For anyone on the outside of the autistic community, the reaction to the trailer for singer Sia’s new film, Music, might seem a little unfair. The film, which is about a newly sober woman called Zu (Kate Hudson) who...
Arlo Parks – 'Caroline'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kYkFRYbaU
Like a friend relating an anecdote in the pub, Arlo Parks tells you quietly about the break-up she witnessed one day at a bus-stop. ‘Caroline’, the latest single from her forthcoming album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’, is...
The Grammy nominations for 2021 have been as divisive as ever. The Weeknd called corruption after being snubbed (despite having the best-selling album in the US). Justin Bieber had a little whinge about being in the wrong category after...
While the rest of us were naively taking up everything from skateboarding to embroidery during lockdown, Taylor Swift took the existential dread that comes hand-in-hand with a global pandemic as an opportunity to write her most accomplished album to...
“I was born to run / I don’t belong to anyone,” Miley Cyrus sings on ‘Midnight Sky’, the first single from her seventh album ‘Plastic Hearts’, turning an extremely Springsteen phrase into an extremely Miley phrase. She stamps herself...
Black Friday – AKA discount day – is upon us and since most of us can't get out to the shops to do our Christmas shopping, it's a good time to buy some bargain Christmas presents, or to cheer...
Marilyn Manson once said that Billy Corgan looks like Charlie Brown. Picture Charlie Brown as a glittery goth lord – if that’s hard to imagine, just watch the video for the Smashing Pumpkins’ single ‘Wyttch’ – and you get...
“I want to quit taking cocaine now,” says Tina, 24. “I decided to stop drugs in the second lockdown to see if I can, which is probably a sign that I should.” Tina was taking “cocaine and sometimes ketamine”...
Ah, the yearly Grammys conversation. The vast amount of categories and time taken to wade through them normally delays the internet outrage somewhat, but unsurprisingly, 2020 has given us all a little more time on our hands, and with...
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...