thefreethinkingmovementI’m like a walking anachronism. Consider the evidence: I wear a suit to work – more often than not with a tie. Yes, kids – a tie. I prefer to buy my music in the physical form. Yes, CDs, and that. I can write the sentence ‘they’re like a breath of fresh air, blending guitar-driven […]
For a short while, while I was around 16, there was a flurry of great concerts in my home town, Stoke-on-Trent. To be more precise, there was a flurry of great concerts at the Victoria Hall in Hanley. Old, small, and frankly off the beaten track of the gig circuit for quite a while, suddenly […]
‘The stage reeks of Manchester’. A great line, and one for which I can take no credit. As Doves walked onto the stage, in Hammersmith, it felt like the stage was suddenly a part of The North. It was an outpost of the Mancunian Republic. This, despite not a note being played, or a word […]
On Monday I waxed poetic about the VMA’s. I wasn’t happy about them, but I was happy about the song I put up by Ellie Goulding. In fact, I was even happier about the guys that did the remix, Chiddy Bang. Hailing from the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, PA, these two 19 year olds […]
There are certain artists who you just depend on. Rarely going fully out of your way to acknowledge how good they are, but they’re there, on your playlist. Artists who are just not that popular, but whose influence transcends their lack of public acknowledgement. A case in point: The Durutti Column. The Durutti Column is […]
Last night I watched the VMA’s. I haven’t sat down to watch one of these award shows through in a long time. In 30 years, the show, MTV and music have come a long way, or have they? I want the 2 and 1/2 hours of my life back, and something that erases such shitty […]
Name a Canadian band. Go on, name one. Chances are, that in the majority of cases, the first band to come to mind is Arcade Fire. In fairness, off the back of a run of outstanding albums, jaw-dropping live shows, and that HTML5 interactive video, Arcade Fire are an example of that rarest of phenomena: […]
Given the chance, people like good music. I’ll stand by this, and defend it to the death. Well, maybe not that far, but I’d have a good stab at it. My issue with mainstream media is simple: the general public is fed what is popular. Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean that this is the […]
Maybe it’s the curse of the support act. Maybe they had just been blown up out of proportion to my ears. I’ve used this blog as a way of explaining (admitting, confessing) that I made a snap judgment about bands before – a judgment that was just wrong. Well, it seems like an appropriate time […]
Music has always played a huge part in movies, or the cinema, or “the pictures” as some people would call them. Whether it’s Quincy Jones laying down a track from They Call Me Mister Tibbs, Oliver Stone throwing in “Drums of A-Go-Go” on the Natural Born Killers Soundtrack, Teenage Fanclub and De La Soul getting […]
Here is the second installment of the Movement Series we will be doing here at the freethinking movement. We’ve got a lot of requests for mixes, so for the people who aren’t close to New York City and can’t come down to check the night out live, here’s your opportunity to see what our night […]
A few people have been asking for mixes, so here we go… A lot of this music you’ll know. Some of it you won’t. Our goal is simple. Good music rules. It’s not just about playing music which you won’t have heard before – it’s about bringing it all together, and hopefully giving you a […]