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October’s gaming releases include the latest chapters in two blockbuster franchises, a trip to a haunted hotel, a perilous journey to the frontiers of space, a race or two around the world and a few rounds in the ring.

Walrus is a psychedelic band from Canada. They've gained a reputation for being incredibly hardworking, and recently released a new single, 'Half Smoke'. The track itself is seeped in psychedelia, from its swirly Tame Impala-influenced…

The Covasettes play energetic indie rock in the spirit of fellow Mancunians, The Courteeners, but they add their own flavour with a sound that reflects British summertime. Their recent EP, It's Always Sunny Above the Clouds is an upbeat…

When you think of Chicago, what springs to mind? The Bean? Ferris Bueller? Navy Pier? In 2019, it should be Twin Peaks.

From the court to the wastelands, to the pitches and war zones, along with some Gothic horror and futuristic drama mixed in for good measure, September promises to bring a whole host of delights.

Ponder Theatre’s fifty-minute production of Listen, You Can Hear The Sound Of No Hands Clapping is written and directed by Melanie Noa Jehan, who devised her script by adapting John Milton’s Paradise Lost into an “avant-garde history play”.…

This year’s edition will release in October with Becky Lynch and Roman Reigns on the cover.

No single figure in modern, popular theatre has been associated with the amount of ground-breaking theatrical hits that Broadway director and producer Harold Prince has. After passing away at the age ninety-one, working just under seventy…

As summer rolls on, so does the plethora of new titles available for players to explore. Gridiron Glory, old school horror, mysteries aplenty and a journey to Middle Earth await players with this month’s gaming releases.

The subtropical Xanax fling that would become 2015 marked the start of a new era for music, in which not really caring about anything finally attained widespread appeal. This is interesting, as Bowie would still give pose and meaning to…

The music industry’s battle with ticket touts has been a vicious and seemingly never ending one. There have been countless opinion pieces by music journalists on their immorality and major artists such as Ed Sheeran have warned their fans…

Two years before his death, Rino Gaetano stood on a stage on Capocotta beach, just south of his home city of Rome, and announced: “There's someone who wants to put a gag on me! I do not fear them! They will not succeed! I feel that, in the…

I really tried to avoid the never ending stream of tweets on my timeline obsessing about Conversations With Friends.  I already fell victim to the online chatter about the profundity of Anna Burns’ 2018 Man Booker Prize winning novel,…

Once a year, EA release the latest instalment of its flagship game, FIFA, which seems to thrive on compulsive gaming habits. The danger is that such mechanics eventually inspire a lifestyle that very quickly becomes hard to go back on. It’s…

Canadian outfit Ducks Unlimited’s jangle pop track ‘Get Bleak’ works on a fairly simplistic, repetitive melody which quickly becomes a little catchy earworm.  The premise of the song is about the idea that moving somewhere else is going…