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• Carrie Brownstein on aliens, sandwiches and bad outfits: ‘Big hats are my most recurring fashion crime’

  23-03-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ahead of an Australian tour, the Sleater-Kinney frontwoman responds to 10 randomly selected questions – sharing her party trick and the best advice she ever gotIf you had a sandwich named after you, what would be in it?Peanut butter, banana and honey and a little bit of cinnamon. That is a pretty dessert-like sandwich but literally, before we started speaking, I ate one. Often when I’m working or traveling, I’ll eat at least one peanut butter sandwich a day. It is good protein!
  
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• Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran review – the Latin queen is back on top

  23-03-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  (Sony)
  Lawsuits and lost love couldn’t stop the Colombian powerhouse from taking her rightful place atop Spanish pop’s streaming-fuelled resurgenceStreaming and AI may yet destroy music for ever – don’t be sad, we had a good run – but one of the sweeter morbid symptoms of this era is the revealed popularity of non-anglophone music. In 2023, Shakira split messily from her long-term partner, Gerard Piqué, and was fined more than £6m for tax fraud. Yet str
  
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• Norah Jones: ‘When I met Ray Charles I couldn’t stop crying’

  23-03-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The singer, 44, talks about her earliest memories, awkward teenage years, thrill-seeking days and her chance to make music with her childhood heroMy earliest memory is of a dream I had aged three: standing in the park near my New York daycare, I bit my lip, and it came straight off like Play-Doh. Weird, right?Mum raised me – she was a fierce, strong woman. She worked a lot, so I was always in classes: diving, piano, art and pottery. Mum often said she wanted to give me the childhood she wi
  
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• Gossip: Real Power review – a welcome return that could be braver and weirder

  23-03-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  (Columbia)
  The first album in 12 years from Beth Ditto’s US dance-punk trio feels strongly personal and political. Musically, though, it pulls its punchesGossip – the trio made up of singer Beth Ditto, multi-instrumentalist Nathan Howdeshell and drummer Hannah Blilie – were never just a one-hit wonder. Originally released in 2006, Standing in the Way of Control, the US band’s breakout hit, always had plenty of good company: workouts honed to maximum bounce throughout Goss
  
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• One to watch: Balming Tiger

  23-03-2024 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  A tight unit with a riotous party spirit, K-pop collective are bringing their culture to the massesBalming Tiger are a many-headed beast. Formed in 2018, this 11-strong K-pop collective boasts a rotating cast of rappers, vocalists, writers, producers and cinematographers. Despite the mass of personalities involved, they’re a tight unit. In interviews they deliver neat slogans about their mission to bring Korean culture to the masses, like executives readying themselves for a product launch
  
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• ‘When I was younger I was arrogant’: Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on fatherhood and growing up

  23-03-2024 12:55 via theguardian.com
  
  They were initially dismissed as the acme of upper-class preppiness, but the band’s new album Only God Was Above Us is its grittiest yet. Has their frontman finally exorcised past demons?On its surface, Only God Was Above Us, the fifth album from Vampire Weekend, has a darkly fatalist point of view. Over some of the band’s loudest, grittiest production to date, frontman and songwriter Ezra Koenig sings of curses, missed connections and imagined wars, airing plangent anxieties ab
  
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