Kali Uchis, Ravyn Lenae – ‘Cry about it!’
This dynamic collab between two of the most exciting artists on the planet has everything you would expect: a polished duet of vocals, silky harmonies, and a twinkly melody. But Uchis and...
Jay Som
Six years since her last album, Melina Duterte – aka Jay Som – has been everywhere and nowhere: producing for friends, playing with boygenius, quietly reshaping her sound. Now she returns with 'Belong', a record that questions where...
“The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” Sabrina Carpenter said of her latest record, ‘Man’s Best Friend’, ahead of its release. Indeed, even before the pop superstar’s seventh record dropped, its artwork was the source of countless think...
How did it come to this? While we were questioning whether Lorde, Haim or even Turnstile would take the baton from Charli and dominate the charts this summer, it was the straight white males, coming ‘round the outside, that...
If we were to venture a guess back in the depths of COVID lockdowns, just what the future might hold for the first generation of TikTokers, few would have put their money on any of them becoming global-charting pop...
In an increasingly disparate music industry where 'breaking' new acts is tougher than ever and a little-known artist called Chappell Roan can be crowned the BBC's hot tip for the year ahead, it can be hard to hang your...
At San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival last week, executives estimated that 50,000 of the festival’s 75,000 attendees showed up to watch the same artist. A few weeks previously, that performer also drew the ‘largest ever’ audience for a Lollapalooza...
BLACKPINK have been in your area since 2016 and, over the last seven years, they’ve built up a strong catalogue of world-beating bangers and gentle moments of poignancy – tracks that saw them headline Coachella in 2023. Among them...
One musician is a stalwart in the alternative music scene of the last 10 + years and the other is a member of a seventies seminal punk band. On the face of it Sharon Van Etten and founding member...
No death of someone in their prime is ever without its own deep sadness, but there was something about the news of Virgil Abloh’s death that stung as an inherent loss for the culture. Creator of the fashion house,...