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100 gecs have invited their friends round, given them an arsenal of power tools – everything from screamo, glitchcore and bubble-gum pop – doused their debut album, '1000 gecs' in lighter fluid, struck a match, and said, “Do you...
“You call and call my phone thinking I’m doing nothing better/I’m just waiting for it to stop so I can use it again.”  Most of us, at some point, have been that dick. And in the first twenty seconds of...
As we all know, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is not a mere mortal like the rest of us. Her stature as one of the greatest artists of our age (heck, of all time) is deeply reliant on her unparalleled work...
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.