• The Shuffle Generation: How The Rise Of Streaming Platforms Has Influenced The Creation Of Music

    “The rise of Spotify and Apple music had changed everything,” a pensive John Legend told CNBC, and as listeners on both streaming sites soar for the fifth year running, he seems to be right. Amidst a music climate as turbulent as its social counterpart, Tolulope Sangowawa asks whether the humble...
  • Album Review: Savage Ga$p – the long halloween

    American rapper Gaspere Magaddino, known professionally as Savage Ga$p, began his career on Soundcloud, as many rappers do. He gained increased notoriety when his song pumpkins scream in the dead of night blew up suddenly on Tik Tok. The song was a collaboration with close friends rapper Shinigami and...
  • Album Review: IDLES – Ultra Mono

    IDLES have created more of their trademark energetic post-punk that feels part of a unified vision, but all that chest-beating can leave it's bruises....
  • The Best Soundtracks To Study To

    Alongside the start of a new academic year, many students will find themselves easing back into regular studying habits. If studying in student accommodation, then you might find yourself being distracted by background noises or just simply in need of creating an atmosphere that allows you to work efficiently. ...
  • The Demise Of Q Magazine And The Old Music Press

    As a cornerstone of traditional music press in a fast evolving social domain, Joe proposes that the demise of Q was inevitable and poses a marked warning to other publications to either evolve, or dissolve. ...
  • Album Review: Declan McKenna – Zeros

    Myron Winter-Brownhill reviews Declan McKenna's new album, 'Zeros'....
  • Soundtracks: Do we love ’em or hate ’em?

    Rhianna Greensmith Music has historically been an integral accompaniment to other art forms – arranged to compliment film and television to provide the notorious soundtracks we know and love. But what role do soundtracks really play?  When we think of certain shows, we think of the music that accompanies...