Tinder. If by some miracle you’ve never heard of it before, it's a mobile app which is intended for creating social interactions and forming romantic interests. However, I recently found out it has another potential function - musical taste-making. During one of my hopeless swiping sessions, I noticed a trend. Several users had their anthem set to a song by an artist simply known as ‘JAY1’. As I saw this name pop up more and m...

This September, we had the opportunity to interview 'Running With The Wolves' singer, Aurora!

Our Head of Music, Toni discovers Aurora's inspiration behind writing and her love to explore.

Aurora talks about her new album 'A Different Kind Of Human - Step 2' and how it differs from the emotions in 'A Different Kind Of Human - Step 1'.

Watch the full video on our YouTube channel.

'A Different Kind Of Human - Step 2' is available NO...

What are you doing tonight?

Nothing? Good.

Why?

Bryn Stagg has a new single of course and it slaps harder than Conor McGregor.

22-year-old Bryn from Nafferton has created a hit that echoes the likes of Kasabian meets The Wallows (I know, like everyone these days) but, he’s different. I swear.

Now, although this wouldn’t be in my ‘made for you’ section on Spotify, it’s been on repeat since I first listened.

Bryn has been in several b...

We got to interview the Doncaster born trio, The Blinders, who have taken the UK live circuit by storm in 2017. With a blend of proto punk politics and psychedelia laden lyricism the band are a force to be reckoned with.

Here is what went down: 

Where does the name The Blinders come from?

Unfortunately it’s as trivial as deriving from that TV show people really like... Sorry.

Who are your musical influences and how do they influen...

Post Malone took to the stage on the 19th of February at a sold-out gig at Manchester Arena, support acts consisted of Roddy Ricch and Tyla Yahweh. Posty had a 20 song setlist with no encore which varied in genres from Hip-Hop, R’n’B, to a heavy metal echo, even with Posty saying in an interview that, “What I’m not into is boxes…There are no genres anymore”.  When Stoney (debut album) erupted onto the music scene I didn’t thin...

It seems like an age since I obtained tickets for Bastille but finally the day came, on the 3rd of February, and accompanied by two friends we finally witnessed their show at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse.

Bastille took to the stage with a very personal set ahead of the release of their 3rd album, Dooms Days. Supporting acts included Moss Kena and Lewis Capaldi. Lewis Capaldi is one to watch as he says, “If you like fat gu...

On the 23rd November Birmingham’s Genting Arena was crammed packed with exasperated music lovers, ready for the iconic band! With lead singer Marcus Mumford leading the crowd with, “Well, here we are”, left the audience with the sense of anticipation and signified that this night would be a significant night!

Mumford & Sons launched their tour at: The 3Arena Dublin, that kickstarted off an immense tour; however, with numerous c...

Lewis Capaldi brought his UK and European Tour to Manchester on Tuesday performing at the beautiful Albert Hall. His two support acts Nina Nesbitt and Billy Locket warmed up the crowd with their own songs along with covers such as Toxic by Britney Spears

Capaldi entered the stage to ‘Mamma Mia’, by ABBA which then faded into his latest single ‘Grace’. Capaldi played a mix of released songs from ‘Mercy’, ‘Rush’ and ‘Lost on You’...

Kicking off her two shows at the Albert Hall in Manchester on Thursday night, Sigrid brought the room to life with her up-tempo songs and dance moves.

The Norwegian singer opened with her newest single ‘Sucker Punch’ which immediately got the crowd on a high for the rest of the concert. The singer sung a total of 17 songs including her hits; ‘High five’, ‘plot twist’ and ‘schedules’ which she and the crowd danced their socks of...

Mumford & Sons have returned with their fourth album, Delta! The album was released on 16th of November 2018, via Gentleman of the Road and Island Records. Thestandard album consists of 14 tracks; the deluxe edition has three bonus tracks.

After seeing them at Sziget Festival (Budapest, Hungary) this year in August at which debuted three new songs: 42, Women and Guiding Light from their fourth new album. These tracks were exact...

The trio: Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard new album was released on the 9th November 2018, through Warner Bros. and Helium-3. It consists of 11 tracks in standard album, however the deluxe version has five bonus tracks. In the deluxe version the styles that are explored are alternative reality, acoustic and gospel renditions of five tracks.

It is a synth-rock album that exposes themes of simulation and has a...

YouTube has produced its fair share of artists and personalities, but none are as equally puzzling and intriguing as That Poppy. Halloween saw the release of Poppy’s new album titled “Am I A Girl?” and the track list immediately took away from the star’s usual tone.

Her first album back in 2016- “Bubblebath” -was a much more upbeat, reggae influenced release full of catchy pop songs disguising a commentary on the issues of bein...

Highly anticipating Mac to come on stage, me and my friends stumbled into the Victoria Warehouse and finally got out of the rain. We were greeted a long haired support band playing DeMarco-esque songs. However, the audience weren’t too enthused about them, going off the failed attempt of the frontman trying to get everyone to sing along with his song. They seemed to strop off after that when the guitarist played a few chords,...

27th October 2018 marked the fourth show of the ‘Meet You There tour’ of 5 Seconds of Summer at the 02 Apollo Manchester.

Before the show started, I attended a soundtrack experience where I got to take part in a Q&A learning different things about the band. They told the crowd that they will be unsigned from their record label on 16th November and will be finding a new label in the new year. A young girl asked if they could col...

After kickstarting his UK tour in Glasgow this month, Tom Odell finally made his way to the O2 Apollo in Manchester on Friday and absolutely blew the roof off the place.

Supporting artists included Tom Speight, who promoted his new single collide and Max Jury, from LA, who has previously toured with Lana Del Rey. Both support acts created a great atmosphere with their indie/alternative style of writing.

Tom opened his set with o...