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Blast back to the ’90s in a tale of pop and romance A new kind of love story is headed to Steam, with a musical twist. Riley & Rochelle is an upcoming new mystery from Sheinman Games that sees you untangling the relationship of two musicians. Riley and Rochelle are two artists from different worlds, who wind up falling in and out of love in the ’90s. Hailing from Detroit is Riley Stone, a rocker who came up through the indie music scene. Meanwhile Rochelle Robert is a former child pageant star who gets discovered and…

CE Riley’s forceful debut novel begins with a wife filing for divorce, afraid for her physical safety. Her voice, mediated by her lawyers, then all but disappears, except for a few short extracts from her personal diaries and emails. It falls to her partner, J, to tell the story of the couple’s relationship and breakup. J does so in intense, repetitive prose that lurches between declarations of love, ferocious invective and counter-accusations. “I am not emotionally abusive and controlling,” J states. “I see clearly now…

Just two months after the release of his latest single, SiR returns with his new offering “Life Is Good.”Arriving alongside a music video, the new track is just the second song SiR has dropped this year. The song is expected to appear on the TDE artist’s forthcoming full-length effort, which will serve as the follow-up to his third studio album, 2019 Chasing Summer.In a recent interview with Rated R&B, SiR spoke about the overall theme of his next project.“It’s different for me. It’s not Chasing Summer. We did a great…

Bridget is a fortysomething academic who lives in London with her psychoanalyst partner, John, and their elderly rescue cat, Puss. This is pretty much all we learn of her circumstances, since Bridget is determinedly self-sufficient and guards her domestic life with a ferocity that hints at past trauma. Outsiders are rarely allowed over the threshold of her home, especially if that outsider is her mother, Hen.Read by Helen McAlpine, My Phantoms is a mordant portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in which emotions are…

Riley Keough has said she did not want to star in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about her grandfather, Elvis Presely.Lurhmann’s forthcoming film – titled Elvis – sees Austin Butler (The Carrie Diaries and Zoey 101) portraying the Mississippi-born musical legend.Being Presley’s granddaughter, Keough (previously The Girlfriend Experience, Zola, Mad Max: Fury Road) fielded some questions about the forthcoming film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.As per Indiewire, the actor said that she had no interest in starring in the biopic,…

Actor and filmmaker Riley Keough has admitted that she couldn’t stop crying while watching Austin Butler’s performance as Elvis Presley in the forthcoming film Elvis. Baz Luhrmann’s movie depicts the music legend’s rise to fame in the 1950s, alongside his complex relationship with his manager. Appearing at the Cannes Film Festival – where her directorial debut film War Pony was screened – Keough, Presley’s granddaughter, praised Butler’s portrayal. “There’s a lot of family trauma and generational trauma that started…

Countdown star Rachel Riley has condemned Johnny Depp amid the actor’s ongoing defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.Depp is suing Heard for $50m (£38.2m). He alleges that Heard implied that he abused her in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed about domestic violence.Heard is countersuing for $100m (£80.9m), accusing Depp of orchestrating a “smear campaign” against her and describing his lawsuit as a continuation of “abuse and harassment”.On Twitter, Riley shared a thread by another user entitled “Johnny Depp: a…