Britpop is back! For my Guardian debut, I interviewed AG Cook, Nia Archives and Rachel Chinouriri - artists who all have albums that play with Britpop and national identity. What does Britpop mean in 2024? theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

A depressingly real read. We love touring and can’t wait to play shows this summer, but even breaking even from what may look like a decent run of dates is unlikely. Essentially, bands who aren’t already rich are being priced out of this business.

I dug into the budget sheets to have a look at the realities of modern day touring costs for a bunch of artists. Such is the struggle for many established acts to tour profitably, it’s been declared a cost of touring crisis. theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Nobody's putting on shows like Snõõper, a Nashville band that regularly unleashes a massive paper mache mosquito on its fans. Here's the story of the rising group blending puppets and punk, by katherine oung 💫 and Ben Arthur. nobells.blog/snooper-band-i…

For today's @Guardian I went on an alternate Record Store Day to Brighton to see if there's still value, and fun, to be had when digging for records. Photos by the talented and indefatigable Peter Flude. Sambas pre-Sunak.

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profiled claire rousay, whose album sentiment is my favorite of the year thus far

Biggest ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ from me for the new album by Still House Plants - total joy in their unbounded expression and emotion. One of the best British bands in years

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God bless Paul Weller playing with his Palestine flag and speaking about the dead children tonight. We need to say it out loud, everywhere, every time.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi is “interested in listening and hearing the voice of the voiceless; the voices we don’t necessarily hear,” eikoishibashi tells Ben Beaumont-Thomas. “That’s also how I want to make music.”

Guardian music

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Lots of fun putting together this piece on the Butthole Surfers and their inimitable world of noise and chaos. theguardian.com/music/2024/mar…

every dude in a tech house/ bottle nightclub looks like a variation of Either Of These Guys

It was a true honour to interview one of my favourite musicians of recent years, Tierra Whack, about her magnificent new album World Wide Whack and the bruising journey she's been on to write it.

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To mark 30 years of The Downward Spiral, I ranked Nine Inch Nails greatest tracks

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I interviewed the brilliant poetry !!!

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After Ben Beaumont-Thomas opened the melon of French Touch versus French House in his excellent Guardian piece, I had to weight in, with extra Dimitri From Paris. And a picture of a dog. linenoise.substack.com/p/dimitri-from…

I interviewed anonymous pop superstar Ado Ado for Guardian music. I found her fiercely intelligent, and ambitious for global success.

Read on for her thoughts on Vocaloid, identity, and the complex fortunes of Japan’s gen z.

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#ado #vocaloid

Moor Mother - The Great Bailout | ANTI- it’s out ! Thank you to everyone who had a hand in this project coming together! anti.com/releases/great…

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What a fantastic experience speaking to the man known as The Metal God (a living legend and lovely bloke to boot) ahead of Judas Priest's new album - which is out today. We covered everything from Dolly Parton to Walsall sex shops... 🤘
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Learning about the CEO of Amtrak