Interviews

Arxx are in the bath and they've invited us to watch. The Brighton duo are scrubbing up to mark the release of their stonking new single, 'Deep' – a slick indie-pop track that further cements them as one of...
Playing CBGB’s. Becoming a regular DJ on the New York club scene. Blowing up online with your own irresistibly cool and catchy songs. These are the things the wannabe popstars dream of one day achieving, but few will come...
For the past twenty years, Peaches’ pioneering work has hinged upon a very bodily, physical form of expression, and has delighted in subversion. A brief highlights reel: for 2003’s ‘Fatherfucker’ the Canadian artist donned a fake beard on the...
From playing the double bass as a child to working with long-time friend and producer Dom Porter, Essex-born Mercy’s Cartel has grown up expressing herself through her music. Her songs – fresh R&B confessionals and witty, playful takes on modern...
Fears wears her heart on her sleeve. You can tell that just by listening to her emotive, ethereal music, which combines haunting vocals and acoustic samples with reflective electronics. Every single track on her debut artist album ‘Oíche’ is...
Tell you what, kids – we love CMAT. Ever since we heard the infectious 'I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby', complete with line "Always the cowboy, never the cow/ I hate the way my life turned out", we knew...
Zara Larsson is snuggled comfortably in the corner of her spacious couch to chat about her upcoming second album 'Poster Girl'. “I feel ready and finished.” She pauses and laughs, “Well, no, that’s not true, I definitely could have...
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 EP 'Impostor', which warps like a well-loved film reel. This space isn’t the result of...
At 13, Madison Beer was discovered by Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun on YouTube, singing Etta James covers. It should have been a fairytale story for the social media age; gaining hundreds of thousands of followers, walking...
Jacob Allen has long been attuned to the rhythms of restless nights. A chronic insomniac since the age of 10, the Croydon-raised singer-songwriter only began writing music as Puma Blue as a means of staying occupied during those sleepless...