A celebration of Americana culture, as well as a packed line-up of outstanding names from the world of country music, Black Deer Festival boasts a tantalising menu of food and drink. Alongside the BBQ and whisky, there are options for diverse diets and adventurous eaters. Returning to Kent’s Eridge Park…
As flowerovlove, 16-year-old South London born Joyce Cisse makes music driven by hazy nostalgia as much as an unwavering self-belief. Joyce Cisse meets the lens with a sleepy, feline gaze and blinks slowly, like a cat laying in a chink of sunlight on a Sunday afternoon. It could be contentment…
Fred Armisen is positively giddy when he tells me about his joy at being in the United Kingdom. The prolific comedian, actor and musician is coming to the end of a two-month stretch over here, filming the new season of Documentary Now!, the show he created with fellow Saturday Night…
Once a discouraged, subterranean thing, women’s anger has finally gone mainstream after centuries of censorship. It’s been a beautiful, painful, and inspiring thing to witness. With her third album, for you who are the wronged, Kathryn Joseph lets the rage she carries flow through the heart of its coded…
Growing up creatively in public helped Charli-XCX collaborating, PC Music producer umru to became a key figure in the sound of future pop - and now he's contemplating what comes next. Comfort noise: the soft crackling you hear on the phone that settles in the silences between. It’s a blanket…
There’s a line from the first Melody’s Echo Chamber album where French psych-pop voyageuse Melody Prochet confesses “in the calm I find my truth”. Ten years on, that same principle bears some pretty heavenly fruit with Emotional Eternal, a more grounded and complete record than what has come before. Only…
The brainchild of East London-based songwriter and producer Will Tse, Daisy Brain is injecting a throwback to grunge with new life and an imaginative slant. If you’re looking for Daisy Brain, follow the incoming tide of fans spilling from Chalk Farm Station: a flood of rainbow-coloured box-dye, scuffed Converse with…
Sofiane Pamart might be erasing the walls between hip hop culture and classical music but his true focus is connection and transformation. Three years ago, 31-year old Lille-born virtuoso Sofiane Pamart released his first album Planet, with each track bearing the name of a city that inspired it. The record…
Partisan-signed musician and producer Abby Hwong makes music as NoSo that mirrors their search for a sense of self Morning light floods through the windows of an empty dollhouse as the American flag flutters on calm, conditioned air. Abby Hwong wakes up, shrugs on a floral two-piece suit over their…
As a home for those that don’t fit in, the music industry is an industry that prides itself on being different - embracing individuals with personal struggles, promoting diversity and inclusion every step of the way, and even capitalising on it during the process. Despite this almost pathological need for…