Bar Italia are sitting around a table at a nice restaurant in downtown Manhattan, trying to find something they agree on. Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, one of two singer-guitarists in the London trio, offers a definition of their sound: “It sounds like three people having a bit of an argument with …
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Wunderhorse frontman Jacob Slater’s Wi-Fi is spotty— “Fucking nightmare on my end,” he says. He’s taking this Zoom call from the south of Morocco, where he’s spent the last four Januarys “surfing and doing nothing else.” The 28-year-old U.K. musician has grown accustomed to this kind of reset every so …
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There are five versions of Rachel Chinouriri on the cover of her debut album, What a Devastating Turn of Events. One is settled on the edge of a love seat in the front yard, scribbling notes into a journal. Another is carrying a few bags to the trash. A third …
Read More »Lola Young Isn't Afraid to Get 'Messy'
Lola Young never intended to be a TikTok phenom. And yet, if you thumb through the app right now, there’s a solid chance your entire timeline will be deploying her 2024 megahit “Messy” to soundtrack their daily moments of mundanity. What makes a soul-pop song by a 24-year-old from South …
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At the core of Jim Legxacy’s music is a potent clarity of emotion. The London-based musician’s 2023 mixtape Homeless N**ga Pop Music deployed samples like globs of glitter spread across a posterboard: a Miley Cyrus song, the watermark for a Nigerian MP3 website, a snippet from the U.K. grime classic …
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“You blew me to stardust,” Glass Animals lead singer Dave Bayley sings on the U.K. band’s latest single “Tear in Space (Airlock).” The tantalizing track swirls with synths over a pulsating beat as Bayley’s falsetto compares an all-consuming love to being trapped in the pressurized, in-between area of a space …
Read More »J.K. Rowling Used to Want to Debate Gender. Now She Just Insults Trans People
“You’ve seen nothing yet,” tweeted Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling on Sunday. She was responding to another X user who had told her, “Your downfall is so sad,” a reaction to her continued attacks on transgender people. Rowling promised that worse was in store. “Wait til I hit rock bottom. …
Read More »The High-Femme Rebellion of the Last Dinner Party
Any shame had been left squarely on the street outside the Bowery Ballroom last fall as the Last Dinner Party frontwoman Abigail Morris whirled around the stage like a cheeky toddler at a wedding reception, the frills of her frock trying their best to follow along as she dizzied herself. …
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