12 Best Songs of the Week: Phoebe Bridgers, Jessie Ware, Jess Williamson, and More

Feb 28, 2020 Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the eighth Songs of the Week of 2020. It was busy week of new album announcements and surprise EPs. That led to another super-sized edition.

Real Estate on “The Main Thing”

Feb 28, 2020 Web Exclusive

"It's gonna be hard to go back." Martin Courtney laughs as he describes the line crossed by Real Estate in the writing and recording of their latest album, The Main Thing. For nearly a decade, the New Jersey-based band have developed their niche of relaxing rock, but an "existential crisis," as Courtney has termed it, pushed the band toward a more thoughtful ethic concerning their craft this time around.

Self-Portrait: Hazel Wilde of Lanterns on the Lake

Feb 27, 2020 Web Exclusive

For our recurring Self-Portrait feature we ask a musician to take a self-portrait photo (or paint/draw a self-portrait) and write a list of personal things about themselves, things that their fans might not already know about them. This Self-Portrait is by Hazel Wilde of Lanterns on the Lake.

Humanist – Rob Marshall on the Self-Titled Debut

Feb 26, 2020

Rob Marshall has been making music for the best part of two decades. Having cut his teeth with ambient shoegazers Lyca Sleep at the turn of the century, he's perhaps best known as being the guitarist in Exit Calm.

Ranked: 2020 Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films

Feb 09, 2020

The 92nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony will happen tonight, February 9th. As in years past, we've taken a look at this year's short film competitions. The Academy defines a short film as an original motion picture running 40 minutes or less, and excludes all advertisments, unaired or unsold television episodes, or credit sequences from feature-length films. Our critic, Shawn Hazelett, watched and ranked all of this year's Oscar-nominated shorts. Here, he looks at this year's documentary category.  

Want to judge for yourself? Click here to find a list of theaters and showtimes for this year's Oscar-nominated shorts.

Dry Cleaning @ The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham, UK

Feb 28, 2020 By Dom Gourlay

The new wave of post punk or the first wave of post everything? Dry Cleaning pave the way. 

Election 2020: The Anarchy Primaries

Feb 25, 2020 By Steve King

Liberals worry. They worry about real things. Conservatives worry about fake things. Democrats worry so Republicans don't have to; that's the way things work. At least until recently, the fundamentals of our democratic schism were strong.