Tag: 2022
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: 18/11
As we draw in to darker days inching one step closer to Christmas, we take a look at a few picks from this weeks’ New Music Friday (18/11). Hopefully, some in here should be cosy enough to tide you over with your cuppa. The riffage of rap and hip-hop rules the airwaves this Friday, with […]
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: 28/10
My, what a quick week, eh? I was just reeling off last weeks’ releases of Arctic Monkeys and Loyle Carner during the working commute, when another Friday came out of nowhere. As we enter the spooktastic weekend of Halloween, what creepy occurrences do we have lurking into the weekend? Nothing too scary, I hope. The […]
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Little Simz: The Mercury Magic of “Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert”
This Tuesday, British rapper Little Simz won the 2022 Mercury Prize Award with Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert for ‘Album of the Year.’ There’s always been talk of how emphatic an album release can really be. A debut album expanding a sub-genre, even a conceptual album redefining art as we know it. But there’s […]
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Greta Thunberg and Björk in conversation: advocating climate action through music and voice
The world’s leading voice for climate action and one of our industries’ most iconic singer-songwriters sit down and discuss all things change, with greenwashing, fame, music and the matriarchy taking precedent. In a Newstatesman exclusive, the pair meet for the first time and for many, this seems like an inevitable discussion to be had, a […]
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October Drift: “I Don’t Belong Anywhere” album review – powerful post-grunge makes its mark
You may or may not have heard October Drift. An elusive collective with aims of top flight successions, they are an alternative alignment and a necessary addition to the heavy, pop-inflected post-grunge that has emerged over recent years. With brutal realism and dark undertones, they became to two-step into one of the bands to look […]
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