Primal Scream have always been difficult to pin down – which is saying something with the array of genres that music journalism feels the need to create. Primal Scream are a band who can swagger through Stones‑inspired rock one minute, …read more
Two decades after Anna and Tess’s freaky day, things are about to become even freakier, as Anna’s daughter and close enemy are all about to live a new, even crazier day. 22 years after the original that became a …read more
There are bands who mellow with age, and then there’s Skunk Anansie, who refuse to, managing to be perhaps the last vestige of actual ‘Britrock’ (NOT BRITPOP thank you Oasis). Their new album, The Painful Truth, continues that defiant streak. …read more
Blue Prince arrives like a soft whisper you don’t expect to carry weight—or hours—only to find it hauls you into the labyrinthine depths of Mt. Holly’s puzzle-infested heart, and refuses to let go. Blue Prince is surprising, clever, and utterly compelling …read more
Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is not Garbage reinventing themselves – but rather doubling down on what has always made them compelling: dark glamour, sharp hooks, and that uneasy blend of grit and polish. There is something …read more
Just when you think you’ve seen it all in horror, here comes a film in which the trailer shows you an extreme closeup of two people, face to face, their eyelids fusing together by the lashes. That brief image was …read more
Turnstile’s music has always felt like a jolt to the system (as all hardcore punk should), and their new album Never Enough is no different. It’s short, sharp, and relentless… the kind of album that makes you feel like you’ve …read more
The Naked Gun returns! Still arrestingly funny, it’s reloading slapstick for a new generation and proving parody is far from dead. There was an era of film making which gave us some genuinely funny films that have since vanished. …read more
There’s been buzz about Weapons for a while, hard to miss if you’re even remotely horror-adjacent. But does it live up to the hype? 2025 has been a cracking year for horror so far. I thought we’d peaked with Sinners …read more
Mdou Moctar’s latest release, Funeral for Justice, is less an album and more a lightning strike over the sands of Niger. It is political, unrelenting, and soaked in the kind of energy that would make most mainstream rock acts break …read more
