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Beyond litter and emissions: The environmental costs of loud sound at music festivals

The music festivals of the summer have packed up and moved on. Stages and sound systems have been dismantled, litter cleared, and land reseeded.
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Why ‘No Bad Memories’ is my album of the year

I didn't expect how perfectly my personal happiness would fit an album so preoccupied with the sounds of old advertisements and obsolete electronics, filled with the relentless optimism of a world that believed the future could only get better. 
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CUSP’s Dan Stock on the memories behind ‘English Country’

On Friday, CUSP, a Milton Keynes-based indie rock band, released their debut album, English...
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The rise of the pop girlie: Marketing mediocrity or feminism in action?  

“GIRLS INVENTED PUNK ROCK, NOT ENGLAND”: so reads the iconic green T-shirt of Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon. The slogan stands in defiance of an unfortunate truth in the music industry: femininity and credibility often exist in contention with one another.
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Review: Madlib and Freddie Gibbs – Bandana

Madlib is perhaps hip-hop’s greatest enigma. In a career spanning almost three decades he has studied a variety of genres, masterfully integrating them into...

Review: Arkells at ULU

The Canadian rock band, solo gigging, and why the music community is what makes a night

Let’s talk about… Diner Days

Find Becky's playlist at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QAIzDp2lLpVwjTZab4uov?si=26UzFEgWRCK3ApYlgIWebw

Preview: Lia Mice at Supernormal Festival

Lia Mice is someone important. The experimental pop creator and film score composer combines dreamy vocals, and otherworldly sonics to create a kind of...

Does Taylor need to calm down?

An exploration of Taylor Swift, and the role that musicians should have in politics

Bigmouth Strikes Again: Morrissey’s Provocative Politics

Morrissey has been cancelled. The Guardian asked the Mancunian crooner “what happened” on Twitter after his records were banned from Britain’s oldest record store....

The Timelessness of Vinyl

Why the cracking, authentic sound of a record will always beat digital music

A Tribute to Lewis Capaldi

In defence of the Greggs-serving, sunglasses-wearing, Scottish singer.

If Ever I Stray

Genre devotion in Frank Turner's music - do musicians owe us consistency?

Sensuality In Strauss’ ‘Salome’

"Salome’s kiss is undoubtedly an extreme example, a sensual climax of an obscene kind, but musically important nonetheless, and a moment that illuminates its preceding pages of music."

Frequencies and what they do to you

A primer to the niche field of "sound art"

Being under the spell of Harry Potter

An overview of the outrageous content of the Fangasm podcast

The exploitation of musicians’ emotional struggles

"The general reaction to musicians’ pains is a testament to the humanity of our age."

Morrissey: a musician of excess?

"Why do we call certain people 'excessive,' and allow others to escape from this label?" A discussion of the controversial front-man of The Smiths.

Excess of Expression: John Lennon 1969-72

'Why was it that, in putting self- expression, politics and philosophical substance at the forefront of his artistic agenda, Lennon’s music ended up failing to express both himself and everyday concerns with the same force as his work from the sixties?' A comparison of John Lennon's music from his solo career with his work in The Beatles.

Bush’s Family Tree

An exploration of the musical influences across Kate Bush's discography

Is the band ‘shame’ just shameful?

A discussion on how Shame have inherited the punk ethos

Post-Post-Punk: Got the Spirit, Lose the Feeling

What it comes down to is the fact that post-punk lacks the plasticity of genres like rock or hip-hop, which freely pool together music that would otherwise be separated by decades. It is, by its very name, less a style than a moment in time

Singing to Say No to Cinematic Fantasies

"Titanic Rising" is an album that dispels the fantasies presented by film

Fantasy Music’s Apex – Djwadi’s Score for ‘Game of Thrones’

What makes the 'Game of Thrones' score as iconic as it is?
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