“I went through a period of time during middle school where I was ostracised because of the way I talk,”…
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Julie Adenuga’s YouTube show, Julie’s Top 5, is known as “the most argumentative show” about music right now – and…
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Music Interview
Maxïmo Park’s Paul Smith: “It feels like nobody’s been held to account for the Grenfell Tower fire”
Crumbling communities, burning tower blocks, manipulative phone screens; having railed against the horrors of Trump-era politics on 2017’s ‘Risk To…
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Nothing will slow Stevie Nicks down. When Fleetwood Mac concluded their year-long world tour at the end of 2019, the…
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Mastermind of the Wu Tang Clan, rapper, producer, director, actor, businessman, author, meditation guru and all-round hero, we’re yet to…
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Music Interview
Ritt Momney: Salt Lake City’s lo-fi indie hero channels lockdown misery into spirited pop cover
In April Jack Rutter cut loose from his usual introspective indie with a, er, cover of Corrine Bailey Rae’s, ‘Put…
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Music Interview
The National’s Matt Berninger on going solo: “These songs are about the people that made me… me”
Pretty much every music fan remembers where they were when they heard the news that David Bowie had died. Matt…
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Livestreaming the heroic struggle of eating an 80-piece KFC chicken bucket isn’t the typical way of promoting your debut single,…
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Music Interview
“We wanted to make something different”: the impact of Linkin Park’s ‘Hybrid Theory’, 20 years on
A furious blend of hip-hop swagger, rock catharsis, pop ambition and electronic escapism, ‘Hybrid Theory’ is the most important rock…
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If you look closely, the long, difficult story of Slow Pulp’s debut album ‘Moveys’ is told in the gorgeously animated…
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