When blues pioneer Jessie Mae Hemphill finally found fame in the 1980s, she wasn’t hard to spot. By then she was almost 60, but Jessie’s fabulous stage wear would give The Cramps’ high priestess of animal print, Poison Ivy,...
Would any artist take on the mantle of “next big thing” if they had the choice? There’s a certain alchemy at play when music critics bestow this honour – part wisdom, part taste, and more often, sheer luck –...
Today the world has lost a once-in-a generation artistic titan who changed the face of pop music forever. Early this morning, the artist and music producer SOPHIE died in a sudden accident in Athens, aged 34. “True to her...
It’s A Sin begins with an anti-war song. Richie Tozer (Years and Years frontman, Olly Alexander) hides his stash of gay porn in his uni suitcase and leaves the sleepy, repressive suburbs for the liberating thrill of ‘80s London,...
“I see myself sitting beside you,” Arlo Parks says on the spoken-word opener to her debut album. And that’s exactly how it feels to listen to ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’: as if the poetic, multifarious London artist is sat right...
Yellow, orange, red: Goat Girl’s photo shoot palette for ‘On All Fours’ is deliberate – colours of fierce joy that also bring out the band’s incendiary nature. But the follow-up to their charged debut sees the same issues –...
Yesterday (January 28), a brand new fan community app called UNIVERSE launched worldwide, promising exclusive content and interactions with a ton of K-pop idols. There are some big names involved – Monsta X, Ateez, (G)I-DLE, Cosmic Girls, and The Boyz,...
FKA Twigs (ft. Headie One and Fred again…) - ‘Don’t Judge Me’
Building upon FKA Twigs’ ethereal contribution to the ‘Judge Me’ interlude, which appeared on ‘GANG’, the 2020 collaborative mixtape from Headie One and Fred again…, ‘Don’t Judge Me’...
It’s no secret Fredo likes to shop in Harrods. His fondness for the luxury London store is almost as renowned as his knack for terse truths. Since the shopping habit strayed into meme territory, however, he felt compelled to...
It might seem odd for a fanbase to Tweet “CONGRATULATIONS GOT7” and “GOT7 FREEDOM” on hearing that their favourite group is splitting up. But that is exactly what happened this month after news broke that the South-Korean boyband GOT7...