By Alexander Stone The acid house phenomenon of 1988-89 transformed British youth culture, introducing a new sonic landscape from Chicago and igniting an explosion of…
By Alexander Stone Founded in 1958 at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, the Radiophonic Workshop existed to supply British broadcasting with custom sound effects and…
While the Fringe fills the Royal Mile with flyers, the Edinburgh International Festival runs alongside it from 7 to 30 August doing something almost opposite.…
Vincent Belorgey, who recorded as Kavinsky, has passed away at 50. He built a career on a ghost story about a driver and a Testarossa,…
Punk mattered less as a sound than as a permission structure. How the fanzines, photocopiers and independent labels of 1976-77 rebuilt British culture.
On 30 July the Mercury Prize reveals its shortlist, the annual dozen Albums of the Year that will be picked over until the winner is…
The music industry has an unspoken etiquette about release dates. Big artists tend to give each other room, partly out of courtesy and mostly out…
Exploring how Joy Division’s post-punk rhythms echo T.S. Eliot’s fractured modernist verse - unpacking shared themes of alienation, dread, and sonic rebellion. (149 characters)
How Tony Wilson's Factory Records shaped Manchester's musical identity, from Joy Division's post-punk to the Hacienda's rave revolution.
By Tessa Nolan When Taylor Swift opened The Eras Tour at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on 17 March 2023, few could have predicted…