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David Ellis reviews Paulie's: New York pizza for £5 a slice? Fuhgeddaboudit

A pizza joint offering proof there’s American culinary life beyond the Hard Rock Cafe

Evening Standard · Aug 14, 2025

“Grunge was taking off, and yet we were having our two biggest albums. It makes me wonder how well they’d have done had they been out in 1987”: The turbulent story of Lillian Axe, the 80s hard rock band who were too good for hair metal

Cult US hard rockers LIllian Axe should have been way bigger than they were

Louder · Jul 27, 2025

Trump, Who Wants To 'Straighten Out the Press,' Sues The Wall Street Journal Over 'Fake' Epstein Letter

Whatever the merits of this particular defamation claim, the president has a long history of abusing the legal system to punish constitutionally protected speech.

Reason · Jul 21, 2025

“The English press used to call us ‘hate metal’. It fit the music”: How Kreator made Pleasure To Kill, the vicious 80s classic that put German thrash on the map

Kreator’s second album, Pleasure To Kill, proved that America didn’t have the monopoly on thrash

Metal Hammer · Jun 28, 2025

Pete Hegseth holding Pentagon press conference to celebrate ‘very upset’ B-2 pilots involved in Iran raid

President Donald Trump says defense secretary will speak up ‘for the dignity of our great American pilots’ after feud with media over extent of bomb damage continues

The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2025

“It’s about reconfiguring what a human voice is so it’s not just aesthetic, but political”: Lyra Pramuk turns vocal processing into protest on new project Hymnal

On her second LP, Lyra Pramuk collides experimental vocal edits with classical instrumentation to create an eerily beautiful sonic symphony

MusicRadar · Jun 15, 2025

Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil fast-tracks oil and highway projects that threaten the Amazon

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut its green rhetoric, revealing mounting political pressure on the federal environmental agency and widening divisions within President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s cabinet

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2025

“Sometimes I think, ‘This has become so big that I can’t handle this monster any more.’ I have some trouble comprehending it”: How Nightwish became the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Nightwish endured line-up changes and self-doubt to swing for the fences with 2015’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Metal Hammer · Jun 7, 2025

Chuck Todd says his tires were slashed after Trump called him out: ‘It creates a security problem’

‘There was direct correlation,’ Chuck Todd said about Donald Trump’s attacks on the press, adding that he’d immediately get ‘weird phone calls’ and ‘death threats’

The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2025

“The time was right. Metal had died a horrible death, grunge had killed the mainstream off, so it felt like a revolution”: The unholy story of Cacophonous Records, the underground 90s label that changed black metal

Cacophonous Records launched Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir on an unsuspecting world

Metal Hammer · May 24, 2025