Harry and more: Today not only marks my mothers’ birthday today (happy birthday Mum)… No, it also marks another New Music Friday! //With eclectic triumphs from both Harry Styles and Everything Everything aswell as Porridge Radio and Flume providing to the mix, it’s been a successful work rate for our favourite alternatives.\\ The Elephant in […]
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\\life ain’t always empty.// As we entered into blossoming April, there was not an album that had been released that I was not excited for most than Fontaines DC’s Skinty Fia. Hot off the press, with that blood-red sheen glistening in the sun, Skinty Fia is the bands’ third studio album from their successive Grammy-nominated […]
Making GRAMMYs History: Jon Batiste and the Importance of Celebrating Black Culture
//As someone who holds themselves in high regard with the know-hows and the who-haws of the music industry, I have to say, I was quite ashamed of myself not knowing or truly understanding the work of Jon Batiste. I was vaguely familiar with his work-ethic when it came to the composing of Pixar’s jazz-epic Soul […]
A healthy detox, Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ compulsive search for revitalisation brings a new challenging frontier for the group. Not exactly Red Hot as they wished, but albeit a lukewarm welcoming. //It’s slowly becoming nigh possible to produce a studio album nowadays without its usual lathering of swampy filler and even though this Rubin-enhanced 17-track […]
Nothing but Compliments from here (2005), the anticipation of Alpha Games is mounting… ___________ Rife in dissonant, art-jaunty hooks with the flair of graffiti pizzaz, Bloc Party always brings a sense of familiarity whenever I listen to their music, old and new. ___________ Since helping mould the shape of British indie-rock sounds since the early […]