Daily Newsletter, August 31, 2025

While the connection with some old masters could be clearly drawn here, there is that current songwriting and production touch to this album that makes it both familiar and brand new at the same time.

Atwood's staff share the music they've been listening to: This week's roundup includes Alabama Shakes, Medium Build, Ethel Cain, Madelline, Takeda, Bea Elmy Martin, Lindsey Rose Black, My Chérie, Somewhere in Between, Paige O, Common People, American Authors, Jordan Anthony, Cristina Hart, Nia Wyn, & Lizzie Thomas!

In the early 2000s, musicians worried about what piracy would do to art, sparking the beginnings of a debate we're still in the midst of today.

Neil Hannon Interview with Nigel Carr - Rainy Sunday Afternoon due out on the 19th September - Wonka, Father Ted, IT Crowd & Secret Hobbies

Deee-Lite didn’t just top charts—they brought queer futurism, club culture, and unapologetic weirdness into the mainstream.

We are looking through 10 of Paul McCartney's song for The Beatles and why John Lennon hated them in his later life and the fury he put on them.

Rock evolves relentlessly, leaving behind once-vital sounds. These 7 forgotten genres shaped music history - and then slipped quietly away

Their most consequential stylistic stroke since their pioneering folk-rock debut three years earlier, it ushered in country-rock and Americana.

Doris Troy is a name you may not know, but you have heard her voice. From Pink Floyd to The Beatles to Motown, this singer had a career of illustrious credits.

Alister Spence Trio: Gather (Alister Spence Music ASM016) There’s no justice in the world of the arts, nor in any other world – if there were, this self-produced album would be a bestseller, and Alister Spence would be a mega-star at least in the jazz and improv firmament. Gather features the pianist’s Sydney-based trio, with […]

Something seems familiar as we take a look at a selection of essential Indiana Jones rip-offs from the 1980s… In cinema, if something works once, studios will naturally assume it could work again. Die Hard, aside from spawning four sequels, also inspired innumerable rip-offs. The same goes for Mad Max, Conan the Barbarian, Jaws, The […]

There is a rich world of cinema out there for those who go further back than the 1980s.