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The Strange New World of Socially Distant Gigs
On a Tuesday night in late July, people slowly trickled into an empty venue for what was the first indoor socially distant gig in the UK. Ticket-holders were excited to be present for a strange...
View ArticleThe Musical Legacy of Brokencyde, One of History’s Most Hated Bands
The year is 2009 and you’re in your mid-teens. You’re wearing neon checkered vans, skinny jeans and a hoodie unzipped to show off your Christian metalcore band T-shirt. Your penny-sized gauges glimmer...
View ArticleDrill Lyrics Are Being Used Against Young Black Men in Court
Prosecuting Rap: Criminal Justice and UK Black Youth Expressive Culture, which I joined as a researcher in early 2020, looks at how lyrics and videos from rap subgenres like drill are being presented...
View ArticleThe Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs of All Time
Somewhere between the “indie rock revival” of the early-2000s and the emergence of “poptimism” in the early-2010s, the UK charts were dominated by a procession of homogenous bands making a type of...
View ArticleHow It Felt When a Grime MC Slut-Shamed Me During a Clash
When I started a music mentorship scheme in London in 2016, I was 21 and very excited. I’d been selected as one of 40 young people on One True Calling – an initiative set up by ex Beats 1 DJ Julie...
View ArticleI Had My Name Ruined By a Pop Song
Since the advent of pop music, people have been writing songs with names in them. Typically, these tracks were written by hopeless romantics looking to garner the attention of the girl who rejected...
View ArticleThe Guide to Getting Into Sufjan Stevens, Master of Emotion
Sifting through Sufjan Stevens’ discography, you start to question whether you’ve imagined some of the entries. An instrumental album based around the animals of the Chinese zodiac; a multi-media...
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The Rebirth of Slowthai
Slowthai’s nan, Patsy, is facing the September sun from her daughter’s patio. She shuffles in her flip flops and watches slowthai wander in circles as his cousin and manager, Lewis, wrestles with a...
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Photos of Hometown Fans at Kid Laroi's First Headline Australian Show
Whether you like Kid Laroi’s music or not, he is inarguably one of the most important artists to have come out of Australia in the last decade, or maybe ever. A proud Kamilaroi man – of which his...
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'There's No Other Rapper Doing Geopolitical, Communist Rap': An Interview...
Ghais Guevara's music is chaotic, confronting, and cathartic. Swirling, jazz-inspired beats whip around his frenetic-yet-precise wordplay, evoking images of Black pain, violence and joy. Channelling...
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