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Adam Goldsmith wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

Sarah Walk’s new single ‘Unravel’ released on 8th July may be three minutes of mellow-indie, but it takes the American only eighteen seconds and one devastating line to make her point. Taking aim at men “who g […]

Lottie Hayton wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

‘Falling in Love’ is the latest Frank Turner release from split covers album West Coast vs. Wessex. A collaboration between long-term supporters of each other, NOFX and Frank Turner, the album will be rel […]

Emma Curzon wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

Under the Skin director Jonathan Glazer is known for his subversive, uncompromising approach to filmmaking. Small wonder, then, that excitement has greeted the news that his latest production, Strasbourg 1518, […]

Tayler Finnegan wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

After what has been a tough few months for theatre, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The longest-running show in the world, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, has announced it will be running once again f […]

Abigail Howe wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

SVEA’s latest single ‘All My Exes’ may begin with a crackle – reminiscent of radios, suggesting nostalgia and tradition – but she enters with a bang over the incredibly catchy hook of a strummed electric guita […]

Gio Chiconelli wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

I had no idea how much I needed some new, soothing, emotionally cathartic episodes of Queer Eye until it was back with its fifth season at the beginning of June. Antoni with his band shirts and obsession with […]

Georgie Hughes wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

John Boyega is set to star in IRA thriller Borderland, alongside fellow Star Wars alumni Felicity Jones (Theory of Everything). It will also be a chance to see up and coming talent on the big screen, as both Jack […]

Beth Kirkbride wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

It’s 2010, and you’re lying in your bedroom with your lava lamp casting an amber glow on your ceiling as you “sit back and ponder life”. Alex Turner’s Submarine EP is crackling in the background as it rotates o […]

Harriet Metcalfe wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

Although a global pandemic might have pushed the release of Edgar Wright’s sixth feature Last Night in Soho back a year, that hasn’t stopped him from ramping up expectations and excitement.

Thomasin McK […]

Mae Trumata wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

Romantic blues and jazzy strums, platinum-selling country singer/songwriter Jimmie Allen stuns with R&B inspired tunes in the country lane. Today marks the release of his upcoming collaborative EP Bettie […]

Aisha Fatunmbi-Randall wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

‘Joy Is You’ is the new single from extremely talented guitarist and vocalist Oscar Jerome. This is the fifth single and closing song from incoming debut album Breathe Deep which will be released on 14t […]

James Reynolds wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

And it was all a dream.

The United Kingdom formally entered lockdown on 23 March, making a near-perfect three-month gap through spring and into early summer in which almost exactly nothing happened. The […]

Tom Moorcroft wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

The Academic have been spreading Indie vibes across the world, from the Irish countryside to international arenas, and now the 4-piece is back with their most exciting project yet. After positive acclaim from […]

Sylvia OHara wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

The winners of the Orwell Prize have just been announced. This is an extremely reputable award which celebrates political writing as an art form. As Orwell once wrote, “I write it because there is some lie that I […]

Sam Lambeth wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

Kasabian’s sacking of singer Tom Meighan for assault is sensible and respectful. Their flimsy statement, produced 24 hours before Meighan’s conviction, is something else entirely…

The old adage ‘one phone […]

Mae Trumata wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

Kate Tempest has a thing for the senses. Her pleasant delivery of spoken poetry are like small pieces of informational strums tugging at our hearts. She draws experience from touches, of tangible things to see, […]

James Hanton wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

The bleak truth of how fragile our arts industry is has been laid bare in recent months. COVID-19 has mercilessly rocked a cultural endavour already known to be financially unstable. Many arts organisations – […]

Lucy Lillystone wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, known for her roles in Monster’s Ball, Die Another Day and the X-Men franchise, has dropped out of plans to play a transgender man in an upcoming movie. She took to Twitter to […]

Olivia Emily wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

Jude Law is in talks to play Captain Hook in Disney’s upcoming live action Peter Pan reboot, Peter Pan and Wendy. The news comes four months after Ever Anderson and Alexander Molony were confirmed to be playing W […]

theindiependent wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago

We certainly aren’t alone in thinking how extraordinary Alice Birch’s adaptation of Normal People was. Luckily for us she’s back already, having written a script for a film full of “clandestine passion” and as […]