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(Credit: Raph_PH) Sun 15 September 2024 12:00, UK Like the cyclical nature of the “nature or nurture” debate, music is almost entirely inextricable from the culture in which it thrives. Beyond the organic side of such a notion, reflecting the times is also a sign of a great artist, and Genesis, with their rich tapestry […]
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(Credits: Far Out / Banksy / YouTube Still) Fri 9 August 2024 10:23, UK Over the past few days, the legendary street artist Banksy has been creating works around London. Dubbed Bansky’s ‘London Zoo’ exhibit, each of the works unveiled thus far has been centred around animals placed in urban areas of the city. However, […]
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(Credits: Far Out / BBC Still) Sat 29 June 2024 12:18, UK During Idles’ headline set on The Other Stage at Glastonbury Festival, Banksy unveiled a new artwork inflatable life raft holding dummy migrants, which was launched into the crowd as the band played the pro-immigration track, ‘Danny Nedelko’. Understandably, the crowd assumed the migrant […]
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(Credits: Far Out / Banksy / YouTube Stills) Wed 5 June 2024 12:30, UK All it takes is to watch such influential movies as John Badham’s Saturday Night Fever or Walter Hill’s The Warriors to consider just how vibrant the subway of New York was with graffiti in the 1970s. Indeed, the modern history of […]
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Kate Winslet has joined calls for Reading Prison to be turned into an arts venue after a new piece of Banksy artwork was unveiled there last week. The mural, which emerged last Monday (March 1), shows a prisoner – resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde – escaping from the prison using a rope fashioned from bedsheets tied […]
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Elizabeth Banks is set to direct a new movie focusing on the incredible true-life story of a black bear who ate 70 pounds of cocaine. Cocaine Bear is set to be produced by The Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and is inspired by the infamous true story that unfolded in Kentucky in 1985. […]
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Louis Theroux has discussed the time he met Banksy at a football match in the early 2000s, saying he’s “one of the only people” to have met the elusive Bristol-based artist. Appearing on BBC 5Live’s That Peter Crouch Podcast, Theroux remembered meeting Banksy at a Queens Park Rangers match in 2001. Read more: The Trip-Hop […]
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Paul Banks swears that he never intended to form another band. The singer-guitarist had a busy enough work schedule with his main outfit, Interpol, not to mention other diversions like Banks and Steelz — his side project with rapper-turned-film-director RZA — and solo albums as Julian Plenti and under his own name, like Banks in 2012. But […]
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(Credits: Far Out / Buglord / Juukeihc / Jay Huang) Sat 20 December 2025 11:00, UK There’s been a boom in tourism to China with huge numbers looking to experience the country and enjoy its truly unique culture, one which is arguably very different to how it has been portrayed. When a country is the […]
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Kris Kolls is bringing something entirely new to the table with her latest single “Sakura.” Released on October 31, the Istanbul-based artist delivers a cinematic blend of pop, R&B, and ambient soul that feels both intimate and otherworldly. It’s the kind of song that doesn’t need volume to hit hard — it moves through emotion […]