Is it my imagination, or did the Super Bowl ads tell us something scary is afoot in America?

Last month David Coleman headed down to Somerset for three days of miserable weather, unhealthy food and oppressively loud shoegaze music.

How about we stop studying our own entrails and join the party?

In our humble opinion, these twenty five albums represent the best new music that 2009 had to offer.

Forget the best of the decade - 2009 had plenty of great music to call its own and deserves its own party. Here's the first instalment of our Top 50 albums list.

After an extensive jaunt around the US, The Decemberists hopped over the pond for a few dates to promote their stellar album, The Hazards of Love.

Nick Fenn reflects on a golden age of US satire in his fourth TV Magic column.

Sarah Palin - Pop Princess

In the third edition of his television column, Nick Fenn examines the Sopranos and Mad Men as modern existential fables.

Let's just say you should have been there.

Dexter is a forensic expert, a family man, and a murderous psychopath. This, of course, makes for pretty entertaining television.

In his new column, Nick Fenn takes a look at the best and the worst of today's television.

Where are all the young geniuses?  All the ones I know are in their twilight years.  Isn't it about time for a new batch?

The noise collective spells out their parenthetical reverb ceremony style.

The flagship band on Ardent Records in the early 1970s, Big Star’s image all but drowned in rock and roll’s torrent waters due to ill-fated distribution deals and a failure to get any of the band’s three albums successfully in stores. But those stubborn songs lived on – long enough to be heard by people like Michael Stipe, Paul Westerberg, and Jeff Tweedy, for starters.