Shaad D’Souza

2 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Shaad D’Souza

Florry was named after a character in Betty Smith’s novel A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, but listening to their fantastically energetic new album Sounds Like…, you wonder if it must also be some kind of arcane verb. Meaning: to jam out with one’s best friends as if the 8:30 p.m. sunlight will never fade. Or: to turn one’s own life into a grand country-rock musical, whose songs are filled with jubilant exclamations and pauses for laughter and applause.

2 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Shaad D’Souza

Summer festival season officially kicked off on Friday at Wide Awake, an indie and electronic festival held in London’s Brockwell Park. Based on the crowd, here are my predictions for the items that are going to dominate the fashions on the field over the coming few months: Irish flag balaclavas, Ireland jerseys, and Palestine flags.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Shaad D’Souza

3 hours agoIn first-ever operational use, Israel reveals it shot down Hezbollah drones with laser air defense systemIsrael has confirmed that it employed high-powered laser systems to intercept Hezbollah drones during recent hostilities along the Lebanese border, …1 hour agoKneecap axed from TRNSMT festival over police concernsIrish rap group Kneecap say they have been axed from the TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow over police concerns about safety.

3 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Shaad D’Souza

Taylor Swift will probably release an album this year. If she does, it probably won’t be the biggest record of the year – in America, at least. That’s because country superstar Morgan Wallen last week released his fourth album, I’m the Problem. His previous record, One Thing at a Time in 2023, spent more than 100 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart and outsold Swift’s Midnights by nearly two million units.

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Shaad D’Souza

Seventeen was a very good year: sneaking out to dance all night at Hugs&Kisses, swigging peach schnapps from a jewel-encrusted flask at the Mercat Basement, being the first to arrive and the first to leave at Misty Nights. I lived in a relatively small city but I didn’t know anyone, or anything, so the nights felt rich and intoxicating, and ever so slightly dangerous. The first time you go out, your tiny internal world suddenly feels massive.