SNAPSHOT A Head Full of Dreams offers an in-depth and intimate portrait of the band’s spectacular rise from the backrooms of Camden pubs to selling out stadiums across the planet. The film is helmed by Mat Whitecross – director of Supersonic, the acclaimed 2016 Oasis documentary – who met the Continue Reading
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Now this is music London: AJ Tracey, Nadia Rose, Girl Ray, S4U, Georgia
There are a few countries widely recognised as hotbeds of musical innovation, one of which is undeniably the UK from which has sprung major acts like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys to name just a few. If you thought for a moment, and for shame Continue Reading
Now this is music #114: Moses Sumney, half.alive, Wingtip, Phantastic Ferniture, Sasha
What an hilariously, alarmingly, freakishly contradictory mess life is. Were it as simple as some sections of pop culture would have us believe it is; but alas, it is not, and mired in the ups and downs, the regrets and hopes, the sadness and happiness of our lives, often Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Watch pop icons change over time
Nothing stays the dame for long in this fast-moving world of ours, and that truism applies to pop culture icons as much as anything or anyone else. Recognising this salient fact, LA-based artist and cartoonist Jeff Victor who describes himself on his Kickstarter page as a “huge pop culture Continue Reading
Now this is music #113: MNEK, Elohim, Amilli, Mitski, Miya Folick + Eurovision update
Life huh? Comes with all kinds of nasty baggage, unadorned reality and a distinct lack of glitzy everything at times; not exactly the kind of thing you want to dive into without some reassuring backup. Which is where these five gorgeously-good artists come in, people who muse in a Continue Reading
Dear friends, you are now about to enter … a trippily colourful Willy Wonka chill-hop video
The 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is fabulously trippy, gloriously imaginative and gleefully & subversively over the top, channelling the manically clever of Roald Dahl, on whose book the classic is based, perfectly. Everything from the giddily colourful visuals to the brilliance of Gene Wilder’s superlative Continue Reading
Now this is music #112: CHINAH, Nicole Millar (feat. Muki), ViVii, CYN, Allie X
There is an unfortunate tendency, and this happens regardless of the creative medium used, to treat the quieter, more reflective voices as having less impact or worth than those who express themselves far more loudly and stridently. But that attitude does a disservice to people like the five music Continue Reading
Now this is music #111: Opia, Blair, Darwin Deez, Snow Patrol, Oliver Tree + Eurovision 2019 update
For songs to truly move you on all levels, they have to be the culmination of the perfect marriage of music and lyrics. Sure some songs get us dancing, and that’s wonderful, and others get us thinking about life, the universe and everything, but it’s the ones that combine Continue Reading
Now this is music #110: NONONO, Kirsten Ludwig, Alison Wonderland, Robyn, Miss Eaves + RIP Aretha Franklin
We all love music that lifts up, lightens the soul, stirs up the joyous and the good, stills the anxious and the bad. That kind of music is all the better when it’s accompanied by lyrics that speak to the human condition in authentic, accessible, profoundly touching ways. Too Continue Reading
Now this is music #109: Beach House, SOPHIE, Loomings, Pizzagirl, Animal Feelings
The scene: 2 or 3 a.m. or the languid period between, when life has slowed down, the thoughts of young men and women (and some of the more nocturnal oldies who’ve had nanna naps) turn to dreamy thoughts of life, the universe and everything. Obviously at this time of Continue Reading