On February 4, Black Country, New Road release their second album Ants From Up There. Coming exactly twelve months after their Mercury Prize-nominated debut For The First Time, the album’s main ...

One highlight of the BBC’s excellent Mercury music prize awards show this week was a heart-stopping rendition by the absurdly gifted Jessie Buckley of Footnotes on the Map, from For All Our Days That ...

It’s a singing style that has the potential to polarize audiences – you either like it; or you don’t. There’s an elegant German word to describe it; and, an inelegant English one. The German word is ...

Sprechgesang or ‘talk-singing’ is the sound of modern pop and rock - but why? Adrian Goldberg joins the dots from Schoenberg to Sleaford Mods to prove that songs are best spoken. Show more From Mark E ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...