Finally it was time for the day’s headliner – and the curator of the main stage – Dev Hynes and co, aka Blood Orange. Judging ...

And just like that, summer was over. But you’re not ready to let go of the memories and the feeling just yet – and it wants to stick with you too. Music is intrinsically linked with memory, and we’ve ...

Within a couple of hours of being on-site you realise you’ll need two showers afterwards to get really clean and your white socks will never be the same again. The lush grass of Victoria Park has been ...

Who Loves the Sun observes the meaninglessness in the presence of these poles. The album’s title alludes to the Velvet ...

However, by the measure the industry actually pays attention to, they have had one Top 40 single. Ever. Jorja Douglas, Renée Downer and Stella Quaresma have spent seven years being called the future ...

Let’s get straight to the point: Westside Cowboy‘s debut album It Goes On is excellent. Hailed by many as the best new guitar band in Britain, the four piece of Jimmy Bradbury (vocals, guitar), Reuben ...

Absorbing and transcendent in sound, Jungle started out as an indie duo in 2014 formed by London natives Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland. From the outset, the band always had a knack for producing ...

If you are a close follower of modern music, the name of Vini Reilly’s longstanding project The Durutti Column should be lingering there somewhere as something special, even if it is only for one of ...

The formation of Baby Smith reads like some special kind of serendipity. Its members – Ray Sonder and Saxon Gable – were both born on the east coast of Australia, where they grew up with a diet of ...

Much has been written – but very little truly said – about the resurgence of black psychedelic music during the last 10 years. Whether Frank Ocean’s Blonde, Tyler the Creator’s Igor, Kelela’s Raven, ...

Count the titles. “Favourite Girl”, the Diwali-riddim flip that took Song of the Year at the MOBOs and passed 360 million streams; “Focus On Me (All the Sexy ...

Grace Cummings has always been in search of the intangible. From her 2019 debut Refuge Cove, to her 2022 breakthrough Storm Queen, and through to her 2024 loose concept album Ramona, she has been ...