Entertain You, Bronze Radio Returns’ sixth album, is an exhilarating and euphoric blend of fresh genres. Reminiscing upon The Buggles’ 1980 hit ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, lamenting television usurping radio, Bronze Radio Return is a resurrection of the same nostalgia of the “radio star”; a “star”, indeed, within the Entertain You album cover bearing […]
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Goulash, Throat Singers & Canadian Contemporaries: An Interview with Weaves’ Jasmyn Burke
The latest gem in the treasure chest of Canadian indie bands, Weaves, have just released their highly anticipated second album Wide Open, just a year after their eponymous debut was described by MTV as ‘one of the most unpredictable sounds of 2016’. I spoke to frontwoman Jasmyn Burke before the group’s UK tour begins to […]
Festival Review: Isle of Wight 2017
Friday The weather report for the Isle of Wight had told us to panic buy Wellington boots, and we envisaged to wear them for the entire duration of the festival. The outlook predicted 3 days of nothing but rain macs, soggy chips, and a leaking tent. Miraculously, we boarded a ferry in Southampton after […]
Isle of Wight Festival Preview: Setting the Scene for 2017
Visiting the Isle of Wight is almost like a step back in time. A sleepy island of vast, jaw-dropping beaches, country lanes posing as main roads, and the nostalgic smell of antiquity (or is that rotting seaweed?), it’s a funny little place that has the power to whisk you away from the hum-drum metropolises of […]
Les Eurockéenes de Belfort: Festival Preview
Les Eurockéenes de Belfort or, Les Eurocks, is a music festival in France, more precisely, in Belfort. The festival lasts four days, from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th of July, with a total of seventy different artists. Les Eurocks is one of the biggest French festivals; in October 2012, Les Eurockéenes de Belfort was nominated […]
Competition: Top 10 Student Vinyl Picks
As part of our COMPETITION with HMV Exeter, the editors at Exeposé Music picked the Top 10 Vinyl Picks for Students, from the classic, to the edgy, to the poser-y. The winner of our Facebook competition will receive their choice of one of these ten and a Lenco L-85 record player. Everyone else just gets […]
What to listen to when… Struggling up Forum Hill
It’s nearly 8.30AM. You’re standing at the bottom of Forum Hill in a swarm of doubt, wondering if you’ll ever make it all the way to Peter Chalk. You can’t even see the top of the hill from here. Who thought it would be a good idea to build a university campus on a massive […]