AQA is an organisation best known for causing teenagers overwhelming stress (in other words, providing GCSEs and A-Levels) and, more recently, for their heroic efforts to protect said teenagers from knowing that vibrators exist. Students taking AQA’s GCSE course in Media Studies have had to study Zoella’s YouTube, Twitter and...
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Emma Wilkes opens up about her catcalling experiences from a young age, claiming our society is still infested with rape culture.
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For young people, exams, like death and taxes, were once certainties of life. That was the case, at least, in a society that couldn’t have imagined a pandemic shutting it down and forcing it to adapt as radically as it has. The alterations coronavirus has forced us to make have...
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Read Emma Wilkes's take on whether constant single releases are driving the album out of fashion. What's your take?
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British punk rockers return with their latest album SUCKERPUNCH - but does it deliver the surprise attack the title offers?
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"The whole idea is to try and find silver linings and live in those positive moments when you’re on the uptick." Emma Wilkes chats to ska-punk band Less Than Jake about missing tour, releasing an album in uncertain times and the continuous evolution of their sound.
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Against All Logic – 2017-2019 There’s an excellent segment from ‘Harder Harmonies’ by La Dispute where Jordan Dreyer parallels music to the rhythms of human life. “A dream of sweat and ecstasy/ A kiss on every hammer hit that follows as the keys fall down and brings an order first/...
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Emma Wilkes and Fee Merali explore the age-old question of whether it's possible to stay friends with an ex.
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Emma Wilkes explains why having a say in the songwriting process is so important to overall artistry.
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Emma Wilkes highlights the masses of backlash from the recent unveiling of the Mary Wollstonecraft statue, and her personal views of this controversial "monument".
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After conducting a survey among Warwick students, Emma Wilkes considers whether there is pressure to find 'the one' at university.
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Doncaster-born Dom Harrison, better known as Yungblud, remains charmingly eccentric on his latest record 'Weird!'.
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System of a Down release new music after fifteen years, so what has brought them out of the limelight? Emma Wilkes reflects on the Armenian-American heavy metal band's response to the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh war taking place in Armenia, as well as the wider impact of music and philanthropy.
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