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With its Corinthian columns, stained-glass crucifixion scene and aroma of incense, the Christopher Wren-designed St James’s church on London’s Piccadilly is an unusual gig venue. And even taking into account its progressive reputation, it is an interesting setting for a man whose strict Methodist family told him he was going to hell for being gay, and who sings lines as spicy as the one on the T-shirts he sells: “I hope you know that all I want from you is sex.”Then again, John Grant’s songwriting feeds on radical…

Dvsn has shared their latest album, Working On My Karma.The duo’s fourth studio album features contributions from Jermaine Dupri and Antoine Harris. Prior to the project’s arrival, singer Daniel Daley and producer Nineteen85 dropped off a handful of songs, including the divisive “If I Get Caught,” “What’s Up” with Jagged Edge, and “Don’t Take Your Love.”“If I Get Caught” stirred controversy online, with many branding Dvsn’s music to be toxic. Daley commented on that in a recent interview with Complex, saying, “I really…

Horror endings are hard to do. They’re even more difficult when there is the added weight of decades of expectations and fan desires on top of sticking the ending. Halloween Ends, the latest and (allegedly) last chapter in the Michael Meyers saga, manages to find an ending while having some shaggy and unhinged fun along the way. It might not entirely work, but Ends takes you on one last wild ride and goes into some pretty unexpected places. Opening four years after the events of Halloween Kills, we find Laurie (Jamie Lee…

As a singer and songwriter, Alanis Morissette has one of the most distinctive voices in rock ’n’ roll. Her raw, quirky, brainy lyrics, idiosyncratic diction and powerfully expressive range mean that nobody in the universe sings quite like her. But if you subscribe to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, there’s another universe somewhere in which everybody — whether teen, adult, male, female or nonbinary — sings just like Alanis Morissette.“Jagged Little Pill,” the Tony-winning musical inspired by…

Legion of Doom Fans of veteran tactical combat series Jagged Alliance are already getting their gear together for the long-awaited sequel Jagged Alliance 3, which is currently in development at studio Haemimont Games. Publisher THQ Nordic released a new trailer for the RTS title during this weekend’s Digital Showcase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9O1LQXIvE Once again set against the backdrop of Grand Chien, Jagged Alliance 3 sees the fictional republic overthrown by a dangerous paramilitary force following the…

A video montage precedes Alanis Morissette’s arrival, capturing the Canadian-American angst-rock godmother’s extraordinary pop culture resonance with clips of everything from her Curb Your Enthusiasm cameo to James Corden and Justin Bieber howling Ironic on Carpool Karaoke. French and Saunders’ memorable flesh-coloured body suit parody of the Thank U video might have featured too, for a flavour of the satirical backlash that followed the singer’s late-90s celebrity zenith, but the point nonetheless remains: however big…

This social-realist portrait of the people at the sharp end of France’s employment crisis – the contract cleaners who toil every night for minimum wage, with minimal workers’ rights – is a depressingly timely work. Directed by Emmanuel Carrère, the themes are familiar – there’s a kinship with the work of the Dardenne brothers and Ken Loach – but this adaptation of a factual book by journalist Florence Aubenas weaves in another angle: the central character, played by Juliette Binoche, is not who she says she is.Marianne is…