It’s an unfortunate truth that tragedy and musicians tend to go very much hand in hand. The world is decorated with thousands of murals commemorating musicians taken before their time in unfortunate circumstances. Last week was the anniversary of one of the prime figures of tragedy in music, Kurt Cobain, who unfortunately took his own... Continue Reading →
Academics have one job, to advance knowledge within their field. The two ways they do this are by teaching and researching. Both are obviously important because teaching communicates what is already known within the field, while research creates new knowledge. Economic research involves quite a bit of quantitative measurement and seeing if one thing is... Continue Reading →
A recent post on this site looked at the decline in the contribution of physical music to global music revenue. CDs and Vinyl have finally been overtaken by streaming in this field. While there is a definite decline in the sale of CDs and other physical music formats, they still have their place in the music... Continue Reading →
With the stretch in the evenings beginning to creep back into conversations and the sight of pale pasty legs becoming a more frequent site we know that the Irish summer is on it's way; and with it will come festival season. A truly wonderful time of year where fashion, bathing, and common sense can be... Continue Reading →
A recent post on this site (see here) looked at the effect the Christmas period has on the consumption of A Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. What happens is simple, the song is associated with Christmas time, so at Christmas time it is consumed more and subsequently gets driven up the charts. In keeping with this... Continue Reading →
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 →
