Roses, eye contact, satisfaction: HAMISH HAWK is a Valentine’s gift in Cardiff
What better way to spend Valentine's Day than a night in The Globe, immersed in the divine chamber-pop sound and poetic words of Hamish Hawk?
What better way to spend Valentine's Day than a night in The Globe, immersed in the divine chamber-pop sound and poetic words of Hamish Hawk?
After 2022’s expansive The Ruby Cord, Richard Dawson goes back to basics on new album End Of The Middle, and that's no bad thing.
Newport’s black-clad The Nightmares make an accomplished return with their second album Fire in Heaven.
Journalist and author Valery Panyushkin's book focuses on the experiences of Ukrainian refugees forced to flee by Putin’s invasion.
These songs of disconnection and reconnection in a volatile world pack an authentic punch matched by widescreen sonic beauty.
The Delines’ fifth album, arguably their best to date, is a record of romantic misfits, small-time grifters and couples that win and lose at the game of love and relationships.
Mab Jones mulls a couple of American poets, Shane McCrae and Ange Mlinko, along with Nigerian-American Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Wales’ own Ness Owen.
Characteristically vivid and optimistic tones contrast with an exploration of mental health on The Wombats’ sixth album.
Joanne Rush’s debut novel Dancing On Knives reminds us that the consequences of war never fade and are held heavy in the hearts of the survivors long after conflict has subsided.
Timely released just in time for Valentine's Day, The Re-Write is British-Nigerian author Lizzie Damilola Blackburn’s second book.
If this novel's plot took place onscreen, it would probably be close to David Fincher’s Se7en, but on the page it has its own deadly uniqueness.
From Lucent Dreaming, a small press based in Cardiff, comes a title that will hold eye-opening content for anyone who reads it.
After a triumphant Dropkick Murphys outing in Cardiff two years ago, hopes are high for another night of barroom singalongs and Irish jig-inspired moshpits.
Sweden’s Hellacopters released their first single three decades ago, and while there are only faint echoes of those days in their current mode, their classic rock chops are second to none.
The second album from twin brother duo The Ocelots sees them building on the folk-rock sound they established on their debut full-length.
Debut novelist Kelly Frost provides a vivid scene of 1950s north London and its turf wars between gangs of 'teddy girls'.
On their third album, postpunk quintet Squid abandon complex time signatures for more simplistic repetitions and refrains, with haunting results.
Dream Theater's 16th studio album brings their classic and well-loved style, full of atmosphere even if doing little creatively new.
With the eternal talent of the WNO Orchestra and fearless conductor Karem Hasan, we were in very good hands for the evening.
It’s rare to find a double album of sophisticated indie-pop, with such an abundance of earworms to the very end.
Hero is no romance: it’s a story of modern-day love, but it’s dark and depressing, hopeful and tender.
Written in prose of extraordinary visual and sensory precision, Han Kang faces spectres of Korea’s past in a story of uncommon power and depth.
When you pick up a book by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, you know you’re in for one hell of a ride – and so it proves with his latest offering, Shock Induction.
Ta-Nehisi Coates' writing has the power to tangibly influence wider conversations, on topics where it feels like those with the most power have imposed omertà.