David White / Stuff For self-confessed workaholic Charlotte Ryan, watching her garden grow is magic for the soul. Charlotte Ryan is a music journalist and presenter of RNZ Music 101’s Saturday afternoon show. She lives and gardens in Eden Terrace, Auckland, with her 14-year-old daughter Annie and her cat Minnie. I get teased to watch […]

Music industry TV personality Allison Hagendorf knows great sound when she hears it, choosing Leon’s Terra line of outdoor speakers for the outdoor spaces at her husband Brian Jaffe’s new SoCal home . Krissy rushes ⋅ Posted: June 20, 2022 Music industry TV personality Allison Hagendorf knows great sound when she hears it, choosing Leon’s […]

Carol Clerk, Northern Ireland’s first outstanding music journalist, will be honored with a new scholarship that will support future journalists from the north. The Carol Clerk Fellowship will provide £3,500 for professional equipment and resources for a future music journalist (female or non-binary with a connection to Northern Ireland). There will be additional mentorship, feedback […]

As the child of Chinese immigrants, journalist Ben Fong-Torres knew all too well the cruelty of racism. Anti-Chinese sentiment grew in America when China entered the Korean War as an ally of North Korea. Fong-Torres felt the isolating effects of being “different”. It was through music that he found comfort and identity. In the documentary […]

When Fjer released his fantastic electro-soul-pop album You Again with a limited-edition vinyl pressing featuring stunning cover art by fellow Copenhagen native Morten Overgaard, it was a “shut up and take my money” situation. Fjer met Overgaard via Instagram, and says the initial photoshoot for the cover involved both a digital and traditional camera. “He […]

Wichita musicians and bands have come and gone over the past two decades, but what has remained constant in the music scene during this time are the lyrics and voice of Jedd Beaudoin. For over 20 years, Beaudoin has covered the local music scene and he has hosted the KMUW radio show “Strange Currency”, where […]

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Roger Kisby/Getty DOOM MF left an indelible mark on the Hip-Hop landscape, and his influence can be seen in other lyric makers like him. The late Daniel Dumile was something of an enigma, and a new biography hopes to partially lift the veil of the “Supervillain.” As reported by Okayplayer, […]

Writer Ben Fong-Torres, best known for his work as a music journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, is … [+] the subject of a documentary now available on Netflix: “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres”. Getty Images Not a lot Netflix releases stopping more in my tracks and having priority over […]

Michael Barclay had just finished writing about a renaissance in Canadian music when he noticed another one rising to the surface. It was 2001 and the author and music journalist was living in Guelph, Ontario. Have Not Been the Same: The Canrock Renaissance, 1985 to 1995 had just been released. Co-wrote with me an AD […]

Links to the breadcrumb Music Michael Barclay, author of Hearts on Fire: Six Years that Changed Canadian Music, 2000-2005. Photo by Liz Sullivan .jpg Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on this page. Content of the article Michael Barclay had […]

Editor’s Note: This story has been edited to reflect the correct dates of the shows in question. The Independent regrets the error. There’s both a music lover in Rob Duguay, 35, and a compassionate soul who wants to bring some harmony to people with autism or even other life-affecting issues. He is a man with […]

A rising star journalist has told how she was canceled by her colleagues and the internet for lambasting BLM for vandalizing synagogues over the summer of 2020. Eve Barlow had a meteoric career as a music writer, the journalist – who is Scottish, gay and Jewish – was once said to be “magical” by an […]

“Gavin Martin was definitely one of the good guys,” says Paul Charles. “He was close to a lot of musicians, but wasn’t afraid to set the tone when he felt some of their work was below par. The funny thing is that the majority of artists really liked him. for his honesty…” Tributes continue to […]

We are sorry to hear of the passing of former NME and Daily Mirror music writer Gavin Martin. The loud, passionate and brilliant writer began his writing career in Belfast during the punk era with his love of The Clash and his Alternative Ulster fanzine and that prickly punk side remained throughout his journey through […]

Tributes have been paid to ‘visionary’ music journalist and co-founder of Alternative Ulster magazine Gavin Martin after his death at the age of 60. The Bangor-born writer, who was first published in the NME when he was just 13, died while on vacation in Barbados. Martin co-founded the original Alternative Ulster fanzine during the height […]

Many evenings in her family’s living room, she would sit by the stereo waiting for her song to come on, being very careful not to pick up the disc jockey’s commentary between tracks. The word she uses is meticulous: meticulous about sequencing, about including only the best bits, about taking her taste to the next […]

The essay examines the Japanese alternative scene in the early 2000s and the role of the now defunct gallery and performance space Off Site. Japanese journalist and author Kazue Yokoi shared an essay as part of the Initiative REMAIIN (Radical European Music and its Intercultural Nature). The project, launched in 2020, investigates non-European cultural influences […]

MUSIC journalist Greg Tate, author of hip-hop book Flyboy in the Buttermilk, has died aged 64. One of Tate’s editors, a representative for Duke University Press, confirmed the author’s death to PitchFork. 3 Hip-hop author Greg Tate dies aged 64Credit: Getty Images – Getty 3 Greg Tate was a renowned hip-hop writerCredit: Robert A Tobiansky/Getty […]

In today’s world, it’s likely that the first time a customer meets your business, it won’t be through an advertisement or a storefront, but online. That digital first impression matters more than you might think. As is the case in the real world, you only have one chance to have a great digital first impression. […]

Housing costs : £ 370.64 (mortgage), £ 252.16 (service charge and rent for the part I don’t own), £ 77 council tax (single person reduction) and £ 8.88 insurance for the apartment.Loan payments: £ 0. I didn’t go to college but prepaid for the online classes. I don’t have a credit card (which I actually […]

In this week’s episode of the Music to my Ears podcast, we talk about Paul Morley, the journalist and pop musician and, most recently, classical music enthusiast. Raised in Stockport, Paul cut his teeth in music journalism in Manchester. He went on to write for the New Musical Express, where he quickly became one of […]