Is this the near-future? The premise of Ann Droid is that in place of our over-stretched social services, before long we may ...

Saxophobia: Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920s Chad Smith (alto and C-melody saxophones), Sinfonia of London/John Wilson ...

Ish” is the name of the lead character in this movie, but it also might be a suffix attached to adjectives describing it.

What can you do with lots of big sheets of white paper, three rolls of Sellotape and a couple of torches? These are items from the “props incident room”, as he would call it, of Phelim McDermott’s ...

Attending the tale of Sweeney Todd was my introduction to musical theatre. I was in my early 20s and a friend of mine had ...

Even for a festival whose whole purpose is to platform a rich range of artists from cultures all around the world, WOMAD 2026 ...

You can’t really understand house music without grasping the influence of the Black American church. As it coalesced from the remnants of disco in Eighties Chicago, New York and New Jersey, the style ...

This album is such a remarkable document, and on so many levels. Perhaps its main "story" is that it could well be the very ...

The only break in the flow comes just before the last song, “Toppling.” There’s a need to tune the guitar, so what – until this point – is an uninterrupted, pell-mell rush through what seems to be ...

Since the release of her last album, Eternal Sunshine, in 2024, Ariana Grande, already a multi-platform superstar, has exploded to even greater fame, via the Wicked film franchise.

The pre-publication scuttlebutt on this book suggested that not only would it be David Thomson’s last, but also that it ...