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The 10th album from the Tennessee rock veterans is distinctly different to its 2024 predecessor ‘ Can We Please Have Fun ’. While that album saw frontman Caleb Followill and co throw caution to the wind and embrace a…
The band party departed from synth layers towards a pared-back sound. The four-piece – Haydn Park-Patterson (vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar), Amelia Kidd (vocals, bass guitar), Calum Stewart (drums…
It was recorded at The Arch Recording Studio in Southport and Giant Wafer in Llanbadarn Fynydd, with Wallis’s vocals tracked at Dead Door Studio in Stockport. The band produced and mixed the album, and Felix Davis…
Sanders, who uses they/them pronouns, draws on the traditions of Black American Music while challenging the expectations and inequalities that shape its culture. They prefer the term Black American Music to “jazz”…
It looks as if it might be a saucy romp, but is in fact doomily serious, like a stilted, stricken stage play. Sexual violence, PTSD and misogyny are among the issues that the film fails to address convincingly.…
“It didn’t form our friendship, but it was a bar that generations of people in L.A. would always go to. Like, you’ll always meet older people who are like, ‘Damn, El Prado was the spot for us .’ [...] And at the time…
The Jam Tarts have one point on the board after drawing with Nordsjælland in their opener and losing 2-0 to Mohamed Salah's Trabzonspor. The two games form part of Hearts' six-match winless run, with Wouter Vrancken's…
The Seagulls are having a sensational season so far with Fabian Hürzeler's side currently third in the Premier League and just five points off leaders Arsenal. Brighton pulled off a brilliant 1-0 win at Manchester City…
The Black Cats were promoted from the Championship in 2025 and they had a brilliant campaign last time out while finishing seventh to land European football. However, juggling Europa League and domestic football hasn't…
Created by Joe Barton ( Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project ), it was a bingeable treat with high stakes, nimble plotting and some brutal action. But what made it properly compelling was the pairing of Keira Knightley and Ben…