‘My manifesto’: RAEGAN on new EP, queerness, and pushing the limits

Having released her new single ‘CRYING IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND’, and with her new EP, RAEGAN CORE out now, the 23-year-old from New York crafts a love letter to outsiders, the misfits, and anyone who’s ever been told to…

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Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – Jarvis Cocker’s wit and warmth upstage the hits

In 2023, after a hiatus of a decade, his band Pulp started touring again, and last year played to 20,000 people at each of two nights at the O2 in London. This film features concert footage from those gigs in which a…

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Toy Story 5 to Hamlet: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

With the retired Woody (Tom Hanks) absent, Joan Cusack's Jessie is the new sheriff in town/bedroom. But she faces an existential threat when her owner, Bonnie, ostracised by her tech-savvy peers, gets a tablet – the…

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Toria Wooff announces new album Aleister and shares "The Morrigan"

The album explores grief, obsessive compulsive disorder, infertility, and recovery. It was produced by James Wyatt. To develop the record, Wooff and Wyatt took a guitar and some microphones to the small Welsh cottage…

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untitled (halo), Billboard Style, Silk Road, Starling and Gone Future lead this week's New Music Discovery playlist

With most Friday playlist updates dominated by the same big songs and returning names, we're always trying to go way beyond that to find the exciting new artists taking their first steps who we think will do amazing…

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Kwamie Liv returns after six years with "No One Owns the Sunrise" single

It's that free and independent force that cannot be controlled, that we need to protect and nurture, and that blossoms when we celebrate and lift each other up." "No One Owns the Sunrise" follows her 2018 studio album…

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Empress Of: Dream House review – a tender and openhearted rebirth after wildfires razed her house

She's slipped from raucous pop to silkier sounds, explored her Honduran-American heritage and, on her last album, flipped the staple awards season phrase "for your consideration" into a full-frontal club-pop meditation…

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Johnny Marr guitars sell for almost £4m at auction

The instruments, which were used during his time with The Smiths and on his forthcoming solo album, went under the hammer as part of Christie's Marr's Guitars: The Johnny Marr Collection sale. The sale lasted for more…

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Sharon Horgan reveals the personal real-life inspiration for HBO Max comedy Youth

The synopsis for the series, which Horgan has both created and stars in, says that it follows "a 50-year-old divorcee’s search for sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be…

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Star Trek writer Akiva Goldsman reveals why Doctor Who crossover never happened

The writer created the beloved Trek spin-off, which follows the crew of the USS Enterprise in the decade before The Original Series. It was previously confirmed that a Doctor Who crossover nearly happened, with Goldsman…

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