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Lianne La Havas is blessed with a voice that can instantly awe entire arenas into silence. With a smoky lower register and silvery upper range, she doesn’t so much deliver lines as caress each individual syllable, wringing emotion out...
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There’s always been something strangely soothing about Jarvis Cocker. It’s more than just familiarity, though the 30-odd years he spent fronting Pulp certainly cemented him in the public consciousness. Yes, it’s that balmy baritone with its warm notes of...
The band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks set themselves apart from the Republican sound of mainstream 1990s country when they released the darkly comic 'Goodbye Earl'. Not just a certified karaoke classic, it’s still possibly the only song...
Taken from the world too soon, Chicagoan superstar Juice WRLD proves that he has bangers beyond the grave on posthumous album, ‘Legends Never Die’. The late rockstar, who sadly passed away from a fatal overdose last December, left...
Margo Price has been pushing her way out of the country singer box for a while now. On 2017’s' All American Made' she took potshots at many of society’s shortcomings: gender pay gaps, creepy men and corrupt politicians, writing...
ALANIS MORISSETTE – ‘RECKONING’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Tw1-EaWgU Alanis Morissette reminds us that she is a powerhouse on new track, ‘Reckoning’. After decades of producing feminist anthems, her new releases in the run-up to her forthcoming album, ‘Such Pretty Forks In The Road’, continue...
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...
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...