23 h. ago Adrian Thrills reviews Brandi Carlile's new album and says even without Elton, she's on a roll

Despite a title - Returning To Myself - that suggests Brandi is looking inwards for inspiration, the album is a warm, inviting celebration of togetherness rather than solitude.

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4 d. ago Lily Allen's West End Girl: Pop star details 'intensely personal' journey through divorce from cheating husband David Harbour, ADRIAN THRILLS reviews her captivating breakup album

The new album, West End Girl, which title is inspired by her acting stints on the London stage, is a raw, confessional contents informed by the breakdown of her marriage from David Harbour.

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6 d. ago #MeToo campus thriller After the Hunt is provocation for provocation’s sake | Adrian Horton

Julia Roberts emerges unscathed but Luca Guadagnino’s tiring and muddled attempt to comment on trending topics doesn’t inspire the debates it so clearly wantsContains mild spoilersIn theory, After the Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s would-be psychological thriller tracing the fallout of a sexual-assault accusation at a cosseted Ivy League campus, hinges on a single early scene: Alma, the aloof and alluring philosophy professor made icily incandescent by Julia Roberts, arrives home to find Maggie, her doctoral student protege played by ascendant star Ayo Edebiri, waiting for her in the rain.Crouched together in an apartment stairwell – Guadagnino, a slick and stylish film-maker, frames them facing each other as mirrored negatives in preppy neutrals, a generational yin-yang – Maggie tells Alma in clipped, digressive bits that something bad happened with Hank (Andrew Garfield), a fellow tenure-track professor who serves as Alma’s professional rival, friend and maybe lover. The two had...

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1 week ago Brandi Carlile: ‘Joni Mitchell has this grave in Hollywood – sometimes she’ll go there and have lunch’

The country-rock star is as unguarded and open as she’s ever been on her eighth studio album, ‘Returning to Myself’. She speaks with Mark Beaumont about her ‘wild, magical’ upbringing, her stormy but ‘life-affirming’ collaborations with Elton John, and her pivotal role in bringing Joni Mitchell back to music

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2 w. ago The Oasis bandwagon has rolled on, but you can bring back a bit of the magic, with the album that sent the Mancunians supersonic

Adrian Thrills reviews the deluxe 30th anniversary edition of (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, which contains five new 'unplugged' tracks, put together from the original studio tapes.

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2 w. ago Sir Elton John to appear at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony

Singer Raye was also on the list of special guests who will present, perform and honour this year’s inductees, which was announced on Wednesday.

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