Since they debuted in 2016, BLACKPINK have mastered the girl crush concept – K-pop’s term for when female artists deliver empowering, strong songs and messages. Their songs often pit the four women as individuals who don’t need men, at times...
When somebody has new music out, it’s normal for there to be some debate about their sound, the kind of influences or ideas that they channel most. When you’re a woman, however, there is every chance that anything you...
ENNY – ‘Charge It’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCMqH4BZSw
“I could never be a friend of a foe / But I fold at the sight of an ‘Are you up?’ Text,” ENNY breezily laments on ‘Charge It’, one of the self-assured highlights of the Londoner’s...
The first time I went to Coachella was in 2018 to watch Beyoncé’s now-legendary headline set. After witnessing the spectacle that was Beychella on YouTube, I decided, on a whim, to book a flight, blag a press pass for...
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'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwoovvtYf08
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...
If boygenius were releasing their debut album 20 years ago, a litany of high school alt kids would be changing their AIM and MSN Messenger statuses to lyrics from ‘the record’. Technology might have changed, but our urge to...