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The multi-talented actor and director speak with Soundsphere about the long-awaited return of Scrubs, and his incredible career in entertainment… Zach Braff couldn’t be happier that his goofy “Scrubs” character, J.D. Dorian, has sprung back to life –the heartwarming comedy series has returned after 16 years. The sitcom’s original cast members, Donald Faison (who plays Christopher Turk), Sarah Chalke (Dr. Elliot Reid), John C. McGinley (Dr. Perry Cox) and Judy Reyes (head nurse Carla Espinosa) are also in the reboot. SCRUBS – ABC’s “Scrubs” stars Zach Braff as John “J.D.” Dorian. (Disney/Brian Bowen Smith) Forever friends… “We’ve stayed close, all…
Originally published in Uncut, November 2013 Last year during his keynote speech at SXSW, Bruce Springsteen announced that “We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place” was “every song I’ve ever written. All of them.” Springsteen, who has been performing The Animals’ 1965 single for decades, most recently this summer in Cardiff with Eric Burdon, is far from alone in recognising himself in a powerful, protean anthem to personal transformation. This portrait of the tyranny of work, the lurking shadow of death and the desperate desire to escape to “a better life” has spoken to generations. Troops serving in Vietnam, both…
Photo: Joshua Black WilkinsNashville native Maisy Owen has announced the release of her debut album Dark On A Sunny Day on 1st May 2026 via Tompkins Square. Owen will be performing a gig at London’s Theatreship on 23rd June 2026 to introduce her songs to a London audience.Owen has been surrounded by music and the art of songcraft most of her life (she’s 23). She played the viola from the age of nine, then took up the guitar where she embraced fingerpicking, soaking in influences from Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Mazzy Star and David Olney. Her father Gwil Owen is…
Photo – KRLA BeatThe Hollywood Palace was an hour-long American Television variety show which broadcast from January 1964 until February 1970. Unlike the Ed Sullivan Show, this one had a different presenter each week. This classic clip from 1967 features the remarkable Buffalo Springfield. The band had a Billboard top ten hit in the spring of 1967 with For What It’s Worth peaking at number seven. Stephen Stills wrote the protest song in response to the Sunset Strip Curfew riots in Los Angeles in November 1966, during the Vietnam War and a time of widespread civil unrest. As relevant today,…
Theirs is the sort of shining, infectious joy only real hardcore lifers would have. It’s their home, and within that, Jem is conscious of emphasising the sanctuary it gave to him. “I came into hardcore feeling like a freak. I had a different part of me that didn’t connect with anyone else,” he says, nodding to his East Asian background, and the feeling of otherness coming “as a straight Chinese guy who plays the flute.” This is a space where difference is celebrated, perhaps most of all when he produces said flute for the monumental anthem THE FIRST TEST. It’s…
Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus.You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact that they have been around more than 20 years, their name is nothing like a household one, and it should be!! They have just released their 6th album (a 15 year hiatus, when life took over for a while, accounts for the limited release schedule) but this is a band that writes great catchy songs (many of them singalong earworms!), sung by the main songwriter…
Polypores: Wrigglers(Crackedankles Records)Vinyl | CD | DL available at Piccadilly Records 4.0 out of 5.0 stars4.0The artist always known as Stephen James Buckley releases his next opus as Polypores, a rich sounding beast of ambient techno that sets the bar high in this world of ever changing music soundscapes. Wayne AF Carey reviews…If you’re a collector of Cracked Ankles stuff you’ll know that Polypores is not the normal. For fucks sake, on one hand you have the bands like Yaang, Chum, Whinge, TV Face, Dead Things, Michael, Pyncher, Hotwax and other talents that some have fucked off to acclaimed fame.…
Tropic Gold (c) AC PhotographyOn Tuesday night, Wisconsin-based outfit Archers kicked off their UK tour at Audio in Glasgow. Opening the night were Tropic Gold, a band from Suffolk-via-Essex who were described as the “hottest new band” by Kerrang! back in 2023. As soon as the first vocals dropped, the message was clear: they did not come on stage to play dull. Instead, they delivered a powerful performance, blending electronic, metal, and more melodic tones.Described as a metalcore and pop-rock band, Archers took the stage at 9pm. For a little bit over an hour, they performed twelve songs, including their…
Josh Jones. CREDIT: JOSH FAITHI/PRESS Comedian Josh Jones is a self-described “Catholic teacher’s worst nightmare” (gay, dyslexic, and left-handed, as he often quips on stage). But, while he can – and does – poke fun at our cultural impulse to box tick, he’s no great fan of it. He’s out on his ‘I Haven’t Won The Lottery So Here’s Another Tour’ trek across the UK when we sit down, and when the class dimension of British comedy pops up, he says it actually didn’t occur to him that so few people in the scene were working class.“Everyone I know is…
One of an ongoing series of books published by Spenwood Books which invites fans and colleagues to share their memories and stories regarding a particular artist or act, Iain Matthews: A People’s History covers the sixty plus years of his career from his first band Pyramid in 1965 through his time with Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern Comfort, Plainsong and, of course, his lengthy solo career.Matthews should need no introduction to regular readers of Americana UK, as we have featured him in several articles. In the book’s forward (written by AUK contributor Rick Bayles), Bayles makes a case for considering him…
In the darkness of London’s Casino Cinerama, a 21-year-old David Bowie stared at the space embryo floating across the theatre’s huge, 70mm screen. It was summer 1968, and this was the third time the singer-songwriter had been to see 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in April that year.“It was the sense of isolation I related to,” Bowie said in 2003. “I found the whole thing amazing. I was out of my gourd, very stoned when I went to see it – several times – and it was really a revelation to me. It got the song flowing.”While Stanley Kubrick’s film…
Following Naked, Southampton artist Kenya Grace extends her catalogue with The One You Loved, a breakup-led release leaning deeper into cinematic drum & bass. Directed by Joel Palmer, the video lands in a night-shot London frame. Dark, digital, surveillance-coded, tightening the track’s locked-in mood. The track runs a loop-driven structure, hypnotic breakbeats, repetitive vocal chops, controlled lift, mirroring memory as a closed circuit. Emotion sits in the topline, while tension builds through repetition, not scale.The One You Loved explores the feeling of realising too late what something truly meant. Seeing every moment you would change, but being unable to change…