'Grey Matter', third album by British rapper Little Simz is highest-rated album by a female artist this year, according to aggregation site Metacritic (only 'Psychodrama', the debut album by fellow London rapper Dave, has a higher score). BBC talked to her about how that new album came to be and where does she see Jay-Z […]
Pitchfork talked to singer-actor-model Sky Ferreira, confident she will publish a new album this year - it will be called 'Masochism' (title is there since 2015, and she played them two songs ('Downhill Lullaby' and 'Don't Forget'). Why did it take her six years to make an album - "Sky doesn’t just want her new […]
"I know a lot of people, especially in the United States, are not motivated to do that [dance]. They don't really put dancing in the same sentence as rock music. But, when you go back to the birth of rock music, that's what people did. They danced to it. I hope that spirit can come […]
"You don’t think you can play? Check this out. Let me show you how much I can’t play” - that's how Karen O describes a conversation with Danger Mouse before they started - recording together! “That’s our best kept secret. Neither of us can play at all, but somehow we made this record" - Karen […]
Cherry Glazerr's singer, main songwriter, and guitar player Clementine Creevy has made a big rock star album in 'Stuffed and Ready' and she's having a blast playing sold-out shows, so PopMatters made an interview with her. "I wanted to make an album of studio rock bangers. I could see them being played loudly in big […]
According to dance movies, every dance performance must end in one of three ways: sex, madness, or death - Vulture makes a funny point and tries to find out the truth with Jesse Kovarsky, dancer and choreographer, and Ani Taj, director, choreographer, and dancer.
California punk veterans Bad Religion will release a new album, 'Age of Unreason', on May 3rd, which will be their 17th, and first in six years. The band tackles current social and political issues - “Today, these values of truth, freedom, equality, tolerance, and science are in real danger. This record is our response”, their […]
American folk singer Joan Baez is on her farewell tour Fare Thee Well performing what is expected to be her last album, 'Whistle Down the Wind'. Why so many lasts? "I’m phasing out and wanted to choose something to bookend my first album. The first [album] was a traditional folk song – the girl lost […]
The first 30 years of my life were fiercely and exclusively collaborative, I’d never done anything on my own before, and then I started learning how to do things on my own, and I realized it’s a very different mindset. So I got used to that dynamic, wrote a bunch of stuff, and I tried […]
American funk and soul singer Chaka Khan has a new album 'Hello Happiness' which "has put a new spark in my career”, as she tells the Guardian ("vital calling card to remind everyone to come hear this unearthly voice, still sizzling with spice" the say in review). There she talks about addiction - "All through the […]
“I haven’t talked about this, and I’m still processing so much stuff that I haven’t talked about. I was lonely. I needed some time” - Justin Bieber opens up in a cover-interview for Vogue. And an interesting stand on religion: “But I don’t believe in all the religious elitism and pretentiousness, like people are better […]
In an interview for American GQ, Frank Ocean explained why he decided to open his Instagram account for the public: "I feel like there was dissonance between how I was seen by the audience and where I was actually, so that contributed to the decision to make my Instagram public, for sure. But there's also […]
“There was no way that I was going to get enough attention being a rock artist in 2018 unless I did something to get people to pay attention” - 29-year-old Jered Eames says in his first interview after he had duped venues across Europe by creating fake industry backing and buzz around his band Threatin. He […]
Guardian has a lovely story about strange, lonely and frequently ridiculous life of men who were once in boybands. "I kind of looked like an old lesbian aunt” - that's how Brian McFadden describes himself, post-Westlife when he started solo career, and had to chose his own clothes and haircut. Derek Moran of the Irish band D-Side […]
“For years I couldn’t even listen to any music, let alone a Nirvana song. When Kurt died, every time the radio came on, it broke my heart” Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl sad GQ in an interview. He adds, “I don’t put Nirvana records on, no. Although they are always on somewhere. I get in the car, […]
“We didn’t necessarily go to the nice school, we didn’t get to read the cool newspaper. For me, bands like you [Metallica] told me that there is this other world that is more closely aligned with the experience that you’re having, than the one you’re being told about” - Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan told Beats1 […]
"You could argue that [a musician] who is an artist and producer is the modern-day singer-songwriter. You used to be there with a guitar singing and strumming, and that would be it. That's a whole record, that's everything you need, that's Bob Dylan. That occurred to me about these [grime] guys - they do everything. The […]
Guns N' Roses excluded their song One In A Million from their upcoming box-set reissue of their classic album 'Appetite For Destruction' that will feature five discs, seven LP’s, seven 7″, with 73 tracks long, 49 of them being previously unreleased songs, but not the 'One...’. That song drew heavy criticism for featuring the lyrics “Police […]
"Being a queer black woman in America, someone who has been in relationships with both men and women – I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker" - that's how Janelle Monáe described herself in Rolling Stone interview. On her sexuality: "I read about pansexuality and was like, ‘Oh, these are things that I identify […]
Who's them: modern-rock quintet from Australia, stormy guitar anthems with spiritual-crisis, warrior-soul vocals, a singer with "a deep desire to learn shit, to find out what is absolute spirit, and how to navigate that through the lens of art". Rolling Stone
