter in the waters of Tuscany’s Arno. ...
The Florentine’s flood issue is throbbing with history and drama, and although there are raging waters ahead, where there’s disaster often lies poetry. Dance as the water and words envelop your ankles ...
While “polls” wreak havoc overseas, here in Italy people have started dancing around them or, at least, their homophonous counterpart. Yes, pole dancing has become a widespread craze all over ...
Royal ranks might be wasted on rock, but we can do no other than give PJ Harvey what is PJ Harvey’s and recognize her unwavering role in indie’s ruling class. ...
As Tuscan vineyards glow in the last rays of the summer sun, weighed down with grapes, Florence is crawling with the juicy promise of emerging talent, bright debuts and young ...
A change in local law means that it is much easier for street musicians to perform in the city of Florence.
Choosing the right dance floor can become quite an ordeal when surveying an unknown club scene. Here at The Florentine we believe that sore feet are proof of a night ...
Evoking the mystical power of sound, the Bard once said, “If music be the food of love, play on.” As summer festival season approaches, it’s time to up the ante ...
I have often dabbled with the concept of our city’s “electronic renaissance” on The Florentine’s pages and apparently I’m not the only one to have sensed its potential. In June ...
This year Austin-based music festival South By Southwest witnessed an unprecedented Italian invasion. Among the talented flag bearers of the green-white-red indie scene, I was particularly drawn to Birthh, aka ...
The Oltrarno, buzzing core of Florence’s artsy riverside, has its very own record label and you can find them today inside Stibbert Museum’s Limonaia, where an outdoor marketplace will be ...
