Hipsquare: Music

Hipsquare is my evolving separate creative space for all things related to music

It’s not about live gig photography, as that’s too distracting from the music, but if musicians think my imagery would help with their artwork…let me know!

Now and again I delve into my limited-edition coloured vinyl collection for your listening pleasure, take some photos, do a blog and from selected tracks, build a virtual mix-tape of Spotify.

There is a lot of debate about the level of payment to artists from Spotify, but I’ve shelled out for the vinyl (sometime multiple versions) and go to gigs (50+ in 2024), buy t-shirts (many, many t-shirts!) so if this digital medium helps discover and break new and exciting acts and you do the same, then that’s fine with me.

So, if you have like under-the-radar-ish, cool mainly indie/indie-pop/post-punk/shoegaze/alternative/singer-songwriters then check out my Hipsquare: Playlists below and spread the love.

And read about my take on the artists/tracks chosen, photos of the vinyl and covers from each of the playlists.

It’s quite a broad church I think but if you hit a bit of a personal vibe-bump when listening to any track, you can skip over of course but do try and take the journey from Track 1 to the end, just like me, the artist and The God of Vinyl intended 🙏🏻 …don’t be that “I only like it because I’ve heard it before” person.

You can read more about the background to my interest in music here.

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