Those of you from a certain era most likely created mixtapes. The word ‘mixtape’ is a curious one as yes, they hold a moment of nostalgia in memory and a romantic essence as they were often created within a relationship for a desired effect. Most of the time the recording on a cassette was just…
Yes I like music videos, I grew up as part of the MTV generation, instead of playing music all day I would often put MTV on the TV in the front room, turn it up and enjoy the visual as well as the music. This was in the good old days of music shows such…
This morning I started to receive emails from record shops regarding ‘National Album Day‘ as apparently it returns on October 19th 2024 for its seventh year of existence and this year they have decided the theme is going to be ‘Great British Groups’. It is also teaming with what it calls a ‘broadcast partner’ in…
Well, I hope others were luckier than me, I hinted in a previous post that after not being successful in the first ballot I was ready and waiting at 8.55 to hit get tickets expecting a queue but at that exact moment i got a white screen, it thought I was a bot like it…
So Damon Albarn of Blur said in an article in the NME that he is against Bob Dylan’s decision to ban phones at gigs: “Where does it end?” “People won’t want to be on their phone if you’re engaging with them correctly” The NME article in question The BBC article on the same subject I…
If you saw the news this weekend, Kerrang, Kiss, 4Music, Magic and The Box have ceased programming. Back on the 29 January 2024, Channel 4 announced that Kerrang! TV and its sister channels would be closing as part of the future plans of the company leading up to 2030. So that’s it, gone! I missed…
This week saw the birthday of the iconic Sony Walkman. Yes, on the 1st of July 1979 the Sony Walkman celebrated 45 years and yes i am two days late in posting this but better late than never. So what did the Walkman mean and why was it so important? It meant freedom, yes thats…
According to an article in the Daily Mail yesterday, a study reveals that more than half of Brits enjoy playing music in the office, but it divides opinion as the ‘more than’ is only a 3% difference. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13465409/amp/More-half-Brits-enjoy-playing-music-office.html The article states – The research by Fora – a provider of premium and flexible working spaces –…
A wide variety of posts appeared last week when the one and only Noel Gallagher ignored the Poznan celebration and it went viral pretty quickly with many joking he’s too cool for that, even brother Liam stating on X “Poor Behaviour”. The main take from it was the many posts stating it’s the new album…
For Men Who Should Know Better I do like the latter part of how Wikipedia describes Loaded Magazine, “Loaded was a men’s lifestyle magazine. It launched as a mass-market print publication in 1994, ceased being issued in March 2015, but relaunched as a digital magazine on 11 November 2015. The content was changed, with risqué…
