(Credits: Far Out / The Bigger Picture) Sat 13 December 2025 11:10, UK Few artists have been able to capture lightning in a bottle quite like The Beatles did on The Ed Sullivan Show. Arriving in America like musical gods, teenagers around the country quickly fell in love with the quirky demeanours of the Fab […]

(Credits: Bent Rej) Fri 12 December 2025 11:37, UK It’s hard to imagine a songwriter as prolific as John Lennon having writer’s block. Since Paul McCartney boasted that the songwriting team never had a dry session when in The Beatles, Lennon was one to slave over lyrics, meticulously working until they were just right in […]

(Credits: Tim Saccenti) Fri 12 December 2025 11:32, UK Metallica has always been known as a reasonably insular outfit. Throughout the making of their album St Anger, Jason Newsted eventually walked away from the band strictly because of the rules about not having any side projects. Though James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich may have frowned […]

(Credits: Far Out / Press) Fri 12 December 2025 11:30, UK Great voices aren’t anything, in the world of music. Sure they might help take a good song into technical new heights, but music that truly impacts audiences doesn’t exclusively have to be delivered by a singer with flawless ability. Neil Young, Tom Waits and […]

(Credits: Warner Music) Thu 11 December 2025 11:30, UK They don’t make pop stars like Phil Collins anymore. After a decade or so as a beardy and mysterious prog-rock drumming wizard, the London native suddenly emerged in his mid-30s as one of the most successful and accessible frontmen of the 1980s, piloting Genesis into the […]

(Credits: Lionsgate) Thu 11 December 2025 11:15, UK Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will officially return to the franchise that started it all. They will appear in the upcoming blockbuster, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. The pair is set to appear in the upcoming prequel movie, as confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. So […]

(Credits: Far Out / Album Cover) Thu 11 December 2025 11:12, UK Hannah Cohen – ‘Earthstar Mountain’ Patience is a virtue not often commended in modern music. As the world gobbles up art under the guise of content at a rapid rate, an overhanging pressure to create at the same speed looms over the work […]

(Credits: Far Out / Warner Bros. / 20th Century-Fox / Miramax Films) Wed 10 December 2025 11:30, UK When it comes to the movie business, three really is the magic number. Trilogies are all the rage and always have been. Sometimes you get the rare quadrilogy, while it’s become more and more acceptable that franchises […]

(Credits: Tom Oldham) Wed 10 December 2025 11:20, UK Robert Plant has announced that his band, Saving Grace, will play more shows in 2026 on a new run called the Spring Fever tour. The trek, which will also include Suzi Dian, is in support of their recent album, Saving Grace. Things will kick off in […]

(Credits: Triumph) Wed 10 December 2025 11:13, UK Canadian rock band Triumph have confirmed details of their first tour in over 30 years. The group formed in 1975 before parting ways almost two decades later in 1993. While they have subsequently made a series of one-off appearances, their 2026 tour marks their first return to […]