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Cynthia Plaster Caster: the artist whose rock star penis sculptures asked big questions about manhood

By Olivia Wilson
In music
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“She’s like the Michelangelo of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll,” Pamela Des Barres once said of her friend and peer in penis admiration, Cynthia Albritton. Better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, the 74-year-old artist died last week after battling a long illness. She was one of the last living “supergroupies” of the 60s and 70s US music scene, who built a reputation on their famous bonks and tell...

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Hip-hop pioneer DJ Kay Slay dies of Covid aged 55

By Olivia Wilson
In music
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The pioneering hip-hop artist Keith Grayson, who performed as DJ Kay Slay and worked with top stars, has died of complications from Covid-19. Grayson’s death at 55 on Sunday was confirmed by his family in a statement released through New York radio station Hot 97, where he hosted The Drama Hour for more than two decades. “A dominant figure in hip-hop culture with millions of fans worldwide, DJ...

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Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – absurdist delights and damp squibs

By Olivia Wilson
In music
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Wet Leg are a band whose greatest power comes from unexpected contrasts. Their Mona Lisa smiles offset by steely-eyed glee, Rhian Teasdale (most vocals, guitar) and Hester Chambers (other vocals, guitar) paired wholesome bonnets with lobster claws in the video for 2021’s Wet Dream. Earlier this year, they offset a glam rock strop about smartphone anomie – Oh No – with yeti suits made of mop heads...

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Iron Maiden: Senjutsu review – an ambitious, eccentric masterpiece

By Olivia Wilson
In music
2 Min Read
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Iron Maiden: Senjutsu review – an ambitious, eccentric masterpiece(Parlophone)Maiden’s creative renaissance continues in style with this playfully bombastic metal epicIn recent years Iron Maiden have gone through a remarkable creative renaissance. Typified by epic prog-leaning arrangements and ambitious melodic dynamism, modern era Maiden – of which Senjutsu is a prime example – is eccentric...

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Adele: Easy on Me review – reliably, relatably Adele-esque

By Olivia Wilson
In music
3 Min Read
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Adele’s statement announcing the release of her fourth album was published on social media earlier this week. In it, the singer doesn’t talk much about music, more about her emotional state during the album’s making, provoked, one assumes, by the breakdown of her marriage: “absolute mess and inner turmoil … consumed by grief”. She compared the album she made amid it to friends coming over with “a...

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Science explains why there hasn’t been a hit Christmas song in years

By Adeline Darrow
In music
7 Min Read
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You know it’s Christmas when the warbling of The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s “Fairytale of New York” begins blasting from your car stereo; or when Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” starts playing in every Subway and H&M across the land. From Wham! to Slade, East 17 to Paul McCartney, and Jona Lewie to Wizzard, there’s no avoiding these festive artists...

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Lady Gaga says rape as teenager left her pregnant and caused ‘psychotic break’

By Olivia Wilson
In music
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Lady Gaga has told new details about sexual assault she suffered when she was 19. Speaking on The Me You Can’t See, Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s new Apple TV+ series about mental health, she said the rape – that she first disclosed in 2014 – was by a music producer and left her pregnant. “I was 19 years old, and I was working in the business, and a producer said to me, ‘Take your clothes...

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What’s Going On at 50: Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece is still so true to life

By Olivia Wilson
In music
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Marvin Gaye’s classic 1971 record What’s Going On turns 50 this month, which means more people than ever will have occasion to note how timely it is. “He could have written What’s Going On yesterday,” poet Nikki Giovanni noted in an interview last autumn, explaining that the cover portrait of her 2020 collection, Make Me Rain, pays homage to Gaye’s album cover, picturing Giovanni in a raincoat...

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Springsteen’s back on Broadway – and now AstraZeneca vaccine recipients are allowed

By Olivia Wilson
In music
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Bruce Springsteen is bringing glory days back to New York next week, when his show becomes the first to reopen on Broadway since the lights went out for the coronavirus pandemic. But it looked initially as though fans without vaccinations approved by the US government would be left dancing in the dark.The Boss was reported to have laid down strict rules for attendees of Springsteen on Broadway...

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Self Esteem: ‘I was tired of being this sweet heterosexual lady in a band’
Rachel Aroesti

By Olivia Wilson
In music
8 Min Read
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In a comedy sketch that was released to promote her 2019 debut Compliments Please, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is grilled about the imagined impact of the album 20 years on (it was so great, it “destroyed music as we know it”). With a transatlantic accent, impeded facial movement and wearing a tiara over a turban , she faces a hostile male interviewer who attempts to sum up her revolutionary sound: it is...

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