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For the past ten days I have been enjoying myself glittering around the Island of Freedom, Sziget Festival in Budapest. It’s a seven day romp of music, art and culture. Headliners include Florence and the Machine, Avicii, Foals, SBTRKT, Limp Bizkit, and Major Lazer. There is also an afro-reggae... -
Hip-hop is one of the most popular genres in music right now; the likes of Drake and Kanye West are some of the world’s most prominent celebrities, topping the charts and influencing material in genres a far reaching and jazz and indie rock. Not bad for the music of... -
Dream pop can often result in music all too literal: sleep inducing, painfully self-indulgent and reverb caked. As one of the leading trends in 21st century pop music, too much has fuzzy naval gazing been used as an excuse for lazy song writing and melody deficiency. Baltimore duo Beach... -
‘Destroyer’ is an unusual name for a band which doesn’t make music with pentangles on their album covers… but then Destroyer is not a conventional band. The Canadian outfit first released in 1996 and this is their tenth record; but the band aren’t tiring. In fact, they only really... -
Alex Turner, the smoking hot, ice cool frontman of the Arctic Monkeys, is not just a beautiful musician. He’s also the unsung hero of the noughties crop of lyricists, whose writing quietly electrifies meaning; and for many, the voice of a generation. What with their being a band and... -
16 Years?! 16 Years Dre?! What have you been doing?! Oh yeah: becoming the richest black musician in the world, mentoring the world’s most famous rapper Eminem, the world’s best Kendrick Lamar, and the world’s most broke; 50 Cent – jumping on the Apple Music rocket ship before it... -
When FKA Twigs drops a new project the music world stands to attention – and she forces us to our feet. With a bold album cover, 16 minute music video, five standout new tracks, and an unpronounceable name; M3LL155X is only an EP, but it’s one of 2015’s best...
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May 12, 2024 -
May 12, 2024 -
