BIZARRE: 4 - What They Never Told You

Five Great Reads: testing the vagus nerve, Tom Waits in love, triggered by therapy-speak

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU · Aug 25, 2023

‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy

Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2023

10 rock stars who missed out on their dream movie roles

David Bowie in The Lord Of The Rings? John Lydon in Quadrophenia? WASP’s Blackie Lawless as The Terminator? These are the Oscar-winning performances that never were

Louder · Aug 11, 2023

John Mellencamp weaves deft, weary tales on the elegant Orpheus Descending

John Mellencamp's 25th album Orpheus Descending is still flecked with melancholy and socially minded ire

Louder · Jun 16, 2023

‘The film industry is gone. It sucks’: Jim Jarmusch on swapping directing for drone rock

At 70, the outsider movie hero is releasing his first album. He muses on music, the demise of film and finding joy in mistakes

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2023

Renfield star Nicholas Hoult on building his own legacy for the character

Exclusive: Nicholas Hoult tells the Inside Total Film podcast how he made the role of Renfield his own

Total Film · Apr 13, 2023

From Avatar: The Way of Water to I Hate Suzie Too: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

From big blue aliens to the return of Billie Piper’s hapless celeb, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2022

Nina Hagen: Unity review – musically eclectic to the point of chaos

The ‘godmother of German punk’ delivers a pot-pourri of original tracks and covers ranging from dub to folk, with a rather weak political message

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2022

Rega Planar 6/Nd7

A wonderfully refined, articulate and precise turntable.

What Hi-Fi? · Oct 12, 2022

The Silent Treatment: Sarah-Louise Young on the trauma and stigma of losing her voice

In her Edinburgh fringe show, the musical theatre performer exposes the pressures faced by singers and reflects on her own vocal healing

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2022