Far Out Magazine

17 hours ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Each year, for a long weekend in May, it feels as if the entire music world descends on the seaside for a big party with all the best things: fish, chips, a sea swim to get rid of a hangover, and every best new bands around, all within walking distance of one another. That’s what The Great Escape brings to the table, and this year, the lineup is a feast. This 2025 edition feels especially powerful given the way last year’s event was derailed by an incredible to witness boycott.

18 hours ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Aimee Ferrier

Many great love stories involve a train. Before Sunrise saw Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy’s characters meet while journeying across Europe, resulting in an incredible tale of romance and connection, while Marilyn Monroe becomes the object of affection for two men disguised as women in Billy Wilder’s classic comedy Some Like It Hot.

1 day ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Tue 13 May 2025 23:30, UK It must get exhausting having a hit. Imagine being asked to repeat something on a never-ending loop, year on year, city on city, tour on tour. No amount of new music seems to ever undo the draw of the big song. There appears to be no antidote to it – unless you make a clean break, like Billy Joel did. He’d had enough. By 1990, Joel couldn’t stomach singing the same songs from the 1970s over again.

1 day ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Tue 13 May 2025 21:30, UK One of the biggest misconceptions about contemporary music history is that anyone who was anyone was at Woodstock. In our rose-tinted recollections, it’s remembered as the ultimate musical event where the whole cast of the 1960s descended onto the farm and all of the decade’s favourite songs were played. That wasn’t the case, though, and while some rejected invites were for good reason, others weren’t.

1 day ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Tue 13 May 2025 20:30, UK Sometimes, the simplest answer is the best one. When it comes to cases like this, there is often the temptation to rack your brain, rejecting the first thing that comes to mind in favour of a more niche opinion. But the immediate answer is immediate for a reason—it’s the ultimate one, the clearest one. So if I tried to claim that the best song written about Joni Mitchell was anything other than ‘Our House’, I’d be lying. There are plenty of incredible options, though.