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Adam Wright

Manchester-based Music Journalist

Emma Thimgren

Emma Thimgren är frilansande journalist, redaktör och kritiker baserad i Stockholm.

Isabella Ambrosio

an irish-american music journo and editor reporting on all kinds of alternative music. my top 2026 tracks predicted

Gemma Cockrell

Valerie Magan

Valerie is a music journalist and photographer with 4+ years of writing experience. She is currently a staff writer at Substream Magazine, previously Editorial Intern at Bandsintown, and has contributed …

Lucy Niederman

Hi there! I am a Communications and Media Studies student at Pace University with a double minor in Arts & Entertainment Management and Digital Journalism & Storytelling. Currently based in …

Latest Articles

Preloved: “It became more of a my-life-up-until-now piece than I was expecting” | Interview

Michael Watson took a portable recording setup into the woods of Ontario and came out with a Preloved record that honours their beloved dog and the end of their childhood.

By Carter Smith
29th July 2026 • The Line of Best Fit

Sofia Cordoba marks her English-language debut with bright acoustic ballad “Symptom of Love”

“Symptom of Love” introduces the first taste of Cordoba's forthcoming EP, and showcases the full breadth of her bilingual songwriting. Raised on a rich blend of American and British rock alongside Colombian and Cuban music, Cordoba’s relationship with music was shaped early by the sounds constantly surrounding her. “I remember …

By Gemma Cockrell
7th May 2026 • The Line of Best Fit

Basht. channel generational unease on brooding new single “Perfume”

Through relentless touring and a growing reputation on the live circuit, Basht. have built a devoted fanbase in the lead-up to announcing Poor Advice. Knockout live shows on tour with the likes of DEADLETTER, Everything Everything and Wunderhorse, as well as appearances at festivals including The Great Escape and Truck. …

By Gemma Cockrell
24th April 2026 • The Line of Best Fit

Emma Cook bottles up the peace of the day on soft “Of the Morning”

In the title track off her new record, Emma Cook puts the feeling in her pocket so that she can remain grounded.

By Camryn Teder
27th February 2026 • The Line of Best Fit

samxemma’s “SEE SEE WHERE WE GO” confronts toxic love through hyperpop intensity

Shaped more by the internet than any one city, samxemma’s Sam Cooper and Emma Kirsch describe their sound as distinctly online. “We don’t sound like we’re from Manchester,” Cooper admits. “All the music I find is online.” Yet their meeting was offline; at university. “Freshers week at Spoons,” Kirsch recalls …

By Gemma Cockrell
19th February 2026 • The Line of Best Fit

My First Time skewer dopamine culture on snarling new single “Picture Of Health”

“Picture Of Health” tells the story of a fictional character who lives vicariously via online fitness and financial gurus, drifting through each day in pursuit of the next short-lived rush. “I’ve parted seas and I’ve smoked cigarettes, I’ve travelled a thousand miles just to make love in your bed. I’m …

By Gemma Cockrell
5th February 2026 • The Line of Best Fit

Home Front: “The decision to be ignorant of what’s going on in the world is a privilege”

Ahead of UK headline shows and propelled by their new album, Home Front discusses the wilful cruelty involved in punching down on the less fortunate members of your community, and how punk can save us.

By Isabella Ambrosio
21st January 2026 • The Line of Best Fit

Madra Salach: "We are very much a product of Dublin, and a product of Ireland!" | Interview

Madra Salach are creating ancestral melodies with blistering modernity and have forged a raw new folklore from Dublin's restless spirit.

By Jamie Wilde
6th January 2026 • The Line of Best Fit

Hirons’ “Vertigo” is a dizzying study in control and surrender

“Music has always been there for me,” says the British-American songwriter – real name Jenny Hirons. After learning piano for ten years as a child, she has turned a private habit into something intensely public. “I would play piano whenever I had access to one. I credit LA for bringing …

By Gemma Cockrell
7th November 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Lou Salome craft a dreamy alt-rock anthem on the impossible “Your Eyes Immaculate”

They take their name from a renowned French psychoanalyst, compelled by her dual-status as a “serious academic and unhinged romantic figure,” she’s a person they desperately wanted associated with themselves.

By Camryn Teder
20th October 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Spiritual Cramp: “I was looking for something to connect to – then I heard Bad Religion”

It happened in sparing drops, gently letting Bingham know it was there. There wasn’t anything particularly spectacular and grand about the storm’s beginnings.

By Isabella Ambrosio
20th October 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

The slow-burn rise of Julia Wolf | Interview

By the time I find Julia Wolf in the green room at Camden's KOKO, the chaos of load-in and an early fan queue is already underway. She's calm, grounded and a quiet contrast to the storm brewing outside, just ahead of her support slot with PVRIS. The next evening, she’d …

By Lucy Niederman
5th August 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Fletcher: "There’s so much beauty in being open – but I also felt dissected"

In the quiet before release day, Cari Fletcher sits with the rawest album of her career, and the question that’s followed her through it: Would you still love me if you really knew me? The earthy smell of burning incense curls through the air in a dimly lit room, tucked …

By Lucy Niederman
21st July 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Quinton Barnes: Black Noise

In November 2022, the Montreal-based rapper-singer-songwriter Quinton Barnes tweeted “I want to work with noise/improv musicians in some capacity”. Barnes was looking to explore the Frenchman’s thesis that, by providing a channel for noise, music can challenge the normative order and change the course of social development.

By Lingua Road
15th July 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

green star: “I’m just going to make this happen” | Interview

In the USA in the early 2000s, a dancer spent their childhood enveloped in music. In Spain in the early 2000s, one producer and one videographer watched family members build guitars, and a mother was a part of an underground punk scene that sprouted after a toppled dictatorship circa 1975. …

By Isabella Ambrosio
1st July 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Entries Articles Southern rapper sosocamo blends the ethereal and the brash in “Chronic”

Across the songs of his debut album sosocamo, he pays homage to the joys of the Southern lifestyle, and frames those hooks with irresistibly melodic flows.

By Camryn Teder
30th June 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

UNIVERSITY: “Everyone’s going to the same gigs, no one’s buying t-shirts”

With their glorious, Jackson Pollock-esque record hot off the presses, the members of Crewe quartet UNIVERSITY sit down with Isabella Ambrosio to discuss what happens when a scrappy little band nobody cares about becomes one that shows up the rest of its class again and again.

By Isabella Ambrosio
25th June 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Ava Joe: "Music is never going to take anything from me or let me down or leave" | Interview

For years, SXSW has remained a springboard for breakout acts – among them one of Ava’s key inspirations, Amy Winehouse, who began gaining traction in the US after her 2007 debut in Austin, Texas. There is a quiet significance, then, to Joe performing at the festival’s inaugural London event; soul-rooted, …

By Lucy Niederman
18th June 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Blondshell's Sabrina Teitelbaum favourite songs

For many artists, their art is a recollection of life. While the source makes the work meaningful, where do you draw the line?

By Camryn Teder
2nd May 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Emma-Jean Thackray: “I am the music that I make and that’s it. That’s just all of me.”

By Jochan Embley
22nd April 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Bedridden’s "Philadelphia Got Me Through" feels like stepping into a mosh pit of angry gymnasts | Tracks

Yes, it’s that intense.

By Camryn Teder
26th March 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Falling Upwards With Sam Akpro | Interview

Transcending his South East London roots as well as the played-out ‘genreless’ tag, Sam Akpro knows exactly who he is and what he’s doing, as Jamie Wilde reports from Peckham.

By Jamie Wilde
20th March 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Meljoann comments on our modern dystopia in infectious experimental pop track “Data Ghost” | Tracks

Are the stories of some futuristic dystopian films still a thing of fiction, or have they become a reflection of the current age?

By Camryn Teder
7th March 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Isabella Storm steps into her power with addictive dance-pop track “Satan’s Valentine”

Past lovers might not get away with our hearts, but they do take something almost equally as precious: our time. That’s the real heartbreak.

By Camryn Teder
5th March 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Roomer’s latest track “Chance” is a shoegaze slow dance in an impossible storm | Tracks

Chasing after love could take you a lifetime. To save yourself the hours, and the heartbreak, burgeoning dream-pop group Roomer suggest you leave things to chance instead in their aptly-named new single.

By Camryn Teder
27th February 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Luvcat puts on her rose-coloured glasses in hazy new pop track “Love & Money”

When blinded by the euphoria of love or lust, it feels like the perfect time to live life with reckless abandon. Depending on your perspective, it’s an easy trap to fall into, or an opportunity to chase to its fullest.

By Camryn Teder
14th February 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Folk darling Natalie Wildgoose’s “Angel” is as tender as a declaration of love | Tracks

In a world like this one, we still have the choice to be still, contemplative, and kind, but it takes bravery to be that vulnerable. Artists like Natalie Wildgoose can help us get there.

By Camryn Teder
7th February 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

Alt-rock group she’s green shares dreamy new shoegaze track “graze”

Inspired by the vast Midwestern terrain that informs their lives, the underground shoegaze group she’s green steeps textured alt-rock sounds in dream-pop tenderness.

By Camryn Teder
6th February 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

James Brandon Lewis's favourite songs

What musicians believe about life inevitably seeps into their sound. In turn, one of the most valuable gifts music offers us is perspective.

By Camryn Teder
24th January 2025 • The Line of Best Fit

mynameisntjmack can’t escape the irony in his latest alt-rap track “argue typing”

Maybe we all secretly love the delicious torture of what rising alternative rapper mynameisntjmack calls “argue typing”.

By Camryn Teder
22nd January 2025 • The Line of Best Fit