“Doggerel” is a term used to describe a certain strain of simplistic, unrefined, technically inept working-class pub poetry, once common across Ireland. Today, it is…
It’s not often that an artist releases two high-quality albums within a relatively short period of time, but luckily for fans of Anderson .Paak, the…
With a promotional roll-out that began over six months ago, it’s fair to say that No Geography is the most anticipated Chemical Brothers album in…
A decade into their career, Band Of Skulls have toned down the kinda-blues kinda-indie rock of their previous releases, and with the help of producer…
Once again smiling in the face of misery and painful subjects, cheery Canadian pop-punk band PUP shout and yell their way through another album. Morbid…
Nostalgia comes in two songwriting forms: comforting, and immediately off-putting. There is a special craft dedicated to walking the line between needless reference that equates…
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…
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…
Celebrated on March 8th annually, International Women’s Day has for over a century been a focal point in the global movement for women’s rights. Its…
Gigs & Festivals
Nobody who knows the smallest thing about Fontaines D.C. could be in any doubt that they are an Irish band. Every interview, review, and feature…
Given that These New Puritans are responsible for one of the best albums of the decade, it’s pretty dispiriting to see that the Belgrave Music…
Nina Nesbitt @ The Wardrobe, Sunday 14th April Nina Nesbitt’s catchy pop hooks and straight-forward lyrics have clearly been the key to the artist’s success.…
2000s
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,…
Influenced: Rihanna, M.I.A., Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha, Sky Ferreira, Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli XCX Influenced by: David Bowie, Donna Summer, Queen, Blondie,…
1990s
March 2014, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. Two decades after the release of a seminal album in hip-hop history –…
It’s an overcast, slightly chilly but dry evening on Saturday at Glastonbury in late June 1995. Instead of The Stone Roses, the advertised headliners on…
Over a decade that now spans the best part of 30 years, Richard D. James has carved out a career whose mythology is based in…
1980s
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…
The late 1980s: the peak of what many consider hip-hop’s golden era. 1988 alone saw the release of Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of…
Influenced: Primal Scream, Orbital, Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, Moby, The Killers, The Rapture, Interpol, The Postal Service, Bloc Party, Hot Chip, Friendly Fires, MGMT, The…
1970s
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,…
Influenced: Eurythmics, The Bangles, Duran Duran, Altered Images, Bananarama, The Gun Club, The Go-Go’s, The Primitives, Katrina & The Waves, Madonna, L7, Bikini Kill, Elastica,…
1960s
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,…
Influenced: Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Elton John, Elvis Costello, The Police, The Pogues, Jeff Buckley, David Gray, Regina…
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…
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…
