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'
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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...
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Taylor Swift has released 'Love Story (Taylor's Version)' and just in time for Valentine's Day, no less.
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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...
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