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Nick Lord : Realising The Truth [Interview]

31/12/2014

When I first started to draw, I was massively influenced by the expressionists. Egon Schiele in particular. From them I learned the importance of breaking away from tradition...

Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE

30/12/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapithin the institutionalised avant-garde, overt but actually often inert rule-breaking is the norm. There are numerous hidden codes...

Taylor Momsen, Acoustic [Live]

05/12/2014

When she chooses, Momsen has the ability to convey emotion, forgivably narcissistic emotion, but emotion nonetheless....

Mariachi El Bronx III

26/11/2014

Here they’ve taken the vernacular and made something contemporary and lasting...

Francesca Woodman II, 2014, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm, BREESE LITTLE

Tom de Freston : Orpheus and the Minotaur

24/11/2014

De Freston' s work has little to do with the emphatic and aggrandising tradition of history painting....

Terry Riley and Africa Express at Tate Modern [Film]

23/11/2014

Tate Modern and Africa Express present Terry Riley’s In C Mali is released online on 27 November at The Space...

Reeves Gabrels [Interview]

22/11/2014

Reeves Gabrels, currently guitarist in The Cure and formerly David Bowie’s collaborator in Tin Machine, interviewed...

Steve Rothery : Bush Hall [Live]

20/11/2014

The closest thing to Fish-era Marillion in their mid-80s prime as you're likely to get...

Adam X : Irreformable

17/11/2014

Adam X is open and unashamed about his industrial/EBM connections, in sad contrast to some other producers...

Late Rembrandt

14/11/2014

The Rembrandt in the paintings at the National Gallery... is a man who suffered: as a victim of unfortunate tragedies, and as a result of personal flaws....

Pagan Britain (and Ronald Hutton)

05/11/2014

Qithin the generous limits imposed by the evidence you're free to imagine the past how you like....

pumpkin by freedigitalphotos.net and franky242

Trick or Treat! A Celebration of Samhain

30/10/2014

It is the festival of Samhain from whence our contemporary experience of Hallowe'en stems...

Max Richter : Royal Albert Hall [Live]

27/10/2014

The final word is this was a truly historic evening for music, and Vivaldi’s reputation to wow audiences shines undimmed. ...

Haken : Restoration [EP]

10/10/2014

Haken have the instrumental virtuosity and musical scope of the best in progressive rock, but unlike some other bands they aren't content to create reverential pastiches of 70s greats....

The Bug : Angels and Devils

02/10/2014

An atmospheric dub record that easily ranks amongst Kevin Martin’s best....

Frontiers Records : AOR and Proud

30/09/2014

Three new releases from Frontiers Records give a taste of what the current AOR scene has to offer....

Hey Preston! [Festival]

22/08/2014

Hey Preston! is an all-day indoor music event coming to Preston’s finest live venue 53 Degrees on Saturday 20th September...

William Burroughs : Animals In The Wall

20/08/2014

Animals In The Wall will feature 40 original William S Burroughs art works...

Présence Autochtone: Montreal First Peoples Festival

18/08/2014

Présence Autochtone, Montreal First Peoples Festival, celebrates the cultural heritage of the Americas' aboriginal nations through film, music, dance and other visual arts....

stardust by UC Berkeley and Andrew Westphal.

NASA Finds Interstellar Stardust

16/08/2014

If confirmed, these particles would be the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust....

A picture of a hostel interior with Mugabe poster, Mbare, ZImbabwe

A Commonwealth Of Homophobia

28/07/2014

42 of the 53 countries that make up the Commonwealth continue to criminalise homosexuality...

Takahito Irie : Interview

21/07/2014

I like the Sci-fi stuff. We always harbour desire and imagination for future life, and humans are making it real....

3 Teeth [Album Review]

10/07/2014

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

07/07/2014

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...

Blake / St. Mungo’s Broadway : Interview

13/06/2014

Homelessness can affect anybody and everybody. Homelessness is not a class or economic problem. It’s a social and support problem....

Cloud Atlas : Beyond the Vale

13/06/2014

It's Heidi Widdop's distinctive vocals that set Cloud Atlas apart from many of their obvious peers, but this album's sound is as much about Martin Ledger's soaring melodic lead guitar...