{{italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} '''''Buscadero''''' is a monthly music magazine published in Italy by Edizioni l'ultimo Buscadero Srl. It features classic rock and was founded in 1980 by Aldo Pedron, Paolo Carù and others after they split from the editorial staff of the magazine ''Il mucchio selvaggio''.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Ronnie, Red|year=1981|title=Ma dove vanno i giornalisti ?|publisher=La Stampa musicale e underground in Italia|language=Italian|url=http://www.stampamusicale.altervista.org/Red%20Ronnie/index.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716125357/http://www.stampamusicale.altervista.org/Red%20Ronnie/index.htm |archivedate=16 July 2007|url-status=live}} originally published in ''Strisce e Musica'' number 24 (1981).</ref> Aldo Pedron was the editor-in-chief of ''Buscadero'' from its founding until 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Passarella, Giancarlo|date=3 March 2010|title=Che bello incontrare Aldo Pedron, un vero giornalista rock|language=Italian|publisher=Musical News|url=http://www.musicalnews.com/articolo.php?codice=18143&sz=3|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305071320/http://www.musicalnews.com/articolo.php?codice=18143&sz=3|archivedate=5 March 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=10 December 2014}}</ref> It is published in the Milanese city of Gallarate.

It is one of the oldest Italian music periodicals still being published, and has been called the principal source in Italy for aficionados of American music.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Raup, Avo|title=Buscadero|publisher=Afka|url=http://www.afka.net/mags/Buscadero.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809064249/http://www.afka.net/mags/Buscadero.htm|archivedate=9 August 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=10 December 2014}}</ref> The name is a tribute to the film of Sam Peckinpah, ''Junior Bonner'', known in Italian as ''L'ultimo Buscadero''. The first issue featured Bruce Springsteen.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Springsteen Italian Magazine: Buscadero|date=6 February 2012|publisher=Pink Cadillac Music|language=Italian|url=http://pinkcadillacmusic.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/springsteen-italian-magazine-buscadero/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209222503/http://pinkcadillacmusic.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/springsteen-italian-magazine-buscadero/|archivedate=9 December 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=10 December 2014}}</ref> Among the writers who have appeared in the magazine over the years are Guido Chiesa, Cico Casartelli, Alfredo Marziano, Stefano Bianchi, Piero Tarantola, Marco Grompi, Adelmo Quadrio, Giancarlo Susanna, Raffaele Galli, and Davide Sapienza.

The term "buscadero" originally meant "one who searches" and was applied to lawmen, and then later to the outlaws for whom they searched. Hollywood took it one step further and applied the term to a gunbelt and holster rig.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Metz, Leon Claire |year=2003|title=The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters|location=New York|publisher=Facts on File|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BegmwZ3fuGUC&pg=PA34 34]|isbn=978-0-8160-4543-3}}</ref> In Italy the term came to epitomize the cowboy culture of the American West, and thus the Peckinpah film was renamed ''L'ultimo Buscadero'' for its Italian release.

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==External links== * {{Cite web|title=Buscadero: Mensile d'informazione Rock Buscadero (Official web page)|language=Italian|url=http://www.buscadero.com/}} {{Clear}}

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