Ammar Kalia

Ask anyone the question ‘what music do you listen to?’ and you are likely to be met with a confounding response that is by turns...

There are, according to the academic Emmett Price, “six degrees of Harry Pace”. He is referring to the man born in 1884 who founded...

There is a peculiar romance to British summer music festivals. Some kind of consequence-free hedonism emerges when you combine bouts of...

Music moves differently depending on the space it’s played in. A typical pre-Covid Wednesday evening at the Matchstick Piehouse in London...

For most people on the planet, 2020 was a year spent stuck indoors. During that period Naomi Saalfield, AKA Nai Palm, lead singer of the...

“Brown people don’t get enough credit for what they’ve done for popular culture and its subcultures in the UK,” 24-year-old DJ and...

The workplace sitcom is more popular than ever. During the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020, US audiences streamed 57 billion minutes of the...

A cursory scroll through the Explore page on Instagram can feel like a visual assault: sponsored content, taunting influencer pictures...

There is a joyous moment halfway through R&B singer Serpentwithfeet’s latest single, Same Size Shoe. In a tender falsetto, he calls for...

Keith Brymer Jones is talking about pots and crying. “I get emotional,” says the master potter, “because it’s a craft I love. It is my...

These weeks of locked-down working and living at home mean, for many, immersion in our housemates’ Zoom meetings through the walls,...

2002 was a bumper year for romcoms. Banking on the commercial safety of a saccharine love story, studios splashed out on everything from...

“There’s nothing political about these shows, nothing really edgy in there.” Far from a criticism, Henry Shields, the co-founder of the...

Michael, Scottie, Dennis, Phil and Steve. Like the members of a new, wildly popular boyband, these names are permanently etched in my...

There is a certain alchemy to the creation of a hit quizshow. Since the foundational premise is always the same – punters lining up to...

‘Jazz was born out of oppression,” the pianist Ashley Henry says, from a velvet booth at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London. “Music was...

A car breaks down and explodes, a shirtless teen ejects a floppy disk, the police give chase to a man on a motorbike and there is a fight...

The Third Day is perhaps the strangest show on television. Written by Utopia’s creator, Dennis Kelly, its three initial episodes – aired...

In the summer of 2011, eight tanned and smiling twentysomething cast members boarded the superyacht Honor for a six-week charter around...

Make a cursory web search for the term tantra and you will be confronted with thousands of results providing “tips on how to practise...