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On May 20, 2020 HRH of Pop Ella Yelich-O'Connor blessed her mailing list with one of her few intimate newsletters, the sort you send to an old friend. She was growing her hair, taking walks on the New Zealand...
For My Chemical Romance fans, the last year has been one of ups and downs. After years of teasing, MCR finally reformed towards the end of 2019, announcing a string of dates across the world through cryptic posts on...
They say that the rise of the internet has caused journalism to be deprofessionalised. Any literate human with a computer and a broadband connection, now considers themselves a writer/interviewer/presenter, making blogs and vlogs and pods to add to the...
When you truly let your guard down, you risk a flood of emotive material, which could be why Becca Mancari’s second record ‘The Greatest Part’ took just two months to write. Yet it’s no rush job. Her candour gives...
Denai Moore occupies a dark, stately throne on the cover of her third album, ‘Modern Dread’. The tendrils of her silver headpiece twist away to infinite lengths, implying a connection to the outer world as well as entrapment within...
As Tammy Wynette almost once said, sometimes it’s hard to be a country music fan. Thank goodness then for the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Orville Peck and Margo Price, the Grammy-scooping, LSD-dropping space cowgirl, lonesome masked rider and hard-grafting...
As many of us count down the days until we can be back down the front at a gig, some music fans are wondering if the thing they love is gone for good.
Kanye West – 'Wash Us In The Blood' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0U2QUGKbSE When Kanye's name starts flashing up in your news feed, you never really know what's going to be at the other end of the click. Maybe he's dropped something that lives up...
Opening and closing their third album with the plaintive call of a saxophone, Haim know that life often goes in cycles. One minute you’re up, the next you’re down; life hands you a third record, and then it deals...