Live Review: Temples @ Komedia
Words by Luke Edison This Monday 2nd December, Komedia’s doors opened to Temples, a psychedelic rock band originating from Kettering, Northamptonshire. Having heard about their mesmerizing live performances and stellar…
‘Never Cross A Picket Line’ – Three Songs of Solidarity and Struggle
Words by Ryan Bridgewater As our lecturers go on strike from Monday to defend their pensions, now is the perfect time to reflect on the history of workers’ and trade…
Live Review: Jordan Rakei @ Concorde 2
On Wednesday the 16th of October, Concorde 2 once again reinforced its position as Brighton’s ‘crème de la crème’ of music venues. Having hosted Afla Mist and Laura Misch a…
Carpets, Coffee and Mental Health: In Conversation with Will Young
University students today live in a world of pres and posts. Culture-changing events come quick and without warning, leaving us in aftermaths where the world before is a ghost. Students…
The LaFontaines: An Interview
By Payton Dembs On Monday 7th October, before Patterns could be filled with 150 people chanting “The La, The La, The LaFontaines”, I was offered to watch soundcheck and sit…
Leaving Us Breathless, Talking with Inhaler
On the day I meet Inhaler, Brighton is one interminable cloud. I’m beckoned to them relatively late, and from the other side of town, and so pass along the seafront…
“The piano is an extension of my head”
Melissa Rosalind White On stage, Espen Berg captivates the audience with apparently effortless precision. His fingers fly over the keys of the piano, but not only his technical versatility makes…
The Music of The Shining
Words by Ryan Bridgewater From its opening helicopter shots of the Rocky Mountains scored by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, music is fundamental to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic The…
Review: Charli XCX’s Charli
Words by Farley Green Charli XCX strips back to Charli in her newest and most personal material to date. By peeling back, on a personal level and temporally—taking inspiration from…
Black British female talent you should know
Words by Monica Namug There is a new wave of Black British women who are carving out new creative platforms that centre the Black women experience. From Black Girl Fest,…
Drill Music: Looking Through the Hole
A view on the significance of drill and grime music and why we should support it, not oppose it Words by Joe Pearce Musical expression, to many, exhibits democracy and…
Review: Holly Herndon @ ACCA
Words by Ryan Bridgewater On Thursday 17th October the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) hosted Holly Herndon – one of the most forward-thinking artists making music today –…
Everybody Loves Them: Talking with APRE, the Indie Hit
What is marvellous — or, perhaps, shameful — about streaming services, is the ability for bands to explode within a microcosm. Like a puck of snow sliding off a cliff,…
Review: MAHALIA’s Love & Compromise
Mahalia’s rise to alternative R&B supremacy comes as no surprise. Atlantic saw the potential in her when she was only 13 and in 2012 she released her first EP, Head…
Musicians vs Politicians
By Louis Johnson – Comment Sub-Editor Why should we value music? In an age of identity politics where empathy appears to have been cast to the dustbin of history; music…
Review: BROCKHAMPTON’s Ginger
Released earlier this summer, BROCKHAMPTON followed 2018’s ‘Iridescence’ with their fifth studio album ‘Ginger’. Since Iridescence, the self-proclaimed greatest boyband since one direction has faced chaos and separation, but out…
Should we still listen to Michael Jackson’s music?
YES Alice Gledhill Sometimes, bad people create great things. This does not redeem them, but nor does it reduce the quality of their art. Michael Jackson, who died in 2009,…
Is music journalism a total minefield?
By Stella Cooper My friends are still sharing videos, no matter how messy, of pure summer festival carnage. Whether that’s in the shape of music, or campsite antics, it still…
Saving The Music Video
The last year has seen the release of significant musical projects on Netflix. A television platform by nature, this convergence of media could signal the start of something great, a…
Katy Perry’s latest controversy captures contemporary Pop’s key problems
In July, a six-year-old song struck a chord in pop culture for all the wrong reasons. Following a four-year legal battle, a Los Angeles jury declared that Katy Perry’s 2013…