Television needs to stop rolling out Charles Dickens adaptations – and this is coming from someone whose lockdown project was writing an Oliver Twist prequel about Nancy (binned after three chapters due to insufficient oom-pah-pah). […]
From Circe to Medusa via Persephone, Electra and the women of Troy, it seems there are few characters from Greek mythology left who haven’t been the subject of a feminist retelling in recent years. This […]
Photo Credit: ilgmyzin Twitch has announced layoffs impacting around 400 people as part of Amazon’s broader layoffs. Details on other Amazon divisions, including Amazon Music, remain scant. Twitch CEO Emmett Shear stepped down from his […]
Earlier this year, the three members of Boygenius – Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – signed up for a run of group therapy sessions. The year ahead was freighted with the band’s debut […]
Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton‘s duet is inappropriate for elementary school kids to sing … at least according to a Wisconsin principal who’s banning “Rainbowland” from a spring concert. Here’s the deal … first-grade students […]
What is it about Great Expectations? Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s new dramatisation of Dickens’s novel is the seventh BBC adaptation – the first appearing on screens in 1954. Cinema has loved it too. David […]
Twenty-seven years ago this April, a curious Kiwi track jumped to No 1 on the Australian music charts. How Bizarre by OMC (which stands for Ōtara Millionaires Club, made up of frontman Pauly Fuemana and […]
Downtown Music has reportedly triggered another round of layoffs amid a broader effort to reduce spending. Photo Credit: Adolfo Félix A little over five months after nearly 30 CD Baby and Soundrop team members were […]
With a click of the right-mouse button, my musclebound barbarian sinks his axe into the ground behind him, sweeps it forward and creates a shock wave that obliterates everything in its path. Ahead, a horde […]
U2 have always dealt in grand gestures. No other rock artists from the world of post-punk chased megastardom with the same missionary zeal: they seldom made any bones about wanting to be the biggest band […]
Ric de Azevedo, a soulful member of the massive King Family vocal troupe, music composer and TV producer, has died. He was 75. De Azevedo died on March 14 following an undisclosed illness, the King […]
A letter from Jane Austen to her sister, in which she shares domestic news and neighbourhood gossip, is to go on display at the author’s former home. Dated 1798, the letter is one of around […]
POPULAR gamer girl Belle Delphine has sent internet rumours flying after F1NN5TER shared a photo of the pair cuddled up together. F1NN5TER, who describes himself as the “world’s number 1 femboy”, teased fans on Twitter […]
Clarence Eugene “Fuzzy” Haskins, an original member of the influential musical collective Parliament-Funkadelic, has died. He was 81. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hide caption toggle caption Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Clarence […]
Austin, Texas — For every problem you can think of, someone is out there pitching a solution that involves artificial intelligence. AI could help solve such intractable problems as climate change and dangerous work conditions, the […]
In one of March’s music industry hires and promotions, Musicbed named Chris Lavarias (pictured) head of its newly launched film and television division. Photo Credit: Musicbed Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and […]
‘It is I, Justin Hawkins from the Darkness,” began the singer on 23 October 2021, launching his YouTube channel Justin Hawkins Rides Again. In the short clip that followed, the rocker explained that he would […]
How many text messages have you received lately about a missed delivery of a package you didn’t order? Or a prize you’ve earned for being a loyal customer of a company you don’t use? Or […]
It started off, as many great creative undertakings do, as a joke. A few years ago, James Acaster’s parents gave him an ultimatum: collect your old dust-lagged drum kit from our house or we’ll throw […]
Goose have expanded their upcoming North American tour all the way through October 2023. After wrapping up their previously-announced tour dates, Goose will keep the good times rolling on September 16th at Detroit’s Masonic Temple Theatre. […]