Some friendly tips, or maybe just hardline rules for using music during your revision, courtesy of your writers.
Marina & The Diamonds is back with sophomore effort ‘Electra Heart’; a confused-concept with eurotrash beats and Katy Perry all mashed into one.
This is the smartest album ever made. It’s a fact. I don’t mean thematically, necessarily, and it lacks the pretension of many of the more …
Records
Want a little more indie rock, after being surrounded by pop tunes and synthesised bass? Keane’s Strangeland is the album for you. Keane have been …
Poliça embrace electronic haze and production to produce a stunning and exquisite début album.
The Maccabees return with the second single from the long awaited third album Given to the Wild. ‘Went Away’ appears to me as a very …
Why Cheryl’s comeback is like a bollard.
I don’t like to revel in the misery of others, but the tensions and uncertainties affecting Blur helped make one hell of a record.
The Blue Album is pure pop-rock perfection, standing out above an era epitomised by grunge. It marks the high point of the genre, and has …
Live
I feel that I must start this review by stating that I am not a massive fan of heavy rock music; in general it is …
In the period since the release of their last single, ‘Jealous Don’t You Know’, The Heartbreaks have been some very busy boys. Supporting both Morrissey and Hurts …
In the period since the release of their last single, ‘Jealous Don’t You Know’, The Heartbreaks have been some very busy boys. Supporting both Morrissey and Hurts …
Video & Audio
1960s crooner Engelbert Humperdinck has spirited back into the music world with the announcement that he will be representing the UK in May’s Eurovision Song …
Film
Dark Shadows is the type of film for which that overused and clunkingly clichéd phrase ‘darkly comic’ was first invented. It aspires to be very …
Consider the scope and worth of Sir. Ridley Scott‘s seminal science-fiction classics Alien and Blade Runner and you might be forgiven for wondering why the renowned director has only given …