Anna von Hausswolff, Foals, Japan, Harry Styles… Weekend Reads

Anna von Hausswolff (Photo: Gianluca Grasselli)

Herewith, this week’s hand-picked selection of in depth music features from around the web, featuring words on Anna von Hausswolff, Foals, Harry Styles, Let’s Eat Grandma and Japan.

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Guardian: Anna von Hausswolff: ‘It’s still weird to see a woman screaming her nuts out’ (Laura Snapes)

Noisey: ‘Antidotes’ Still Hints at Foals Being This Generation’s Radiohead (Sam Willis)

New Statesman: The queen of “quiet storm”: Tracey Thorn on the return of Sade (Tracey Thorn)

Guardian: Diplo: ‘Being a white American, you have zero cultural capital’ (Kate Hutchison)

The Quietus: Gay Any Way: Why You Don’t Need To Meet Anyone Else’s Queer Expectations (Michael Amherst)

Guardian: Two directions: why Harry Styles’ new song is a breakthrough for bisexual music fans (Owen Myers)

Pitchfork: Let’s Eat Grandma Are the Wonderfully Weird Pop Duo We Need Right Now (Jazz Monroe)

The Quietus: Do You Remember The First Time? Chris Roberts On Japan’s Adolescent Sex (Chris Roberts)

musicOMH: This Music Made Me: Tom Rogerson (Michael Hubbard)

Noisey: My Surprisingly Difficult Quest to Get My Song “Punch a Nazi in the Face” on the Internet (Luke O’Neil)

Pitchfork: Survivors of Concert Violence Speak Out (Quinn Moreland)

Drowned in Sound: “We’re not holding back at all”: DiS meets Dream Wife (Tim Mobbs)

Dork: George Ezra: “My thinking was, fuck it!” (Jamie Muir)

Independent: Pop stars and aliens: why would the likes of David Bowie and Olivia Newton-John believe in extraterrestrials? (David Barnett)