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“Picture it, it’s 2005, I’m in a Two Door Cinema Club crop-top, and I have pink hair,” Phoebe Bridgers tells the 9PM Coachella crowd who have gathered to see her set on the Outdoor Theatre. “Don’t picture it, actually”...
Phoebe Bridgers – 'Sidelines' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-wRm0_0bY Phoebe Bridgers is happy now. New single, 'Sidelines', written for the new TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends is a love song, plain and simple. It has all the Phoebe leanings of old: razor-sharp...
It's not unusual for artists to pull out something special for the London night of their tour. A rarely played song in the encore, a one-off piece of merch, even a cameo from someone they once did a song...
Wallice – ‘90s American Superstar’  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpppHirKTK4 LA-based rising indie star Wallice has already teased brilliant things to come on her upcoming EP ‘90s American Superstar’ and, now, its title track adds to that notion in fizzing, fabulous fashion. A fictional, satirical dissection...
When I first joined Spotify back in 2014, my playlist organisation was non-existent. Feeling spoiled by the prospect of any ad-free music I could think of, I would dip in and out of the catalogues of just about every...
“Growing up isn’t something we can make happen when we want it to / But since we’re all growing up together, I guess I’ll grow up with you,” The Linda Lindas sing warmly on the title track of their...
For those of us who have had the pleasure of frequenting a British music festival, it’s no real surprise that Coachella – the annual music event in the Californian desert – is a wee bit different. Start by replacing...
Harry Styles – 'As It Was' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5v3kku4y6Q King HRH HS is back, and he ain’t no April Fool. With its jaunty indie melody and lyrical introspection, ‘As It Was’ is everything fans could have hoped for, delivering on enough costume, catchiness...
If anything was truly going to make indie sleaze fetch again, it was Harry Styles. For weeks if not months, the so-called revival appears to have become a ‘thing’ only through nostalgic social media posts and wistful think-pieces. But...
There is no group in music history more synonymous with stan culture than BTS. Many representations of K-Pop stans as strange automatons with no critical faculties are rooted in cruel xenophobia, ageism, and racism rather than actual truth, but...