Music Opinion Archives: 02/2025

Green Day - Matty Healy - The 1975 - Billie Joe Armstrong

Can punk rock really have guitar heroes?

Anyone with some coordination can play ‘American Idiot’…

Feb 28, 2025

Beck - 2024 - Musician

Beck: the one-man Talking Heads of the 1990s

The right to be weird.

Feb 28, 2025

Mercury Music Prize - 2024 - Opinion

The deteriorating impact of the Mercury Prize

The commercial responsibility looms large.

Callum MacHattie

Feb 26, 2025

Ghost - Tobias Forge - Papa Emeritus 4

Ghost: you can’t spell Black Sabbath without Abba

A deliciously dark, raucous party…

Feb 21, 2025

The War on Phones at Gigs- Necessary evil or signs of a dystopian music industry? - Opinion

The war on phones at gigs: a necessary evil or signs of a dystopian music industry?

Are these measures too much, or not enough?

Feb 19, 2025

Freddie Mercury - Queen - Singer - Frontman - Musician

Is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ actually a good song?

Does it deserve the praise?

Feb 19, 2025

I love when artists grit their teeth- Does Kendrick Lamar's halfime show prove rivalry in music is a good thing?

“I love when artists grit their teeth”: does Kendrick Lamar’s halfime show prove rivalry in music is a good thing?

A monumental performance.

Dale Maplethorpe

Feb 18, 2025

Mick Jagger - Keith Richards - The Rolling Stones - 1972

Let bygones be: should more legacy acts be censoring themselves?

How do we deal with controversial music?

Feb 18, 2025

No, Nick Cave, we don't have to separate the art from the artist when it comes to Kanye West - Opinion - 2025

No, Nick Cave, we don’t need to separate the art from the artist when it comes to Kanye West

“I love Hitler”.

Feb 17, 2025

Squaring The Circle- The opulence of classic rock album art

Squaring The Circle: The opulence of classic rock album art

Something we’ll never see again.

Callum MacHattie

Feb 17, 2025

Hear Me Out - Stereolab’s ‘Cobra and Phases Group...’ is a flawed masterpiece

Hear Me Out: Stereolab’s ‘Cobra and Phases Group…’ is a flawed masterpiece

A mind-bending trip.

Feb 16, 2025

Tony Iommi - Black Sabbath - 2017

‘The Devil You Know’: the Black Sabbath album left out of the timeline

The lost riffs out of the timeline.

Feb 14, 2025