RetroPop

1 week ago | retropopmagazine.com | Connor Gotto

Serving as the follow-up to her 2021 release, ‘Magic Still Exists’, the new record from the Release Me hitmaker features contributions from Kerstin Ljungström, Vincent Pontare, Salem Al Fakir, Magnus Lidehäll, Hanna Wilson, and Frans Bryngel“After my last album, I found some gems – people I really wanted to continue working with,” says Agnes. “I wanted to keep it to a small group to maintain that intimate feeling this time too. It allowed me to push both myself and others even further.

1 week ago | retropopmagazine.com | Connor Gotto

Lifted from their debut album, ‘Happiness’, the track saw the duo – starring Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson – enter the UK Top 40 for the first time and became a Top 10 hit across Europe. As they celebrate their latest milestone with a deluxe 2LP vinyl reissue of the record, the Better Than Love singers have enlisted the German producer and DJ to rework the single, which is out now.

1 week ago | retropopmagazine.com | Connor Gotto

The latest extension to her previously-announced run of shows, which commences in July across North America and marks the biggest run of her career, is the Praying singer’s first headline run on this side of the pond in over a decade. Announced ahead of a limited run of UK dates, including a stop at London’s Mighty Hoopla festival, the shows are in support of Kesha’s upcoming sixth studio album, ‘Period’, which is due out July 4.

1 week ago | retropopmagazine.com | Connor Gotto

The song follows Relationships, Everybody’s Trying To Figure Me Out and Down To Be Wrong from the LP, which is due for release on June 20, and draws upon real-life events from the sibling trio’s high school years. “We started writing this at my home studio on GarageBand. It immediately felt good cause it was nice and fast. We just had this refrain… ‘Take me back, Take me back‘,” frontwoman Danielle Haim wrote on social media.

1 week ago | retropopmagazine.com | Connor Gotto

Arriving ahead of her performance at this year’s Mighty Hoopla festival at London’s Brockwell Park, the singer-songwriter was compelled to write and record the track following the UK Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex under the Equality Act. “I feel no threat from any trans person that might be in the toilets, I’ve never felt threatened by a trans person as it turns out,” she says in the song.