As a pastime enjoyed by many all over the world, gaming has offered us some of the most impactful moments ever experienced. Whilst TV and film are perhaps still the more popular forms of entertainment these days, video games allow us to engage with characters, events and stories in a […]

AM is the fifth studio effort from Los Angeles Sheffield-born indie Godfathers Arctic Monkeys, and, as with any album pushed out by a band these days, it’s leaked about two weeks early. But after polarising listeners with a new direction in recent years, does this new record have the same […]

On Sunday night (August 25th), Biffy Clyro closed Reading Festival’s main stage to millions of adoring fans and couch potatoes alike around the world. As one of the Scottish trio’s most awe-inspiring nights, they didn’t only offer flaming guitars and thrashing anthems; they reinvigorated a flailing franchise in the process. […]

Only God Forgives is the latest film entry from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, and while it’s getting almost universally panned by critics for being dull and overly ultra-violent, its true brilliance lies not in its content but in its cinematic execution. I’ll try and keep this as spoiler-free as […]

Spoilers ahead – you’ve been warned! August 11th; the one date other than Christmas and family birthdays that is surely in everyone’s calendar by now. The day that our beloved Breaking Bad returns to our TV sets (or our laptop screens, for us unlucky Brits) for one last adrenaline handout. […]

The turn of the twenty-first century saw a boom in alternative rock culture; bands like The Hives and New York’s finest, The Strokes, were starting out strong and building an army of Converse that took their pet ‘indie’ kids everywhere with them. A whole new sub-culture was born, albeit a […]