When Bullying Doesn't End With Childhood Bullying is often treated as something people eventually outgrow. It belongs to school playgrounds, childhood memories and awkward teenage years, safely left behind as adulthood promises greater maturity. Reality is rarely that simple. The desire to exclude, belittle or control others frequently survives long after childhood ends, merely adopting more socially acceptable forms. Gossip replaces taunts, prejudice replaces cliques, and mi

Five releases worth spending time with this weekend Five releases questioning the stories we tell ourselves This week's On This Track: Weekend Listening #3 moves between post-punk, indie-pop, art-pop, shoegaze and alternative pop, but each release begins with a familiar assumption before quietly turning it inside out. Whether questioning success, fear, healing, independence or the way songs themselves survive, these five artists remind us that some of the most interesting mus

How Music Captures the Strange Art of Carrying On Not every form of perseverance looks admirable. Sometimes it means repeating the same mistake, dragging yourself through exhaustion or trying to hold onto meaning in situations that no longer make much sense. This week Three Track Week #22, Kelsey Olivia, Rocketsuit Rogue and Wax Minds capture three very different versions of what it means to keep going anyway. Listen to this week’s Three Track Week 22 selection. This week’s t

When Music History Has To Be Recovered Before It Can Be Heard Music history is often told as if influence naturally leads to visibility. The artists who matter are expected to remain present, whether through constant reissues, streaming access, canonisation or the simple fact that their work never fully disappears from public reach. In reality, underground music rarely functions that neatly. Some of the most influential bands in a local scene end up becoming difficult to hear

When Pain Makes You Feel Less Than Human Modern culture still treats emotional suffering as something that should remain legible. Grief is expected to move through recognisable stages, depression is often reduced to a vocabulary of sadness and recovery is framed as a gradual return to normality. But some forms of psychological pain feel far less orderly than that. They can distort a person’s sense of self so completely that the problem is no longer just suffering, but estrang

Five releases worth spending time with this weekend Five releases about identity, expectation and the things we struggle to leave behind With temperatures climbing across much of Europe, On This Track: Weekend Listening #2 offers five releases worth spending time with indoors. Moving between alternative rock, pop and post-punk, this week's selections explore identity, expectation and the things we struggle to leave behind. Nova Twins – "Monsters" Photo courtesy of Marshall Re