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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Stage,Theatre,Sinéad O'Connor,Music,Culture,Pop and rock 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “I'm just a restless soul who needs to scream into a microphone every now and then,” said Sinead O'Connor. She sings of turmoil and screams in The Surge, an ode to it by American choreographer Sonia Tayeh.The singer, who died in 2023, attracted both worship and scorn during her lifetime. The “boom” is an act of devotion – 10 women sit on seats and actually sway, slide and jump around. They jump, twirl and tremble when the songs possess…

🚀 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.…

🔥 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…

🚀 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…

🔥 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…