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Tag: Sophia Simon-Bashall

Trans Artists You Should Know Right Now

Posted on 3rd April 2018 by The Gryphon Web Editor

The LGBTQ+ spectrum is incredibly diverse – hence the 5+ letters in the acronym – but you wouldn’t know it looking at most playlists and articles about queer artists. It is white, cisgender gay men […]

Fall Out Boy & Fandoms: Why Teen Girls Deserve A Break

Posted on 23rd February 2018 by The Gryphon Web Editor

In case you haven’t already heard, emo megastars Fall Out Boy dropped a new record last month. M A N I A is their 7th full-length album, and their 3rd post-hiatus. If this isn’t news […]

In The Middle with Deaf Havana

Posted on 23rd November 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

It’s been a wonderful whirlwind of a year for Deaf Havana, following the release of their long-awaited 4th album All These Countless Nights. Coming to the end of the album cycle, music wirter Sophia Simon-Bashall […]

Dua Lipa @ O2 Academy

Posted on 16th October 201717th October 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Leeds’ O2 Academy has seen plenty of sold-out nights, yet the queues outside have never seemed so endless as they were tonight. The line for Dua Lipa snakes around the building and along the street, […]

The Xcerts @ Brudenell Social Club

Posted on 12th October 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Brudenell Social Club looks like something taken straight out of an 80s coming-of-age film – complete with soft bench seats and a disco ball. The intermission playlist features songs such as Rick Springfield’s ‘Jessie’s Girl’ […]

‘Visions Of A Life’ by Wolf Alice

Posted on 6th October 201710th October 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Wolf Alice’s debut full-length, My Love is Cool, was an album to define the times. This is a band who have brought together people of wildly different musical tastes, without intentionally crafting their sound to […]

Single Review: Too Much To Ask by Niall Horan

Posted on 18th September 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Niall Horan’s solo career thus far has been unpredictable, to say the least. His first single – the nostalgic and entirely lovely ‘This Town’ – was acoustic and simple, and set him up to move […]

Architects’ Unexpected Return with ‘Doomsday’

Posted on 14th September 201712th September 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Architects’ massive 7th album, All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, was always going to be a difficult one to follow up. It was the band’s most commercially successful release to date, and undeniably the heaviest, […]

In the Middle with The XCERTS, who are “falling back in love with life”

Posted on 13th September 201712th September 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

We spoke to The XCERTS frontman, Murray Macleod, ahead of the band’s upcoming tour. We discussed making music, coming-of-age films, and falling back in love with life… You’re off on tour at the end of […]

‘Rainbow’ by Kesha

Posted on 13th August 201713th August 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

The first line that Kesha sings on ‘Rainbow’ is “I got too many people I got left to prove wrong.” And yet, the album suggests that she knows she owes nothing to anyone – in […]

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