Music and Culture Journalist

2025 is already a big year for Australian pop newcomer Lyric, as she released a brand new single ‘Make a Move’ last month, is about to embark on a UK & Ireland tour next month – with the London show already being sold out – and is currently working on a new EP. The 21-year-old singer is not only a songwriter but also a producer for her own songs, making her a triple threat and someone to look out for on the pop star horizon. We sat down with the creative on a Tuesday morning – for her the evenin...

It was a warm spring evening in London when we enter the sold-out Village Underground in Shoreditch together with a surprisingly mixed crowd. Having pre-assumed the audience would mirror those of Ethel Cain or Lana Del Rey – Gen Z girls and Tumblr romantics – we were instead met with an older demographic. Most looked like they had come straight from their corporate 9-to-5, slowing down their evening with a drink in hand, ready to be serenaded by the soft, melancholic tunes of the act of the nigh...

The first Monday in May has passed, which means the international elite gathered once again to celebrate the art of fashion at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Meanwhile, the rest of us found joy in livestreaming the event from home and judging outfits worth more than our annual salaries. This year’s theme was “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, with the Black dandy as its central figure. The exhibition, as British Vogue explains, explores “the importance of clothing and style to the formation of...

The phenomenon of ‘Brat’ was unavoidable in summer 2024, whether in global music charts, on American television (‘Saturday Night Live’), online on various social media platforms, in fashion choices and trends, and culturally in interpersonal relationships and patterns of behaviour. ‘Brat’, – the way Charli XCX introduced us to it – soon became a word that created its own meaning, defined by so much more than a spoiled, badly behaved child. Everything impactful became ‘brat’, everyone wanted to c...