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Chanel Beads shares eclectic collection ‘Eternal Music’, an exclusive playlist to accompany The Cover
Chanel Beads, the rising New York band featured in NME’s latest instalment of The Cover, have released an exclusive playlist called “Eternal Music” to accompany their profile piece. The release forms part of NME’s weekly series spotlighting emerging musical talent, with the accompanying feature written by Priya Elan and photographed by Eve Alpert, offering fans…
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Portraits Of Tracy Releases New EP ‘Q: From Where Do Our Primal Instincts Originate A: MTV!’
US musician Portraits Of Tracy, raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has released a new EP titled ‘Q: From Where Do Our Primal Instincts Originate A: MTV!’ in full. The release highlights the artist’s stylistic versatility, spanning genres from hardcore punk to vintage-style soul, unified primarily by their distinctive personality and songwriting voice. The EP follows…
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What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse
This is a Guardian review of Eleanor Drage’s book “What If We Got AI Right?”, which sets out to challenge Silicon Valley’s binary narrative that artificial intelligence will either usher in utopia or trigger apocalypse. Drage, a researcher at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, argues that AI is not some mystical force…
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Police hunt darts match attacker in lobster suit
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police are searching for a man dressed in a lobster costume who is suspected of seriously assaulting another man outside Alexandra Palace in north London after a World Darts Championship match. The victim, a man in his twenties, was punched and knocked unconscious and is still suffering “significant injuries” seven months…
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Melbourne mother of two Brooke Timmins was allegedly murdered in front of her children by partner Jorden Turney in Clyde North, as court hears of his history of mental illness
A Melbourne mother of two, Brooke Timmins, was allegedly murdered in front of her children by her partner, Jorden Turney, at a home in Clyde North. The case has gone before court, where details emerged about Turney’s history of mental illness, raising questions about his state of mind and any prior warning signs ahead of…
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Football Weekly’s summer mailbag: World Cup 2026, the off-season and more: part one – podcast
This is a podcast episode from the Guardian’s Football Weekly series, in which host Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, John Brewin and Jonathan Wilson for the first part of a summer mailbag special, answering listener-submitted questions during the football off-season. The episode uses the World Cup 2026 and the quiet summer period as…
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“They sound like a very talented band forced to play punk.” Stuart Adamson’s guitar work elevates Skids’ Scared to Dance above the ordinary
This is an album review revisiting Skids’ 1979 debut Scared to Dance, part of Louder’s Album of the Week Club series. It argues that guitarist Stuart Adamson’s playing, later of Big Country, lifts the record above typical punk fare, even though critics at the time dismissed its polished production as inappropriate for the genre. Skids…
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The Ukrainian start-up taking the missile fight deep into Russia
Fire Point, a Ukrainian arms start-up founded after Russia’s 2022 invasion, is now producing around 100 long-range Flamingo cruise missiles and hundreds of drones a day, making it central to Ukraine’s ability to strike deep inside Russian territory. Chief executive Iryna Terekh says almost every recent deep-strike attack has involved the company’s weapons, which are…
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“We don’t want to spark disaster.” Arthur ‘God of Hellfire’ Brown partners with Yorkshire chimney sweep to issue Public Service Announcement warning of fire dangers
Musician Arthur Brown, best known as “the God of Hellfire” from his 1968 hit “Fire”, has teamed up with a North Yorkshire chimney sweep to record a Public Service Announcement warning of the fire risks posed by the current UK heatwave. The video, filmed on the North York Moors, plays on Brown’s fiery stage persona…