3 d. ago Paloma Faith given sad ultimatum from music boss after kissing Black man in video

Singing sensation Paloma Faith revealed a shocking encounter with a music executive during her efforts to break into the U.S. market

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6 d. ago Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Geffen/Polydor)The Virginia songwriter gets lost in understatement on a loved-up album about her relationship with bandmate Julien Baker, shrouding sharp lyrics in shy melodiesLast February, the American “indie rock supergroup” Boygenius – AKA Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – announced an indefinite hiatus. The announcement came a couple of weeks before their solitary album, The Record, won three of the seven Grammys for which it had been nominated. This was a suitably triumphant ending to a project that had been garlanded with acclaim, both for their music – “at the vanguard of keeping rock alive,” as one US magazine editor put it – and their willingness to indulge in attention-grabbing gestures, frequently designed to prick at the male domination of rock history.Their debut EP came in a sleeve that referenced that of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s eponymous 1969 album. They dressed as the Beatles for an appearance on Saturday Night Live and as Nirvana on the cover of R...

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1 week ago Paloma Faith lists 'boring' songs she lost number one spot to – but 'isn't bitter'

Paloma Faith – The Only Love Can Hurt Like This singer and mother of two – shared her thoughts on the five tracks that kept her off the number one spot in a hilarious, no-holds-barred review

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1 week ago ‘Emotions? They’re no big thing, man!’ Jeff Bridges on satisfaction, silver linings – and his secret life in music

As his lost 70s songs emerge, the Oscar-winner and musician explains how the magic of art keeps him upbeat even after losing homes to LA firesA rainy day in Santa Barbara, and Jeff Bridges sits in his garage, wondering where his favourite spectacles have got to. We are in the middle of a rangy conversation on a video call, meandering our way from Bob Dylan to the anthropomorphism of bees, via Crazy Heart, Cutter’s Way and The Big Lebowski. There are sidetracks and double-backs and loose threads. Intermittently, an unseen assistant hands the actor pairs of glasses seemingly identical to the ones he is already wearing. Bridges, in a soft brown cardigan, inspects each pair and dismisses them. “Where was I?” he asks.The garage here serves as Bridges’ jam space and ceramics workshop. He has drums set up for his grandson, and a picture of Captain Beefheart on the wall. Since December, when his FX series The Old Man was cancelled, the 75-year-old has been spending more of his days here. “N...

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3 w. ago ‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh

The wild child ‘gabber pop’ rapper was booted off last year’s song contest. But his song Europapa eclipsed the winner’s – and he’s about to tour the world in his gigantic shoulder padsJoost Klein is arguably the first artist to triumph at the Eurovision song contest without actually performing in the final. In May last year, the 27-year-old Dutch wild child “gabber pop” rapper was disqualified from the world’s largest live music event just hours before he was due to perform Europapa to 170 million TV viewers around the globe.This song – a chaotic but catchy ode to the father he lost as a teenager, and to the free movement of people ethos his father instilled in him – was touted as a favourite. But instead of gearing up for his big moment, Klein spent seven hours that day sitting in his changing room in a reflex-blue, Ursula-von-der-Leyen-meets-Vivienne-Westwood suit with gigantic shoulder pads, fearing he was about to be arrested – on live TV – over a “backstage incident” after the ...

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3 w. ago Paloma Faith reveals she has no fears of being cancelled due to one thing

British singer and songwriter Paloma Faith has revealed her fears over being 'cancelled' while the singer shares a string of wild tales of her upbringing on her podcast

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3 w. ago Paloma Faith has no fears of being cancelled due to one surprising admission

The singer and actress believes that her upbringing has placed her 'on the right side of ethics and morals' and that she can navigate 'cancel culture' with ease

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4 w. ago BRIT Awards stars including Paloma Faith, Lola Young and McFly's Danny Jones back Make It Fair campaign against government's AI proposals

Some of the biggest names in British music united at the Brit Awards this weekend to back a campaign to stop AI plundering the UK's creative genius.

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last month Paloma Faith goes public with new boyfriend after devastating split from husband

Paloma Faith posed with her boyfriend Stevie Thomas at a BRIT Awards after party, with the pair having been together for around a year following her split from

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