Albums to get excited about in 2020
Tame Impala, Grimes, and a whole lot of others are set to drop new projects this year. But which ones are worth getting hyped for? If you’re anything like me, you probably looked at your 2019 Spotify Wrapped with a little bit of embarrassment. I, for one, could...
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Reading’s line-up exposes music’s gender imbalance
Following Reading’s 2020 line-up reveal, The 1975’s Matt Healy has stated that the band won’t play male dominated festivals moving forward. Reading and Leeds festival announced its 2020 line-up a few days ago, which was met with mixed reactions. If you’re a guitar fan, or a bloke in his forties desperate...
Why you should be excited for The Wheel of Time
The one fantasy series (that could) rule them all. If, like me, you were let down by the final series of Game of Thrones and your fantasy fix for detailed world building and imaginative magic systems wasn’t satisfied by The Witcher, then Amazon’s The Wheel of Time might just...
Dear female artists: stop apologising for winning awards
The Grammys once against proves that women have a humbleness problem. Does anyone remember when - and this is a long shot because it was a while ago - in 2007 Eddie Murphy stormed out of the Academy Awards after losing best supporting actor to Alan...
Does Netflix have a pseudoscience problem?
Gwyneth Paltrow’s The Goop Lab is just the tip of the iceberg. A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research and experiments may be performed. Shockingly, Gwyneth Paltrow and her posse spend zero time in laboratories for the duration of their new Netflix show The Goop Lab as there’s...
Green Day ‘Father Of All…’ – Review
The punk band’s fifteenth record is a hollow, dated affair that says a whole bunch of nothing in its brief run time. You have to feel sorry for Green Day. It’s been sixteen years since they dropped American Idiot, a politically charged rock opera that transformed them from a chill out trio...
Chernobyl producers bag rights to Cold War thriller ‘Tunnel 29’
The producers of HBO’s globally acclaimed drama series Chernobyl have laid their hat on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Tunnel 29’, and a TV series based on the podcast is likely in the works. HBO’s Chernobyl took the world by storm in summer 2019, winning ten Emmys, being named the best ‘limited series’ at the Golden Globes, and sitting atop IMDB’s ranking as the best rated TV series of all time....
The first trailer for Jordan Peele’s Candyman is here
It’s been over 20 years, but the Candyman is finally returning to the big screen. And we didn’t even have to say his name five times. 90s babies get ready, mirrors are going to become a source of fear once again come the summer. Following in the footsteps of old school slashers like Scream and Halloween, Candyman is next-up for a modern-day refresh, and Oscar-winning producer Jordan Peele is heading...
Sonic The Hedgehog film – Review
SEGAs iconic video game mascot hits the big screen after facing delays and redesigns last year. Thankfully, it’s not the train wreck many were expecting. It’s finally here. This time last year Paramount dropped its first trailers for what would soon become the infamous, nightmare inducing first Sonic design, which combined realistic animal proportions with cartoonish colours. It was terrifying, to say the very least. It seems that top Paramount executives agreed...
Mac Miller ‘Circles’ – Review
The would-be 28-year-old rapper’s posthumous release is a tentative, delicate ensemble of rich storytelling, that’s as much about inner peace as it is turmoil. Mac Miller’s story is one I think about often. It ends in tragedy and an untimely passing, obviously, but it’s also a shining example of how resilient evolution and talent can reinvent an artist. Within a few short years, a young, white, frat-rap teenager, who seemed unlikely...
