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Project Hail Mary climbs one place to return to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart this week, reclaiming the top spot from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The sci-fi epic follows a lone astronaut on a desperate mission to save humanity, as he uncovers the scale of the threat facing Earth and the extraordinary lengths needed to stop it. Avatar – Fire and Ash rises two places to Number 2, returning audiences to Pandora for another visually spectacular adventure as new conflicts, cultures and dangers reshape the world of the Na’vi. Last week’s Number 1, The Super Mario Galaxy…

In some movie release news today, Ascidian Filmsis delighted to confirm that Harry Domenico Rossi’s debut featurePescadorwill make itsEuropean PremiereatRaindance Film Festivalon 18th June, where it has been selected for theNarrative Competition. Described as ‘fantastic and meditative‘, the film has received two Raindance nominations: BestDirector of a Debut Featurefor Rossi andBest Performance in a Debut Featurefor Alex Wanebo. A singular work of magical realism,Pescadorarrives in London following its World Premiere at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI Goa). Rossi also received the Peter Brunette Award for Best Director at RiverRun International Film Festival, where the jury statement announced“every step…

As England fans prepare for a summer of football,Bassline Lionslaunch a song designed to unite supporters across the country. A brand-new contender for England’s ultimate football soundtrack has arrived with the release ofThe Time Is Right Now, the latest single from Bassline Lions – already being tipped as a defining anthem for the summer. Packed with energy, pride, and an undeniable sense of unity,The Time Is Right Nowcaptures the spirit of a nation rallying behind its team. With an infectious melody and instantly memorable hook, fans are already singing along. Blending uplifting production with echoes of chants from the terraces…

Louder Than War Live2 is happening!After the success of our debut LTW festival, we return on the 13 March 2027 at The Academy venues in Manchester.Early Bird tickets are now available, offering 30% off the full price – Just £34.95 + Booking Fee! That’s 16 bands across 3 indoor stages – all TBA!These tickets are limited in number! So hurry the link and buy now…A Plea From Louder Than WarLouder Than War is run by a small but dedicated independent team, and we rely on the small amount of money we generate to keep the site running smoothly. Any money…

Photo: Heather SaitzWell that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon our Tracks Editor nabbed it before we could run the video and who could blame him? Seeing the band play is so joyous in itself that we’re going to break our golden rule and run it as well. We mark our own homework so who’ll know?As songwriter Joel Stretch told us, “I Found a River’explores a déjà vu feeling that hits pretty…

Meditations on the unglamorous, but with melodic hooks, from Scottish folk-award winnerAnyone coming to this album for their first experience of Kris Drever may well be expecting something fairly traditional in light of his many BBC folk awards but they will discover a collection of songs drawing upon the stresses and strains of modern living, all set to arrangements and instrumentation that are firmly rooted in the present day. The ten songs on Doing This For Love are described by Drever as “meditations on the unglamorous, 4am alarm clocks, ungrateful shifts, the quiet sacrifices made for love.”The title track tells…

Aldous Harding at The Barbican. Photo: Iris FlyntThere’s always a question over whether a gig review should spend too much time on setting the scene before the gig; the travail of travel, the pleasure (or otherwise) of the weather, the detail of the venue: how much before we feel like we’re in a travelogue rather than a gig review? Well, whether this should be here or not, suffice to say that it was a bare miracle of fortunate spontaneity that allowed this review to happen at all. Were it not for the idea to head into Central London a few…

Photo: Cover art for Jesse Colin Young album “Light Shine” (1974)Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame as a founding member of the seminal 1960s group the Youngbloods, who first achieved international success when their cover of Chet Powers’ Get Together, originally from their eponymous debut album, was re-released in 1969. Though he would go on to be recognised as the band’s main songwriter, few of the Youngbloods’ earlier material was…

With all of its overlapping loops, interlocking cycles, crafty algorithms and escalating intensity, Horse Lords’ music may cast back to an era when bands playing similarly complex music attracted a peculiar adjective. At some point in the mists of the 1990s, “math” became a handy descriptor for alt.rock, hardcore and metal acts that took an unconventional approach to matters of structure and rhythm, one more rooted in experimental music, free jazz and non-western musical modes. You could usually find a copy of King Crimson’s Red in the members’ collections, too. Like most of the bands themselves – Drive Like Jehu…

If a title’s purpose is to illuminate an album’s themes, then The Ground Above, Beth Orton’s ninth, suggests she’s been buried alive. Listening, too, for the first time, one fears that’s exactly what’s happened. Once that gentle, languid voice ached with a mere crack on “She Cries Your Name”, and that crack, furthermore, let light in. Three decades later, it trembles and breaks on her new record’s earliest notes. Indeed, this title track initially appears so privately visceral one worries about intruding. Her moans and groans are singular, guttural, even primal, as though they’ve discovered a life of their own.…

Father’s Day will be with us on Sunday, June 21 so if you’ve been struggling for ideas, I’ve picked out 15 products that should cover your music-loving, pop-culture-obsessed dad – and if you’re quick, everything here should be delivered before the day itself.I’ve covered a range of budgets: from £12.99 – £199.99 and included a Slayer vinyl box set, a brilliant portable turntable from the experts at Audio-Technica, a Sleep Token colouring book, a pair of SHOKZ headphones, a brilliant JBL portable speaker, a Metallica t-shirt and whole lot more.So dive in and hopefully I’ve given you some inspiration for…

As you prepare to consume (or avoid) FIFA’s latest overcooked feast of football, why not spend a little time with our latest smorgasbord of new music? Just like the World Cup, we kick off in Mexico – and we also have artists representing England, Scotland, USA, Belgium/Ghana, Norway, Australia, Brazil, Japan and Ecuador/Switzerland. This dedicated “Three Lions”-free zone includes scorching new tunes from Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Jack White, Ty Segall, The Afghan Whigs, Interpol and Seun Kuti with Tom Morello; some genuinely lovely stuff from Lambchop, Elanor Moss, Juni Habel and Robyn Hitchcock; a whole new album from the tireless…