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Eddie Vedder and Fiona Apple confirmed for Neil Young tribute album

(Credits: Raph Pour-Hashemi) Sun 9 February 2025 11:30, UK Eddie Vedder and Fiona Apple join twelve artists paying tribute to Canadian folk rock legend Neil Young across a new covers record, Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young.  Young, 72, formerly of folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield, is best known for the critically acclaimed albums […]

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‘Be Careful’: When Bdrmm captured the sound of the pandemic

(Credits: Far Out / Katherine Mackenzie) Sun 9 February 2025 11:00, UK The Covid-19 era’s seismic impact on society, let alone the arts, was so fundamentally upending it became difficult to report or discuss the tumultuous period without lapsing into clichés or reeling off words that suddenly ‘trended’ amid the pandemic’s lexicon. How many times […]

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Weyes Blood reveals her home was damaged during Los Angeles wildfires: “I am saddled with survivors guilt”

(Credit: Press) Sat 8 February 2025 11:05, UK American singer-songwriter Weyes Blood took to Instagram to relay her experience of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, which killed 29 people and left thousands others displaced. Weyes Blood, real name Natalie Mering, discussed the impact of the fires on her neighbours and on her own mental health […]

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Could film intermissions help loneliness?

(Credits: Far Out / Ryan Kitching) Sat 8 February 2025 11:00, UK “You could literally meet the love of your life during The Brutalist intermission,” a user on X wrote. A funny little comment, yes. Inspiration for the perfect cinephile meet-cute, also yes. But there is something about that 15-minute-long interval cut into the middle […]

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‘Warm Leatherette’ and the synthpop road to Mute records

(Credits: Far Out / MUTE Records / Reddit) Sat 8 February 2025 10:30, UK Before Sheffield’s Warp Records scored the experimental techno underground in the 1990s, the UK’s most essential electronic label was Mute. Centre stage of the early ’80s synthpop explosion along with Some Bizzare and Factory, Mute would grow to international stature, helping […]

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‘Clean Slate’: How to Watch Laverne Cox’s New Show

Image Credit: Amazon Prime MGM Studios Laverne Cox is leading her new TV show, Clean Slate, and the eight-episode first season has already premiered for viewers! The breakout star from the hit drama-comedy prison series Orange Is the New Black leads Clean Slate alongside a talented cast. In fact, Laverne achieved way more than just […]

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Who was the last act to sign with The Beatles’ record label?

(Credits: Far Out / Apple Corps) Fri 7 February 2025 11:00, UK All the love in the world to The Beatles but to call Apple Records a record label is something of a stretch. The Fabs, as was their way, had the right idea. Their good ideas were normally matched or merely copied by other […]