BY JONATHAN LEVITT The Music of GM Jon After many decades in the chess world, many people know me as a chess Grandmaster and few know me as someone connected with music. Since the start of 2025 I have developed some fresh skills and produced over 50 new songs on my Suno page. These songs are all created on my computer, collaborating with an AI … Continue reading Music’s AI Revolution
BY JACK WATSON In Fahrenheit-182, Mark Hoppus (bass guitarist for Blink-182, a famous rock band from the 1990s) takes us back to when he grew up in a California desert. Presumably the title is an homage to Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit-451. The book provides an insight into a troubled childhood; how he first met Tom DeLonge and their creation of Blink-182. Then their … Continue reading Fahrenheit-182
BY NIALL McCRAE Everyone knows of the vinyl revival, which has steadily grown since the turn of the millennium. Remarkably, cassettes are now making a comeback too, and the biggest interest is in youth. Indie bands are releasing music on tape, sometimes as the only medium offered. In a backlash against the digital world, anything tangible gives a sense of radical resistance to the Great … Continue reading Audio Nostalgia: The Unexpected Return of Cassettes
BY MAX WALLER I‘m told that if you stand outside the grounds of Gloucester Cathedral late at night and shut your eyes, you may just hear, above the occasional car horn blast and drunk mutant hollering, the faint sound of ghostly music from centuries past hanging in the air, like phantom notes that never die, carried on the sighs of the dead. The vibrations of … Continue reading The Music Of Ghosts
BY PAUL T HORGAN Buggles’ Video Killed The Radio Star was not the first single to have a music video made for it; that accolade seems reserved for Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. The Buggles’ single was instead the first-ever video played by MTV back when MTV was good. However, music artists had been making promotional films for their singles years before as a way of avoiding … Continue reading Pop Bursts
