When The Big Moon titled their third album, 'Here Is Everything', they meant it. For frontwoman Jules Jackson, who became pregnant and gave birth to her first child throughout the uncertain and frightening first year of COVID, writing this...
Emo nostalgia, it seems, can be like buses. You wait for one or two big comebacks (love you, Paramore and My Chemical Romance), and before you know it, another large be-fringed behemoth is upon you, holding out the vans...
Dylan – ‘Blue’
The tracks that rising star Dylan has shared from her upcoming mixtape ‘The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn’ have coursed with confident attitude, whether she’s letting someone know she could be the girl of their dreams or...
On 'Blue Rev', Alvvays envelop fans with the comfort of a warm blanket. From their first outing, 2014’s Polaris prize-shortlisted self-titled album, to their second Juno award-winning 'Antisocialites', fans have come to expect this.
Characteristically, their third album is...
Jamila Woods – 'Boundaries'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPd1cB2yy4o&t=26s
When Chicago-based artist Jamila Woods released her album ‘Legacy! Legacy!’ in 2019, it was one of the most underrated highlights of that year, rich in complex, multi-layered storytelling and diasporic instrumentation. She returns in 2022 with...
When I think of my childhood as a music fan, I often think of Top Of The Pops. Without internet or Sky TV in the house, it was my main portal into performance, my way of figuring out who...
You'd have to have been hiding under a rock to have missed the explosion of Korean culture in the west over the last twenty years. From K-pop artists dominating the global charts to Parasite's Best Picture and Best Director...
Nandi Bushell – 'The Shadows'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4XyA7pAauA
From challenging Dave Grohl to a drum-off, to playing drums for Foo Fighters at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert at Wembley Stadium, 12-year-old Nandi Bushell is a force of nature. Phenomenally talented, she has already...
Björk leaves yet another matriarchal mark on her tenth album, ‘Fossora’. Here we fall down from previous LP ‘Utopia’ to dig up our roots. The album’s title, translated as “she who digs”, unravels the disruptive layers of growth the...
The joke often made in online pop-punk fanbases is that Paramore are a rare band who do no wrong. That's somewhat simplifying things; over the years there have been splits, spats, the usual angst of growing up and getting...