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From The Social Reckoning to Harriet Kemsley: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network, and the Last One Laughing...
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Jess Williamson: A Mile South of Heaven review – alt-country singer’s love-hate affair with LA
Following 2023 breakout Time Ain’t Accidental, the best songs here are when Williamson strips back country mus...
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Shostakovich Symphony No 8 album review – composer’s cry of despair in a remarkable and resonant new recording
Conductor Alain Altinoglu brings weight and purpose while the instrumental solos are piquant and precise.
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‘It gave me a superpower – question everything’: as punk turns 50, bands from China to Greenland explain how it fires up their lives
Whether on the frontline in Ukraine or skate parks in Soweto, the genre is still a vital outlet for disaffecte...
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Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves: Dedicated to You review – eloquent Coltrane tribute
This elegant contemporary reinvention of 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman pairs Marsalis’s post-bop...
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How Black banjo players are changing Americana music
Originating with enslaved Africans, the banjo is now being reclaimed by Black musicians in contemporary music
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From Digger to The Strokes: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Tom Cruise transforms in Alejandro Iñárritu’s heavyweight satirical comedy, while the NYC indie rockers are in...
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Rod Stewart announces final tour for 2027: ‘Most definitely my last’
The 81-year-old singer will wrap up a touring career that stretches back to his mid-teens in the early 1960s,...
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Dear Ed Sheeran, fence-sitting is so last century: musicians can no longer opt out of politics
It’s all very 2026: with a stadium owner on one side and angry support acts on the other, the cornered star wi...
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Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations
The US rapper, removed from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after voicing support of Palestine, has convened a ch...
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Dance Monkey v the NRL: did Tones and I really turn down $90,000 a minute because she hates her own song?
For the first time in recent history there’ll be no pre-game entertainment at the NRL grand final. But everyon...
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The living dead: we can watch ‘Janis Joplin’ perform or reunite the Beatles, but who are the real winners here?
Advances in digital technology mean that avatars are ever more realistic, and zombie concerts are coming our w...