Michael Cragg

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Michael Cragg

Jungle natives go it alone on genre-hopping side project A year after landing a Brit award for best British group, two-thirds of retro-soul dance-pop practitioners Jungle are going it alone. Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd’s debut as Loaded Honey traces the highs and lows of their romantic relationship, cocooning it in a vaguely trippy suite of songs that fuse soul, R&B, funk and, on occasion, the playful cut-and-paste bricolage of the Avalanches.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Michael Cragg

Recently Shura decided she wanted to fight. Already in what she calls her Muscle Mummy era – partly inspired by the Kristen Stewart-starring, queer bodybuilding thriller Love Lies Bleeding – this buff new mindset involved the singer, songwriter and producer learning jujitsu for the video for World’s Worst Girlfriend, the soft-pop highlight of this month’s excellently titled third album, I Got Too Sad for My Friends. Things didn’t go to plan, however.

1 month ago | msn.com | Michael Cragg

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Michael Cragg

After going viral in the pandemic with bruised ballad You Broke Me First, 21-year-old Canadian YouTuber and professional dancer turned pop superstar Tate McRae has shifted through the gears at lightning speed. Her last two albums, 2023’s Think Later and February’s So Close to What, have produced a litany of trap-pop smashes slathered in Y2K influences, all paired with videos that throw back to a bygone era ruled by the choreographed precision of peak Britney.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Michael Cragg

Backstage at April’s Coachella festival, beyond the influencers, branded content and celebrity PDAs, a viral moment was brewing. R&B superstar Ciara was dancing on a chair – not just any dance, but a gravity-defying move that involved laying stomach-first on the chair’s back, arms locked, feet wiggling to the music. She wasn’t alone either; friends Cara Delevingne, Victoria Monét and Megan Thee Stallion were all doing the move too.