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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...
With Billie Eilish’s career sky-rocketing over the past four years – an ever-growing social media following (a casual 67 million), five Grammy wins, three Billboard awards and what would have been an expansive world arena tour this year –...
“I’m cute but I might kick you,” Connie Constance said in an interview last year. It’s a fairly apt description of her new EP ‘The Butterfly Club’ too, if you’re looking for a seven-word review. But the British musician’s...
Releasing music reactively isn’t anything new – it’s been a fixture of hip-hop for ages and even the pop world has started to catch up with that spontaneity since Ariana Grande switched things up with ‘Thank U, Next’. With Gorillaz’s...
"The purpose of art is self-expression. To review is to look over or improve, but I cannot express for another. So it is not possible. Instead I offer what I can" – Noodle. Benee ft. Lily Allen and Flo Milli...
At a time where we’re all stuck at home perpetually scrolling Twitter for some kind of enlightenment, it doesn’t take much for a popstar to temporarily ‘fracture’ the internet. Billie Eilish knows this more than most. A decidedly leftfield,...