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Meet Connor Kaminski – Popular Music and Recording Graduate

From practice rooms to the release of a debut album, BA (Hons) Music: Popular Music and Recording graduate Connor Kaminski has been on an incredible journey. With over 80 thousand followers on Instagram, Connor has built a platform to share his work with likeminded people. We spoke to Connor about his time at the University […]

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EP Launch: Q&A with music student Tyler

Tyler Kent is a Popular Music and Recording student at the University of Salford who has just released his new EP Premature Infatuation. After picking his first guitar at 13-years-old, he knew that music was going to play a huge role in his life. I chatted to Tyler about his new EP and his musical […]

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Q&A with Popular Music and Recording graduate – Rachel Lasham

Rachel Lasham graduated from our BA Music: Popular Music and Recording course back in 2009 and is a drummer and percussionist from Manchester. Rachel spoke to me about her experiences at Salford, how her musical career began and what life has been like after graduation. It was fascinating to hear about how she gone on […]

Ones to watch: Salford’s genre-fluid electronic duo

Genre-fluid electronic duo YAANG formed at the University of Salford less than a year ago. Their music is a mixture of chilled out, lucid and trippy sounds combined with waves of Ian Curtis-esque vocals. YAANG have become excitingly successful in such a short space of time, managing to get themselves on the bill for BlueDot […]

Rising stars at Salford: Velvet Shakes

“Cosmic Pop-Disco” band Velvet Shakes are the current ones to watch in Manchester’s music scene. Formed whilst studying Popular Music and Recording within Salford’s School of Arts and Media. They’ve been making music for just short of nine months now – with tons ahead of them. (Below from left) Backing vocalist and guitarist Scott Hill, […]

The Salford Alumni duo ready to take on the Alt-Pop world.

Liv Westhead and Chris Abbott formed their band Edits back in 2013 in what they describe as the “legendary crumbling walls of the Adelphi building” whilst they were both studying BA Popular Music and Recording in our School of Arts and Media. The duo, originally from Cheshire, have just released their latest single “Cold”. I caught […]

One man band: Music student Michael Bloomer

First year student Michael started his student experience with a Music Foundation Year, and is now studying BA (Hons) Music: Popular Music and Recording. I spoke to him about why he chose the University of Salford to complete BOTH qualifications, and I even had a chance to sit in on one of his practice room […]