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Don’t expect to hear new music from Justin Bieber anytime soon. In an Instagram message to fans, the 25-year-old pop singer said he is currently “focused on repairing some of the deep rooted issues that I have… so that I don’t fall apart, so that I can sustain my marriage, and be the father I …
Ahead of their historic performance at Coachella next month, K-pop girl group BLACKPINK have announced the impending release of a new EP called Kill This Love. Due out April 5th, Kill This Love serves as the follow-up to BLACKPINK’s debut EP, 2018’s Square Up, and marks the group’s first release in partnership with Interscope Records and …
The funk-soul success of Donald Glover’s stage name is just another notch on one of the most glittering resumes in pop culture
(Warner) What do you do when you break up with your partner of 12 years? You leave your native California and crash at Annie (St Vincent) Clark’s in New York. Jenny Lewis is a songwriter’s songwriter, a dulcet and subversive chronicler of LA shammery whose often sombre subjects come wrapped in the sweetest of country-tinged …
Jenny Lewis: On the Line review – gripping, subversive, bittersweet Read More »
(Merge) One of the standout debuts of 2014, Ex Hex’s Rips was a joyful homage to late-70s/early-80s power-pop, most notably Cheap Trick and the Runaways. It also served as a good showcase for the talents of guitarist Mary Timony, once of Helium and fleetingly brilliant indie supergroup Wild Flag. The follow-up, long in gestation, fails …
Ex Hex: It’s Real review – a lacklustre follow-up Read More »
(ATO/Pias) This debut sees a decade of pent-up songwriting spilling out of the hilariously talented 23-year-old Londoner Yanya. There’s a faint new wave feel to the gauzy layers of synths draped over some of the material, yet mostly it’s her own, stage-toughened sound, deconstructed R&B fighting it out with spiky rock. Baby Blu rides in …
Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe review – hilariously talented Read More »
Michael Jackson’s legacy has taken a hit since the airing of Leaving Neverland, which has brought renewed scrutiny to the singer’s past relationships with underage boys and allegations of sexual misconduct. Radio stations stopped playing his music, Drake ceased performing their collaboration, and The Simpsons pulled an episode featuring the former King of Pop. However, …
Ezra Koening’s band are back, socks and sandals still on, with a set heavy on fan-favourites
(Merge Records) At a time when Korean boybands go global, Latin pop tops charts worldwide and Afrobeats pervades the UK rap scene, a London band which combines New York new wave and disco with Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian folk culture seems like a proposition with more mainstream potential by the day. Certainly Ibibio Sound Machine’s …
Ibibio Sound Machine: Doko Mien review – borderless groove polymaths Read More »
Yanya justifies the hype on her debut album, while Lucy Rose’s fourth studio record shows the English singer-songwriter at her bravest