Ava Max’s debut album has been a long time coming. Chloé Agar reviews.
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Review: Declan McKenna’s Zeros
Sarah Lewis reviews Declan McKenna’s ‘highly listenable, and yet thought-provoking’ new album Zeros.
Listening to Movies: Musings on Soundtracks
Across film genres, soundtracks shape and support the genre and message of the film. Film composers employ various techniques when writing scores, but they all ultimately create tracks with structures that grow and evolve with the film’s motifs.
Behind the Scenes with the Raise Your Voice Theater Collective
Perhaps you were lucky enough to catch RENT! in Hilary 2019, the very first musical by the St Catz theatre society. Well, the cast is back, this time through the new endeavour Raise Your Voice Theater Collective, a virtual musical theater fundraiser in support of Color of Change and UK Black Pride. I talk to Read More…
Kanye for President?
Famous musicians using their platforms to espouse their political opinions is not a new phenomenon. It is also not remotely new that even musicians who otherwise produce completely apolitical music use their fame to put forward these opinions. And this phenomenon has only increased as artists have wrestled their public presentation and narrative away from Read More…
Refuge in Music: Pandemic Playlist 4
Part 4 of a mini series sharing the songs that have been getting us through this peculiar time.
Introspective: Pandemic Playlist 5
Part 5 of a mini series, sharing the songs that have been keeping us going through this peculiar time.
Feminist Catharsis Playlist for the Quarantined Soul: Pandemic Playlist 3
Part 3 of a mini series sharing the songs that have been keeping us going through this peculiar time.
Bob Graettinger and the Big Band Avant-Garde
Danny Riley takes us through the work of American experimental jazz musician Bob Graettinger.
2020 Playlist: Pandemic Playlist 2
Part 2 of a mini series sharing the songs that have been keeping us going through this peculiar time.