Interviews

Leading with the stage name Nissi, Nissi Ogulu is a force to be reckoned with. Drawing on her experiences from life in Nigeria and London, the singer-songwriter is ready to share her music with the world.  As an upcoming artist,...
Willie J Healey's first album, ‘People And Their Dogs’, was released in 2017. What began as a discography of soft melodies and gentle lyrics turned into eccentrics on ‘666 Kill’, his leftfield EP about “weird things like planes going...
Recently, The Gender Disparity Report, a study conducted by music publicist and consultant Linda Coogan Byrne, found that over a 12 month period, Irish female musicians were played 90 percent less than their male counterparts – with four stations...
When Bella Latham, aka Baby Queen, moved to west London as a wide-eyed, excitable 18-year-old, she was on a particular mission: to reshape the pop-sphere as we know it. Within a week of living there, she had settled in...
A guide to their city by the Glaswegian goth-pop quartet.
For album number two, Emily Mackay finds a reborn Fontaines DC – rested and ready to redefine their sound.
In songwriting circles, Donna Missal’s abilities have long been an open secret. A reluctant star originally, the Pasadena-based singer-songwriter first found fame in 2015, when a song she wrote with every intention of giving away, called ‘Keep Lying’, became...
Bree Runway’s mum might just be the unspoken hero of 2020. Though she wasn’t best pleased when her teenage daughter told her she was going to be a popstar – (“Actually, she said to me, if you don't go...
Some lockdowns are more productive than others. South-London band Sweat have coded their own virtual club night, SweatNet which has been hosting live hologram performances every Monday night. When keyboardist Gam fell ill at the start of lockdown, he...
Music and memory are deeply tangled in Michaela Coel’s corrosive series I May Destroy You. Across 12 episodes, the fragments of one traumatic event are pieced together through flashbacks, everyday investigations and white-hot surges of remembrance. A vibrant, often familiar...