‘Our music didn’t build. We were anti-catharsis’: the glacial pleasures of slowcore | Music

Damon Krukowski, Naomi Yang and Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500.

‘We were not trying to make people dance, we were not trying to ‘rock’ – we were trying to make things that were beautiful,” says Dean Wareham, who formed Galaxie 500 in Boston in 1987 […]

Now we’re Tolkien! After six glacial hours, The Rings of Power is finally worth watching | The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) with Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova).

Whether you’re a Tolkien obsessive or the sort of dabbler who doesn’t give an Ent’s conker what a Silmarillion is, it’s not hard to see why reactions to The Rings of Power have been … […]