For her new album, Esmé Patterson has written songs for women – Ramona, Billie Jean, Alison – who have long been silent. For everyone who's ever loved a song, then felt a sinking in their heart as they listened to its lyrics properly, this one's for you
For her new album, Esmé Patterson has written songs for women – Ramona, Billie Jean, Alison – who have long been silent. For everyone who's ever loved a song, then felt a sinking in their heart as they listened to its lyrics properly, this one's for you
This week, the seminal Washington trio released their first album in a decade. In an in-depth interview, drummer Janet Weiss tells Emily Mackay about No Cities To Love's genesis, being figureheads to a new generation of riot grrrl-inspired bands and being a part of the feminist conversation. Photographs courtesy of Brigitte Sire
This week, the seminal Washington trio released their first album in a decade. In an in-depth interview, drummer Janet Weiss tells Emily Mackay about No Cities To Love's genesis, being figureheads to a new generation of riot grrrl-inspired bands and being a part of the feminist conversation. Photographs courtesy of Brigitte Sire
Forty years ago this month, two British bands released albums that would set the course for metal over the following decade. But it’s not the similarities between Iron Maiden and British Steel that are most telling, it’s the differences
The fifth in our series of subscriber only podcasts sees KLF and William Blake author John Higgs talking about the deep, esoteric history of the heavy metal mascot that embodies the spirit of one of the world's biggest bands
It's 30 years since East Kilbride reprobates, Jim and William Reid released their excellent early doors compilation Barbed Wire Kisses, so who better to revisit it (with Jim, Douglas Hart and John Moore in tow) than their biographer Zoë Howe