Simon Smith

The former first minister said she was "coming to terms with being married to someone she did not know" after Peter Murrell's guilty plea.

Electronic experiments, this time turning the Mediterranean Sea into an ambient world.

It's just after 9pm on a freezing cold Saturday night in January, and Jay and JB from French instrumental math-noise two-piece PNEU are setting up

The wise old owl sat in the oak The more it heard, the less it spoke The less it spoke, the more it heard And that's how it became the wise old bird

Trafford Pickleball Club’s A Team qualified for the National Club Championship in Stourbridge, West Midlands on July 4, writes Simon Smith.

This saxophone and smallpipes collaboration will cause a mighty wind.

Abstract Objectives: In some resource-limited settings the case-fatality rate of severe leptospirosis can exceed 50%. Early recognition of

Zandra* was near breaking point – overwhelmed, starting to drop the ball on several things, and clearly careering down the path to burnout.

Embracing her cowboy western era with her latest album, ‘Graceland Way’, Mikaela Davis recently performed on KEXP. KEXP is easily one of the best places for artists to get a bigger radio stage and a mighty fine video production, and once again they don’t disappoint. Whilst cowboy western music is a bit outside my usual wheelhouse, Mikaela Davis’ earlier music was more alternative pop. That said, her harp is omnipresent even in this era, and hearing a harp as part of a traditional American highway rock album makes her music texturally fascinating. Mikaela plays it like a cross between a piano and guitar, depending on the part of the song. Then she’ll weave in some glissandos, something that only the harp can do. Whatever character and clothes the harp puts on, the tracks slap anyway.

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