How the Nineties dream turned sour
It was a time when we chose life. When football was coming home. When a new day was dawning, was…
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“When I write, I’m visited by a higher self“: Kate Tempest on poetry, performance and South London pubs
“Do you know what the secret to making good ginger tea is?” In the bar of a central London hotel,…
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Taylor Swift’s Lover: an uneven mix of catchy pop songs and bland filler
“I wanna be defined by the things that I love / Not the things I hate / Not the things…
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11 very urgent questions I have about Taylor Swift’s new song London Boy
Congratulations, British music fans. Today a new Taylor Swift album was released, and she is doing the LORD’S WORK of…
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Prom 45: Mississippi Goddam: A Portrait of Nina Simone is a thrilling celebration of a musical icon
Call me dull for opening a review with a description of the queue, but at the Royal Albert Hall, the…
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The return of rave culture
The spirit of rave is back in music, film, art and even political protest. Could it be not just a…
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Ariana Grande may have come out as bisexual in a song. There’s something nicely celebratory in that
I’m going to be perfectly honest: “Monopoly” is the first Ariana Grande song I’ve knowingly listened to. I’m sure I’ve…
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Bon Iver’s i,i: a vulnerable yet self-assured album of tender falsetto and pulsing synths
A quotation from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel Tender is the Night is tattooed on the ribcage of a close friend of…
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