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Eton Rifles // The Jam

My earliest memory of music started in the back of a car. Most journeys consisted of a cassette being played called The Sound of the Suburbs. It was a compilation album of the late 70s and […]

After a galling worse-than-the-worst-case-scenario election defeat in May, the Labour Party has, understandably, given off the impression of being largely in a state of shock.

Half a decade’s efforts of […]

Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita chronicles the sexual relationship between a 12 year old girl, Dolores Haze, otherwise known as Lolita, and her 38 year old step-father, Humbert Humbert. For many already f […]

Hand held cameras, night vision and a group of rowdy teenagers don’t often inspire confidence when watching horror films, but The Gallows (directed by Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing) seems to have bucked recent […]

First published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate success and has sealed its immortality by arguably being one of the greatest American novels ever written. But the most impacting element of this […]

Tame Impala – fronted by multi-instrumentalist powerhouse Kevin Parker, a modern psych-rock prophet who, rather astoundingly, writes and records the vast majority of Tame Impala’s music himself – return with their […]

Title: Crescendo

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

What I Think So Far: As the second book in the Hush, Hush series, Crescendo is much more emotionally focused than its predecessor; some chapters even left a lump in […]

I’m thinking of Sir John Everett Millais’ painting of Ophelia, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as I listen to Myriads by Glaswegian singer-songwriter, Officer. I’m not sure whether it’s the album artwork, references to […]

The cause of Labour’s general election defeat is no great mystery. It wasn’t down to the ridicule that followed cringeworthy PR stunts like their The Thick Of It-esque gaffe, carved into a two tonne solid sto […]

Favela is a 22 year old Leeds-based producer and released his EP Future Visions on Soundcloud about two months ago. With no prior listening to his music, one might infer, from the names, an electronic-based, […]

Let’s start thematically. We’ll focus on a universal sense of pain, something that highlights the true extent of human fragility. So, where do we look? Well, take it back to 41 B.C and think Cleopatra and Mark […]

Though ostensibly about an unreciprocated summer love – all heady, hot-tempered, and lost in a haze – Mike Coykendall’s ‘In The Summertime’ makes sure that, even whilst lamenting at a distance, you’re having […]

Bournemouth-based post-hardcore outfit Saint (the) Sinner have strengthened their reputation since forming in 2011. Their debut album The Curious Tales of Mistress Murder received positive reviews, while their […]

Liverpool’s Bandito Rey emit a grungy, dark sound with their latest single, ‘Juicy Fruit’. The four-piece say that their influences ‘range from Aphex Twin to Radiohead, Morrisey to Massive Attack’ and this is […]

Dear all of the media (both social and otherwise),

I am currently pacing around my room in a frantic tizz of an eruptive, emotional and distinctly female mess as I am suddenly stumped by a question that […]

Picture this scenario. You are standing a few feet from a small square painting. It is a priceless da Vinci, titled Ginevra de Benci – a petite but stunning work that is the only of the artist’s in North Am […]