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A year that brought us the Macarena, eBay and the catchphrase ‘As If?!”, 1995 laid the foundations for the world we live in today (what kind of school disco would it be if they didn’t crack out those ridiculously...
Last night, at this US election's final Trump rally in Wisconsin, The President gave a shout out to some of his high-profile supporters. “And speaking of sound and music and other things" a MAGA-hat adorned Trump said: "One of the...
Tierra Whack - 'Dora' If ever a year has needed a dose of Tierra Whack it’s this one. Back with her first solo single since March 2019, the Philly-raised MC offers some much needed escapism with ‘Dora’, a sunny slice...
For most people, 2020 has been rough enough, a total ‘thank u, next’ of a year. For Ariana Grande, however, it’s a relatively quiet time compared to her recent turbulences. On ‘Positions’, the star’s sixth record, you sense she...
Jim-E Stack is staging an intervention against winter. At least, it sounds that way on his second album ‘EPHEMERA’, which carries all the honeyed cliché of summer: blue skies, ice-cream, denim shorts, “sweet summer sweat”. Listening to the record...
Let’s get this out the way early; I adore Harry Styles.  He is a precious fish-feeding, lust-inducing sunflower of a human and I want nothing more than to see his face plastered across ginormous billboards right across the North...
2020 is the year of the sweats. Whether you are in the sit-on-the-sofa-and-comfort-eat squad, or the I-suddenly-have-loads-of-time-to-exercise camp, the elasticated waistband is really having a moment. Beyoncé, ever the shrewd businesswoman, knows this all too well which brings us to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U82heDabn5k In recent years, music biopics have delivered big box office success. Bohemian Rhapsody racked up a cool $380 million, Rocketman $180 million. You can see the temptation for filmmakers to plough on with the retelling of our icons' life...
A mash-up of Bring Me The Horizon’s 2013 single ‘Can You Feel My Heart’ with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’ – niftily dubbed ‘Can You Feel My WAP’ – went viral last weekend, and quite frankly had...
Last year, Lana Del Rey released a cover of Sublime's 'Doin' Time' in a move so exciting to me (and seemingly only me) that I could barely contain myself. Sublime are hardly an underground band – their self-titled album...