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Outtake from the film "Il suono di un'isola" by Uliano Paolozzi Balestrini. Editing: Francesca...
From the opening bars of "Suction Prints", we knew we had entered The World of Captain Beefheart...
If you are a fan of the "Commissario Montalbano" (Inspector Montalbano) films made for Italian...
Roman singer Lita, now in Los Angeles, reconnects with her roots on her new single, "Bionda". Lita...
New Orleans music is renowned for its piano players. Jelly Roll Morton, Isidore "Tuts" Washington,...
Rejoice, the vibrant new album by Nigerian drummer Tony Allen and the late South African...
Man I got a right To talk about what I see Way too much is going wrong Right in front of me These...
In July 2000, my partner Rob and I spent several weeks in Italy, beginning in Rome. We came to the...
"Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi", the first literary anthology by black Italian...
Other There are enough books about the Rolling Stones to constitute an entire publishing category:...
In her new book, author Stephanie Malia Hom argues that Italy’s response to today’s migrant crisis...
After a decade away, the acclaimed Sicilian singer-songwriter brings her "Eco di Sirene" tour to...
Other In today's world of identity politics, with its alphabet soup acronyms that mix gender and...
"Pops is in the house!" exclaimed Shannon Powell during his evening set at Satchmo Summerfest....
Fame came late to Andrea Camilleri, the Sicilian author who died 17 July in Rome at the age of 93....
Other In Which Side Are You On?: 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs, James Sullivan...
Blues is a genre with many stylistic offshoots – Mississippi Delta, Chicago, Texas, Memphis, Hill...
On "Monkey Man", from the Rolling Stones' 1969 album Let It Bleed, Mick Jagger offered a mission...
Canzoniere, the fourth album the band has made under the leadership of violinist, percussionist,...
"All the people who emigrated to New Orleans at the beginning of the 1900s brought something that,...