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Louisa Livingstone, the woman whose ghostly figure adorns the cover of Black Sabbath’s debut album, has released a rock opera based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books. Livingstone was identified as the model on the cover of Black Sabbath in 2020, after five decades of silence.Earlier this year, Livingstone – who records music under the name Indreba (short for Incredible Dream Band) – released a pair of songs celebrating her place in history, with Witch Woman alluding to her iconic appearance and The Woman By The Mill referencing the location of the photograph, at Mapledurham Watermill in Oxfordshire.”Witch Woman…
It doesn’t take a film degree to diagnose the modern mainstream cinematic landscape with a severe run-down of the nostalgia bug, as we truly are well into the repetitive age of sequels, prequels, spin-offs, and revamps of many definitive classics from previous and distinct decades, garnering mixed responses from moviegoers. Sequels used to be, and should be, respectable and necessary developments and strengthenings of previous great films and characters, pushing the stories to new heights and rejoining the film’s fans together. Now they resonate differently, even bleeding beloved franchises dry. The psychology or reasoning behind this engulfing flood of follow-ups…
To celebrate the announcement of his new album, John Legend releases the first single, which is titled “Daylight”. TheMuse album will hit stores on October 23rd and will entirely be produced by Pharrell. Listen below: Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here
It’s somewhat fitting that The Linda Lindas’ third album arriving as they come out of reach the latter stages of their teens. This is a band who have spent their formative years growing up in public, going from all-ages punk shows in Los Angeles to viral fame, major tours and increasingly enormous stages. Now, with Gotta Get Out, they’re figuring out what comes next. It’s been quite the journey. Formed after playing together in a kids’ new-wave cover band at Girlschool LA in 2018, sisters Mila and Lucia de la Garza, cousin Eloise Wong and family friend Bela Salazar quickly…
It begins with wary glances inside a nondescript warehouse in the nether regions of London and ends with hugs and high fives in front of tens of thousands of fans at stadiums across the world. The return of Oasis in 2025 was always going to be accompanied by a film, andDon’t Look Back In Angeropens in cinemas this week before streaming on Disney Plus. Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, whose credits include documentaries on LCD Soundsystem, The Strokes and, gulp, Blur,Don’t Look Back In Angeris a concert film and celebration of fandom, but mostly it’s about Noel and…
Kayla Ancrum’s fiction has a way of bringing the fantastical back to something recognisably human, exploring love, identity and belonging through characters whose lives are shaped, for better or worse, by the people around them. A National Book Award longlist author for The Corruption of Hollis Brown and Lambda Literary Award winner for Icarus, Ancrum now turns her attention to one of literature’s most enduring stories of creation and consequence. With Adam, Mine, releasing today, September 8, Ancrum delivers a queer romantic horror thriller that serves as a love letter to Frankenstein, while giving Mary Shelley’s familiar creation myth a…
Anyone who’s read Eric LaRocca is well aware of their unique gift for conjuring visceral nightmares with the elegance of a poet. A Bram Stoker Award® finalist, Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and Splatterpunk Award winner, they have carved a distinct place for themselves in the world of horror, building a body of work that navigates effortlessly between the grotesque and the deeply human. With their latest release, We Turn Gruesome At Night, the second installment in the Burnt Sparrow trilogy, LaRocca returns to the scarred New England town ten years after the devastating Christmas morning massacre that forever changed it.…
Lex Records celebrates more than two decades of boundary pushing music with LEX-XX, a new compilation bringing together twenty key tracks from the label’s back catalogue, remixed and reinterpreted by an impressive cast of collaborators.The collection features contributions from Chad Hugo of The Neptunes, Danger Mouse, MF DOOM, Boards Of Canada and Thom Yorke, alongside King Krule’s grungy reworking of Eyedress’ billion streaming hit Jealous. Elsewhere, Madlib puts a funk fuelled spin on Fly Anakin’s No Dough, while Actress, HAAi, Vitalic and Gescom reshape tracks from Kaleida, Belief, Heartbreak and Kid Acne. The project also highlights some of Lex’s most…
“Before Elvis there was nothing,” said John Lennon, although the man who would be King didn’t actually invent rock’n’roll – Bill Haley & His Comets had already figured out what made the teenagers tick, with their international smash Rock Around The Clock.The chubby, middle-aged Haley was no teen dream, however. What Elvis Presley brought to the table was sex. The excitement the ridiculously good-looking kid from the Memphis projects generated at his concerts in the 1950s was frighteningly intense, with girls hurling themselves at the stage and leaving behind urine-soaked seats. Overnight, this sweet southern kid became public enemy number…
Photo: Jesse BorrellNow, some may recall that we like to (when we have the opportunity) feature an instrumental track as the week reaches its mid-point, somewhere around Wednesday afternoon. So, what are we doing featuring this latest release from Béla Fleck, and band, on a Tuesday morning? What’s that about? Simple. We could not wait.Blue Mountain Hop is taken from the new live album, Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart at the Ryman , from Fleck, which features across its tracks a band of overwhelming musical majesty: Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer, Justin Moses,…
Photo credit: Mark MawstonFollowing a breakthrough period that saw major festival appearances, BBC Radio support and the release of her debut album Lost En Route, singer-songwriter Sorrel Nation returns with her second album, Creeping Thyme. The record will be released on 23rd October 2026 on CD and digital, with vinyl to follow in spring 2027.Written largely back home on the Isle of Wight in her converted horse lorry, Bertha, or while travelling the country in her campervan, Dory, the album was shaped by a life lived between home and the open road. Many of the songs were written outdoors, surrounded…
Heads up, Lambrini Girls fans – the band have announced a free show in a secret London location this week. The gig’s taking place this Friday (September 11), with no merch, no supports, no guest lists and, er, no refunds, apparently. The lucky fans who sign up via Instagram will find out the location of the show via text or email on the day, but all the action is going down somewhere in the east of the capital. Intriguingly, the duo have wiped their Instagram save for the post advertising the show. Is something bigger afoot? Lambrini Girls have had…