Sugar Girl is thirteen minutes long and Little Simz spends most of them in disguise. The pitch-shifted, autotuned register she adopts across the first three tracks sounds closer to Doja Cat or Playboi ...

Through five accounts from across Europe, including her own, Sophie Dibben looks at modern-day life drawing from the perspective of the models themselves. William Blake once said: “Art can never exist ...

Despite pushing rock music into increasingly experimental territory, Thom Yorke is, at his core, a traditional songwriter. Strip away the electronic textures and orchestral layers from his work with ...

Black Sabbath were the masters of heavy music and heavy living. Not only did they conceive a dark, pulsating answer to the optimism of the hippie movement, but they were adept at pushing their lives ...

Alexis Taylor has certainly never lacked ideas. As the prime voice of Hot Chip and over a steady run of solo records, Taylor has won a reputation for being a thoughtful songwriter who darts across ...

Soft Cell will release Danceteria, their sixth and final studio album, on 25th September via Republic of Music. Dave Ball, who co-founded Soft Cell with Marc Almond as art students in Leeds in the ...

Irish songwriter Rua Rí has announced his debut album Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life, set for release on 1st May via Soft Boy Records. Hailing from Cobh, Rua Rí has steadily built a reputation for ...

Keanu Reeves has never quite fitted the mould of a typical Hollywood star. Since breaking through as Ted “Theodore” Logan in 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, he has combined a varied acting ...

Thomas Bangalter will release new album ‘Mirage: Ballet For 16 Dancers’ on 5th June via Warner Classics. The record is the score to an eponymous ballet conceived by choreographer Damien Jalet and ...

Tom Glover discovers how a brief encounter across a busy room produced hundreds of portraits and an unlikely friendship between two giants of the art world. Our story starts with Huguette Caland. Born ...

The Qatar national football team netted one goal in the 2022 World Cup, the most expensive ever scored. Here’s the story of how they did it. Friday, November 25th. Al Thumama Stadium, Qatar. It’s the ...

Orláith Forsythe and Mollie McGinn, the heart and soul behind Dea Matrona, have quickly risen from busking on the cobblestones of Belfast to capturing the attention of global audiences. With a name ...