68 h. ago AG Cook review – the hyperpop auteur delivers a thrilling Brooklyn show

Brooklyn Paramount, New YorkThe super-producer, whose big name collaborators include Charli xcx and Beyoncé, goes maximalist for a euphoric, high-energy Friday-night triumphEveryone is trying to out-scream and out-diva each other at AG Cook’s sold-out Brooklyn Paramount show. Midway through his Friday-night DJ set for his Britpop 25 tour, the producer and moptopped dungeon master of the hyperpop universe has put on his Von Dutch remix, a standout single from last summer’s Brat invasion that brings pop princesses Charli xcx and Addison Rae together for some prima donna repartee atop a distorted, industrial production. When the bridge’s thumping hydraulic bass drops and opens up its warped wormhole of sound, the packed room suddenly fills with skilled (too skilled) impressions of Rae’s piercing six-second shriek. Cook, who has been bopping behind the DJ booth up until now, collapses to his knees at the center of the stage, bowled over by the sheer energy in the room.Such are the deman...

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4 d. ago Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies review – fearless rock duo balance anthems and introspection

(Marshall)Trailblazers Amy Love and Georgia South push the boundaries of their trademark hybrid rock sound while confronting mental health and naysayersNova Twins’ 2022 album Supernova received Brit nominations and the first ever Mercury prize shortlisting for a Black rock band, and earned singer/guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South fans in Rage Against the Machine and Elton John. Their third album packs more of the trademark hybrid of rock, metal, punk and hip-hop that elbowed them to the front of a still male-dominated genre, but pushes at their boundaries and tiptoes towards pop.Working with Foo Fighters/Charli xcx producer Rich Costey and a supporting cast including former Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin and (via their first use of sampling) Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat, the sound is bigger and more blatantly anthemic. Soprano playfully flirts with sugary harmonies and semi-operatic pop. Hummingbird – a kaleidoscopic collage of multi-layered vocals, unusual guitar proc...

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4 d. ago Charli xcx and Emma Corrin’s ‘100 Nights of Hero’ to Close BFI London Film Festival

Charli xcx and Emma Corrin’s ‘100 Nights of Hero’ to Close BFI London Film Festival  The Hollywood Reporter

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5 d. ago Julia Jackman’s ‘100 Nights Of Hero’ Starring Charli XCX To Close London Film Festival

Julia Jackman’s ‘100 Nights Of Hero’ Starring Charli XCX To Close London Film Festival  Deadline

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5 d. ago Charli xcx and Emma Corrin to Close BFI London Film Festival With ‘100 Nights of Hero’ U.K. Premiere

Charli xcx and Emma Corrin to Close BFI London Film Festival With ‘100 Nights of Hero’ U.K. Premiere  The Hollywood Reporter

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5 d. ago Game of Thrones' Alfie Allen says he was 'isolated' during 'tough' season of HBO show

Alfie Allen is best known for playing Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones, and has opened up about one of the more difficult seasons of the HBO fantasy drama

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5 d. ago New fantasy drama perfect for Outlander fans staring Charli XCX and The Crown icon

An upcoming historical fantasy film written and directed by Julia Jackman, and stars Charli XCX and a major The Crown icon is slated for release this year

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5 d. ago 'Spectacular' new period drama including Netflix star and Charli XCX releases trailer

The new film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Isabel Greenberg, which is inspired by the Middle Eastern folktales

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5 d. ago Netflix The Crown icon stars beside Charli XCX in 'spectacular' new period drama

The trailer for 100 Nights of a Hero has been released and it stars Charli XCX, Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Richard E. Grant and Felicity Jones

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8 d. ago Celebrity hotspots in London: The favorite restaurants of Dua Lipa, Stanley Tucci and Charli XCX

Celebrity hotspots in London: The favorite restaurants of Dua Lipa, Stanley Tucci and Charli XCX  Falstaff

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2 w. ago Pop princess! King of Norway's granddaughter Leah Behn puts on a VERY glamorous display in hotpants watching Charli xcx at a Swedish festival... before flying back to Oslo to walk the runway

Leah Isadora Behn, 20, the granddaughter of the King and Queen of Norway, took to Instagram today to show off a glamorous selection of snaps from Way Out West, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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3 w. ago Flow Festival 2025, review – Charli xcx, Burna Boy and FKA Twigs headline but Finland’s own hold their ground

Finnish artists went toe-to-toe with some of the world’s biggest headliners at the European festival last weekend, and often had a bolder reception

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3 w. ago Way Out West review: this music festival is bursting with Scandi cool

With a blockbuster line-up and buzzing city waiting to be explored, Gothenburg is the perfect place to escape the UK’s festival crowds

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3 w. ago Promethea review – a stylishly creepy supernatural drama you’ll want to binge

This French thriller about a teenage girl who turns up with no memory is a nicely paced, emotionally intense mystery – that spills over into the realms of fantasy The greatest mystery in any French mystery drama is how the characters look so much better than any English person has ever looked. How did the cast of The Returned (more than 10 years ago now, though it feels like yesterday) look so gorgeous all the time, despite seemingly ordinary costumes, hair and makeup? Is Gallic bone structure really that different? Do clothes just hang better on the other side of la Manche? Is that why they call it “the sleeve”? Is it a clue?Forgive me. I am consumed by this puzzle. The success of a French drama can be measured by how successfully the official narrative mystery distracts me from the conundrum, and here the new six-part series Promethea does just fine.Promethea launches on Channel 4 on Sunday and is available from streaming now. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Charli XCX soaking wet in teeny boxers and little else as as crop top slips off

Charli XCX recently performed at Sziget Festival and showed off her incredible figure in a bright yellow ensemble, complete with matching boxers and a super small crop top

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3 w. ago Amaarae: Black Star review – glamour, glitz and lust from a pop star who should be a supernova

(Golden Angel/Interscope)With a sleek dancefloor-facing sound, the Ghanaian American singer is deliriously in thrall to wealth and celebrity – but most of all loveFountain Baby, the second album by Amaarae, was a revelation – a sensual, funny, frank and musically dense record released in 2023 that established the 31-year-old Ghanaian American pop musician as a cultural force to match contemporaries such as Rosalía and Charli xcx. Although the songs are hedonistic – largely oscillating between wry flexes of wealth and lyrics about trifling with, and being trifled by, women in her orbit – she is also a realist: actions have consequences in Amaarae’s world, such as on Reckless & Sweet, as she wonders whether her lovers desire her or merely her money.Despite the ingenuity and complexity of her music, Amaarae has struggled to break into the mainstream, in the UK at least. A recent Glastonbury set felt sparsely attended and, aside from 2020’s Sad Girlz Luv Money, one of the most ...

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3 w. ago Wednesday season two review – Jenna Ortega’s charisma could power 1,000 hearses

Tim Burton’s smash hit Addams spinoff is as wildly entertaining as ever – and now with added Steve Buscemi. Its hugely elaborate, joke-packed return sees its star on wonderful formHark! ‘Tis the peal of baleful bells, for a new semester has befallen Nevermore Academy, and freshly minted celebrity Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is, naturally, having none of it. “I liked it better when I was feared and hated,” she monotones as a flock of awestruck fellow students scrabbles around her ankles, autograph books a-flap.Alas, her newfound fame is inescapable. “You’re kind of a big deal now after the whole saving the school from the demon pilgrim thing”, “It girl” Bianca (Joy Sunday) explains, as much to the viewer as to Wednesday, who is perhaps too busy administering icily efficient death-stares to her swooning fanbase to fully appreciate the ramifications of last season’s finale. The demon pilgrim thing? Ah, yes. The demon pilgrim thing. This, you may recall, was the climactic first-seri...

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