by Max Astle | May 28, 2026 | Culture, Music, Top Story
Vera Brandes is the reason the world was blessed with The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett, leading it to become the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album. But that’s not the interesting story; Köln 75 shows us how an 18-year-old...
by Lewis Kennedy | May 28, 2026 | Culture, Latest, Music, People, Top Story
The 2009 feature ‘Nowhere Boy’ helped launch the careers of Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, bringing John Lennon’s pre-fame years to the big screen. Covering life at Mendips and the conflict between his mother Julia and Aunt Mimi, the film promised to...
by Sophie Street | May 27, 2026 | Culture, Music, People, Top Story
In the opening frames of the 2017 blockbuster The Greatest Showman, a young P.T.Barnum and his father hustle through the bustling streets of New York City before racing tocatch a commuter train back to Bethel, Connecticut. It is a cinematic, propulsive momentthat...
by Max Astle | May 26, 2026 | Latest, Music, People
The biopic Amadeus, released in 1984, depicts the life of Amadeus Mozart from his childhood to his last ten years in Vienna, and is the best example of this. In music, reception often refers to how listeners and audiences perceive, interpret, and respond to music,...
by Sophie Street | May 22, 2026 | Culture, Music, People, Top Story
The curtains rise on a Paris draped in sepia and silence. In Pablo Larraín’s 2024 film Maria, we see a woman who has become a haunting of her own making. Angelina Jolie, in a performance of bone-deep stillness, portrays Maria Callas as a “reclusive, tragic...
