There’s a strange intimacy to watching a pop artist strip everything away. Last night at London’s Century Club, 19-year-old Czech singer-songwriter Thera gathered a room of industry faces for a ...

There’s a lot of music out there - good music. At Essentially Pop our remit is that we cover music that deserves to be heard, with a particular focus on independent artists. That doesn't mean we won't ...

Hanna Andrea is a Gen-Z pop artist tackling the one thing Gen-Z can’t live without: their phones. Polly Havelock catches up with Andrea on her new anti-social media anthem ‘GET OFF YOUR PHONE’, the ...

No Music For Genocide has today issued a landmark open letter, calling for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest, set to be held for in Vienna this May. While Russia remains banned for ...

Veronica Fusaro has a rare gift for taking big ideas and distilling them into songs that feel so intimate. With her latest single ‘Gold Rush’, out today, the Swiss-Italian singer-songwriter steps ...

For most of her life, Alison Craig, now recording as AC Scott, was the one asking the questions. As a celebrated broadcaster and interviewer, she built a career drawing stories out of others. But ...

You’ve just checked out Denise Marsa’s latest release, ‘HOLE (Until Dawn Remix)‘ – now learn about the artist herself in her own words as she speaks with Essentially Pop. It feels like a level of ...

SHAB has uncovered a haunting music video for ‘Skin & Bones (Damon Sharpe Remix)’ – a powerful fusion of heartbreak, gratitude, and dance-floor exhilaration. Written in the immediate aftermath of ...

New York’s answer to a seamless fusion of Americana, jazz, folk, and pop, Rachael Sage is heading overseas for a special one-night-only performance at PizzaExpress Live at The Pheasantry. On the 10th ...

In a pop landscape obsessed with immediacy, instant hooks, instant relevance, instant reaction, ‘You’ll Land Among The Stars’ arrives at its own pace. The Gleeman’s latest mini-album doesn’t try to ...

Ozzie D. is back with ‘Step Up’, a heartfelt song about falling in love and all that goes with it – both good and bad. Using baseball metaphors throughout the song, Ozzie D. relates in ‘Step Up’ about ...

Prolific French DJ and musician Petit Biscuit returns with a re-imagined instrumental release of his much-loved electro-pop classic, ‘Sunset Lover’. The original track, released back in 2015, has so ...