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Aaron Bishop , April 27th, 2021 07:57 Aaron Bishop selects his highlights from the UK underground scene including projects and singles from names such as DC, Central Cee, M1llionz and Enny It is a well-known fact that London is the birthplace of grime and UK drill. For years London artists have served as the gatekeepers of the scene and the main beneficiaries of the music industry and all it has to offer – money included. But more recently we’ve seen a changing of the tide. Over the last f...

THE co-creator of Alan Partridge and stars from Ru Paul’s Drag Race are highlights of Bradford Fringe Festival, taking place in city venues this summer. The festival has a packed programme of theatre, comedy, dance and poetry from July 3 to August 1, headed by Oscar-nominated writer and satirist Armando Iannucci, in virtual conversation with Bradford film-maker Javaad Alipoor discussing film, screen and politics followed by an audience Q&A. Armando Iannucci has written, directed, and prod...

Saturday, 24th April 2021 at 12:00 pm If you’re an aspiring writer or just a huge TV fan, you won’t want to miss our exclusive event, Script to Screen with Armando Iannucci. Advertisement Armando is the creative force behind many comedy characters we know and love, including Malcolm Tucker and Alan Partridge. A TV genius, Armando helped bring beloved Partridge to life in Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, I’m Alan Partridge and even brought in to the big screen in Alan Partridg...

Saxophonist Gene Barge helped shape the sound of Chicago R&B  He’s done his most influential work as a sideman or producer, but he’s just as important as any of the genre’s marquee stars. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties whove been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place. Gene Barge is unusual among Secret History subjec...

 E-Mail Although the problem of gender discrimination is already found in the music industry, music recommendation algorithms would be increasing the gender gap. Andrés Ferraro and Xavier Serra, researchers of the Music Technology research group (MTG) of the UPF Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC), with Christine Bauer, of the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), have recently published a paper on gender balance in music recommendation systems in which they ask the...

Christine Pooles Top Picks: April 15, 2021 Chinas very bad bank: Inside the Huarong debt debacle David Fingolds Top Picks: April 14, 2021 Archegos ripples through banks lucrative hedge fund business NFT fans want to crack the Da Vinci code Fat finger briefly trims US$4B off Barclays market cap Canaccord prepared to raise offer for rival RF Capital, CEO says Tech leads stock decline from record; bonds drop Ontario pension manager plots real estate cut, credit growth Gordon Reids Top Picks: April...

The South London rapper opens up... Bursting on to the scene as a self-assured newcomer, surrounded by friends in his Greenwich locale for the first of the ‘#Gleamin’ freestyles that put him on the map only five years ago, DC has gone from strength to strength, and welcomed all listeners aboard his journey into a bonafide superstar. As the jumpy likes of drill and afro-swing commercially flourished, DC (named in homage to ‘Dock City’, his hometown of Greenwich, as...

Its hard to believe that nearly two years have passed since HBOs Veep left the air. The widely acclaimed, multi-award-winning political satire created by Armando Iannucci as an American adaptation of The Thick of It became one of the televisions sharpest, most biting comedies, resulting in many Emmy wins for Julia-Louis Dreyfus and Tony Hale, while also earning praise for Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Matt Walsh, Gary Cole, and Clea DuVall. Now that the show is concluded, however...

Welcome back!: Movie theaters reopen in New York City Outside the Regal Cinemas in Times Square in New York, March 5, 2021. For the first time in almost a year, New Yorkers are allowed in front of the big screen again. Nathan Bajar/The New York Times. by Matt Stevens and Sean Piccoli NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Around 9:45 a.m. Friday morning, the creaky metal awning, that for almost a year had walled off moviegoers from the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street, rolled up with a lurch. The...

  >> Matt Stevens and Sean Piccoli, The New York Times  Published: 08 Mar 2021 11:29 AM BdST Updated: 08 Mar 2021 11:29 AM BdST A moviegoer purchases tickets at the newly reopened Angelika Film Centre on Houston Street in New York, March 5, 2021. For the first time in almost a year, New Yorkers are allowed in front of the big screen again. The New York Times Around 9:45 am Friday morning, the creaky metal awning, that for almost a year had walled off moviegoers from the Angelika Film Centre...