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Baka Beyond: Sing the World Awake review – powerful Cameroonian vocals burst through fussy arrangements
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Baka Beyond: Sing the World Awake review – powerful Cameroonian vocals burst through fussy arrangements

(March Hare Music)This fusion of western folk and the traditional music of the Baka people creates an uneven patchwork of sound – but it astonishes when their vocals are placed front and centreOver th...

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

Wonderful archive footage charts the Sheffield outsiders’ unlikely rise, but the distant camerawork struggles to capture the thrill of their triumphant O2 gigsIn 1978, in the classroom of a comprehens...

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

(Major Arcana/Giant Music)Lorely Rodriguez contemplates the meaning of home – both physical and emotional – on a gorgeously humid, hopeful album that makes a virtue of her searching natureSince the ea...

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Johnny Marr guitars sell for almost £4m at auction
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Johnny Marr guitars sell for almost £4m at auction

One instrument was used on the The Smiths' debut album and also appeared on the cover of Oasis's debut single.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 week ago
‘I toured with a hole in my brain. I don’t regret a thing’: punk duo Lambrini Girls on fighting extreme times with extreme measures
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‘I toured with a hole in my brain. I don’t regret a thing’: punk duo Lambrini Girls on fighting extreme times with extreme measures

Their debut stormed the charts and wowed Iggy Pop, but health crises threatened to derail the Brighton duo. Now they’re back, taking aim at the manosphere, fascism and the ruling classAt a last-minute...

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Charles 'sounded giddily elated' after Diana died, Earl Spencer claims
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Charles 'sounded giddily elated' after Diana died, Earl Spencer claims

Buckingham Palace has strongly pushed back against claims in a new book by the late Princess of Wales's brother.

BBC Entertainment & Arts1 week ago
Paul, John … and Yvonne? The French novelist asking: what if a woman had written the Beatles’ greatest hits?
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Paul, John … and Yvonne? The French novelist asking: what if a woman had written the Beatles’ greatest hits?

Celebrated thriller writer Michel Bussi explains why the plot of his new novel Code Yesterday isn’t so far fetched, saying ‘I wanted to give women revenge’Relations between France and England have rar...

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Costume exhibition celebrates 50 years of city's 'spaceship-like' theatre
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Costume exhibition celebrates 50 years of city's 'spaceship-like' theatre

To mark the anniversary of the seven-sided theatre constructed from tubular steel, some archive costumes go on display.

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Odyssey painting goes on show at city art gallery
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Odyssey painting goes on show at city art gallery

The work by Turner is on loan from the National Gallery and forms part of a new exhibition in York.

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Harry Styles funds free coffee at two London cafes
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Harry Styles funds free coffee at two London cafes

The singer funded free coffees for customers at Kaffeine's two central London cafes on Saturday.

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UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs
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UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs

It comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point.

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Zara Larsson criticises White House for using her song in deportation video
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Zara Larsson criticises White House for using her song in deportation video

The White House removed Larsson's Midnight Sun from one of its reels after the artist called the clip "dehumanising".

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YouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donation
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YouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donation

Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donationYouTube star Ms Rachel has said she is matching rapper Macklemore’s $1m donation to organizations...

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US fans with Ed Sheeran tickets left 'torn' over Macklemore controversy
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US fans with Ed Sheeran tickets left 'torn' over Macklemore controversy

With Sheeran's next gig this weekend, some ticket holders said they were in two minds about going.

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Early Bowie music available to stream for first time
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Early Bowie music available to stream for first time

Previously unheard material from the start of the artist's career has been released for the first time.

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Weekly quiz: Why did women's sports stars criticise actress Sydney Sweeney?
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Weekly quiz: Why did women's sports stars criticise actress Sydney Sweeney?

How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?

BBC News - UK1 week ago
Charles sounded 'giddily elated' after Diana’s death, claims Earl Spencer
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Charles sounded 'giddily elated' after Diana’s death, claims Earl Spencer

In latest extracts from upcoming memoir, Diana’s brother suggests some in Buckingham Palace were ‘relieved’ at her deathThe brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, has claimed in published extra...

The Guardian - UK News1 week ago
Marooned Lord Byron statue returns to Hyde Park
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Marooned Lord Byron statue returns to Hyde Park

The statue was left isolated on a Park Lane traffic island after new roads were built in the 1960s.

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Ireland to boycott Eurovision again over Israeli participation and ongoing Gaza deaths
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Ireland to boycott Eurovision again over Israeli participation and ongoing Gaza deaths

Ireland joins joins Dutch broadcaster in refusing to take part in 2027 song contest, in second consecutive year of protestsIreland is to boycott Eurovision for the second year running over the “appall...

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Sway, Mobo-winning British rapper, dies aged 44
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Sway, Mobo-winning British rapper, dies aged 44

Rapper won prestigious award as an unsigned artist before breaking UK Top 10 and nurturing artists including KSIThe British rapper Sway, who proved inspirational to a generation of Black British music...

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