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It could be 1998. Or 1987, or even 2003 if you were a DVD latecomer. I’m unwrapping my first new VHS tape in twenty-five years or more, slipping it out of its cardboard cover and smiling at the sound of the plastic-on-plastic scrape that’s unavoidable if you ever wanted to play a home video in your own machine. There’s a mechanical clunk as the video player accepts the tape, locates it in place…
Every year is a great year for music, and 2025 has been no exception! Here we’ll tell you about the artists we interviewed and the great music they’ve put out in the past twelve months. We began our year with fresh collages adorning our front page, and this time we tried to make it as colourful as possible! And among the artists featured in our main collage, there are pieces representing at least…
Every musician runs a record store in their head, thumbing through a stack of vinyl to say, ‘Here, this record changed my life.’ I love that thought. How would each of our record stores look? Infinitely cooler than any one of our social media pages, that’s for sure. Naturally we talk to plenty of musicians about the artists they listen to in their proverbial record stores. We’ve written twice…
When we think of protest songs, we think through the lens of a history book, of injustices from long ago. The history books that frame the writers of protest songs as being on the right side of history. The American Civil Rights Movement, the occupation of Ireland by British forces, the myriad of songs against Thatcher or Reagan or Bush through changing musical styles but all are framed as being…
At Moths and Giraffes, we’re celebrating five years since we published our first article in January 2020! The seeds of this website began with a concert journal in May 2011 and by 2016 I was beginning to enjoy many smaller gigs by independent artists in and around London. 2019 was significant as the indie artists I was seeing converged and I immersed myself in a scene I still enjoy to this day.…
Need to know more? Click here for a backstory. 1. Thanks for coming down in person to fill in your application for Moths and Giraffes: A Fitness Universe. I notice you've had some issues in the past with PL*NET F*TNESS, is that what brings you to us today? What happened with those guys? Pl*net Fitness makes you cancel your membership in person, even if you’re dead. And I think that’s bullshit for…
Roll the dial on your old radio, between the stations, you’re always much closer to static than you think. How easy it is to dip out of reality and fall headfirst into the static. And what about the TV channels you never had as a kid? The white noise is almost blinding in the dark, and if you look long enough, you could swear shapes were moving there… Listen to the new single ‘Radio Player’ by…
We hear about the movements of billionaires every day. Their opinions, their political leanings, their social media whims. I’m old enough to remember when billionaires were a rarity. It was an unachievable, unimaginable amount of wealth. Technically, it still should be, so why has the number of billionaires drastically risen especially since the pandemic? No, this is not a piece for The Economist,…
Like poets that surmise with their favourite lines, musicians and music nerds alike are guilty of turning to their microcosm of chords, melody and words to describe to someone how they feel. Both types of people are also prone to metaphors, and there are plenty of those in Maddy Hellstrom’s new single ‘Sophomore’. Image Credit: rlyblonde. It’s no surprise Maddy Hellstrom falls into the category of…
I don’t know about you, but I feel like being on the internet now is synonymous with bad, horrific, or disturbing news items. No, wait! Don’t go! You’re visiting Moths and Giraffes, where the only negative feelings we have are about ourselves. Wait, ok let me start again. Isn’t music wonderful? You could be minding your own business (inviting people to send you their songs) and then the most…
