(Credit: Alamy) Sat 30 August 2025 12:30, UK Up there with some of the most successful British actors of the last 20 years, alongside Tom Hardy, Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson, Benedict Cumberbatch has neatly jumped, sometimes literally, from spy to superhero to Vulcan to the world’s most famous detective. You can also amusingly substitute […]

(Credits: Sabrina Carpenter) Sat 30 August 2025 12:15, UK Upon the release of her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter has opened up about the topics on the new project that she found “really urgent to write about.” Carpenter spoke at a Spotify event in Los Angeles to celebrate her latest record. The […]

(Credits: Far Out / ZTT Records / Bernard Gotfryd / Library of Congress) Sat 30 August 2025 12:00, UK What, exactly, is the point of record labels? While most acknowledge that their main benefit is to offer support to artists, providing them with a platform through which to release their music and giving them a […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Fri 29 August 2025 12:30, UK If you want to know just how good an actor Colin Farrell is, the answer doesn’t necessarily lie in his most famous performances, in the likes of The Batman or In Bruges, or even The Banshees of Inisherin. Rather, it lies in just how […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Fri 29 August 2025 12:00, UK The Kinks were perhaps the most unfortunate of all the British invasion bands, constantly forgotten about behind the successes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who, but they had plenty of chart-topping hits in the UK that would suggest this outcome unfair. […]

(Credits: Bobbi Rich) Fri 29 August 2025 11:05, UK After rumblings all year of new music, Alabama Shakes have released their first song in over a decade, ‘Another Life’. In February, the band announced the huge reunion tour, which began in July in Chicago and will end in September in Texas. Over a total of […]

(Credits: Far Out / Paramount Pictures) Thu 28 August 2025 12:30, UK They may not have pioneered the theory of communism like their cousin Karl, but the Marx brothers had their own major impact on the world. That Karl thing was a joke, by the way; everyone knows they were related by marriage. Groucho, Chico, […]

(Credits: Far Out / Communion Records) Thu 28 August 2025 12:13, UK Chartreuse – ‘Bless You and Be Well’ From the rugged, rural outlook of the northernmost tip of Iceland, the British indie rock band Chartreuse clearly thought it was time to bear their souls. That epiphany moment of searing vulnerability typically comes at a […]

Credits: Gabriel Hutchinson Photography Thu 28 August 2025 12:07, UK Eddington and Top Boy actor Micheal Ward has been granted bail after appearing in court on rape charges. Last month, the Metropolitan Police charged the British actor with two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration, and one count of sexual assault. The […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Wed 27 August 2025 12:30, UK It feels like the entire world is healing a bit, knowing that the members of Oasis are on good terms again. As much as Noel Gallagher was always at odds with his brother Liam, their reunion is proof that anything is possible as long […]