Looking at his latest album IGOR, Tyler, The Creator’s rise to stardom isn’t a mystery. As leader of the Odd Future collective, he caught the…
With a re-emergence of genres like dubstep and a spike in darker, more minimal tones in music, Vanta comes at a crucial transitional point in…
“Is this too much?” The question feels strange coming from Carly Rae Jepsen, an artist whose career has been characterised first and foremost by unabashed…
Naming an EP A Fine Mess and then releasing it to the world’s music press is perhaps a risky move from NYC indie-rockers Interpol. While…
Brimming over with sentimental, middle-of-the-road piano ballads concerning affairs of the heart, Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi’s debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent can…
It’s the hallmark of a truly great band that, when they achieve the apex of their commercial success, they use the platform they’ve gained to…
After the unusually large amount of great new music that’s blessed our ears over the last couple of months, some kind of slow-down was inevitable…
As of Easter 2019, we’re changing up the way we update our new music playlists. Rather than doing a re-cap at the end of every…
While March 2019 has been a mess of uncertainty and political irresponsibility and self-interest that’s both frightening and boring in equal measure, it’s been a…
Gigs & Festivals
Skinny Pelembe @ Headrow House, Saturday 25th May Recently playlisted on BBC Radio 6Music for his excoriating single ‘No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish’ and…
Held at the start of June 2019 and with another exciting line-up in store, Long Division Festival will once again grace the streets of Wakefield,…
Big Thief @ Brudenell Social Club, Saturday May 18th Big Thief is a Brooklyn-based band known for their intriguing and unique interpretation of folk music.…
2000s
Although they’ve now got a reputation as one of the country’s most prestigious and longest-running indie acts, at the start of 2009 The Horrors were…
Looking back on the entirety of Noughties nearly a decade on, indeed as the following one is drawing to a close, it’s easier to get…
Influenced: MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer, Deerhunter, Wild Beasts, Fuck Buttons, Tune-Yards, Passion Pit, Grizzly Bear, Local Natives, Lower Dens, Warpaint, Shabazz Palaces, Unknown Mortal Orchestra,…
1990s
Much was made a couple of years ago when Radiohead’s OK Computer turned 20 years old, with dozens of think-pieces and commentators pointing out the…
It’s been written about to death at this point, but it’s still difficult to truly emphasise how baffling Weezer’s career has been. After tearing up…
As many of its key works have passed 25th anniversary milestones in the last year or so, much has been made of the legacy of…
1980s
Since their inception in the late ‘70s in the wake of punk, Robert Smith and the rotating cast of The Cure have become a globally…
Three decades after the release of their self-titled debut album, there’s very little left to say about The Stone Roses at this point in history.…
Alternative rock legends Pixies have been chasing the reformation dollar for the last decade and a half, playing festivals across the world and becoming the…
1970s
By the second half of 1978, David Bowie was in a curious point in his career. He’d left Berlin in February of that year, having…
Influenced: Bauhaus, The Raincoats, Public Image Ltd., The Cure, Young Marble Giants, Joy Division, New Order, Killing Joke, Japan, Echo & The Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins,…
Influenced: Billy Bragg, The Undertones, XTC, The Smiths, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Supergrass, Ash, The Libertines, The Rakes, Maxïmo Park, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, The Cribs,…
1960s
The ‘rock opera’ has had a chequered history as it has evolved in the half-century since the archetype was established in 1969. Like its close…
In between the dazzling avant-garde architecture of that 1967 debut album, still rightly celebrated today as one of the greatest albums in history, and the…
Influenced: The Stooges, New York Dolls, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, Primal Scream,…
As a companion piece to our annual end-of-year albums list published earlier this month, The Student Playlist presents The Top 50 Tracks of 2018. You…
Although it’s been a year pock-marked with political and social uncertainty, that sense of upheaval and tension has resulted in some pretty fine art being…
Revisiting any period in popular music is always interesting, insofar as one’s memories of it change and evolve as time passes and the present gets…
It doesn’t matter how big you might have been, ten years is a long time to be away. Certainly enough for an entirely new generation…
Dozens of icons of the world of independent and alternative music, as well as many in the world of pop, paid tribute to Scott Walker…
In the two decades since he released his low-key debut album Dialogue in February 1999, musician and producer Kieran Hebden, more commonly under his performance…
