Anne-Marie’s new one is very clever because it’s called Birthday and if you consider that Spotify has 271m active users, that means 742,000 users will today be celebrating their birthday…
Notes on this week’s new releases: For the great, “HEY!”-strewn new Dagny single to seem totally great you sort of need to trick your mind into forgetting Sigrid’s Mine Right…
Notes on this week’s new release: Dua Lipa today releases her best single since Be The One. (Behind all the banging and crashing it’s also, in some respects, her most…
It would be a pop crime to allow a new Pet Shop Boys album (in this case Hotspot) to appear without issuing a gentle reminder that Chris and Neil remain…
Right now Troye Sivan is the ultimate 21st century pop entity and you’re probably already trying to think of someone else who fits the bill but just stop right now…
Goldfrapp are back! They are still very good which is a relief because sometimes people kind of chuck it all out of the window don’t they? Three years on from…
Definite Popstar Kloe is about to release two songs. The first is called ‘UDSM’, which is young person for ‘you don’t see me’, and its video’s out today. As the song…
Ryan Tedder writes songs with Beyoncé, Adele, Kelly Clarkson and his own band OneRepublic. The songs are good and people like them. You’ve probably heard him talking about songwriting quite a lot,…
Dua Lipa is a really good pop entity. ‘New Love’ — great song. ‘Be The One’ — great song. ‘Last Dance’ — great song. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago…
Halsey’s one of 2015’s most exciting artists. She’s also one of the most interesting, and a few weeks ago I went to meet her for breakfast. I did have some questions prepared, but it…