Rhian Daly

2 weeks ago | nme.com | Rhian Daly

Since the release of her debut album ‘The Baby’ in 2020, Samia has become known as a songwriter with a knack for the diaristic and the vulnerable; an artist who is profoundly relatable by being highly personal, distilling the complexities of young womanhood into lines that sear. Second record ‘Honey’, released in 2023, only reinforced that notion, infusing more dark humour into songs full of pain and poignancy.

2 weeks ago | nme.com | Rhian Daly

If you’ve been paying attention to d4vd’s story so far, you’ll be familiar with his origins – tucked away in his sister’s closet, making music just so he wouldn’t get copyright strikes on his gaming videos. Since those humble beginnings, he has flourished, earning a tour support slot with SZA in 2023, contributing songs to TV show soundtracks like Arcane and Invincible, and developing his artistry into something with significant emotional depth.

3 weeks ago | nme.com | Rhian Daly

The last time we heard from Lorde, she was in reflective, introspective mode. After the New Zealand singer danced through heartbreak at a house party on her second album ‘Melodrama’, she embraced nature on its follow-up, ‘Solar Power’, ruminating on the intense fame she found in her teen years, growing up and grief and heartache of a different kind. It was sun-kissed and beautiful, but far more stripped back and mellow than the first two records that had helped make her a modern pop icon.

3 weeks ago | nme.com | Rhian Daly

Rather than simply a band, Sunflower Bean have always seemed like a gang; a chosen family with an unbreakable tightness. For much of the first seven years of their collective existence, they lived like one, too – in each other’s pockets as they toured relentlessly (part from passion and part from necessity) and hunkered down in studios together as they made sludgy, sparkling and horizon-broadening records in between.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Rhian Daly

“We hadn’t really rehearsed. As we were walking to the stage, he said, ‘Hang on, boys!’ And he went in the corner and vomited”: Assembled on 24 hours' notice, this John Lennon-led, motley crew supergroup marked the beginning of the end of the Beatles“‘You’ll have to explain this a little to me. I have no idea what the Plastic Ono Band is. Is that Yoko’s band? Do we have to go naked onstage or …