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The Mic Recommends...
With the first month of 2021 out of the way, it seems that not a lot of good has come from the new year so far, save the offerings of the...
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Feb 1, 20215 min read


Album Review: Goat Girl – ‘On All Fours’
Percussive, sharp-edged, and soaked in complexity, On All Fours is everything we could’ve hoped for from Goat Girl’s long-sought...
Freya Martin
Jan 31, 20214 min read


EP Review: Fickle Friends – ‘Weird Years (Season 1)’
Reliable indie-pop to lift dwindling spirits, Weird Years (Season 1) marks the first instalment of Fickle Friends’ incoming sophomore...
Gemma Cockrell
Jan 28, 20213 min read


Brexit and the Music Industry: A Disaster in Waiting
Examining the Government's hostile abandonment of the arts, Alex Duke assesses the devastating ramifications and restrictions that Brexit...
Alex Duke
Jan 27, 20213 min read


Album Review: Arctic Monkeys – ‘Live at the Royal Albert Hall’
Turner singing these songs seemed effortless, and he appears to attack the vocals with a more mature disposition. There is somethin
Roisin Hickey
Jan 27, 20213 min read


FOCUS: Night Bus Revival
Compact yet expansive and dealing in oxymorons, the debut EP from Nottingham alt-folk mogul, Night Bus Revival, is a delicately balanced...
Matthew Andrews
Jan 25, 20214 min read


The Mic Recommends
New year, same Mic Recommends – back to rounding up the biggest and best tracks of the past week (or in this case two!). Our first...
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Jan 25, 20215 min read


Interview: Django Django
In the build up to the release of their hotly-anticipated fourth LP Glowing In The Dark, Alex Duke caught up with Django Django members...
Alex Duke
Jan 17, 20215 min read


EP Review: Frank Iero and The Future Violents – ‘Heaven is a Place, This is a Place’
Deliberately disordered and yet so evidently crafted with total precision, Frank Iero finds his identity on the achingly beautiful Heaven...
Charlie Farrer
Jan 17, 20214 min read


Album Review: Shame – ‘Drunk Tank Pink’
The weirder, wiser cousin to 2018’s Songs of Praise, Shame’s latest export melds a menacing tone and relatable Gen Z musings into a...
Ben Preston
Jan 16, 20215 min read


Single Review: Tragic – ‘Dishonoured Gentleman’
Spokespeople for a frustrated generation, Northampton punk trio, Tragic, are a band exceedingly comfortable in discussing the...

Olivia Stock
Jan 12, 20213 min read


Interview: Passenger
A mainstay in the world of soft acoustic-pop, Passenger’s work manages to capture an indescribable world of emotion; each sparkling track...
Lilith Hudson
Jan 8, 20218 min read


‘If you steal music, you aren’t a real music fan’: The Rise of Illegal Stream-Ripping
Whilst providing the opportunity to discover, promote and transmit music in a way that was previously impossible, digital music...
Nieve O'Donnell
Jan 6, 20214 min read


Album Review: ‘Home Protests’ – Mystery Jets
Revitalising and reimagining some of history’s greatest protest songs for the blighted contemporary age, Mystery Jets’ Home Protests is a...
Izzy Felton
Jan 6, 20213 min read


FOCUS: Blondes
Amassing a million Spotify streams, international TikTok stardom, and an abundance of newly found sonic surety from the pandemic-induced...
Matthew Andrews
Jan 4, 20214 min read


THE MIC AWARDS 2020: ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
One of the only vessels of solace in this year of desolation and torrent was music. Artists laid themselves bare despite a pandemic...
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Jan 1, 20215 min read


THE MIC AWARDS 2020: SONGS OF THE YEAR
One of the only vessels of solace in this year of desolation and torrent was music. Artists laid themselves bare despite a pandemic...
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Jan 1, 20214 min read


THE MIC AWARDS 2020
One of the only vessels of solace in this year of desolation and torrent was music. Artists laid themselves bare despite a pandemic...
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Dec 31, 20206 min read


FOCUS: Chloe Rodgers
Rife with poetic fervour and delivered with downbeat, saccharine charm, the sweet sounds of Nottingham native, Chloe Rodgers, are a...
Matthew Andrews
Dec 22, 20203 min read


Jesy Nelson: The Dark Side of Music Fame
Sending shockwaves splintering through the otherwise glisteningly perfect bubble that is the world of pop, Jesy Nelson, previously one...
Gemma Cockrell
Dec 21, 20204 min read
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