Magnolia allows its viewers get absorbed for several hours by some of the best acting, cinematography and writing from cinema’s recent history, says Daniel Flynn.
I have been to the Eden Sessions several times, and I am yet to find a venue that is even close to equivocating its unusual blend of expansiveness and intimacy. By containing a spiritual atmosphere within an archetypal festival layout, the venue manages to brilliantly highlight the talent of its performers, but despite these predetermined…
Forget Noel, forget Liam; everybody knows that the only seminal Manchester musician worth talking to is Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays fame.
The Edge caught up with Adam Anderson, one half of depression-chic synth-outfit Hurts, ahead of his band’s new album Exile to talk about touring, Manchester, lyrics, and grooming… So your new album is out soon, what sort of sounds can we expect from it? Our sound has advanced a lot. There is a lot more…
The reaction to the news that Miles Kane was not going to be playing the Bournemouth date of this years NME Awards Tour because he was ill (assumedly he tried SO hard to be Paul Weller that he burst a blood vessel or something), was that of frustration rather than disappointment. The lineup was already…
‘Jubilee Street’ – the second single to be taken from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds upcoming album Push the Sky Away – manages to impress without moving away from comfortable territory.
There’s a famous Stewart Lee routine where the comic describes Richard Hammond as a little hamster who Jeremy Clarkson and James May occasionally let up on the table to ‘lap up his milk’. When listening to this song I cannot help but feel this is case with Adam Levine. Sandwiched between Eminen and 50 Cent,…
On Thursday February 7 this year’s Kerrang! Tour will be stopping for a night at our very own Southampton Guildhall. Continuing it’s long set tradition of providing the highest-quality acts in the Rock scene, this years event will be headlined by American rockers Black Veil Brides and feature support slots from Chiodos, Tonight Alive and…
Justin Timberlake releases the first single from his new album to be released later this year.
Solange Knowles is Beyoncé Knowles sister, but apparently it’s rude to mention this as she is now an artist her own right, so here, I will deny Beyoncé’s existence. Solange Knowles, the sister of absolutely no one famous, has been around for ages now. As far back as 2003, at the mere age of 14,…
Recently, while discussing the recording of Blink-182’s 2011 album Neighbourhoods, guitarist Tom Delonge said that the band ‘barely spoke’. This fractured relationship within the band could be heard in the album itself; while it was a decent record, it did feel that each member had brought their solo interests to the table and the band had…
After winning the title of ‘World’s Most Popular Man with a Girl’s Face’ after the release of his 2010 debut Doo Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars’ difficult second, brilliant titled Unorthodox Jukebox, has a lot to live up to within his, assumedly, pre-teen audience. Using Wikipedia, Mars’ output can be helpfully pinned down to ‘Reggae…
During the Southampton leg of their current UK tour, Dan Flynn and George Doel caught up with Indie-wunderkinds Peace in a corridor within the depths of The Joiners to discuss a variety of topics, including time travel, The X Factor, and naked men doing the crab… The Guardian called you the future of Indie; do…
Ten musicians who for one reason or another, took it too far in 2012