Top 50 Songs of 2020 (50-41)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Some Of Us Following on from the groove-heavy…
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Music Editor | 19-21
Richard & Linda Thompson’s Hard Luck Stories: Remembering Pour Down Like Silver
Image rights reserved to Island Records The 70s was a period of huge success for…
REVIEW: Autechre – SIGN
Rights reserved to Warp Records. Emerging out of the synthpop and club culture of the…
REVIEW: Anna von Hausswolff – All Thoughts Fly
Art by Gianluca Grasselli, Rights Reserved to Southern Lord Records Coming out of the wave…
REVIEW: Get Lost: The Melancholic Beauty of The Magnetic Fields
Photo by Alterna2 (CC 2.0) American Rock had an independent explosion in the 1990s. Whilst…
Warped Pop: The Rise of PC Music
Photo by hinnik (CC 3.0) In the late 2010s, there has been an explosion in…
How Shoegaze Briefly Dominated British Rock
Photo by Greg Neate (CC 2.0) The early ’90s was an odd point of transition…
REVIEW: Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids : Shaman!
Image from Strut Records After nearly 40 years away from music, Idris Ackamoor and his…
REVIEW: Pottery : Welcome to Bobby’s Motel
Photo from Partisan Records As relentlessly rhythmic as it is surreal, Canadian punk band Pottery’s…
Rain Dogs: The Deranged Landscape of Tom Waits
Photo by Anna Wittenberg (CC BY 3.0) As the 1970s ended, so many of the most…
How the Music Industry has responded to Coronavirus
Photo by Joe Mabel (CC BY SA 4.0) The coronavirus pandemic since March has had…
REVIEW: Lewsberg
Image Credit: Martin Schumann (CC BY-SA 4.0) It is now a popular rock legend that…
Feminism and Punk
Feminism and rock music have often had a somewhat fractured relationship. The often barely hidden…
REVIEW: Wasted Shirt
Wasted Shirt Cover Art by Susan Sage Combining two of the most visceral and bizarre…
Repression and Music
Something that should probably be reflected upon during a time of crisis around the coronavirus…
Alexander Tucker – Guild of the Asbestos Weaver
One artist I personally hadn’t heard prior to the last month was Alexander Tucker. As…