Archive - No Tags

41: Major labels are hoovering up what's left of independent music

Can you be a truly independent artist anymore?

Mar 11 •

1:00:30

February 2025

40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found out

How Spotify filled our troughes with streambait, fake artists and AI slop.

Feb 20 •

1:18:32

39: Big Beat Cinema²: Bigger, Breaksier, Uncut

Geezers, lads' mags, class fantasies and iconic anti-piracy ads.

Feb 13 •

1:16:21

38: How umru laid the building blocks of hyperpop

Plus: Central Cee, FKA twigs and Babygirl.

Feb 6 •

1:42:16

January 2025

37: Big Beat Cinema

The first ever No Tags film season has landed.

Jan 23 •

1:26:39

36: God did not intend his creation to go raving in IKEA

Trouble at Drumsheds, the century's best year for albums, and a No Tags announcement

Jan 15 •

1:01:19

December 2024

35: The best (and worst?) music of 2024

Aided as ever by Henry Bruce-Jones.

Dec 20, 2024 •

2:16:30

November 2024

34: Zombie Nation is the artist, not the song

Online culture has been overrun by the undead and the inanimate. Where next?

Nov 27, 2024 •

55:17

33: The No Tags book is here!

'No Tags: Conversations on underground music culture' is available to pre-order now.

Nov 13, 2024 •

43:37

October 2024

32: Midland is reborn and jamming with Arthur Russell

The nicest DJ of our generation is older, wiser and ready to say no.

Oct 30, 2024 •

1:25:38

31: No tags and it's completely different but also still no tags

Thoughts on the Brat remixes, Ka, Jackmaster, Chat Pile and rave theory.

Oct 23, 2024 •

1:05:46

30: Amy Lamé, we hardly knew yé

Breaking down the London Night Czar's legacy with Ed Gillett.

Oct 9, 2024 •

57:56

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