Music Reviews

Live music review: Honne come home to the Brixton Academy

Honne write love songs; songs about commitment and appreciation and honesty. Tonight at the Brixton Academy, four years to the day since their first London gig ... Read More...

Single Review: Hayes and Y – Blue

If synth pop is your jam then this single is your cup of soy flat white. Hayes and Y are a Manchester based band with members heralding from Finland and Bulg... Read More...

The Teskey Brothers – Half Mile Harvest Review

Are you ready to be mesmerised by a secret that the state of Victoria, Australia, has been keeping from you for the past decade? Let me introduce the magic t... Read More...

Celebrating 10 sunny years of Strawberry Fields

This year’s Strawberry Fields was the event’s ten year anniversary, making my first camping festival experience in Australia an even bigger outdoor celebration.... Read More...

Buddy Holly meets the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Until this album landed in my inbox, to me he was just the man with the glasses. A face I recognised, possibly the reason why Hank Marvin and Elvis Costello loo... Read More...

Jeff Goldblum does a Jeff Goldblum all over jazz’s hallowed classics

I have a massive man-crush on Jeff Goldblum. The guy has such style. Is it fair for someone with such a glittering movie career to be this good at piano as well... Read More...

Louise Goffin – All These Hellos Review

Today marks the release of Grammy-nominated artist Louise Goffin’s ninth studio album, All These Hellos. The record gets off to a leisurely start with ‘Paris... Read More...

Bert Jansch – Just A Simple Soul Review

Just A Simple Soul is a new album featuring Bert Jansch’s best work, as well as some tracks the incredibly talented artist recorded during his time with folk-ja... Read More...

Eliza Shaddad – Future Review

It’s not often you come across a true original, but Eliza Shaddad is that sort of artist. Her music merges a whole library of styles into something fresh and my... Read More...

Single Review: Slipknot – All Out Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoYIBEZEfw We all knew the machine that is Slipknot was starting to gather momentum again ahead of a 2019 album release and ... Read More...

Live Music Review: Shapeshifter at 170 Russell, Melbourne

It’s Friday night in Melbourne, work is over for the week and what better way to kick off the weekend than watching Shapeshifter at 170 Russell. Unlike gigs ... Read More...

Paul Smith – Diagrams Review

Diagrams is the fourth solo studio album from Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith. Kicking off the eleven track album is ‘The Public Eye’, a catchy song with a d... Read More...

Film

First Man DVD Review

A Private War Review

Win The Hate U Give on DVD

TV

Nightflyers Review: An eerie yet unsatisfying adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s novella

The Good Place season 3 review: Not just the smartest show on TV but the kindest too

The Pilot Project: Titans

Music

The Greta Van Fleet Conundrum

J.S. Ondara – Tales of America Review

The Teskey Brothers roll through Union Chapel

Books

Book Review: A History of Art in 21 Cats by Nia Gould

Book Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Book Review: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo