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The Molotovs: The Teenage Siblings Rocking Britain
Teenage siblings lift the kit onto the truck for a guerrilla gig outside a Soho record shop. A crowd amasses,…
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Music at The Cold Magazine. The artists, records and scenes we are listening to right now, from first singles and club nights to the interviews that explain where a sound came from.
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RHR Talks Slang, Sound and Brazilian Dance
In the last few years, Brazilian dance music has become one of global music’s hottest commodities – from the bailes…
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Cold’s Most Anticipated Albums of 2026
Peaches - No Lube So Rude Known for sexually explicit songs like “Fuck the Pain Away” (2000), Canadian electro-clash musician…
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‘Meet Me Backstage’: Erykah Badu Handpicked Paris Rabone
‘Meet Me Backstage’: Erykah Badu Handpicked Paris Rabone “Meet me at the back door,” Erykah Badu texted Paris Rabone the…
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Man-Made Sunshine: Conor Mason and the Triumph of Love
Tenderness is in terribly short supply.It’s a thought I kept having as I spoke with Conor Mason about the songs…
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Dan Whitlam and the Art of Universal Truth
And for Dan Whitlam that first line came when he was cut open, stabbed twice at 16 with a screwdriver.Let…
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Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina: ‘They Don’t Let You Count Sheep at a Penal Colony’
“They don’t let you count sheep at a penal colony,” punk collective Pussy Riot co-founder Maria “Masha” Alyokhina tells me…
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Momma at The Garage Islington
We were on our way to The Garage, positioned at an angle across from Highbury and Islington Station.
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Funk do Brasil: Mochakk takes us inside Belo Horizonte’s dark, addictive sound
How did funk go from a gritty delicacy of the Brazilian favelas to one of the most infectious dance sounds…
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A Review of Public Memory’s “Public Sword”
“Picture us smiling up through the ash”: an apparition that avoids scrutiny while striking a hidden chord.
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KABEAUSHÉ Presents: IGGY SWAGGERING UNGRATEFUL INCESSANT LITTLE PEEEAAAAAAA
Sitting at my desk in London, I phone in a video call to speak with genre-obliterating musician KABEAUSHÉ, originally from…
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Inside Bonnie Banane’s Dystopian Music Video “Hoes of Na”
Step into a conversation with Bonnie Banane and you immediately sense she’s not your typical pop artist.
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Anna von Hausswolff’s “Iconoclasts” is a Seven-Year Search for the Divine
Scrambling to call Anna von Hausswolff – the genre-pushing experimentalist whose oeuvre has implicated church organs and warbling shrieks, whose…
