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The New York City fest kicks off this week with movies featuring stars like Vanessa Kirby, Benicio del Toro, and Julianne Moore.

The Quietus , June 5th, 2021 07:56 With the publication of his new book, When Quiet Was The New Loud, Tom Clayton seeks to re-assess the oft-derided music of Coldplay, Travis, Turin Brakes et al I can’t remember exactly when, but there was a moment when I realised much of the music I’d grown up with was Not Cool. My formative listening years – roughly between the ages of 12 and 16 – ran from 1998 to 2003. I spent them digging the vaguely anxious, mild-mannered cluster of bands the NME...

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, announced on Tuesday that they had acquired the U.S. rights to the rock and roll biopic Creation Stories, a film based on the life of Alan McGee. 

The ill-fated early Creation Records band gets anthologised. Review by Kieron Tyler

My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields: ‘We wanted to sound like a band killing their songs’ ‘When music makes me feel good, there’s a special, magical thing that happens’ ... Kevin Shields in 2004. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian ‘When music makes me feel good, there’s a special, magical thing that happens’ ... Kevin Shields in 2004. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian The band have released only one album since 1991 classic Loveless, yet their...

EVEN for a city with a musical heritage as strong as Oxford, Ride are a very special band. For a start, Laurence ‘Loz’ Colbert, Mark Gardener, Andy Bell and Steve Queralt, are proper down-to-earth Oxfordshire lads, forming not at a posh private school but at college in Banbury – and picking up Steve at the Oxford branch of Our Price Records. Staying close to their roots, they played their first shows at the college and the city’s Jericho Tavern and Oxford Polytechnic – now Oxfor...

Shaun Ryder: Did my dad see our behaviour? He joined in. We smoked crack, shared bongs The Happy Mondays singer was diagnosed with ADHD last year. It explains a lot, he says about 3 hours ago   Shaun Ryder is being uncharacteristically quiet. That’s because he has mistakenly stuck himself on mute and can’t work out how to turn on the microphone of the computer he’s on. We spend a rather amusing (and awkward) five minutes mouthing silently at each other, pointing fingers and shrugging sh...

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Last modified on Tue 11 May 2021 06.17 EDT Shaun Ryder is being uncharacteristically quiet. That’s because he’s mistakenly stuck himself on mute and can’t work out how to turn on the microphone of the computer he’s on. We spend a rather amusing (and awkward) five minutes mouthing silently at each other, pointing fingers and shrugging shoulders, while Ryder wrestles with his device, occasionally spinning it around so that he appears upside down. Eventually, though, an unmista...

Preview of Siegfried and Roy audio series as well as a live recording of non-fiction Black Lives Matter show Resistance have also been unveiled as part of the Tribeca Podcasts line-up.