Category: OPINION

  • GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW

    GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW

    As we talked all the way through Jada Star’s set early on the Saturday morning at the Acoustic Stage, having not been to bed yet,…

  • THEPOPCORPS WAS INTO LEMUR MUSIC BEFORE IT WAS BIG

    THEPOPCORPS WAS INTO LEMUR MUSIC BEFORE IT WAS BIG

    There’s been a study undertaken that could show how humans first started getting into music as a species, and we were into it first. The…

  • FRANÇOISE HARDY, AU REVOIR

    FRANÇOISE HARDY, AU REVOIR

    One of France and European pop’s most iconic women has died. Françoise Hardy, who propelled herself to stardom in the ye-ye scene and beyond, passed…

  • SPOTIFY BOSS PROVES TO BE OUT OF TOUCH

    SPOTIFY BOSS PROVES TO BE OUT OF TOUCH

    How much does it cost to put an album out? Let’s assume, for the sake of this article, that you’re focusing solely on streaming and…

  • BOARDS OF CANADA STILL MIA

    BOARDS OF CANADA STILL MIA

    Pressure is a terrible thing to heap onto a reclusive musician. With that in mind, many fans of Boards of Canada invariably don’t want to…

  • RANKING ALL DAFT PUNK SINGLES

    RANKING ALL DAFT PUNK SINGLES

    These are always exercises that are effectively futile and occasionally controversial, but it’s fun to make lists and order things for people to agree and…

  • IS 2024 A CRITICAL MOMENT FOR TAYLOR SWIFT?

    IS 2024 A CRITICAL MOMENT FOR TAYLOR SWIFT?

    Look, Taylor Swift is breathing such rarified air these days that any suggestion that she’s not going to be a commercial success is pretty much…

  • ONLINE DJ SETS, WHO GETS PAID + TWITCH

    ONLINE DJ SETS, WHO GETS PAID + TWITCH

    DJs have been looking online to promote their sets for a while now, and at each turn, there’s is always the sticky problem of getting…

  • WHAT WE LEARNED FROM GRIMES TRAINWRECK DJ SET

    WHAT WE LEARNED FROM GRIMES TRAINWRECK DJ SET

    For those who have seen Grimes horror show of a DJ set at Coachella and have been hating on her for a while – enjoy…

  • AI: TAKING WHATEVER SCRAPS ARE LEFTOVER

    AI: TAKING WHATEVER SCRAPS ARE LEFTOVER

    AI is a thing and an inescapable one at that. It’s been trickled into our lives and it doesn’t look like there’s a great deal…