20th anniversary of Tori Amos, Björk, and P.J. Harvey Q Magazine cover
In May 1994, Q Magazine assembled three of the most provocative female singer-songwriters of the mid-1990s and put them on its cover – Tori Amos, Björk, and P.J. Harvey. The article, with its...
View ArticleMy top ten film soundtracks
When it comes to how much I enjoy a film, one of the most essential components of the cinematic experience is the music. Whenever I’ve been particularly moved in someway, it’s often down to the music...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been listening to in 2014
In previous years I’ve done a run down of my favourite albums but in 2014 I started to act like a Millennial and became all about single tracks. So, in the spirit of how we all consume music these...
View ArticleMadonna – Rebel Heart (2015) track-by-track review
I promise this will be the final blog post I write about Madonna’s new album, Rebel Heart, but I wanted to finish up with a track-by-track review of the Queen’s latest opus – it’s not every day Madonna...
View ArticleTaylor Swift: A Sylvia Plath for Millennials?
Taylor Swift’s music has never been on my radar to be honest, unsurprising really since I don’t think, at 36, that I fit the demographic for her fanbase. But I have to say I’m pretty impressed with...
View ArticleWill Young – Love Revolution official video
Will Young has just released the video for his new single, Love Revolution, taken from his upcoming album ‘85% Proof‘. This single sees him going back to his white soul/r’n’b roots after 2011’s...
View ArticleThe best of gay pop – an update
In 2013, I wrote a popular blog post on ‘Gay Pop’ – a sub-genre of pop music by artists who are unabashedly OUT, sexually ambivalent, or decidedly closeted (read parts one, two, and three). The music...
View ArticleMadonna vs. her contemporaries
Whenever Madonna is written about lately she is almost always compared to the younger generation of pop stars currently lighting up the charts. In what has become a common narrative, we are constantly...
View ArticleDavid Bowie: Goodbye to a genius
Waking up this morning to the news that David Bowie had died was a complete and utter shock. Having downloaded his new album just yesterday, Blackstar, which he released only three days ago, the news...
View ArticleWhere next for Madonna?
If the Sunday tabloids are to be believed, Madonna is in the midst of a full-blown meltdown that has been characterised by keeping audiences waiting for hours before she arrives on stage, swigging...
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