New Music Friday | Featuring ‘The Wonder’ by Miles Kane
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.
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From S Club 7 to Central Cee | Why was 90s music so happy compared to now?
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.
Has Wes Anderson finally out-Wes-Andersoned himself?
With the release of Asteroid City this week, Kate Padley asks, has Wes Anderson out-Wes-Andersoned himself?
The Idol has a problem and his name is The Weeknd
The Idol, HBO’s provocative and controversial series, is now halfway through and it can’t shake its biggest issue: The Weeknd.
Blondshell: ‘I have more of an idea of my self-worth than I did before’
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 Absolute State of The Hundred
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.
New Music Friday | Featuring ‘Algorithms’ by Kasabian
This week’s New Music Friday features tunes from the likes of Kasabian, Pixey, Killer Mike, Peggy Gou, Coach Party and more.
Have we lost the art of making movie trailers?
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.
What makes the perfect dad movie?
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.
Best albums of 2023, so far
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.
The six standout moments from Download Festival 2023
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.
New Music Friday | Featuring ‘Who Told You’ by J Hus (feat. Drake)
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.
Susie Dent's Top Tens: 10 Words for Utter Rubbish
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.
Is it time for Hollywood to give up on the multiverse?
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?
Tomás Saraceno at the Serpentine review | Argentinian brings the outside into the Serpentine
★★★★☆ 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.
New Music Friday | Featuring ‘Popular’ by The Weeknd, Playboi Carti & Madonna
This week’s new releases sees tunes from The Weeknd, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Teenage Dads, Gotts Street Park and more.
New nu metal | The rise, fall and resurrection of metal’s least liked subgenre
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.
How Royal Blood threw the least rock n’ roll temper tantrum
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.
Who are The ChurnUps? | The mystery Glastonbury band everyone’s talking about
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.
The bad feminism of Sam Levinson
Sam Levinson’s The Idol screened its first two episodes at Cannes Film Festival and so far, critics haven’t been kind to it.
OFCOM is set to regulate streamers for the first time – but isn’t that a good thing?
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?
New Music Friday | Featuring ‘Show Me How’ by Foo Fighters
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.
It’s 2023, do we still need live-action remakes of classic films?
With the release of The Little Mermaid, we ask the question on everyone’s mind: do we actually need these live-action remakes?
The Absolute State of Guinness World Records
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.
Simply the best | Remembering Tina Turner through her most iconic hits
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.
How Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer took on the Nazis with their Cannes films
Rory Doherty explores how Jonathan Glazer and Steve McQueen explore the horrors of the Nazi regime and the rise of fascism in Britain.
Tina Turner | An icon lost, an astounding legacy left behind
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.
From Screen to Stage | The insufferable rise of film-to-musical adaptations
Examining the rise of film adaptations as musicals and their implications on modern attitudes towards art, culture, and entertainment.
New Music Friday | Featuring ‘Say Yes To Heaven’ by Lana Del Rey
This week’s new releases sees old favourites mix with some of the most compelling new artists out there, from Lana Del Rey and Kesha to Trout, Do Nothing and HotWax.
Matty Healy and Taylor Swift | The story so far…
Over the last few weeks, a new celebrity couple has sent two sets of fandoms into a spiral. From the moment newspapers picked up the story that Taylor Swift and Matty Healy are apparently “madly in love”, there has been no slowing or stopping the world-wind of hot takes and reactions as fans seem to fall into two camps: the shocked and the downright outraged.
