With the band currently celebrating 20 years of making music together, I had the pleasure of chatting with Mal Tuohy from The Riptide Movement to talk about their rise and memories from their incredible career...
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Category - Features
The Men Behind the Wire
Storytelling through music is deeply embedded in Irish culture. From tales of folklore to detailing struggles and teaching history, it’s important to take the time to remember where these songs originate. One...
Cosmic Cowboys: The Story Behind the Cover of ‘Vagabonds of the Western World’
1973 was a pivotal year in the history of Thin Lizzy. After their debut album with Decca in 1971, the band felt the need to move to London, hoping for more opportunities. But even after their sophomore album Shades of a...
London Calling: When Paul Simonon Smashed Rock History
September 1979. The Clash had just come out of two gruelling and high-risk months in the studio, recording what was meant to be their third album: London Calling. To test the new material and confirm the Brixton gang’s...
François Durand
Revolution with Music: Carsie Blanton’s Art of Resistance
When I discovered Carsie Blanton a little over a year ago, quite by chance, I was immediately drawn to her music. By now, dear reader, you probably know that I come from France — a country with a long and turbulent...
From Protest to Breakbeat: The Long Life of “Impeach The President”
In times of international uncertainty shaped by the whims of a single man, one word keeps resurfacing: impeachment. Heavy with constitutional and symbolic weight, the term is far from new. The last U.S. president to...
The Hidden Awards 2025
This is our first time doing this. No long tradition, no rulebook — just a year of listening, writing, arguing, revisiting, and occasionally changing our minds. The Hidden Awards grew naturally out of what The Hidden...
Editorial Team
Ring Out the Old: George Harrison’s ‘Ding Dong, Ding Dong’
George Harrison’s Ding Dong, Ding Dong has often been dismissed as a seasonal curio — a festive footnote in a catalogue otherwise filled with spiritual searching, quiet introspection, and musical depth. Yet beneath its...
Syd Matters Returns: Jonathan Morali Looks Back and Ahead
When I discovered Syd Matters twenty years ago following the good advice of a friend, I automatically took a liking to him. My friend told me: « think Robert Wyatt, Nick Drake, and Grandaddy… His name is Syd...
First band online: The Doo-Wop Queens of Particle Physics
Have you ever wondered what was the first photo ever uploaded on the web? Le Baiser by Robert Doisneau? Man on the Moon, maybe ? Nope… Nothing like that. Have you ever heard of Michele de Gennaro, Angela Higney...
Beyond the Clone Myth: Inside Kid A’s Haunting Artwork
Three years after the bombshell that was the release of OK Computer, Radiohead finally released the long-awaited follow up: Kid A. The album had been a long, chaotic birth. The band spent about 16 months in and out of...
From ‘Starlight’ to ‘Thriller’: When Michael Jackson Made Fear Dance
In our spOoky playlist, we deliberately chose a different song by Michael Jackson. “Thriller” would have been the obvious choice, but Jackson had other good track to offer… And we wanted to explore...
Like A Rolling Stone: The Song That Shook Folk
The song Like A Rolling Stone was written by Dylan in June 1965 for the album Highway 61 Revisited, a masterpiece of electro-acoustic folk rock — the first of its kind — which profoundly shook the American folk scene in...
From Two Bobbys to Gaza: The Journey of The Little Flame
The great thing with music, is that it never really dies. A musician usually creates it, puts the words together, comes up with a melody, and releases it into the world. From thereon every song lives on. Some will meet...
Gangsta’s Paradise: How Hip-Hop Crossed The Atlantic
Hip-hop was born in New York in the early 1970s and was culturally significant. From humble beginnings to becoming one of the most popular music genres on the planet, the world of hip-hop is the biggest it’s ever...
Dig It: How Nuggets Mined the Sound of a Generation
In 1972, Nuggets compiled the raw, forgotten garage rock of the '60s—and accidentally mapped out the future. From Lenny Kaye’s crate-digging to its ripple effects on punk, mod revival, and beyond, this is the story of a...
We Can’t Be Stopped: How Geto Boys Scarred a Generation
The nineties in the UK music scene had a single burning question: Oasis or Blur? Across the Atlantic, in the States, the question was different but attracted the same heat of emotion. Here, the hip-hop scene was on the...
