15 Not Fair – Injustice in Iran
Heavy metal music to many is about expressing oneself and, as a platform, allows anyone to express how they feel in any way they please. However, in few countries, Metal as a genre is banned, either for its sometimes-blasphemous content, or for how it can affect the...
Hope…
HOPE… it’s all we have This morning, as usual, I ventured out on my morning walk so the dog and I could both have our daily exercise. Once again it’s yet another dull, dank and drizzly February day, with nothing much to look forward...
Brockhampton: A Comeback From Controversy
To detail Brockhampton’s anticipated return in 2021, I, Ryan McCabe, discuss how the band’s history could affect the success of their new album on release: https://sites.marjon.ac.uk/doughnut/files/2021/01/Brockhampton.m4a...
Christmas Lights
Ten years ago, on this very day, I did something really quite exciting! My friend and I got up at silly-o-clock to catch the early Mega Bus from Plymouth to London. I remember the sun didn’t even show itself until we’d been travelling for at least two hours, and the...
Peppytones – how are they keeping busy?
The low-down on Toby before Peppytones….. As a small boy Toby loved music and, born into a family of musicians, you could say music has always been his destiny. Once he’d passed through a Thomas the Tank engine obsession, I remember him singing along in the car...
“No one understands how bad it is when you’re mentally ill” Bru-C reveals heartbreaking struggle with mental health
Up and coming EDM/D&B rapper Bru-C has came back from a prolonged social media silence with an update about his mental health and future album release. One of Nottingham’s finest stars of the revolutionary urban music movements, Bru-C, has put out a plea to...
Are System of a Down really back for good?
After the unexpected release of ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’ and ‘Protect the Land.’ Fans of System of a Down where left exited by this possibility for some new music after 15 years of silence. But are they really back? and has it really been an...
Who are Palm Reader? – Willow
Looking for new music? Surry born band ‘Palm Reader’ have recently released a brand new single, ‘Willow.’ Before listening to Willow, I had not heard any of Palm Readers other music. Currently, on Spotify, they hold three albums and 6 singles and are yet to...
28 Years Later – Dirt
September 29th marks the 28th anniversary of Alice in Chain’s highest selling album to date, ‘Dirt’. Alice in Chains originally rose to fame in the early 90s, the era of grunge rock, becoming famous following success in bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and...
Radiohead the blackest white band of our times
Ask anyone who is the Blackest white rock band to emerge over the past 30 years and my hunch is that few would say Radiohead. In sync with Black music? Immediately obvious contenders from that pop moment include funk rock veterans the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, or...
On A Happier Note – Coronavirus and Music
Quarantined Italians make music from their balconies, in attempt to lift spirits, March 13th 2020. Since the international outbreak of Covid-19, there has been an immense sense of anxiety and panic, with people being separated from their loved ones due to social...
War to Peace – An Environmentally Relevant Whale of an album
From Mars to Sirius, an album created by the band Gojira, the album tells a story of a protagonist awakening on a long-lost planet, attempting to find a way to end the conflict and destruction of his own planet by seeking the flying whales, mystical creatures who have...
