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Let's get the girls behind the decks please!
There’s a pandemic of straight, cis, white male DJs flooding club and festival line-ups. In 2019, research from the University of...
Ellie Stephens
13 hours ago3 min read
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A Mistaken Review: Jeff Wall, Life in Pictures
I have forgotten where the White Cube is in Bermondsey and my friends turn right before I realise we are there. The courtyard outside is deceptively empty and we are immediately hit by crowds as we enter the gallery to see Jeff Wall’s exhibition, A Life in Pictures, celebrating 30 years of collaboration between artist and gallery. Born in 1946, Jeff Wall is best known for his backlit transparencies which he started making in 1978, referencing cinema, classical paintings and l
Eliza Plunkett
5 days ago4 min read
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A Day Without Butches is a Day Without Sunshine: Lucy Dacus 'Best Guess' Music video
I started writing this article just ten minutes after watching Lucy Dacus’ new music video for Best Guess. It premiered only moments ago, an
Eliza Plunkett
Apr 24 min read
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Deselecting: Can there be joy in total freedom?
Can there be joy in total freedom? I don’t know. Sit down on your couch, or your bed, and go onto Netflix; hit the motorway and scroll up an
Cormac Nugent
Feb 237 min read
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Album Review: FKA Twigs - Eusexua
FKA Twigs’ latest album, Eusexua, feels like stepping into a kaleidoscope of emotion and electronics. In this album, Twigs effortlessly blen
Madison Challis
Feb 73 min read
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Album Review: Ethel Cain - 'Perverts'
Ethel Cain’s latest album, Perverts, is a sharp departure from the haunted Americana of Preacher’s Daughter. If her 2022 debut mapped a Sout

Madison Challis
Jan 153 min read
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Review: Gwen Stefani's "Bouquet" - why can't women choose to embrace tradition?
But what are the unforgivably reactionary views espoused by Stefani on her first pop-county record? The album’s critical reception might sug
Graeme Sinclair
Jan 135 min read
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The Summer Girl Industrial Complex: A Bratrospective
First came hot girl summer, and then the feral girls took over - white boys and rat boys got some press, but undeniably this year was brat g
Atlanta Tsiaoukkas
Sep 4, 20244 min read
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Antagonizine’s Favourite Albums of the Year (So far…)
We’re halfway through what has already been an eventful year in the music industry. A year with some of the biggest artists of the moment re
Cameron Cade
Aug 7, 20246 min read
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United by Music? Eurovision 2024
In the run up to this year’s contest, many were calling for Israel to be barred from participating, particularly as Russia was excluded from
Rose Williams
May 26, 20244 min read
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Album Review: St Vincent - ‘All Born Screaming’
Do you want to know one of the most incomprehensible things that happened to me this year? I remembered something. I really, really like Nin
Cameron Cade
May 10, 20244 min read
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‘Back to Black’: The Biopic No-one Asked For
With April came the release of Back to Black, an Amy Winehouse biopic directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. This movie triggered overwhelmingly ne
Holly McPhee
May 7, 20245 min read
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Album Review: Metro Boomin & Future - 'We Don't Trust You'
Metro Boomin has been an artist to watch for a few years now: a trap producer who takes a maximalist approach to beat-making -a quality whic
Cameron Cade
May 3, 20244 min read
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Siwa, Cyrus, and Bad-Girl Rebrands
Reviews online range from underwhelming to downright cringeworthy.
This is not the first time we’ve seen an attempt to shed a child star p
Rose Williams
May 1, 20245 min read
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Amelia Dimoldenberg and the Reach of Chicken Shop Date
Comedian and presenter Amelia Dimoldenberg, also known as the sarcastic host of Chicken Shop Date, has been appearing on more than just YouT
Rhea Patel
Apr 29, 20243 min read
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Album Review: "Cowboy Carter" - Beyoncé's ode to her roots
Before "Renaissance," I wasn't a die-hard Beyoncé fan. Sure, I knew her hits and enjoyed singing along to them in the car, but I hadn't full

Charlotte Lewis
Apr 19, 20245 min read
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From Cello band-camp to Centre stage at the Grammy’s: Meet Laufey
Ever thought going from singing competitions to winning a Grammy in a matter of years was possible? Well, meet singer and musician Laufey...
Rhea Patel
Feb 29, 20243 min read
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The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy Album Review
The year is 2024, and another femme-fronted alt-rock band is labelled an industry plant by detractors. It’s perennial at this point (anyone
Cameron Cade
Feb 27, 20243 min read
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Swift Moves and Touchdown Grooves: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce take the Super Bowl Spotlight
Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl have been dominating the Internet in recent weeks- two entities which are rarely synonymous unless related t
Georgia Burns
Feb 11, 20243 min read
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One Year Gone: Remembering Vivienne Westwood
Its been one year since the passing of Dame Vivienne Westwood, one of the UK’s most notable fashion designers. Westwood's career spanned...
Holly McPhee
Dec 31, 20236 min read
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