One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

After a year that has whiplashed between genius and landfill, here are the 25 films from across the world that justified the obsession and proved cinema still has bite, pulse, humour, fury, and the ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

We are cavemen piloting a spaceship, driven by ancient fears in a world of technology. One resolution could change everything ...

True, the modest Mighty Minis series might lack the prestige of the Duke of Richmond’s world-famous gathering, but it offers sub-£10,000 thrills and a grid full of buzzy, 1275cc tin-tops at some of ...

Loosely inspired by the 1949 British film Kind Hearts and Coronets, this black comedy thriller stars Glen Powell as a man ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...