Having started out as a smiley YouTuber, Marius Listhrop’s decision to rebrand to screaming emo rapper Scarlxrd in 2017 was quite the career change. The 24-year-old Wolverhampton lad has claimed his ...

Musicians have long faced down questions of authenticity, from the Sex Pistols insisting, “we mean it, man” to the Manic Street Preachers’ Richie Edwards assuring NME, in 1991, that he was “4 real”.

Hybrid genres rarely offer the best of both worlds, with the rap-metal of Limp Bizkit et al having been particularly poorly thought of over the years. Scarlxrd (pronounced Scarlord), a former YouTuber ...

The world of SoundCloud rap may share a penchant for facial tattoos with Oli Sykes, but only one of its practitioners got asked to join Bring Me The Horizon’s All Points East line-up. Step forward ...