Kelela delivers a pulse-racing return to the stage with her first London headline in half-a-decade celebrating queer Black electronic music, womanhood, and her rapturous second album 'Raven'
Maisie Peters - 'Lost The Breakup'
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Having built a fandom through radical lyrical transparency, breakout popstar Maisie Peters knows a thing or two about warts ‘n’ all songwriting, taking the listener through the “feeling and dealing” of dating. On ‘Lost...
11 years ago, a thumping beat and novelty horse-riding dance changed everything. The artist was Psy, and the song was 'Gangnam Style', a satirical fun-poker at boujee upper-class culture in Seoul. Quickly becoming a UK staple of school discos...
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...
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,...