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    After the departure of New Order’s bassist and founding member, Peter Hook, back in 2007, it seemed like the Manchester icons’ celebrated tenure was about to grind to a bitter halt. Hook constantly slated his […]

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    I will argue to the death that art should be free, and accessible for all.

    Since the 90s, a majority of museums and galleries have been free, with only special exhibitions requiring the purchase of a ticket. […]

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    Patrick Gunning took these photographs of Florence & the Machine last night at Alexandra Palace in London.

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    The Dead Weather are back. Dirtier, fuzzier and more un-hinged than ever before. The super-group consisting of Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Jack White (The White Stripes), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) […]

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    Following the release of their turbulent debut single last February, I was naturally pretty quick to dub Semantics as a band to watch in the emerging alternative music scene.

    Now, the nostalgic post punk […]

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    After the success with her first EP ‘Grow’, reaching No. 4 in the singer/songwriter chart on iTunes and becoming the iconic song for the latest Amazon Prime advert, Frances is releasing her next EP, Let It Out, […]

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    Channelling the dreampop sounds of Chvrches, the electronica of Ellie Goulding and the indie waves of Warpaint and Daughter, meet NOVAA. NOVAA is an up-and-coming German electropop artist who is already turning […]

  • wrote a new post 10 years, 3 months ago

    I first met TRASH’s frontman, Daniel Longmore, back in July at Tramlines festival. Prior to that I had written about the band a couple of times and interviewed them over email. Whilst in one of the best venues […]

  • For those of you who are unfamiliar with the books of the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, you should not, I repeat, should not be unfamiliar with the famous Hercule Poirot. In the literary world, Poirot is by […]

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    Star Wars was released in the year 1977, a film doomed to fail. So little faith was put into the production of the film, it was over budget, weeks behind schedule, the cast and crew thought the concept was […]

  • Members of the voice over actors union SAG-AFTRA have been voting on possible strike action over treatment and pay.

    In recent weeks, the hashtags #PerformanceMatters and #IAmOnBoard2015 have been appearing on […]

  • wrote a new post 10 years, 3 months ago

    Intense. Twisted. Disturbing. It would be incredibly easy to keep listing similar adjectives in an attempt to try and sum up this novel, but the truth is, none of them will ever really do it justice. Sharp Objects […]

  • Half Welsh, half Mississippian two-piece Lewis and Leigh consists of former solo artists Al Lewis and Alva Leigh. The two met through a mutual friend and joined forces, and their once casual song writing led to […]

  • wrote a new post 10 years, 3 months ago

    Name: Run With the Hunt
    Hometown: Aylesbury
    Listen to: Chasing Our Tails, Out Through The Trapdoor
    Borrowing here and there from the last twenty, twenty five years of indie music, Aylesbury based four-piece Run W […]

  • wrote a new post 10 years, 3 months ago

    Matt Berninger, commonly known as the lead singer of The National, has teamed up with Brent Knopf from Menomena and more recently Ramona Falls to form a new musical project: EL VY. The National are a band that […]

  • JEFF the Brotherhood are of a rare breed: they are extremely unconventional, yet not for its own sake. Fortunately, the focus is still on making good music and having fun, which seems beautifully simple. Their […]

  • The upcoming Hitman game has been delayed until 2016.

    The title had been initially planned for a December release but now developers IO Interactive have confirmed the delay to March next year to refine the […]

  • The details of the next expansions to the game have been announced.

    Following on from July’s Batgirl: A Matter of Family pack, GCPD Lockdown sees Nightwing attempt to stop The Penguin from breaking out of […]

  • wrote a new post 10 years, 3 months ago

    If you’ve read the news in the past few days, it’s possible you will have seen the name Ai Weiwei, or even read an article on him. For those of you who haven’t, Ai Weiwei is a Chinese political and conce […]

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