ALBUM REVIEW: MELODY POOL – Deep Dark Savage Heart
MELODY POOL Deep Dark Savage Heart 4.5/5 Melody Pool’s impressive debut album, released three years ago, was forged in the flames of heartbreak. The pain-laced lyrics were those of a young woman […]
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Alison Wonderland: interview
It’s been a wild year for electronic music producer and coveted party DJ Alison Wonderland. Twelve months on from the release of first record, Run, which debuted at number one on America’s Billboard dance […]
Lizzy Plapinger: interview
Singer. Songwriter. Entrepreneur. The delightful voice of electro-pop duo MS MR, Lizzy Plapinger, spoke to me on a cold and rainy night in New York City. Where abouts are you at the […]
Joey Burns: interview
Calexico properly entered my consciousness with the release of their gorgeous, dark and startlingly cinematic 2008 record Carried to Dust. I’d heard of them, often mentioned in the same breath as […]
10 upcoming movies you should be excited about
The past 12 months were not Hollywood’s best. The divide between major blockbusters, with budgets in excess of $150 million, and thought-provoking and well-crafted indie films seemed even greater than […]
The Revenant: film review
THE REVENANT Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu 4/5 The comfort of a home cooked meal and a long hot shower is essential after enduring 156 minutes of The Revenant. Writer-director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s follow-up […]
Top 20 movies of 2015
While 2015 may be remembered as a year of blockbusters, with Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mad Max: Fury Road, Jurassic World and Stars Wars: The Force Awakens drawing millions of […]
Top 25 records of 2015
Man, oh man. Picking a “best of” list of music in 2015 has been a tough assignment. The past 12 months have been the most fruitful in recent memory, particularly for sterling […]
Jonas Bjerre: interview
In winter of 2006, during my brief but rewarding time as an entertainment writer for boutique women’s mag Frankie, I listened to an album by a Danish band I had never […]
10 classic prison songs
In weird and wonderful ways, prison has loomed large in rock mythology. Whether it’s stars like Ozzy Osbourne being arrested for public urination – he was nabbed in 1982 for […]
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