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I’m an American living in Britain – I was shocked by your phone coverage
As an American living in the UK, I’ve had my fair share of learning moments. I’ve happily adopted the word “keen”, expanded my vocabulary around the weather and even acquired a taste for Marmite. But what I can’t stand is the dreadful mobile service.
I’m from Portland, Oregon, and moved to London last year. Living abroad, there’s a reputational risk of being an entitled American…
Best of 2025: Harper Mahood
Geese – Getting Killed (Partisan Records) Debuting as teenagers, playing free street shows in the heart of Brooklyn and rapidly gaining international success, Geese may just be this generation’s quintessential rock band. New York born and bred, they have gained praise for their genre melding sound, drawing influence from an eclectic mix of artists like Radiohead, Led Zeppelin and Deerhoof. Getting Killed marks a shift in the band’s ever evolving discography, embracing a looser experimental art-rock sound in contrast to the safer 3D Country…
Interview: Colleen on her latest album ‘Libres antes del final’
Something changed when Cécile Schott started performing her new material live. The frequencies hit differently, especially the bass, in a way her earlier music never did. Where the French musician, better known as Colleen, once built delicate, suspended worlds from chamber-like loops and acoustic samples, her latest album, Libres antes del final, moves with a new urgency, one that dancing audiences in Philadelphia, New York City, Portland and San Francisco felt too…
Catford regeneration threatened by roads funding gap
The regeneration of Catford Town Centre is looking uncertain after Transport for London failed to secure funding for a necessary road realignment project, Lewisham Council has revealed.
The road realignment project is part of the borough’s “long term vision for transformation, new homes, workspace and cultural infrastructure”, and was a foundational element of the town centre regeneration plans. It would have introduced a range of improvements like wider pavements, new and improved crossings and improved public spaces…
Campaigners await verdict of appeal against scrapping of low traffic neighbourhoods
Safer streets campaigners in Tower Hamlets are awaiting the result of their final effort to appeal against the scrapping of three Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) schemes by Mayor Lutfur Rahman.
Save Our Safer Streets presented their case at the Court of Appeal last week, their second court appearance after losing a challenge against Rahman last December in the High Court. Judgment will be given at a later date…
Catching Up With Rose City Band
Though the grooves of Rose City Band’s Garden Party go down easy, when he was coming of age in Wallingford, Connecticut in the 1980s, Ripley Johnson defined himself by what he hated. “Being an adolescent you’re just against everything, so we were against all of the synth pop and ’80s haircuts,” says Johnson. “Everything was neon and there were yuppies and Reagan.” As a teenager, Johnson longed for more adventurous sounds, drawn to punk bands like Black Flag and JFA through his love of skateboarding and Thrasher Magazine…