Kara Jackson’s releases have distinctly arresting titles. They are sweeping and epic: first the EP 'Songs For Every Chamber of the Heart' and now the LP 'Why Does The Earth Give Us People to Love' and it is this...
Friday
Lava La Rue
The Californian sun is already beating down hard on the Coachella site, so ducking into the Sonora tent to begin the weekend with Lava La Rue is a great idea for two reasons. First, shade and fans...
On the drive towards Indio, through the Coachella Valley, boygenius stare down at you from the side of the road. “Not strong enough?” the trio silently ask, leaning on each other as they hold their mock-lawyer ad stances. At...
Since they debuted in 2016, BLACKPINK have mastered the girl crush concept – K-pop’s term for when female artists deliver empowering, strong songs and messages. Their songs often pit the four women as individuals who don’t need men, at times...
ENNY – ‘Charge It’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCMqH4BZSw
“I could never be a friend of a foe / But I fold at the sight of an ‘Are you up?’ Text,” ENNY breezily laments on ‘Charge It’, one of the self-assured highlights of the Londoner’s...
Kelela delivers a pulse-racing return to the stage with her first London headline in half-a-decade celebrating queer Black electronic music, womanhood, and her rapturous second album 'Raven'
The artwork for ARXX’s long-awaited debut album ‘Ride Or Die’ features a coming together of two worlds. On the front, singer and guitarist Hanni Pidduck and drummer Clara Townsend stand in front of a collage of palm trees and...
When Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker formed boygenius in 2018, nobody could have predicted the hysteria that awaited them. As three queer women in their early twenties, signed to indie labels and touring their first albums, they...
The problem when you’ve built a career out of making sparky, characterful alternative pop, brimming with cheeky winks and a playful approach to art, is that sometimes the world puts a spanner in the works. When you’re loving life,...
‘Radical Romantics’ seamlessly explores realms of shapeshifting with ease, beauty and competence. For Karin Dreijer, otherwise known as Fever Ray, their first solo album in six years returns with assurance – skillfully moulding different identities throughout its tracklisting in...