Valentina Gambaro
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The new documentary on Syd Barrett’s life and career, the Pink Floyd’s “crazy diamond”, is expected to be released by the end of 2015, but it may be distributed in theatres or in home video at the end of this summer. View image | gettyimages.com Passed away on 7th July 2006 after living
A few days ago Antony Hegarty, the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons, participated in the Dark Mofo Festival, a music festival taking place in Tasmania. She sang her hits on the Odeon theatre’s stage in Hobart for an hour without saying a word. But when she got back to the stage for an
Every day, subway is used by billions of people. People have pretty controversial opinions on such mean of public transport. They are useful, but often they are also too alienating and during peak hours they can be a real mess. James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem stated his point of view about New York subway very clearly:
Author, journalist but also musician, Yuval Ben-Ami was born in Jerusalem. He writes for a number of Jewish cultural magazines and has published some popular books about his birthplace. He likes classical music, Schubert in particular. But since he listened to New Zealand singer Lorde’s first album, he has developed a true obsession for her. He said
Starting in June 2015, the largest digital music store will also features online streaming thanks to Apple Music, the new Apple music application.
Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan girl aged eighteen. Now, she lives in the United States and she attends the Wasatch Arts Center, dreaming to become a lawyer. But, throughout her life, Sonita has moved a lot. Her family fled Afghanistan when she was 8 years old because of war and it moved to Tehran, the capital of
Cateura is a little village on the outskirts of Asunción, in Paraguay. It is known for being the landfill of the whole country, as it is literally sitting on a huge mountain of… waste. Cateura is considered to be one of the poorest areas of Latin America, a neighbourhood where people live with tons of rubbish, get information
Quoted Studios is a New York nonprofit organisation working in research and recovery and conservations projects of famous interviews belonging to the American cultural history. What is peculiar is that the news and recordings employed are sometimes unpublished and they are recovered several years later, buried in radio or TV broadcasters archives, forgotten in some journalists’
Scientific communication has been extensively debated. Sometimes problems arise, as it is not always easy to talk about technical topics in a simple and accurate way, without generalising. Climate change is one of these topics. Accurate dissemination of scientific knowledge on that topic, using graphs to compare information, is often too technical and complex to be employed.
Mr Quintron has been described several times as one of the craziest and most over the top personality of New Orleans underground scene. He has always been attracted by odd sounds and to an all-encompassing music deconstruction, was an organ antique dealer and enjoys self-producing and assembling new extraordinary and eccentric musical instruments. Mr Quintron is so
