Hooting And Howling Celebrates 60 Years Of The UK Singles Chart
This week sees the UK ‘celebrate’ the 60th birthday of the humble singles chart. I say ‘celebrate’ because, as ever, there’s that familiar British sense of pessimism pissing on proceedings. The idea...
View ArticleVideo Killed The Radio Station
“This won’t be played on your radio“, so proffers Jet’s Chris Cester on his band’s tune, the imaginatively titled ‘Radio Song’, from his band’s debut album. The point being that their Australian...
View ArticleJustin Timberlake’s Justified Return
So far this year, the first few days of each month have provided comebacks for many a household name; David Bowie, Suede, My Bloody Valentine, The Strokes, Fleetwood Mac, Fall Out Boy, plus Destiny’s...
View ArticleWhy you shouldn’t buy into Record Store Day
For the past several weeks, all I have heard is people bang on about ‘how important local record shops are’. In my experience, they’re only important if you want to shift through cramped spaces,...
View ArticleHarkive: The Global Jukebox
You may be unfamiliar with the word ‘Harkive’. Whilst it does look like the posh person’ phonetic spelling of ‘archive’, Harkive is actually a great new study/project/interactive experience designed...
View ArticleThe Blurred Lines Between Sexy and Sexist
Today’s popular music is plagued by videos of scantily-clad women strutting under nightclub strobe lights, often performing for a typically – though not always – male audience. These videos usually...
View ArticleBeautiful Future: How Bobby Gillespie underestimates the new wave of Rock ‘n’...
Bobby Gillespie. Indie rock overlord, Primal Scream frontman, Scottish loudmouth, and cultural kingpin – or not, as the case may be. This video on BBC Arts & Culture shows young Robert laying into...
View ArticleReading & Leeds Announces Line-up….But Where Are All The Women?
In one of the sadly-less-surprising moves of the year, iconic Tuborg convention Reading and Leeds has released its lineup for 2015’s August bank holiday, and conveniently forgotten to invite any women...
View ArticleKanye West At Glastonbury Isn’t The Problem, You Are
‘I am the greatest living rockstar on the planet.’ Not me personally. Those were the words of the immortal Kanye West as he stood onstage overlooking tens of thousands of punters at Glastonbury. Many...
View ArticleKeeping Your NMEs Closer: How Going Free Might Just Be Best For Business
‘NME: An Obituary’. ‘In Memory of the NME’. ‘Here Lies NME, 1952-2015’. Those were just three of the doomsday titles I could’ve given to this article upon hearing that the NME would be going free...
View ArticleReviewing Viola Beach’s album, and why we should support new music more
As I sit down to listen to and write about the posthumous release of Viola Beach’s self-titled album, I’m reminded of Chris Martin’s words onstage at Glastonbury last month. Speaking about the tragic...
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