38 h. ago Netflix now streaming 'masterpiece' crime drama fans have watched 'dozens of times'

A critically acclaimed legal drama has just been added to Netflix and it's a must-watch this weekend.

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40 h. ago AD FEATURE: The Bootleg Beatles bring the sounds and the atmosphere of the Fab Four to Cardiff next month

The world’s premier Beatles show continues to draw critical acclaim from across the globe with its immaculate note-perfect portrayal of the Fab Four’s journey through the swinging ‘60s

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55 h. ago Charli XCX teases ‘elegant and brutal’ new Wuthering Heights song with John Cale

The singer announced earlier this year that she was writing an album for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the novel by Emily Bronte.

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58 h. ago A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!

Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriterAimee Mann has had hits and acclaim from critics and her peers, but the sense that she’s slightly undervalued still clings. A song as deceptive as Build That Wall might explain why: on the surface it seems straightforward and easy-on-the-ear, but beneath its mellow, mellifluous surface lurk stinging lyrics and real emotional force. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Jade Thirlwall reveals Little Mix 'cried' amid fear of being dropped by label

Jade Thirlwall has opened up about the harsh reality of being in Little Mix, revealing she and her bandmates sobbed at the height of their success amid fears they'd be dropped by their label

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3 d. ago Charli XCX feared being dropped by record label over critically acclaimed Brat album

Singer says she approached the album thinking ‘OK, I’m just going to do this one for me’

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3 d. ago Charli XCX says she feared being dropped from her label over hit Brat album

The record peaked at number one in the UK and reached the top 10 in 14 other countries.

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4 d. ago King Charles urges critically acclaimed British author to 'keep battling' against artificial intelligence

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro revealed Charles had told him it was 'important to keep battling'.

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4 d. ago Uber Eats deliveryman refused to search for missing autistic son, 4, over fears his rating would drop if he stopped working, cops say

Jeremy Rouse admitted to police that once he noticed his son was missing he kept driving miles away because he didn't want to damage his Uber Eats rating.

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4 d. ago Charli XCX makes surprise admission about Brat album and teases huge change for her next record

HER sixth album Brat topped the charts and won her five Brit Awards, but Charli XCX feared her label was going to drop her over it because it is so out there. In a new interview, she explained: “I think when I was making it, I wasn’t thinking about the response at all. “I actually...

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8 d. ago Charli! Lily! Gabbriette! This East London boutique is dressing all the It Girls

From providing on-stage looks for Charli xcx to day-to-day garments worn by Lily Allen, Nordic Poetry is the best-kept secret of cool girls across the world

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8 d. ago Prince Harry left baffled when quizzed on Taylor Swift and Charli XCX’s ‘feud’

Watch as Prince Harry is left dumbfounded when asked about Taylor Swift and Charli XCX’s alleged feud.

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9 d. ago Can I learn to be cool – even though I am garrulous, swotty and wear no

An international study found cool people are extroverted, open, hedonistic, adventurous, autonomous and powerful. At best, I have three of these traits. Could I change that?Who would you say is effortlessly, undeniably cool? Charli xcx, certainly. David Bowie, of course. Yoko Ono and Fran Lebowitz – or do they just wear a lot of black? I’m not cool and never have been. As a teenager, I was a swot at a school that prized sports. As an adult, I’m always wearing a backpack. I’m garrulous, risk-averse, lazy with my personal presentation and not convinced that any drug beats eight hours’ sleep. “Cool” feels to me like the stock market or Michelin restaurants: none of my business.I’m not alone. In a recent YouGov survey, a third of respondents said they weren’t cool at school, with only 10% reporting that, yep, they actually were. Half claimed they were “somewhere in between”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Choreographer Sharon Eyal: ‘I don’t like it when a dancer is comfortable – I want to see the struggle’

Her latest work is built on dark, minimal beats and groups of dancers moving in unison. It’s sensual, visceral and, she says, totally intuitiveA couple of summers ago I was in a club in Manchester, dancing alone in the dark, when bodies suddenly flooded the dancefloor. Androgynous men and women all dressed in skin-tight, skin-coloured lace. Their lithe limbs and torsos flinched and flickered; they slithered and strutted. They were alluring and unhuman, sexy and weird. I was in the middle of ROSE, an immersive dance collaboration between record label Young and Sharon Eyal, an Israeli choreographer now based in France, who has become one of the most in-demand on the contemporary dance scene over the last decade. In her works that have come to the UK – Killer Pig, OCD Love, Saaba and more – Eyal’s strangely intoxicating choreography taps into the sensibility of nightclubs and catwalks, as well as something much more primal in the gathering of bodies to move as one together.There is som...

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1 week ago Luigi Mangione is listening to Taylor Swift and Charli XCX in prison, according to new letter

In a newly released letter allegedly sent to a fan by Mangione, he said he'd given Swift and Charli XCX a listen in the prison yard - until a fellow inmate stepped in.

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1 week ago A Thousand Blows Season 2 'gritty' first look trailer dropped as Disney+ confirms start date

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight returns to the East End with his critically acclaimed gritty historical drama A Thousand Blows.

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1 week ago Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked

Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winning writer who has been critical of Trump since his first presidency, Soyinka revealed on Tuesday.“I want to assure the consulate that I’m very content with the revocation of my visa,” Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel prize for literature, told a news conference. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83

Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleaderJack DeJohnette, the jazz drummer celebrated as one of the genre’s true greats – who worked with stars including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Charles Lloyd – has died aged 83. A press representative for ECM, the record label that released many of his recordings, confirmed the news though no cause of death was given.Able to bring dynamic, highly musical playing to open-minded free jazz, R&B-leaning instrumental grooves and everything in between, DeJohnette is perhaps best known as the drummer in Davis’s fusion period, contributing to albums such as Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson and On the Corner. He was also celebrated as a regular sideman and bandleader on elegant, progressive fusion releases from ECM in the 1980s. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lily Allen has always been the queen of the confessional – West End Girl is a perfect exercise in unsparing honesty

Younger artists like Charli XCX have mastered what Allen owned first: a kind of ironic detachment that makes any suggestion of female artists being ‘hysterical’ much harder. With her new album, the pop star is so back, says Roisin O’Connor

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2 w. ago Netflix drama tipped to be 'next Baby Reindeer' based on acclaimed Edinburgh show

Netflix has announced a new limited series based on a critically acclaimed Edinburgh production.

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