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The annual return of Record Store Day is upon us next month. It is a day designed to celebrate the record shop, the records, and everything...
In 1970, author and poet Yukio Mishima tied up the commandant of a Tokyo military base and stepped onto the balcony. He read his prepared speech to...
Can you separate the art from the artist? Why this remains a discussion is a mystery. Yes, you can. And yes, you should. Separate it all from the...
What if your passion in life made it onto the big screen and you noticed everything it got wrong? The architecture world is currently experiencing...
AI was supposed to be the shiny centrepiece of the new American tech revolution - until it wasn’t. This week US tech giants took an existential...
Before Paul Schrader sat down to write the script for 1976’s seminal Taxi Driver, he made sure to reread one novel in particular. That was Nausea,...
The original template-setting Nosferatu could have never seen the light of day again. Marred by legal issues over its obvious unsolicited adaptation...
Is Scottish arts and culture self-contained, inside its walls, too busy staring down at its own navel for anyone else to notice? Northern Ireland is...
The omnipresent streaming giant Netflix and its competitors are certainly a different beast from any film or TV production and distribution company...
2024 was a chaotic year, as always. Each year does seem to be adding a touch more chaos than the last recently. Strangely enough, it was nothing in...
There were over 250 editions of Unspun published in 2024, our newsletter where we analyse, dissect and discuss the political happenings of Scotland...
In the Errol Morris documentary American Dharma, Morris sits down with Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon to discuss politics and films in an...
This month sees the release of Mufasa: The Lion King, another entry in Disney’s photorealistic revival of its older, much-loved animated...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how audience behaviour in cinemas has been getting worse in recent years. Now with the film adaptation of Broadway...
When Dani Garavelli wrote in this newspaper about the derision and condescension of working-class students by the private school-educated at...
One of the supposed silver linings of Donald Trump’s presidential win in 2016 was all the great art we would get. The flames of discontent were to...
A spectre is haunting your local cinema – the spectre of having no idea how to behave when in a cinema. No, I’m not the fun police. Nor am I...
“Nobody takes anything f*cking seriously anymore,” starts a now-deleted rant from ambitious alternative musician Ethel Cain. “It makes me feel so...
The art of speeding up and slowing down music is probably not new to anyone. Many first found such wonders mischievously playing around with the...
The biggest come-up of the year surely belongs to pop star Chappell Roan. The singer has seen a neck breaking rise in the past few months, becoming...
Fandom can be an intense thing. Unsettling, even. Not only are there swarms of Beatles fans who think that the involvement of Yoko Ono is solely...
Some myths apparently never die. For some, it’s called conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom that Yoko Ono broke up the most famous pop...
Being asked for your song to be licensed for one of the biggest franchises ever would normally be a cause to celebrate, but for Heaven 17’s Martyn...
In the 2010s, a major consensus shift took over music. Everyone started to take pop music far more seriously, with the term ‘poptimist’ springing...
Scotland’s arts and culture sector is drowning, and there is no life raft. No skin comes off the backs of governments when cutting the arts is...
And so it’s written, Glasgow School of Art will no longer post on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, X. You don’t have to squint...
David Lynch says he will never retire – but he certainly won’t set foot on a film set again. That was the news when the 78-year-old surrealist cult...
“And that’s when he unalived himself, as well as his wife and children,” says one true crime TikTok user as she demonstrates her new Wonderskin...