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HAVING LANDED KEY spots at international showcases like SXSW and The Great Escape, as well as invites to perform at festivals as renowned as Glastonbury and Reading/Leeds, British duo Baby Said have a

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD BELLA RAYNE used to run for the hills whenever her parents played Grateful Dead records in the house. “It drove me crazy. It’s like they pushed it on me,” she says. “I liked punk ro

THANKS TO HER ANTHEMIC AND VIRAL HIT ‘MESSY’, THE MUSICIAN IS ONE OF THE MOST DOWNLOADED WOMEN ON THE PLANET TODAY. SHE TELLS NICOLA FAHEY WHY SHE’LL ALWAYS FIND JOY – AND VULNERABILITY – THROUGH MUSIC

DURING THE LAST week of November 1963, the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was released in the United Kingdom. That same week, a young Brit named Laurence Juber started playing guitar. It wouldn’t

With a flurry of hits and a flair for tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, the globetrotting singer has achieved the status of international icon. In-between stops on her whirlwind tour, she reflects on literature, letting love in and the transformative power of live performance

WHEN I AM composing and arranging music, I like to think as an orchestrator. As the guitarist, I try to represent just about everything that’s in the arrangement — the drum syncopations, horn parts, k