Kate Solomon

Kate Solomon guides you through the need-to-knows before you decide to go freelance.

We could hit you with terms like 'neo-soul' and 'sounds a bit like Erykah Badu' but that's doing a bit of a disservice to the kind of deconstructed hip-hop-jazz hybrid Jess Smyth has created.

We went to see 22 year old Swedish rapper and black metal aficionado, Yung Lean, at O2 Academy Brixton.

Our July cover stars outline all things I'm All Ears.

We chat to three incredible female Grassroots Music Venue owners as part of our Sounds Like London series.

That notoriously difficult second album? No sweat, as Kate Solomon finds out.

New Sounds 2018 carrying the Norwegian pop flag this year is Sigrid and we couldn't be happier.

Kate Solomon and Hassan Anderson deconstruct Annie Clark's latest LP.

Say No To Nostalgia: Pop Needs To Up Its Game.

Leading our New Sounds issue, Girlhood reveal contrasting tastes, concepts and debuting their live show.

"A lightning rod for dickheads", Kate Solomon discusses buying her first guitar

Our February cover star, Jens Lekman finds therapy in his fourth album.

Rennen is an exercise in restraint, an encyclopedia of skittering percussion and the sparsest synth settings available

Stevie Parker features in our New Sounds of 2017 feature.

Sälen feature in our New Sounds of 2017 feature.

Deptford Goth has changed his name and just as well for all the voracious Deptford Goths keeping a beady eye out for a new record that sounds like his old records because this one doesn’t

Utopia Defeated is a storm-cloud with the sun behind it; dark but with the promise of light

Michelle Zauner talks tragedy, Sufjan and her debut album Psychopomp

Tegan and Sara seem to have taken the formula they came up with on 2013’s Heartthrob and honed it, added some extra shimmer, infused it with even more love and heartache and come up with the world’s catchiest bops

Joining forces with Dutch artist girlfriend Ebony Hoorn has lent Roberts a lighter touch, a synthier sound and maybe even something approaching peace

The one thing Superis not is tired; it crackles with energy and is at once lusty, sad and amazing