When Steve Roud was young, he began collecting records. Hardly unusual for a child of the 1950s – but this boy from south London was different. Not content with just listening to LPs, Roud began […]
You may think you know Yellow Submarine, that jokey, surreal number by the Beatles that Ringo Starr sings and children love. But an extraordinary, poignant early version of the song, soon to be revealed alongside […]
Gina Prince Bythewood’s period film The Woman King opens with an incredible action sequence with General Nanisca (Viola Davis) of The Agojie army approaching a village of men holding their women hostage. Men are getting […]
WALL-E, Pixar’s 2008 masterpiece, is being added to the Criterion Collection, a curated list of movies that are deemed to be “important classic and contemporary films.” Its induction means that the movie is getting a […]
Brittney Parks is on a mission “to show the Blackness of the violin”, she says. As a child in Ohio, she learned to play the instrument by ear. She moved to Los Angeles in her […]
Here’s a hot take: British people are funnier than Americans. I’ve known this since I was a kid when my dad sat me down to watch old Monty Python episodes. If someone recommends a British comedy to […]
Developer Mr. Nutz Studio and publisher Microids have announced a New Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja release window of November 2022 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S, […]
It’s 6pm on a weeknight in 2002. I settle into a desk chair and thump the huge, round power button on the family computer with my big toe. It clunks like a manual typewriter returning. […]
‘If someone like Neil Young or Bob Marley were born in Kashmir, who do you think they would have supported?” Ali Saffudin asks. “The oppressed. These are my inspirations.” For Saffudin, a Kashmiri folk singer-songwriter, […]
The “record men” were a fabled breed of almost entirely American males who, across the 20th century, became famous in their own rights due to their discovering, recording, promoting and sometimes fleecing of future legends. […]
Image Source: Paravel I had an incredibly busy summer traveling almost every weekend, whether it be for a wedding or a quick getaway. Between plane rides and road trips, I knew I needed good luggage […]
What an unusual proposition Tame Impala are. Kevin Parker, a genial Australian with a laissez-faire look that might be described as surfer rave Jesus, started out in the late 2000s as a one-man psychedelic rock […]
This week, the wall of Manchester’s 75 Port Street, a canvas for street artists, cycled through three different designs in the space of one day – the last a plain black background, with no trace […]
How many local martial arts contests have ever touched the lives of so many people—both real and fictional—as much (and for as long) as the 1984 San Fernando All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament? We […]
Giggster explores Vancouver, British Columbia, using five of its iconic filming locations used in some of the best comedies. – Canva Sofia Voss Filming locations from the best comedies shot in Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia, […]
There are many things you notice as you plow deeper into your 30s. It’s a transitional period with incredibly visible milestones: babies, weddings, houses, more babies. What gets added to people’s lives can feel loud […]
Getty Image In 2004, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King tied a record at the Academy Awards by racking up a total of eleven Oscars at a ceremony that was essentially devoted […]
“We started out with five of us putting £100 in a pot and hoping for the best,” says Henry Morris of the micro electronic music festival Field Maneuvers. Along with Leon Cole and Ele Beattie, […]
KIM Kardashian’s ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson has been spotted looking downcast, and down at his phone, in new photos. The somber street snaps came after the couple’s shock split and Kanye West’s brutal online attacks. 8 […]
Amid alien contact, thrilling chase sequences and cathartic emotional beats, “Nope” considers a range of ideological concepts — legacy, race, exploitation and the taming of nature among them. But writer-director Jordan Peele’s summer blockbuster also […]