Finneas: "I don't want to be the guy that only does one thing ...
Oct 1, 2024 — Recently, Finneas revealed in an interview that he’d made Billie a production studio of her own, prompting farfetched news headlines that the pair were separating. “She had a little setup back in 2017, and she made the end of ‘bad guy’ in her room, as a demo,” he says. “It sounded sick and then, basically, she got busy.
Warren Zeiders is on the rise | Interview | The Line of Best Fit
Jun 17, 2024 — Growing up, Zeiders was infatuated with the guitar. “The guy who played the guitar always got the ladies,” he laughs. At first he played Guitar Hero on the PS2 and as he got older, his mum put him into guitar lessons. At the same time he began playing lacrosse, the sport dominating his free time and becoming his focus.
The best hyperpop albums of all time - The Line of Best Fit
Jan 28, 2022 — Aesthetically, Lust’s juxtaposition of heavily-processed vocals next to cacophonous noise and Japanese-inspired electronic instrumentation was likely a blueprint for many soundscapes that followed, even if the surface presentation evolved over time. Tonally, its sincerity permeates every robotic vocal, every 909 kick drum, marking an early scene intention of finding emotion and genuine ...
Being Dead: EELS Review - chaos supreme - The Line of Best Fit
Sep 26, 2024 — EELS is packed with two-minutes-or-less tracks that dive down some surprising rabbit hole, while its longer tunes knit together equally contrasting ideas with real flare. All of this is set against an insistent scratching pulse that gives everything a giddy nervous energy, just one way in which the band might invite comparison to Parquet Courts.
New Life - The Line of Best Fit
Feb 6, 2023 — There is Paramore in Olivia Rodrigo’s white knuckles, hot tears and sharp tongue; the parallels between “Good 4 U” and the band’s seminal pop-punk anthem “Misery Business” were so undeniable that Rodrigo retroactively granted singer Hayley Williams a writing credit.
How Nicole Zefanya became NIKI - The Line of Best Fit
Sep 20, 2022 — It was time to move on. It was the year, in more ways than one, when Nicole became NIKI. In the intervening years, as one of the jewels in 88rising’s crown and Indonesia’s finest exports, Zefanya’s instinct for honeyed yet heartfelt RnB and immaculate vocal command has secured her a devoted listenership in the tens of millions.
Review of Justin Timberlake live at the O2: A show that lets us into ...
Aug 12, 2024 — Currently performing his Forget Tomorrow 'World Tour', as it has now become infamously known, in between attending virtual court hearings for his June drink-driving arrest, it’s difficult to tell whether Timberlake will ever be able to stand in the spotlight without casting a shadow. An ego that has gone unchecked cooking under the heat lamp of the public eye for all that time has left the ...
Setting the record straight with Sheryl Crow | Interview
Jul 11, 2022 — Knowing that she wanted a female director to trust with her story, Crow held interviews with a number of women before eventually settling on Amy Scott, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker who had previously profiled Oscar-winning director Hal Ashby. “I chose Amy because she’s somebody whose work I already liked,” says Crow.
Shirley Collins' Personal Best - The Line of Best Fit
May 18, 2023 — Collins recorded her first two albums Sweet England and False True Lovers, at the same time, over a two-day period in 1958 with pioneering American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax (her then-lover) and British folklorist Peter Kennedy.The following year, she and Lomax embarked on a journey through the Southern states of the US, collecting folk songs and making field recordings that became a ...
Amelia Coburn: "You can be successful and be from Teesside ...
Sep 27, 2024 — Twenty-six year old folk songwriter Amelia Coburn originally hails from Middlesbrough and has spent time travelling and living abroad in Mexico, Russia and France. When we speak's just returned from Vienna, having performed at a Ukulele festival. The following day, she flies to Hamburg to play at Reeperbahn Festival.