The headlining acts for the 2019 Electric Picnic festival were announced this week and as usual the announcement was met with mixed reviews. This year's indie/soul type headliners (Hozier, the Strokes, and Florence and the Machine) sees a departure from last year's more Hip Hop based headliners of Kendrick Lamar, NERD, and Massive Attack. Obviously... Continue Reading →
Mondays are usually tough enough in their own right, but this week on the 4th of March 2019 the start of the working week was accompanied by the savage loss of Keith Flint. As well as being an absolutely crucial character to British music, Keith was also an incredibly funny character who will be missed... Continue Reading →
Determining the greatest band of all time is one of the most difficult questions in all of music. It’s arguably impossible to answer correctly as well because to nearly everyone in the world, the matter is entirely subjective, they prefer a certain band over others because there is something specific about that band that just... Continue Reading →
It's hard to believe that it is nearly 8 years since Ed Sheeran released what would be his breakthrough album +. What's even harder to believe is the strange relationship there appears to be between Sheeran releasing music and the falling rate of homicides in his Native country of England and neighboring nation of Wales. If you... Continue Reading →
It's now over 20 years since the Battle of Britpop. For those of you not familiar with this event it was basically a competition between Oasis and Blur back in the 1990s to see which band could reach the number one spot the week they released their new singles in the UK. Blur released Country House and... Continue Reading →
Video Killed the Radio Star is not just a very catchy song; it’s also a line which perfectly narrates the concept of creative destruction. This is a process whereby new innovations and changes in the market begin to replace older ones. The phrase was first coined by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 in his... Continue Reading →
There is a lot of criticism gets thrown at musicians regarding their live performances. The majority of these critiques come from the musician sounding different live in concert to how they do on their album. This is actually a pretty common issue with musicians; it’s very hard to recreate what they do in the studio... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year everyone! Seen as this is the sites first post of 2019 I thought I would take inspiration from the festive period for it. Now that the Christmas period is over it means a few things have probably happened. You’re probably a bit worse for wear in work and you’ve probably heard this... Continue Reading →
Despite the cold stereotype which economists are often associated with, they are at heart people with a love for a specific subject who long to explain the happenings of the world using this subject. That is what economists, along with other academics do every day; they attempt to advance the knowledge of their own subject... Continue Reading →
