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Danielle Chelosky

I'm Danielle, and I'm a New York based writer who covers music and culture. I've written for MTV News, The FADER, Grammy.com, Consequence of Sounds, and elsewhere.

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Danny Angove

Day to Day Manager at Red Light Management.Founder and Editor of One on One & Founder of Impostor Syndrome.Easily distrac

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Ben Miles

Freelance journalist specialising in new music and football. Bylines include Breaking the Lines, The Line of Best Fit, CLASH and So Young.

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Jamie Wilde

Jamie Wilde is a music and arts journalist based in Scotland. His bylines include Clash Magazine, NME, The Line of Best Fit, Notion and The Skinny Magazine. Jamie is also …

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Lottie Woodrow

Freelance Culture and Lifestyle Journalist | Sub Editor & Features Writer at The Handbook | NCTJ Accredited | BA(hons) English Literature and Media

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Lexi Lane

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Latest Articles

English Teacher on escaping the clutches of post-punk

Formed by Lily Fontaine (vocals, rhythm guitar, synth), Douglas Frost (drums), Nicholas Eden (bass) and Lewis Whiting (lead guitar, synth), English Teacher was born in 2020. They pricked the ears of listeners on a national scale when “R&B” dropped one year later. Now, they’ve been tipped by various corners of …
By Jamie Wilde
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girlhouse’s “paul blart mall cop” is a portrait of an artist growing in confidence, skill and voice

Releasing two standout collections in the last eighteen months, with the girlhouse ep and the second ep, the Portland native’s rise is fast and furious. Her work is vibrant and witty - as you could guess from the title of her new single "paul blart mall cop". In the interim …
By Maia Gibbs
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Alexander 23 tells his old flames to “Hate Me If It Helps”

Chicago-based multihyphenate Alexander 23 considers the complexities of breakups, love, and acceptance in his new single, “Hate Me If It Helps”. Before sitting down to write his own post-breakup bops, Alexander 23 dabbled (to put it lightly) as a songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. With a GRAMMY nomination and humble brags …
By Maia Gibbs
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Hildegard reimagine the dancefloor on an enchanting self-titled debut

It’s easy to get lost in Hildegard . If the airy vocals settle you down, a fuzzy bass ripple bounces you back up. Soothing strings offset by clanging percussion; thick electronica followed by sparse melodic arrangement. Hildegard feels like a debut shaped by the hazy allure of an all-nighter spent …
By Ben Faulkner
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Where Shall We Begin is a blissfully bittersweet body of music from Chloe Foy

It’s so easy to fall in love with Chloe Foy ’s music. Her voice harbours millions of individual emotions, spanning from grief to love, love to peace, and peace to bitterness - whilst sheltering everything between and beyond - within her words. So, it would be wise to assume that …
By Joseph Smith
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Australian punks Skegss get close to creating their own paradise on Rehearsal

Reflection and comedy are always tricky themes to pair when writing music. One tends to over power the other, leaving a collection of decent but unpolished tracks, void of an end goal. Nevertheless, when achieved, the body of music in question is often a powerful insight into the minds of …
By Joseph Smith
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Life In Your Glass World is a brave and rewarding return from emo experimentalists Citizen

Citizen are finally in control. Arriving four years after their last full-length project, As You Please , they’re approaching Life In Your Glass World with a renewed vigour. After tackling differing genres over the years - to great success - the emo rockers are no strangers to altering their creative …
By Joseph Smith
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Blu DeTiger creates her own branch of gen Z funk-pop on her hazy debut EP, How Did We Get Here?

On the back of an ever-rising TikTok following, Blu DeTiger is proving she can do everything, and more, particularly when armed with her bass. Initially picking the instrument up at 7 - then DJing New York Clubs at 17 - it’s now, at 21, that DeTiger’s constructed an EP fit …
By Joseph Smith
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Margo Price fearlessly breaks free from the shackles of country music

Her experiences read like a list that’s usually reserved for the down-and-out characters that country music artists like herself usually sing about: becoming homeless, sleeping rough, losing your child, hitting the bottle, a stint behind bars, and pawning treasured belongings for one last stab at success. She sang about those …
By Oliver Kuscher
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Khruangbin offer up a meditative escape from the world on album three

Times in which you might be seeking out comfort and calm in music more than ever. Enter Khruangbin, the Texan trio, whose airy instrumentals float around you like swirls of soothing incense. Their first album, 2015’s The Universe Smiles Upon You, was rooted in their discovery of ’60s-‘70s Thai psychedelia, …
By Oliver Kuscher
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Waxahatchee’s war still rages on, but a peace is on the horizon with the impeccable Saint Cloud

Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee , has made a major lifestyle change in the last year and a half: she’s ditched the drinking. It’s through her newfound sobriety that Crutchfield’s managed to reconnect with who she really is, and is once more seeing things through a clear lens. Her excellent new …
By Oliver Kuscher
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Kevin Morby shows us the light on new album Oh My God

The Kansas City native has his feet firmly planted in the folk-Americana world, and he imbues it with a sense of acute thoughtfulness and awareness, and a sort of world wanderer’s outlook, wrapped in quite gorgeous melodies that flitter between sombre, dusky, serene, bright and buoyant. Coupled with his languid, …
By Oliver Kuscher
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Margo Price fearlessly breaks free from the shackles of country music

Her experiences read like a list that’s usually reserved for the down-and-out characters that country music artists like herself usually sing about: becoming homeless, sleeping rough, losing your child, hitting the bottle, a stint behind bars, and pawning treasured belongings for one last stab at success.
By Oliver Kuscher
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Moses Sumney remains as challenging and captivating as ever on new double-effort græ

Moses Sumney’s 2017 debut – the striking, entrancing Aromanticism – was a concept album about lovelessness that sounded absolutely gorgeous. Sumney was “the other” in a “lonely world”, a detached being, who was trying to come to grips with the way the rest of the world feels and perceives love.
By Oliver Kuscher
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Waxahatchee’s war still rages on, but a peace is on the horizon with the impeccable Saint Cloud

Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee , has made a major lifestyle change in the last year and a half: she’s ditched the drinking. It’s through her newfound sobriety that Crutchfield’s managed to reconnect with who she really is, and is once more seeing things through a clear lens.
By Oliver Kuscher
• The Line of Best Fit