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What does Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’ mean? Pleasure, biology and motherhood on her ninth album

Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’ brings desire, IVF, motherhood and bodily chemistry into the same pop conversation without treating any of them as a tidy revelation.

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How Robyn and Zara Larsson’s ‘Puss Puss’ and ‘Talk To Me, Zara’ are connected

The two Swedish pop stars swapped remixes across Zara Larsson’s ‘Midnight Sun: Girls Trip’ and Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’ reworks.

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Why Robyn’s ‘Between The Lines’ video references Wham!’s ‘Club Tropicana’

Robyn and director Cody Critcheloe used Ibiza’s glossy holiday mythology, and its messier reality, to make a pop video with deliberately few formalities.

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Where to start with Kevin Parker’s work beyond Tame Impala albums

Five routes into Kevin Parker’s work outside Tame Impala’s studio catalogue, spanning Justice collaborations, pop production, soundtrack work, a live remix and a cover.

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Why Kevin Parker found himself on Tame Impala’s ‘Lonerism’

Kevin Parker’s own retrospective account explains why Tame Impala’s second album became a breakthrough in creative freedom before it was ever a success story.

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How Kevin Parker’s home recordings became Tame Impala’s debut EP

Kevin Parker’s route from Perth bands and MySpace uploads to Tame Impala’s 2008 debut EP was built around recordings that already knew what they wanted to be.

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Inside the contrasting visual worlds of Justice and Tame Impala’s ‘One Night/All Night’ and ‘Neverender’

Justice’s two Tame Impala collaborations on ‘Hyperdrama’ found very different visual forms: one enters the duo’s cross, while the other filters anime, Art Nouveau and psychedelic illustration through animation.

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How Poppy’s ‘X’ set up the heavy world of ‘I Disagree’

Written in five days after ‘Am I A Girl?’ was already finished, ‘X’ opened the route towards Poppy’s pop music with breakdowns.

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What Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante’s ‘End Of You’ is about

The 2025 collaboration is rooted in strength and solidarity, and its first full live performance turned that shared idea into a three-part entrance.

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BAEST have shared a new video for ‘In Loathe And Love’

The Danish metal band’s latest ‘Colossal’ visual arrives before their European and UK tour with Deadnate.

15 Sept 2026 • 2:50 pm

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Why MUNA refused to sneer at pop when they joined Harry Styles’ 2017 tour

MUNA’s support slot with Harry Styles was an early statement against judging artists and fans by fame alone.

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How JADE made ‘THAT’S SHOWBIZ BABY!’ from pop’s ugly bits

JADE’s solo debut turns industry pressure, private anxieties and a lifetime of pop reference points into an album that treats spectacle as both subject and method.

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JADE’s solo pop makes sexual freedom a route into queer belonging

From ‘Midnight Cowboy’ to ‘Church’, JADE has made pleasure, inclusion and collective care part of the same pop proposition.

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Rock am Ring and Rock im Park have announced their 2027 line-ups

blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon and Die Toten Hosen will headline Germany’s twin festivals next June.

15 Sept 2026 • 2:05 pm

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How Sabrina Carpenter turned her pop shows into staged comedy

From Hyde Park’s fake news bulletin to Coachella’s towering Sabrinawood sign, Sabrina Carpenter has made the gaps between songs part of the entertainment.

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What Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ deluxe edition adds, and the song that opened Hyde Park

Sabrina Carpenter added four new songs and a Dolly Parton collaboration to ‘Short n’ Sweet’. One of them, ‘Busy Woman’, later opened both of her BST Hyde Park headline sets.

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Bob Dylan has announced 'The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings'

A 39-CD collection documenting the second leg of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue arrives this November.

15 Sept 2026 • 1:26 pm

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How ‘Make You Mine’ opened Madison Beer’s dance-pop route to ‘locket’

A standalone song for the ‘Silence Between Songs’ tour became the link between Madison Beer’s slower 2023 album and the pop campaign around ‘locket’.

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Where to start with Madison Beer’s storytelling music videos

A four-video route through Madison Beer’s visual world, from casino floors to escape rooms and 80s workouts.

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Madison Beer’s ‘Silence Between Songs’ is best understood through five songs

A listening route through the 2023 album’s woozy pop, soft-rock textures and the restless thoughts at its centre.

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Madison Beer’s ‘Reckless’ and ‘bittersweet’ trace the space between hurt and leaving

Across four years, Madison Beer’s two singles frame relationship endings from different sides: one identifies careless harm, while the other makes room for the peace that can follow a difficult goodbye.

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How scrapping records reshaped Waterparks, from ‘Friendly Reminder’ to ‘JINX’

Waterparks abandoned two albums seven years apart. The first reset turned a break-up record into ‘FANDOM’; the second followed professional upheaval and made ‘JINX’ a hard-won clean slate.

15 Sept 2026 • 4:10 pm

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Who plays God, the devil and the angels on Waterparks’ ‘Tell Me Why’?

Waterparks’ ‘TELL ME WHY’ opens ‘JINX’ with Mark Hoppus as God, Danny Elfman as the devil, and Eric Nally and Dillon Francis in an angelic chorus. Here’s the dated context around Elfman’s appearance.

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How Ruel’s ‘Kicking My Feet’ and ‘Kicking My Feet & Screaming’ fit together

Ruel split two contrasting sets of songs into companion albums. Here’s how the first record’s romance becomes the second’s heartbreak, beginning with ‘dst (outro)’ and ‘Don’t Say That’.

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How Ruel’s writing sessions with DMA’S became ‘What A Life’ and ‘We’re a Pair of Diamonds’

A productive studio connection, an older Johnny Took verse and a surprise Sydney performance led Ruel and DMA’S to release two collaborations in 2024.

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Where to start with the artists who shaped Ruel’s early musical tastes

James Morrison’s ‘Undiscovered’ is the clearest first stop in a listening route through the artists Ruel has credited with shaping his early relationship with music.

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How Ruel turned two loose sessions into ‘Hate Myself’ and ‘Debbie Don’t Cry’

Ruel’s accounts of ‘Hate Myself’ and ‘Debbie Don’t Cry’ trace two very different songwriting breakthroughs: a first session that finally clicked, and a late-night joke that survived until morning.

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Start with the originals: Ruel’s ‘Adaptations’ listening guide

Ruel chose five covers from a playlist of hundreds with producer M-Phazes. Here are the original recordings behind the 2024 EP.

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What Ruel meant by letting go on ‘Cats on the Ceiling’

Ruel described ‘Cats on the Ceiling’ as a song about loosening self-control, embracing uncertainty and leaving space for listeners’ own interpretations.

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Where to start with Chloe Qisha before ‘Fantasize’

A route through Chloe Qisha’s witty, emotionally unruly pop before her debut mixtape arrives.

15 Sept 2026 • 11:22 am

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Harry Styles - Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally

Robbie Williams - BRITPOP

ROSALÍA - LUX

Tame Impala - Deadbeat

Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun

JADE - THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!

Mimi Webb - Confessions

Blood Orange - Essex Honey

Joey Valence & Brae - HYPERYOUTH

Alex G - Headlights

Addison Rae - Addison

Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia

Tate McRae - So Close To What

Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking

Tyler, the Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

FEVER 333 - Darker White

Normani - Dopamine

girl in red - I'M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!

Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

Lizzy McAlpine - Older

Gossip - Real Power

Justin Timberlake - Everything I Thought It Was

Declan McKenna - What Happened To The Beach?

blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME…

Coverage

What does Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’ mean? Pleasure, biology and motherhood on her ninth album

How Robyn and Zara Larsson’s ‘Puss Puss’ and ‘Talk To Me, Zara’ are connected

Why Robyn’s ‘Between The Lines’ video references Wham!’s ‘Club Tropicana’

Where to start with Kevin Parker’s work beyond Tame Impala albums

Why Kevin Parker found himself on Tame Impala’s ‘Lonerism’

How Kevin Parker’s home recordings became Tame Impala’s debut EP

Inside the contrasting visual worlds of Justice and Tame Impala’s ‘One Night/All Night’ and ‘Neverender’

How Poppy’s ‘X’ set up the heavy world of ‘I Disagree’

What Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante’s ‘End Of You’ is about

BAEST have shared a new video for ‘In Loathe And Love’

Why MUNA refused to sneer at pop when they joined Harry Styles’ 2017 tour

How JADE made ‘THAT’S SHOWBIZ BABY!’ from pop’s ugly bits

JADE’s solo pop makes sexual freedom a route into queer belonging

Rock am Ring and Rock im Park have announced their 2027 line-ups

How Sabrina Carpenter turned her pop shows into staged comedy

What Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ deluxe edition adds, and the song that opened Hyde Park

Bob Dylan has announced 'The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings'

How ‘Make You Mine’ opened Madison Beer’s dance-pop route to ‘locket’

Where to start with Madison Beer’s storytelling music videos

Madison Beer’s ‘Silence Between Songs’ is best understood through five songs

Madison Beer’s ‘Reckless’ and ‘bittersweet’ trace the space between hurt and leaving

How scrapping records reshaped Waterparks, from ‘Friendly Reminder’ to ‘JINX’

Who plays God, the devil and the angels on Waterparks’ ‘Tell Me Why’?

How Ruel’s ‘Kicking My Feet’ and ‘Kicking My Feet & Screaming’ fit together

How Ruel’s writing sessions with DMA’S became ‘What A Life’ and ‘We’re a Pair of Diamonds’

Where to start with the artists who shaped Ruel’s early musical tastes

How Ruel turned two loose sessions into ‘Hate Myself’ and ‘Debbie Don’t Cry’

Start with the originals: Ruel’s ‘Adaptations’ listening guide

What Ruel meant by letting go on ‘Cats on the Ceiling’

Where to start with Chloe Qisha before ‘Fantasize’