As we hit the halfway point of 2025, here's 20 of the best albums we've heard - released between January 1 and June 30. As we hit the halfway point of 2025, here’s 20 of the best albums we’ve heard – ...

Hello, hello, it’s good to be back “You gonna wake up then, or what?” As we launch this new magazine, in the shops tomorrow, it’s exactly 31 years – almost to the minute – since Oasis first sauntered ...

Richard Linklater's emotionally ambivalent high school homage is a cutting riposte to the rosy teen nostalgia of both American Graffiti and the entire John Hughes canon. Set in Nowhere, Middle ...

San Franciscan rock satirists The Tubes actually pulled in some heavyweight support as they camped out in ’70s America. Drawing a fan club that included Captain Beefheart, Larry Graham, Stanley ...

"Bastard child of a randy AM radio and an insatiable eight-track cassette player," explain The Slaughter Rule directors Andrew and Alex Smith in the sleevenotes, "this soundtrack was conceived on ...

Described by its proto-feminist French director Virginie Despentes as an attempt "to seize woman's true sexuality back from the male gaze", Baise-Moi is therefore a visceral, explicit re-imagining ...

Despite an opening scene in which both father and son are entwined and writhing together (Alexei is being comforted by his father following a nightmare), Sokurov has indignantly refuted claims ...

Lana Del Rey opened her British tour in Cardiff last night, June 23, 2025. Here are our pick of five great moments from the ...

Evan Dando has confirmed that the new Lemonheads album Love Chant will be released by Fire Records on October 24. Hear new ...

Happy 90th birthday, Terry Riley! In this interview, Pete Townshend hails the minimalist maestro’s enduring influence ...

Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge: the the multi-instrumentalist's mission impossible, a follow-up to Tubular Bells ...

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Mick Ralphs – founding member of both Mott The Hoople and Bad Company – has died aged 81 following a long illness. He had been unable to perform since suffering a ...