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...
Before Euphoria, there was Skins
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,...
A great big, flashy stadium show spectacle can be a glorious thing. Are we happy that we live in a world in which Taylor Swift can merrily schlep a 63-foot inflatable cobra into the belly of Wembley as a...
“I might never make another song,” Lana Del Rey told Vogue after she had finished recording her major-label debut. “What would I say? I feel like everything I wanted to say, I’ve said already.” Six more records and over...
Though many festivals hoped to see a full return in 2022, the further rise in COVID cases has once more scuppered plans across the board. But this hasn’t stopped organisers from getting the music out there someway, somehow; in...