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June 16, 2023

What makes music, good music, to me and to you?

Truth is, all music is good music. It just needs to find YOU at the right time in YOUR life.
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December 9, 2024

Ranking the top 50 (fifty!) greatest debut albums of all time

Ranking albums is always pretty pointless and trivial isn’t it. But shoot me down as I am guilty, they are pretty fun. I love going through Rolling Stone’s insane lists and complaining about just how wrong they are. So move over Rolling Stone, there’s a new wrong list in town…
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November 18, 2024

Grime – the new Punk?: A working class movement… eventually stolen of all meaning and message

I remember seeing a quote from Liam Gallagher back in 2017 or ’18. It was along the lines of “Grime is the modern-day Punk”. It always stood out to me. He was referring to the working-class, rebellious spirit of the genre. Little did Mr. Gallagher know, as time went on the similarities between Punk and…
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November 11, 2024

Algerian Rai Pop: Student protests, terrorism and religious tension – The music stuck in the middle of a civil war

Before we delve into the unsavoury scenes which loomed over Algeria throughout the next decade, let’s figure out where the hell music comes into this story…
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November 4, 2024

Nueva Canción: How Latin American Folk music led a revolution… before it’s eventual demise into murder and censorship

A story which begins with dreams of hope, community and revolution. But very quickly turns into a nightmare of despair, political interference and death. This is the story of Nueva Cancion – 20th Century Latin American Folk Music.
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October 8, 2024

Let’s find the 20 greatest TV theme songs of all time – who is the undisputed (and indisputable) champ?

So let’s not waste any time, let’s get straight into the 20 greatest TV theme songs of all time. As stated in the title, this list IS indisputable… and undisputed.
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October 3, 2024

Oasis are back, Chappell Roan hates everyone, and ‘brat summer’ just won’t go away – Did you miss me?

we are here to talk about what’s happening in the music world, a quick little round up of the news of the week or the month or however often we end up doing this.
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August 16, 2024

Is the use of AI in music a threat to human creativity? – Cave v. Grimes et al.

Let’s go into this with an open mindset together, and come to a decision of whether AI is truly the future. Are the time and money saving positives worth the risk of killing all human creativity? Let’s find out.
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August 9, 2024

Dylan v. Albarn – The argument for a complete ban of mobile phones at gigs

It’s been all over the music news this week. Bob Dylan has banned mobile phones from all his upcoming tour dates in the UK. He’s not the first to do this, and he won’t be the last. Today we’ll take a look at both sides of the argument, and come to a definitive answer of…
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August 7, 2024

Yard Act @ Millennium Square, Leeds – Every now and then, the chants of “YORKSHIRE, YORKSHIRE” were interrupted by some pretty good music

Saturday 3rd August, Millennium Square, Leeds. Five and a half thousand rockers, punks and… well, pretty normal folk gather for a night of grooving and moving. But did Yard Act and co. prove to be worthy of our £30 (plus booking fee)?
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July 2, 2024

Glastonbury 2024 is over – What were the 10 must-see performances? And why does the festival anger all the (far) right people?

Glastonbury is over for another year. Whether it’s a “middle-class band virtue signalling”, or “the line-up not being as good as back in my day !”, people love to complain about the greatest music festival on the planet. Well I’m here to fight back.
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