If you’d ever wondered what Lou Reed might have sounded like if he’d chosen a career in country music* Garrett T. Capps provides the answer. (more…)
Dance duo Sofi Tukker’s banger Good Time Girl is the soundtrack to Paolo Sorrentino’s brilliant TV drama The New Pope. (more…)
Céline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is not just a film about love and desire, but a film about art – and the symbiosis between subject and painter. (more…)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) – film review
12th January 2022 · 2010s, 2017, FilmForget the fabricated controversy: everything about Martin McDonagh’s film is amazing – especially Frances McDormand. (more…)
The Rolling Stones – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (Live 2013)
26th September 2021 · 2010s, 2013, MusicThis Stones performance had passed me by completely, perhaps because I had long ago mentally dismissed the past half a century of their work. (more…)
Sometimes a bassline just hits the spot – right there in the gut – and carries the whole song. (more…)
About 20 years ago I was at a loose end in Los Angeles and decided I’d track down Lemmy from Motorhead for his first interview since a health scare. (more…)