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Album Reviews: My Top 5 Albums Released in February

June 27, 2020August 18, 2020Posted in Album Reviews, JournalismTagged Album Review, Alternative, Black Metal, Djent, Dream Pop, Electronic, Emo, England, Everyone Love You... Once You Leave Them, February, Grimes, I Let It in and It Took Everything, Indie, Journalism, Liverpool, Loathe, Metal, Metalcore, Miss Anthropocene, Music, New Music, Nu Metal, Ordinary Man, Ozzy Osbourne, Prog Rock, Psychedelic, Punk, Review, Rock, Tame Impala, The Amity Affliction, The Prince of Darkness, The Slow Rush, USA, Video2 Comments

Continuing to look back at some of my favourite albums released earlier this year, this time I’ll take a look at the month of February. A month where everything seemed normal, it was the calm before the storm, as the full impact of COVID-19 lurked around the corner. Donald Trump was being impeached, Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars, Storm Denis hit the UK, and the world was still in self-destruct mode. But alas, there was new music. This month saw the return of The Prince of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne, Tame Impala coming back after five years, and a blisttering second album from Liverpudlian band Loathe, not to mention new albums from The Amity Affliction, Grimes, Green Day, and King Krule, just to name a few.

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Album Reviews: My Top 5 Albums Released in January

June 11, 2020August 18, 2020Posted in Album Reviews, JournalismTagged Afrobeat, Album Review, Alt-Pop, Alternative, Big Conspiracy, Britpop, Circles, Dancehall, Dune Rats, Electro-Pop, Electronica, Emo, Exotic Soundscapes, Grunge, Heavy Metal, Hip Hop, Hurry Up and Wait, I Disagree, Indie, J Hus, January, Journalism, Mac Miller, Metal, Mura Masa, Music, Pop-Punk, Poppy, Punk, R&B, R.Y.C, Review, Rock, Video3 Comments

What feels like an eternity ago, when COVID-19 was a distant viral illness beginning to spread throughout Asia, when Harry and Meghan’s decision to step down from royal duties ‘split the nation’, when we were all left realing from the heartbraking scenes of the Australian bushfires, before many other tragic events, including the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter; new music was released, which was a brief respite from the tsunami of bad news and conflicts brought in with the start of a new decade, 2020. Whilst it’s not hard to understate that there are more important things in life than music, music can provide an escape from reality, and provide an outlet to release negative emotions, as well as provide joy and something to look forward to, especially in times such as these. Little did we know, that January was just the start of things to come, and these albums are fresh from the context of now, providing a brief respite as they did then, and now.

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WATCH: FEVER 333 perform a live ‘LONG LIVE THE INNOCENT’ Demonstration

June 4, 2020August 18, 2020Posted in Features, JournalismTagged Alternative, BlackLivesMatter, Demonstration, Fever 333, George Floyd, Journalism, Live Music, Live Show, LONG LIVE THE INNOCENT, Metal, Music, Rock, USA, VideoLeave a comment

Last night, Fever 333 performed a live demonstration to support the #BlackLivesMatter movement, with all proceeds of the livestream going towards the Black Lives Matter and the Minnesota Freedom Fund. Further to the performance, the band shared the below message:

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Feature: My Top 5 Musicians Speaking Out on Racism

June 3, 2020August 18, 2020Posted in Features, JournalismTagged Ahmaud Arbery, Akala, Alternative, America, Audioslave, BlackLivesMatters, BlackoutTuesday, Blues, Crime, Emo, England, Fever 333, George Floyd, Hip Hop, History, J Cole, Jason Aalon Butler, Joey Bada$$, Journalism, Letlive, Live Music, London, Metal, Minneapolis, Music, Musicians, Police, Pressure Cracks, Prophets of Rage, Protest Music, Punk, Racism, Rage Against The Machine, Revolution, Rock, Tom Morello, USA, Video1 Comment

Like many, I’ve been following the news of the shocking and appaling murder of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by police in Minneapolis, USA. The consequential outrage of his killing has not only sparked protests there, but spread to other cities in the United States too and across the world, with demostrations in Auckland, Berlin, London, and more. George Floyd’s death, and the circumstances surrounding it, is one of many examples of police brutality and racism towards the black community in America. As things began to boil up over the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, and Breanna Taylor in Louisevill, and the consequent investigation (or the lack of), things have now boiled over to the point where enough is enough, and things need to change. The worldwide response shows that this sort of racist behaviour isn’t just succluded to America, the insututional day-to-day injustices and the things we don’t see, are happening all over.

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Feature: Top 10 Music-Related Things to Watch During Lockdown

May 20, 2020August 18, 2020Posted in Features, JournalismTagged Alternative, Andrea Bocelli, Astronomical Concert, Concert, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Delta 7, Disabled Not Defeated, Documentary, Duomo di Milano, Emo, England, Everybody's Everything, Film, Five4Five Fest, Foals, Fortnite, Gig, Grunge, History, Italy, Journalism, Kerrang!, Knocked Loose, Korn, Lil Peep, Live Music, Live Stream, Lockdown, London, Metal, Mini-Documentary, Movie, Music, Music For Hope, Netflix, New York Hardcore, Nirvana, Noisey, Pop, Post Malone, Punk, Review, Rock, Show, The Nothing, Travis Scott, USA, Vice, Video, YouTube1 Comment

The current situation with COVID-19 has left the world in lockdown, with venues closed and tours cancelled or postponed, a lot of artists have been forced to find new and innovative ways to stay connected wth their fans, such as live streaming performances from their home, going back through the archives and releasing footage of previous shows, or hosting Q&A’s and listening parties. Like many, I’ve had the extra time on my hands to watch a lot of these performances, and found it interesting to see the various ways in which bands and artists are approaching these difficult times.

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Video: EPK: Luke Targett

February 20, 2017March 1, 2017Posted in Multimedia, VideosTagged Acoustic, EPK, Luke Targett, Music, VideoLeave a comment

Description: Audio Visual EPK/documentary for the Ba(hons) Popular Music Journalism course 2014 – 2015. Filmed and edited by William Garnett, Rory Kelly, Joshua Roberts and Carys Shaves.

Southampton Solent University solent.ac.uk

First published: February 21, 2015