Interviews

The journey to the second Pale Waves album was anything but smooth. A near-fatal bus crash, global pandemic and creative differences fractured the band as it was. A period of soul-searching followed, but their aptly titled new album 'Who Am...
Nobody is having an easier time staying in than Rivers Cuomo. In fact, the Weezer frontman was never that keen on going out in the first place: “I really love staying at home all the time. I don’t have...
For musicians, the only thing stranger than not playing shows is playing shows to no one. The Staves are days away from their first live gig in a year and though fans will be sadly yet safely tucked behind...
To say Zoe Wees had a busy 2020 would be a bit of an understatement. She’s gone from releasing covers, including Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ and Lewis Capaldi’s ‘Someone You Loved’, to collaborating with artists such as Tom Walker and...
True to her name, the last time we saw Aerial East, she was suspended 20 feet in the air by an industrial crane; oil on the canvas of the New York City skyline. The music video for her latest...
For some, rock and roll is a genre of music. For others, it’s an ethos; a lifestyle. For Taylor Momsen – frontwoman of The Pretty Reckless and former Gossip Girl star – rock and roll is freedom. “It can...
While it required a lot of resilience for any of us to make it through 2020, Goat Girl were being forced to dig deep long before the pandemic.  At the tailend of 2019, the South London-based quartet were finishing recording...
Real recognises real, and in a year where nobody has time for artifice, South Londoner Enny stands out as artist whose biggest drive is to tell us exactly how things are. Having slowly grown in confidence ever since her...
Claud Mintz is a life-long romantic. Growing up in Chicago, they recall pining for a much older girl at school, and taking up songwriting aged 14, specifically to impress her. “I thought she was, like, super cool,” they smile,...
Today marks the release of Maggie Lindemann's debut EP, 'PARANOIA'. The Texan-born singer has already seen huge success. 2016 single, 'Pretty Girl' – a track celebrating the many facets of womanhood – boasts 76 million views on YouTube and...