Features tagged with hype

After a brief hiatus, we're back! Four of No Ripcord's finest debate the hot topics of the day, including the best environment in which to listen to Death Grips, pleasant festival surprises and whether Alabama Shakes are the latest victims of the music industry hype machine.

Has an artist ever been built up and knocked down to such an extent as Lana Del Rey? Here, Joe Rivers examines the possible reasons for the vitriol aimed at music's great new hope.

In the second of our New for 2012 articles, Joe Rivers trawls the ones-to-watch lists and asks just how good these new acts are.

Even No Ripcord writers get things wrong from time to time. As part of our tenth birthday review, we look back at three albums that we memorably overrated.