Interviews

“Ella Fitzgerald sings like a cello – it's incredible. As a cellist, that felt like home to me.”  When Laufey first heard Ella Fitzgerald, she couldn’t help falling in love. Here was a singer with the grand, soaring string arrangements...
Loyal admirers of Khruangbin, the three-piece band from Houston, Texas turned burgeoning global phenomenon following their 2015 release ‘The Universe Smiles Upon You,’ rarely agree on how to classify the band’s genre. This suits the outfit just fine, who...
It is gratifying and sort of beautiful to grow up with an artist. Alessia Cara made her start in music in 2015 at just over 18 years old, and already at that young age, she was preoccupied with the...
Creeper’s multi-instrumentalist Hannah Greenwood was on stage on the Saturday of Download Festival in a wedding dress. On Monday at 8:00 am, she was back to work as an administrator at a maternity ward. “It is a bit of a...
Lola Young is an open book and she likes it that way. The 20-year-old singer-songwriter from South London counts Joni Mitchell, Anderson .Paak, Prince and Alanis Morisette as some of her biggest inspirations – "'Blue' – I literally have...
It’s been a long year and a half, but live music is finally back! Last May, a wave of relief, happiness and optimism rolled through the doors of our favourite venues. Once again, we feel the thumping of the...
Choose your fighter! An interview with Lucy Dacus
Two ferocious female frontwomen, in conversation
When Jason Aalon Butler started his current band, the rap-metalcore group FEVER 333, he decided he would release their music through his own label. “I was arrogantly banking on the success of my band early on,” he laughed. “But...