digital staff writer and freelance journalist
Olivia Stock is DJ Mag’s digital staff writer. She previously worked as a freelance journalist covering alternative music and culture across print and digital. Her writing can be seen in DIY Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, The Forty-Five, LICKS Mag, and others. Olivia was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the UK’s largest student music magazine, The Mic, as well as working on a freelance basis for a variety of independent record labels and PR firms.
English Teacher: “Are we post-punk? You tell me.”
Primed to go stratospheric with their cerebral bangers, English Teacher are the Leeds throng you can’t help but pay attention to. Olivia Stock caught up with the band on literature, lyricism, and life on the cusp of punk stardom.
Cover Interview: Walt Disco
Breaking out of the binds of genre and gender, progressive performance pop outfit Walt Disco are fun, flamboyant, and before everything just ‘six best pals having the pretty damn best time’. Olivia Stock caught up with the ever effervescent James Potter on the evolution of the band’s style and sound, their 80s inspo, and the process behind curating queer indie-pop bangers for the ages.
WARGASM: “We’re like fire meets acetone peroxide”
Electro-punx Wargasm celebrate the return of live music with a combustible set on the Reading Lock-Up stage and a natter about all things pop stars, primal fun, and ‘Salma Hayek’.
Reading Festival 2021: The Best of the Friday
As the sun sets on the first day at Reading Festival 2021, the sweet scent of dark fruits and stale cigarettes in the air, RIOT reflects on the best it had to offer.
Reading Festival 2021: Ones To Watch
Luckily for teens and once-teens, Britain’s favourite hedonistic summer ritual is back and bulkier than ever, with double the main stages and half the clashes. Here’s RIOT’s ‘Ones To Watch’ across the weekend.
A Love Letter to a Genre That Didn’t Always Love Me Back
As live music makes a jubilant return, The Mic’s Editor-in-Chief, Olivia Stock reflects on her experiences growing up in the heavy music scene.
Mind the Gap: Blanketman on Northern Escapism and the National Trust
Olivia Stock talked regional rumbles, jangle pop, and the Mancunian way with Adam Hopper, the affable frontman of Manchester’s new wave five-piece, Blanketman.
Printed in DO ONE! Zine (Issue #1)
The Regrettes’ Lydia Night Opens up on the Music Industry’s Culture of Sexual Misconduct
As Lydia Night, frontwoman of The Regrettes accuses SWMRS’ Joey Armstrong of “emotional abuse and sexual coercion,” questions surrounding contemporary indie’s culture of manipulation and machismo are raised once more. Olivia Stock shines a light on the music industry’s murkiest corners to dissect the intricacies of power abuse and unmask the shrouded culture of sexual assault.
Event Preview: Ravelength
In aid of the charity Music Minds Matter and with a scintillating line-up of underground DJ’s, Ravelength is a new type of rave night taking place on March 27th that you won’t want to miss.
Silence is deafening: Shame on finding strength in vulnerability
In the week preceding the release of their weirder, wiser second album, Olivia Stock sat down with Shame’s wiry frontman, Charlie Steen and lead guitarist, Eddie Green to talk rejecting expectations, punk’s vulnerable new groove, and a vendetta with La Policía.