Category: OPINION
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WHAT DOES A LABOUR GOVT MEAN FOR MUSIC?
Even though Keir Starmer looks like he listens to The Smiths, presently, there’s enough reasons to be cheerful by virtue of the fact that the…
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VIDEO ESSAY: WIPEOUT’S RAVE SOUNDTRACK
Wipeout was a behemoth of a video game, which saw gamers racing anti-gravity vehicles at breakneck speed on the PlayStation. That’s fun and all but…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
