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...
After two stellar albums, rock's most exciting duo are finally getting their dues.
As the world patiently awaits the release of boygenius' debut album 'The Record' (not to be confused with The Jonas Brothers' upcoming LP 'The Album'), on March 31, we dive into the archive for this previously unreleased conversation with...
As a kid, Armand Bultheel would lovingly feed his pet ants tiny little portions of a substance called agar-agar. A translucent jelly, it’s made by boiling up red algae – and though it’s mostly eaten as a veggie alternative...