Entertainment

PWR BTTM have unveiled the music video for ‘Answer My Text’ from forthcoming LP Pageant (May 12, Big Scary Monsters/Polyvinyl). Directed by H.S. Naji (who also directed ‘West Texas’ taken from Ugly Cherries), the video sees Liv Bruce bring to life the colorful lyrics of ‘Answer My Text’ as the rage, sadness, and anxiety of a text message relationship takes over with escalating internal and external drama. The vid is also accompanied by some pretty snazzy PWR GIFs, available here for...

Knucks has shared his brand new track 'The Jump'. The song, which harks which samples the token sounds of the 70s, is his first song of 2017 following the release of 'Turnover' at the end of 2016. Listen below. Knucks is a musician born and raised in South Kilburn. The North West Londoner has been involved in music for nearly 10 years, dating back to his days at school when he first ever heard Grime. Around this time he earned the...

Oh man, I'm getting old. I used to be young and cool! I promise! I used to go to drama school and make art house movies that even I didn't actually understand! I used to go to bars in abandoned sheds and talk about incomprehensible theatre with my ironically mustachioed friends! I'd scream "obviously it's a metaphor for…" over the loud, ear bleedingly bad music so many times I'd be speaking like Clint Eastwood for a week. That was then....

Today, the world’s first clean air gallery, featuring art made from air pollution, launched in Brixton - an area that surpassed its annual air pollution limit 5 days into 2017. The gallery features work by artists from five of the most polluted cities in the UK - London, Glasgow, Leeds, Southampton and Nottingham – and will be open to the public from 27th - 29th March. Tiger Beer is bringing Anirudh Sharma, co-founder of Graviky Labs and his Air-Ink™ technology...

If you go to the Horror section of your local bookstore today, you won’t find books by Stephen King, Mary Shelley or HP Lovecraft; instead, you’ll find a stack of newspapers from the past couple of years. Okay, that’s not quite true—let’s just call it an alternative fact—but it may as well be. Because with Trump, Brexit, the refugee crisis, and the rising tides of rightwing populism, nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia, the real world has become so nightmarish...

Continuing on as normal yesterday felt bizarre. I was at work near St Paul's when one of my colleagues first floated that some alleged…something, some horrible thing, might be happening outside the Houses of Parliament. It was 2:50pm. We spent the rest of the day in a contemplative blur; heads down, keeping up with the news, quietly sharing new information as the afternoon's events unfolded. I left work and went to the theatre with my friend. We talked about the...

Maybe it's something to do with the arrival of spring, but March has been pretty chill compared to the big releases of January and February. This month's playlist is all about dream pop, bedroom rock and the softer side of R&B. Kicking us off is Frank Ocean, our cover star this month, returning with another Blonded slow jam in 'Chanel', which contains one of March's most infectious hooks. Elsewhere, the debut album from Jay Som dropped, providing a welcome cut...

Dualtone/Decca Records will release ‘CHUCK,’ the final album and first new recordings in nearly four decades by founding rock and roll legend Chuck Berry, who passed away last week at the age of 90, on 16th June.   Comprised of ten new recordings, eight of which were written by Berry, ‘CHUCK’ is his first new album since 1979’s ‘Rock It.’ It was recorded and produced by Berry in various studios around St. Louis and features his longtime hometown backing group...

By Jay Williams If you like your rock and roll straight up, no chaser, then you’re probably already well acquainted with Blackberry Smoke.  They’re for you if you’re into the real thing and by that I mean Little Feat, Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, George Jones … Like most great bands, the Georgia-based five-piece are true road dogs and their stagecoach pulls into Blighty later this month (a few tickets for London Roundhouse on Tuesday 28th are still available HERE). Jay...