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Tooth, an alt-rock band, discusses their debut single, performing live, and their promising future.

Nostalgia is not cultural comfort, but cultural cowardice. It’s a way for people to simulate connectivity whilst ignoring the collective responsibility we have to create our own future. With the rise of nostalgia, our culture more broadly is at a crossroads, edging towards implosion and the end of the present.

Writer Emily Bunder reviews the "Every Body Knows" exhibition, part of the CMCI Winter Festival 2025.

With his signature blend of humour, surrealism and trompe l’œil, he has introduced a refreshed vision that feels both respectful and forward-thinking. In Anderson’s hands, Dior is not rewritten, but reawakened proof that even the most historic fashion houses can evolve without losing their soul.

georgeybuckley, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Released in late November, South Arcade’s new EP, PLAY! is a high-energy track list with a curious twist at the end. The band, formed in 2021 by four university students – Harmony Cavelle (vocals), Harry Winks (guitar), Ollie Green (bass), and Cody Jones (drums) – has quickly created a niche that feels simultaneously nostalgic and entirely their own. From their early days in Guildford to recent tours across the UK, and a first

Photo by Austin Cieszko Emma Wellons makes music the way she’s always lived with it: curiously, instinctively, and without hierarchy. Performing under the name emory, the Los Angeles-based artist and producer has built a world where hyperpop, folk, indie and techno coexist – often within the same song. It’s a sound shaped by early beginnings playing drums in church at age ten, years of experimenting with whatever instruments and software were within reach, and a willingness

Given the numerous game announcements each year, do The Game Awards still focus on the awards, or are the trailers now the main event?

Bloomsbury Football Foundation is a charity, currently based in London, but with plans to scale across the country. Our mission is to transform young people’s lives using the power of football.

The way that The Chronology of Water (2025) is billed from a quick Google search is misleading. Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut cannot be reduced to a story about a swimmer. Adapted from the 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, the film explores abuse and trauma, but ultimately results in healing through the power of writing.

Coming out of watching Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, I kept hearing that the film was “made for the fans”. As a long-time fan of the franchise, this movie was not made for me. Which raises the question: who is it for?