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20. Scissor Sisters – Only the Horses (2012)Having met Jake Shears during sessions for Kylie Minogue’s 2010 album, Aphrodite, Harris was asked to do some extra knob-twiddling on this barnstorming single from the band’s Magic Hour album. The lyrics eschew camp in favour of melancholic soul-searching, while Harris guides the song into its chorus with an audible snap, like a discharging party popper.19. Calvin Harris – Hard to Love ft Jessie Reyez (2017)While 2017’s career-redefining Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1 dabbled in…

https://madcavestudios.com/In autumn 2022, I’m Still Alive by Roberto Saviano (Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero, The Piranhas) and Asaf Hanuka (The Realist, The Divine) with letters by AndWorld Design will be arriving at your Local Comic Shop. Published by BOOM! Studio’s Archaia imprint, the original graphic memoir will be available at your LCS beginning on October 5th, but you can get your first look at the true story right here below the article, today at The Beat. I’m Still Alive Here’s the description of I’m Still Alive…

The most uncompromising figure in British pop has an urgent question: “Do you need the loo?” This is Lawrence (no surnames, please), the mastermind responsible for the coruscating beauty of Felt, the knowing glam-rock of Denim and the bargain-bin ear-worms of Go-Kart Mozart, now renamed Mozart Estate. As we walk to his high-rise council flat in east London, I promise him that my bladder is empty. “Are you sure?” he persists in his Midlands lilt. “Do you want to try going in the cafe?” No one is allowed near his toilet. “A…

20 Mary Jane (All Night Long) (1995)Mary Jane is a reworking of Mary Jane Girls’ fantastic 1983 hit All Night Long. It is hard to go wrong with source material as good as that, but this is a supremely classy take: a languorous vocal, luscious samples from Teddy Pendergrass’s Close the Door and a killer remix featuring LL Cool J.19 Love @ 1st Sight (2003)This fruitfully reanimated the Blige and Method Man partnership nearly a decade after I’ll Be There for You/You’re All I Need to Get By. Over a tough, insistent groove,…

A few years ago, bilingual writer, musician, and dance scholar Sujatha Vijayaraghavan embarked on an ambitious journey to read hundreds of classic Tamil stories. The ones that didn’t fit into her dance project back then, have found a home in this collection, an anthology of 30 Tamil short stories, writings from the 1930s till today that embody the gloom and despair, the grit and grace, and the spirit and skill of the Thamizh people. 296pp, ₹699; Aleph Every story is unique, representing all strata of society,…

So here's the deal. Right now you can pick up a pair of Beats Studio Buds for just £99 in the United Kingdom and $99.95 in the United States. Pretty great, right? Unless you bought a pair a few days ago like I did. We've all bought things and then seen them drop in price afterward, right? But I managed to do it amazingly close to that price drop. Like, I couldn't have chosen a worse time to make the purchase if I'd tried. And worse still, they weren't even for me — they were for my oldest's birthday. I'm more of an…

Screenshot: ParamountWe’re all big fans of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds here at io9, whether we’re obsessed die-hards or just dipping our toes back into the venerable franchise. And we were all delighted to learn, one way or another, that last week’s SNW finale was a retelling of the Original Series’ “Balance of Terror,” arguably the greatest episode of any Star Trek series ever, just with Pike (Anson Mount) sitting in the Enterprise’s captain’s chair instead of Kirk. Now someone has set the two episodes side-by-side in…

Quentin Tarantino Is One Of The Most Celebrated Filmmakers Across Globe(Photo Credit–wikimedia/Poster) Quentin Tarantino is one of the most accomplished Hollywood filmmakers and every recommendation he gives has to be a classic and the world follows it religiously. The filmmaker has been in the headlines for way too many reasons in the past months. Of course, the topmost is his 10th and final film that the world has been speculating about. His retirement follows it and then his personal life where he is…

Where once our movie choices were limited by physical availability, now we have apparently limitless uncurated digital content; the mind reels at its vastness. So sometimes we need a “gateway” film for directors, an entry point which might not necessarily be that film-maker’s most famous work – being, as it may be, unhelpfully commercial or atypical. For Nagisa Oshima, you might not want to start with the sexually explicit In the Realm of the Senses or the David Bowie vehicle Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence: it could be more…

Cardi B has a bone to pick not just with her haters, but with Rolling Stone magazine. On Tuesday, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper spoke out about the criticism she received for her ranking on Rolling Stone’s “200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums” list, which came out last month. “I understand people feel a certain type of way, but don’t y’all disrespect me or my work or my album. ... Don’t even try it,” she said on “Angela Yee’s Lip Service,” noting on the podcast that she hadn’t asked for the ranking. “You don’t have to disrespect my…