Category: Arts
Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar also puts artistic freedom on trial
There were people who thought Drake v Kendrick was the greatest hip-hop beef of all time, attracting a wider level of public interest and proceeding [more…]
Mobb Deep review – New York rap duo can still keep the temperature rising
Big Noyd holds up a half-drunk bottle of brandy as though it were an Olympic torch, pleading: “Lord forgive me, the Hennessy got me not [more…]
Songhoy Blues: Héritage review – the Malian rockers take a gorgeous acoustic turn
Each of Songhoy Blues’ albums has mapped slightly different terrain. The Malian rockers’ 2015 debut, Music in Exile, was a gripping, energising introduction to a [more…]
Mac Miller: Balloonerism review – poignant second posthumous album
The second posthumous album released since the death of American rapper Mac Miller in 2018 ponders delusions and lost innocence. Drug use and death are [more…]
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko review – Congolese soukous gets a maximalist makeover
Peruvian multi-instrumentalist Ale Hop has a knack for unsettling reinventions of musical traditions. On her last album, 2023’s Agua Dulce, she and percussionist Laura Robles [more…]
Rose Gray: Louder, Please review – escapist dance-pop fizzes with inventiveness
The last few years have proved tricky for female-fronted dance-pop, with interesting artists wasting away as guest vocalists on songs credited to male DJs with [more…]
Back in Action review – Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx slum in Netflix comedy
The last time we saw Cameron Diaz on screen, it was way back in 2014. The star, who had been such a magnetic force in [more…]
Brad Pitt reacts to ‘awful’ scammers who fooled French woman using his pictures
A spokesperson for Brad Pitt has addressed the viral story about a French woman who believed she was in a long-term relationship with the actor [more…]
David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream
No director ever interpreted the American Dream with more artless innocence than David Lynch. It could be the title of any of his films. Lynch [more…]
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while also probing the bizarre, the radical and the experimental, has died aged [more…]
