Alex Macpherson

Stronger Than Pride: Beyond The Hits Of Sade

Sade superfan Alex Macpherson celebrates the release of a career-spanning box set by selecting lesser known gems from their back catalogue

Alex Macpherson On Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN.

Following the release of Kendrick Lamar's fourth album, Alex Macpherson takes a look at where the record sits in his discography and what it tells us about the rapper's progression

Kanye West

The Life Of Pablo

Smoke Weed, Listen To Sade – R&B In Review By Alex Macpherson

Alex Macpherson sings the praises of Dawn Richard and Jazmine Sullivan, reviews the best new albums and lists his favourite RnBass tracks, in his new round up column

R&B Albums And Singles Of 2014 With Alex Macpherson

Alex Macpherson looks over the last 12 months in R&B and gives us his top ten singles and top ten albums

Gazelle Twin

Unflesh

The Strange World Of… Tori Amos

With her fourteenth album recently released, the prolific singer-songwriter and composer sat down with Alex Macpherson to reflect on some of the more overlooked moments in her back catalogue

Tori Amos

Unrepentant Geraldines

One Foot In The Rave: Katy B Interviewed

With Katy B's second album Little Red out this week, Alex Macpherson catches up with the UK funky vocalist turned pop star to talk raving, night buses and imaginary dancefloors

R&B In 2013 – A Round Up By Alex Macpherson

Alex Macpherson sums up the year... from Dawn Richard to Lady Bey

M.I.A.

Matangi

Culturally Clueless: Race, Feminism & Lily Allen’s Hard Out Here Video

Alex Macpherson is less than impressed with the exploitative and racially dubious aspects of Lily Allen's supposedly empowering 'Hard Out Here' video

‘Everything Is Choreography’: The Knife Interviewed

The Knife's new live show has baffled, irritated and delighted audiences in equal measure. After their show at London's Roundhouse last week, Alex Macpherson sat down with the group to discuss communication, the politics of movement and reconfiguring peoples' expectations

Jai Paul: A Scam To Feed The Internet Sausage Machine

It wasn't just the fact that Jai Paul's music is "cobblers" that got Alex MacPherson's goat. Here he explains why the album/non-album farce is representative of the click-at-me desperation of the blogosphere

Amy Winehouse Obituary

Alex Macpherson pays tribute to the singer Amy Winehouse, who passed away this weekend

Digging Deeper Into The Aesthetic: Alex Macpherson’s 2010 In R&B

Alex Macpherson delivers a righteous state of the R&B nation address and recommends five songs you should check if you haven't heard them yet

Jazmine Sullivan

Love Me Back

The-Dream

Love vs Money

T.I.

Paper trail