Reviews
Live Reviews
BBC Big Weekend Sunderland 2026 Review: Everything That Happened Across Saturday and Sunday
★★★★★
Twenty-one years since Big Weekend last came to the North East. Worth every second of the wait. Here's what went...
Live Galleries
Best of Saturday — BBC Big Weekend Sunderland 2026 in Photos
A collection of some of the best shots from BBC Big Weekend Sunderland 2026
EP Reviews
Review: Stella Lefty’s Is This Heaven? Is the Debut You’ll Wish You’d Heard First
★★★★☆
Six tracks. Just under sixteen minutes. And somehow, by the time it's done, you feel like you've known Stella Lefty...
Single Reviews
The Rooks — Nothing To Lose Review: An Anthem That Means Every Word
★★★★☆
Some songs don't ease you in. They just open a door and dare you to walk through it.
Single Reviews
Chance Peña Turns Restlessness Into Something Beautiful on “The Voyager”
★★★★☆
Soulful and intimate, Chance Peña's new single "The Voyager" draws natural comparisons to Noah Kahan's quieter work — a warm,...
Single Reviews
Kodaline — ‘We Were Only Young’ Review: A Beautiful, Bittersweet Beginning to the End
★★★★★
The Dublin four-piece release the first single from their fifth and final studio album — and it's everything you'd want...
Single Reviews
The All-American Rejects ‘King Kong’ Review: Big Energy, Bigger Feelings — But Does It Fully Land?
★★★☆☆
The Oklahoma band return with a sun-soaked single that hides something darker underneath.
Album Reviews
Zayn’s KONNAKOL Is a Confident Step Toward Something Deeper — Even If It Doesn’t Quite Get There
★★★★☆
The fifth studio album balances South Asian heritage with mainstream R&B instincts, and mostly pulls it off. 4/5