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Elbow have subtly reinvented themselves so many times that they’re now journeying far from their rocky guitar roots. Their 10th album features bubbling synths, playful orchestrations, African-inspired rhythms and what vocalist Guy Garvey has called “seedy, gnarly grooves”. The particularly innovative Lovers’ Leap races through samba-style percussion, darting strings and a rolling bass line, before an electronic glam stomp leads into a gorgeously Beatles-y coda. The lyrics, meanwhile, are a darkly humorous rumination on…

The 21st century had barely begun when Grandaddy’s grandest opus The Sophtware Slump arrived, its thrift-store synthesiser threnodies intimating that maybe mankind should have succumbed to the millennium bug after all. Critics heard parity between the California group’s graceful gloom and the fin-de-siècle anxieties of Radiohead. But while singer-songwriter Jason Lytle cheerfully confessed OK Computer as an inspiration, Grandaddy bore heavier influence from the Beach Boys and country.skip past newsletter promotionGet…

Award-winning actress Catherine O`Hara thinks she`s inherited her sense of humour from her family. The actress told Reader`s Digest magazine, "It was just a given in our family. Both my parents, God bless them, are gone but they were both really, really funny." "Mum raised seven kids, then she went into real estate, and at dinner, she would impersonate the people that she met that day. And my dad worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway and was such a joke teller that he would get into trouble for laughing too much at…

Comedian and actor Jo Koy has been tapped to host the Golden Globes, picked by producers for his “infectious energy and relatable humor.” Koy last year saw his Easter Sunday become the first big studio movie with an all-Filipino ensemble. He has released five stand-up specials on Comedy Central and Netflix, including his most recent Netflix special, Live From The Los Angeles Forum. Also read: Meryl Streep breaks her own record at Golden Globe Awards with new nomination for Only Murders in the Building Season 3 Jo…

Elon Musk, known as one of the most brutal trolls on X, shares some of the best memes on the platform. More often than not though, these memes, hit closer to home than one would want. Case in point would be one of his most recent memes, on phone booths…

Where did the germ for this novel – a murder set around Karwa Chauth – originate? How did ACP Bhavani make it to this story? Was it intentional to make him a part of the plot instead of having a new character deal with the case?  Author Anuja Chauhan (Courtesy HarperCollins) Karwa Chauth is such a polarising topic! Is it about smug married women flexing on single ones who haven’t managed to “snag a man” yet? Is it about a wife’s pure love for her partner? Is it just about aping whatever Bollywood does? Or is it…

Zero-hour contracts and food delivery work is tough at the best of times but new 2000 AD comedy-horror serial Portals & Black Goo adds a little extra eldritch danger  to the perilous profession (without the hazard pay). Portals & Black Goo is a seven part series starting in July 12’s Prog 2340 from writer John Tomlinson, artist Eoin Coveney, colourist Jim Boswell, and letterer Simon Bowland. This prog hits UK stores and the 2000 AD web shop next week – and later in the year from Diamond for US readers.  The…

Tough, unsentimental, witty, gravel-voiced and bullet-headed, Alan Arkin was a wiry character actor and comic presence who had a colossal career on stage, TV and movies. He came from the era of male stars such as Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ben Gazzara, Robert Duvall and Peter Falk – actors who projected a kind of take-it-or-leave-it pugnacity, integrity and strength. The always sympathetic and technically brilliant Arkin perhaps came into his own late in life, his face and shaven head morphing into a black-comic skull…

Trevor Noah Is Set To Entertain His Fans With His ‘Signature Humour & Razor-Sharp Wit’ In A New Spotify Original Podcast – Deets Inside ( Photo Credit – Facebook ) Comic artiste Trevor Noah, who left as host of ‘The Daily Show’ in late 2022, is bringing his comedic voice to an original Spotify weekly podcast set to debut later this year. The weekly podcast will blend Noah’s “signature humour and razor-sharp wit with his global perspective to deliver a unique take on the hottest and most captivating topics of the…

“I hate almost all rich people,” Dorothy Parker once remarked, “but I think I’d be darling at it”. This zinger from a grandmaster of the form encapsulates our own contradictory feelings while watching Succession: the resentment we feel for the squabbling Roy siblings vs the conviction that we would do better if we had their wealth and privileges. The thrill we get out of their ritual humiliation while claiming the moral high ground. Four seasons in, we still couldn’t get enough of the schadenfreude porn. No measure of…