'The Prettiest Curse' is a chronicle of complicated love stories, unbridled independence, and a final say on the band's identity as women in a band. You guessed it; Hinds are sick of explaining themselves, instead they are taking control...
Run The Jewels – ‘A Few Words For The Firing Squad (Radiation)’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dgH1mlXDhA
By the time you get to the final track on Killer Mike and El-P’s fourth album, you’ve already gone head-to-head with a series of blistering rap anthems, big name...
This Sunday, YouTube held a virtual graduation ceremony to celebrate the class of 2020, most of whom have had their graduation cancelled, results postponed, and the final weeks of their classes taken from them by the COVID-19 pandemic. To...
Is Sports Team's debut album the record to revive guitar music?
After releasing the much-lauded ‘Run The Jewels 3’ in 2016, hip-hop super duo Killer Mike and El-P AKA Run The Jewels, had to consider how they could keep raising the bar.
Their fourth studio album, ‘RTJ4’, has been in the...
It’s been two years since we last joined Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and a great deal of boat rocking has taken place since. In seismic terms, the world has gone to total shit and if there was ever a...
Lady Gaga feat BLACKPINK – 'Sour Candy'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnPn6At3v28
She's hard on the outside but soft on the inside, like a very expensive human Skittle, and Lady Gaga has roped in some new pals to tell you all about it. You imagine...
Ever since that bit in Flashdance when Jennifer Beals gets doused in water mid-way through an oh-so-raunchy chair dance (the chair, of course, being the sexiest of the furniture items – see also: Britney's 'Stronger', Nicki's 'Anaconda'), pop stars...
Haim’s story is a familiar one. Band burst on to scene. Everyone loves band. Debut album is a mega hit! Band succumbs to difficult second album pressure. Buzz around band dwindles.
To be fair to the Haim sisters, some serious...
In late 2015, I started working at NME. Aside from a few album reviews and the odd pop-star interview, this was my first proper job in music. I’d spent years as a journalist, editing various online publications and teaching...