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6 days ago | 
msn.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more
Archie Leach makes an appearanceOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis |Laura Snapes
Laura Snapes, deputy music editor I was set the task of not listening to Spotify for a week, but Alexis, your task was much worse: only listening to Spotify-created playlists, and the songs it suggested to you based on your listening history. How did that go? Alexis Petridis, chief rock and pop critic One day in the car I just listened to nothing instead of facing it again. When it plays me songs I like, it’s not what I want to hear at that moment.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Laura Snapes
Justin Vernon would rather not be doing any of this. Releasing a new Bon Iver album, promoting it. He absolutely isn’t going to tour it. “I don’t need to do this any more,” he says. “I want to be done with this whole thing. But I am dead serious about these songs.
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2 weeks ago | 
pitchfork.com | Laura Snapes
DJ Koze is a Shakti mat guy. When I ask the German producer how he quiets his thoughts, he gets up from the desk in his Hamburg home studio—where a huge, beautiful painting of an old tape deck hangs over a bed—and pulls an orange acupressure mat out of a slot in the record-laden wooden shelving. “After 20 minutes, I nearly always fall asleep,” he says of laying on its plastic spikes.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Laura Snapes
DJ Koze is a Shakti mat guy. When I ask the German producer how he quiets his thoughts, he gets up from the desk in his Hamburg home studio—where a huge, beautiful painting of an old tape deck hangs over a bed—and pulls an orange acupressure mat out of a slot in the record-laden wooden shelving. “After 20 minutes, I nearly always fall asleep,” he says of laying on its plastic spikes.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Laura Snapes
Dave Allen, the bassist for British post-punks Gang of Four, has died aged 69. His surviving bandmates, vocalist Jon King and drummer Hugo Burnham, said that Allen had been suffering from early-onset mixed dementia. Burnham said in a statement: “It is with broken yet full hearts that we share the news that Dave Allen, our old music partner, friend, and brilliant musician, died on Saturday morning.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Laura Snapes
Bruce Springsteen is to reveal seven “lost” albums in June – a collection of 83 songs, 74 of which have never officially been released. Spanning 1983 to 2018, Tracks II: The Lost Albums compiles “full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released”, Springsteen said in a statement. The new vault project came together during the Covid-19 pandemic. “I’ve played this music to myself and often close friends for years now,” he said.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Laura Snapes
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Laura Snapes
Ani DiFranco may be the only musician ever to have tired Prince into submission. When they jammed in 1999, he and his band called it quits after four hours while the Buffalo songwriter kept dancing. “After being with her, it dawned on me why she’s like that,” Prince said. “She’s never had a ceiling over her.”DiFranco has been tirelessly doing things to her own beat since 1989.
