Porches’ Aaron Maine on making emotionally turbulent music in solitude
Maine has excavated personal trauma and heartbreak for his latest album, Ricky Music, which he made over the course of two years from his Manhattan apartment.
Maine has excavated personal trauma and heartbreak for his latest album, Ricky Music, which he made over the course of two years from his Manhattan apartment.
It’s the question that comes up most often after any interaction with a famous person. But sometimes, perhaps we’re better off not knowing…
She's pop music’s fearless trailblazer, a committed experimentalist who’s navigated the music industry machine and kept her integrity intact. Now, Charli XCX is back with a rowdy, ravey record which laps up the drama of friendships, fall-outs and fame.
Review: Taffy Brodesser-Akner has enough empathy for everyone – whether they’re navigating marriage, identity, capitalism, gender norms, and the 21st Century measures of success we’re all taught to aspire to.
And he wants you to plod along with him.
In the new dance murder mystery Tiny Pretty Things on Netflix, Cowperthwaite plays Oren, a workout-obsessed ballet mercenary who will stop at nothing to get his prize.
One week, one mood: Moya Lothian-Mclean’s deep-dive into the feel of the week.
Volume 4 Issue 003: From being a sport “quite unsuitable for females” to one played by 2.6 million women in England alone, football is finally kicking out the gender crap.
To celebrate a third Gitano bar opening in New York City, the hospitality giant gives us the low-down on dancing with Kate Moss, head-to-toe YSL get-ups and how to make a killer entrance.
This week, Nectarine Girl divests from her manic lifestyle in favour of activities that are a little more laid-back.
A brilliant Face-commissioned film with a straight-up title hit Sundance, then Clermont-Ferrand, then Vimeo. But is that the whole story?
100%: The Parisian musician’s upcoming debut album, Sad Lovers and Giants, is a work of pure passion featuring poignant break-up anthems and rage-fuelled, club-ready tracks.
Her new film, Magic Farm, is a jagged-edged satire fizzing with energy. But there are Serious Human Issues at play: not least climate catastrophe, sex as deliverance and wilful ignorance as a linchpin of American culture. Amalia takes us into her world...
The angry Irish girl – the Sinéad of the savage crop and mouth to match – is a thing of the past. At 22, Sinéad is discovering the joys of marriage, motherhood and, not least, mysticism. You can hear this in the softer, more spiritual songs written for her new LP. It is, says Sinéad, like being visited by the Holy Ghost…
She’s a far cry from the aspirational TikTok influencers we’ve become so familiar with. Instead, Madeline deals in brash authenticity, which in today’s online climate, is the only currency that matters.