The age-old concept of Difficult Second Album Syndrome is one that still haunts many artists today: how on earth do you follow up a great first record?
There are a wealth of artists, though, who have managed to return with...
I first came across Alberta Hunter while flicking through the $1 racks in the vast Hollywood branch of Amoeba Records on Sunset Boulevard. When I was living in Los Angeles it became a weekly ritual and, amongst the endless...
If you’re old enough to have been a music fan in the early noughties, there was likely a record that you’ll remember feverishly refreshing iTunes for. ‘Whatever People Say I Am’ or ‘Silent Shout?’, ‘Back To Black’ or ‘The...
Dua Lipa – 'We’re Good'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr47YisIsz8
On her lead single from ‘Future Nostalgia – The Moonlight Edition’, Dua Lipa discards the dancefloor for a tropical beach, all scuttling crabs and shuffling beats. “I’m on an island,” she begins, in case it...
Claud sounds nothing like a monster when they sing – quite the opposite – but upon learning that their debut album ‘Super Monster’ is named after a Daniel Johnston painting, and subsequently hearing their offbeat take on pop, the...
Taylor Swift has released 'Love Story (Taylor's Version)' and just in time for Valentine's Day, no less.
The pandemic's most prolific popstar appeared on Good Morning America on February 11 to announce that she had finished the re-recording of...
When it comes to hyperpop, the question is: how many crimes against music can you commit? Born of the internet on dark mode, hyperpop is all the sugary sweet appeal of mainstream pop but soaked in steroids – a...
It’s difficult to separate ‘Who Am I?’, the second album from Pale Waves, from the several pockets of trauma that the Manchester quartet has endured in recent years. In February 2020, while touring across Europe as the support act...
Following a series of cryptic teasers across social media (and some er, interesting packages sent to fans), Paramore's lead vocalist Hayley Williams has unveiled 'FLOWERS for VASES / descansos', a "prequel" to her stellar debut solo album, 2020's ‘Petals...
Since their inception, the unholy trinity of punk, metal and hardcore have been wildly male dominated. But it was in the early days of all three that one woman stood out amongst the boys in frayed battle jackets, to...