Gemma Phillips

A Beginner's Guide to Big Room

Big room house has captivated global audiences for decades, delivering exhilarating, expansive sound that defines festival main stages. This guide explores the genre's musical characteristics, product...

Spotify for Artists: What You Need to Know

Spotify for Artists gives musicians and their teams access to streaming data, editorial playlist submissions, and profile controls. Here is how the platform works and what it actually provides.

The History of Progressive Rock

It's not a story with one hero or one clean ending — it's a genre that reinvented itself at least three times over five decades.

A Beginner's Guide to Americana

Americana blends country, folk, blues, bluegrass and rock into something else entirely. Here's a friendly, no-jargon way in for first-time listeners.

A Beginner's Guide to Heavy Metal

The Complete Guide to 100 Top Ten Songs

The greatest top ten songs transcend their moment to become cultural touchstones recognised across generations. From Beatles classics to contemporary streaming hits, these records demonstrate what mak...

Progressive House for Newcomers: Where to Start

Progressive house has two distinct traditions and three decades of releases — but you don't need to understand all of it before starting. Here's the clearest path in.

A Complete Guide to Music Nfts

Music NFTs offer artists potential for direct fan sales and revenue sharing via blockchain technology. But reality often falls short of hype. Learn how they work, their limitations and when they might...

The Complete Guide to Two Rock Amps

Two Rock is a boutique American amplifier manufacturer known for handcrafted instruments of uncompromising quality. Professional touring musicians worldwide consider Two Rock amps among the finest amp...

A Beginner's Guide to Ambient Music

It builds an atmosphere and lets you decide how closely to listen — here's what actually defines ambient music, and where it came from.

Essential World Music Albums Explained

Essential Amapiano Albums Explained

A sound that grew out of township house parties and WhatsApp-shared demos turned into a genuine album culture on its own terms. Here's the essential shelf.

Essential Bachata Albums Explained

The bachata albums that actually moved the genre forward, and why each one mattered at the time it landed.

The Complete Guide to Gothic Metal

Gothic metal fuses the power of heavy metal with the melancholic beauty of gothic aesthetics. Symphonic, introspective, and theatrical, gothic metal invites listeners into a world of shadow and emotio...

A Beginner's Guide to Funk Music

Funk music is dance music built on rhythm, not melody. Here's what makes the groove work, and where to start listening.

Essential Death Metal Albums Explained

A tightly packed canon: the death metal albums that actually matter, in the order they happened, and why each one still holds up.

Essential Electronic Music Albums Explained

The records that actually moved the needle in electronic music, explained through rhythm — precision, hypnosis, texture and pure dancefloor fuel.

Essential House Music Albums Explained

House was built for the 12-inch single, so a genuinely great house album is a rare thing. Here are the ones that earned their place, and why they matter.

A Beginner's Guide to Soul Music

Gospel-rooted vocals, three defining sounds, and an eight-track route in — here's everything a soul music newcomer needs.

Dubstep for Newcomers: Where to Start

A mate's told you to get into dubstep and you've no idea where to start. Fair enough. Skip the homework for now – here's simply where to press play first.

The Best Garage Rock Artists to Know

Garage rock has always been made by outsiders who ended up defining everything. These are the artists you need to know — from the 1960s originators to the 2000s revivalists.

Rocksteady Subgenres, Explained

Two years wasn't long enough for an official family tree, but real rocksteady subgenres still emerge once you know what to listen for. Here's the honest map.

Essential Salsa Music Albums Explained

Not a shaky top-ten — here are the collaborative runs and landmark recordings any serious salsa music listener should actually know.

Essential Rockabilly Albums Explained

There's no single agreed canon, but these are the rockabilly albums historians and fans keep coming back to, and why they still matter.