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Grief is a complex thing. To survive as sentient beings, we have to do what we can to suppress the knowledge that our loved ones will one day pass, to find ways to appreciate the time we have instead...
Tune-Yards are a Trojan horse of a band. From their colourful Wacky Warehouse of sound emerge dark, difficult subjects, and their fifth release, ‘sketchy.’, maintains the ruse: guns, gravediggers, and ghosts roam the tracks of an album as playful...
This is not what we expected from 5 Seconds Of Summer. When the Australian band – lead vocalist Luke Hemmings, guitarist Michael Clifford, bassist Calum Hood and drummer Ashton Irwin – released ‘CALM’ a year ago this week (March...
If you’re a regular Twitter user, you might have noticed some seemingly-random artists appearing in your ‘trending topics’ over the past year. Gucci Mane, Lil Jon, Jadakiss… names you haven’t thought about in years but which bring back rich...
Yaya Bey: ‘september 13th’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FNBRAHUMY&ab_channel=YayaBey Taken from her forthcoming release on Big Dada 'The Things I Can’t Take With Me', ‘september 13th’ is a quiet track that showcases Yaya Bey’s power to strip an emotion down to its bones and leave...
serpentwithfeet may be a classically-trained singer, but church music is his “natural cadence”, his songs the product of growing up in “a Black ass family in a Black ass church”, as he recently put it. His 2018 debut album...
Evanescence last released original music in a time so distant it might now look to us like a different world – where Donald Trump was just a rich businessman, iTunes reigned supreme over Spotify and ‘Brexit’ and ‘social distancing’...
Since 2007, Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg of First Aid Kit have fine-tuned their brand of folk and country pop: Americana with all the heartache of ABBA. They wear their beloved musical heroes on their sleeves, song-writing luminaries...
Clicking through channels on a website to find our new favourite bands might not be half as fun as running around Austin, frozen margs and tacos in hand, but at least SXSW Online offered us some fraction of the...
Boys World may have just released the lyric video for their new track 'Tiptoe' but they're certainly not tiptoeing around your problems! This week, Lillian, Makhyli, and Olivia from your new favourite pop group, explore how to become a more...