Zombies, adolescent poetry, Scotland's football performances, the modern...
Every Friday, we review things that desperately need appraising but seldom receive the critical treatment they deserve. We also review things that really don’t need appraising at all. We’ll review your...
View ArticleThe Kennedys: more than just rose-tinted memories
Like Cradle to Grave and Danny and the Human Zoo, Emma Kennedy’s sitcom mines a 70s childhood, but behind the nostalgia, there’s a lot that is very timelyWe’ve seen a lot of 1970s childhoods played out...
View ArticleDrake's tattoo, potatoes, a glum curtain, dapper gentlemen, Boris Johnson's...
Every Friday, we review things that desperately need appraising but seldom receive the critical treatment they deserve. We also review things that really don’t need appraising at all. We’ll review your...
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Slipknot | Slacker | Lost & FoundOne Direction fans take heart: as Slipknothave repeatedly demonstrated over the last few years, when a band of massive teen meaning announce a hiatus, it doesn’t...
View ArticleThis week’s new talks
Paul Mason | How To Be Beyoncé | An Evening With Richard WilsonFirst came feudalism, then came capitalism. Next, says Paul Mason, economics editor at Channel 4 News, will be the age of postcapitalism....
View ArticleThe 10 best things to do this week
From Guillermo del Toro’s gothic fantasy romance to Paul Mason’s talk on what comes after capitalism, here are this week’s future-facing cultural highlights FILMCrimson PeakContinue reading...
View ArticleMonday’s best TV: The Muppets; Fargo; SAS: Who Dares Wins; and Saving the...
Everyone’s favourite puppet troupe return with a grownup show, series two of Fargo gets off to a blistering start and reality TV hits Peak Tough. Plus: journalist Stacey Dooley exposes sexual abuse in...
View ArticleReal Lies review – synthpop goes back to the future
Electrowerkz, LondonThere’s a reassuring familiarity in these euphoric songs evoking long nights dancing and even longer drives back home to the suburbsThings don’t begin well for Real Lies. Backed by...
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Father John Misty | Foxes | Slaves | Wolf Alice | Macklemore | Ryan LewisFollowing a brief sold-out UK tour this month, Father John Mistywill revisit his British flock in the springtime, supplying them...
View ArticleGrimes: 'In my life, I'm a lot more weird than this'
Claire Boucher wants to play it cool, but as her alter ego she just can’t help standing out. Meet the woman making the most exciting pop on the planetClaire Boucher sighs. It’s the sort of sigh that...
View ArticleCatch-up TV guide: from Master Of None to The Kennedys
Parks & Recreation’s Aziz Ansari gets his own show on Netflix while it’s back to 1970s Stevenage on the iPlayerThere are hints of Louie and Chris Rock’s Top Five in this comedy, created by and...
View ArticleRyan Adams: 1989 review – false notes abound on Taylor Swift covers album
(Pax Am)Related: 'Taylor Swift is like Shakespeare': Ryan Adams defends his dark tribute to 1989When Ryan Adams covered Oasis’s Wonderwall on his 2004 album Love Is Hell, he exploited the fecund space...
View ArticleSnoop, cufflinks, envelopes, Minions, Twitter – we review anything
Every Friday, we review things that desperately need appraising but seldom receive the critical treatment they deserve. We also review things that really don’t need appraising at all. We’ll review your...
View ArticleTuesday’s best TV – MasterChef: The Professionals, Catastrophe, Loch Lomond:...
Britain’s second-favourite cookery franchise is back, Sharon and Rob try to revive their sex life in Paris and it’s springtime in the Scottish national park. Plus: the last case draws to a close for...
View ArticleWednesday’s best TV: Peep Show, Toast of London, The Affair
Mark prepares a best man speech for Super Hans’s wedding, Steven Toast calls for Clem Fandango and Noah’s novel outrages Alison; plus Dominic Sandbrook surveys Britain’s postwar evolution in Let Us...
View ArticleArca: Mutant review – distressing and transcendental sonic experiments
(Mute)Over the past couple of years Alejandro Ghersi’s production talents have been harnessed by Kanye, Björk and FKA twigs, whose buckling R&B sound he helped to craft. On Mutant, however – the...
View ArticleBruce Campbell's chin, a hemp shoe, business cards, ethical socks – we review...
Every Friday, we apply critical attention to things that don’t normally get it. This is an important function that might just hold civilisation together. Or not. We’ll review your suggestions, if you...
View ArticleTuesday’s best TV: The House of Hypochrondriacs; Capital; Catastrophe; The...
Dr Christian Jessen invites three people with health anxiety to face their fears; Adeel Akhtar, Toby Jones and Gemma Jones in John Lanchester adaptation; Wilko Johnson – still standing. Plus: Charli...
View ArticleCourtney Barnett review – more fully realised on record
O2 Forum Kentish Town, LondonShe lacks a magnetic stage presence and her lyrics often end up indistringuishable live, but her appeal lies squarely in her vocalsAs the band start playing, it’s not...
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Coldplay | Field Day | The CureClassic Chris Martin platitudinous yearning over a disco groove, accompanied by cod-psychedelic visuals, Coldplay’s new single Adventures Of A Lifetime smacks of midlife...
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