FKA twigs’ MAGDALENE: biblical allusions and the public eye

Jade Barnes explores FKA twigs’ album MAGDALENE, diving into the allusions to biblical figure Mary Magdalene and twigs’ personal experience of public scrutiny during the album’s creation.

Is country music the genre of right-wing, straight, white men?

Madeline Harding traces the ideological development of American folk music showing that historically it has not always promoted conservative values, and how there is still hope for the political future of country.

Mazzy Star: what is so endearing about notoriously sad music?

The holy and the broken: The philosophy of Leonard Cohen

The gruesome tale of Ethel Cain’s ‘Preacher’s Daughter’.

‘Post-brexit’ music? Dissonant music for dissonant times.

4 songs I’m listening to – old and new

Haruki Murakami and the literary world of music

Success in the Age of Modernity

The marriage of music and fashion