With summer right around the corner, and therefore a long summer holiday for most university students coming up, hopefully, some of us will have the privilege of having a few of what I like to call ‘A Nothing Day’. These days normally come after having worked lots of shifts at home and finally having a […]
Entering the venue, you were greeted with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Navigating toward the performance space, there was a quiet but noticeable shift to a more introspective undertone. The room was consumed by a deep blue light, and not before long did Chantal Michelle and Grace Villamil appear. Their set began with the soft […]
Buhloone Mindstate was a reaction to gangsta rap’s ascendance of tough posturing. It’s their least songful, eschewing the hooks of Three Feet High’s hummable collage and De La Soul Is Dead’s sprawl for a web of ideas in a holistic package: a quiet but assured treatise reckoning with the music industry’s mistreatment of black expression […]
This week would have been the 150th Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the great Russian composer. Rachmaninoff was a true virtuoso on the piano and, standing at 6 foot 6, an absolute colossus of Russian classical music. He is considered one of the last bastions of the Romantic movement and his luscious musical compositions contain some […]
Tuesday the 28th of March. Sneaky Pete’s is packed when I arrive. For an opening band who had done their first gig a mere three nights before, the newly born Edinburgh-based band Edge of the Bed sure knows how to attract a crowd. The gig starts in ten minutes, and I have to rush to the […]
As we reach exam season and procrastination is plaguing you, here are some artists to get you motivated and focused. Vulfpeck/Vulf: Groovy and motivating, Vulfpeck’s album ‘Mr Finish Line’ is a great driving album and evening walk soundtrack and has recently found its way into my studying lineup. It will give you beats that keep […]
It’s been nearly 4 years since M83 last released an LP. Since 2019, Gonzalez has quietly hidden from the limelight, busily recording new tracks. In this time, the world could not have looked any different; pre-pandemic life feels a distant, unattainable memory. But M83 remains a constant, once again producing ethereal atmospheric music that takes […]
Joesef is back on his Scottish home turf to close the UK tour for the new album Permanent Damage, which he released at the beginning of 2023. It is so clear that Scotland and its people are woven into the very fabric of Joesef’s music and lyricism and that he himself feels a part of this audience. […]