Welcome to Global Comment's musical advent calendar! This year we thought we would treat you to an advent calendar with a difference - a classic Christmas song each day. When I was a child advent...
As the summer approaches there’s always a scramble for tickets to the hottest festivals over the summer. However, last year my enthusiasm got the better of my reason and I sadly got scammed. The...
Given the Islamist terrorist threat Egypt faces in the form of the Ansar al-Maqdis group operating in that country's Sinai Peninsula, along with that groups pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State...
If your idea of the early days of the women’s movement is limited to NOW and the ERA then Mary Dore’s eye-opening “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” has got another acronym or two for...
Despite divergences of opinion amongst Muslim religious scholars as to whether covering the face of a woman in Islam is compulsory or not, practice testifies that many Muslim women customarily do....
Unfortunately, the Arab world these days is only in the news in the shadow of ISIS and their cut-throat shenanigans. The images from the region are those of an Arab spring turned on its head; of...
Some guitarists' faces look like they've just realised they're holding giant slug creatures. Apparently. Check out the tumblr for more here including Keith Richards and Bruce Sprinsteen.
A great new tumblr, pairing pictures of inspiring progressive female politicians like Hillary Clinton, Wendy Davis and Elizabeth Warren with Beyonce lyrics. Also featuring are Supreme Court...
There is, perhaps, no more reliable generator of schadenfreude in pop music right now than Robin Thicke. In the past year, he’s gone from a chart-topping artist to a public laughingstock: There was...
Classically-trained pop pianist Tori Amos released her 14th studio album last week; while its title (Unrepentant Geraldines) is a bit of a head-scratcher, many critics and fans have praised the album...
