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The relegated Owls have begun their new era in fine style, with Tuesday's 2-1 victory at Wycombe Wanderers making it three wins from their opening four games. Wednesday's main man Jamal Lowe has scored in all of the…
The build-up to their first London concert at the O2 Arena was a mixed one, considering online comments about the tour’s opener in Dublin ranged from praise to unimpressed notes on the group’s ‘manufactured’ label and…
The Lilywhites were booed off the pitch after Tuesday's 3-1 home loss to Bristol City made it four consecutive defeats at the start of a league season for the first time in 70 years. Paul Heckingbottom is under…
Saints recovered from their opening-day defeat at Watford by trouncing Stoke City and Millwall before holding Birmingham City to a 1-1 draw in midweek. If it wasn't for the four-point penalty incurred for last season's…
In its Pentangle-like opener Song for the Winter, birds' voices "climb higher", hills "glow brighter" and waves "call out louder", and the songs that follow are similarly saturated with colour and energy, creating an…
Otherwise, it's business as usual for the grumpy Mando and his cute, Force-friendly ward as they get involved in a spot of Hutt family politics. Hired by the New Republic to track down a warlord still sympathetic to the…
Do you feel like the This is Lorelei and Water From Your Eyes crossover was still present by this point? That's weirdly an extension of the same moment, because I think it's possible that parts of it predate "Sick…
As a result, it was on Ness that missiles designed to deliver atomic payloads were tested and perfected. The place remains a place of paradox, mystery and constant evolution for Thorpe, whose record is an ode to the…
“I feel like it was quite late in the game, to be honest,“ he chuckles. Remembering those first moments of a song coming together out of thin air, as a late-teen, small village boy, a world away from those icons that…
With most Friday playlist updates dominated by the same big songs and returning names, we're always trying to go way beyond that to find the exciting new artists taking their first steps who we think will do amazing…