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 ...

And 2026 looks like it could be even bigger. New movies from Nolan, Spielberg, Gerwig, and Villeneuve! Zombies, werewolves, and slashers! Arthouse icons and blockbuster kings! And these are just the ...

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

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18 queens react to images and discuss their early drag days, while offering insights on past Drag Race "lewks." ...

Nature never ceases to amaze with its wild inventions. Be it a giant of the sea or an outstretched whale that pulls themselves out of the water to catch birds or lizards and deer with flip-out facial ...

From Agriculture to Ancient Death, Paradise Lost to Pissgrave, Corpus Offal to Coroner, here are the best metal albums of ...

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Supergirl arrives in theaters next June, and while the movie has many of the right ingredients to succeed, its visuals are ...

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

Richard is a movie-obsessed writer with nearly 20 years as a film, TV and technology journalist. A Rotten Tomatoes-certified ...