digital staff writer and freelance journalist
Olivia Stock is DJ Mag’s digital staff writer. She previously worked as a freelance journalist covering alternative music and culture across print and digital. Her writing can be seen in DIY Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, The Forty-Five, LICKS Mag, and others. Olivia was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the UK’s largest student music magazine, The Mic, as well as working on a freelance basis for a variety of independent record labels and PR firms.
Pixey on Paper Planes and Finding Your Lane
It’s Pixey bitch! A year after unleashing her scintillating second EP, Liverpool’s cosmic- pop luminary caught up with LICKS on her retro influences, balancing the sad with the sunny, and the down-low on her incoming mini-album, ‘Dreams, Pains, and Paper Planes’.
Printed in LICKS Mag: Issue #7.
“Da Da Song” is carpetgarden’s ode to fuzzy, lo-fi, queer love
Lo-fi and the love song are a match made in heaven (or in Carpetgarden’s bedroom). On ‘Da Da Song’, the Californian popster returns with a flushed, tender tale of falling for someone.
Dolores Forever lay friendships to rest on “Funeral”
A spritely companionship underpins Yorkshire via Copenhagen duo Dolores Forever but their newest single "Funeral" forays into friendship’s deeper, darker sensibilities.
Finn Foxell puts the party in politics on "Leaders"
He might be West London’s premier emcee, wordsmith, and all-around vibe-curator, but Finn Foxell is just as fed-up as the rest of us - “Leaders” channels that anguish into art.
Bonnie Kemplay comes of age on bedroom-pop stunner “19”
From penning alt-pop bops in her girlhood bedroom to the hallowed halls of Dirty Hit’s roster, it’s been a big six months for Edinburgh’s Bonnie Kemplay. Though when you get a load of her new single "19", it’s not hard to understand why.
Alex Amor teaches a lesson in romantics on the brooding “Bad Tattoo”
With love in both her name and her heart, Glaswegian newbie Alex Amor bares all on achingly confessional new single, "Bad Tattoo".
Glitch-pop prodigy DellaXOZ searches for closure on “i want, doesn’t get”
Despite harbouring songwriting prowess far beyond her years, DellaXOZ channels the bratty brashness of childhood on her angsty, glitch-laced new single, "i want, doesn’t get".
Seraphina Simone ushers in pop’s new order with witty, confessional new single, “Milk Teeth”
When 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests raised a dark smoky mirror to society, Seraphina Simone found herself looking into it, and so "Milk Teeth" was born.
Warmduscher Announce New Album With Latest Single ‘Fatso’
Channelling funk frisson and sleazy absurdism, London’s favourite punk wiscracks Warmduscher have dropped the latest single from their fourth record, ‘At The Hotspot’.
Mom Jeans Drop New Video In Anticipation Of Third Record, ‘Sweet Tooth’
Lurking somewhere between late nineties radio-rock and blue album-era Weezer, the new album from Mom Jeans comes packed with enough ear candy to give you a filling.