Reminders have signed to Venn Records for their debut album, due this spring

A lavish maid of honour dress from the Queen's Coronation has been painstakingly restored and will go on display to mark the Platinum Jubilee. The outfit, designed by the Queen's dressmaker Norman Hartnell, was worn by Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill at the 1953 Westminster Abbey ceremony. It has a tiny 22-inch...

Studio 10 star Erin Jayne Plummer died on the weekend at aged 42. Suicide has now been confirmed as her cause of death after a battle with mental illness. Content Warning: This article discusses depression and suicide. If you or someone you know are affected by the following story, you are not alone. To speak to someone, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

In a 2008 interview with Rolling Stone, Neil Young spoke about an album called Toast that he had recorded seven years earlier with longtime band Crazy Horse. “It’s a mind blowing record, and I don’t think it’s a commercial record, but it’s great rock and roll, very moody, kind of jazzy,” Young said. “It was recorded in the same place where Coltrane was recorded, so there’s a lot of heavy stuff in there.”

Click here to read the full article. Playing Directors’ Fortnight, Fabián Hernández’s “A Male” (“Un Varón”) underscores just how much Colombian cinema has evolved in recent years, in both technique and kind of storytelling.  A meditation on manhood sold by Dubai-based Cercamon and seen at San Sebastian’s WIP Latin last year, it turns on 16-year-old Carlos (Dylan Felipe Ramírez Espitia), glimpses of his deep turmoil shining through a stoic facade.  His mother in jail, his sister on the game,Carlos lives in a central Bogotá homeless shelter in central Bogotá.Over Christmas, he wanders his local streets, dominated by the ideal of the alpha...

Even popes retire these days but, like the Queen, Herbert Blomstedt just goes on and on. The Swedish-American conductor is 94 now, and the joints are visibly stiffer than they were as he enters and leaves the stage, but Blomstedt remains amazingly spry. His control of the Philharmonia Orchestra – using his hands, not a baton – was beyond question, and he conducted the entire evening without once sitting down.