Interviews

If, as Nina Simone once said, it is an artist’s duty to reflect the times we live in, then Baby Rose has chosen a more positive path. Instead of putting the hate, evil and sorrow that fills our world...
Flo Milli On site at Flo-Chella, Rhian Daly meets Flo Milli to talk about female empowerment and being one of the baddest rappers in the game. PHOTOS: Jenn Five and Brandon Almengo “I need y’all to turn the fuck up, OK?” Flo...
It’s a balmy Friday afternoon in the Californian desert and Lava La Rue has just come off stage after playing their first Coachella. With the glittery silver and red star still drawn across one of her eyes, she greets...
Knowing when any body of work is ready for release is difficult. Chords can always be added and tempos adjusted. This was the dilemma that drag queen and musician Shea Couleé found herself in with her LP '8'. After...
“I feel like a baby... but a hundred-year-old baby,” Arxx lyricist (and guitarist) Hanni Pidduck giggles. “It seems like we’ve been at it for years because we have, but at the same time, I feel like we’ve just got...
Recently signed to acclaimed indie label Dead Oceans (Mitski, Phoebe Bridgers, Japanese Breakfast), Asheville's Wednesday – featuring guitarist and vocalist Karly Hartzman, guitarist and back-up vocalist MJ Lenderman, lap steel guitarist Xandy Chelmis, bassist Margo Schultz and drummer Alan...
Amidst the still and inwardness of the pandemic, artist, cellist and multi-instrumentalist Lucinda Chua found herself faced with a familiar feeling of something missing that had been with her for as long as she could remember. Growing up in...
As she releases her debut album 'Good Riddance' and prepares to go on tour with Ms Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams is practising accountability in her life and music – the result is some of her most nuanced work to date.
Dream Wife's prowess to lace razor-sharp wit with powerful, political lexicon punches at a maximum across the London-based trio's forthcoming LP, 'Social Lubrication'.  Their debut single 'Leech' is a rock-heavy call-to-arms for some 'fucking empathy' from misogynistic gatekeepers in the...
One musician is a stalwart in the alternative music scene of the last 10 + years and the other is a member of a seventies seminal punk band. On the face of it Sharon Van Etten and founding member...