The past several years have seen a bizarre trend in pop culture: revisionism. Zack Snyder’s Justice League recently came out, being a considerably different experience than the original 2017 theatrical cut of the film. This practice, however, is not new, as director’s cuts have been giving film historians headaches and…

There are currently over 50 million songs on Spotify. Not all are unique, of course, as some are variants of the same song (live versions, covers, remasters, special editions, etc.). Stats are wonky even on something as centralised as Spotify, but I’m willing to halve that number. 25 million unique…

The last 525,600 minutes have been full of contradictions for me. The still ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has seen many industries collapse or change beyond recognition, but I’ve somehow managed to find myself working in audio production, a subset of the music industry that seems to have been miraculously spared by…

I thought I was done with academia after finishing my Master’s. My financial situation was dire and my disillusion with universities was severe. To make matters even worse, I was deemed ineligible for a UK work permit. Can you guess the reason? I didn’t have enough money to support myself…

It’s been a long time coming. I graduated from Oxford in July 2013, with a Master’s degree in musicology. More than six years later, I feel I have the proper mindset to reevaluate the year spent at the celebrated institution. …

Transitioning from a kid who spend his days playing football and eating sunflower seeds with his friends to someone who used every waking moment to better himself as a guitar player by forfeiting all of his free time was a bizarre experience. The process was made even more confusing by…

Transitioning from a guitarist with aspirations of becoming a virtuoso to a person who produces music for other artists is as far away from a unique story as possible. Having academia as a variable in this transition, on the other hand, throws a few right hooks in this seemingly unremarkable…