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'We have our own fair playing field': 1Xtra launches first ever UK rap chart
The top 20 best selling UK rap tracks will be celebrated each week on Radio …
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The week’s best new tracks and the act you need to know: crowd-pleasing anticapitalist rockers Sans Froid
Inspired by everything from Radiohead to Deerhoof and Linda Perhacs, the west country band merge …
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How 2000s lad culture helped Russell Brand to hide in plain sight
The behaviour that formed the backdrop to Brand's prosecution also helped elevate him, writes the …
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‘Completely original’ musical Midnight tries (and fails) to imagine a slavery-era romance
Todrick Hall’s off-Broadway show is about a doomed interracial love affair during US slavery in …
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Olivia Rodrigo's Christmas song sounds familiar… on purpose
The pop star sought permission from cult 80s band The Waitresses before releasing her festive …
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Rocky review – 50 years on, Stallone’s boxer remains an exhilaratingly gritty contender
The actor’s triumphant breakthrough has clear ancestors in grimy tales of working-class struggle, but finds …
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Identity, resilience and community: early Black portrait photography – in pictures
A new Washington DC exhibition aims to show how African Americans have used portrait photography …
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‘Mom encouraged me to get breast implants’: Disney child star Christy Carlson Romano on fame, family and freedom
She started acting at six and by 16 was starring in Even Stevens with Shia …
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La Roux: Old Flames review – a breezy, hook-packed twist on a breakup album
(Vertigo)Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now …
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‘Too many stories exist only to make you think you’re on the right side’: Cristian Mungiu on Fjord, the Cannes winner that divided Europe
The Romanian auteur’s new film could have been the kind of homogenous ‘Europudding’ he’s railed …