Among the many commendable moments this year’s Glastonbury festival provided, Rina Sawayama’s callout during her Saturday night set – aimed at a certain frontman – was the most admirable of the lot, writes Laviea Thomas.
Another year, another Glastonbury done and dusted. As with every Worthy Farm get-together, plonking 200,000-odd people in a field full of tunes stirs up some considerable moments – and some instances that go beyond just the music. Here are the most memorable things about Glastonbury 2023.
Grab yourself a bap, barn cake or bread roll, and enjoy Susie Dent's latest top ten. This week, it's the best local expressions. Oo arr, and all that.
It's Glastonbury weekend. The festival will invariably make the headlines, but don't let those merry revellers distract you from some of the great new music out today.
We examine how the upbeat, bubbly optimism of 90s music such as S Club 7 gave way to the sombre melancholy of today's zeitgeist.
With the release of Asteroid City this week, Kate Padley asks, has Wes Anderson out-Wes-Andersoned himself?
The Idol, HBO’s provocative and controversial series, is now halfway through and it can’t shake its biggest issue: The Weeknd.
A little over two months on from her eponymous debut, Blondshell (Sabrina Teitelbaum) talks to whynow during her whistle-stop tour of the UK.
The first Ashes Test match of the summer gets underway today, but cricket’s greatest spectacle is crammed into the start of the summer to make room for the game’s most offensive degradation: The Hundred.
This week’s New Music Friday features tunes from the likes of Kasabian, Pixey, Killer Mike, Peggy Gou, Coach Party and more.
Studio Ghibli's decision to forego trailers for "How Do You Live?" has sparked a debate over how modern movies are often ruined by overenthusiastic and excessive trailers.
From courtroom dramas to James Bond, a dad’s taste in films is as wide-ranging as a horse in a barn. Read on as we categorise them all.
From the triumphant return of Everything But The Girl to the extraordinary left-turn of Lil Yachty, the epic three-piece opera from Christine and the Queens to Foo Fighters’ beautiful study in grief, here are the best albums of 2023 – so far.
Download Festival’s 20th birthday was a total rager, to say the very least. Amping up to 11, the monumental weekend pulled out all the stops. With a mammoth four-day span, rather than the usual three, festival-goers knew they were in for something extraordinary – and Download certainly delivered. Here are its six standout moments.
There’s been some extraordinary music released this week, including from the likes of Christine and the Queens, King Krule, The Japanese House, J Hus and more.
This week, Susie Dent's compiled the definitive list of words that are full of bluster, but mean, in actual fact, very little - or, as she puts it, sheer and unadulterated twaddle.
With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse swinging into cinemas this weekend, isn’t it about time we gave this multiverse stuff up for good?
★★★★☆ This summer the Serpentine is hosting Tomás Saraceno’s largest exhibition in the UK to date. But don’t expect a typical exhibition – Saraceno has injected a number of interventions into the format to shake things up.
This week’s new releases sees tunes from The Weeknd, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Teenage Dads, Gotts Street Park and more.
Despite masterpieces by Korn and Deftones, nu metal became a dirty word when it oversaturated the mainstream and failed to emotionally evolve. So what brought the genre back for its renaissance? Metal writer Matt Mills explains.
Rock duo Royal Blood threw a tantrum at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, admonishing the crowd for not being passionate enough. We advise against such behaviour.
Are The ChurnUps merely an assortment of common people? Are they named after a pre-Nirvana Dave Grohl band? Or is it all just a bit of a Blur? Here are the fan theories on this mysterious band set to play The Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
Sam Levinson’s The Idol screened its first two episodes at Cannes Film Festival and so far, critics haven’t been kind to it.
Streamers are up in arms at the new Draft Media Bill’s threat to put them under OFCOM’s remit, but isn’t this one change that’s long overdue?
Another bank holiday is upon us, and so is another batch of terrific new tunes – coming this week from Foo Fighters, Arlo Parks, Sparks, Squid, Lola Young and more.
With the release of The Little Mermaid, we ask the question on everyone’s mind: do we actually need these live-action remakes?
With all the good records gone, the Guinness World Records have become a cash grab, eroding the authority of their name, and turning what should be a celebration of human achievement into an exercise in corporate greed - or, in some cases, worse.
In honour of her legacy we round up some of the most iconic Tina Turner hits. From the unimaginable ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’ to provocative sensation ‘Private Dancer’. This is by no means a ranking of her best-to-worst, rather a pedestal shining a light on her seven greatest hits.
Rory Doherty explores how Jonathan Glazer and Steve McQueen explore the horrors of the Nazi regime and the rise of fascism in Britain.
In the end, Tina Turner got to tell her own story. We pay tribute to the singer and style icon who leaves behind an indelible mark.
