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Hackney-based post-punk trio deep tan recently unveiled their first new single of 2020, ‘deepfake’, and its powerful and disturbing video. https://vimeo.com/477618218 ‘deepfake’ is a comment on consent, through the dark act of imposing the image of one person on another - almost exclusively used against...
Good news is in short supply these days – which makes it the perfect title for an album that’s determined to buck the negative mood and confidently own its name. Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Good News’ is technically her debut...
You definitely know Tayla Parx, even if you don’t think you do. Her fingertips are all over the pop world, writing songs for Ariana Grande, BTS, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, and Alicia Keys, to name but a few. She’s...
Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa – 'Prisoner' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ir1qkPXPVM Do not let Dua Lipa drive your car. In the video for 'Prisoner' – her new duet with Miley Cyrus she commands a truck with the same grace as a two-year-old trying to...
Phoebe Bridgers teased our tear ducts once already this month, covering Goo Goo Dolls ‘Iris’ with Maggie Rogers, a promised prize if Trump lost the election. So to recruit Rob Moose – arranger of all your favourite heartbreakers, from...
For any 90s babies, Britney Spears has long been an emblem of freedom. The sugary-sweet princess of pop with a headstrong, fourth-wall-breaking edge, her evolution through adolescence and beyond was the soundtrack to many of our discoveries of personal...
Over the last seven years, Ariana Grande has gone from Disney star, doughnut licking villain, America’s sweetheart and – with the release of sexy new album ‘Positions’ – a very relatable quarantine horndog. Her musical output in that time has been...
https://youtu.be/5Oul_n2Iegc You’re in the back of a car, you’re tipsy, it’s dark, and city lights flicker past the window, bright and brief and fuzzy at the edges. Babeheaven’s debut album sounds a lot like the way this feels: a steady...
In 1970, The Velvet Underground released their most commercially successful record, ‘Loaded.’ But while the band toured the world, playing hits like ‘Rock & Roll’ and ‘Sweet Jane’, frontman Lou Reed was back home with his parents, working as...
Doja Cat’s explosive performance of ‘Say So’ at the 2020 EMAs – the one that saw her crawling out of a television screen à la The Ring and revamping the song's entire attitude with thrashing guitars and snarling lyrics...