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October 14, 2021

Heavy Rotation: Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model

Just like today, gloomy mid-‘70s London pubs were redolent with the scent of stale beer, sweat, cigarettes and the promise of a smile or a wink under the wan lighting. The difference between then and now, is that pub windows no longer flex under the punitive fury of British new wave icons the likes of skinny-suited, bespectacled, and whippet-thin Declan Patrick MacManus, better known as Elvis Costello.

December 26, 2021

Heavy Rotation: Technique – New Order

The sonic hedonism achieved in New Order’s Technique is still felt in music today. Released in January, 1989 it heralded an end to the indulgent excesses of the ‘80s with a wink, embracing the unknown pleasures to come with the birth of rave culture.

December 31, 2021

Best of 2021: Pandemic Era Music

The incubation period of new music is such that nearly two years into the pandemic the jury is officially in: I haven't noticed a tangible shift in either the quality or the quantity of music.

February 23, 2024

Black History: An Exploration of Music As an Expression of Civil Rights

Racial activism within music isn't a modern phenomenon, it has been there since the art form's inception. In the late nineteenth century, marginalized African-American communities invented the Blues largely as an expression of their subjugation; the fact that they also invented the structure of popular music was just a happy accident.