1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (466+ words) You can say a lot about Elizabeth Taylor as an actor and an icon of the silver screen who captivated audiences with her glamorous sensibility and indomitable star power, yet her legacy truly lies with her staunch Aids activism, which…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (319+ words) Sam Fender has raised a staggering "50,000 for the grassroots music charity Youth Music through ticket sales for his recent People Watching tour. The Generator programme, which was funded by the North East-based charity Youth Music, enabled Fender to tour early…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (341+ words) The sun is breaking through a blue sky, daring to beam some warmth down into mid-March. Every time the world wakes up to a day like this, while society around us burns and collapses on basically every level, the rays…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (341+ words) Forwards Festival is returning to Bristol for its fifth year, with the likes of Wet Leg, Little Simz, and Amyl and the Sniffers confirmed for its most eclectic headline mix to date. The festival, which will take place on August…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (281+ words) Pixar chief Pete Docter has claimed the company is "making a movie, not therapy, in response to the fact that LGBTQ+ scenes were reportedly cut from Elio." Docter was speaking in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal after…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (355+ words) Eternally stuck in the shadow of Manchester and Leeds, the great music coming out of Sheffield is all too often painfully overlooked. But also, despite the criminality of that, that's freedom, only making the bands even better through expectation-less-ness. Need…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (789+ words) When it comes to UFOs, there's something that feels distinctly un-British about them, because the idea of Roswell, or people camping in RVs and surveying the skies, feels as otherworldly as the aliens themselves. Without being too clich, the only…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (255+ words) Before Robert Smith became the wild-haired frontman of the gothic titans, The Cure, he was the youngest in a family of five, absorbing an array of musical influences that would later inform his distinctive melodies. "My parents were lending us…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (530+ words) The Cure's Robert Smith has cemented his place in the pantheon of alternative music's greats over the last 40 years. He is consistently pigeonholed as a one-trick pony, but with his bad, Smith became one of the most important songwriters of…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (276+ words) It's nearly impossible to find any band through history with a clean streak when it comes to questionable decisions, The Cure included. In fact, it's almost expected, especially if it's a band that's been around as long as The Cure…...