Bartees Strange: ‘Some days I feel like God; other days I feel like a snail’ | Music

Shrubber soul … Bartees Strange.

A minute in to recent single Hold the Line, Bartees Cox Jr – AKA Bartees Strange – tees up a wrenching slide-guitar solo. It is not caked in slacker scuzz, nor is it a knowing […]

ASAP Rocky on Rap Being ‘Stuck’ in Adolescence Since Rise of Internet

ASAP Rocky on Rap Being ‘Stuck’ in Adolescence Since Rise of Internet

ASAP Rocky and Jerrod Carmichael, who both have new projects either on the horizon or fresh in the rear view, linked up for a well-worth-the-read Interview magazine discussion this week. At one point in the conversation between […]

Neneh Cherry Tells Snoh Aalegra About the Time She Got Reiki from Sia

Neneh Cherry Tells Snoh Aalegra About the Time She Got Reiki from Sia

Photo by Hamish Wirgman. The Swedish musician Neneh Cherry has been a fixture in alt scenes for the better part of four decades—during her early years as a member of punk outfits like The Slits, […]

Grace Jones opens 27th Meltdown festival in spectacular style at the Southbank Centre – Music News

Grace Jones opens 27th Meltdown festival in spectacular style at the Southbank Centre - Music News

Grace Jones opened her curated edition of the Southbank Centre’s Meltdown festival with an enthralling concert in the Royal Festival on Friday 10 June. Visibly ecstatic to be performing for an audience that has had […]

Green Day announced as winners of Kerrang! Icon Award – Music News

Green Day announced as winners of Kerrang! Icon Award - Music News

KERRANG!, the world’s greatest global alternative culture and music brand has today unveiled that one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, Green Day, will receive the prestigious Kerrang! Icon award for 2022. The […]

The Best Hip-Hop Albums Of 2022 So Far

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What a year for hip-hop it has already been. After four years of radio silence from Kendrick Lamar, the Compton poet returned with one of the most vulnerable projects of his career. Another returning veteran […]

S.G. Goodman’s Rustic Hymnals Double As Calls To Action

S.G. Goodman's Rustic Hymnals Double As Calls To Action

By Mia Hughes “You never can say whether or not your music is timely, but I think sometimes, music needs to be a catalyst for people’s awareness,” says Kentucky songwriter S.G. Goodman. She’s telling MTV […]