Our online editor Andrea Loftus (virtually) caught up with a few of the musicians and DJ’s meeting our live music needs through weekly livestreams. SANDY ROWLINGSON Sandy went to Leeds College of Music and has […]
Funding In The Music Industry
The CEO of K music Tom Kiehl has written to the chancellor Rishi Sunak in regards to putting more money into the music industry. An industry that already contributes around 5.2 billion pounds to the […]
Brexit means Brexit…but what does that mean for music?
Artists call for the protection of the touring music industry, in the fear Britain will turn into a “cultural jail”. It’s the new B-word, the dreaded topic of conversation we try and avoid like deadlines. […]
“Surviving R Kelly” Exposes Society’s Racial Bias When It Comes To Sexual Harassment
From his illegal marriage to fifteen-year-old singer Aaliyah in 1994 to the child pornography trial of 2008 to the sadistic sex cult reported to Buzzfeed in 2017, R Kelly’s well-known exploits have furthered his career […]
Colourism in the Music Industry
Colourism has long since been a widely controversial topic of debate across the music industry. Historically, the industry has been ingrained with racial inequality and discrimination towards artists of colour. This issue, known as colourism, […]
The Vinyl Frontier
Jake Leigh-Howarth explains why for him, vinyl is the superior music format. What do vinyl records mean to you? Are they a symbol of a bygone era dwarfed by the pragmatism of the MP3 file […]
Debate | Is Spotify killing the music industry?
At over £103million, music streaming services such as Spotify accounted for 10 per cent of total music revenues last year, compared to 7 per cent the previous year. Despite its dramatic rise to fame many artists […]
Comment | Bands in the Hands of the Fans
Last week saw the fifth birthday of the popular music streaming service Spotify. This half-decade has seen radical changes in how we access music, with pay monthly streaming sites now becoming more favourable than downloading […]