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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...
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...