The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is officially underway - here's our guide to making the most of the festival, including reviews, interviews, and what not to wear on your feet.
With edition two of ‘The Mick Jagger Series’ of custom-made harmonicas out now, in collaboration with whynow Music, we explore the journey of this humble instrument.
Following the death of Sinéad O’Connor, aged 56, we look back at the key moments that shaped and defined the Irish singer’s life.
This week’s New Music Friday features the likes of Stormzy and Raye, Blur, Miss Tiny, Beabadoobee and Hozier. With such illustrious names, yes, you guessed it, there’s some real gems.
Beyond 'beautiful' and 'ugly', our dictionaries hold countless curiosities. Here's Susie Dent serving up ten unusual terms to describe our physical appearance.
Beyond 'beautiful' and 'ugly', our dictionaries hold countless curiosities. Here's Susie Dent serving up ten unusual terms to describe our physical appearance.
One gig-goer tells a tale of two shows, almost twenty years apart, from the plucky New Jersey band Screaming Females, and asks: what keeps a band persevering after all these years?
Honouring 1986’s Somewhere in Time and 2021’s Senjutsu in equal measure, the British metal masters are still finding new ways to integrate decades-old music into a must-see live show.
Glastonbury might be over, but that hasn’t stopped the good tunes from raining down on us – nor the big summertime shows from the likes of Jamie T and Blur. Joining them on this week’s New Music Friday are Stormzy, Grian Chatten, Olivia Dean, James Blake, Do Nothing and more.
With tickets for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer on sale today, we take a look at the true story of the physicist behind the biopic.
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.
