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  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Laura Snapes

    Your ultra-radical art projects during the COUM Transmissions era [in the 1970s] shattered every conceivable boundary – from the ethical to the bodily. Even now, viewed through the lens of history, it feels as though you broke through everything that could be broken, before crossing over into pop culture. Has society become any freer? Has art become any less commodified? Dmitry_SI think it has become more commodified.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Laura Snapes

    Smokey Robinson has filed a $500m (£370m) defamation lawsuit against the four former housekeepers who accused the Motown star of sexual assault earlier this month. Retaining anonymity, the women characterised Robinson, 85, as a “serial and sick rapist” who had assaulted them on multiple occasions between 2007 and 2024 at three different locations.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Laura Snapes

    Kylie Minogue’s current Tension tour is a glorious spectacle. Dancers prowl around geometric staircases in weird hats, which feels delightfully Pet Shop Boys. There is a disco ball big enough to permanently dazzle every audience member. One visual shows a noirish film of Ms Minogue as a sort of heartbreak-vanquishing detective; a billboard in her rainy street scene incorporates the location of each tour date to ask: “Feeling lonely in Sheffield?

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Laura Snapes

    Before Casey Johnston started weightlifting, she had assumed it was the preserve of “people who already had some sort of talent or need for it – like you’re a football player, a firefighter or in the military, and you need to be physically capable in that specific way”. Getting started seemed intimidating: the technique, the gym environment. Cardio, however, had always felt intuitive. “You go out the door and you run until you can’t run any more, and that’s it,” she says.

  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ammar Kalia |Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Laura Snapes

    From LondonRecommended if you like Nikki Nair, Anz, AhadadreamUp next Debut EP Jellyfish out 6 JulyOn her NTS Radio show, London DJ Debbie Ijaduola, AKA debbiesthuglife, is liable to throw everything from 2000s dancefloor-fillers such as Basement Jaxx’s Oh My Gosh and Kelis’s Acapella with apocalyptic dubstep bass, trap lyricism, Jersey Club beats and Britney Spears. It’s a high-octane, unpredictable mix, only unified by the fact that when Debbie is on the decks, the energy is up.

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