Alex Macpherson
Alex Macpherson is a freelance journalist who writes mainly on music, but sometimes on tennis.
Articles by Alex Macpherson
Beauty of the beat
It has been a bad time for clubbing. But shut away at home, DJs have returned to dance music’s political roots.
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How Spotify’s algorithm is transforming pop
Spotify offers fans unparalleled access to music – but is it flattening culture into an incentivised blandness?
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Why country singers are the chroniclers of our age
A new generation of female singers are rejecting patriotic tub-thumping and documenting the dark heart of rural America.
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The dangerous stereotype of the self-hating homophobe
The assumption that homophobic attackers are themselves secretly gay lets straight society off the hook.
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The quiet radicalism of Years & Years
Transcending weary clichés about divas and “gay pop”, acclaimed new band Years & Years articulate what it is to be young and gay.
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