‘I will outshine them all’: the enduring genius of Bloc Party | Bloc Party

Kele Okereke performing live in 2022.

When emo legends Paramore made their comeback with new single This Is Why in October, something about its blend of danceable guitar work and lyrical anxiety felt more than a little familiar. Speaking on her […]

‘I love writing for children’: Emma Thompson and Axel Scheffler on their amazing shaggy dog story | Children and teenagers

Emma Thompson reads Jim’s Spectacular Christmas to schoolchildren at the V&A Museum

Axel Scheffler was an unknown illustrator, working largely for Good Housekeeping magazine, when he received a letter in response to a small exhibition of his work. It was from Emma Thompson, a young actor who […]

‘I love writing for children’: Emma Thompson and Axel Scheffler on their amazing shaggy dog story | Children and teenagers

Emma Thompson reads Jim’s Spectacular Christmas to schoolchildren at the V&A Museum

Axel Scheffler was an unknown illustrator, working largely for Good Housekeeping magazine, when he received a letter in response to a small exhibition of his work. It was from Emma Thompson, a young actor who […]

Has Spotify really wrapped up the mystery of musical taste? | Music

Hua Hsu’s Stay True.

Move over Mariah Carey: these days the arrival of Christmas is marked by the arrival of Spotify Wrapped. Since 2016, the streaming giant has generated end-of-year listening statistics that claim to reveal users’ most intimate […]

How Painters and Dockers’ hedonistic rocker Paulie Stewart cheated death – with help from some ‘punk’ nuns | Australian books

Journalists Tony Stewart (left) and Greg Shackleton enjoy a meal in Balibo hours before the village was attacked in October 1975.

Paulie Stewart was 48 years old and had been on the waiting list for a liver transplant for more than 500 days when, at death’s door, he was visited in Melbourne’s Austin hospital by Sister […]

Ranking The Guardians Based On How Likely Their Death Is In ‘Vol 3.’

guardians of the galaxy walking in vol 3

Marvel Studios On Thursday night, in tandem with their presence at CCXP (essentially Brazil’s version of Comic Con), Marvel Studios released the first trailer for James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, which will […]

Ranking The Guardians Based On How Likely Their Death Is In ‘Vol 3.’

guardians of the galaxy walking in vol 3

Marvel Studios On Thursday night, in tandem with their presence at CCXP (essentially Brazil’s version of Comic Con), Marvel Studios released the first trailer for James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, which will […]

The best music books of 2022 | Best books of the year

In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in 70s Britain by Will Hodgkinson

Rock and pop music has been obsessed with its own past almost from the start: by 1959, a New York record store called Times Square was doing a roaring trade in what it called “oldies”, […]

Willow review – Warwick Davis’s fantasy reboot is lots of fun … until he appears | Television

Actors on horseback with a wagon in a landscape with grass and rocks

Who remembers Willow, the magical quest-in-a-forest film with Warwick Davis in it? It was released in 1988 and hasn’t spawned a spin-off screen universe since – when it has been mentioned, it’s usually in brackets […]

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 […]

How FX’s ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ differs from the novel

"Fleishman Is in Trouble," by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

“Even our crises had to be small and polite,” laments Libby, narrator and ringer for author Taffy Brodesser-Akner in the 2019 novel “Fleishman Is in Trouble.” In adapting the book to eight roughly one-hour installments […]

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 […]

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac’s “Songbird,” Dead at 79

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac's "Songbird," Dead at 79

Christine McVie, the legendary vocalist and songwriter who lifted Fleetwood Mac with clear-eyed optimism, has died at the age of 79. McVie “passed away peacefully at hospital this morning, Wednesday, November 30th 2022, following a short […]