Our top ten songs about rain are all GORGEOUS. But what do they mean? What does the rain symbolise?
MUSIC FOCUS: Taylor Swift, Pale Waves, Paramore, Tove Lo... Read More...
Read Sound of Pen's essay about Maggie Lindemann's 'SUCKERPUNCH' and fuel your own investigations into the literature of love.
MUSIC FOCUS: Maggie Lindemann... Read More...
Lots of our texts examine the importance of self-belief. Let's listen to the music of Bush and work out what we'd say if asked to explore that very theme.
MUSIC FOCUS: Bush.ACTIVITY FOCUS: To look at how the music of Bush presents ideas about sel... Read More...
Bright Star is locked in her manager’s office, Cynthia is locked in a friend’s basement and Ayley is locked in her bedroom. Sound of Pen's 'fTrE' novel explore... Read More...
In most stories, there's a letter being posted... or a phone ringing... or an email being sent. Characters are communicating and - whatever the era - they're u... Read More...
Taylor Swift’s 2020 albums – ‘folklore’ and ‘evermore’ – are like water. In the surface of them, we see ourselves, as vague and actual as we really are. Underneath that surface, though, things get more complicated. Of course they do. Our whole lives... Read More...
From number 50 to number 1, here are the songs we loved most this year.
50. While She Sleeps, Nervous
49. Doll Skin, Control Freak
48. Creeper, Midnig... Read More...
We've heard so much amaaaaazing music in 2021 already! Here are the songs we've enjoyed most. Each mini-review includes a word that you can try to use in your ... Read More...
Against The Current
Lily Allen
All Time Low
Anaal Nathrakh
Ankor
Architects
As It Is
Asking Alexandria
Baby Queen
Bazzi
BEEA
BLACKPINK
Black Veil Brides
Delilah Bon
Bring Me The Horizon
BTS
Bury Tomorr... Read More...