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Here is a mix of recently released romantic Tuscan tunes to help indie-serenade your loved one.
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 ...
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 ...
#PISAPUM Factory FestivalDecember 7–10 Do Dostoyevsky proud: shake up the holiday season with a visit “underground.” Pisa Underground Movement Factory hosts four days of art exhibitions, workshops, performances, live music ...
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 ...
Opera tenor Andrea Bocelli is a global superstar who today would rank high up in any list of famous living Italians. As classical music’s top-selling artist, with over 80 million ...
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 ...
It was early 2010 when I first heard this poetically melancholic name: Farewell to Hearth and Home. At the time, I was organizing a series of lo-fi folk concerts and ...
Besides its unique look and unmistakable beauty, what is it about Florence that stimulates our senses and intellect and captures our hearts like nowhere else? That is the question that ...
Duke Ellington once said that jazz is a good barometer of freedom. Over the years, the genre has spread its wings over Florence, breathing life into a new generation of ...
Simon Batten’s stirring folk-tinged voice and dreamy melodies have made their way through our hearts and onto our pages. Three years after his debut album ‘Unsettled Weather’, the Oxford-born ...
Andrea Mangia aka Populous is a musical mystery. Looming over the international scene as a luminescent Italian beacon, he’s a pioneer when it comes to exporting more than la bella ...
Weinberg performing at the Cortona Mix Festival “The screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways, Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays…” I’ve written ...
Having been a Counting Crows fan since 1993, I was thrilled last November when I finally got to see them live in Italy. The Californian band played a two-hour concert in Padua to a sea of adoring Italian fans (plus a couple of Americans). Between songs, lead singer Adam
