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...
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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...
What do you do if you feel a bit down? Do you address your problems, get to the root of them and work to solve them? Or do you, at least for a while, listen to something that gets...
The word underrated is often used about Róisín Murphy – she’s not keen on it. Though the Irish singer has a better command of pop absurdity than most actual pop stars right now – and has influenced everyone from...
Over the last twenty years, I have seen Foo Fighters many times: at Reading Festival as a teenager. In a Chicago baseball stadium. At a village hall in Frome when they announced their Glastonbury headline set. Never before though,...
Like her or loathe her, Doja Cat is an artist rarely out of the news. Having gone viral in 2018 with the captivatingly-absurdist ‘Mooo!’ and then again on TikTok earlier this year when her disco-pop track ‘Say So’ became...
Nobody expected an extended metaphor more blatant than Ariana Grande’s ‘positions’ this year. Then again, nobody expected Michael Jackson’s daughter to go full alt-folk with her debut solo album. To call a break-up record ‘wilted’ is one thing, but...
At some point in the last eight months, most of us have made playlists of songs we love. To feel soothed, or energised, to tell somebody our feelings, to feel less alone – to answer whatever emotional hunger rises...