Category: Music magazine
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Selling to the Devil: Neil Diamond Joins Roster of Selling Entire Catalogue to Universal
MONDAY NEWS: 2022 is shaping up to be a blockbuster year for catalog acquisitions. Shortly after a mere two weeks where Sting sold his whole catalogue to Universal’s publishing division for a brazen amount just shy of $300 million, fellow iconic singer-songwriter Neil Diamond has followed in Sting’s footsteps. Like Sting, Diamond has seemingly had…
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How TikTok Revitalised 2008’s Music: The Hayloft Story
Despite remaining elusive and trodden from the apparent lockdown that sweeped globally, Mother Mother have had quite a year. I know we’ve discussed the power of TikTok on here before – but never regarding such a rekindling on this scale. But thanks to the trails and tribulations of TikTok, songs that once had their time…
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alt-J: “The Dream” – Album Review
Ever since Alt-J laid claim to their Mercury Prize for their debut An Awesome Wave in 2012, the percussive indie-experimentalists have been on a globe-trotting journey of a monumental masterclass. While An Awesome Wave showed youthful prosperity and unique divinity in a world empty of breeze-blocks and synth sand-pipes, it seems that 10 years later…
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Black Country, New Road: “Ants From Up Here” album review – profoundly poetic in a world of uncertainty
The bands’ name originally derived from that of a random Wikipedia generator, but their music is anything but thrown together. Ever since BC, NR arrived in the Brixton, Windmill scene in 2019, their post-rock soundscapes of inflected jazz shook the UK to its core. Unprecedented work of beautifully designed pieces of modern music, it is…
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