Friday

10-10-2025 Vol 19

Year: 2025

The MIDiA 2025 predictions webinar

One of my favourite parts of the MIDiA year is creating the MIDiA predictions report and webinar. It is always…

Orbits (Norway) – Broken Glass (single)

We rarely feature R&B because it’s a genre that I find hard to classify; to identify what makes any song…

Menaura Share Their ‘DRM’ Dodgy Response Mechanism

Exploring a range of negative emotions that lead to a sense of disconnection from reality, London shoegaze band Menaura unveils…

HotWax: Hot Shock review – hot topic | Rock

Even taking into account the industry’s desire for fresh facedness, HotWax are notably prodigious; just a few years removed from…

Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 3 – Cate Ferris & Champion Fever / Blinkers

About fifteen years ago I started taking my camera along to gigs – it could have been a fad but…

Pink Cloud – Flourish – Edge of Arcady

Photo: Press Pink Cloud’s second single and latest blissed-up banger ‘Flourish’ teleports us right back to the early 1990s baggy…

Tracks, 28th February 2025. – Hard Of Hearing Magazine

Our weekly roundup of the key new releases this week. C Turtle by Lucas Edwards | Words: Hazel Blacher, Lloyd…

Anti-algorithm, anti-perfection – the rise of a music counter-culture

Today’s music landscape is one defined by abundance and immediacy. In a chronically-online world, everything is overground immediately. Scenes have…