I called caroline “perhaps the best band in the U.K” in my article about their debut, which I named my album of the year.

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I wrote here that Lady Gaga was the godmother of the new generation of ostentatiously “theatre kid” pop stars – but actually, ...

Turnstile’s NEVER ENOUGH is a vibrant, shape-shifting album that proves the Baltimore-based band is fully committed to ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

Terence Rattigan's rehabilitation – some might almost say deification – as a leading 20th Century playwright is complete. As ...

Thankfully, Julia Burbach’s version of The Flying Dutchman for Opera Holland Park doesn’t try to be one of those ...

Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...

Little Simz clearly believes in meeting situations head on. Her sixth full-length album kicks off, in every sense of the ...