Acclaimed DJ and producer Agatino Romero was born in Hamburg, but still considers himself an authentic Italian. His family, you see, comes from Catania, Sicily. Until a few years ago, he was on his way as a young professional soccer player with HSV and the Italian club Calcio Catania...
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Elisa has been one of my favorite artists for over a decade now. In Italy, she’s a superstar, a veritable household name. In a perfect world she’d be just as popular here in the States, which she really should be when you consider that 95% of her music is in English. To that...
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LACUNA COIL ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM & TOUR

Lacuna Coil will be releasing their seventh studio album, Broken Crown Halo, in North America on April 1, 2014. The album will be released on March 31 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The band will soon take part in the REVOLVER HOTTEST CHICKS IN HARD ROCK TOUR tour, which starts on February 20th...
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REVIEW SPOTLIGHT: PAOLA & CHIARA: GIUNGLA

I started covering Paola & Chiara over a decade ago when I was writing a world music column called Import Zone for Lollipop magazine. (I couldn’t find every column I wrote about them in, but I did manage to find the one with my review of their 2002 album Festival, which you can...
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