“When The Fugees would come to London it was lethal, we’d tell the whole place to come together right now like The Beatles. Wake the town and tell the people, we gon’ do it like we used to.” These...
Jennie – ‘Mantra’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3-CUMERIU&pp=ygUNamVubmllIG1hbnRyYQ%3D%3D
“This that pretty girl mantra, she’s that stunna, make you wanna swing both ways,” Jennie declares confidently on ‘Mantra’, her first track to be released since setting up her own label OddAtelier. The BLACKPINK singer and rapper...
Does it get much better than a stadium college show? At the start of a brand new school year at Stanford University, hordes of undergrads (and even younger local listeners) are queuing in blazing 40-degree heat, forming a long,...
Rachel Chinouriri and Cat Burns - 'Even'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoRzsDjp7MA
It’s been a little while coming, but the collaboration between two of indie-pop’s brightest new lights feels every bit as bittersweet as we predicted. Taking measured aim at the double-standards that exist for...
Nearly four decades ago, Janet Jackson burst out of boomboxes and into global consciousness as she belted out the lyric, "I ain't your baby, I'm Janet—Miss Jackson if you're nasty." Over synth-laden R&B and New Jack Swing, she cemented...
On January 30 2021, the groundbreaking artist, DJ and producer Sophie Xeon, known as SOPHIE, tragically died at the age of 34. It would be an understatement to say that the Grammy-nominated musician changed the world of music forever –...
September might be chilling down in the UK, but over in the US, things are getting sweaty.
Roughly halfway through their co-headlining tour, Charli XCX and Troye Sivan have been delighting audiences with a setlist that draws heavily on the...
Content Warning: Sexual and Physical Violence
Since November 2023, the rapper, manager and overall music manager known as P Diddy (aka Sean Combs) has been subject to a series of lawsuits, accusing him of sexual assault, sexual trafficking and various...
Lambrini Girls – ‘Company Culture’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kz_CrB0Vf0
Lambrini Girls are back with another track about the patriarchy and its ceaseless means of making womxn feel undermined and undervalued in all aspects of life – especially the workplace. Tapping into archaic stereotypes that...
FKA twigs – ‘Eusexua’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcW9s7CuhJ0&pp=ygURZmthIHR3aWdzIGV1c2V4dWE%3D
“What is eusexua to you?” FKA twigs asked her fans ahead of her highly-anticipated comeback. To the star, the term refers to a feeling of “momentary transcendence” and the title track from her upcoming third album...