Features Music News Manic Street Preachers – ‘The Holy Bible’: Why It Mattered by James Peppercorn The Holy Bible from Manic Street Preachers is a document of pure truths, showing us our world’s horrors and failings in their most confronting form….
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Features News Tame Impala – ‘Currents’: Why It Mattered by Emily Elvish Currents boasts a significant legacy: it challenged the authority of guitar within rock and took disco-psych into the mainstream. If one of music’s most brilliant…
Music News Video Why the masterpiece ‘Jagged Little Pill’ mattered to just about everyone by Chloe Maddren Why It Mattered is a new video series by Happy Mag discussing and celebrating albums that changed the world. We are proud to announce that…
Features Music News Alanis Morissette – ‘Jagged Little Pill’: Why It Mattered by Dave Stano Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill was a landmark of the ’90s for its creative pairing of pop with alt-rock guitars, raw vocals, and candid lyrics….
Music ABBA – ‘Arrival’: Why It Mattered by Manning Patston Once every few years, a record shatters not just the charts, but also our expectations of what a pop record can (and should) sound like….
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