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Heartbreak always sucks. It’s just one of the universal truths. Even if you’ve found yourself falling out of love; even if you know ending a relationship is for the best; even if a relationship ended on good terms and you agreed to be…

If you’re stuck in an office like me all summer with substandard air conditioning and an overwhelming sense of FOMO, a weekend festival is the perfect escape. Obviously the headliners are what initially convinces you to part with an…

Since 2010, Disney has slowly been releasing more and more ‘live-action remakes’ of its classic films. In the wake of 2019’s The Lion King, and with Mulan (2019) soon to be making an appearance on our screens, I have to wonder: who are…

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…

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…

Indie rockers Razorlight might have scored their No. 1 with the single 'America' but our favourite song is 'In The Morning'. The guitar licks have a distinct 2006 quality to them, and it's the saccharine pop factor to the track which…

Fans of Two Door Cinema Club will know they have recently released a new album, False Alarm. It’s a world away from ‘What You Know’, the fifth and final single from the Northern Irish band’s debut, Tourist History. It’s hard to believe that…

Brighton alt-rockers Youth Sector are a quintet comprising of Nick Tompkins, Josh Doyle, Brad Moore, Karl Tomlin and Harvey Dent. 'Renting Spaces In My World' is their latest release, with the post-punk style narrative detailing a…

The Gillette ad has proved controversial from the moment it was released. But is the razorblade company's latest ad campaign really the best that advertising can get?

Remember Birmingham? For a few years, it had a Katrina-style slump into indie indifference, but after lying fallow for so long the Second City is pissing directly into the faces of every London-loving poseur and every Mancker. Birmingham is…

It's the video that everybody can't stop talking about. Levi Eddie Aluede (our old film editor) runs us through some of the visual and auditory aspects of the track, which he argues make Donald Glover's 'This Is America' a 21st century…

As Martin Crane, the late John Mahoney gave 'Frasier' its withering putdowns and its painful pathos. Sam Lambeth mourns an acting great.

Jack Hollis runs us through some of the releases music fans can look forward to in 2018.

As irritating as it seemed at the time, a generation were raised on the earworm frivolity of Scouting for Girls. Now ten-years-old, is it time the piano-bashing buffoonery and bittersweet love odes deserved a little reappraisal? Sam Lambeth…

If others buckle under the strains of blustery conditions or hurtful comments, how many punters will recoil in fear and run back into the warm, dependable bosom of Reading & Leeds? Those that see the small festival as an admirable…