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Aly & AJ – 'With Love From' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKIWzM2slaA If you grew up on the Disney channel, you will likely remember Aly and AJ, the sisters who soundtrack pre-pubescent angst with the 2007 banger ‘Potential Break Up Song’. Fast forward 15 years,...
RIHANNA – ‘LIFT ME UP’ It’s no surprise that Rihanna’s first song in six years is loaded with meaning. Released as the lead single from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, you can only hear ‘Lift Me Up’ as a tender,...
For music fans, Friday 21 October was undoubtedly the biggest release day of the year. With big new albums from Arctic Monkeys, Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, Architects, Loyle Carner and more, there was plenty to keep up busy,...
Compared to their first releases ‘Sweet Princess EP’ and ‘Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP’, Dry Cleaning’s debut album ‘New Long Leg’ felt like a band coming into their own and finding themselves in the expanse of an oversaturated...
Biig Piig – 'This Is What They Meant' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBq1Cw6rNk Certain songs make you reminisce about running around the city late at night in a state of euphoria with your closest friends and Biig Piig makes us feel as though we’re experiencing...
When Taylor Swift surprise announced a forthcoming new album in her winning VMAs speech in August, a delight and excitement gripped the internet with a purity and intensity that hadn’t felt possible in a while. The album image of...
It’s something of a cliché to describe a band as Marmite but if you held The 1975 up at a breakfast buffet, you would certainly invite looks of both adoration and disgust. Labelled as nepotism babies, pretentious ego-centrists AND...
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...