Category: OPINION

  • OBAMACORE: COOL GONE CRINGE?

    OBAMACORE: COOL GONE CRINGE?

    Remember when the United States of America wasn’t nearly as difficult to look at. Obama was president and while guilty of some Politician Shit, at…

  • ZERO DOLLARS FOR A GIG

    ZERO DOLLARS FOR A GIG

    One of the tried and tested answers to the lack of money bands get from streaming is ‘play more shows’, under the assumption that gigs…

  • REVIEW / ETHEL CAIN / WILLOUGHBY TUCKER…

    REVIEW / ETHEL CAIN / WILLOUGHBY TUCKER…

    What do you do when you’ve amassed an adoring, fevered set of fans and you need to occasionally tell them off? It’s something we’ve seen…

  • AI + BOTS + SCAM

    AI + BOTS + SCAM

    There’s clearly a scam afoot which needs addressing – streaming platforms are making money from A.I. music with inflated streaming numbers from bots. If the…

  • AI + ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM

    AI + ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM

    Questioning the net value of new technologies is always a worthwhile endeavour, and of course, artificial intelligence is the latest hot topic on everyone’s lips…

  • AI / DOES ANYONE CARE AS LONG AS IT SOUNDS OKAY?

    AI / DOES ANYONE CARE AS LONG AS IT SOUNDS OKAY?

    People who write about music, overthink music, read books and websites about music, devour music documentaries and go on Wikipedia deep-dives, are not your average…

  • REVIEWING ALL THE OASIS ALBUMS

    REVIEWING ALL THE OASIS ALBUMS

    Everyone’s an Oasis fan these days, now they’ve got back together and either reminded people with greying sides of the summers of their youth, or…

  • SPOTIFY & WAR TECH

    SPOTIFY & WAR TECH

    One of the great enemies of culture and society in the 2020s, has been Big Tech. As convenient as the whole thing has been, younger…

  • GROOVEJET VS POSH SPICE

    GROOVEJET VS POSH SPICE

    If the ’90s had The Battle of Britpop with Blur’s ‘Country House’ going up against ‘Roll With It’ by Oasis, the 2000s equivalent was a…

  • MORE THAN A SURF BAND / THE BEACH BOYS

    MORE THAN A SURF BAND / THE BEACH BOYS

    There’s been so many beautiful words written about the Beach Boys since the passing of Brian Wilson, that it feels partially redundant to add more…