inner city electronic returns to Leeds next week for another celebration of beeps, bleeps and cutting-edge culture. For our new playlist, the festival organisers give us a taste of what's in store...
‘Songwriting needs to be protected so it doesn’t just become a commercial enterprise,’ says Natasha Khan.
‘It’s a real partnership, it’s like being in a band with somebody,’ says Jonny Greenwood of his collaborative relationship with director Paul Thomas Anderson.
‘It’s an award in front of our peers and it’s an award for songs, which is clearly the most important thing in the music industry, which is sometimes forgotten,’ says hit songwriter Jamie Scott.
'For me, figuring out what I want to say needs to come before I decide how I’m going to say it': award-winning media composer David Housden on his knack for creating epic videogame scores...
Spinning on an elastic axis of post punk fuzz and African rhythms, the fancy musical footwork of Glasgow’s Sacred Paws has taken some giant steps since the group’s inception, winning the Scottish Album of the Year and dazzling leftfield music fans.
Pop songs are one minute and 13 seconds shorter on average than they were 20 years ago. Are algorithms to blame?
‘This next track I’m about to drop, bro, we’re taking it there, over that threshold,’ teases rising star Izzie Gibb.
As the 64th Ivor Novello Awards ceremony looms, we take a closer look at this year’s nominees and find an exciting crop of songwriting talent in the running.
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