‘It was a mess. I had to do something’: the personal struggle that inspired rap star Giggs to start a special needs school
Two weeks ago, he was in New Jersey with his fiancee Valerie as she gave birth to the couple's daughter, Noa. The next day, he flew home and went straight to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to guest on stage with Jay-Z. "Yeah…
Read more
Luke Evans: ‘You just don’t get those same opportunities in a working-class environment’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Speaking to Attitude for his cover interview , the actor opened up about his working-class roots and growing up in Aberbargoed, South Wales. Now 47, Evans is arguably one of Hollywood’s best-known hunks, having graced…
Read more
‘We demand the truth’: Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee lead calls for proof of life of disappeared Eritrean writers
Nobel laureates Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee join prominent writers including Colm Tóibín, Elif Shafak, Isabel Allende, Ben Okri, Yann Martel, Kamila Shamsie and Tsitsi Dangarembga in signing the letter organised by PEN…
Read more
‘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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more