Tag: Culture
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MERCURY PRIZE 2022: First-timers join nominees as diversity is questioned…
The Mercury Prize nominees, which celebrates the best British and Irish albums of the year, have been announced with 12 shortlisted albums making up a list from all walks of life. From dabblings of Scottish heritage jazz, to pioneering rap and of course landing on a British staple, that cannot be ignored from the Summer […]
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Are we losing our love of new music?
It’s not really the occasion to throwing statistics at you at this hour, but statistically, we are more genuinely disinterested in new music releases than we were say, 5 years or go. That’s according to a midyear report from US market monitor Luminate, anyways. As we know with the Kate Bush returning to the charts, […]
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your new rock this week.//
As we saunter into the blazing summer (as those in the UK are going through a freak heatwave), some of our most notable artists are cooking up stuff equally hot for us to savour on. Here’s your new rock this week. Interpol. Taking a more candid and resourceful approach to their songwriting, The Other Side […]
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have we lost our punk?
Revisiting the life and times of Pistols and Clash and their whole ‘scene’ got me thinking about where we are now with it all. Being punk now in 2022 is starkly different to what it meant to being punk in the 1970s. Of course, that will come naturally over time as music preferences bend and […]
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Clash or Pistols: Who was more righteous with their music?
The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but The Clash were the real definitive British punk rockers. Brash, fiery and bolstered with an outlaw image, they were charged with a certain righteousness that only a select few punks were able to pull off. Despite a band that seemingly had “traditional” […]
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