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Brit awards 2022: follow it live!

Adele, Dave, Ed Sheeran, Little Simz, Sam Fender, Liam Gallagher and more are set to perform at the 42nd annual pop bash

Courteney-cox , Brit-awards , Pop-and-rock , Music , Culture , Adele , Ed-sheeran , Little-simz , Sam-fender , Liam-gallagher , Dave

From The Addams Family 2 to Andy Warhol: a complete guide to this week's entertainment | Culture

Whether it is a live gig, a new film or a game to play at home, our critics have your plans for this week covered

New-york , United-states , Bristol , City-of , United-kingdom , Glasgow , Glasgow-city , Brazil , Ghana , Brentford , Hounslow , Sweden

From Bond to Becky Hill: a complete guide to this week's entertainment | Culture

Whether it is a live gig, a new film or a game to play at home, our critics have your plans for this week covered

Australia , Prenzlauer-berg , Berlin , Germany , Bristol , City-of , United-kingdom , United-states , Paris , France-general- , France , Cuba

WE LOVE NYC The Homecoming Concert Pre-Show-20210821-20:42:00

bred new yorker. my whole education, work ethic, ps 161 in brooklyn, to arrive in high school in brooklyn, and nyu, and when i had no money, my parents died when i was a teenager, i had $4,000 to my name. new york rose up, gave me scholarships, both to nyu and i am indebted to new york and its culture. i learn music, i learn the symphony and i learn broadway as well as pop and rock. so i am totally indebted to new york city. >> i love that allegiance to new york and that history that you have with this. there's really no more special place than central park to celebrate the reopening of the

New-york-city , Education , High-school , Work-ethic , Money , Brooklyn , Nyu , Ps-161 , 161 , Parents , Scholarships , Teenager

'It was very difficult for Michael': the Jacksons on fame, family and survival | Pop and rock


Can You Feel It is one of
the great disco songs. Now the Jacksons are determined to remind us that it is also one of the great political songs, with its call for “all the colours of the world” to unite and tell the “marching men who are killing their brothers” that we all share the same blood.
Forty years after first charting, Can You Feel It has been reworked to include clips from speeches by Martin Luther King and Barack Obama, part of a project to expand the band’s six albums for Epic with remixes and bonus tracks. It makes perfect sense to have MLK and Obama guesting on the song, Tito Jackson says today: “They are the two best rappers in the world.” Tito and Jackie, the oldest brother, laugh. They are Zooming from Las Vegas, where they both live. Both are youthful and run off high-energy batteries. Tito, whose three sons make up the group 3T, is wearing his customary bowler hat – he says it’s the first thing he puts on when he gets up, and the last thing he takes off at night. Jackie, who has been married three times and has four children, is smartly dressed and smiley.

Indiana , United-states , Bahrain , Michael-jackson , Barack-obama , Martin-luther-king , Las-vegas , Tito-jackson , Motown , Want-you-back , Love-you-save , I-ll-be-there

Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg review - terrific post-punk poets of the everyday


Last modified on Fri 2 Apr 2021 04.05 EDT
The easy thing to do with Dry Cleaning is to concentrate on Florence Shaw and her laconic, subdued, spoken delivery of lyrics that are almost surreal in their quotidian blankness. But that does a disservice to the other three members of the band, because New Long Leg is the work of a terrifically focused group, whose version of post-punk is far more varied than it might at first appear. Tom Dowse has a knack for insinuating guitar lines – the cascading riff of Unsmart Lady; the simple pattern that underpins Strong Feelings – and sometimes the hooks come from the basslines of Lewis Maynard. There’s not a revolution here: the rulebook of the four-piece indie band is not being rewritten, but even with a conventional singer, singing conventional lyrics, Dry Cleaning would be a superior example of the kind.

Tom-dowse , Lewis-maynard , Unsmart-lady , Florence-shaw , Dry-cleaning , New-long-leg , Strong-feelings , Her-hippo , Everyday-carry , Indie , Punk

Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil review – a pop music doc of shattering candour


Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 02.32 EDT
There’s a line that gets trotted out every time a supposedly explosive celebrity documentary is released: no topic was off-limits. Of course, given the often manicured, constructed nature of these films, and the fact that they’re often produced by the subjects themselves, gory or unpalatable details can be sanitised.
That’s not the case with Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil. Covering the build-up to, and the aftermath of, the pop star’s accidental overdose in the summer of 2018, which left her hospitalised and fighting for her life, the four-part series is harrowing and unflinchingly honest.

Justin-bieber , Demi-lovato , Taylor-swift , Michaeld-ratner , Scooter-braun , Dani-vitale , Disney , Braun , Dancing-with , Camp-rock , Framing-britney-spears , Documentary

Feminist musical trailblazers the Stepney Sisters: 'We changed what happened next'


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‘We took our politics way beyond feminism’ … Ruthie Smith, Caroline Gilfillan and Marion ‘Benni’ Lees McPherson. Photograph: Janet Smith
‘We took our politics way beyond feminism’ … Ruthie Smith, Caroline Gilfillan and Marion ‘Benni’ Lees McPherson. Photograph: Janet Smith
They turned down an offer to be Bob Marley’s backing singers to write songs about toxic masculinity and speculum exams. Thirty years after breaking up, they are releasing a debut album
Mon 8 Mar 2021 10.00 EST
Last modified on Fri 12 Mar 2021 04.58 EST
There weren’t many options for women in music in 1974. Only three women – Diana Ross, Karen Carpenter and Lena Zavaroni – made it into the Top 10 of the UK album chart all year, and Broadway singer Bette Midler had just won best new artist at the Grammys. Female rock stars were starting to gain traction – Suzi Quatro was rising up the charts and the Runaways were waiting in the wings – but it was still years before female punk acts like X-Ray Spex and the Slits.

London , City-of , United-kingdom , Putney , Wandsworth , Langwith , Derbyshire , British , Desmond-dekker , Hall-oates , Steve-beresford , Bob-marley

Arab Strap: As Days Get Dark review – less callow, more crafted


Sun 7 Mar 2021 04.00 EST
For anyone not yet acquainted with the caustic charms of Arab Strap, their first album in 16 years makes an excellent primer. Coming on like a union between Sleaford Mods and Leonard Cohen consummated in a Glasgow pub toilet,
As Days Get Dark serves up bleakness and gallows humour multiple ways: “dejected, deserted and drunk”.
The callowness of the pair’s 90s youth – they were named after a sex toy – has been replaced by something altogether more lived-in and existential. The Turning of Our Bones exhorts listeners to seize the sexual day, because to dust we shall return. I Was Once a Weak Man is a prize-winning short story in miniature, following the stealth moves of a veteran adulterer.

Sleaford , Lincolnshire , United-kingdom , Glasgow , Glasgow-city , Aidan-moffat , Malcolm-middleton , Leonard-cohen , Arab-strap , Sleaford-mods , Was-once

Genesis Owusu: 'I'm Prince, if he were a rapper in 2020s Australia'


Now 22, Owusu was born Kofi Owusu-Ansah in Ghana, then moved to Canberra, Australia when he was two. Canberra, like much of Australia, is extremely white, and although there are tight-knit non-white communities to be found everywhere, institutions like schools often remain ignorant of the experiences of people of colour. Owusu-Ansah’s brother, the rapper Citizen Kay, was five years his elder, meaning that the pair only went to school together for a year before Owusu-Ansah was on his own.
“I had to figure this shit out myself, because all the Black people I knew were the people that came to the country with me,” Owusu-Ansah recalls from his new home base of Sydney. “There [were] no real role models to get advice from. It was definitely interesting being in a white space like that, but it kind of taught me, to the [most extreme] extent, how to be myself.”

Australia , Black-dog , Aberdeenshire , United-kingdom , Sydney , New-south-wales , Canberra , Australian-capital-territory , Ourness , Orkney-islands , Ghana , Australian