#alternative italian indie band

[k1r1i1s1t1e1l]

Perché la cecità è una via per immolare la realtà.

[ffi-stuff-xcept-its-memes]

okie who do u think ......... in all of the ffi teams would secretly listen to overly cutesy kpop songs....... think about ur answer well🐹🎤

Ohhh, nice question!!

To be fair, I'm not really an expert on Kpop (I like a lot of songs and bands, but I'm not super up to date with new bands and lore about the idols), so I apologize if something is off 😔

🇰🇷 To be honest, I think that the main cutesy K-pop song listeners would probably be Noh Sung-joon and Aphrodi 🪽 from the South Korean team. But neither is exactly discreet about it...

In Sung-joon's description, it's stated that he'd love to fly all over the world as a Hallyu star 🌟 in the future. His favourite K-pop idols would probably be Jin from the BTS or maybe Jisung from NCT Dream.

Nagumo 🔥 would probably be secretly a hard-die fan of a lot of bands (especially TWICE, Blackpink, and Weeekly), but if asked about it, he would deny everything. Suzuno and Aphrodi would definitely make fun of him for that, lol 😂.

Choi Chang-soo, the captain, is not super into K-pop, but he likes to listen to a few bands, particularly Red Velvet and Exo.

🇺🇸 I'd like to think that Dylan from Unicorn knows a lot of songs, but I feel like he's more on the chaotic side of K-pop rather than the cute one. Mark doesn't necessarily dislike the kind of music Dylan listens to, but after hearing the same song on repeat for the 15th time, anyone would go 🤪.

🇬🇧 Edgar would be hesitant at first, but eventually, he would turn out to like a few songs (he still thinks English music is better, though).

🇦🇷 Teres would refuse because 🙄 😤 God forbid that man to listen to anything else other than reggaeton and old tango songs his abuelo recommended.

🇩🇪 Jonas mainly listens to techno and alternative indie music, but Dylan would annoy him so much that he'd have to give up and accept to give K-pop a try, and to his surprise, he likes quite a few songs.

🇪🇸 Now, Querardo is similar to Teres when it comes to music taste. He likes a lot of Spanish 💃 and Latino artists, but sadly, he's not too keen on K-pop and foreign music.

🇧🇷 Mack likes all kinds of music, from classical to hard-core dubstep. He likes K-pop as well and follows a few idols on his socials.

🇶🇦 Bilal listens to a lot of K-pop, even though the rest of his team doesn't understand the appeal. He especially likes songs that have Middle Eastern influences in the instrumental.

🇮🇹 Fideo has listened to K-pop music before (thanks to Marco and Angelo), and even though he enjoyed the songs and the bands he was presented with, he kinda forgot about its existence. He still has the songs in his playlist, but he listens to local Italian hits more than everything else.

I'm unsure about the rest of the FII teams and players; maybe Shine and Quincy from Oz 🇦🇺 and Abari from South Africa 🇿🇦 would enjoy K-pop, too.

What about you, anon? Who were you thinking about? 🤔

[thatcreepydoll]

intro post (?)

yea so i forgot these existed. a lot of my basic info is up by my pfp but i guess ill make a post

hi my name is buttons, i’m a she/her and i like boys (specifically jack merridew but shhhh). i’m just some angsty emo teen and i love being cringe. i am an *AUTISTIC MINOR* so please have some grace (and common sense/decency)

i am a pentecostal christian so you will see me post stuff abt christianity on here. i don’t condone hate of any kind tho, wether it be towards me, my religion/beliefs, other religions/beliefs, hate towards others, making fun of others or anything like that. DNI if ur gonna be like that dawg

i am a ballet/hip hop dancer. i’ve been dancing for 10 years (being ballet, 5 years being hip hop and some other styles in the mix). i’m also a theatre kid so i’m all about being over the top (sometimes). i make art and do writing. i dream of becoming an author one day.

i have a cat named anthrax. full name bacillus anthracis simon toe biter bigback swingin space age bachelor man*insert my last name*. you will see him a lot.

i’m a neurodivergent INTP who unfortunately suffers from tourettes/depression/anxiety/depersonalization disorder :( but bro we’re gonna pull thru ok 🦅🦅

i’m a big heavy metal/alternative/hard rock/indie fan. my favorite bands/musicians include shinedown, metallica, system of a down, jazmin bean, my chemical romance, aerosmith, and linkin park. i also love theatre music obviously.

current hyper fixations!! yayyyy! main interests get a ‼️ side interests get a ❗️

•lord of the flies ‼️

•IdentityV ‼️

•genshin impact ‼️

•fnaf ‼️

•spiderman ❗️

•luca ‼️

•bluey ❗️

•mha ❗️

•ride the cyclone ‼️

•hamilton ‼️

•the lorax ❗️

• coraline ❗️

uhhh i tend to use a lot of slang so bear with me plz. i like frogs bats rats and cats. fav color is red. i’m learning italian and um yea.

[existential-life-crisis]

☆ Get to know me :) (updated)☆

Hi! A bit of info to start with: I'm a minor; a lesbian; and a cis girl (she/her).

Ethnicity and language

I live in England and currently only speak English fluently however I am currently studying both French and German! (German is definitely my favourite of the 2)

Subjects and Interests

My favourite subjects are Maths and Classical Civilisation but I enjoy most subjects. (Lessons can still suck tho bc dam some teachers can be boring)

I enjoy drawing, playing games, reading (books and fics), listening to music and watching youtube.

Video games

I have a few favourite games at the minute:

• Hades

• Horizon: Zero Dawn and Forbidden West

• Genshin Impact

Finished games I still love:

• Astro Bot (its a vr game abt a little robot)

• Spiderman PS4

• Spiderman PS5 Miles Morales

• Portal 1 and 2 ♡♡♡

I am also 100% a completionist so if I finish a game I probably have 100% on it.

Reading

My fav books are everything Rick Riordan but i plan to read some other stuff as well soon.

My fav characters from the main series are Nico, Leo, Frank and Lester/Apollo but I do love pretty much all of the main cast. I haven't read Magnus Chase or Kane Chronicles since I was a kid so I'm gonna reread those before deciding favourites but I think they were Alex and Carter. Also, in love with all of the side characters even if they are 90% hc.

My fav canon ships/friendships are

• solangelo (Will x Nico)

• percabeth (Percy x Annabeth)

• frazel (Frank x Hazel) (But I do hc that either Frank was younger or Hazel was older bc the age gap was a bit strange in canon, being 13 and 16. Its a bit inconsistent , as all ages are in PJO, but if time works normally Hazel should be 14 and therefore definitely older than Nico too but thats a topic for another time)

• shelper (or shipper as I like to call them) (Shel x Piper)

• Lost trio (platonic)

• PJO trio (platonic) (Grover my baby, why must they always forget you)

• Lester and Meg (I dont think i have to say this but platonic) (please say I don't have to say that. No one ships that right)

• Reyna and Thalia (platonic) (omg let aroace characters exist in peace) (no hate if u ship it but my gods)

Fanon ships/friendships

• Valgrace (Leo x Jason) (but aroace Leo is still amazing)

• Pollen (Apollo x Darren) (Is this entirely about Dear Reader by wrongcaitlyn? Yes. Do I care? Nope. Am I insanly invested in their relationship? Oh absolutely.)

• Nico and Leo (platonic) (This had no reason to not be canon and had every reason to be and I will never forgive Rick for this until he fixes it)

• Frank and Leo (platonic) (I swear every book they would fix their relationship and then as soonas the next one starts they would hate each other again)

• Nico and evey side character ever (platonic) (especially year round campers) (bc hes genuinely just a nice guy)

• Will and Clarrise (platonic) (this is kinda canon but all we really know is that he can calm her down)

Feel free to ask for fic recs if u want them.

Music

My fav music artist is 'Grandson'. (He writes rock/alternative/indie/rap (?) music often about political/social/personal issues.)

But I listen to tons of other kinds of music too from metal to pop to instrumentals by a ton of different artists:

• Måneskin (italian rock band)

• Polyphia (instumental, primarily guitar, math rock)

• Chappell Roan (yk who that is)

• Chase Atlantic (u have probably heard at least 1 of their songs, pop/alternative/indie/r&b)

• Dutch Melrose (alternative/indie/pop)

• Mother Mother (yk who that is right?)

• Eminem (right?)

• MSI (punk/alternative/rock)

And a whole lot more

I also play guitar (acoustic and electic).

TV

Loveeee Spiderman: Into and Across the spider verse.

My fav characters are Miles, Hobie, Pavitr, Spidernoir and Gwen but I love all of them.

Shows:

• Avatar the Last Airbender

• The Legend of Korra

• Batman: the animated series

• Voltron :)

Beliefs

Im an atheist but I support people of all religions. I support Palestine. I am left liberal (again I'm British so keep that in mind, I know nothing abt US politics besides the basic/well known stuff). I believe in equal rights for all groups and am open to other ideas and perspectives.

If you cant respect that then please get of my page. You don't have to agree with me but you do have to respect me and others.

Thats all for now.

Byeee ♡♡♡

[parkerbombshell]

Addictions and Other Vices 932 – Colour Me Friday

Addictions and Other Vices Fridays 3pm-6pm EST Repeats Saturday 3pm EST and Sunday 8am EST  bombshellradio.com #NowPlaying #indie #rock #alternative #Synthpop #indierock #community #radio #BombshellRadio #DJ #AddictionsPodcast #NewMusic #ColourMeFriday #Radio247 New Indie finds, previews of Just Another Menace Sunday artists coming up this weekend into next week ala Dennis The Menace, and Alex Green of Stereo Embers The Podcast and Sandy Kaye of A Breath of Fresh Air. Discoveries from our social media followers and a few more surprises. Thanks to all the artists, labels and PR companies that submitted tracks this week. Fix Mix 932 #Rock #Alternative #Pop #Singer & Songwriter #Indie Rock 1. July - Betcha 2. Italian Horror - Kasabian 3. Ever Seen - beabadoobee 4. Sha La La - Winnetka Bowling League 5. Kangaroo - Winnetka Bowling League 6. Good Times - Elephant Kind 7. Drifted - Half Mile Beach Club 8. Cold Caller - Honeyglaze 9. kms - Los Campesinos! 10. Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & The Shondells 11. Draggin' the Line - Tommy James 12. The Things We Do For Love - 10cc 13. Hurt - OneRepublic 14. This Is The Sound Of Your Voice - Snow Patrol 15. Hollow Crown feat. Mark Gardener - A Shoreline Dream 16. Everything Turns feat. Mark Gardener - A Shoreline Dream 17. That's Exactly What Love Is - The Coronas, Gabrielle Aplin 18. Radio - Lana Del Ray 19. So Confused - The Peachskins 20. Team - Lorde 21. Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles 22. Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi 23. Sex, Drugs, Etc. - Beach Weather   Friday July 19 Rainbow Country ON EPISODE 414: HR 1 - Gay Porn Star #DallasSteele Joins me to talk about the ever evolving ADULT entertainment industry. We also chat about his intersection between Porn, Religion & Homosexuality. PLUS We find out about his AMAZING story that involves, A HANGER, A TIE & 2 BUSHES! 🌈 HR 2 # Just Another Menace Sunday Hour 1: A Conversation from The Troubadour and a Musical Sandwich with Winnetka Bowling League! Hour 2: New Melodic Rock 'n Roll A Breath of Fresh Air Tommy James is a seminal figure in rock and pop music, best known as the frontman of Tommy James and the Shondells. His journey from a small-town boy in Niles, Michigan, to a rock and pop icon is a story of talent, innovation, and resilience. Sunday July 20 Stereo Embers The Podcast: Formed in Barnum, Colorado in the early oughts by pals Ryan Policky and Erik Jeffries, A Shoreline Dream wasted no time in establishing themselves as a band to be reckoned with. Just Another Menace Sunday w/ TBA Tuesday  July 22 A Breath of Fresh Air  w / TBA Wednesday July 23 Just Another Menace Sunday w/  TBA Thursday July 24 Stereo Embers The Podcast w /  TBA Read the full article

[ashleythinksaboutmusic]

I’ve done a Vampire Weekend binge today, including japan bonus tracks/b-sides, non-album songs and live EPs.

The debut and Contra are a nice pair of indie rock albums, debut laying out the sound and Contra expanding on that sound.

I forgot how much I love Modern Vampires of the City. So much more cohesive than the first two. Even though I like the songwriting and production on those first albums, Modern Vampires really hits different, in a way that appeals to me so much more. I think the darker cover art and sound makes me forget about it more, which I shouldn’t be doing.

Father of the Bride is like the phoenix rising up out of the ashes, bigger and brighter. A true classic style sprawling double album, like The Beatles’ White Album, or Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, it is incredibly well paced, a lot better paced than most near-hour long albums. Compared to most longer albums, it keeps me engaged the whole time, and feels like I’ve taken a journey, not just listened to 18 songs in a row.. I just love how eclectic and jammy it is, it really takes all the stuff I like from the last album and adds colour and expands upon it.

Gonna quickly go over the EPs and singles and stuff:

- Japanese edition bonus tracks: My thoughts on them as a whole is that they all make very good little addendums to each album. Their cover of Mickey Newbury’s “I Don’t Think Much About Her No More” from Father of the Bride is especially a standout track to me.

- “Jonathan Low”: Not much to say. It’s good, but nothing special. I wonder how it ended up on the Twilight Eclipse Soundtrack.

- “Con te partirò”: A beautiful sounding cover, I feel the love coming from it. I have no idea how good the Italian pronunciation is, and maybe that’s for the best.

- Spotify Singles: A very nice stripped (mostly) piano version of “This Life”, and a version of “I’m Goin’ Down” that I like more than the version from the iTunes Session.

- 40:42: The Sam Gendel version is neat and atmospheric, not much else to say about it. The Goose version is amazing, a full jam band version as it was always meant to be.

- The MySpace Transmissions: a fine little live session. Nothing too special aside from the occasional live strings, and the fact that it completes my library having a live EP from each era.

- iTunes Session: A really great session. All the songs are performed very cleanly, and the horn arrangements really work with the songs they chose. The covers are fine, the alternate arrangement of “Holiday” is fun.

- Spotify Sessions: Weird that it’s labeled as a “session”, even though it’s performances from the 2014 Bonnaroo Festival. Performance is good, nothing outstanding, but good to have.

- Live in Florida: I really like the current jam band version of the band, so I LOVE this EP, especially since it has the extended versions of “Sunflower” and “2021”. A rare moment where a band actually has extended versions of their really good really short songs, and they release a recording of them. The version of “A-Punk” with the guy from the crowd is super super fun too.

I also find it funny/neat that each era has a live EP exclusive to a different streaming service each time.

[pulsdmedia]

The Week Ahead 10/15-10/21

Fall is crisp, it's fresh, it's full of opportunities to indulge. Before things get spooky, get cozy with endless eats, boozy revelry, and then some, so get to sipping & savoring all autumn long!

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Taste Top-Notch, American-Made Wines at Astor Wines

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$49 Oktoberfest: 3 Hrs Of Unlimited Beers, Live Music, Great Eats

Get your lederhosen ready, and come thirsty, as the 10th Annual Black Forest Fort Greene Oktoberfest Celebration begins for another fall of fun, flavor, and festive feels! Enjoy 3 Hours of Endless Traditional Oktoberfest Beers, Music From A Live Traditional German Oompah Band, Scrumptious Eats (for purchase), Fun Contests, Prizes, and joyous vibes! Drink in excess, revel endlessly, and consider this the best way to spend your fall weekends...

Made in American Photography Book Event

Join the Strand Bookstore for an in-person event with architectural and industrial photographer Christopher Payne, for a discussion of his new photography book Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne. Joining Christopher in conversation is New York Times Magazine Director of Photography Kathy Ryan!

$75 Ticket To The 2023 Harvest Food & Wine Festival

As the leaves begin to change and temperatures cool, savor the coziest time of year with an autumnal celebration. Join Eataly Downtown for their annual Harvest Food & Wine Festival! Grab your $75 All Access Ticket to set off on a delicious culinary journey through the Italian harvest traditions. Within Eataly's sprawling space, you'll enjoy Wine Tastings From a Selection Wines selected by Eataly's sommeliers, a lineup of Specialty Cocktails to enjoy throughout the evening, and a feast of magnificent Italian Cuisine...

An Intimate Performance with Margaret Glaspy & Bridget Kearney

Margaret Glaspy is a super talented, New York City based singer and songwriter performing alternative and indie tunes. Bridget Kearney compliments perfectly, also being an American singer and songwriter, though playing smooth jazz. You don't want to miss out on seeing these talented artists!

[zot3-flopped]

Agree that AFHF is just a vanity project. Proper festivals have alternative options, not just a succession of acts that the headliner likes. If Louis was really serious about giving new bands a chance he'd have invited local Italian bands to play as well. As it is, we know why he's brought along British indie bands like the Lathums and Blossoms: he wants to attract their core audience of 18-35-year-old men.

He's been trying to attract that audience since 2019, with zero luck!

Real festivals also have bands appearing all afternoon as well as in the evening.

[memorableconcerts]

Primal Scream - "Silent Spring" - Live 1988

Primal Scream are a Scottish rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie. The band's current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes (guitar), Simone Butler (bass), and Darrin Mooney (drums). Barrie Cadogan has toured and recorded with the band since 2006 as a replacement after the departure of guitarist Robert "Throb" Young.

Primal Scream had been performing live from 1982 to 1984, but their career did not take off until Gillespie left his position as drummer of The Jesus and Mary Chain. The band were a key part of the mid-1980s indie pop scene, but eventually moved away from their jangly sound, taking on more psychedelic and garage rock influences, before incorporating a dance music element to their sound with their 1991 album Screamadelica, which broke them into the mainstream. The band have continued to explore different styles on subsequent albums, experimenting with blues, trip hop and industrial rock. Their most recent album, Chaosmosis, was released on 18 March 2016.

 Sonic Flower Groove and Primal Scream (1984–1989)

Their first recording session, for McGee's independent label Essential Records, produced a single track entitled "The Orchard", with Judith Boyle on vocals. Beattie later claimed that they burned the master tape. After the aborted recording, Gillespie joined The Jesus and Mary Chain as their drummer, and alternated between the two bands. While The Jesus and Mary Chain became notorious for their chaotic gigs, Gillespie and Beattie expanded Primal Scream's lineup to include schoolfriend Young on bass, rhythm guitarist Stuart May, drummer Tom McGurk, and tambourine player Martin St. John. This lineup was signed to Creation Records, an independent record label founded by Alan McGee, and recorded the group's debut single, "All Fall Down", which received positive reviews.

The band were first introduced to the acid house scene by McGee in 1988. They were at first sceptical; Gillespie said: "I always remember being quite fascinated by it but not quite getting it." The band developed a taste for it and began attending raves. The band met up with DJ Andrew Weatherall at a rave, and he was given a copy of "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have", a track from Primal Scream, to remix for one of his shows. Weatherall added a drum loop from an Italian bootleg mix of Edie Brickell's "What I Am", a sample of Gillespie singing a line from Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues" and the central introductory sample from the Peter FondaB-movieThe Wild Angels. The resulting track, "Loaded", became the band's first major hit, reaching number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. This was followed by another single, "Come Together", which reached number 26.

[chrisryanspeaks]

SEE: Catchy Indie Pop | Moon Blue - All I Know (Is That)

Moon Blue aka George Appleton is a Bournemouth-born musician that has spent time living and loving in Bologna. He recent released single “All I know (Is That)”, which is a soft indie pop single that instantly entrances the listener with it’s captivating and relatable lyrics and hypotonic sound. Take a listen below: Feels: soft, cashmere Sounds: like beach fossils, toro y moi About Moon Blue: Love might be the most documented concept of them all, but as long as new people are falling in and out of it, finding fresh ways to bend the emotion to their own story, it’s something that will never fail to provoke new and interesting art. For Moon Blue - the musical alias of George Appleton - love is at the centre of everything the project has become about. The breakdown of a relationship was the catalyst for the Bournemouth-born musician to first pick up the pen as a solo artist following a series of stints in bands; now, living in Bologna and entirely loved-up once more, it’s his current romance that’s become the primary muse for his forthcoming debut EP, ‘The Moonlight Disco’. “Love is subjective, so if you’re writing from a point of sincerity then there’s always going to be a unique element to it,” says Appleton. “I was just writing in earnest for this person, for her. This is the first time I’ve written objective love songs in the present.” Trained as a jazz drummer and a self-taught guitarist, until recently Appleton had always been a cog in part of a bigger band machine. “I’d always wanted a solo project because I’d always played in bands where I was the drummer, or I was singing and playing guitar but still compromising with other people,” he explains. “But writing music has been a constant throughout my life. It’s just company really, and it’s something I find rewarding even if I have no intention of releasing the song into the world.” Moon Blue’s first output firmly fell into this category at the start, too. Having moved into a “pretty depressing” studio apartment by the sea during the pandemic following the dissolution of a five-year relationship, Appleton would spend his days writing purely to purge the emotions; in the evening, he would walk along the beach and listen back to what he’d come up with. “It was directly about that one thing and that one moment in time,” he explains, “but it helped me gain confidence in constructing everything without compromise, and it was vindicating to know it all came from me.” Urged to release the tracks by his friends, eventually Appleton gave in and put one song, 2021’s ‘Beneath The Moon’, online. An instant earworm of sugary, nocturnal funk-pop, it began to pick up attention from the likes of Amazing Radio and influential Youtuber David Dean Burkhart. “Since then it hasn’t really slowed down, it’s just been quite consistent, like when you push a snowball down the hill and it just fuels itself,” he says. With an adventurous musical library that draws on everything from Yellow Magic Orchestra and Japanese pop luminary Hiroshi Sato, through to classical Italian music via more contemporary indie such as Men I Trust (“My friends call me Lame Impala, which initially pissed me off but now I think it’s funny…” Appleton laughs), it would, however, take another major life change to spur on Moon Blue’s next material. Fed up with the ongoing fallout of Brexit, Appleton decided to move to Italy for three months before heading to Japan. The first part of the plan happened, but then he fell in love. Faced with having to temporarily return to the UK due to visa reasons before he could return to Bologna, he started writing the songs that would become his debut EP: a collection of heart-on-sleeve alternative pop nuggets that ring with the warmth of both Italy itself and new romance. Conjuring up the evocative sense of moonlit night dreaming, ‘The Moonlight Disco’ (set for release via 777 Music, home of Boy Pablo) comprises six tracks that drill down to the heart of the project. Forthcoming single ‘All I Know (Is That)’ details “the feeling of being in a precarious situation whilst knowing the certainty that I had around it” via lilting guitars and soft, woozy falsetto; on the flip side, ‘Blossom Through My Window’ spans nearly six minutes and marks the most sonically adventurous track Moon Blue has penned to date. “Lyrically and structurally, it’s sparser and there’s more space for the vocals to sit - more harmonies and more layering and a lot dreamier,” Appleton explains. “It was earnest and sincere and it felt accurate.” ‘Beneath The Moon’ gets a long-overdue full release, while ‘Woke Up Thinking Of You’ showcases a different side to Appleton’s writing - creafted in tribute to his grandfather who’d recently passed away. The line “I wake up seeing your name on my arm” directly corresponds to a tattoo of his signature that the musician has inked on his own body. Throughout the EP, meanwhile, Appleton’s falsetto rings clearly, his vocal range lifting the songs and adding an integral sense of intimacy and tenderness. It’s an immersive introduction to an artist who understands that, somewhere between the intensely personal and the openly universal, lies magic. Having initially shied away from putting his music online, Moon Blue is finally embracing the musical prospects that love seems to have inadvertently thrown him. Read the full article

[audiofuzz]

SEE: Catchy Indie Pop | Moon Blue - All I Know (Is That)

Moon Blue aka George Appleton is a Bournemouth-born musician that has spent time living and loving in Bologna. He recent released single “All I know (Is That)”, which is a soft indie pop single that instantly entrances the listener with it’s captivating and relatable lyrics and hypotonic sound. Take a listen below: Feels: soft, cashmere Sounds: like beach fossils, toro y moi About Moon Blue: Love might be the most documented concept of them all, but as long as new people are falling in and out of it, finding fresh ways to bend the emotion to their own story, it’s something that will never fail to provoke new and interesting art. For Moon Blue - the musical alias of George Appleton - love is at the centre of everything the project has become about. The breakdown of a relationship was the catalyst for the Bournemouth-born musician to first pick up the pen as a solo artist following a series of stints in bands; now, living in Bologna and entirely loved-up once more, it’s his current romance that’s become the primary muse for his forthcoming debut EP, ‘The Moonlight Disco’. “Love is subjective, so if you’re writing from a point of sincerity then there’s always going to be a unique element to it,” says Appleton. “I was just writing in earnest for this person, for her. This is the first time I’ve written objective love songs in the present.” Trained as a jazz drummer and a self-taught guitarist, until recently Appleton had always been a cog in part of a bigger band machine. “I’d always wanted a solo project because I’d always played in bands where I was the drummer, or I was singing and playing guitar but still compromising with other people,” he explains. “But writing music has been a constant throughout my life. It’s just company really, and it’s something I find rewarding even if I have no intention of releasing the song into the world.” Moon Blue’s first output firmly fell into this category at the start, too. Having moved into a “pretty depressing” studio apartment by the sea during the pandemic following the dissolution of a five-year relationship, Appleton would spend his days writing purely to purge the emotions; in the evening, he would walk along the beach and listen back to what he’d come up with. “It was directly about that one thing and that one moment in time,” he explains, “but it helped me gain confidence in constructing everything without compromise, and it was vindicating to know it all came from me.” Urged to release the tracks by his friends, eventually Appleton gave in and put one song, 2021’s ‘Beneath The Moon’, online. An instant earworm of sugary, nocturnal funk-pop, it began to pick up attention from the likes of Amazing Radio and influential Youtuber David Dean Burkhart. “Since then it hasn’t really slowed down, it’s just been quite consistent, like when you push a snowball down the hill and it just fuels itself,” he says. With an adventurous musical library that draws on everything from Yellow Magic Orchestra and Japanese pop luminary Hiroshi Sato, through to classical Italian music via more contemporary indie such as Men I Trust (“My friends call me Lame Impala, which initially pissed me off but now I think it’s funny…” Appleton laughs), it would, however, take another major life change to spur on Moon Blue’s next material. Fed up with the ongoing fallout of Brexit, Appleton decided to move to Italy for three months before heading to Japan. The first part of the plan happened, but then he fell in love. Faced with having to temporarily return to the UK due to visa reasons before he could return to Bologna, he started writing the songs that would become his debut EP: a collection of heart-on-sleeve alternative pop nuggets that ring with the warmth of both Italy itself and new romance. Conjuring up the evocative sense of moonlit night dreaming, ‘The Moonlight Disco’ (set for release via 777 Music, home of Boy Pablo) comprises six tracks that drill down to the heart of the project. Forthcoming single ‘All I Know (Is That)’ details “the feeling of being in a precarious situation whilst knowing the certainty that I had around it” via lilting guitars and soft, woozy falsetto; on the flip side, ‘Blossom Through My Window’ spans nearly six minutes and marks the most sonically adventurous track Moon Blue has penned to date. “Lyrically and structurally, it’s sparser and there’s more space for the vocals to sit - more harmonies and more layering and a lot dreamier,” Appleton explains. “It was earnest and sincere and it felt accurate.” ‘Beneath The Moon’ gets a long-overdue full release, while ‘Woke Up Thinking Of You’ showcases a different side to Appleton’s writing - creafted in tribute to his grandfather who’d recently passed away. The line “I wake up seeing your name on my arm” directly corresponds to a tattoo of his signature that the musician has inked on his own body. Throughout the EP, meanwhile, Appleton’s falsetto rings clearly, his vocal range lifting the songs and adding an integral sense of intimacy and tenderness. It’s an immersive introduction to an artist who understands that, somewhere between the intensely personal and the openly universal, lies magic. Having initially shied away from putting his music online, Moon Blue is finally embracing the musical prospects that love seems to have inadvertently thrown him. Read the full article

[lamilanomagazine]

Modena: Alla Tenda Marzo inizia nel segno della musica e del teatro

Modena: Alla Tenda Marzo inizia nel segno della musica e del teatro. La Tenda vi aspetta con una settimana all’insegna della musica, suonata e “raccontata”, con improvvisazione teatrale in questi primi giorni di marzo: quattro appuntamenti della rassegna culturale inserita nell’ambito delle attività proposte dall’assessorato alle Politiche giovanili del Comune di Modena. Le iniziative sono a ingresso gratuito e iniziano tutte alle 21. Giovedì 2 ci sarà la terza e ultima serata di “Cantautori su Marte. Incontri senza gravità sulla canzone d’autore”, la kermesse promossa dal Centro Musica di Modena che propone un format fatto di incontri di parole e note per approfondire i temi, appunto, della canzone d’autore e delle nuove frontiere rappresentate dal digitale. Ospite dell’evento è Whitemary, nome d’arte di Biancamaria Scoccia, una delle principali interpreti italiane di musica elettronica, intervistata da Francesco Locane. Musica rock dal vivo nel weekend con due concerti di band locali curati dall’associazione Intendiamoci. Venerdì 3 salgono sul palco le artiste della formazione tutta al femminile Pandorea per presentare il nuovo ep “Bed Of Thorns”: cinque brani socialmente impegnati che spaziano dal diritto all’autodeterminazione alla difesa dei diritti dell’identità di genere fino alla sensibilizzazione sul tema della crisi climatica. Ad accompagnare le artiste sul palco, in apertura, i gruppi Hellfox e Refuse to lose. Sabato 4 ci sarà una serata in collaborazione con Revol Wave orchestra, collettivo di musicisti nato a Modena e attivo da oltre un biennio sul territorio locale. “La grande festa” è il titolo dell’evento che porta nella sala di viale Monte Kosica tre delle formazioni principali che fanno parte del collettivo: Sharasad, Mixotri e The Nihilists. La storia degli Sharasad, nati nel 2019, ha inizio in una piccola sala prove in cui, da un’idea di Lorenzo Balestrazzi e Lorenzo Corcione (chitarre), Gabriele Campioli (voce), Edoardo Cavalletti (basso) e Filippo Ferrari (batteria), nasce la curiosità e la volontà di scrivere e arrangiare brani inediti in grado di unire le diverse influenze rock, stoner, indie e british dei membri. I Mixotri sono un gruppo musicale alternative rock italiano nato nella primavera del 2018 a Modena grazie a Enrico Mercati (voce) e Riccardo Palmieri (chitarra); l’anno successivo esordiscono con “Prospettive dall’oblio”, album autoprodotto, anticipato dal singolo “Mentre la città brucia”. Dopo tre anni, nel 2022 esce il singolo “Sai”: la canzone sancisce ufficialmente il ritorno alle scene della band che ora include anche Francesco Bertoni (chitarra), Andrea Barbari (batteria) e Alessandro Bottura (basso). Ad aprire la serata sono, invece, i The Nihilists, progetto sempre modenese che mixa cantautorato, introspezione e prog psichedelico, accompagnando l’ascoltatore in un viaggio che mette a confronto con le emozioni e pone in una lunga introspezione senza misure dell’ego. Infine, domenica 5 spazio al teatro, con lo spettacolo di improvvisazione “Pari o dispari – Uno spettacolo per metterci in pari…opportunità”, curato da Improgramelot e dedicato alle tematiche delle pari opportunità. Il calendario completo di tutte le iniziative e le modalità di prenotazione sono consultabili sui canali social e sul sito web de La Tenda all’indirizzo http://www.comune.modena.it/latenda. Per informazioni: mail latenda@comune.modena.it, telefono 059 2034810.  ... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[psychodollyuniverse]

Baustelle - L’Amore e la Violenza vol.1 & 2

[bellheadband]

Thanks to Italian website Paranoid Park for reviewing BELLHEAD forthcoming EP ‘Dead Lights’ out 7/16 both physical and digital preorders shipping now https://bellhead.bandcamp.com/album/dead-lights

[sayitalianohome]

Italian music pt.2

Lists/Masterposts / Songs games

List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 | List 5 | List 6

#30dayssongchallenge | #a letter for 5 songs

#♪ Game (Song + lyrics) |  ∞ Game (ITA song + lyrics) 

Tag game list | 10 songs | #songs recs game

Your list1 | Xmas

Musica tradizionale italiana | Musicals (videos) | Iconic Italian Songs

Bilingual songs (ITA/ENG)

A song for each letter of your name/a word :  #songname game

🎸 : List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 | List 5

Roma’s sounds (songs about Rome) | 7 songs for 7 Italian cities

Spell your URL in song titles

Hip Hop/Rap ITA artists | 3 songs you connect with rn

Difficult songs to explain to foreigners

@sciogli-lingua​‘s list (translations)

Italian pop rock/alternative artists

Some Italian indie rock bands

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LYRICS TRANSLATION'S MASTERPOST

[slushiesandshowtunesat3am]

pspspsps ma'am please give me song recommendations

Infatuation by Brockhampton (Indie Pop)

Eat Spit by Slush Puppy (Rage)

Oh Mami by Chase Atlantic (Electric Pop)

Mama Saturn by Tannerelle (Alternative R&B)

Alrighty Aphrodite by The Peach Pit (Indie)

Hot Girl by Megan The Stallion (Rap)

Brave as a Noun by AJJ the Band (Indie)

Chamber of Reflection by Mac DeMarco (Indie)

Nangs by Tame Impala (Indie)

Il Volo by Il Mondo (Italian Classical)

Esta Rico by Bad Bunny, Will Smith, and Marc Anthony (Latin Pop)

Remember by Katie (Korean Pop)

Breath by AB6IX (Korean Pop)

Different by Woodz (Korean Alternative)

Pour Up by Dean ft. Zico (Korean R&B)

Sorry if I categorized them wrong but I don't know what you're into exactly so I wanted to give you options!

Recommended some to me too please

Love you bae 💚💚💚💚