From Abba to enka: how my 10-year-old fell in love with 1940s Japanese music | Music

Enka’s undisputed queen, the late Hibari Misora, performing at Tokyo Dome in 1988.

Since her father is a longtime music journalist and her mother is a musician, it was inevitable that my 10-year-old daughter would fall in love with music. But I never imagined that the music she […]

Rian Treanor and Ocen James: Saccades review – Rotherham producer meets Ugandan folk fiddler | Music

The cover of Rian Treanor and Ocen James: Saccades.

Within the grid-based continuum of contemporary electronic music, Rotherham producer Rian Treanor is an experimental outlier. Shunning four-to-the-floor kick drums and repetitive synth melodies, Treanor trades in squeals, shrieks and scattergun bass, stretching formulaic structures […]

The 1975 review – a tale of two halves packed with raw meat and talent | The 1975

Matty Healy does push-ups while watching Rishi Sunak on TV.

Matty Healy is chewing on slab of raw steak. Minutes later, after doing push-ups while images of Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Margaret Thatcher flash on screens, he crawls into an old rear-projection television and […]

The Rig review – prepare to drill down into Martin Compston’s spooky North Sea drama | Television & radio

Over a barrel … Mark Bonnar as Alwyn in The Rig, Prime Video’s six-part thriller.

It’s hard these days to isolate your characters enough for high drama to play out. You have to rely on uncharged mobile phones, social media refuseniks or go big like The Terror or The North […]

How To Get Your Music on Spotify Playlists

spotify playlists

Photo credit: Heidi Fin If you were a 90s kid like me, you probably remember curating playlists before there were playlists. They were called mixtapes, or “burning a CD.” We put our favorite songs in […]

Robert Forster: Venus by Television is the most perfect song of all time | Music

Black and white shot of the band on stage with Verlaine singing

How could the perfect song be anything else? I was 19 years old, living in suburban Brisbane, writing my first half-decent songs, when Television released their debut album, Marquee Moon. I had been following the […]

Best podcasts of the week: The rise and fall of the Silicon Valley brand that made antidepressants ‘cool’ | Podcasts

A January 21, 1976 photo of a British Airways Concorde as it makes its inaugural flight from Heathrow Airport in London.

Picks of the week Shared BaggageAudible, episodes weeklyWhat more reliable source of authoritative life advice could you want than two stand-up comedians? Self-described “deeply underqualified pair of homosexuals” Catherine Bohart and Larry Dean tackle readers’ […]

Logan Paul faces backlash from CryptoZoo Discord following Coffeezilla investigation

Logan Paul faces backlash from CryptoZoo Discord following Coffeezilla investigation

Zackerie Fairfax   ❘   Published: 2022-12-31T19:28:22   ❘   Updated: 2022-12-31T19:32:04 Two weeks after the first entry in the CryptoZoo investigation was uploaded to the Coffeezilla YouTuber channel, Logan Paul has finally addressed the […]

Unraveling The Mystery Of Andrew Tate’s Purported $300-400 Million Fortune

Unraveling The Mystery Of Andrew Tate's Purported $300-400 Million Fortune

When you operate a website that reports on the extreme wealth and assets of celebrities, you tend to receive A LOT of feedback from super fans of very specific celebrities. For example, not a day […]

Ticketmaster apologizes for Bad Bunny concert-ticket fraud

Ticketmaster apologizes for Bad Bunny concert-ticket fraud

Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour became the world’s hottest mess Friday after instances of ticket fraud prevented hundreds of fans from attending the musician’s concert in Mexico City. Ticketmaster issued an apology Friday after an […]

After ditching Henry Cavill’s Superman, can James Gunn really turn DC around? | Movies

Jason Momoa in Aquaman.

It’s impossible not to feel sorry for Henry Cavill, given the news this week that the statuesque Englishman will not be returning to the role of Superman after all. Apparently DC supremos James Gunn and […]

Why Embracer is acquiring ‘Tomb Raider’ and other video games

Two bearded men in black T-shirts, one holding a mouse, look at a computer screen

KARLSTAD, Sweden —  Like so many on-screen action heroes, she was elbowed aside when newer stars appeared and started grabbing more viewers with bigger weapons, better special effects and more elaborate adventures. That’s when Lars Wingefors […]