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TLMT Podcast is a weekly music review show, featuring reviews and editorials on the Irish Music Scene from critic and photographer Stephen White.
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The Importance of Being Macklemore and The Free Palestine Tour (opens the original)
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Following the controversy that saw Macklemore removed from the remaining US dates of Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour , Stephen White looks beyond the headlines to ask what the story reveals about power, money and freedom in the modern music industry. Promoters, venues, billionaire owners and corporate interests can control the spaces where music happens, raising a bigger question about what happens when an artist’s politics collide with the commercial machinery behind the stage. Then Macklemore announced
The Assassination of Macklemore by the Coward Ed Sheeran (opens the original)
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Macklemore walked onto the stage at MetLife Stadium and said two words: Free Palestine. What followed became much bigger than a moment between songs. Macklemore was removed from the remaining US dates of Ed Sheeran’s tour. The promoter said venues had objected to his continued involvement. Sheeran said the decision was not his, and that he had tried to find a way through the dispute. Then the other artists started walking. Finneas. Lukas Graham. Aaron Rowe. Beoga. Suddenly, this wasn’t simply a
Oasis Don’t Look Back In Anger, Masculinity & Learning to Forgive (opens the original)
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With Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger arriving in cinemas, Stephen looks at Liam and Noel Gallagher, the sixteen-year feud that kept them apart, and what their reunion might tell us about masculinity, friendship, pride and forgiveness. Oasis embodied a particular kind of masculinity in the 1990s. Swagger, aggression, emotional armour and the refusal to back down. But beneath all of that, their music gave a generation of young men permission to feel something they didn’t always have the language f
Does Music Have a Nepo Baby Problem? (opens the original)
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Stella Lefty is having a moment. But what happens when the people making music don’t all start from the same place? Stella Lefty’s rise to fame with Boston has become a lightning rod for arguments about nepotism, authenticity and the modern music industry. Her billionaire father has made her an obvious target for the “nepo baby” label, while controversy surrounding Boston and its similarity to Noah Kahan’s Stick Season has only added fuel to the conversation. But the real question is bigger than
Dolly Parton Won: The Legacy of an American Icon (opens the original)
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Dolly Parton didn’t just become a country music legend she changed what a woman could be in music. From Locust Ridge to Nashville, Jolene to I Will Always Love You , CMAT to Beyoncé and Sabrina Carpenter, this is the story of how Dolly built a legacy that reaches far beyond country music. She didn’t make the next woman into Dolly, she made it easier for her to be herself.
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