Tag: music

Whether it’s due to a lack of sunlight that no SAD lamp can remedy, the post-December comedown, or the onslaught of Hilary term...

The 40th edition of the BRIT Awards is fast approaching, and with it, concerns over the lack of female nominees in mixed-gender categories are...

By the mid-60s, jazz was floundering. The preceding decade saw bebop – the most radical post-war interpretation of the breed – birth several pioneering...

Many years ago, all the good girls and boys of the United Kingdom would get a special present from Santa every Christmas – a...

Talking to Grant Nicholas is like talking to a nice bloke you met at the pub who really likes music. With three platinum records and...

Founder and Artistic Director of the Kronos Quartet David Harrington on contemporary music, collaboration and legacy

A primer to the niche field of "sound art"

The phenomenon of excess in media is relatively modern. The notion of creating excess, then refining the total media into a coherent project, is...

'Why was it that, in putting self- expression, politics and philosophical substance at the forefront of his artistic agenda, Lennon’s music ended up failing to express both himself and everyday concerns with the same force as his work from the sixties?' A comparison of John Lennon's music from his solo career with his work in The Beatles.

A discussion on how Shame have inherited the punk ethos

Examining the appeal of the classic heist film

What it comes down to is the fact that post-punk lacks the plasticity of genres like rock or hip-hop, which freely pool together music that would otherwise be separated by decades. It is, by its very name, less a style than a moment in time

A genre in herself, Lana’s sleepy Hollywood aesthetic and tragic love songs have earned her success in the indie pop scene. Under her...

The life of Ziggy defied expectation.