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‘The group reminded me I wasn’t crazy’: unmasking the worst dating offenders
Ghosting, gaslighting and cheating can feel par for the course in today’s dating landscape. Now groups of women are joining up online to create an early warning system
Emma Garland
24, Feb, 2023 @11:00 AM
Billy Nomates: ‘Some days I think I’ve done something good, the next I’ll set fire to it’
Tor Maries took her band name from an insult, and her sick-of-it-all songs decry sexism, dead-end jobs and social inequality. She’s still wondering how success found her
Emma Garland
11, Jan, 2023 @2:29 PM
Do they know it’s Christmas? Why today’s festive pop lacks the crucial chaos element | Emma Garland
Despite annual attempts at toppling Mariah, there hasn’t been a new Christmas classic in nearly a decade. Modern songwriters shoot too classy: history tells us that commotion is the only way
Emma Garland
20, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM
Charlotte Church’s Pop Dungeon review – a festive farewell to a glorious covers band
With Prince, Julee Cruise, Black Sabbath and Jennifer Rush on the set list, the Welsh singer gave her pop anthems night a rowdy, emotional send-off
Emma Garland
04, Dec, 2022 @12:38 PM
Shygirl review – magnetic rapper conjures a world of ravishing raunch
Printworks, London
The elegant star’s sex-suffused sound is heightened in front of a crowd that can’t keep their eyes off her
The elegant star’s sex-suffused sound is heightened in front of a crowd that can’t keep their eyes off her
Emma Garland
02, Dec, 2022 @1:19 PM
White Lung: Premonition review – a blazing farewell of love and anger
The punk band go full pelt for their final album, a set livid with worldly disgust and bitter humour
Emma Garland
02, Dec, 2022 @8:30 AM
Backstreet Boys review – sympathy, hugs and immaculate harmonies
Suffused with awareness of the death of Nick Carter’s brother Aaron, the crowd’s support for the boyband definers was rewarded by a flawless set
Emma Garland
07, Nov, 2022 @11:56 AM
Aaron Carter was the millennium’s bubblegum bad boy – and the victim of a rapacious music industry
As a teen heartthrob, Carter seemed to have it all. But like many poster kids of his generation, success came with a dark side
Emma Garland
06, Nov, 2022 @1:54 PM
Special Interest: Endure review – jackhammer beats and punk catharsis
The New Orleans band provide a release from tough times with a hardcore album inflected by funk, glam rock and disco
Emma Garland
04, Nov, 2022 @8:00 AM
Robbie Williams review – a survivor and national treasure is triumphant
O2 Arena, London
He might be on the in-roads to 50 and a family man but a glitter-draped Robbie Williams is discovering that he can have it all
He might be on the in-roads to 50 and a family man but a glitter-draped Robbie Williams is discovering that he can have it all
Emma Garland
10, Oct, 2022 @1:28 PM
The caustic outbursts, the raw charisma, the conkers … 50 reasons to love Liam Gallagher at 50
As the pugnacious parka-wearer marks off half a century, musicians and Guardian writers examine the attitude, arguments and angry monologues that make him a true rock’n’roll star
Emma Garland
20, Sep, 2022 @10:49 AM
I was a teenage Napster obsessive – and illegal downloading changed my music taste for good
The P2P giant was shut down 20 years ago this week. But the omnivorous mindset it encouraged in a generation resonates in the very best of today’s genre-smashing pop
Emma Garland
30, Aug, 2022 @1:44 PM
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