Credits: © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Mon 24 November 2025 11:10, UK The German actor Udo Kier, who appeared in over 200 films throughout his lifetime in both Hollywood and Europe, has died aged 81. The actor died on the morning of November 23rd in a hospital in Palm Springs, […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Mon 24 November 2025 11:09, UK Usually, a band has one or two bright musicians, and the rest of the band is illuminated by them. But, in a strange set of events, every member of Led Zeppelin could have been justifiably called a virtuoso. Throughout their tenure together, every member […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy / TCM / Public Domain) Sun 23 November 2025 11:30, UK Selling out is a crucial step in an artist’s evolution, and whether it’s Kiss selling lunchboxes or Orson Welles selling board games, relinquishing all creative idealism in the name of cold, hard cash is par for the course. In […]

(Credit: Matt Becker) Sun 23 November 2025 11:06, UK Mark Kendall, guitarist and founder of Great White, has revealed that he is currently battling stage four kidney cancer. The 68-year-old musician formed the band Great White in 1977, under the original name Dante Fox. The likes of Jimi Hendrix and The Doors influenced them. On […]

(Credits: Bent Rej) Sun 23 November 2025 11:01, UK Nothing was off the table for The Beatles whenever they entered the studio. While the band may have recorded their debut album, Please Please Me, in a single day, Abbey Road quickly became their home away from home while they weren’t touring, experimenting with whatever sounds […]

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Sat 22 November 2025 11:30, UK To most people, Judi Dench is one of the United Kingdom’s most beloved actors, not to mention one of the country’s most esteemed legends of stage and screen. However, to those who know her much better, she’s absolute filth and a menace to […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Sat 22 November 2025 11:02, UK During a 1978 interview, The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was quizzed about the bipolar nature of his many songs that portray female characters. The interviewer told Jagger that he sometimes portrayed his women as “mystical” and, at other times, “stupid”.  “There are two […]

(Credits: Far Out / StubHub) Sat 22 November 2025 11:00, UK Amid the punk milieu of the period, The Stranglers stood out like a Ferrari in an Aldi car park. They were the envy of their peers because they had more chops in abundance than a butcher’s window. This drew their ire. They were also […]

(Credits: Far Out / ANNA SOLER CEPRIÁ) Fri 21 November 2025 11:30, UK Few names in popular music evoke such a standard of consummate artistry as Björk. Across her 30-odd-year career, not to mention the litany of bands and projects in her native Iceland before her 1990s stardom, an unerring creative intuition guides every album […]

(Credits: Far Out / Lydia Ballam) Fri 21 November 2025 11:30, UK It’s all too easy to forget that the centuries-old folk tradition was a populist art form sung by the labouring class, far removed from the stuffy establishment hijack that wrings out all its stomping life, or operating in spaces remote and inaccessibly to […]