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With mood-boosting Irish comedy Joyride in cinemas, tumble down the rabbit hole with Olivia Colman, Jehnny Beth and the Jesus and Mary Chain

The Savages frontwoman and actor on her admiration for Cillian Murphy, why she was thrilled by Sex Education and how boxing has kept her body and soul together

As Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th District is released, Jehnny Beth talks about juggling acting and music, and the importance of releasing sex workers from negative stereotypes on screen

On the eve of the publication of his memoir, the Primal Scream frontman talks to friend and author Irvine Welsh about his working-class upbringing

Shoot Out the Lights—in truth many of the best breakup ballads were written by songwriters for hire who happily went home to their spouses at the end of the day. Tammy Wynette’s “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” wasn’t written about a real divorce, either, but that doesn’t diminish its impact any. Gillespie and Beth were so enamored of the form they had to invent a marriage just to kill it. Utopian Ashes commits fully to its premise, flaunting the many ways that a sad song can be dressed up. On opener “Chase It Down,” it’s with disco strings and a wah-wah pedal righ...