Welcome back to another 'Sounds from TSOTC HQ' feature. This month there’s a good mix of old and new, including releases by Gary Numan,...

Working primarily from home means that there’s a lot of time to listen to music here at The Sound of the Crowd HQ. So for 2022, the...

10th October 2020 With the music industry currently in a state of extreme fragility, many artists, performers and others involved in...

An essay comparing and and contrasting recorded popular music consumption in 1970 with recorded popular music consumption in 1990. ~ ~ ~...

An essay discussing the 1970s music genre of glam rock, and how a significant factor of its appeal was the fashions associated with it. ~...

It’s a freezing cold October afternoon in Hull. And I mean freezing; the sky over the city is cloudless and grey, the teeth of people...

Though it is a relatively well-known fact that vinyl sales have increased massively worldwide over the last decade or so (there’s been an...

In my experience, it seems that every musician, no matter to what level or standard they play, has a few artists that they aspire to be...

The latest news from one of TSOTC’s current favourite acts... CIRCU5 – the project of multi-instrumentalist Steve Tilling (TC&I) – is now...

‘Music nowadays all sounds the same’. Here’s a favourite phrase of a multitude of today’s music consumers. And whilst it’s not...