After escaping an abusive relationship and earning a slew of high-profile supporters for her bare-all songwriting, Sharon Van Etten endured two years of homelessness while making her new album, Tramp. She speaks to Cian Traynor about toughening up and learning to camouflage heartache
With Variety, Bette Gordon proved her knack for disrupting male spaces and transgressing the limits of the film noir genre. She also proved her punk-powered production is much more than "a feminist Vertigo", finds Brian Quinn