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Radiohead | Summer Series At SOmerset House | Jack GarrattRadiohead’s world tour (whose headline shows take in Amsterdam, Paris, London, New York, LA and Mexico City), went on sale yesterday, including...
View ArticleTuesday’s best TV: The A Word; One Born Every Minute; Exposure: Saudi Arabia
Drama from Peter Bowker starring Christopher Eccleston; a return to Liverpool Women’s hospital; undercover in the Saudi kingdom. Plus: Jim Al-Khalili on how the universe startedSet among the awesome...
View ArticleKiran Leonard: Grapefruit review – heavy, all-elbows indie folk
(Moshi Moshi)It might be reductive to describe something as a bloody racket, but Kiran Leonard’s second record is unquestionably that – albeit with plenty to cling to in times of almost intolerable...
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Fetty Wap | Let’s Eat Grandma | The CribsTrap music is probably most identifiable by its snares, which sound like somebody riffling a deck of metallic cards, but it’s also conspicuous for its...
View ArticleYeasayer: Amen & Goodbye CD review – moments of brilliant weirdness
(Mute)At the turn of the decade, Brooklyn band Yeasayer released their second album, Odd Blood. It was an indie record that generated a terrific amount of buzz, seeing the foursome loosely grouped with...
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PC Music’s Cosmos | Wolf Alice | HælosSince emerging three years ago, members of the PC Music collective may have failed to become world-conquering superstar acts in their own right, but their jarring...
View ArticleMonday’s best TV: Guy Martin’s Wall of Death; Eddie Izzard: 27 Marathons in...
Guy Martin revs up his motorcycle to ride round an enormous ‘wall of death’; Rowan Atkinson excels as detective Jules Maigret; South Africa is the setting for Eddie Izzard’s latest incredible feat of...
View ArticleWednesday’s best TV: Horizon, Employable Me; Grantchester; The People Next Door
Ocean-hunting in outer space; inclusivity in the workplace; and priest-and-police procedural reaches its redemptive denouement. Plus: neighbourly paranoia from writer Ben ChananOur search for life on...
View ArticleKero Kero Bonito: ‘It’s just a bassline, vocals, super clear message and...
The south London trio revere the Pop Group, PiL, Devo and the B-52s, hate Four Tet and Burial – and aspire to make ‘the perfect music’‘I think being jarred is pretty dope,” says Gus Lobban, one third...
View ArticleMayer Hawthorne: Man About Town review – kitsch soul nails 70s sound
(BMG)As a young, LA-based purveyor of kitschy funk and soul, Mayer Hawthorne treads a fine line between parody and sincerity. Out-and-out comedy acts such as Flight of the Conchords have plundered a...
View ArticleMockumentaries, millennials and Zayn Malik – inside web comedy 2016: Year...
Britain’s brightest young comics have shunned television and shacked up online instead for a new sitcom. They reckon their surreal laughs will ‘surprise people’In a sunlit woodland clearing in north...
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The Macabees | Guy Garvey’s Meltdown | Wiki + Sporting LifeIndie survivors the Maccabeesrode the tail-end of the genre’s heyday with their 2007 single Toothpaste Kisses. But while the majority of their...
View ArticleEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: PersonA review – trippy folkpop with a...
(Community Music)Since restyling himself as charismatic bandleader Edward Sharpe, Alex Ebert has enjoyed considerable success – most notably with raucous 2009 single Home, on which he and now-departed...
View ArticleThe funniest thing… Romesh Ranganathan
From the sound of his own crying to superlative superhero spoofs, the comedian and presenter reveals the things that make him laugh the mostI think that the brilliant Gary Delaney has loads of great...
View ArticleGames based on pop stars, yesterday afternoon, a bin, root canals – we review...
Every Friday we apply critical attention to things that don’t normally get it. This is an important function that might hold civilisation together. Or, more likely, not. Drop your suggestions for...
View ArticleMitski review – Smiths-indebted indie-rock … with a nod to The Simpsons
Birthdays, LondonThe Brooklyn songwriter’s way with a melody makes you want to grab the guitar and sing the songs yourselfThe name of Mitski’s album Bury Me at Makeout Creek is a line first spoken by...
View ArticleThe funniest thing… Phil Wang
From Catch 22 to overenthusiastic chefs, the comedian reveals the things that make him laugh the mostProbably Eddie Pepitone’s show at the 2012 fringe. He was so raw and funny and angry and kind. I...
View ArticleMonday’s best TV: Game of Thrones; How to Find Love Online; Flowers
The blood-soaked fantasy epic returns for its sixth season, there’s a scientific look at online dating and a heartbreaking and hilarious week-long series that may establish a new standard in...
View ArticleKaty B: Honey review – vocal melodies elevated by luscious production
(Rinse/EMI)Related: Jungle, garage and grime: 20 years of Rinse FMThe 2011 album On a Mission was originally conceived as a showcase for London radio station Rinse FM, with Kathleen Brien employed to...
View ArticleThe funniest thing… Dane Baptiste
From Eddie Murphy to illiterate hecklers, the comedian reveals the things that make him laugh the mostEddie Murphy Raw. It displayed his immense talent for impressions, had simple but hilarious...
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