Help Save Paradise Garden; Cardiff’s cultural hub, home of Radio Sudd and illustrious hi-fi venue
It’s harrowing news to hear the City Road cultural hub, Paradise Garden, announce struggles to extend their lease with their crowdfunding campaign falling significantly short with less than a week to go.
A staple of the local scene, providing a relaxing atmosphere, an audiophile set up, and a programme of daring and adventurous promoters and in-house events make this venue standout amongst the rest. It's a transient space - one that doesn’t need to explain itself, any night programmed boasts to be one of the most interesting in the city.
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Why Is Obscurity So Coveted by Underground Music Fans?
One night whilst indulging in a pre-bed doom scroll, phone inches from my face, a post claiming to list the ‘underground artists who went mainstream in 2025’ was enough ragebait to make me go trawling the gutters of Reddit for second opinions.
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Debunking Music Snobbery: What Even Is "New Wave"?
The term ‘New Wave’ gets thrown around a lot in relation to musicians of a certain era, but it can be tricky to label a song as ‘New Wave’ just by listening to it. Why is this?
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Best Songs To: Fall Asleep To
Everyone has different sleeping habits. Some of us have to listen to rain sounds or white noise to feel cosy, whereas some people can fall unconscious with ease, sitting upright on public transport. If you’re finding it difficult to drift into your dreams, our Music Editors Katie and Brandon have the perfect playlist to send you to sleep (in the best way possible).
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Best Songs To: Wake Up To
The sun is setting far too early and arising far too late. If, like us, you’re not really a morning person, it can be difficult to detach yourself from the warm bedsheets and get ready for another day, but a good playlist can always be the antidote.
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Best Songs To: Get Spooky to on Halloweekend
We think it’s time to take Halloween seriously again, and to do that, a stellar soundtrack is fundamental. Katie and Brandon, Everyday Magazines music editors, have compiled a playlist just to get you in that whimsically scary headspace.
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Hear Me Out: Our Votes for Artists of A Generation
Few bands have managed to capture the emotional landscape of a generation quite like Coldplay. Since their debut in the late 1990s, the British quartet has evolved from introspective indie rockers to global icons, while maintaining a sound that is deeply emotive, universally relatable, and unmistakably theirs.
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Unfinished Symphony? The Closure of Motion Nightclub and the Future of Bristol’s Nightlife
Motion’s disappearance also carries serious historical weight. It emerged from the squat rave movement of the 1980s, where DJs squatted vacant spaces across the UK drawing tribes of people with a shared rebellious spirit. These raves existed in liminal spaces on the edges of legality and society, where a melting pot of cultures enjoyed many genres of music collectively.
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Making Music for Everyone: Building Inclusive and Community-Driven Music Spaces
Truly inclusive music spaces are not just about access – they're about authenticity, risk-taking, and community. In these spaces, music becomes a way to unlearn societal constraints and connect more deeply. Music is often a gate-kept world – privileging formal training, tradition and neurotypical ways of communicating. So many people feel locked out: disabled people, neurodivergent folks, those from working-class or global majority backgrounds, queer and trans artists. Inclusive music spaces disrupt this pattern by inviting everyone to create and be heard.
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Six Reasons I Won’t Be Going to a Festival This Year
Festival season has begun. You can feel it in the air, thick with about-time-tent upgrades, group chats named "Glasto Gals 2025", new-age wellies with sustainable soles, high street shops with FSTVL SZN stock, persistent checking of BBC, Met Office and iPhone weather apps (putting trust in the sunniest and driest) and essentials-only shopping lists ft. breakfast bars, wet wipes, tinnies.
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Fractal: A Trip of Experimental Sound, Community, and Freedom of Expression
Fractal began almost six years ago in the summer of 2019, following my time in Durham during the end of exams. At that moment, I found the local scene to be hollow, lacking in diverse and experimental events.
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God, What Have You Done? How Chappell Roan Changed the Conversation Around Mental Health in the Music industry
The fact that Chappell Roan became so famous after flying under the radar for years says something about the need for queer artists (and people generally) to be their authentic selves. However, being yourself in the limelight comes at a price. Since the human brain is an extremely malleable thing, it’s not surprising that becoming a celebrity can have drastic effects on a person's mentality.
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Oasis & The Dynamic Pricing Dance
“The debate around dynamic pricing has largely focused on the greed of the music industry and Oasis as a band in a horrid dance that the music industry must perform anytime there is a gig.”
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Tomorrow Never Knows – What Lies Ahead for the Future of Festivals?
It feels like every summer we are faced with a seeming abundance of festivals, but the reality is, it is harder than ever before to organise a festival. For as new festivals open, a number of older ones close forever.
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Should We Drop the Judgmental Attitude about Mainstream Music?
Music is a powerful art form. It has the ability to connect us to other people, surpass language barriers, resurface emotions, and impact upon brain waves. So, why do we take away its power by feeling the need to judge others for their music taste?
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Fame and the Price Paid
So many celebrity deaths seem to arise from years of alcohol and drug battles. Some indirectly, some more absolute. For many fame is the flame that lights the fire, for others a safehouse for the dysfunction of addiction.
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Imposter Syndrome as a Musician
The word imposter has some rather duplicitous connotations. On one hand, it conjures images of caricature villains from cheesy pantomimes, TV shows and films, revealed in a hyper exaggerated manner. You know the kind of thing: "I'd have got away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids", et cetera. The other side of the coin is a mental health issue that has only entered the public consciousness in recent memory.
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My Favourite Festival Moments - The Good, The Bad and The Downright Weird
At a festival, you’re almost guaranteed to have something outrageous happen either to you, your friend, or your friend’s friend. When you combine a myriad of different, excitable people from around the country (or world!) who may or may not be on drugs, what else do you expect?
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Where to Find an Audiophile
An audiophile; an individual that is deeply passionate, exacting, and even obsessed with high fidelity audio. These notoriously pedantic creatures can often be found snuffling for truffles in the darkest corners of record shops the world over, uttering phrases such as "oh that's a first pressing" and "Led Zeppelin 1! Oh, but it's not got the original purple label".
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Is Emo Making A Comeback?
If your room was covered wall to wall in pull out posters from the latest issue of Kerrang!, this one’s for you.
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