“Oh, it’s like we’re in an episode of Black Mirror, isn’t it!?”
That’s a statement I’ve heard with alarming frequency over the last year. In fact, apart from the excruciating “this is the new normal” and the unofficial slogan of 2020, “These Unprecedented Times,” I don’t think any other exclamation has been barked down
Popular News Stories
Related News
The ‘Hard Times Gives Us Good Music’ Myth Doesn’t Work In 2020
Harry Styles was on the nation’s pulse when he guilelessly said that the coronavirus lockdown would create “a lot of powerful music”. Back in March 2020, everyone thought...
Vice 2020-10-22How To Fix Racism in the Music Industry, By People in the Music Industry
Unpaid Royalties is a series about the myriad ways that the music industry exploits Black artists—and what's being done to change them. Read more here. It’ll take more...
Vice 2020-10-21Without the Arts, I Wouldn't Have Any Mates
The creative industries. The arts. Events and nightlife. Call them what you want, but at the end of the day what we’re talking about is FUN. Music, film, TV, theatre,...
Vice 2020-10-21‘Your Yorkshire Accent Makes You Sound Thick’ – Stories of Accent Bias in the Workplace
As a working class woman from Teesside, moving to the south of England to attend university at Oxbridge meant adjusting to a world in which very few people spoke like me....
Vice 2020-10-21TWENTY QUESTIONS: Maggie Dankert, Sturgis West girls' soccer
Thursday Oct 22, 2020 at 6:31 AM Oct 22, 2020 at 6:31 AM When Sturgis West senior Maggie Dankert was a youngster, her two main activities were gymnastics and dance, which...

Over 170,00 Live Music Jobs Could Be Lost This Year
The UK live music industry could face up to 170,000 job losses before the year is out, according to a report published today. The research, which was undertaken by Live...
Vice 2020-10-21Early Christians Might Have Been High on Hallucinogenic Communion Wine
Could the communion wine of history’s earliest Christians have been a hallucinogen? This is the question that The Immortality Key, a new book by religious scholar,...
Vice 2020-10-20