First off, whatever Lily Allen might tweet at you, “Hard Out Here” is not rubbish. “Air Balloon” and “L8 CMMR,” sure, if “pleasantly inconsequential” passes for rubbish these days. “Our Time,” maybe, in that it lacks Allen’s usual punch....

Titus Andronicus frontman is an intense and outspoken individual in person, as I found out when I wrote this feature about him. But there’s a distinct possibility that he’s even more intense and outspoken when he’s sitting at his phone or his laptop. He can be a weird Twitter follow, and in the past two [...]

Lily Allen took an extended break to have kids after releasing her last album, 2009′s It’s Not Me, It’s You. And since she suddenly reemerged late last year, she’s been at the center of one goofy public controversy after another. But Sheezus’s Allen’s first new album in five years, has ...

When she made her big return late last year with her possibly-feminist/possibly-fetishistic “Hard Out Here” video, Lily Allen immediately found herself at the center of internet controversy, defending her video almost as soon as it went up online. More recently, she found herself agreeing with a fan on Twitter who’d...

Here’s the video for the new Lily Allen song we heard earlier today, the title track (and opener) from her forthcoming third album Sheezus. Apparently this is not one of the rubbish songs that have been serviced to radio, but the singer’s preferred choice for a single. She talked to Rolling Stone about its provocative [...]