Christmas songs for those who hate Christmas.

Madeline Harding gives a run down of the best Christmas songs that will be sure to ward off the Christmas spirit.

If you like this, then you’ll like that (music edition).

Maddi Harding provides “underground” musical alternatives to popular artists so that you can confidently proclaim you are indeed “alt”.

FKA twigs’ MAGDALENE: biblical allusions and the public eye

Is country music the genre of right-wing, straight, white men?

Mazzy Star: what is so endearing about notoriously sad music?

The gruesome tale of Ethel Cain’s ‘Preacher’s Daughter’

‘Post-brexit’ music? Dissonant music for dissonant times.

Billie Marten on her new album, ‘Drop Cherries’

Phoebe Bridgers ‘Punisher’, three years on and it’s just as great

4 songs I’m listening to – old and new