Music reporter (currently for “la Repubblica”, “Billboard Italia” and “Il Giornale della Musica”), essayist (latest publication: “Get Back! I giorni del rock”, Laterza 2004) and formerly a radio presenter (“Stereonotte”, “Stereodrome”, “Planet Rock” and “Suoni & Ultrasuoni” on Radio Rai), he was also the co-artistic director of “Traffic – Torino Free Festival” between 2004 and 2014, and now runs the “Distretto 38” festival and the “Transiti” series of concerts in Trento. Since 2008 he has been teaching “History of Pop Music” at ALMED, Università Cattolica di Milano.