I was a teenage Napster obsessive – and illegal downloading changed my music taste for good | Music

Lars Ulrich (L) of Metallica testifies before the US Senate judiciary committee on music on the internet, 11 July 2000.

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. […]

Arctic Monkeys Reveal New Song “There’d Better Be a Mirrorball”: Stream

Arctic Monkeys Reveal New Song "There'd Better Be a Mirrorball": Stream

Arctic Monkeys have revealed “There’d Better Be a Mirrorball,” a retro new single from their upcoming album The Car.  Drummer Matt Helders previously revealed that Arctic Monkeys’ next album “kinda picks up where” 2018’s loungey Tranquility […]

Good mourning Britain: how chillout music soundtracked the death of Diana | Music

Elton John singing Candle in the Wind at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997.

What was the soundtrack to Diana, Princess of Wales’s death? Surely Elton John’s Candle in the Wind 1997? After all, it’s the biggest-selling UK single of all time. But no: if you were listening to […]

‘People want to look like action stars’: the unstoppable rise of the Marvel body | Movies

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X-Men (2000) and in The Wolverine (2013)

We’re so used to seeing the Marvel body. Muscular, yet thin; a lean package that is capable of packing a mean punch. It’s Chris Hemsworth’s glistening nudity in the latest Thor, or Natalie Portman’s much-talked […]

Domhnall Gleeson On Taking The ‘Sexy’ Out Of Serial Killers And Chaining Steve Carrell Up In ‘The Patient’

Domhnall Gleeson

Getty Image/Ralph Ordaz In FX’s latest thriller (from the creative team behind The Americans), The Patient, Steve Carrell, and Domhnall Gleeson face off in a psychological battle of wills. Carrell’s Alan Strauss is a celebrated […]

And … relax: film, music, art and books for chilling out | Culture

Magical … Martin Courtney.

Film Bureaucracy meets the afterlife in Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life, a gently paced drama concerned with a simple question: which single memory from your life would you choose to remember for eternity? Every […]

Kornél Kovács’ Third Album is a Soundtrack to a Fantasy Hotel Incoming

Kornél Kovács' Third Album is a Soundtrack to a Fantasy Hotel Incoming

Kornél Kovács will release Hotel Koko, his third album, in October. Hotel Koko follows to the release of Stockholm Marathon, also released on Studio Barnhus. We’re told to expect another expansive record that underlines the […]

Teen Mom fans slam Chelsea Houska and husband Cole DeBoer’s $750K mansion & claim it looks like an ‘office’ in new video

Teen Mom 2 alums Chelsea Houska and Cole DeBoer's home has been slammed as 'sterile'

TEEN Mom fans have been vocal in their distaste for Chelsea Houska and Cole DeBoer’s $750K mansion, claiming it doesn’t look homey. The pair are no strangers to backlash, especially when it comes to their […]