Category: Opinion
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3 Reasons Why Reading & Leeds’ Lineup Is A Disaster
After a much delayed announcement, as well as having to make up for last year’s less than stellar billing, how is Reading & Leeds 2018 looking? Not too good.
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Butlerism: How to Review a Gig
Just how does Oliver Butler write those damn good reviews, like he wrote this excerpt? All is revealed in this week’s column.
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Step Down, Eddie: A Tribute
In a belated Butlerism, resident Motorhead super fan Oli pays tribute to “Fast” Eddie Clarke.
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Butlerisms: Why Your Dad Is Wrong About Hip-Hop
NME’s recent report on hip-hop’s popularity has got their demographic a bit raging: here’s Oli to explain why your old fella might be a bit antsy and why he needs to calm the fuck down.
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Butlerisms: VIP Packages
Golden circles? Meet & Greets? Oli lets loose on the greedy culture emerging in music.
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Butlerisms: Rock is Alive
How can you “save guitar music” when it’s still all good? Oli lets loose in the first edition of his weekly rant series.
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Album Review: Stress by Charlie Leach
In a meta-release, Charlie explores the stress and other issues attatched to music journalism.
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Top Corner! Five Fantastic FIFA Tracks
The most consistent aspect of a FIFA game is what you hear in the menus: Callum Thornhill gives us his top picks from over 20 years of digital football goodness.
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Taylor Swift Is Exploiting Her Fans: Here’s How
The pop star’s recent “Pay to Play” system with Ticketmaster not only exploits fans but confirms what many have suspected for quite some time.
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The More, The Merrier: Are Regular Releases Detrimental?
They say you can never have too much of a good thing but is that true? Connor Moore inspects the surge in artists hitting out with album after album at a breakneck speed.
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