Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a soulless stage adaptation of the 2001 film
This attempt to re-energise a 20-year-old movie just feels tired.
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Have we reached peak emo nostalgia?
The announcement of a festival of early 2000s bands shows millennial emos have reached the age when their adolescence is…
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On her new “mixtape”, FKA Twigs is having more fun than ever
These pop songs are more playful and less inhibited than anything we’ve heard from Twigs before.
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How Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes confounded the music press of the 1990s
Her debut album, released 30 years ago, is a simmering ball of explosive confessional material.
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Can this new pressing plant solve the vinyl crisis?
Press On Vinyl, a facility due to open in the new year, has been dubbed “the communist plant of Teesside”.
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“I didn’t want anyone to know it was me”: on being Joni Mitchell’s “Carey”
For 50 years, the “mean old daddy” immortalised in one of Mitchell’s best-loved songs has been an enigma. Now he…
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The best albums of 2021
New Statesman staff choose their favourite records of the year.
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James Graham’s new play Best of Enemies reveals the origins of our culture war
This drama set in the late 1960s explores the televised debates between William F Buckley and Gore Vidal, and asks: is…
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