Leonie Cooper
Leonie Cooper is a music and culture journalist with over fifteen years experience writing for publications such as The Guardian and NME.
50 years of Linda Martell: country music’s unsung hero
When it comes to country and western trailblazers, there’s one extremely special singer whose name has been unjustly forgotten in the...
The country music stars getting stick from the genre’s trad fanbase – and coming...
You’d have hoped that the kind of fierce, reactionary backlash against the Dixie Chicks – now known as The Chicks –...
Sylvan Esso: “There’s a reason why humanity wants to dance – there are so...
This summer Amelia Meath – the lyric-writing, Buffalo boot wearing, cartwheeling half of Sylvan Esso – turned 32. Of course a...
Farewell Miss Mercy – one of life’s true originals
And so it goes that another magnificent pop cultural presence leaves us. Earlier this week, the woman known as Miss Mercy...
Succession’s Cousin Greg has just dropped a pop-punk Coronavirus banger
Every single character in Succession is a sinister, nasty piece of work – scumbags one and all. And yet, what you...
Bree Runway: “My artistry is edgy. It’s different. It’s out there”
Bree Runway’s mum might just be the unspoken hero of 2020. Though she wasn’t best pleased when her teenage daughter told...
The Chicks – ‘Gaslighter’ review: balancing poppy political polemics alongside big sister belters
The band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks set themselves apart from the Republican sound of mainstream...
1990 was the worst year for music… ever
Skim through the back catalogue of the past 60 years of popular music and it’s easy to find incredible, groundbreaking, oh-my-god-what-is-this-it’s-the-best-thing-I’ve-ever-heard...
Nu-Country: the musicians bringing back the blues
As Tammy Wynette almost once said, sometimes it’s hard to be a country music fan. Thank goodness then for the likes of...
The Glastonbury blues will come for us all
So by now we’ve probably all had a little look at the annoyingly gorgeous weather forecast for what would have been...