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Candomblé: Review of Sacred Rhythms of Brazil – Remixing Ceremonial Drums for the Dance Floor | music

Candomblé: Review of Sacred Rhythms of Brazil – Remixing Ceremonial Drums for the Dance Floor | music

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Dance music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe Brazilian religious and musical tradition of candomblé is a rhythmic barrage. Candomblé originated in the 19th century among enslaved people in West Africa, and manifested itself in music as the ritual practice of drum circles, in which multiple rhythms were struck to attract spirits. Athens-based archival label Flee presents a treasure trove of this festive music from a community in El Salvador in the late 1980s, along with a series of masterful remixes by contemporary artists.The Guardian's journalism is independent.…
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“I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!” Martha Reeves at Motown, dancing in the street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield | Martha and the Vandellas

“I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!” Martha Reeves at Motown, dancing in the street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield | Martha and the Vandellas

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Martha and The Vandellas,Motown records,Music,Pop and rock,Soul,Culture,Marvin Gaye,Stevie Wonder,Dusty Springfield,Michael Jackson,Detroit 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: You have been part of the richest and most exciting era of music since the German and Italian classics of the 19th century. What was it like for you and what made it all tick? com.eamonmccI was discovered by William Stephenson after I won an amateur competition. It was a dream come true to have a producer come up to me and say, “You have talent, come to Hitsville, USA.” I took…
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Chris and Martina: The Ultimate Group Review – The tennis giants discuss their deep bond and intense rivalry | film

Chris and Martina: The Ultimate Group Review – The tennis giants discuss their deep bond and intense rivalry | film

🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Tennis,Women,Martina Navratilova,Cancer,Culture,Health,Society,Sport,Czechoslovakia,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HHere's a Netflix documentary that tells a true story: the titanic friendship and feud (or frivolity) between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, the two giants who throughout the late 1970s and 1980s dominated international women's tennis and did so much to promote a sport whose very existence, incidentally, helped silence some sexist reactionaries who questioned the viability of women's football. The film shows us their strong relationship now, as they support each other as they go through the challenge…
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“Elon Musk is dangerous and crazy. And I kind of liked him: Interpol talks about their political awakening – and creates their masterpiece | Interpol

“Elon Musk is dangerous and crazy. And I kind of liked him: Interpol talks about their political awakening – and creates their masterpiece | Interpol

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Interpol,Music,Pop and rock,Indie,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SFits. Customary poetry. Moody, insistent riffs. It used to be that you knew what to expect from New York City's rock scene. The band's first two albums, in the early 2000s, were huge hits, moving half a million units each thanks to dramatic songs also suitable for dancing in indie disco. Interpol duly jumped to a major ranking, but soon fell back again. Talisman guitarist Carlos Dengler resigned, and the band settled into a decade of solidly successful but largely…
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Musa: Wow! Signals Review – Massive space rock silliness…but somehow surprisingly accurate? | Musa

Musa: Wow! Signals Review – Massive space rock silliness…but somehow surprisingly accurate? | Musa

💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Muse,Pop and rock,Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: forOnly three minutes into Muse's tenth album elapse before the chorus appears: a chorus that doesn't so much sing as sing in Latin, like something you might hear on the soundtrack of an occult-themed horror film. "Sanctus!" They cry. "Dominus!" And inevitably "Lucifer!"The artwork for The Wow! signalThe chorus is harder to listen to than you might think, as they fight against everything that happens during The Wow! Signal's opening track, The Dark Forest: an electronic bass line that's…
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Half time report! These are the 11 best World Cup TV moments so far | television

Half time report! These are the 11 best World Cup TV moments so far | television

🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,World Cup 2026,Gary Lineker ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The football tournament that dominates the schedule has reached the halfway mark, which means it's time for isotonic drinks, orange clips and in-depth TV analysis.From weepy cult heroes to blunders, from panto villains to foul-mouthed pundits, here are the highlights of our World Cup coverage so far...Emma Hayes makes fun of trollsEmma Hayes angers trolls with her 'You'll change the world' jacket. Image: ITVShe is one of Britain's best coaches, having won seven Women's Soccer League titles…
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Jackass: Best and Final Review – The Final Funny Farewell to the Kings of Outrageous Comedy | Comedy movies

Jackass: Best and Final Review – The Final Funny Farewell to the Kings of Outrageous Comedy | Comedy movies

💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy films,Comedy,MTV,Film,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TBoy-Men of Jackass, a three-season MTV live-action comedy show that turned into a beloved periodical, showed a willingness to engage in all manner of anal investigation in the name of shocking laughter. (Perhaps most famously involves Ryan Dunn, who died in 2011, inserting a toy car into himself before taking an X-ray.) So it's poignant to see the elderly crew take this to the natural next step in Jackass: Best and Last, where a gruff-voiced Steve-O undergoes a prostate exam —…
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“Delivery jobs are not for the weak!” How British singer Coon went from an Amazon driver to a global R&B star | R&B

“Delivery jobs are not for the weak!” How British singer Coon went from an Amazon driver to a global R&B star | R&B

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: R&B,Music,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: yourShe was never one to turn her nose up at a job. She worked night shifts at Sainsbury's and chopped vegetables with her father, the head chef at the Ivy restaurant in London. But her first day as an Amazon delivery driver in 2024 was soul-crushing. Just two years ago, the singer, who is known as K Wilson outside of music, signed a deal and released her first single, Episode Wn. Now, it has been dropped from its brand and has gone…
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Phoebe Bridgers: The Lost Boys Review – Ghosts, Guns and Naive Youth When Generational Songwriters Return | Phoebe Bridgers

Phoebe Bridgers: The Lost Boys Review – Ghosts, Guns and Naive Youth When Generational Songwriters Return | Phoebe Bridgers

💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Phoebe Bridgers,Music,Culture,Indie ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIn press materials for Phoebe Bridgers' comeback, the 31-year-old American singer talks about taking time to prepare her third album after becoming "a little world-weary" about life in general. Who can blame her? Bridgers became a fan favorite after her creepy, sad second album, 2020's Punisher, resonated with life under lockdown and made her a breakout star. In recent years, young women making embellished indie rock songs have risen to dizzying levels of fame and scrutiny — and none more so…
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Rik Mayall: Great review of B’Stard – Ade Edmondson still visibly upset by his loss | TV and radio

Rik Mayall: Great review of B’Stard – Ade Edmondson still visibly upset by his loss | TV and radio

✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Rik Mayall,Adrian Edmondson,TV comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard is a tribute to the man and an elegy to what you must assume was the lost youth of most of the viewing public. I don't know what the current youth will do with it. I assume they don't watch TV anyway, so the question is controversial.Plus, of course, it doesn't matter. This is 90 minutes of television for us - the generation who grew up with Mayall on screen as Rick the…
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