Arteconciencias: Måneskin’s Victoria De Angelis and Thomas Raggi on Eurovision glory, supporting the Stones, and making guitar-driven rock with zero limits

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December 2, 2022

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Rock with no limits

Much ink – print and digital, in this publication and countless others – has been spilled about rock music's gradual fade from the charts.

Plenty of rock acts can still pack stadiums and arenas, sure, but the coveted upper reaches of the pop charts? Increasingly, those are off-limits.

Just don't tell that to Måneskin.

Having won the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2021 with the hard-riffing rocker, Zitti e Buoni, and found recent chart success with, of all things, a funk-rock remake of a 55-year-old Four Seasons song, Måneskin are proving the premature genre obituary writers wrong, and breaking every rule in the process.

They're young, confident, talented, and have songwriting and instrumental chops for days – and we've got an exclusive new interview with their guitarist and bassist. Read it here, while you can still say "I knew them before they were super-popular!"

Jackson Maxwell – Associate Editor, guitarworld.com

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Måneskin's Victoria De Angelis and Thomas Raggi on Eurovision glory, supporting the Stones, and making guitar-driven rock with zero limits

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