It’s 2008 and I’m going through the arduous yet entirely unnecessary process of deleting every Taylor Swift song from my iPod Classic. While the prospect of a friend on the bus grabbing one of my headphones and hitting shuffle,...
“The battle was long”, Taylor Swift sings on ‘Change’, a fitting descriptor for her dispute with Big Machine label boss Scott Borchetta and management giant Scooter Braun over the masters of her first six albums.
“It’s the fight for our...
SINEAD O BRIEN: 'KID STUFF'
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Irish poet and musician Sinead O Brien channels a restlessness inside a stillness on 'Kid Stuff' – watching clocks, sunsets, cool blue Zoom screens. Boy does that feel familiar.
“The spirit of a horse following...
‘ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE’ is the sound of a hip-hop collective tortured by a shattered identity, at last piecing together the fragments to reveal an entirely new reflection. This is their final form: the penultimate act in a...
Divisiveness over something that a celebrity said on Twitter? Surely not! Just like the rest of us, musicians are known for the odd foot-in-mouth moment, but in typical no-nonsense fashion, outspoken US rapper Cupcakke wasn’t messing around this week...
Though it’s hard not to be dazzled by the talent that’s long surrounded Peggy Seeger – her mother Ruth Crawford was a ground-breaking avant-garde composer, her half-brother the American folk hero Pete Seeger, her partner of 30 years his...
In the opening seconds of Metronomy’s 'The English Riviera', seagulls caw and waves cascade like white noise on the shore. Strings drift in and a bass line begins its clean, sleek ebb and flow – a buoyant, articulate pulse...
Following the news that from June 21, live music could be back in all its noisy, sweaty, euphoric glory, things are indeed looking brighter for music fans. With a long summer and all its possibilities ahead of us, festival...
“Do everything feel nothing,” Dry Cleaning repeat on the first track of their debut album ‘New Long Leg’. Though that particular song, 'Scratchcard Lanyard', was written before the pandemic, in our rather more “do nothing feel nothing” times the...
Demi Lovato’s recent documentary ‘Dancing With The Devil’ was no airbrushed tale of narcissistic woe, but a disarmingly candid account. By disclosing the traumatic details of her near-fatal overdose in July 2018, she also indirectly revealed the tough, ugly...