General considerations on music and cinema
AI and Music: Is Artificial Intelligence Surpassing Mainstream?
AI and Music: Is Artificial Intelligence Surpassing Modern Mainstream? Real Data, Streaming Growth and the Future of Vinyl AI-generated music is reaching — and sometimes surpassing
Record Store Day 2025: celebration, digital paradox, and why fairer rules are overdue
Record Store Day began as a cultural movement to support independent shops: bring people back in, turn buying into a shared moment, and celebrate physical formats with exclusive re
Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” vs. Today’s Overproduced Noise
“Skinny Love” is almost nothing — and that’s exactly why it becomes everything. A fragile voice, a bare acoustic guitar, and tiny breathing details. The arrangement leaves room for
Playing Without Playing: DJs, Language and the Overrated Music Era
Calling what DJs do “playing” inflates their perceived artistry just as streams and likes inflate musical value. Two parallel distortions—linguistic and cultural—that feed the same
A Life on Lease: toward a subscription-shaped order?
From housing to cars, from software to books, from music to films: the center of gravity is moving from owning things to accessing them, mediated by platforms and recurring fees. T
Why We Won’t Give Up Physical Media: Science, Psychology & Material Culture
This isn’t nostalgia—it’s biology, psychology, and material culture. We are bodies that think with the body; that’s why vinyl, books, DVDs and other “weighty” objects enable cognit
Why Physical Media Endures (and When It Beats Streaming): Quality, Ownership, Longevity
Streaming is convenient, but not always the best choice. For technical fidelity, true ownership, collectible value and real availability, physical formats still win in many real-wo
Why Today’s Music Will Never Create Another “Canzone dell’amor perduto” – De André and the Lost Art of Musical Poetry
This isn’t mere nostalgia—it’s an ecosystem shift. Poetry, silence, naked authorship, and slow listening have been replaced by speed, formats, and algorithms. In such a climate, ma
Exclusive Record Labels: Why They're Harming You, Too
Our view: exclusives gift retailers visibility, word-of-mouth and backlinks, increase average basket size, and narrow healthy competition — here’s why we say no.
Ghost Vinyl, the Real Story
Titles officially “in catalog,” zero stock, no repress date: the paradox of vinyl in 2020–2025. Is transparency really that hard—or has silence become a business model?
One Voice, Not a Committee: The Emotion That Separates Art from Produc
Endless credits have become the norm: eight, ten, even twelve names for a single track. Yet no one would accept a poem written by a committee. Songs, like poetry, live through a vo
Did Spotify Kill the Record? The Truth Nobody Wants to Admit
Streaming has conquered convenience and discovery, but physical formats remain irreplaceable for those who seek control, collecting and — often — a different sound. Here’s an in-de