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Ella Khalek looks at five influential art movements, from 500 BC to 1600 AD, to explore the nature of beauty and how we should define it.

From the current big booty craze to selfie-stick mania, we are well […]

With the season premiere last week being such a hit despite not showing the audience anything new I felt like there were high hopes for this episode ‘The Wanderer’. However this episode serves as a continuation or […]

Analysing the deep and dark corners of any man is hard, let alone Bob Dylan. Submerged, in a mist of myths and melodies that leave you dreaming, he remains detached from society living in a cave concocting his […]

Jeppe Kiel Revsbech, or Rosenthal as he’s more commonly known, is fast making a name for himself, having just completed an intimate UK tour and appearing in “Track of the Day” features in online magazines […]

Zane Lowe is one of the most recognisable figures in the British music industry. Over the past 12-years at the helm of his evening show on Radio 1, he has left a unique and distinctive mark both on the station […]

If you ask most teenage girls or in fact women, they will have probably heard of Ryan Gosling. He has become somewhat of an icon in recent years after his role in The Notebook, but it should not be forgotten that […]

Somerset-spawned shoegazers October Drift have been performing together for just a year, playing a series of unobtrusive, low-profile gigs that created a word-of-mouth buzz so fervent it resulted in the newcomers […]

The singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor’s previous credentials include being a member of her family band Island Fusion, and self producing some demo albums. Her influences cover an eclectic range including Frank […]

In my last entry of this series, I discussed the US The Office and what led to its success among a world of failed American adaptations of British TV shows. The Office’s success was a combination of good timing, […]

The Boomtown Rats had a hit single with ‘I Don’t Like Monday’s’ all the way back in 1979. At a first listen, the song seems faultlessly catchy; it wasn’t until recently that I learned the true nature of the […]

Wolf Alice are the new cool kids of rock and roll. A description appropriate for one song is completely thrown aside in the next, meaning that it is impossible to accurately define what Wolf Alice’s music actually […]

As an avid feminist, one could imagine my initial reaction to meninism. The Twitter movement, which seemed to gain fame (or infamy, depending on your stance) overnight, is driven by the desire to gain equality for […]

On Monday, it was revealed that the Labour former home secretary Jack Straw and Conservative MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind had been caught by a journalists’ sting operation, which showed them offering their services a […]

Will Smith; a much loved actor who has appeared in several great films but in recent times has seen hits like After Earth damage a stellar career. Fortunately, Focus is actually an escape from his recent, more […]

Despite it being the last episode of Parks and Recreation to ever air, One Last Ride felt less like a final goodbye and more like a welcoming look into the future. Episodes like Leslie and Ron and last week’s The […]

With fun.’s hiatus continuing and Jack Antonoff’s band Bleachers beginning to tour their new album ‘Strange Desire’, it only seems right that lead singer Nate Ruess began to branch out into his own solo career. […]

The nation had barely recovered from its New Year’s Day hangover when it began. As David Cameron unveiled his party’s slick, shiny new election poster, the longest general election campaign in British history stu […]

The horror genre is a tricky one. Especially when it comes to women. It’s a genre that’s sometimes hard to enjoy – sure, there’s female characters aplenty, and many of them survive the [insert form of turmoil […]

The last few installments of The Walking Dead have been a wild rollercoaster ride of emotions. It seems as though the tables are turning now, though, as new face Aaron brings the possibility of refuge and solace […]

The alternative music scene is being invaded by Germany, by none other than Milky Chance. ‘Down By the River’, a single from the duo’s debut album Sadnecessary released in 2014, combines reggae and folk influences […]