Self-Care Sunday #7: Candle Making
The January blues have hit a little tougher this year, but fear not as there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Quite literally, in this week’s edition of Self-Care Sunday! Continue reading Self-Care Sunday #7: Candle Making
BIMM Introducing: Miriam Franklin
After numerous performances, including Leicester’s Hand-Made festival in 2017 and Gaby Roslin’s show on BBC Radio London, 22-year-old BIMM London production student Miriam Franklin has finally released her debut EP ‘Folding Days’, which depictsthe love affair between poetry and music. Continue reading BIMM Introducing: Miriam Franklin
Spotify’s Algorithm Learns How to Listen
Spotify’s ever-growing algorithm is soon going to sit down and listen, in the worst possible way. As if their 1’s and 0’s weren’t already scarily accurate with their suggestions by monitoring our listening patterns, they are now going to be using speech recognition to enhance the user experience. Continue reading Spotify’s Algorithm Learns How to Listen
New Music Friday 29/01/2021
I don’t know about you, but January has never felt so long. Maybe it’s because so much has happened in this short amount of time, however we can’t wait for the next coming months. Where the weather will be better, and where hopefully more people will be vaccinated so we can slowly go back to ‘normal’ life. In the meantime, we can luckily still use music as an escape and dream away to better days, especially with these new tunes. Continue reading New Music Friday 29/01/2021
Self-Care Sunday #5: Five Subscription Boxes To Up Your Self-Care Sunday Game
Three weeks into 2021 and for many of us in lockdown in the UK, we’ve been thrust back into the fever dream of banana bread-making, endless Netflix-watching and more Zoom quizzes. And while it might seem logical to just cocoon in your bed and never come out, we are here to provide you with self-care tips to fight those January blues. Continue reading Self-Care Sunday #5: Five Subscription Boxes To Up Your Self-Care Sunday Game
BIMM Introducing: LANI – ‘Drank That Night’
Do you remember when Gabriella said “I Gotta Go My Own Way” to Troy Bolton and we cried for 3 minutes straight? That could have been LANI’s “Drank That Night” instead. Continue reading BIMM Introducing: LANI – ‘Drank That Night’
BIMM Introducing: Ilaria Triggiani
You may have stopped in your tracks after hearing this artist singing a cappella around the BIMM campus. Now it’s time to meet Italian singer-songwriter Ilaria Trigginai, as she tells us, “Don’t be afraid of letting people really see you as an artist.’ Continue reading BIMM Introducing: Ilaria Triggiani
New Music Friday 22/01/2021
You may not believe it, but we are still in the first month of 2021. Lots of important events have already taken place such as another national lockdown, the US Capitol Riots and finally the Presidential Inauguration, it feels like this year is going to bring some big changes. One thing that won’t change is our love for music and sharing our favourites with you. Continue reading New Music Friday 22/01/2021
Movie Soundtrack Wednesday #8 – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Words: Giulia Lombardo Set in a music studio between the 1920s and 1930s, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ tells the story of four musicians kept under control by Ma Rainey (Viola Davis), a highly esteemed legend in blues music or else, if you ask me, the queen of blues. In the movie the characters put in the foreground are presented, ready to clash and defend their … Continue reading Movie Soundtrack Wednesday #8 – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Review: Gorillaz Present Song Machine Live from Kong, a Lockdown Extravaganza
At the end of 2020, Damon Albarn brought his Gorillaz quarantine passion project, ‘Song Machine’, to life with the help of a huge social bubble, brimming with 2020’s greatest musical efforts. Continue reading Review: Gorillaz Present Song Machine Live from Kong, a Lockdown Extravaganza
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