Sarah Ditum

Sarah Ditum is a critic and columnist based in Bath. She tweets @sarahditum

How a song can drift across a life

What happened to Kanye?

“Satanic Panic” still haunts heavy metal

The joy of letting unexpected, accidental music in

Pitchfork was one of a whole ecosystem of taste-making blogs which laid claim to being the ones who had made del Rey

As long as the fans are alive, it seems that a band can keep going

Knowing Rage Against the Machine are political doesn’t overcome my determination to enjoy them anyway

In today’s pop world trauma is an asset

Young Adult fiction has become cancel culture’s savage front line

Swift’s latest project is even more interesting than the imaginary motherhood album she pinned her hopes on