Lump: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay
This week’s in depth music features round-up features Laura Marling‘s new project LUMP, Manic Street Preachers, Stefflon Don, Machine Woman, Jenny Wilson, Simian Mobile Disco and unlikely partnership Sting & Shaggy.
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NME: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay on surreal, yeti-fronted LUMP: “We’ve gotta give him the right cuddles.” (Larry Bartleet)
musicOMH: Interview: Sting & Shaggy – ‘It was very much an accident’ (Ben Hogwood)
Guardian: ‘I played Berlin at 7am on Sudafed and coffee’ – the middle-aged DJs still keeping pace (Tony Naylor)
Resident Advisor: The Walled Off Hotel: A creative retreat in Palestine (Tom Faber)
Guardian: Anne-Marie: the platinum Essex pop star fighting anxiety and body shame (Laura Snapes)
Time Out: Novelist: ‘London gives you an accepting heart’ (Jon Cook)
Interview Magazine: Porches bassist Maya Laner makes her own chill alt synth pop as True Blue (Matt Mullen)
Pitchfork: How Musicians Are Fixing the Summer Music Scene With Their Own Festivals (Grayson Haver Currin)
Guardian: Field Day festival set to go ahead after organisers, council and locals do battle (Ed Gillett)
Resident Advisor: Breaking Through: Machine Woman (Aurora Mitchell)
Evening Standard: Stefflon Don on getting advice from Drake, motherhood and why she’ll never do drugs (Richard Godwin)
Drowned in Sound: “I am fascinated by art that asks a lot of questions” – DiS meets Jenny Wilson (Philippa Nicole Barr)
The Quietus: Human Synthesisers And Robot Armies: An Interview With Simian Mobile Disco (Joseph Mumford)
Independent: Manic Street Preachers: ‘Democracy has been overtaken by digital hysteria’ (Roisin O’Connor)
Drowned in Sound: The Fangasm: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours By Manic Street Preachers (Marc Burrows)
NME: Manic Street Preachers: This is your untruth… (Andrew Trendell)
Independent: The Last of the Crooners: Meet the jazz-singing locals of the East End pub that’s defying gentrifcation (Tom Oldham)
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