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For 25 years our publication and podcast has recommended music. We now also spark conversations and create resources to help music fans discover their collective power.

Reframing Heavy Music: How queer doomgazers Cwfen won the Neptune Prize

Cwfen’s Sorrows oozes gothic charm and pitch-black melancholia to devastating, beautiful effect.

Reframing Heavy Music: How queer doomgazers Cwfen won the Neptune Prize
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Reframing Heavy Music: How queer doomgazers Cwfen won the Neptune Prize

Reframing Heavy Music: How queer doomgazers Cwfen won the Neptune Prize

Cwfen’s Sorrows oozes gothic charm and pitch-black melancholia to devastating, beautiful effect.

Great albums still to come in 2025

Great albums still to come in 2025

Track of the Week! Albums still to come in the rest of 2025! Grassroots news!

Marilyn Manson faces zero consequences and returns to the UK this week

Marilyn Manson faces zero consequences and returns to the UK this week

Marilyn Manson's back in the UK this week - but despite multiple allegations of abuse, how is he still so revered?

ALT BLK ERA on life-changing grassroots music projects

ALT BLK ERA on life-changing grassroots music projects

ALT BLK ERA have had a huge 2025 - but it all started with community grassroots youth projects. We spoke to them about the difference those projects made to their lives...

What if musicians had a living wage?

What if musicians had a living wage?

Ireland's providing musicians with basic income. We ask - what would better workers' rights look like? And why does imagining better matter?

CWFEN top the 2025 Neptune Prize List

CWFEN top the 2025 Neptune Prize List

And the winner of our alternative to the Mercury Prize is...

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