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Throughout, each shot evokes the spirit behind the 2012 Olympics, a period that shifted the landscape of East London and laid out a fresh blueprint for regeneration. Fusing sportswear with industrial palettes informed by…
Read moreThe show at the famed Barrowland Ballroom takes place on October 15th, and the band – Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton – will be joined by some old friends. New album ‘Half-Told Tales’ landed earlier this month, so…
Read moreThe itinerant sound system collective are best known for their involvement with Castlemorton Common festival, an unlicensed free party drawing more than 30,000 people and lasting nearly a week. After a drawn-out and…
Read moreTwenty-five years later, that boy from Brabant is engaged, running his country, and has become the youngest and the first openly gay prime minister in Dutch history. We meet in Amsterdam during WorldPride for his…
Read moreOn 20 June, right-wing influencer Syntyche Djunga (who goes by the moniker “Based and Bougie”) was part of a panel on The Saturday Five , chaired by Dr Renee Hoenderkamp, discussing the sexual abuse and murder of…
Read moreThe 11-track project is due for release on January 15 via LAB Records, following on from 2019’s ‘Inflorescent’ . You can pre-order/pre-save it here . Advertisement “Attraction is a force so strong it can be beyond our…
Read moreThe event marked the final concert from Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne , and was held in July 2025 at the Villa Park stadium in the band’s hometown of Birmingham . Advertisement With a star-studded line-up boasting…
Read moreThe soul crew are back, with their Leeds base becoming a superlative hub for the creation of forward thinking R&B adjacent songwriting. New album ‘Somewhere Between’ is out on October 16th, and it features some…
Read moreThe former Talking Heads frontman originally released his latest solo album in September 2025, his first studio record since 2018’s ‘ American Utopia ‘. It featured contributions from Hayley Williams , St. Vincent and…
Read moreIt is directed by Leida Laius and Arvo Iho and based on the YA novel Stepmother by Estonian author Silvia Rannamaa. The Estonian title Naerata Ometi is translated here as Smile at Last; perhaps it should be Give Us a…
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