Entertainment

For the first time in four years the acclaimed and beloved band Deer Tick announce the September 15 release of a long-awaited new album... Actually, two. Never a group to stand by conventional protocol, the celebrated Providence, RI quartet will release two separate albums of original material, Deer Tick Vol. 1 and Deer Tick Vol. 2 (Partisan Records), recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, TN. The two albums complement each other yet reflect completely contrasting styles, both of which accurately...

Refugee Week (19-25 June) is the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contribution of refugees. Hundreds of arts, cultural and educational events will be held nationwide in renowned venues, public squares, libraries, schools and places of worship. Venues include the British Museum, Southbank Centre, British Film Institute, Victoria & Albert Museum, Wales Millennium Centre, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Brighton Dome. Many artists performing for Refugee Week have first hand experience of forced displacement. Refugee Week Chair and Refugee Council Chief Executive...

Hailed as one of the brightest upcoming stars of UK Pop, Dua Lipa will this week be signing copies of her critically acclaimed debut album Dua Lipa this week at London’s hmv Westfied on Wednesday and hmv Birmingham Bullring on Thursday. With both signings beginning at 5.30pm, these two intimate fan events will give lucky attendees the opportunity to meet the pop sensation and have their very own copy of Dua Lipa signed by the star just days after its...

For a band with such a strong and unmistakable catalogue of original material, Placebo have always had an impeccable way with a cover version. Starting with a take on Syd Barrett’s Dark Globe, way back in 1996, they have freely interpreted the songs of others to complement the originals. Their choice of covers – from Nick Drake to Boney M; Serge Gainsbourg to Depeche Mode – demonstrates Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal’s musical influences and heritage. Rather than keep their...

Forty-two galleries across the capital are set to participate in London Art Week from Friday 30th June 2017.  The highly anticipated, week-long event will showcase an exceptional collection of art, attracting thousands of visitors from all over the world giving people a unique opportunity to explore the best the UK has to offer in terms of paintings, drawings and sculptures dating from antiquity to the 20th century. The participating galleries and auction houses will reveal an abundance of art with masterpieces ranging...

There are two things about April K. Hunter that will initially surprise you, yet both have massively contributed towards her skill and success as a writer. The first is that she has worked as a professional wrestler for nearly twenty years. All those years, all those miles, all those less talented or momentarily absent-minded opponents have dealt her the lasting aches of broken bones, blown out knees and ear drums that are the life-long reminders of her first art. Indeed,...

Danish trio Baby In Vain announce the release of their long-awaited debut album More Nothing, out August 25th via Partisan Records. They have shared More Nothing’s incendiary opening track ‘To Heaven and Back’, which can be streamed now on YouTube | Vevo. A breakneck-paced anthem, ‘To Heaven and Back’ has all the ingredients of a classic Baby In Vain track - razor sharp riffs, sardonic lyrics and an unpredictability that is wholly their own. Recorded in just 11 days in...

When I first saw the album cover for Centerpiece’s eponymous debut EP it instantly reminded me of a Crowded House record artwork; a beautiful painting of a field of sunflowers and wispy clouds and blue skies which immediately evokes that warm and happy feeling when life is good. The five-piece describe their sound as ‘Midwest indie rock’ and are from Nebraska, however they recorded the EP in Boston, which for those of you who aren’t in the know, is a...

You wouldn't know it day-to-day, but May was a pro slacker month. It's mid-tempo easiness right through this month, folks, with the exception of the Cyndi Lauper sugar of Paramore's new one, that is. Resist 'Fake Happy'. You can't. Elsewhere, we had the triumphant return of shoegaze pioneers Slowdive, who have no business sounding this essential in 2017,  and a slice of long-awaited weird-pop from Perfume Genius. Girlpool are back with their amps plugged in and the tubs thumping for the...