FKA Twigs is feeling like her “strong self” again after laparoscopic surgery
May 9, 2018
The singer revealed on Instagram that she had six fibroids removed.
Gay lit icon Alan Hollinghurst on scandal, repression, and British life
March 9, 2018
Could the most radical novelist of our time also be the most poetic? The great British author paints beauty and desire with very sharp edges.
Q & Andy: Alfie Allen
November 2, 2015
Last week, Alfie Allen received the Rising Star Award at the Savannah Film Festival presented by SCAD.
Alfie Allen
May 8, 2015
As villain or victim, the British actor captivates viewers.
Steve Coogan
August 5, 2014
Playing a series of almost heroically flawed narcissists and nincompoops, Steve Coogan has become one of our great comic actors—now he’s just playing himself.
FKA Twigs
May 13, 2014
The enigmatic British chanteuse is making music a modern art.
Cheatahs
February 21, 2014
Multinational London band brings back shoegaze’s noise and drone with a vengeance.
King Krule’s Lunar Eclipse
August 22, 2013
“I use the train time for thinking,” says Marshall, who records under the alias King Krule, as the doors close behind him. Stepping aboard the Bakerloo Line heading southbound, he’s accompanied by two friends, back in town to help an old schoolmate move out of what was once his bedroom.
Let England Shake
July 26, 2013
Rogues, outliers, up-enders, insurgents, lone-wolf radicals—a new wave of prodigal young Britons is rocking the post-pop idol Anglo-music establishment by tapping into some very English traditions. Here, we present five at the fore.
AlunaGeorge
July 26, 2013
Over the past year, Aluna Francis and producer George Reid—who first connected via MySpace in 2009—have harvested the understated, soul-derived vocals and chopped-and-screwed glitch-house beats of the EP into high honors from the U.K. music industry.
James Blake
July 26, 2013
Since the release of his self-titled debut album earlier this year, James Blake has gone from a shy bedroom-recording-artist known for producing feather-light electronica to a critically beloved, internationally recognized—dare it be said—pop star.
WU LYF
July 26, 2013
WU LYF is the perfect—and perhaps only—example of what can happen when a band successfully combines paganism, ambiguously cultish propaganda, fake names, and a healthy dollop of cavernous space-rock with lyrics sung by someone who sounds like a baby caveman.
Katy B
July 26, 2013
On her most recent single, “Easy Please Me,” 22-year-old Katy B warns a potential lover: “I won’t call you 20 times a day because I’ve got my own shit to do.”
Tinie Tempah
July 26, 2013
Even though he’s been releasing his own music since 2005, it wasn’t until this past year that London rapper Tinie Tempah finally caught the attention of the global masses.
Laura Marling
July 26, 2013
While every other aspiring young female singer in the U.K. seems to be closely studying Adele’s discarded playbook (i.e., how to become the greatest white soul singer in the world!), 21-year-old Laura Marling seems to be thumbing through the pages of the venerable annals of English folk.
Laura Marling, L.A. Lady
May 20, 2013
At 16, Marling was precocious. Now 23, it is still tempting to describe her as such.
Saint Lou Lou
October 20, 2012
Pop-singing, disco-infatuated Swedish twins. What’s not to like?
Noise: New Pop
September 12, 2012
A rapper, a DJ, a disco-singer, and a psych-rocker. Welcome to the new pop…
DJ Fresh
August 24, 2012
U.K. drum ’n’ bass maestro Dan Stein is finally the electro star that he always knew he could be
Maria Minerva
August 24, 2012
The tale of an Estonian-born singer and her art-damaged disco