Tyler Damara Kelly
Tyler Kelly is a music and culture writer for the likes of The Line of Best Fit and The Forty-Five. Starting out on the Times Culture desk, Tyler is also a musician and plays bass in duo Human Interest and has toured with Bimini.
45s of the week: Arlo Parks, Softcult, Biig Piig and more
Arlo Parks - 'Weightless'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zb9X_unuqo
Nobody does longing and heartbreak quite like Arlo Parks. The 2021 Brit Awards Breakthrough Artist winner is a magician with words,...
45s of the week: Little Simz, FLO, Gretel Hänlyn and more!
FLO – 'Losing You'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYKM6CTfS5o
If being alone during cuffing season has made you wistfully reflect on the times you had a significant other, BRITS Rising...
Dry Cleaning – ‘Stumpwork’ review: astute post-punk commentary on the mundanity of everyday life
Compared to their first releases ‘Sweet Princess EP’ and ‘Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP’, Dry Cleaning’s debut album ‘New Long Leg’ felt like...
45s of the week: Biig Piig, Taylor Swift, Kimbra and more!
Biig Piig – 'This Is What They Meant'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBq1Cw6rNk
Certain songs make you reminisce about running around the city late at night in a state of...
Sylvan Esso: “Part of the job is knowing where to put your brain on...
“How can I be moved when everything is moving,” ponders vocalist Amelia Meath in the opening moments of Sylvan Esso’s fourth studio album ‘No...
TREMORS// Softcult have finally found their voice and now they’re louder than ever
When Canadian-native twins Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn began writing as Softcult, there was only one mission in mind: to cultivate a community that gets...
Kills Birds: “Dave Grohl is a rare breed”
2020 saw countless bands in their prime clinging on to what little remained of their newly started careers as the effects of the pandemic...
Surfbort: “Being a super freak is beautiful”
It’s early morning in New York and you can still hear the signs of a good night’s sleep in the back of Dani Miller’s...
It was the women of the Download Pilot who rocked the hardest
Cast your mind back to this time last year. We were easing our way out of the first (of many) lockdowns and ‘tinnies in...
Taylor Momsen: “I had given up on everything, I gave up on life”
For some, rock and roll is a genre of music. For others, it’s an ethos; a lifestyle. For Taylor Momsen – frontwoman of The...