• Interview – Palace

    Time has flown by since London-based trio Palace swept into our lives in 2014 with the divine Lost in the Night EP, a startling collection of hypnotic Maccabees-esque tracks that caught the attention of music impresarios Zane Lowe and Annie Mac. Since then, the band, consisting of Leo Wyndham...
  • The BRIT Awards 2019: Six Talking Points

    On 20 February 2019, the 39th edition of the Brit Awards took place. Since its conception, the Brits have been a heavyweight in the awards calendar. But in recent years accusations have piled up, claiming that the ceremony is nothing but an extravagant shindig for some of the industry’s...
  • Is Music Sampling Plagiarism?

    The nature of hip-hop music’s creative culture is introspective: artists are always studying existing music for inspiration. Music samples are interwoven into most hip-hop tracks, enabling artists to create lyrical collages. Snippets of songs and beats are flipped, sped up, cut, pitched up and are subsequently used as fragments...
  • Revival Gospel Choir

    The prospect of starting University is incredibly daunting. You can feel lost in a sea of thousands of students, all wanting to find their feet and make lifelong friends. It is a massive task to undertake, but becoming part of a society is one way in which you can...
  • Hobo Johnson and The Lovemakers @ Rock City

    Having only been to Rock City on a crisis night before and never to a gig there, I was very excited to see what it would be like and I was not disappointed. “Their music conveys the too familiar nervousness we have all experienced” I was first introduced to...
  • East of Eli: An Interview – Part 2 of 2

    Part 1 of this article can be found here. The following interview has been condensed for this article. You started out in acting, one of the things you might be recognized for is Bring It On, did you always know you wanted to focus on music or was there...
  • East of Eli: Part 1 of 2

    I went to The Troubadour in London to see East of Eli perform for the third time. The basement under the bar was illuminated with purple, blue and pink lights that set an enchanting glow to the room. East of Eli is chiefly comprised of one man, Nathan West,...