Courtney Smyth

If you're a regular listener to Top 40 radio, or similar on Spotify, chances are you've been subjected to the song 'Sweet but Psycho' by Ava Max. This is Max's debut single, and unfortunately for her, it's anything but pleasant. It feeds…

G F# B E   Whether or not you would consider yourself a musician, the distinct and arguably iconic opening bar of My Chemical Romance’s ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ is the definition of zeitgeist, originating from the rock music…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where we pick a theme and, er, make a playlist around it. Sometimes you might get an essay, other times you might get just one sentence as a precursor to the laser-focused audio delights that await below. Here's …

A couple of weeks ago on unusually warm, sunny afternoon, Alan Bennett and I sat down with Rebecca Daly, director of The Other Side of Sleep and Joyriders, to discuss her new film, Mammal.. ‘Ultimately, it’s a love story,’ Daly said.…

Alt Press and the pop-punk corner of Twitter were awash last week with the news that Parker Cannon , frontman of The Story So Far (I know right, who?) kicked a fan off stage as she stood to take a selfie. The response to the incident has…