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NASA Finds Interstellar Stardust

If confirmed, these particles would be the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust....

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A Commonwealth Of Homophobia

42 of the 53 countries that make up the Commonwealth continue to criminalise homosexuality...

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Takahito Irie : Interview

I like the Sci-fi stuff. We always harbour desire and imagination for future life, and humans are making it real....

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3 Teeth [Album Review]

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

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This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...

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Blake / St. Mungo’s Broadway : Interview

Homelessness can affect anybody and everybody. Homelessness is not a class or economic problem. It’s a social and support problem....

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Cloud Atlas : Beyond the Vale

It's Heidi Widdop's distinctive vocals that set Cloud Atlas apart from many of their obvious peers, but this album's sound is as much about Martin Ledger's soaring melodic lead guitar...

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Nicole Atkins : Slow Phaser

an album of vignettes that, while emotional, exhibits a diversity beyond the singer's own and thereby transcends the pitfalls of contemporary pop...

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Rice and Redemption : The Learning Farm

I am glad that some of them are now coming back and learn the old skills of the farm. A person should know how to grow their own food....

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Politics as usual, Has Failed

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

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Hormazd Narielwalla

Hormazd Narielwalla’s work is a celebration of both ancient tailoring techniques, collage and the human form. ...

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Kenneth Clark : Tate Britain

The career and impact of Kenneth Clark (1903–1983), one of the most influential figures in British art, will be explored in Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation...

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Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker

Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text....

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Public Bikes in Europe

Public bikes in major European cities...

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Felix Kubin : Interview

I don't want to be a pop underground star when I'm sixty on stage. I love the genre of pop but it's just one of many genres....

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James Narh (XXL Streetdance) : Interview

Street dance has to sit within contemporary culture to stand the test of time, and not end up as a fad that disappears after a session or two....

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D S C R D : Interview

Some people react more poetically, have nice abstract or artistic concepts, create an imaginary world or whatever. We do not have any of this....

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HRH Prog 2 Festival

There were complaints from some quarters that it was an inconvenient location. But it was an equal opportunity inconvenience; it takes just as long wherever you're coming from. HRH Prog 2...

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The Music of Bernard Parmegiani at LCMF

While in Paris Parmegiani's work is usually presented in state of the art, state-subsidised spaces, here it manifests in multi-storey car parks and former carpet factories, both in formerly abject...

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Jean-Claude Risset : Music from Computer

Historic and serious works, thrilling but unacknowledged precedents for many of the textures that structure electronic music in the present day...

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Late Turner : Painting Set Free

Tate Britain’s Late Turner keeps Turner on the stage rather than focusing on his exit. As co-curator Sam Smiles said, these are “paintings with subjects that have resonance”. ...

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The Debilitating Effects of Shame

Shame on you. These three simple words can temporarily — or, when used too often, permanently — destroy an individual's sense of value and self-worth....

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Ruin Lust : Tate Britain

Ruins can point towards futures, potentials, opportunities and constructions of the new, as well as to endings...

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Kraftwerk Uncovered at The Science Museum

It was only natural that sooner or later, Kraftwerk would materialise in some form at the Science Museum...

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A Dialogue with Nature : Courtauld Gallery

Landscape embodied a mysterious border space to combat the creeping rise of social industrialisation and cultural European realism...

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Uwe Schmidt / Atom TM : Interview

I never touched the topic of "harmonies" or "musical notes"… everything was just "rhythmical sound", that either "worked" or "did not work"....

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Lettuce : Ronnie Scott’s

Replacing the jazz paunch with the funk punch their heavy grooves are less about flow than tight stacked combinations of counterpoint, attack and accent, all leading to a 16th bar finishing move...

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Dum Dum Girls : Too True

'decadently nihilistic, appealingly rebellious and alluringly savage' Dum Dum Girls....

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Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs : Interview

Can a woman be beautiful and funny? I have heard many intelligent men say no, but I totally disagree. But the road to comedy fame is decidedly harder....

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Business Interview : Colin Leslie Eyewear

People need to appreciate that we are all responsible for our environment. If we wish to maintain certain standards and ways of living, we need to....

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