What makes a great rock band? Is it having a smorgasbord of influences? A catalogue of great riffs that burrow into your head? Or rather do you have to have a distinctive sound? Well, if you go by any of those three criteria, Royal Blood may now well be your answer. After a four-year break, the […]Read More
Netflix recently dropped its creepy trailer for upcoming horror film Things Heard and Seen. The gothic tale stars Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!) and James Norton (Grantchester). Things Heard And Seen is an adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage’s novel All Things Cease to Appear. Seyfried portrays a young artist named Catherine, while Norton takes on the role […]Read More
Netflix has released a trailer for its upcoming space thriller Stowaway. The film boasts a sensational cast, including Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), Toni Colette (Hereditary), Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and Shamier Anderson (Wynonna Earp). The trailer emphasises the film’s themes of survival and sacrifice. Stowaway follows three astronauts on a spaceship as they embark on […]Read More
Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub released ‘The Sun Won’t Shine on Me’ on 15 March. The track will appear on their upcoming album, Endless Arcade, due to drop on 30 April. This track is the fourth that the band have released from Endless Arcade, following ‘I’m More Inclined’, ‘Home,’ and ‘Everything Is Falling Apart,’ […]Read More
As a warm summer edges closer and closer, a lot of us will be imagining what our summers will be like after the fabled June 21st. With the ability to plan ahead becoming more certain, thoughts will turn to outfits, events and most importantly, music. Enter South-London based songwriter and producer FJ Law. His latest […]Read More
Phoebe Dynevor is set to play the lead in an original Sky film titled The Colour Room. The young actress rose to stardom as the leading lady in Netflix’s recent record-breaking series Bridgerton as Daphne. This will be her first role since the series. Dynevor will play the character Clarice Cliff, a pioneering ceramic artist […]Read More
As Pokémon celebrates its 25th Birthday we are journeying back to the Sinnoh region of generation four with a much-anticipated remake and a brand new game. Read More
KAYTRANADA has dropped his first solo release of 2021 with instrumental track ‘Caution’ released on Thursday, 18 February. The new number was made by the Haitian-Canadian artist for a TikTok initiative focusing on Black History Month. The track has now been shared as a single, much to the satisfaction of his devoted fans. ‘Caution’ is […]Read More
Pale Waves have revealed that more music is on the way from the four-piece band, releasing ‘You Don’t Own Me’ this Friday. This will be followed by their highly anticipated second album Who Am I? on February 12th. Frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie took to twitter earlier this month to announce that new music is on the […]Read More
Sally Rooney, author of Normal People, will be releasing her third novel in September. Rooney’s UK publisher Faber announced on Tuesday that the novel will be titled Beautiful World, Where Are You. It will follow the story of friends Alice and Eileen, as they navigate their twenties and an uncertain political and economic climate. Faber […]Read More
Despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, rumours have begun to emerge that season three of fan-favourite Amazon Prime series The Boys has begun filming. Fans of the darkly comic superhero series The Boys, which presents a more likely picture of how arrogant ‘Supes’ (superheroes) might coexist alongside the rest of us, finally have cause to hope […]Read More
The further that modern Western animation has strayed from traditional hand-drawn animation, the more it has honed in on one particular aesthetic. The big studios favouring 3D animation want to reflect an identical cartoonish reality. Animation has, in some regards, become monolithic. There are exceptions to this massive generalisation. The Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, […]Read More
Released as a surprise at midnight on New Year’s Day, Anavitória’s fourth studio album, Cor (Colour), is a celebration of love in all of its forms and colours. The surprise release, teased on the duo’s Instagram account, is typical of the band’s metaphorical and whimsical style – one which is present in all aspects of […]Read More
In a year clouded with uncertainty, isolation and loneliness, the richly weaved stories of folklore has been the cardigan I wrap around myself while I escape into the earthy imagery of Taylor Swift’s surprise eighth album. As the dark nights of winter have closed in, I have found myself regularly retreating into the sonic sanctuary […]Read More
London-based indie-pop duo Dust In The Sunlight round off a surreal year with an atmospheric take on The Strokes’ hit single ‘Hard To Explain’. With a perfect balance of euphoric harmonies, the duo teamed up with Essex-based producer Tom Donovan to curate a beautiful blend of soft instrumentalism and lilting vocals. The duo contains singer-songwriters […]Read More
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