(Credits: Far Out / Slash Records) Wed 17 December 2025 11:00, UK While slogging it for years across the 1980s, Faith No More’s funk-metal Frankenstein of a band finally found fame’s lightning bolt once the colossally silly but brilliant ‘Epic’ landed on the rock charts at the decade’s end. It was an apt title. Thunderous […]

(Credits: Far Out / Bent Rej / Joost Evers. Nationaal Archief) Wed 17 December 2025 10:50, UK Perhaps the most pivotal influence behind Simon and Garfunkel was the American double act The Everly Brothers. When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel began performing together as Tom and Jerry in the 1950s, like Don and Phil, they […]

(Credits: Far Out / Press) Tue 16 December 2025 11:30, UK Most actors have that one performance that marked a turning point in their life, inspiring them to pursue acting as a full-time career, and Gene Hackman had this epiphany when he was young, watching a certain star command the stage with such an infectious sensibility […]

(Credits: YouTube Still / Ele Marchant / Chensiyuan) Tue 16 December 2025 11:06, UK The full line-up for Kendal Calling 2026 has been revealed, with four massive headliners in the form of Biffy Clyro, Wolf Alice, Two Door Cinema Club, and The Kooks. The festival is set to return with its 21st edition next summer […]

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still / Alamy) Tue 16 December 2025 11:00, UK The electric guitars are plugged into the amps, the jungle drums begin to rumble, and the stage is set. That means only one thing: Oasis and Blur are both in the house. It’s a classic Britpop rivalry that has traversed down […]

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Mon 15 December 2025 11:30, UK Very few actors dubbed the ‘next big thing’ actually live up to that potential, and, as it stands, Glen Powell is making all the right moves. Since he captured the world’s attention with his role as a brash fighter pilot in Top Gun: […]

‘Take It Like a Friend’ – CCR Looking back on the final years of CCR read like some prolonged soap opera. After years of being the sidemen to John Fogerty, the rest of the group conspired to push Fogerty to loosen the reins in the studio and give them more creative freedom. Unfortunately, those ideas […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Mon 15 December 2025 11:00, UK Can you ridicule the system while simultaneously inviting people to be passionate participants in it? You can if you write a silly tune like REM. REM is maybe my favourite rock band, so calling them silly is really no attempt at ridicule. It’s not […]