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Grimes shakes Brixton Academy to its foundations (3rd November 2016, Reviews)
Baptism by Fire: Sleigh Bells (31st October 2016, Features)
Hair we go, hair we go, hair we go: Soft Hair (25th October 2016, Features)
Strokes of brilliance: the musicians using art as an outlet (25th October 2016, Features)
Lady Gaga - Joanne (24th October 2016, Reviews)
One year on:Girls Against (18th October 2016, Features)
A Brave New World: Kate Tempest (14th October 2016, Features)
Kero Kero Bonito bring sugary sweet relief to London’s Scala (11th October 2016, Reviews)
PWR BTTM - Ugly Cherries (6th October 2016, Reviews)
Julia Jacklin - Don’t Let the Kids Win (5th October 2016, Reviews)
Upbringing: Public Access TV (3rd October 2016, Features)
In a Nutshell: Francis and the Lights (29th September 2016, Features)
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch (27th September 2016, Reviews)
Warpaint - Heads Up (22nd September 2016, Reviews)
A delve into Dirty Projectors’ discography (22nd September 2016, Features)
Rolling in the Deap: Deap Vally (14th September 2016, Features)
Dream Wife are on an unstoppable wave (12th September 2016, Features)
Time-travelling Dolly Parton meets glitter-punk: get to know Dream Wife (8th September 2016, Features)
Keaton Henson offers up an illustrated guide to new album ‘Kindly Now’ (7th September 2016, Features)
M.I.A. - A.I.M. (6th September 2016, Reviews)
WALL bring the New York noise on home turf (6th September 2016, Reviews)
Stranger things have happened: Yuck (3rd September 2016, Features)
Angel Olsen - My Woman (1st September 2016, Reviews)
The 1975 stake their headliner claim at Reading 2016 (29th August 2016, Reviews)
Spring King bring ‘The Summer’ to a very rainy Reading (28th August 2016, Reviews)
Savages steal the show at Reading 2016 (28th August 2016, Reviews)
A$AP Rocky brings overblown spectacle to Reading Festival (28th August 2016, Reviews)
Disclosure bring more than bangers to Reading’s main stage (27th August 2016, Reviews)
Tuff Love create their own luck at Reading 2016 (27th August 2016, Reviews)
INHEAVEN seize the day at Reading 2016 (27th August 2016, Reviews)
Milk Teeth bring massive circle pits to… er, The Pit (27th August 2016, Reviews)
Hinds are right at home at Reading 2016 (26th August 2016, Reviews)
Lewis Del Mar answer the hype at Reading Festival (26th August 2016, Reviews)
LCD Soundsystem, Chvrches, The Kills and Warpaint shine at Lowlands 2016 (23rd August 2016, Reviews)
Where the Grass is Greener: Thom Sonny Green (15th August 2016, Features)
Tracks: The Wytches, Slaves, and More (12th August 2016, Features)
Slugger Punch: Sad13 (11th August 2016, Features)
In the studio: Warpaint (10th August 2016, Features)
Her Time is Nao (8th August 2016, Features)
Animal Collective: “We’ve been around longer than most of my favourite bands” (2nd August 2016, Features)
MØ tears up the rulebook for frenzied Latitude 2016 set (18th July 2016, Reviews)
Skinny Girl Diet bring thrashed-up punk chaos to DIY’s Alcove Stage (17th July 2016, Reviews)
Perfume Genius brings cathartic electricity to Latitude 2016 (16th July 2016, Reviews)
Pumarosa point forwards at Latitude 2016 (16th July 2016, Reviews)
Christine and The Queens gets a superstar’s welcome to Latitude 2016 (15th July 2016, Reviews)
The Big Moon bring the mayhem to Latitude 2016 (15th July 2016, Reviews)
Christine and The Queens paints Brixton with magic markers (11th July 2016, Reviews)
Christine and The Queens: iT Follows (11th July 2016, Features)
In the Studio: Formation (10th July 2016, Features)
MØ: “You can do anything!” (8th July 2016, Features)
The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset (8th July 2016, Reviews)
Shura - Nothing’s Real (4th July 2016, Reviews)
Metronomy - Summer 08 (30th June 2016, Reviews)
Beck gets full-on funky at Glastonbury 2016 (27th June 2016, Reviews)
Coldplay go big for closing set at Glastonbury 2016 (27th June 2016, Reviews)
Tame Impala really let it happen at Glastonbury 2016 (26th June 2016, Reviews)
Bastille give a taste of ‘Wild World’ at Glastonbury 2016 (25th June 2016, Reviews)
The Big Moon bring brightness and sparkly capes to Glastonbury 2016 (25th June 2016, Reviews)
Two Door Cinema Club strike back at Glastonbury 2016 (24th June 2016, Reviews)
VANT whip up a political storm at Glastonbury 2016 (24th June 2016, Reviews)
Bring Me The Horizon stay firmly in the present at Glastonbury 2016 (24th June 2016, Reviews)
Disco balls and woozy woodlands close out Best Kept Secret 2016 (20th June 2016, Reviews)
Weaves and Glass Animals steal the show at Best Kept Secret (19th June 2016, Reviews)
Beck, Liss, and Christine and The Queens lead the disco charge at Best Kept Secret (18th June 2016, Reviews)
Looking back on Gossip’s ‘Standing in the Way of Control’ (17th June 2016, Features)
Marika Hackman talks elbows, knees and maracas ahead of Guy Garvey’s Meltdown (16th June 2016, Features)
Big Deal: “We’re finally the band I’ve always wanted us to be.” (15th June 2016, Features)
Alan Shura’s Euro 2016 football wisdom (10th June 2016, Features)
Tracks: Metronomy, Sleigh Bells & More (10th June 2016, Features)
Ladyhawke - Wild Things (3rd June 2016, Reviews)
Diet Cig bring the high-kicks to Alternative Escape show (23rd May 2016, Reviews)
The Big Moon steal the show at The Great Escape (23rd May 2016, Reviews)
Black Honey bring flamingos and trolley-chaos to DIY’s Great Escape stage (21st May 2016, Reviews)
Pumarosa and Bo Rocha sip on magic potion at The Great Escape (20th May 2016, Reviews)
Tracks: Spring King, Glass Animals & More (20th May 2016, Features)
The Big Moon’s guide to festival fun (18th May 2016, Features)
EU having a laugh? The Great Big Eurovision guide (13th May 2016, Features)
Tracks: MØ, Metronomy & More (13th May 2016, Features)
Oscar - Cut and Paste (11th May 2016, Reviews)
Enough is enough: how do musicians know when an album is finished? (7th May 2016, Features)
The Kills double six it at frenzied London live return (5th May 2016, Reviews)
The Kills: “This feeling of completeness - with art, that’s a big thing” (29th April 2016, Features)
Katy B - Honey (22nd April 2016, Reviews)
Cate Le Bon - Crab Day (15th April 2016, Reviews)
Animal Collective push their luck with obscure London return (13th April 2016, Reviews)
Pumarosa: “We try and work everyone up into a euphoric state” (13th April 2016, Features)
Down with the kids: When a band goes on children’s TV (12th April 2016, Features)
Hot damn: Mark Ronson looks back over a massive half-decade (1st April 2016, Features)
Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye (31st March 2016, Reviews)
Little help from my friends: the magic of compilation albums (31st March 2016, Features)
Inside the artwork: Radiohead art collaborator Stanley Donwood talks ‘In Rainbows’ and LP9 (22nd March 2016, Features)
Savages tear down the fourth wall at the Roundhouse (18th March 2016, Reviews)
Upbringing: Everything Everything (16th March 2016, Features)
Mura Masa: Love for That (15th March 2016, Features)
Grimes of Thrones (8th March 2016, Features)
The genius of Grimes (4th March 2016, Features)
La Sera - Music for Listening to Music to (4th March 2016, Reviews)
Muncie Girls - From Caplan to Belsize (4th March 2016, Reviews)
Santigold: “It’s a very narcissistic time” (1st March 2016, Features)
Charli XCX’s new album is set to change the face of pop (29th February 2016, Features)
Christine & The Queens - Chaleur Humaine (26th February 2016, Reviews)
Santigold - 99 cents (26th February 2016, Reviews)
Animal Collective - Painting With (19th February 2016, Reviews)
Yuck - Stranger Things (18th February 2016, Reviews)
Savages are the answer (29th January 2016, Features)
Sia - This Is Acting (29th January 2016, Reviews)
Savages - Adore Life (20th January 2016, Reviews)
Upbringing: FIDLAR (20th January 2016, Features)
The stars look very different today: fans pay tribute to David Bowie (12th January 2016, Features)
Look at them now: A catch up with previous DIY Hello.. bands (5th January 2016, Features)
Alt-J: “This is actually my job! That’s always quite surreal” (4th January 2016, Features)
Animal Collective in the studio: “We used the word punchy, we wanted a physical space” (29th December 2015, Features)
The Big Moon’s big guide to Christmas (22nd December 2015, Features)
Class Of grad Shura looks back on 2015 (20th December 2015, Features)
The Maccabees look back on 2015: “It felt like we had an election campaign!” (17th December 2015, Features)
Artists’ Picks: Favourite albums of the year (16th December 2015, Features)
Speedy Ortiz talk favourite records, Festivus, and the perils of working with muppets after a manic 2015 (16th December 2015, Features)
jennylee - Right on! (11th December 2015, Reviews)
Get in line for Formation (10th December 2015, Features)
The time is Nao: “I sing into my cupboard” (9th December 2015, Features)
The Big Moon: “Never in a hundred years would I go to the moon” (9th December 2015, Features)
Muse bring melodrama and confetti to the final night of Bilbao BBK Live (7th December 2015, Reviews)
Courtney Barnett brings unstoppable live force to the Electric Ballroom (4th December 2015, Reviews)
Tracks: Coldplay, Santigold, & More (27th November 2015, Features)
The DIY Class Of School Reports (26th November 2015, Features)
BOOTS: “I want to sound alien” (24th November 2015, Features)
Run the Jewels: “We’ll never be a super serious group” (18th November 2015, Features)
Versus: Oscar and Blaenavon go head to head during their UK tour (18th November 2015, Features)
BOOTS - AQUΛRIA (13th November 2015, Reviews)
Grimes - Art Angels (12th November 2015, Reviews)
Bo Rocha: “I have no idea what I’m doing, theoretically” (11th November 2015, Features)
Alt-J steal the show on the second night of Bilbao BBK Live (7th November 2015, Reviews)
Hinds: Our Shit, Our Rules (6th November 2015, Features)
FFS: “We didn’t want it to sound like either band, we wanted to sound like something completely new” (6th November 2015, Features)
Seismic shifts: the bands with no set shape (6th November 2015, Features)
Ho99o9: “Nobody was booking us, so we booked our own shit” (26th October 2015, Features)
Joanna Newsom - Divers (23rd October 2015, Reviews)
Someone Like You: What makes Adele, Adele (23rd October 2015, Features)
Jennylee: “I’ve thought over the years about trying to find my voice, the voice that’s me” (22nd October 2015, Features)
Genesis: the creative universe of Grimes (22nd October 2015, Features)
Indie’s answer to Strictly Come Dancing: the movers and shakers of music (21st October 2015, Features)
Tracks: Chairlift, MØ and more (16th October 2015, Features)
Dilly Dally - Sore (9th October 2015, Reviews)
Hurts - Surrender (9th October 2015, Reviews)
Mumford & Sons step effortlessly into bigger, bolder shoes on the first night of Bilbao BBK Live (7th October 2015, Reviews)
Paul McCartney talks 1983 classic ‘Pipes of Peace’ with James Dean Bradfield (30th September 2015, Features)
Micachu and The Shapes: Making new shapes (29th September 2015, Features)
Peaches - Rub (25th September 2015, Reviews)
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness (25th September 2015, Reviews)
Upbringing: Girlpool (14th September 2015, Features)
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