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Add to playlist: Acolyte slow dope and the best new tracks of the week | music

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Music,Culture 📌 Main takeaway: from EdinburghRecommended if you like Dry Cleaning, Massive Attack, Nick's Cavethe next “Warm Days in December” is out now, and a new EP is scheduled for release in early 2026As a fixture in Edinburgh's arts-turned-performance scene, Acolyte's strange, earthy psychedelia is as likely to be found onstage at the Traverse Theater as it is in the steamy-windowed brew of Leith Walk. Swirling basslines and poet Iona Lee's velvety, powerful voice conjure a sense of slow hypnosis – and just like their music, Acolyte…

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Sleeper Songs, Science Fiction Sculptures and Martin Parr About Martin Parr – The Week in Art | Art and design

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions ✅ Key idea: Exhibition of the weekTo improvise the mountainIllustrator Lynette Yiadom-Boakye depicts fictional people in makeup settings. Where does she get her disturbing thoughts from? Here she reveals her inspirations, from Walter Sickert to Bas-Jan Adair. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until 25 Januaryalso appearThe sleepersHelen Cammock, Tracey Emin and others explore what it means to sleep and not be able to sleep. Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, until 22 FebruaryHarold GosneyA closer look at how this Yorkshire sculptor works with bronze and other materials…

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Robert Plant Saving Grace review – The self-effacing megastar still looks amazing | Robert Plant

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Robert Plant,Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Folk music,Led Zeppelin,Southbank Centre ✅ Key idea: forBetween songs, Robert Plant describes his latest project, Saving Grace, as hailing "from the West Side of common sense." It's a self-effacing observation but he has a point. Most rock stars of his caliber and stature (78 next year, somewhere between 200 million and 300 million albums sold with Led Zeppelin) would be there to assert their status by touring hits. But as anyone who followed Plant's post-Zeppelin career will tell you, the live option didn't seem…

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“If we build it, they will come”: Skovd, the small town that helped Sweden’s video game boom | games

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Games,Culture,Sweden 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: HeyOn March 26, 2014, a trailer for the video game appeared on YouTube. The first thing the viewer sees is a close-up of a goat lying on the ground with its tongue out and its eyes open. Behind him is a man engulfed in fire, running backwards in slow motion towards a house. These images are interspersed with footage showing goats being repeatedly run over by a car. In the main shot, the goat now appears backwards as well, and flies…

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Playboy of the Western World review – Nicola Coughlan brings comedy and tragedy to this pub drama | National Theater

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: National Theatre,Stage,Culture,Theatre,Nicola Coughlan,Siobhán McSweeney ✅ Key idea: eWomen love a bad boy, or so the cliche goes. This is where the matter is put to the test when Christy Mahon enters a pub to confess that he killed his father with an agricultural implement. This is not quite the truth, but, to his own surprise, he has turned into a local celebrity. Women flock to see him and men hail him as a hero.John Millington Synge's comically unromantic depiction of a farming community in the west of…

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Review by Pavel Kolesnikov – Gifted Sound Sculptor | classical music

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Classical music,Culture,Music,Wigmore Hall 📌 Key idea: SPavel Kolesnikov, born in Iberia, rose to prominence after winning the Honens Piano Competition in 2012 in his early 20s. More than a decade later, he has created a mixture of standard concerto performances with small-scale, distinct projects: choreographic collaborations, chamber music partnerships, and imaginatively off-kilter concert programming.In his most recent appearance at Wigmore Hall, where he closed out 18th-century French keyboard music with Chopin, Kolesnikov took to the stage largely hidden behind his hair. He sat up suddenly but was…

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Kylie Minogue has 11th UK album as Christmas No. 1 race heats up | Kylie Minogue

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Kylie Minogue,UK charts,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Christmas,UK news 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Kylie Minogue has achieved her 11th number one album in the UK, putting her on par with David Bowie and Eminem on the all-time greatest albums list.The album, Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped), will sound familiar to her fans: it's a reissue of her 2015 album Kylie Christmas (which only reached No. 12), and contains four newly recorded tracks and a revised tracklist. It has been re-released once before, in 2016, as The Snow Queen Edition. However,…

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A jaded, hard-drinking Supergirl? This could be a major blow for James Gunn in the DCU| film

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,James Gunn,DC Comics,Superman,Culture ✅ Main takeaway: SEver since James Gunn's Superman became the biggest superhero film at the box office this summer, the world has been waiting to see what the rest of the DCU sandbox will look like. Now, with the first trailer for Supergirl, we have our first proper glimpse. Based on this evidence, the new Kara Zor-El lives in a brave new world of gods and monsters, reflecting her loneliness and anger towards her.Millie Alcock's Woman of Tomorrow may be unlike anyone we've seen…

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Lurking for Our Girls: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music ✅ Main takeaway: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Our Girls: Southport FamiliesBBC iPlayerSummarize in a sentence A deeply moving documentary that celebrates the lives of the three girls killed in an attack on their dance class last year - and follows the powerful way their parents coped with the tragedy.What our reviewer said “There have never been children quite like these three, and it is an honor to get to know them a little through home movies and words from their parents.” Jack SealeRead the…

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LSO/Pappano Review – Musgrave’s Phoenix Rising and Vaughan Williams’ London Stir the Soul | London Symphony Orchestra

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: London Symphony Orchestra,Music,Culture,Antonio Pappano,Classical music,Barbican ✅ Key idea: AAntonio Pappano's evangelical embrace of British music continued apace with a concert that included a rare piece by Thea Musgrave, a strangely neglected Viola Concerto by William Walton, and the latest in Vaughan Williams' ongoing cycle, the evocative London Symphony.Musgrave, who is still composing at 97, wrote Phoenix Rising in 1997 for the late Andrew Davis, to whom Pappano dedicated this concert. A 23-minute rollercoaster that pits the black drummer and his stick-wielding allies against the devil's horn player…

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