Billy Steele, Deputy Editor, Reviews I didn’t discover Bandsplain in 2025, but I definitely listened to it more than any ...

Of course you’ve missed some great stuff since 1985! A lot of you weren’t even born then! Not only has the advent of digital ...

As winter blankets the Ozarks and patio music goes silent, the fire place in the lobby of Eureka Springs' Basin Park Hotel ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

Ending 2025 with arguably the best debut album of the year, Ninajirachi tells Best Fit about a childhood spent inside the ...

Why, when I have seen the world and have the means to leave, do I raise my son in the very place the rest of the country ...

A DomeDock hat rack — a specifically-shaped, compact rack you mount to your wall, then proceed to stack up to 20 hats at a ...

Here is the third part of our playlist of the essential 100 (or so) tunes to come out of Scotland. It marks eleventh year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

A FORMER care home in Henley that has been derelict for eight years is finally set to be sold. Chilterns End was closed by ...

The NDG Music School recently held its year-end holiday showcase, featuring several musicians that are part of the Rock ...

It is also the workspace of Jennifer Pugh who you may have seen across social media recently as the voice and musical director behind the Otley Christmas song, Have a Christmas Made in Otley. A quick ...

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