Emma Holbrook
Emma is a writer and video editor from North London who owns too much corduroy. She loves making excessively long mixtapes, being the tallest person at a gig, and watching Haim walk down a street. Lorde’s ‘Melodrama' is the best album of the past twenty years – change her mind.
Grammys 2021: Beyoncé breaks records, Megan Thee Stallion takes Best New Artist
Beyoncé has now become the most decorated singer in Grammy history after winning four awards at the 2021 ceremony to bring her total up...
45s of the week: Lucy Dacus, Sarah Kinsley, Jorja Smith and more!
Lucy Dacus - 'Thumbs'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19BYUvnKjk
There are some stories only Lucy Dacus can tell. ‘Thumbs’ is one of them: not simply a murder fantasy but a...
BBC Radio 6 Music Festival to go ahead virtually
BBC Radio 6 Music Festival will still go ahead this year, albeit virtually.
Lauren Laverne announced on her 6 Music Breakfast Show this morning...
Chika returns with new fairytale EP ‘Once Upon a Time’
Chika has released a new six-track EP just in time for the Grammys on March 14.
'Once Upon a Time', which features BJ The...
A non-exhaustive list of bands Adam Levine may have forgotten about
Every six months or thereabouts, a celebrity will make an absurd sweeping statement about the state of music: “Guitar music is dead!” “Nobody ever...
45s of the week: Noname, Bright Eyes, Greentea Peng, and more!
Noname - 'Rainforest'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYrGdvmeqc
“Man, fuck a billionaire!” With her first track since 2020’s ‘Song 33’, ‘Rainforest’ sees Noname at her tenacious best: anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and...
TREMORS// Miss Grit is making scuzzy indie rock about impostor syndrome
Miss Grit takes her time. You can hear it in her lingering guitar solos; the sprawling outro of ‘Blonde’, the mid-point on her new...
45s of the week: Mahalia x Rico Nasty, SG Lewis, Lava La Rue and...
Mahalia - 'Jealous' ft. Rico Nasty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyBGzYkHLRk
“From the Southside / Summer's outside, chillin' Westside” sings Mahalia on the first verse of ‘Jealous’ and whether borne...
A potted history of music’s love affair with the mullet
It’s a tale as old as time: a style many have tried to forget captures the imagination of a new generation and comes back...
‘Love Story (Taylor’s version)’ is a much-needed throwback
Taylor Swift has released 'Love Story (Taylor's Version)' and just in time for Valentine's Day, no less.
The pandemic's most prolific popstar appeared on...