Protestors clash outside Tate Britain over drag queen story time
Violent protests erupted outside Tate Britain this weekend, with the clashes sparked by a drag queen storytelling event taking place at the museum.
Violent protests erupted outside Tate Britain this weekend, with the clashes sparked by a drag queen storytelling event taking place at the museum.
The 1975 have announced their biggest ever UK show, taking place at the 40,000-capacity Finsbury Park on 2 July.
David Jolicoeur, one of the founding members of the hip-hop trio De La Soul, has passed away at the age of 54.
James Gunn concludes his Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy this May with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Watch the new trailer here.
We finally have our very first trailer for Andy Muschietti’s The Flash, in which Ezra Miller portrays the titular superhero.
★★★★☆
Colchester alt-hip-hop group Monster Florence dissect the dystopian state of the world through lyrical tricks and commendable beats on their new album Master System; a record which ultimately demonstrates how underrated they are.
Rihanna played her first live performance in five years at the Super Bowl Halftime show – and did so whilst pregnant with her second child, later confirmed by her representatives.
★★★★☆
Sheffield outfit Reverend and the Makers rolled back the years to deliver welcome upbeat indie at Islington Assembly Hall – and even took to the streets to do so.
★★☆☆☆
You Me At Six take on Ally Pally on Saturday night, in a predictable show that adheres to the “arena rock 101” handbook.
Harry Styles swept up at the BRIT Awards this year with four accolades, including Best Album and Artist of the Year, whilst Wet Leg also triumphed on the night.
★★★★☆ Ernest's Flower Shops (The Album): Two Dozen Roses is a deluxe country music expansion showcasing the versatile crooner's signature style and blending of influences.
Episode 5 of The Last of Us sees Joel and Ellie fight humans and infected alike, including our first Bloater.
It was one of the most wishlisted games on Steam. But The Day Before has also been shrouded in uncertainty since its reveal in 2021. Ryan Lambie takes a closer look…
The tenth instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise drops this year and we have the first, star-studded trailer for Fast X.
The life of Burt Bacharach, who died on Thursday at his home in L.A. aged 94, spanned most of the revolutions in 20th century music – pop, rock, classical, jazz, his songwriting made use of this rich spectrum of possibility. Yet Bacharach’s music was distinct, his legacy multifarious.
★★★☆☆
After nearly six years, pop-punk darlings Paramore return with brand new, highly anticipated album This Is Why.
★★★☆☆
In Blue Jean, Georgia Oakley’s impressive, but flawed debut, a PE teacher faces a personal crisis in Thatcher’s Britain.
The Grammys last weekend, the BRITs this weekend. The music industry’s machinery is well and truly waking up for 2023. And there’s some cracking albums this week to bung into the mix – including, as I’m sure you’ve heard, Paramore’s This Is Why. Here’s our pick of the best tunes from this week.
Adidas has again warned of a major impact to profits, potentially close to £500m, as a result of ending the company’s partnership with Kanye West last year.
★★☆☆☆ Your Place or Mine is a straight-to-Netflix romantic comedy that reunites two likeable performers, Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon. I’m playing fast and loose with the word ‘reunite’ here because Kutcher and Witherspoon aren’t in the same room together for most of the movie.
Dizzee Rascal will headline The O2 on 8 March to mark two decades since the release of his highly acclaimed, Mercury Prize-winning debut album Boy In Da Corner.
★★★★☆
In Sarah Polley’s gentle Women Talking, a group of Mennonite women debate whether they should leave their colony after a series of brutal attacks against them.
Netflix has just released the first trailer for Luther: The Fallen Sun, which stars Idris Elba as everyone’s favourite brooding ex-detective.
Burt Bacharach, one of the greatest composers of all-time, who wrote classics like ‘I Say A Little Prayer’ and ‘Walk On By’, has died at the age of 94.
★★★★☆
After 16 albums and nearly 40 years as indie rock’s depressive cult heroes, you may think Yo La Tengo would be running out of things to say and ways to surprise. But on their 17th LP This Stupid World – their first of wholly original material since 2018’s There’s a Riot Going On – there’s a living urgency in the trio’s meditative assortment of reflective odes to time and past and all that holds.
Charting the rise and fall of America's fourth largest investment bank, Sam Mendes' Tony Award-winning epic, The Lehman Trilogy, returns to the Gillian Lynne Theatre following its acclaimed Broadway run.
★★☆☆☆
The truth hurts. This much is true. And whilst You Me At Six attempt a return to their authentic selves on their eighth studio album, Truth Decay often wallows a bit too much in self-pity, with its more impressive melodic aspects too far and few between.
★★★☆☆
Tennis's new album is the ideal soundtrack to a 'cool, artsy, backroom party' taking a break from Father John Misty. Read our Pollen review.
Getty Images has filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, an artificial intelligence company accused of a “brazen infringement” over its use of 12 million stock images to train its AI image generator, known as Stable Diffusion.
Zelda and Metroid Prime Remastered rightly hogged the limelight, but there were also some exciting indie games packed into the Nintendo Direct roster.