Adele performed live for a public audience for the first time in five years in London over the weekend. Her return to the stage was a triumphant one that included the Grammy winner sharing why […]
On Sunday the 26th of June 2022, Diana Ross amassed a record breaking audience mean for BBC One’s broadcast of Glastonbury’s much-loved Sunday afternoon Legends slot. Reaching an outstanding overnight average audience figure of 3.1 […]
A lot of the criticism directed towards Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness pertains to that final word. Aside from a brief montage of Doctor Strange being quickly flung through a bunch of multiverses, […]
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“E aua,” sings Lorde intently, eyes scrunched shut, a familiar melody playing beneath, “Kohore ana pea aku mata.” This is her single Stoned at the Nail Salon – one of the most thoughtful and moving […]
A few years ago, the big-screen adaptation of Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy YA series landed in theaters. But it landed with a loud thud. But hey, 2014 might as well have been 1914 in pop […]
Margaret Keane, the artist known for her “big eyes” paintings, has died at the age of 94. Keane was embroiled in a legal battle over the rights to her work after her husband claimed credit, […]
Last Saturday, taking the stage at Glastonbury, Sampa the Great made history. A vision in bright red, the Zambian rapper and songwriter, born Sampa Tembo, addressed the crowd with a sly grin on her face: […]
A band turning up for a session at Studio Electrophonique in the late 1970s could have been forgiven for thinking they had the wrong address. An ordinary Sheffield council house with a caravan parked on […]
‘Due to unforeseen circumstances, [support act] A$AP Rocky will now play immediately after Red Hot Chili Peppers,” read digital screens around the stadium, causing some audience bewilderment. Still, the Chilis hit the ground running. A […]
Is it even Glastonbury if Jack White doesn’t make an appearance somewhere? I’ve seen him duet sultrily with Alison Mosshart in the Dead Weather, he played here twice with the White Stripes and once with […]
German writer WG Sebald is regularly named one of the most influential writers of recent decades. He referred to his genre-defying books as prose fiction – not-quite-novels, not-quite-autobiographies, not-quite-nonfiction – but with elements of all. […]
The Umbrella Academy season three delivers a ton of wild moments along with yet another apocalypse that our favorite superhero siblings have to prevent. This season also has some jaw-dropping plot twists, and some intriguing […]
For Self Esteem – AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor – Glastonbury is where it all began, sort of. “It was Gary Lightbody!” she told Alexis Petridis in the second of the Guardian’s onstage interviews with musicians […]
Shaad D’Souza is over at the Park Stage where rapper Sampa the Great is performing and history is being made. “I’m standing on this stage with the first Zambian band to perform at Coachella,” she […]
It’s not just that Billie Eilish is, as she’s keen to point out, the youngest headliner in Glastonbury’s history … it’s that she’s the first mainstream pop star – as in the kind of pop […]
‘Glastonbury has shaped my life’ Lauren on stage with Kenickie in 1997. Photograph: Martyn Goodacre/Getty I first went to Glastonbury to play in a band [Kenickie], then with friends, and then for work. I’ve covered […]
Headlining Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage – the most recognised festival platform in the world – has always been a career-defining moment. When 20-year-old Billie Eilish makes history as the youngest ever solo headliner on Friday, one […]
Today, Nintendo held its Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Nintendo Direct, which, exactly as promised, focused exclusively on the story and game mechanics of the upcoming Monolith Soft RPG. It also shared a couple other pertinent details […]
The Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has said she was overcome with emotion as the first of 200,000 people flooded into the festival for the first time in three years. Its return has long been anticipated […]