Al Horner

There will be gnashing of teeth. There will be rending of garments. And that’s just on seeing the band names. But if you only...

Psychedelic legend has it that Santa’s red suit is a colour-coded reference to the hallucinogenic toadstools favoured by European reindeer and used as a...

Punks bloody love Christmas. Maybe it’s because of the festive colours – those potent reds, greens and golds reminiscent of the tartan bondage trousers...

It’s a vintage year indeed that’s bookended by out-of-the-blue releases from pop’s Queen Bs, David Bowie and Beyonce. What’s even more surprising, though, is...

In the five weeks since Lou Reed died aged 71, there's been plenty of tributes to the garage-rock pioneer. None, however, as strange as...

Lana Del Rey is back – not just with a new album, announced yesterday as being titled ‘Ultraviolence’, but with a thirty minute short...

Snoop Dogg and his Peanuts-inspired moniker aside, the worlds of rap and cartoons rarely collide. Might have something to do with all that bad...

Pixies frontman Black Francis recently announced ‘The Good Inn’, a graphic novel telling the story of “the first narrative pornographic film". He joins rapper...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGRQKKaox5Q Keeping up with the bullet-paced, ephemeral world of pop can be a tiring business. One minute it's Baauer's 'Harlem Shake' dominating the charts and...

If you’re from outside the United States and woke up this morning wondering what the phrase ‘Black Friday’ was doing plastered over your Twitter...