There are countless songs about losing love. Whilst Bellah Mae might lean into this tradition with her candid brand of songwriting, her sarcastic sense of humour and scrappy attitude sees her stitching together the pieces of her broken heart with a deliberate ‘f*ck you’ to anybody that’s disrespected her…
Pronounced El-Mean, this British-Sudanese star’s voice is hard to forget. Raised in Oxford, England, with the birthname Abdala Elamin, Elmiene’s rising star is built on first impressions. You hear that soothing, tranquil voice, and you need to hear it again. It’s contagious, addictive. This has led to a crop of producers and artists wanting to work with Elmiene, beginning when his first single ‘Golden’ was selected to command Virgil Abloh’s posthumous show…
Some artists have a skill so striking that stardom feels inevitable. For Yasmin Byrne, who goes by the professional name of Jazzy, it’s her indelible vocals, ensuring that even when she was working in the bakery in Tesco, success always felt as though it was on the cards…
Jesse Greenway doesn’t fear being demonised. In fact, it’s the demonisation of Britain’s working class that drives his lyricism, built on blistering social commentary and injustice. Growing up in the East London borough of Walthamstow, living with little sense of opportunity, direction, Jeshi made a choice to alter trajectory, turning to music instead…
Crafting shimmering dream-pop gems that muster the spirit of shoegaze’s heyday, Galway four-piece NewDad are breathing new life into the sub-genre. Using music as a safe haven, NewDad’s singer and songwriter Julie Dawson’s journey started at the age of nine when she fell in love with Rodrigo y Gabriela, having discovered them via her parent’s record collection…
As the nation went into lockdown during the Covid pandemic, many of us swore we’d finally learn that dusty musical instrument we’d been threatening to pick up for years. Most of us never actually did it, but Nieve Ella, born and raised in the West Midlands, picked up a guitar and decided she was going to be a pop star…
R&B boy band vocal groups are in the midst of an unlikely renaissance right now, thanks in no small part to London’s No Guidnce, who are fully intent on resurrecting that golden era of heart-aching harmonies – while stealing young hearts at the same time…
Olivia Dean has been breaking through for some time. Born and raised in Walthamstow in East London, and attending the prestigious Brit School – Dean has already sold out major London venues such as the Roundhouse and Koko and worked alongside Rudimental. She’s even been an ambassador for Chanel…
Reading upstarts Only The Poets make anthemic indie music for the masses, blending Britpop swagger with impeccable pop. Reading Festival looms large over the locals. Lead singer and guitarist Tommy Longhurst – who hails from Woodley, four miles down the road from Reading’s main gate – was a wide-eyed solo artist as a youngster, which changed after a fateful weekend at the festival. Inspired by the line-up, he wanted in…
You’d be hard pressed to remember a debut single quite as impressive, as memorable and as striking as The Last Dinner Party’s ‘Nothing Matters’, which released in April 2023. Still yet to release their first album, The Last Dinner Party are lead singer Abigail Morris, with Emily Roberts on lead guitar, Lizzie Mayland on rhythm, Georgia Davies on bass, and Aurora Nishevci on keyboard…