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Jordana – ‘Is It Worth It Now?’ Figuring out life isn’t usually a dreamy process, but Jordana’s new single makes it feel that way.  A bright guitar line drifts over twinkling synths and a laidback bassline as the Kansas musician asks...
Rina Sawayama has spent a lot of time connecting with her inner child. This introspection led to her second full-length album ‘Hold The Girl’ which blends moments of tender lyricism with joyous party anthems. While she mines her trauma...
It was 1972 when Munich hosted the summer Olympics. 50 years later, the city's Olympic Park forms the playground for Superbloom: a riotous weekend of pop, EDM and hip-hop. Steampunk-clad actors and metalwork robots cycle and skulk around the walkways...
Arctic Monkeys – 'There’d Better Be A Mirrorball' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5CAz6S9kE Fresh off the back of their triumphant headline sets at Reading & Leeds, Arctic Monkeys return in stunning form. Their best Bond theme audition yet, ‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball’ sees Turner...
Within the first hour of Leeds Festival, it is clear that we are in the midst of a very 2022 kind of youthquake. Girls in neon mesh daub messages across each other’s chests while topless boys puff elf bars,...
For even the biggest of operations, the course of festival planning rarely runs smooth. Throw in a global pandemic and you’re dealing not only with the lingering effects of health-based chaos, but also the bottleneck of artists rushing to...
If her 2019 rise to prominence was a Hot Girl Summer, the last two years of Megan Thee Stallion’s life has been an unapologetic hustle. Capitalising on her stardom with real grit and resilience, the 27-year-old has racked up...
Megan Thee Stallion – ‘Gift & A Curse’ Megan Thee Stallion might have only given us less than a day’s notice that her new album ‘Traumazine’ was dropping, but regardless of how long we had to prepare, it likely would have...
When you think of significant pop icons of the new millennium, it’s difficult not to think of Katy Perry. Main pop girl without a question, she ran into a little commercial trouble after 2013’s 'Prism' but has remained an...
Listening to Pale Waves’ third album, ‘Unwanted’ feels like being back in 2002: like dancing around your childhood bedroom using a hairbrush as a microphone spending weekends buying CDs in shopping centres. It continues in the punchy pop-punk vein...