Marvel’s Midnight Suns is an unexpected triumph of tactics and friendship

Screenshot from Midnight Suns featuring the Hunter player character that has been customized to be a Black woman with dreadlocks standing in front of her mother a Caucasian woman with black hair.

I did not want to play Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Having been so thoroughly heartbroken by Sonic Frontiers, I didn’t even want to look at another video game for at least a week, especially one I […]

Girls Aloud’s 20 best songs – ranked! | Girls Aloud

Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts, Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Cole and Sarah Harding perform on their ‘Ten – The Hits Tour’ at The O2 Arena in 2013.

20. No Regrets (2005) Ballads were seldom Girls Aloud’s forte – they were better at songs with bolshie attitudes, which seemed to suit their personalities – but No Regrets is the exception that proves the […]

Robert De Niro Eyeing First Starring TV Role With Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’

Robert De Niro Eyeing First Starring TV Role With Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’

Robert De Niro has landed a small-screen role. According to Variety, the Academy Award-winning actor has been tapped to star in Zero Day, a Netflix limited series from Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim, Jonathan Glickman. Though plot details remain under […]

Robert De Niro Eyeing First Starring TV Role With Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’

Robert De Niro Eyeing First Starring TV Role With Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’

Robert De Niro has landed a small-screen role. According to Variety, the Academy Award-winning actor has been tapped to star in Zero Day, a Netflix limited series from Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim, Jonathan Glickman. Though plot details remain under […]

Little Simz and Knucks share best album prize as Mobo winners announced | Music

Best acts … Central Cee and PinkPantheress.

Central Cee, PinkPantheress, Knucks and Little Simz have taken top prizes at this year’s Mobo awards, the annual ceremony celebrating the best in Black musical talent from Britain and abroad. Little Simz and Knucks were […]

Little Simz and Knucks share best album prize as Mobo winners announced | Music

Best acts … Central Cee and PinkPantheress.

Central Cee, PinkPantheress, Knucks and Little Simz have taken top prizes at this year’s Mobo awards, the annual ceremony celebrating the best in Black musical talent from Britain and abroad. Little Simz and Knucks were […]

‘It was revelatory for younger Asians’: Monsoon’s Sheila Chandra on her hit Ever So Lonely | Pop and rock

The 12” cover of Ever So Lonely by Monsoon

A decade after Bowie’s Starman moment on Top of the Pops, a south Asian teenage girl extended a hand from BBC Television Centre to her own audience of dreamers. It was 1982 and a sari-clad […]

Julia Holter: The Passion of Joan of Arc review – strikingly contemporary, piercingly loud live score | Music

Julia Holter.

Julia Holter’s mercurial career has taken her from traditional pop to chamber music, indie to electronica, the avant grade underground to the Top 20 and recently to film scores. Here, the Los Angeles-based composer has […]

Vanessa Hudgens Admits To Hitting Ashley Tisdale In The Face

Vanessa Hudgens LUISAVIAROMA for UNICEF 2022 Gala at Certosa San Giacomo in Capri

“High School Musical” quickly became one of the most popular franchises in Disney Channel history. Starring Zac Efron (Troy Bolton), Vanessa Hudgens (Gabriella Montez), Corbin Bleu (Chad Danforth), Monique Coleman (Taylor McKessie), Ashley Tisdale (Sharpay […]

The best Black Friday deals you can already get at Amazon

An Echo Dot with Clock on a counter

Black Friday is right around the corner, but Amazon is wasting no time by rolling out some excellent deals in the run-up to the main event on Friday. If you’re looking to knock out some […]

‘It made me a pop star – and I’m crap at being a pop star’: KT Tunstall on Suddenly I See | Culture

KT Tunstall Suddenly I See

KT Tunstall, singer, songwriter, guitarist I’d been living in Edinburgh, on the dole, trying to make it as a musician. I was once so skint that I stole broccoli from a field. I moved down […]

‘Not just another album’: Stormzy’s third act takes anticipation to fever pitch | Stormzy

Stormzy in 2015.

The UK albums chart has been dominated by American behemoths over the past few weeks, with Taylor Swift and Drake dropping blockbuster albums. That could all change when one of Britain’s most successful grime stars […]

Nik Turner, Hawkwind co-founder and saxophonist, dies aged 82 | Pop and rock

Nik Turner laughing on stage with a saxophone at a music festival

Nik Turner, the co-founder of the British space-rock band Hawkwind, has died aged 82. A statement on the saxophonist’s Facebook page said: “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Nik Turner – the […]

Gospel trailblazers the Staples Jr Singers: ‘We were singing about all the hardship and hurt’ | Music

‘Gospel was something we sang because we love to praise the Lord. Not some kind of show business’ … Edward Brown with an original copy of When Do We Get Paid.

In 1975, a group of teenage siblings in Aberdeen, Mississippi, recorded an album of gospel songs focused on toil, conflict, succour and redemption. They named themselves the Staples Jr Singers in tribute to Mavis and […]

Boko! Boko! The UK club superheroes celebrating global grooves and local roots | Dance music

Old friends … Juba, Tash and Mina.

There’s something of the superhero team about dance collective Boko! Boko! There’s their big, complementary personalities and musical abilities and clear camaraderie, not to mention their colourful Lycra outfits. As they wait backstage in Oslo’s […]

Tom Skinner on the Smile, Sons of Kemet and going solo: ‘It gives me a blank slate to explore’ | Music

Tom Skinner performs with Sons of Kemet at the 2022 Newport jazz festival in July.

It has been a head-spinning year for drummer Tom Skinner. He has been crossing the globe touring new albums simultaneously with London jazz group Sons of Kemet and with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood as […]