Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 3 May 2024. On his first solo record in six years, Kamasi Washington turns his attention to dance – a natural progression of the Los Angeles born artist’s ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015…
Two actors, some props, lighting… sounds rudimentary – but the result in The Woman in Black is astounding. This storied play remains the second-longest running production in London’s West End, racking up over 13,000 performances between 1989 and 2023. (The longest-running is The Mousetrap.) Now this localised version of the London production is touring the…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 26 April 2024. Grammy Award-winning vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Judith Hill reclaims her strength on a deeply emotive new album, Letters From A Black Widow (out now via Regime Music Group). ‘Black Widow’ finds Hill confronting the malign label…
The 2024 HSBC German Film Festival is back at Palace Cinemas, this year celebrating 70 years of German cinema. The 2024 line-up features six films direct from the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), a Werner Herzog retrospective, a selection of the best German films from the last 70 years and new films for budding cinephiles…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 19 April 2024. Multi-Grammy® Award winner and living legend, T Bone Burnett returns with a solo project The Other Side – out now. The album, featuring artists Lucius, Roseanne Cash and Weyes Blood on select tracks, promises a sweeping…
So imagine for a minute, you’re Luca Guadagnino. Your last three features have been the cannibal road-movie Bones and All (2022), the blood-spattered remake of Suspiria (2018) and the sensitive love story Call Me By Your Name (2017). What do you do next? What’s that? Tennis? Yep, tennis! The mercurial director’s new project is Challengers,…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 12 April 2024. I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! is the eagerly anticipated sophomore album from Norway-born, and Oslo-based singer-songwriter, girl in red. This 10-song album chronicles the artist’s last two and a half years with honesty and wit, and…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 5 April 2024. Melissa Aldana’s second Blue Note album Echoes of the Inner Prophet is a musical voyage to explore the depth of the spiritual journey. Co-produced by Aldana and Lage Lund, the album features the tenor saxophonist with…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 29 March 2024. In 1916, Carrie Chapman Catt declared to a crowd of women’s suffragists that the world was in crisis – and it was time to turn that crisis into victory. “The Woman’s Hour has struck,” she announced….
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 22 March 2024. Here comes something. It’s a record; it’s called Celebrate and it lives up to its name. It’s the second album by Halo Maud. Halo Maud writes songs that touch, that grab hold, that astonish, that excite….
