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''Bubblegum'' is the debut mixtape by Irish artist Biig Piig, released on 20 January 2023 through RCA. Background and release On 6 September 2022, Biig Piig released "Kerosene". The song debuted as BBC Radio 1's Hottest Record, with her describing it as a "hot girl summer anthem". She noted that it was part of a "wider project", but had not yet announced anything. On 20 October, she released a second single, "This Is What They Meant", and announced ''Bubblegum'' and its scheduled release date of 20 January 2023. "This Is What They Meant" received a music video on 17 November. The third and final single, "Picking Up", is a collaboration with Deb Never and was released on 8 December. It also received a music video, which was published on 12 January 2023. Critical reception ''Bubblegum'' was released to positive reception. Tara Joshi for ''The Guardian'' rated it 4/5 and called the production "immaculate". Hannah Mylrea for ''NME'' and Ben Tipple for ''DIY Magazine ''DIY'' is a U ...
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Biig Piig
Jessica Smyth, known by the stage name Biig Piig is an Irish singer and rapper based in West London. She performs in English and Spanish and is signed to Sony Music Entertainment. Early life Biig Piig was born in Cork, Ireland. She lived in Spain from the ages of four to twelve, after her family had moved on advice that the climate would be better for her brother's asthma. Upon moving with her family back to Ireland, she was at first able to read and write only in Spanish, and had to reintegrate into Irish culture. She moved with her family to West London at the age of 14 where she worked as a late-night poker dealer, and where her parents continue to run a pub. While taking a music technology class at Richmond College, Biig Piig met Lava La Rue, the founder and creative director of NiNE8, a collective of like-minded young DIY musical artists. Biig Piig subsequently joined NiNE8, and during this period, performed at Soho open mics, finding a new voice at a freestyling session ...
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Music Video
A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of Music Recording, music recordings. Although the origins of music videos date back to musical short, musical short films that first appeared, they again came into prominence when Paramount Global's MTV based its format around the medium. These kinds of videos were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip" or simply "video". Music videos use a wide range of styles and contemporary video-making techniques, including animation, live action, live-action, documentary film, documentary, and non-narrative approaches such as Non-narrative film, abstract fi ...
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Clash (magazine)
''Clash'' is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom. It is published four times a year by Music Republic Ltd, whose predecessor Clash Music Ltd went into liquidation. The magazine won the Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards and has won other awards in England and Scotland. Most notably, it won Magazine of the Year at the 2011 Record of the Day Awards. History ''Clash'' was founded by John O'Rourke, Simon Harper, Iain Carnegie and Jon-Paul Kitching. It emerged from the long-running Dundee, Scotland-based free-listings magazine ''Vibe''. Re-launching as ''Clash Magazine'' in 2004, it won Best New Magazine award at the PPA Magazine Awards and Music Magazine of the Year at the Record of the Day Awards in 2005 and 2011 respectively. At the turn of 2011, ''Clash'' took on an entirely new look, ditching its previous glossy feel and music-led design for an altogether more artistically-led approach. In 2013 it launched a Smartphone c ...
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Alternative Pop
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting system to reflect the rise of the format across ...
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Clash Magazine
''Clash'' is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom. It is published four times a year by Music Republic Ltd, whose predecessor Clash Music Ltd went into liquidation. The magazine won the Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards and has won other awards in England and Scotland. Most notably, it won Magazine of the Year at the 2011 Record of the Day Awards. History ''Clash'' was founded by John O'Rourke, Simon Harper, Iain Carnegie and Jon-Paul Kitching. It emerged from the long-running Dundee, Scotland-based free-listings magazine ''Vibe''. Re-launching as ''Clash Magazine'' in 2004, it won Best New Magazine award at the PPA Magazine Awards and Music Magazine of the Year at the Record of the Day Awards in 2005 and 2011 respectively. At the turn of 2011, ''Clash'' took on an entirely new look, ditching its previous glossy feel and music-led design for an altogether more artistically-led approach. In 2013 it launched a Smartphone c ...
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DIY Magazine
''DIY'' is a United Kingdom-based music publication, in print and online. Its free print edition is released monthly with a physical circulation of 40,000 in UK venues, clubs and shops. DIY Magazine ''DIY'' was launched in 2002 by then-editor Stephen Ackroyd & Emma Swann as an online-only publication called This Is Fake DIY, named after a song by Scottish indie pop band Bis and staffed largely by a freelance writing team from around the globe. The website features news, reviews and features. In September 2007, DIY was nominated for Best Music Magazine at the annual BT Digital Music Awards, where it was described as "a great mix of humour and pop culture that has become the envy of the internet." In April 2011, ''DIY'' started a free monthly music magazine. Cover acts have included Paramore, Mumford and Sons, Biffy Clyro, Jamie xx, Years & Years, Wolf Alice, LCD Soundsystem, Fall Out Boy, and Bastille (full list below). On 11 March 2013, ''DIY'' started a weekly magazine in ...
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The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ...
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Deb Never
Deb or DEB may refer to: People * Deb (surname) * Deb (given name) * A débutante DEB * Dynamic energy budget theory, a metabolic theory * Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica * German Ice Hockey Federation (''Deutscher Eishockey Bund'') * Diepoxybutane, an industrial chemical * Distant Education Bureau, India * New South Wales 900/800 class railcar, Australia Other uses * deb (file format), Debian * Debrecen International Airport IATA airport code * Deb Shops, a former US clothing chain * ''Deb'' (album), 2005, by Souad Massi See also * Debs (other) * Debra (other) Debra is a female given name. It may also refer to: Places * Debra (community development block), an administrative division in West Bengal, India * Debra (Vidhan Sabha constituency), an assembly constituency in West Bengal * Debra, Paschim Medin ... * Debbie (other) * Deborah (other) {{disambig ...
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Ourculture
''Our Culture Mag'' (stylised ourculture) is a British arts and culture online magazine launched in 2016 by Modestas Mankus , based in Cambridge, England. It covers film, fashion, music, art, photography and literature. History In 2016, Modestas Mankus launched ''Our Culture Mag'', an online magazine covering latest news in the world of underground and mainstream music. In April 2017, the website announced that will cover film, art, and fashion. In October 2017, ''Our Culture Mag'' began covering gaming. The magazine has interviewed creatives such as Jonas Mekas, Son Lux, and Andy Nyman Andrew Nyman (born 13 April 1966) is an English actor, director, writer and magician. Early life and career Nyman was born on 13 April 1966 in Leicester, Leicestershire. His first noteworthy performance was in 2000 as Keith Whitehead in '' Dead .... In February 2018, ''Our Culture Mag'' added Literature as part of their website. In January 2019, ''Our Culture Mag'' announced the launch ...
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Alt-pop
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting system to reflect the rise of the format across ...
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The Line Of Best Fit
''The Line of Best Fit'' is an independent online magazine based in London, concentrating on new music. It publishes independent music reviews, features, interview, and media. Founded by Richard Thane in February 2007 and currently edited by Paul Bridgewater, the webzine's name derives from a song on Death Cab For Cutie's ''You Can Play These Songs with Chords''. Album reviews by the webzine are used for music review aggregate sites AnyDecentMusic? and Metacritic. ''The Line of Best Fit'' also publishes music premieres, exclusive live performances, podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...s, and playlists. The webzine has its own record label, Best Fit Recordings, and since 2015, has hosted its own annual music festival in London, the Five Day Forecast. It also ...
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Dork (magazine)
''Dork'' is a United Kingdom-based music publication, in print and online. The editor, Stephen Ackroyd, is the founder and former editor of ''DIY''. History ''Dork'' magazine was founded in 2016 by Stephen Ackroyd, who had previously served as editor of ''DIY'' magazine. The magazine was geared to have a more widespread music focus, with an emphasis on indie rock. List of Dork cover stars * July 2016: Spring King * August 2016: Glass Animals * September 2016: The Big Moon * October 2016: Dream Wife and Black Honey * November 2016: The Japanese House * December 2016 / January 2017: The 1975 * February 2017: Sundara Karma * March 2017: VANT * April 2017: Blaenavon * May 2017: Will Joseph Cook * June 2017: Marika Hackman * July 2017: alt-J * August 2017: Declan McKenna * September 2017: George Ezra * October 2017: INHEAVEN * November 2017: Wolf Alice * December 2017 / January 2018: Pale Waves and King Nun * February 2018: Shame * March 2018: Superorganism * April 2018: ...
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