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Cosy up this winter equinox with two exclusive broadcasts from Newcastle avant-pop experimenters Hen Ogledd, courtesy of Supersonic Festival We’re

On Thursday 6th August, your local city poet Mike Skinner proved that ticketed live streams can work, and offered hope for many in the music industry

It’s been a bad year for cinemas, but a good year for films. Explore 30 of the best films of 2020 here with Counteract.

Professor Carl Chinn MBE, Birmingham’s foremost social historian and author of 33 books himself, reviews the debut novel of Stephen Pennell

Garage rock icons Oh Sees will now play The Crossing in Birmingham this November

Award-winning food and drink writer Simon Carlo gives us his rundown of Birmingham’s best restaurant ‘at home’ boxes for delivery at home

After a short closure, iconic Birmingham boozer The Old Crown is back in business with a bit of a facelift.

Table Scraps drop a thunderous new single; the first from their upcoming album Coffin Face. Watch the video here.

There’s Always Tomorrow is a brutal trip down memory lane for Jimmy Davis aka T8PES, who is in the best form of his career so far