The artwork for ARXX’s long-awaited debut album ‘Ride Or Die’ features a coming together of two worlds. On the front, singer and guitarist Hanni Pidduck and drummer Clara Townsend stand in front of a collage of palm trees and...
When Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano re-sparked the phrase ‘MeToo’ as a global movement in 2017, it sent shockwaves across the entertainment industry, opening up vital conversations about abuse, misogyny, sexism and the endless demeaning or outright dangerous situations that...
If boygenius were releasing their debut album 20 years ago, a litany of high school alt kids would be changing their AIM and MSN Messenger statuses to lyrics from ‘the record’. Technology might have changed, but our urge to...
When Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker formed boygenius in 2018, nobody could have predicted the hysteria that awaited them. As three queer women in their early twenties, signed to indie labels and touring their first albums, they...
“Don’t you know a singer can still be a side-piece at 33?” Lana Del Rey purrs on ‘A&W’, her half-eye-rolled question making me smirk as it whooshes through my headphones. It’s just over a month before her ninth album,...
In the first week of her Eras tour, Taylor Swift has already showcased some of her greatest fashion looks yet. Sporting custom designs from Versace, Roberto Cavalli and Oscar de la Renta, she has romped through 44 songs a...
THE JAPANESE HOUSE – ‘BOYHOOD’
Four years since Amber Bain’s deeply vulnerable debut album ‘Good At Falling’ detailed the world-altering demise and eventual end of her relationship with musician Marika Hackman, the once elusive singer has signalled the start of...
The problem when you’ve built a career out of making sparky, characterful alternative pop, brimming with cheeky winks and a playful approach to art, is that sometimes the world puts a spanner in the works. When you’re loving life,...
It’s been eleven years since Lana Del Rey released her debut album ‘Born To Die’. In that time, the singer-songwriter has been nothing short of prolific, dropping two albums in 2021 – ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ and ‘Blue...
As an artist, activist and woman with a deeply-enviable eye for interior design, Kacey Musgraves is the kind of contemporary country popstar that fans can believe in.
Not content with this roster of talent though, she has teamed up with...