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After 8-year hiatus, PAOLO NUTINI’s album return is uniquely great

July 3, 2022

The music is bloody good, dense and full of the deep feeling that Nutini obviously needs to make that rather special voice of his soar.

THE DESTRUCTION & CREATION OF MICHAEL JACKSON: brilliantly written biography-in-reverse

June 29, 2022

Ellis Cashmore asks the difficult questions – can and should we separate the art from the artist? And, most uncomfortably, are we responsible for Michael Jackson’s destruction if we, as consumers, aided in his creation?

MOONAGE DAYDREAM: 20 years old and still an unparalleled BOWIE guide

June 15, 2022

Twenty years after its initial publication, this unparalleled visual guide to the cultural phenomenon that was Ziggy Stardust has been revamped to celebrate the half-century since the Spiders From Mars crashlanded into British living rooms.

“It’s not a novelty – it’s a living language” – GWENNO on recording new album in Cornish – and in Cornwall

June 1, 2022

Returning this summer with Tresor, Cardiff’s dreampop icon Gwenno found herself pondering issues of language, identity and self-doubt.

Region: South Wales

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE mix humour & heavenly inspiration on DANCE FEVER

May 20, 2022

Florence + The Machine have done well to lambast themselves without losing any of their apparently genuine uniqueness on Dance Fever.

VAN MORRISON takes cynical aim at society (and himself) on WHAT’S IT GONNA TAKE?

May 13, 2022

After the fantastic opener Dangerous, which pokes fun at Morrison’s status as the pot-stirring, sneering cynic, the rest of the new album is obsessed with lying politicians and a brainwashed nation.

TV soundtrack fave PATRICK WATSON crafts another beauty of an album

May 6, 2022

Patrick Watson has created another beautifully crafted album that pushes his soft piano, light vocal, ambient electronic style further to the leftfield.

Witness the birth, boom and bust of Britpop in Adams & Pooler’s literary chronicle

May 4, 2022

The decade that brought us the last truly great chart battle and some of the most iconic songs to ever grace a gig is both brilliantly analysed and celebrated in Britpop: Decades.

Singing royalty MARTHA WAINWRIGHT bares all in fascinating memoir

April 13, 2022

Born into a family of strong musical talent, Martha Wainwright could be excused for finding it hard to find her place in the world, as Stories I Might Regret Telling You details.

ILLUSTRATED TALES OF WALES beautifully connects the nation’s past & present

March 16, 2022

Mark Rees has created a fascinating collection of well-known tales from Wales’ past – placing them into our modern country through superb accompanying images.

Region: Wales-Wide

THE LAZY EYES: Aussie psychedelics’ album debut is a glorious promise of things to come

March 11, 2022

Sydney four-piece The Lazy Eyes have conjured up a collection of blistering compositions on debut album Songbook.

“It’s interesting working in three languages” – singer KIZZY CRAWFORD on PETULA, a multilingual stage odyssey

March 10, 2022

With a script by that is almost trilingual in its use of Welsh, English and a little French, Petula star Kizzy Crawford tells Noel Gardner why she took on the multilingual acting challenge.

Region: Wales-Wide

After 8-year hiatus, PAOLO NUTINI’s album return is uniquely great

THE DESTRUCTION & CREATION OF MICHAEL JACKSON: brilliantly written biography-in-reverse

MOONAGE DAYDREAM: 20 years old and still an unparalleled BOWIE guide

“It’s not a novelty – it’s a living language” – GWENNO on recording new album in Cornish – and in Cornwall

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE mix humour & heavenly inspiration on DANCE FEVER

VAN MORRISON takes cynical aim at society (and himself) on WHAT’S IT GONNA TAKE?

TV soundtrack fave PATRICK WATSON crafts another beauty of an album

Witness the birth, boom and bust of Britpop in Adams & Pooler’s literary chronicle

Singing royalty MARTHA WAINWRIGHT bares all in fascinating memoir

ILLUSTRATED TALES OF WALES beautifully connects the nation’s past & present

THE LAZY EYES: Aussie psychedelics’ album debut is a glorious promise of things to come

“It’s interesting working in three languages” – singer KIZZY CRAWFORD on PETULA, a multilingual stage odyssey

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