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Chris Brown Melts Down Over Brutal Album Reviews, Tells Haters to 'Go Listen to Zara Larsson'

Chris Brown addresses criticism of his album 'Brown' via social media, sparking debate over his response and the role of artists in confronting reviews.

International Business Times UK

Chris Brown responds to expletive-led viral review of new album

The Pitchfork review described the singer’s new album ‘Brown’ as a ‘piece of s***’

The Independent UK

“This song sounds like a group of friends going their separate ways forever”: The story behind the 2015 dream pop gem that TikTok can’t get enough of

It might be over ten years old, but nothing soundtracks an emotional pivot quite like Space Song

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Pitchfork Under Fire For Using Taylor Swift's Name to Hit Monthly Engagement Quotas

Taylor Swift's name reportedly needs to be mentioned on Pitchfork for views, even after claiming her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, is too bad to discuss.

International Business Times UK

Arcade Fire couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne split after 22 years of marriage

Break-up comes after Butler faced misconduct allegations, which he denies, three years ago

Evening Standard

“We lost our minds at various stages of this”: How the Avalanches gradually constructed the stunning follow-up to Since I Left You over 16 years

Lifting the lid on the lost years, creative blocks and colossal sample-clearing process that resulted in the immaculate Wildflower

MusicRadar

The Fiery Furnaces reissue a cult classic: ‘We knew we wouldn’t seem like an also-ran NYC band in leather jackets’

As the divisive duo re-release Blueberry Boat for its 20th anniversary, they talk being unfit for success, how indie got soft and the ‘dream come true’ of getting 1/10 in NME

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The Hidden Scars Of Incarceration: Pooh Shiesty's Prison Struggles Revealed

Rapper Pooh Shiesty walks free after three years in prison, facing emotional scars and the struggle to rebuild his life and career amid lessons from confinement.

International Business Times UK

“I’m sure Carlos and I got in a full-blown fight that day”: How Interpol fought for success and lit a fire in indie rock with their best single

Interpol’s blistering breakthrough soon became a pulse-pounding indie staple

MusicRadar

“We just wanted someone to pay attention. We didn’t care why”: How Interpol sparked a fire in 2000s indie with the thrilling mania of Obstacle 1

Interpol’s blistering breakthrough soon became a pulse-pounding indie staple

MusicRadar

OPINION - Music journalism has lost its edge – or has it?

Music journalism has lost its edge, wrote Kelefa Sanneh in the New Yorker recently, causing a huge stir online amongst critics and music fans. Was the age of witty and brutal music journalism dead, they wondered? Are we doomed to fawning, ever-positive album and live show reviews for evermore?

Evening Standard

The critical response to Miley Cyrus’s Something Beautiful exposes pop’s gender double standards

With her latest album Something Beautiful debuting at number four in the Billboard 200 and in contention to reach the top of the UK album charts, Miley Cyrus’s commercial appeal appears as strong as ever.

The Conversation

Record Store Day 2025: the full list, plus 5 great albums you need to bag on April 12

Record Store Day 2025 promises tons of unmissable music for every kind of music fan –here are my picks.

TechRadar

Playboi Carti: Music review – the most anticipated rap album this decade was worth the wait

Already staggeringly popular since its long-awaited release on Friday, the Atlantan rapper shows off his almost mystical level of vocal range on his jaded, narcotised third LP

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Metal Hammer

"I get a kick out of pissing off the purists." From winding up death metal legend Glen Benton to chaotic live shows in their underpants, Chat Pile are one of metal's wildest new bands

From winding up death metal legend Glen Benton to chaotic live shows in their underpants, Chat Pile are one of metal's wildest new bands

Guitar World

“Paul Simon told me what key the song was in, turned off the vocal track and counted me in”: He’s been sampled by Kanye West, and played with Paul Simon, The Black Keys and Tame Impala – yet Delicate Steve is still the best-kept secret in indie guitar

Steve Marion tells us why his career highlights include a severely negative Pitchfork review, making an album he hated and Kanye sampling him… then not releasing the track

Evening Standard

Neal's Yard Dairy 'overwhelmed' with offers of support after theft of 22 tonnes of cheddar cheese

Around £300,000 worth of cheddar was stolen in a sophisticated scam by fraudsters posing as a well-known wholesaler

The Independent UK

Jamie Oliver warns of ‘wrong ‘uns’ trying to sell 22 tonnes of stolen ‘world’s best cheese’

Over 950 wheels of Hafod, Westcombe, and Pitchfork Cheddar were delivered before the fraud was discovered

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The Independent UK

Jamie Oliver warns of ‘lorryloads of posh cheese’ being sold by ‘wrong ‘uns’

Neal’s Yard Dairy said it delivered more than 950 wheels of cheddar to the alleged fraudster posing as a wholesale distributor for a major retailer.

The Guardian - UK

Jamie Oliver asks cheese lovers to help catch thieves behind £300,000 cheddar scam

London’s Neal’s Yard Dairy swindled out of 950 wheels of award-winning cheddars delivered to alleged fraudster

Evening Standard

London's unmissable gigs and club nights this week

Maddy Mussen shares her pick of the shows to see and be seen at this weekend

Salon

Katy Perry says panned song is "satire"

Perry hasn't released a song since 2021, and Pitchfork deemed "Woman's World" a "monumental catastrophe"

Pedestrian.tv

Katy Perry Has Defended Her ‘Woman’s World’ Music Video Following Harsh Critiques

“YOU CAN DO ANYTHING! EVEN SATIRE!”

The Walrus

Could a Paywall Have Saved Pitchfork?

The influential music publication is being folded into GQ, but only because Condé Nast fumbled a good thing

The Guardian - UK

Pushing Buttons: The video game magazines of our youth are disappearing

In this week’s newsletter: The closure of publications and changes at sites like Pitchfork give us less space to critique and evangelise video games and culture at large

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