Music Reviews

Brief Nocturnes & Dreamless Sleep – Spock’s Beard

Released: 2013 When Spock’s Beard started out in 1992, ‘prog’ was a dirty word. A word associated with old bearded men warbling nonsense about wizards and th... Read More...

Talking Underwater – Kree Woods

Released: 2013 Tennessee has received its fair share of spotlight for producing successful music artists: Kings of Leon, Lady Antebellum, Paramore, Kesha and... Read More...

Bastille Live At Brighton Concorde 2

25/03/13 Bastille are proving to be one of the most celebrated bands of 2013 with their debut studio album Bad Blood speeding straight to number one in the U... Read More...

Martin Harley Band Live At Norwich Waterfront Studio

Martin Harley is not a man to take things easy. Having set a record in 2005 for the highest ever gig atop a mountain, and playing the Blues Gone Green tour whic... Read More...

Specter At The Feast – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Released: 2013 Blues Licks, fuzzy guitars and acres of amped up feedback, watch out folk rock scenesters, 2013 is about to get a dirty rock revival. After... Read More...

Tea & Sympathy – Billie Myers

Released: 2013 Compared in her press notes to Chrissy Hyde, Joan Armatrading and Tracy Chapman, Billie Myers is back with a new album – her first since parti... Read More...

What About Now – Bon Jovi

Released: 2013 It’s all too easy to be cynical or derogatory about Bon Jovi - the band who rocketed to stardom with their 80s perm rock hits Livin’ On A Pray... Read More...

Blak and Blu – Gary Clark Jr

Released: 2013 This substantial slice of blues-rock dirt is of a high enough quality to bring Gary Clarke Jr into prominence as a rising star of the new era ... Read More...

The Truth About Love – Pink

Released: 2012 Pink is back! After several years she returns with excellent new album, The Truth About Love, and it’s quite a change from the Pink we're used... Read More...

The Magnificent Ambersons – The Ambersons

Released: 2013 With this (almost) self-titled EP, The Ambersons announce their arrival on the scene with a subtle blend of indie music foundations surrounded... Read More...

mbv – My Bloody Valentine

Released: 2013 No, this isn’t a joke – My Bloody Valentine just released a new album. 22 years is a long time to wait. But that’s exactly how long fans of... Read More...

The Next Day – David Bowie

Released: 2013 If you listen hard enough, you can hear a collective sigh of relief from all corners of the globe as, in a harmony of gratitude, those nervous... Read More...

Film

Win a copy of Red Joan by Jennie Rooney

Monty Python’s Life of Brian – 40th Anniversary We-Welease Review

Last Breath Review

TV

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 2 review: Darker, bolder and more self-assured than ever

Win Trapped Season 2 on DVD

TV Review: Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots

Music

Bear’s Den – So That You Might Hear Me Review

The Lumineers re-illumine us with the glories of ‘Gloria’

All Tvvins – Just To Exist Review

Books

Book Review: Vicious Rumer by Joshua Winning

Book Review: The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts

Book Review: Emily Eternal by M. G. Wheaton