Comfort & Joy: Joy Crookes

Debut album ​‘Skin’ is a warm, evocative trip through South Londoner Joy Crookes’ journey so far. ​“Nostalgia is something that gives me a home when I have nothing else to hold on to,” she explains.

10th November 2021

Geese: “We wanted to be like Radiohead meets Yes meets religious experience”

On debut album ​‘Projector’, Brooklyn teens Geese are channeling inner city anxiety and a maximalist spirit.

9th November 2021

The Sky’s The Limit: Jelani Blackman

With his new ​‘Unlimited’ mixtape project, and a casual Gorillaz collab and O2 Arena performance under his belt, Jelani Blackman is fully hitting his stride.

9th November 2021

Steady As She Goes: Courtney Barnett

A slower pace and more than a little self-reflection paved the way for ​‘Things Take Time, Take Time’: a third album that finds Courtney Barnett shedding the cynicism and making room for joy.

8th November 2021

Get To Know… Sloppy Jane

We catch up with the latest signee to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records after the release of her newest album ​‘Madison’.

8th November 2021

Spilling The T with deep tan

The London post-punks bringing darkness to the dancefloor.

6th November 2021

Icons Only: Garbage

Seven albums in, Garbage’s Shirley Manson is still slashing down tired old industry bullshit one righteous affirmation at a time.

6th November 2021

Genesis Owusu: “Do you assimilate or do you go full-frontal with the outcast label? I chose the latter”

Rejecting labels of any and all kinds, the genesis of Genesis Owusu is one that’s prioritising boundaryless, cathartic, inclusive excitement.

3rd November 2021

Claud: “This is a declaration of honesty”

The first signing to Phoebe Bridgers’ label Saddest Factory, Claud Mintz makes relatable, intimate indie-pop about growing into yourself.

2nd November 2021

LUMP: “[It’s a huge joy] to just dive into something in a completely different world”

The second album from Laura Marling and Tuung’s Mike Lindsay sees the pair creating an ever-more-exploratory world for their LUMP-en mascot.

1st November 2021

Boston Manor: “At this point you don’t get to put out shit stuff!”

Vocalist Henry Cox tells us about their surprise new EP ​“Desperate Times Desperate Pleasures’.

29th October 2021

daine: “I forget people gas me up so much!”

Finding the sweet spot between emo and hyperpop, the Aussie teen is already reaching for the stratosphere.

29th October 2021

Boston Manor: “At this point you don’t get to put out shit stuff!”

Vocalist Henry Cox tells us about their surprise new EP ​‘Desperate Times Desperate Pleasures’.

29th October 2021

On With The Show: Talk Show

London-based rabble-rousers Talk Show have a new Joe Goddard-produced EP on the way, and a pulsing, electronic new direction to match.

27th October 2021

Homeward Bound: Biffy Clyro

In reaction to their eighth album ​‘A Celebration Of Endings’, Biffy Clyro spent lockdown pouring pandemic revelations into its gorgeously messy, chaotic follow-up ​‘The Myth Of The Happily Ever After’.

25th October 2021

What’s Going On With… Cherry Glazerr

Clementine Creevy talks working with Four Tet, getting back on the stage and trusting her gut (and her fans).

25th October 2021

No Rome on debut album ‘It’s All Smiles’: “I’m obsessed with sound designing, crazy textures & details”

Sharing new track ​‘When She Comes Around’, Rome gives us the goss on his eagerly-awaited debut…

22nd October 2021

Get To Know… KEG

The Brighton seven-piece release their debut EP today!

22nd October 2021

Josef Salvat: “Now the only thing I care about is whether the people who listen to me are going to feel fed”

We find out more about his upcoming new album, ​‘Islands’.

22nd October 2021

Kim Petras: Très Magnifique!

Like a one-woman pop antidote to Brexit, Kim Petras’ forthcoming debut is throwing her arms around Europe (and hot-boxing with Paris Hilton in the process).

21st October 2021

Alive & Kicking: Parquet Courts

What do you do when you’re heading into your 7th album and 2nd decade as a band? If you’re Parquet Courts, then you go out clubbing, take a load of psychedelics and carry on your sweet contrarian way.

19th October 2021

Wolf Like Her: Remi Wolf

With eye-popping lyrics, an album full of bright and brilliant funk-pop earworms and a perhaps unexpected emotional honesty, Remi Wolf is the 360-degree pop star the world has been waiting for.

15th October 2021

Hayden Thorpe on new album ‘Moondust For My Diamond’: “There’s an unlikely wonder to my work now”

The former Wild Beasts frontman on channelling the natural world for solo LP2.

15th October 2021

BLACKSTARKIDS: “We’ve established ourselves as being whatever the fuck we want it to be”

On debut(ish) album ​‘Puppies Forever’, the Kansas City trio are creating a sonic soundtrack of their youth.

13th October 2021