{"key":"9800","name":"Subsonica","bio":"Subsonica is an Italian electronic\/rock band.The group was formed in 1996 in Turin, Italy. Their eponymous debut album debuted at the end of 1996. The band gained real success in 2000 by playing the Sanremo Music Festival. The first two singles off of the album Microchip emozionale, Tutti i miei sbagli and Discoteca labirinto were hits. Their latest album, Eden was released in 2011.Subsonica are: Boosta (Davide Di Leo) keyboards, Bass Vicio (Luca Vicini) bass, Samuel (Umberto Romano) vocals, C-Max (Massimiliano Casacci) guitar, Ninja (Enrico Matta) drums.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/9800_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"20027","name":"Baustelle","bio":"Baustelle (a German word that means \"construction site\" - or \"building site\" in english) is an Italian indie-rock band formed in Montepulciano, Siena Italy in 1994 initially by Francesco Bianconi, Fabrizio Massara, Rachele Bastreghi, and Claudio Brasini. They didn't receive much mainstream attention for their first two albums, 2000's punk-pop Sussidiario Illustrato della Giovinezza and 2003's La Moda del Lento, though they were critically acclaimed. Fabrizio left for perosnal and artistic reasons, after their newly produced and managed third album finally brought them more widespread popularity. Now made up of leader Francesco Bianconi on vocals, guitar, and synths, Rachele Bastreghi on vocals and keys, Claudio Brasini on guitar, and Claudio Chiari on drums, the band released La Malavita on Warner Bros. Italy in 2005. Mixing the romantic sounds of British artists like the Smiths and Depeche Mode with Italian composers like Ennio Morricone and Angelo Badalamenti and American acts like Television and Scott Walker, as well as with modern sounds of electronica and indie rock, the record gained immediate attention in the group's home country, resulting in an extensive nationwide tour.I Baustelle sono un gruppo musicale alternative rock italiano, formatosi nel 1996 a Montepulciano, in provincia di Siena. Dal 2005 la formazione del gruppo si \u00e8 stabilizzata a tre elementi: Francesco Bianconi, Rachele Bastreghi e Claudio Brasini.Il gruppo ha all'attivo sei album in studio (Sussidiario illustrato della giovinezza del 2000, La moda del lento del 2003, La malavita del 2005, Amen del 2008, I mistici dell'Occidente del 2010 e Fantasma del 2013) e una colonna sonora (Giulia non esce la sera, 2009).","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/20027_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"50792","name":"Litfiba","bio":"Litfiba is an Italian rock band formed in Florence in 1980 and still active.The meeting of 5 punk (though it was then on the decline), new wave and simply rock music fans with then no musical background gave birth to Litfiba. The band was born in Florence in 1980. The name Litfiba is the mixing of several words: Localit\u00e0 (\"place\"), ITalia (Italy), FIrenze (\"Florence\") and via dei BArdi (\"Bardi street\" where the band was based). The original band was composed of four members: Federico Renzulli (nicknamed Ghigo) on guitars, Gianni Maroccolo on bass, Sandro Dotta on solo guitar (who left the band after a few weeks) and Francesco Calamai on drums. Vocals were then performed by Renzulli. Antonio Aiazzi on keyboards and Piero Pel\u00f9 on vocals joined the band shortly after.From the early 1980s until now, the band evolved from a British influenced new wave pop-rock to a more personal and inspired rock music, always with Italian singing. Litfiba is often considered Italy's most important and influential rock band.Piero Pel\u00f9 left the band July 11th, 1999 pursuing a solo career.Ghigo then decided to follow on immediately with a renewed and rejuvenated band. New singer Gianluigi Cabo Cavallo, bass and drums player Gianluca Venier e Ugo Nativi from the funk-rock band Malfunk join Litfiba.The new group deprived of its historical frontman releases 4 albums (Elettromacumba, Insidia, LiveOnLine, Essere o sembrare) In the beginning of November 2006 Cabo decided to leave Litfiba.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/50792_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"24059","name":"Verdena","bio":"Verdena are an alternative rock band from Albino, Bergamo, Italy. The band members are Alberto Ferrari (voice, guitar), Roberta Sammarelli (bass) and Luca Ferrari (drums). The three have been playing together since 1992.Verdena rehearse every day (when they're not on tour) in their garage, where they have built a 24-track recording studio called the Henhouse. The hen-house is their sound laboratory\u2013full many different instruments, like guitars, amplifiers, rhodes, mellotrons, and Korg synths. No digital stuff is allowed to get in!They view the song like a painter would a picture: to work on by carefully adding more and more layers, yet keeping the big picture in mind. The result is much more than a simple song. Verdena\u2019s songs, which are stellar in and of themselves, have a new added value since the lyrics are written uniquely. They are not penned in a narrative, logical way. Rather, they follow a stream-of-unconscious style that is closer to the Anglo-American rock language than to the syncope traditions of the Italian language, which are so far from the aesthetics of pure rock. Alberto\u2019s lyrics have always been one of the main characteristics of Verdena that stand out from the usual and reiterated formula of the Italian rock music. Debut album: VerdenaThe debut album came out on September, 30th, 1999. The first single went in heavy rotation on MTV. The album sold 40.000 copiesEPs:Two EPs were published after the album release: Valvonauta and Viba ep. In the first one there were two new tracks. In the second one two new tracks and a cover of Sunshine of your love by Cream.On tour:The band played in the most important festivals (Imola Heineken Music Festival with Hole and Marylin Manson, Independent Day Festival with Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Arezzo Wave Love Festival with Henry Rollins). Between September 1999 and the summer of 2000 Verdena played more than 100 gigs. July 2001; Verdena play in Turin before U2 exclusive show in Italy. Second Album: Solo un Grande SassoReleased in September of 2001The first single, Spaceman, went immediately in the top ten. Same as for the album (sixth in the top ten for three weeks and on the top forty for other four weeks). The record sold 35.000 copies.Other EPs:After the release of the second album Verdena published two more EPs in which they made cover of Thirteen Floor Elevator\u2019s Reverberation and Melvins Creepy Smell.Third Album:Il Suicidio dei Samurai Came out on January 31, 2004, two weeks before they played in Groningen, at Eurosonic. At the same time Verdena released the EP Luna. Suddenly it got number two for two weeks on the top ten. Then the album came out and it got to the seventh in the top ten. Made a club tour (30 gigs) most of the times got sold out. On summer 2004 they\u2019ve made 40 gigs all over Italy. Then, once again, a club tour of 20 gigs. Once again sold out everywhere. Fourth album:Requiem Released in 2007.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/24059_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"50782","name":"Marlene Kuntz","bio":"Italian rock band. Marlene Kuntz music is an original convergence of 80's noise, post-punk and dark rock (Sonic Youth, Gun Club, Wire, Swans, Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten) and poetic influences close to Nick Cave and Scott Walker, mixed up with personal twilight tendencies in troubled ballads.Currently Marlene Kuntz members are Cristiano Godano, Riccardo Tesio, Luca Bergia, Davide Arneodo and Luca Lagash Saporiti.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/50782_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"50785","name":"Daniele Silvestri","bio":"Daniele Silvestri is an Italian songwriter from Rome, where he was born in 1968. After having participated several times in Sanremo Festival, where he became successful with the song \"Salir\u00f2\" in 2002, he played a concert with Inti Illimani (the famous Chilean group) last summer at Roma Rock Festival.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/50785_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"50807","name":"Samuele Bersani","bio":"Samuele Bersani \u00e8 autore di successi come Giudizi universali, Replay, canzone vincitrice del Premio della Critica del Festival di Sanremo del 2000. Ha incominciato la sua carriera nel 1991, collaborando con Lucio Dalla in un suo tour: dopo un anno, nel 1992, esce il suo primo album intitolato C'hanno preso tutto. Il successo \u00e8 immediato grazie ad una canzone molto orecchiabile dal titolo Chicco e Spillo che spopola nella stagione estiva.Lo stile di Samuele Bersani diventa quindi immediatamente riconoscibile: i testi sono molto ricercati e a volte pieni di frasi apparentemente non-sense soprattutto per le canzoni pi\u00f9 ritmate. Le vendite lo premiano anche nel 1995, grazie al singolo Freak, altro titolo prettamente estivo. Samule Bersani riesce per\u00f2 ad alternare questi successi ad altrettante canzoni meno commerciali e maggiormente d'impatto: Spaccacuore nel 1995 e la gi\u00e0 citata Giudizi universali nel 1997, per molti una vera poesia musicata che si \u00e8 aggiudicata il Premio Lunezia 1998 come miglior testo letterario.Nel 2000 le canzoni del suo album L'oroscopo speciale e alcuni estratti musicali di canzoni di album precedenti sono state usate come colonna sonora del film Chiedimi se sono felice, scritto e interpretato dal trio comico Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo e proprio per lo stesso film incide la canzone \"Chiedimi se sono felice\"; tra le partecipazioni cinematografiche anche il cartone animato La gabbianella e il gatto, nella cui colonna sonora \u00e8 presente la canzone Siamo gatti, intepretata ma non scritta dal cantautore di Cattolica.Inoltre ha collaborato con altri artisti, soprattutto grandi nomi femminili della musica italiana come Mina, Ornella Vanoni e Fiorella Mannoia, scrivendo canzoni o collaborando a loro album.Nel 2003 pubblica Caramella smog, l' album con il quale nel 2004 ha vinto due premi Tenco, (migliore canzone con \"Cattiva\" e miglior disco dell'anno).\u00c8 del 2006 \"Lo scrutatore non votante\", ironica e feroce invettiva in tempo di elezioni, che anticipa l'uscita del nuovo cd L'aldi qua. A maggio pubblica il secondo singolo estratto, \"Lascia stare\" mentre a settembre esce il terzo singolo intitolato \"Sicuro precariato\".Discografia * 1992 - C'hanno preso tutto * 1995 - Freak * 1997 - Samuele Bersani * 2000 - L'oroscopo speciale * 2002 - Che vita! Il meglio di Samuele Bersani * 2003 - Caramella smog * 2006 - L'aldiqu\u00e0http:\/\/www.samuelebersani.it\/fonte: it.wikipedia.org","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/50807_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"50758","name":"Elio e le Storie Tese","bio":"Elio e le Storie Tese has been a cult band in the Italian underground music scene for a very long time. Their \"bootlegging\" cassettes were spreading rapidly, and the concerts (that were always in the Milan area, their hometown) were attended by an audience of affectionate fans.When their first album \"Elio Samaga Hukapan Karyiana Turu\" came out (1989), the concept of an underground band was outdated by the 150,000 copies that were sold in the first ten months. This result was even more significant since they were not supported by the official media.Slowly the media's ostracism would be transformed into a clear admiration for a project that did not undergound traditional market rules, but had instead created a new market. Today Elio e le Storie Tese is one of the most appreciated bands by the press and one of the most requested to appear on television.The second album \"Italyan Rum Casusu \u00c7ikti\" that contains \"Pipppero\" (recorded with Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, the world-famous female Bulgarian traditional choir), reached success even quicker selling 150,000 copies in the first 6 months.The hilarious impact of the lyrics, the catchy melodies, the stage presence, (their concerts are real happenings that are attended by a more and more vast and loyal audience), the professionality (the six musicians are some of the best performers in Italy); all these things together with a boost of energy and the constant seek of innovative ideas, make the group undoubtely a \"unique case\" in the Italian musical panorama.Their impact on the media grew constantly, more and more. In 1996 they participated in the world-known \"Festival di Sanremo\", which contributed to increase their popularity without diluting their original and intelligent way of making music. Both critics and audience were stunned by their hit \"La Terra dei Cachi\".Their next album \"Eat the Phikis\", released a few months after Sanremo, jumped immediately to number one of the Italian top selling chart.Between 1997 and 1998 two new releases from Elio e le Storie Tese: their greatest hits called \"Del Meglio del Nostro Meglio Vol. 1\" and the special box \"Perle ai Porci\", containing all of their recordings, previously released and unreleased. Few days before the new year's day the band dramatically lost Feyez, the sax player, who died during a concert, because of an ictus.\"Craccracriccrecr\", the next studio album, was released in 1999, followed two years later by \"Made in Japan\", a double live cd that ironically refers to the well known Deep Purple live album.Their latest studio release is \"Cicciput\" (2003). Some of the most popular italian artists (Gianni Morandi, Laura Pausini, Max Pezzali, Litfiba) gave their contribution to the record.During these years the band won more than a prize for their musical carreer: Best Italian Band at the Mtv European Music Awards 1999, Best Videoclip (Shpalman) at the Italian Music Awards 2003, \"Critics' Prize\" plus the second place at the Sanremo Festival in 1996.They have been pioneers, in their own special way, in the field of marketing, communication and promotion. Nothing that ever comes from Elio e le Storie Tese could be less than unique.At present Elio e le Storie Tese are the first artists in Italy (and among the very few in the world) to record each live performance and sell the mastered copy right after the show; in addition to that, this new website has been activated, with a new form of membership (annual or quarterly) allowing members to download a wide range of audio\/video recordings for free.The band:Elio: voice, fluteFaso: bass guitarCesareo: guitarRocco Tanica: keyboardsChristian Meyer: drumsJantoman: additional keyboards(source: elioelestorietese.it)","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/50758_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"50774","name":"Vinicio Capossela","bio":"Vinicio Capossela is an Italian singer-songwriter born in Hannover (Germany) on December 14, 1965. He grew up in Reggio Emilia, where he studied music at the Conservatorio.He has published one book (Non si muore tutte le mattine) and seven records, the last one being Da solo, released Friday October 17th, 2008.His musical style is heavily influenced by Tom Waits and Paolo Conte.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/50774_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}