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When you’ve built a career on soundtracking sticky dancefloors and sun-drenched good times, how do you negotiate the idea of growing up gracefully? It’s a question that’s evidently been at the forefront of Joe Mount’s mind and one that...
It has never been easy to be a Kanye West fan. To bring up his name in conversation is to get a visceral reaction; a fellow fan who also believes that he is one of the greatest artistic talents...
Sunflower Bean – ‘Who Put You Up To This?’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yca2oCbZ--4 “We’re letting go for real,” Julia Cumming sings on the twilight psych groove of ‘Who Put You Up To This?’, the second taste of Sunflower Bean’s upcoming third album ‘Headful Of...
After some time in the doldrums, it appears the BRIT Awards might be… back? Settling down in front of the telly pre-game, things seemed pretty standard — a sea of black dresses, the usual chat about just being glad...
The BRIT Awards have never been about predictability. Throughout its 45-year history, the annual ceremony has delivered plenty of wild surprises – onstage mishaps, powerful speeches and many astonishing performances among them. With the 2022 ceremony fast approaching (Feb 8),...
Ravyn Lenae - 'Skin Tight' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO7YKwjx1Rk Having captivated the future-RnB crowd with ’Sticky’, Rayvn Lenae returns with The Internet’s Steve Lacy in tow, crafting a video that serves some serious alien body-oddy-oddy.  Twisting and turning in a surreal virtual reality world...
Being reminded of just how great someone was by the tragic announcement of their death is a unique kind of awful, but that’s how I was jolted into thinking about the searing, soul-shaking talent of Detroit Cobras’ singular frontwoman,...
As one eagled-eyed Taylor Swift fan observes, each January does seem to embroil her in a new internet beef, defending herself from those who can’t seem to exclude her from their own narrative. 2022’s instalment, however, was probably not...
Warpaint - ‘Champion’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJznPy_iM4M Revelling in the spaces between has always been Warpaint’s thing. Since emerging and defining a particular period of early ‘10s alternative guitar music, their greatest trick has always been to know that less is more: enthralling, aloof,...