SCM Music’s 25 Best Albums of 2020 So Far
YOU DON’T need me to tell you just how much of a fucked up year 2020 has been so far. We’ve started off the new decade with the wrong type of bang, but with...
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SCM Music’s Top 100 Albums of the Decade
ABOUT a million years after every other publication has given their verdict on the best albums of the 2010s, here comes ours. For myself, the last decade was a formative period. I left school,...
Album released this week in… 2012: Tame Impala – Lonerism
2012 was the year that saw Australian five-piece (or Kevin Parker solo project) Tame Impala really moved into the spotlight. Having already released the stunning debut album Innerspeaker in 2010 following a string of...
Predicting the BRIT Awards 2016
IT’S FEBRUARY, which means its awards season, and while the rest of the world is living the glitz and glamour of the Grammys, the Oscars and the BAFTAs, you, dear readers join me indulging...
Rihanna: Anti-radio, Anti-singles, Anti-climactic
OK, BEFORE we get into this, let’s clear something up. The promotion and release of Anti has been a mess, and when I say mess I mean total shit storm. Rihanna has been teasing...
Joe’s 10 Dopest Songs of the Year – 2015 edition
2015 was a mediocre year for music, in my opinion. A lot of the albums from the likes of Kanye West, Rihanna, Frank Ocean, Radiohead and others just didn’t materialise or the stuff that...
SCM Music’s Top 50 Albums of 2015
2015 HAS BEEN an exceptional year for music. We’ve seen a wide range of exceptional albums, from jazz, to rap, to metal, to folk, to indie and beyond. Sure, we also had The BRIT...
Wow, an awards ceremony! Oh, it’s the Grammy’s.
NOT TO NAME drop, but this October I found myself in Los Angeles, and the Grammy Museum. While the museum was undoubtedly excellent fun, and I’d recommend it anyone who enjoys music, one thing...
SCM Music’s album picks: July to September – Currents, Witches and Me
CONTINUING the trend of the previous months, this third quarter of 2015 has been excellent for albums. We’ve seen returns by the likes of Disclosure, The Dead Weather and Tame Impala, debuts from some...
Currents takes Tame Impala down the road of grooves, pop music and the Bee Gees
KEVIN Parker has always been a sucker for pop music. Around the time Tame Impala’s 2012 sophomore album Lonerism was released, Parker stated that he had “seven songs ready” should Kylie Minogue wish to...
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