In a recent interview, Jessie Ware recounts being called up for jury service, and struggling to find a neat catch-all sentence to describe exactly what she does. “The judge,” Ware joked to The Guardian, “looked at me as if...
Anderson Paak – 'Lockdown'
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A ‘sign of the times’ protest song is a hard one to get right, but Anderson Paak nails the tone on ‘Lockdown’. Released on Juneteenth, it addresses the community uprising witnessed at Black Lives Matter protests...
Since the awakened dawn in which humanity discovered that accumulating together in groups centred around instruments, can create genuine historical impact, there have been many an attempt at defining what it means to be a "Rock n' Roll Star"....
If you need a shot of hedonism, then knock back Mealtime’s debut EP, ‘Aperitif’. The Manchester six-piece are club rats, with a sound which spills out of the 00s French house scene, living for a hypnotic headrush and irresistible...
Over the past 60 years many artists have tried to capture the sound of the future, with varying degrees of success. Never forget that for every Kraftwerk there is a Babylon Zoo. Arca though has spent pretty much the...
At the age of 29, Teyana Taylor has now spent more of her life in the public eye than out of it. A precocious talent, the Harlem-raised artist choreographed for Beyoncé while barely out of eighth grade, and was...
Poetically translated to “golden joinery”, Kintsugi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery. The result is a second life, of beautiful seams of gold that seem to take what was broken and elevate it to something even greater...
The Killers – 'My Own Soul’s Warning'
Don’t let the eerie synth opener fool you, as the latest single from soon to be released ‘Imploding the Mirage,’ is as satisfyingly anthemic as they come. After a gentle intro featuring ethereal...
To be human is to be complicated – a fact that, despite all of us being intrinsically aware of it, can get overlooked when we’re thinking about our favourite music. We often expect our songwriters to inhabit one emotion, one...
For almost 60 years, since his self-titled debut album was released in 1962, Bob Dylan has stridently been marching to the beat of his own drum. He took the protest song into the pop charts, pissed off the folkies...