HOW DO YOU SOLVE a problem like The Dark Side of the Moon? Initially, Pink Floyd didn’t want to. Groaning beneath the pressure of their monster masterpiece of an album, Floyd retreated into kitchenware,...
When I finished the first Uncharted game, I thought it was hugely flawed but it had some amazing moments and it had some serious potential if Naughty Dog could improve the shooting and the...
ONCE described in passing by Stephen Davis as “the dreaded band”, Rush have managed, inexplicably, to carve out a niche as a hard-rocking trio with overwhelming progressive tendencies on top of Randian lyrics, 80s...
FOALS’ FIRST album Antidotes was a bit of an “also ran” when it was released in 2008. It set up Foals as a presence on the music scene but it did little to define...
AS WE ROUND off this hideous month of humid August, we can find a little time to spotlight a film that festers with glorious, carefree self-indulgence. It’s Bacchanalia at SCM for – yes, really – Caligula....
1971 PROVED a pivotal year for Marvin Gaye. Having already established himself as big name in Motown, Gaye used his skills as a singer and a writer to create What’s Going On; an album...
FOR ONE LAST time we venture into the musical world of films from the last six years. Join us as we take you from the industrial world at the turn of the century, to...
IN A WORLD dominated by Britpop, someone had to bring the British scene back to reality with a bang. Who better to do that than Bristol Trip-Hop band Portishead? Their debut album, Dummy, released...
THIS week on Film Torments, Rich subjects himself to ten straight hours of the same fucking thing. That’s right, true believers – it’s The Twilight Saga (because anything can be a saga). I’ve...
WITH the 50th anniversary reunion tour of The (remaining) Beach Boys finally culminating in 2014, after a few years of organisational disputes between Brian Wilson and Mike Love, it was perhaps inevitable that a...
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