Joe Talbot doesn’t care about what people think of him, except when he does. At the end of an elongated stretch of interviews for IDLES new record 'Ultra Mono’, he is understandably worn a little thin, trying to resist...
On her banger-filled, self-titled new album, Mel C turned to a number of young female artists to collaborate on writing and delivering a vibrant record full of messages of strength and self-acceptance. Among them was alt-pop star Shura, who...
'Emotion' by Carly Rae Jepsen is five years old and it has endured because it is the purest most shameless pop album of a decade, inspired by everything pop music has since become too afraid to be. A bold...
As she prepares to release a brand new project, we talk female empowerment, self-belief and south London with Ms Banks.
You have your whole life to write your debut album and so by that logic, releasing your first record should be a pretty exciting moment. What happens, though, when your first full-length body of work coincides with a global...
Even through a Zoom screen, Sinead O’Brien is magnetic. She has the quiet energy of someone with a fast-flowing stream of ideas running through them at all times, thoughtful and considering, with an excited energy for whatever the topic...
Omar Apollo has the musical taste of a much older person—Prince, Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone. So it is no surprise that after a brief Twitter exchange with Bootsy Collins, the 23-year old singer-songwriter got the...
This summer Amelia Meath – the lyric-writing, Buffalo boot wearing, cartwheeling half of Sylvan Esso – turned 32. Of course a party was impossible, so instead she and her bandmate and husband Nick Sanborn got masked up, dipped themselves...
At age 21, Canadian artist Powfu has already firmly grasped the title of one of 2020’s breakout stars, his lo-fi hip-hop tracks hitting over 20 million monthly streams on Spotify. What started out as a bedroom project has become...
Over the past few years, Liverpool rockers The Mysterines have been perfecting their brand of riff-happy, groove-based indie belters, complete with a heavy dollop of punk attitude. They tick all the boxes for a successful rising act: they’ve previously...