My YouTube Party of Five: Jihee Junn

My YouTube Party of Five is a new series in which we invite people to share their five favourite YouTube videos, the ones hold closest in their heart, the ones they’ll play at 2am while drunk at a party. This week: Spinoff staff writer Jihee Junn. My kind of party is a YouTube party – … Read more

Best Songs Ever: Inverting pop’s male gaze and One Direction-influenced lo-fi indie pop

Our regular round-up of new songs and singles, this week featuring Charli XCX, Repulsive Woman, Mick Jagger, Chase and Status and more… SONG OF THE WEEK Charli XCX – ‘Boys’ Dreaming of Charli XCX’s perfect production Sometimes a song just nails a sound so simple and so sweetly that only six seconds into your first listen you know … Read more

Once upon a time in Altamont: the music festival to end all music festivals

Philip Matthews examines three new books looking back on the day the music died: December 6, 1969, when the Hells Angels murdered a guy at that Stones concert at Altamont. “I looked away from Mick and saw, with that now-familiar instant space around him, bordered with falling bodies, a Beale Street nigger in a black hat, black … Read more