(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 […]