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Dragan Ambrozic

New albums: "Faust" - four solo albums (Bureau B)

The Four Faces of Faust

The members of the legendary German avant-garde rock group "Faust" recorded four exciting solo albums and released them on the same day. The exceptionality of this event is contained in the fact that the group has not existed for a long time, but all four founders, after a long break, worked together again, extending the duration of their visionary work deep into the XXI century.

New records: Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts, Second song

Songs of a derealized world

Neil Young's 50th album continues in the footsteps of some of his best and most successful releases - acoustic masterpieces Harvest i Harvest Moon – offering a poignantly worded epilogue to an incredible career

In memoriam: Oliver Tree (1993–2026)

A geek who understood pop culture

In Belgrade, the band members performed in jerseys that resembled the jerseys of the Soviet Union hockey team. During the concert, he staged an argument on stage and then a fight with his group. The show ended with the actual knocking out of half of Oliver's teeth, after he was hit by a stage prop thrown from the audience. The border between reality and performance did not exist for him. That's how he loved it

New album: Shabaka, Off the Earth (Shabaka Records)

New jazz vision

Like his entire career, Shabaka's new solo album is a roadmap for where jazz needs to go in the 21st century in order to stay relevant.

Reissues: “Pink Floyd” – Wish You Were Here, 50 years old

The same old fears

Half a century later, the reissue of the classics of the group "Pink Floyd" Wish You Were Here it reached the first place again in the English charts, confirming that it is a masterpiece of timeless value

New album

What lurks in the dark

On their second album, the Belgrade group "KoiKoi" triumphantly presents a mature version of their original, multi-layered and multi-sense rock music, which is among the most intriguing artistic creations born in our region in recent years.

Anniversary: ​​Half a century since the album Patti Smith - Horses (Arista)

Songs of freedom and truth

Patti Smith's debut album is one of the foundations of modern rock and roll expression. Patti Smith's special contribution to rock music begins already with the way she twisted the words, stretched them, enjoyed them and at the same time changed their meaning through pronunciation, with an unforgettable passionate hiss in a cracked voice, as if she was arguing with the words themselves while saying them, arguing with the whole world

Jubilee: 50 years since the song of the group Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Is this real life?

Exactly five decades after its release, it can be said with historical validity that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is one of the most famous pop songs of all time.

New album: David Byrne – Who Is the Sky?? (Matador)

In the sky and above it

The new solo album of David Byrne, the former frontman of the legendary "Talking Heads", is a mini-study of the fate of his constant hero - "Mr. Ordinary" - in the XXI century.

In memoriam: Ivan Piko Stančić (1952–2025)

The man who shaped the new wave

If you were to ask those who grew up in the times of the "new wave", everyone would be able to tell you that Piko Stančić was a face for something. Either as a reliable drummer in several important bands, or as a producer who unfailingly styled the sound of our groups to reach the world level, or simply as a face whose talent could not be so easily defined

New Album: MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti- / Epitaph)

Old new world

Young singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman released the best American alternative rock album of the year

New album: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flight b741 (P(doom) Records)

An imaginary masterpiece from 1974.

No one remembers how King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard got the weirdest long name in modern rock 'n' roll, but they've certainly lived up to it with an even longer run of intriguing records, including Flight b741 one of the best this year