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East India Youth Announces New Album

CULTURE OF VOLUME out via EIY's new label XL in April

Young Fathers Announce New Album

Trio quickly follow up 2014's Mercury Music Prize victor Dead with second full-length, entitled White Men Are Black Men Too; stream first track from record, Rain Or Shine, below

Gute Projektion: New Austrian Cinema At Diagonale Festival

Tristan Bath heads to Austria’s flagship national film festival, finding impeccably crafted internal struggle at the heart of his adopted home

Killer On The Loose: The Black Panther Reassessed

Disinterring forgotten homemade films, the BFI Flipside series continues with a DVD/Blu-ray upgrade for this true-crime drama, which was vilified by the tabloids on its original release. Steve Jelbert rewinds 35 years...

Two Poems By: Amy McCauley

This week's new writing comes in the form of two new poems from Aberystwyth-based writer Amy McCauley's reimagining of the Oedipus Myth — Auto-Oedipa

Nothing To Celebrate: Tradition, Ideology & Corruption In Theatre

Visiting the two currently-running plays, Jessie Thompson considers critiques of Capitalism, Conservative ideologies and the self-serving class system in Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business and Julian Mitchell's Another Country, finding them still dishearteningly relevant thirty years later

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‘Community In Action’: Sport, Art, Corruption & The World Cup

As the World Cup kicks off in Brazil, Ian Maleney explains how, despite the very real spectres of big business, exploitation and alleged FIFA corruption, global sport still retains a unique capacity to unite people from across communities

Enter the Yoni: The Problem Of Naomi Wolf’s Vagina

Cay McDermott pries open the femme-provocateur's latest work and discusses the irreconcilable contradictions between its covers

WATCH: East India Youth Live

Catch East India Youth in action as recorded in London at last month's Fred Perry Subculture gig

Star Trek Reviewed Plus The Odd-Numbered Films Reassessed

Has the new _Star Trek_ finally broken the curse of the odd-numbered Trek film? Dean Sobers decides and takes another look at the much maligned 'odd' half of the franchise.