This Is "Assimilation": Róisín Murphy Takes Us to the Afterparty
Over the past year, while many of us largely stayed holed up at home amid the pandemic, several of our most trusted titans of music supplied us with essential, escapist collections designed for the (hypothetical) dance floor. Róisín Murphy, certainly, was one of our lockdown saviors, thanks to…
Sarah Harding Wears It Like a Crown
Girls Aloud is among my favorite girl groups of all time. But don't take my present word for it: just ask my 24-year-old self, who ventured abroad to London for the first time just to see their triumphant Ten Tour. "My obsession with the group started around 2005 or so, when I was prowling one of…
Aly & AJ Are About to Provide 2021's Ultimate Escape
"We could pack up this house, get out of town / Drive across country, one taillight out..." Aly & AJ are making incredible music. Let's not get it twisted, though: this is not new information. The sister act have achieved the damn near impossible, miraculously emerging from the Disney Machine…
Hikaru Utada's Got Another New Song Coming: "Pink Blood"
Hikaru Utada is evidently making up for lost time (REFERENCE). While we're just days away from the (delayed) release of "One Last Kiss" from the final Evangelion movie, Hikki Staff just announced that there is another Hikaru song in the works, and it's called..."Pink Blood." (!) The song will serve…
From the "Outside In" With Tia Kofi (Interview)
She is Tia Kofi, and she's a lovely Brown caffeinated beverage. Drink it up! While her sisters might have (rudely) dubbed her "Baroness Basic" on her critically hailed second season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, the 30-year-old Essex-born drag superstar took the competition by storm with her quick…
Mariah Carey Turns "We Belong Together" Into a 7-Minute Late Night Epic
Mariah Carey blessed the Lambily with memorable moment after moment last year - and she's not stopping anytime soon, it seems. After a #MC30, memoir and rarity-filled 2020, the Elusive Chanteuse™ is making sure that Christmas isn't the only holiday she makes extra festive, especially during these…
Jessie Ware Says the Kylie Collaboration Is "Happening"
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jessie Ware (@jessieware) Panic! At the disco. (Sorry.) Jessie Ware, deliverer of one of the finest records of 2020, is providing brand new details about her recently teased deluxe edition of What's Your…
Victoria Monét Wants to Be Your Next "F.U.C.K."
It's February, which means it's nearly Valentine's Day, which means - well, nothing at all, especially not in the middle of a pandemilovato. In any case, Victoria Monét is in a baby-making kind of mood. Which makes sense, as she is now very, very pregnant and could give birth any day now - she…
How Studio Killers' "Jenny" Became a Queer TikTok Hit (Interview)
You just never know when your nearly decade-old Finnish summer smash could go viral again. That's exactly what happened to Studio Killers, the Finnish-Danish-British animated virtual band who debuted on the scene with their fantastic self-titled record in 2013, including smashes like "Ode to the…
Her Name Is (Still) Nicole: Scherzy's 'Killer Love' Is Now Streaming
In our country's darkest hour, there could only be one Hawaii-born multihyphenate equipped for the unenviable task of convincing us to turn off the news, stop holding our breath, pack up our poison and get whisked away right there on a trip to Club Banger Nation to get a little wet (private island…
Dua Lipa Is Teaching You How to Dance
"You’ll never be as good a dancer as Dua Lipa, but as she says herself, that’s no excuse not to try." Early into the Future Nostalgia campaign, Dua made it very clear in interviews that she's well aware of all the dancing memes and mockery about her debut dance moves on social media. And now, to…
Claudia Valentina Is Your First Pop Act to Watch of 2021
Meet Claudia Valentina, the first new artist to get excited about in 2021. Granted, I'm just a few weeks late to the One to Watch™ party: the 20-year-old singer-songwriter actually dropped her self-titled 4-track debut EP back in November. In any case, it's time to play catch-up. The story behind…