With any posthumous release you get a complicated situation. Questions such as: what has been tampered with, and how far removed from the original artist’s intention is the release? Why release something deemed previously unacceptable?…
Warning – This is purely an opinion piece about the Paralympic Closing Ceremony that occurred last night in London bring an end to the London 2012 Games. It evaluates the music and visual spectacle and…
We’ve all heard of the loadness war (and if you haven’t then, familiarise yourself with it now) and people often say all music (pop chart wise) is the same. A research group in spain used…
Earwormery.com is a project to try and identify the causes and traits of ‘earworms.’ Basically they are pieces of music that loop endlessly in your head or get stuck in your head for reasons you…
As part of my Media Studies A Level we have to create a magazine. However, at first we have to make a questionnaire so we know who to aim it at or what they are…
ROCK IS DEAD! Or so many will have you believe. General concern over the entire music industry has occurred recently as it seems anybody with an internet connection can become a musician by downloading some…
Here is an interesting tag cloud of the day. These are statistically the most pirated artists of the last 4 years. I will point out certain people (like Phish or other bands) have a larger…