You’d be hard-pressed to find anybody in China quite as passionate about punk and the underground as Alice Yuan is, which is hopefully made clear in this summer 2023 interview.… Read More In Conversation with: Alice Yuan of BORDERLESS (Event Promoter and Punk Guru)
Hey, long time no see, Internet. Here I am, re-emerging from my year-long hibernation to participate in the annual record recap/love-in. It’s been quite the year, but you already know that. It’s been a year for music too, which is something you probably also already know. Here are my choice cuts from the last twelve… Read More My Favourite Albums of 2021
There’s a lot that I’ve been grateful for this year, and I am happy to report that 2019 has been a pretty solid year for yours-truly (if not the world at large). I took up running, which meant I took up heavy music again, and I got slightly better at speaking Chinese, even if I… Read More My Favourite Albums of 2019
In a recent interview with Billboard Fall Out Boy bassist / lyricist Pete Wentz stated of the bands aims that “We need to be relevant to pop culture, which means we need to be played on the radio” and listening to his bands sixth LP you very much get that feeling. Over the last fifteen… Read More Fall Out Boy – American Beauty / American Psycho (Album Review)
I don’t listen to much mainstream chart ‘pop’ music anymore, and I suppose that which I do listen to often I consider a guilty pleasure in a sense. That’s never really been the case with Nina Nesbitt, and her debut full-length is surprisingly accessible when taken for what it is, offering a little more than… Read More Nina Nesbitt – Peroxide (Review)
Very few bands have undergone the musical changes that Panic at the Disco have over the years and even less make it through retaining their former class. The American now-double act had just about managed it, until now. From the pop punk hallmark that was ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’, to ‘Pretty. Odd.’ (probably… Read More Panic At The Disco – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (Review)
It takes a lot these days for a pop album to really grab me, and over the years I’ve been distancing myself from the genre. However, when I heard ‘Gun’, taken from Chvrches upcoming album, it was the first (electro) pop song I’ve genuinely liked for a long time so my expectations were high for… Read More Chvrches – The Bones Of What You Believe (Review)
It’s been a good year for singer-songwriters so far, with the likes of Frank Turner, Passenger, Gabrielle Aplin and others storming the charts, and this trend looks set to continue with Tom Odell’s debut full-length ‘Long Way Down’. However, whereas the previous artists produced albums that deserved their success the same can’t be said about… Read More Tom Odell – Long Way Down (Review)
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