People attempt covers of Björk songs all the time, but that's not an easy thing to do. If you're going to cover a Björk song, you need to have a take. Fortunately, Philadelphia's noisy and adventurous ...

A chest-thumping, head-pounding, axe-wielding tromp through the wilderness, “Severed Ways” is the unexpected, frankly unsolicited cinematic spawn of Werner Herzog and heavy-metal album cover art. But ...

Students in my history of England class this week are getting their first dose of early English poetry, a brief immersion into their cultural history that, at worst, will do them no harm. Their ...

The ‘Hereditary’ director micro-manages the mania in his new film The much-hyped auteur’s sophomore feature is almost comically front-loaded with grief. New York psych student Dani (Florence Pugh) ...

It’s Lammas Day today and that means plenty of baked bread and corn dollies. The date, also known by the Old English and Gaelic names hlaefmass and lughnasadh, is all about celebrating the first ...

In her first Seattle concert since the mid-'90s, Bjork offered a night of pagan poetry at the pier. It was as strange and wondrous as a UFO sighting and as magical as an orchestra of elves. Backed by ...

Ireland possesses the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe. Its earliest forms (dating from the sixth century AD) trace the movement from a pagan to a Christian Ireland. The initial reliance on ...

Jay Z performed in New York on Sunday night (19 January) with none other than Björk just happening to be in the audience. Finding out about his special guest, Hov decided to pay a little homage to the ...