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Chiodos Unleash Stunning New Track ‘TAPDAT’, Their First In 12 Years

  • Chiodos release 'TAPDAT', first new music in 12 years
  • Band have signed to SharpTone Records
  • North American tour kicks off 30 July in Denver

Chiodos have released 'TAPDAT', their first new song in 12 years, marking a fresh chapter for the band following their 2024 comeback. The track arrives after two years of extensive touring, including celebrations of the 20th anniversary of their landmark album 'All's Well That Ends Well', and the…

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Sales Data Paints a Very Grim Picture for Physical PS5 Games in the USA, UK

  • Only seven PS5 games topped 100,000 physical sales in 2026 so far.
  • UK top 10 chart entry needs just 1,000 physical copies sold weekly.
  • Data supports Sony's move to end PS5 disc production from January 2028.

New sales figures from Circana analyst Mat Piscatella show physical PS5 game sales collapsing in the US, with only seven PS5 titles selling more than 100,000 physical copies in 2026 so far, and just two managing over 10,000 units in a single week (the seven days to 11th…

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In Conversation: Harmony Tividad

  • Girlpool's Harmony Tividad discusses her debut solo album 'Lifetime'
  • Album explores past selves, womanhood and autonomy through confessional songwriting
  • Made with producer Yves Rothman after Girlpool's 2022 hiatus

Harmony Tividad, best known as one half of Girlpool, has discussed her new solo album 'Lifetime' with Clash Magazine, describing a record shaped by reflection on past versions of herself and different life phases. The interview explores how her songwriting process, rooted in spirituality and intuition, has evolved…

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Gordon Ramsay Profiled In BBC Landmark Series ‘Rise Of The Rockstar Chef’

  • BBC series profiles Ramsay, White and Blumenthal's 1990s-2000s rivalry
  • Show explores how the trio reshaped British fine dining
  • Features first-hand accounts from chefs, critics and former staff

Gordon Ramsay is being profiled alongside fellow chefs Marco Pierre White and Heston Blumenthal in a new BBC series, The Rise of the Rockstar Chef, produced through his Studio Ramsay Global company. The programme, set during the "Cool Britannia" era, examines how the trio's fierce ambition and rivalry…

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Start date for new bike lane on Leopold Street in Sheffield city centre announced

  • New Leopold Street cycle lane works have been announced.
  • The scheme aims to improve city-centre cycling safety.
  • Detailed dates and arrangements were unavailable.

Sheffield City Council has announced that work on a new cycle lane on Leopold Street in the city centre is due to begin shortly. The scheme is intended to make cycling safer and improve connections through a busy central area, although the works are likely to affect road…

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The DVD that came with Metallica’s St Anger makes metal’s most maligned album make sense

  • Feature revisits the DVD packaged with Metallica's St Anger album
  • Album followed Hetfield's 2001 rehab stint and band turmoil
  • Napster lawsuit and Jason Newsted's exit also marked this period

A retrospective feature revisits the DVD that accompanied Metallica's 2003 album St Anger, arguing that its rehearsal footage helps explain why the band made such a divisive record. The album followed a turbulent period for the band, during which frontman James Hetfield entered rehab in July 2001 to…

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Mitie agrees £3.1bn takeover by OCS in blow to London stock market

  • Mitie accepts £3.1bn takeover by rival OCS Group, ending 39 years on the stock market
  • Shareholders offered 221.6p a share, a 44.7% premium, shares hit record high
  • Deal is latest in a wave of London stock market takeovers this year

Mitie has agreed to a £3.1bn takeover by rival facilities management firm OCS Group, bringing to an end nearly four decades as a London-listed company and making it the latest in a lengthening list of UK firms to leave the stock market this year. The board of the…

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10 Greatest High Fantasy Books of All Time

  • Collider ranks the ten greatest high fantasy books ever written
  • List includes The Edge Chronicles, Malazan Book of the Fallen and Narnia
  • Covers works ranging from 1950 to 2011, praising imaginative world-building

Collider has published a ranking of the ten greatest high fantasy books of all time, spanning several decades and encompassing a wide range of styles within the genre. High fantasy, defined as stories set in fully realised worlds detached from everyday reality, is presented as having evolved over…

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Andy Burnham promised urgent action on the cost of living; the heat is now on chancellor John Healey to deliver it | Alfie Stirling

  • Chancellor John Healey faces a deepening UK cost of living crisis
  • Household incomes falling for first time in a decade
  • JRF urges energy price reform funded by taxing investment income more fairly

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Alfie Stirling argues that new chancellor John Healey faces an even harder task than his predecessor Rachel Reeves in tackling Britain's cost of living crisis, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham promising urgent action to give families "some breathing space". Healey inherits a bleak outlook…

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Tom Hardy’s ‘Venom’ Officially Returns Before ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

  • Tom Hardy's Venom resurfaces ahead of Spider-Man: Brand New Day
  • Sony's wider Spider-Man Universe officially ended after Kraven the Hunter
  • Venom trilogy earned $1.8bn+, far outperforming Morbius, Madame Web, Kraven

Tom Hardy's Venom has made a surprise reappearance ahead of Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day, despite the wider Sony Spider-Man Universe officially concluding with Kraven the Hunter. The move underlines Venom's status as the standout success of Sony's attempt to build a Spider-Man-adjacent franchise without Spider-Man himself, and…