The 29 year old Pennsylvania native has been rampantly releasing music since the winter of 2010. Back then he was making early demos and EP’s on the Bandcamp software that his parents new Apple computer afforded him whilst studying for his final years at Haverford High School. Now he’s a major cult figure in the US Indie scene, revered by fellow musicians and critics alike for his melodious and original compositions that vary in complexity throughout his discography. From simple 2 chord ballads, to all out key-changing tone modulating mysteries, the songwriter has built a career on a lack of predictability and deft touch for melody reminiscent of 90’s indie icon Eliot Smith. He is a huge shot in the arm for a scene often scrambling for fresh ideas and currency in the wake of an internet culture that values Tik Tok fast food over anything with a modicum of depth or intricacy. He is a rare exception to the rule in that he can live and thrive amongst such a culture without needing to abide by its rules. He doesn’t have a Tik Tok account and yet remains a relevant and a popular tastemaker amongst the internet kids that add his music to their videos daily.

Speaking recently about “Blessing” with Apple Music and Genius Lyrics he said: “I wrote this song early one morning when I couldn’t sleep. A few months later, I brought it up to my band and we recorded most of it live in upstate New York.” A somewhat un-expected origin story then, the song is a hardly a lullaby, but then perhaps it is in his world? All we know, is it’s best to expect the unexpected when it comes to Alex G.

There are currently no UK tour dates booked for Alex G, but you can find them here first when they are announced.

Despite its disuse in the courtroom as of yet, limits have been placed on the musical freedoms of drill artists, where Digga D among other rappers were under a CBO order that required them to submit lyrics to the police before their release. But now, the community is fighting back.

Civil liberty campaigners and activists alike have now pushed the CPS to perform a “listening exercise” to unpack how trials can be unfairly affected by drill lyrics, as well as stereotypes around Black men. Nick Federici, a youth worker at the Pythian Club, told the BBC that drill is misunderstood as a cause of violence: “Drill is just the youth expressing themselves,” he said. “Drill doesn’t cause crime in deprived areas. It’s poverty, it’s envy, it’s so many other things going on, underlying issues.”

While drill may not directly caused violence itself in his belief, Federici acknowledges that drill may accelerate the occurance of inevitable violence: “Obviously if somebody gets on a song and calls my name out and tells me this and that, it’s going to provoke me,” he said.

Eithne Quinn is an academic from the University of Manchester, who has been a rap expert in court cases for a number of years. Her take is that “any new guidance to prosecutors that restricts the flow of rap into our courtrooms will be very welcome.

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The band is set to head out on tour starting on the 20th of September. Seeing them visit London, Cardiff, and even their hometown of Sheffield. With no signs of Covid stopping the arena tour, the band is going to be hitting the stage. Starting the Post Human tour, alongside, You Me At Six and Nova Twins.

20/09/2021- Bonus Arena – Hull
21/09- The SSE Hydro – Glasgow
22/09- Motorpoint Arena – Cardiff
24/09- Sheffield Arena – Sheffield
25/09- Utilita Arena – Birmingham
26/09- The 02 – London

You can get your tickets here.

The online bidding for the item was opened on May 5 and will be available until  May 12. The price of the item was estimated between £12,000 and £15,000. The page features handwritten, alternative lyrics to the song ‘Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine’. 

What makes this so valuable is that the notes were handwritten over a typed page with lyrics that have never been recorded. It opens with the complaint ‘Like a rich man’s son/ like a poor fool in his prime/ how come you treat me so cruel’.  These lines end up being adapted for the song ‘Temporary Like Achilles’.

According to Ultimate Classic Rock Magazine, this is not the first time Bob Dylan’s lyrics are sold on auction. Earlier this year, the beloved songwriter’s handwriting for another song was on sale. The lyrics for ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ were placed in a memorabilia auction with a starting price of $2.2 million.

The words for ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ were also offered at $1.6 million and ‘Lay, Lady, Lay’ started at $650,000.

In 2016 Bob Dylan was awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature. The motivation for the prize was  “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Despite having agreed terms with the festival’s promoters AEG, a Freedom Of Information request by The Daily Mirror shows that the deal was vetoed by Royal Parks, the body that runs Hyde Park, due to concerns that his lyrics would unsettle other Hyde Park visitors.

The decision was referred to Boris Johnson, however, his chief of staff Sir Edward Lister said: “Until receipt of both emails I had no knowledge of Eminem and his style of music and still do not.” It was then adjudged to be a decision for Royal Parks to make.

The Daily Mirror’s article goes on to speak of how AEG’s Jim King responded to the initial decision by stating “I don’t want to split hairs but I do question how easy it is for any offensive lyrics to be heard and actually understood outside of our event site,” adding that he was not “aware of any other case whereby he has been prevented from performing in the UK”.