You’ve heard her commanding voice everywhere. She’s implored you to release the wiggle, to come to slay bitch, to work your back off, to ask who is motherfuckin’ representing in here tonight. She’s worked with Beyoncé, Drake, Diplo, Lizzo,...
Wallice – ‘disappear’
https://youtu.be/iV8eHVNdo8Y
Wallice’s new single ‘disappear’ begins as a whisper, the California singer-songwriter lamenting all the things she tried hard to achieve but didn’t get in an almost-mumble. When the chorus hits, though, her frustration erupts, exploding the song...
CMAT – 'Have Fun!'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux_RYOHc4oM
Having made her name as “everyone’s favourite global pop star™”, Irish sensation CMAT is back with a fresh slice of gleeful alt-pop, careening her way around funky fiddles on the streets of gay Paree. There’s a...
A trail of rhinestone cowboy hats leads the way from Seven Sisters station to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, corner shops are pumping Beyoncé's back catalogue and a stampede of fans adorned with tassels and sequins march towards the show of...
ARLO PARKS – ‘DEVOTION’
The final single from her second album ‘My Soft Machine’ (out today) and one of Arlo Parks’ favourite songs she’s ever made, ‘Devotion’ is about “feeling so in love it’s almost like being ripped apart, there’s...
Glastonbury, as you’ll already know, is unlike any other festival in the world. Sprawling over 900 acres, with umpteen stages and literally hundreds of things going on at any one time, it’s a hedonistic, soul-nourishing ecosystem in and of...
The Great Escape is a multi-venue Brighton festival which acts as a showcase for some of Europe's most exciting new acts. Each May, the music industry descends on the south-coast city for panels, conferences, live gigs and after-parties all...
Anne Marie feat Shania Twain – 'UNHEALTHY'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrSQ2P4fep8
“My father says I should run away/but he don’t know that I just don’t know how,” Anne Marie sings in the opening moments of the song which talks about a love that everyone...
As long as there have been pop stars, there has been scandal about their sexuality. Whether they’ve got too much on show (or not enough), whether they’re hiding who they love (or talking about it too much), whether they’re...
On her debut album, Arlo Parks showcased a style of lyricism that felt to many like a wise and kindly friend. Released in the uncertainty of the pandemic, 'Collapsed In Sunbeams' was a talisman to the kind of young...