By Tessa Nolan In the modern music industry, careers are supposed to follow a predictable arc. An artist breaks on TikTok, surges through algorithmic playlists,…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 February 2024, during Super Bowl LVIII, Beyoncé stepped out of a Verizon commercial alongside Tony Hale and surprise-released two singles…
By Tessa Nolan On 20 March 1988, a reggae track written by two of pop’s most prolific songwriters and originally buried as a B-side on…
By Maria Bregman, literary and music critic Recently, some very strange and sudden news has emerged from Boston. It has been announced that Andris Nelsons,…
By Tessa Nolan There are songs that lodge themselves in the cultural spine. You hum them without knowing where you heard them. Greensleeves is one…
By Sara Bright We have a habit of resurrecting our dead rock stars. Not literally, of course, but forensically. We dig them up, dust off…
By Sara Bright The Grammys have always been a bit of a circus. We know this. It’s part of the deal. You get the red…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic It has been ten years. A full decade since the notification popped up on our phones –…
By Sara Bright The lawsuit against Will Smith is messy. Not messy in the usual “celebrity forgets to pay a contractor” way, but messy in…
By Sara Bright Chris Rea is dead. It’s one of those headlines that stops you mid-scroll. Not because it’s a shock, exactly – he was…