Lato B – the Rock Music aWords newsletter
🖤 Lato B — the side nobody tells you about
Every Sunday morning, one rock story you will not find anywhere else. Not the anniversaries and not the day's news — those are already on the blog. This is what went on behind the curtain: the things nobody put in the press release, the absurd coincidences, the masterpieces that were turned down, the people who changed the music and were never thanked for it.
Lato B is written in Italian. One email a week, five minutes and a coffee. We would rather tell you here than have you find out on Sunday morning.
What is in every issue
- 🖤 The story — a long piece, carefully written, about an episode almost nobody knows
- 🔍 Three finds from the groove — three things to bring out the next time the talk turns to records
- 💿 The hidden groove — a track worth rediscovering, never the single everybody already owns
- 🎧 The playlist of the issue — on YouTube and Spotify, and it gets longer every week
The issues so far
- No. 1 — The masterpiece that ended up on the back. Lennon thought it was the best thing he had written. It went out on the B-side of a novelty song and the BBC banned it. History has settled the argument since.
- No. 2 — The rock star who knocked houses down. Two records that sold nothing, then thirty years on building sites in Detroit. On the other side of the world he was platinum, and nobody had told him.
It is free, it arrives on Sunday morning and there is no spam: one click at the foot of any issue and you are out.
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🎧 The playlist
Every track told in Lato B goes into one playlist that grows every Sunday: listen to Il Lato B on Spotify.