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Meet Willie J Healey, the Satan-baiting troubadour

Death, devils, consistent misery - speed-writing can be something of a musical Rorschach test. At his leisure, writing his 2017 debut album while gazing...

We Need To Talk About: the mindless nostalgia of the Spice Girls’ semi-reunion

There is, online, a toe-curling clip of showbiz journalist Dan Wootton asking the newly reformed Spice Girls for their views on Brexit. Like many...

Eight brilliant Tame Impala side projects you need in your life

Tame Impala have had a huge few years. Their third album 'Currents' hit the UK Number Three and the Aussie Number One to become...

Reading & Leeds Festival 2019 – headliner rumours, odds, ticket info and everything we know so far

Reading & Leeds Festival may have come to a close for 2018, but we're already looking ahead to 2019's outing. This year saw Fall...

“It’s not a nightclub, it’s a blank canvas” – the creators of Printworks on their new Greenwich venue, Magazine London

Magazine London is intent on entering 2019 with a big bang. The new Greenwich-based event space, named after the gunpowder magazine which used to...

Baffling-but-brilliant hardcore mob The Armed up the weird factor in their new ‘Heavily Lined’ video

Mystery's played out, apparently. No one cares if you've got no press photos anymore, or if you go by a pseudonym or a single...

Pop is Not A Dirty Word: why the sappiest comeback of 2018 is important to me

When you lose someone, you make a conscious effort to remember every silly thing they expressed an interest in before you had to say...

Mellah’s ‘What It Is’ video is a gloomy, claustrophobic look at political nuance

Holed up in an impressively slick, self-built studio in the South London’ area of Peckham, Liam Ramsden creates some of the most intricate music...

The Spice Girls: their 10 best songs, ranked

Forty-three songs – that's all The Spice Girls put out in their reign as the queens of '90s pop. With the band (well, four of...

Muse’s ‘Simulation Theory’ videos explained and unpicked: just your average ’80s-influenced zombie-vampire VR tech-horror…

A desperate vigilante fights her way through a warehouse full of assailants. A '50s prom night turns into a bloodbath of vampire zombies and...
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