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After writing a song for the documentary, Canada’s Wild Eastern Edge, Adams was “inspired to write songs about Canada” and “make a record about Canada”. ‘How’s It Goin’’ is not just an album, it’s a history lesson on the…
One might expect the resulting record to be meditative and maudlin; the opening songs Cabin Fever and Lose Myself , focused on poor mental health and addiction respectively, suggest it will be fraught and claustrophobic.…
Arsenal have now taken the lead at the top of the table ahead of Man City, while the race for the European spots looks set to be a thriller. The same can be said down the bottom, where several clubs have reason to be…
The EFL's top division is, in the minds of many, the most competitive division in football and a lot of the 24 teams will still believe that promotion this season, whether that's through the play-offs or a top-two…
The world's top assassin. Going round doing the most elite assassinations you can think of, being paid millions to kill super-dangerous people. Right? OK, But … it's a woman – no, not like in Killing Eve . Well, OK, it…
Back in September, and just a week apart, both Frank Turner and Enter Shikari took to social media to announce that upcoming shows would be their last. Advertisement “After 28 years on the road, 10 albums and well over…
We are sitting in the basement of a London hotel, at the end of a long morning of back-to-back interviews for the Romanian film-maker, and his press handler has just snuck into the room to remind him of his next…
After rock fans evacuated and braced for impact, the Brighton duo fulfilled this initial promise of a heavy new direction, as the song descended into a thrashy, rampant Motörhead march. “Everything or nothing / That’s…
With most Friday playlist updates dominated by the same big songs and returning names, we're always trying to go way beyond that to find the exciting new artists taking their first steps who we think will do amazing…
Instead, alongside producers Karma Kid and Casey MQ, Shygirl has made an experimental pop album that draws on alternative sources from the 1990s, above all British trip-hop and breakbeat, and in doing so rises to the…