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Hermanos Gutiérrez at Cross the Tracks review | Alluring Latin ...
whynow.co.uk > read...Kelis could only be heard faintly between tracks, as could Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge's NxWorries project later on.... ...Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers Hermanos Gutiérrez took the crowd on a desert road trip at Cross The Tracks, with their hypnotic, soulful instrumentals... ...But the Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers – Alejandro Gutiérrez and Estevan Gutiérrez – play with such mesmerism, you"d hardly think there was anything else... ...If music is a means of escapism, Hermanos Gutiérrez supply it in spades....

Succession goes out with a bang as Logan Roy's successor is finally ...
whynow.co.uk > read...Ahead of the final episode of season 4, confirmed to be the last season of the hit show, actress Sarah Snook warned that the finale may not feel... ...Succession, Jesse Armstrong"s searing show about politics, media and family, has come to a close.... ...Shiv is working for Lukas Mattson, pushing for GoJo to buy her late father"s company, Waystar Royco.... ...Shiv votes against Kendall and just like that, it's done. Mattson makes Tom the new CEO and the Roy kids all go their separate ways....

New Music Friday | Featuring 'Show Me How' by Foo Fighters
whynow.co.uk > read...It's emotionally and lyrically heavy, almost inevitably given the context of two deaths (that of drummer Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl"s mum, Virginia... ...Another bank holiday is upon us, and so is another batch of terrific new tunes, coming this week from Foo Fighters, Arlo Parks, Sparks, Squid, Lola... ...and drummer, Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft.... ...actress Charlotte Ritchie....

Great Expectations review | Eddie Izzard breathes new life into an ...
whynow.co.uk > read...After stints as a marathon runner, actor and Labour politician, the multi-hyphenate is returning to her stand-up-adjacent roots following an acclaimed... ...Eddie Izzard brings her solo performance of Dickens" classic to the West End – here's our Great Expectations review.... ...Mark Izzard"s adaptation neatly cuts the notoriously wordy text down to an essential couple of hours, and gives Eddie plenty of opportunity for visual... ...That Eddie Izzard is able to make one of Dickens" best-loved and most-adapted stories feel genuinely fresh is a remarkable achievement....

It's 2023, do we still need live-action remakes of classic films?
whynow.co.uk > read...Alice in Wonderland was mostly well-received as was Maleficent. 2015"s Cinderella seems like where the shift began.... ...It's hard to say where exactly the hate for Disney"s live-action remakes started.... ...Tim Burton helmed Dumbo, while Guy Ritchie took on Aladdin and Jon Favreau brought The Lion King to life. ... ...Flounder, Ariel"s fish friend, voiced by Jacob Tremblay in the remake, looked nothing like his animated counterpart....

My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely review ...
whynow.co.uk > read...Lola Young sets out her stall as a bold new force on her debut album, My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely. Read our review.... ...“I turn the lights down, throw the towel in and feel pretty much nothing”, 22-year-old Lola Young croons on the opening track to her debut album,... ...BRIT school-alumni Young has worked with some heavy hitters on this one – like Adele collaborator Paul Epworth and frequent Frank Ocean favourite... ...She frequently fuses jazz with hip-hop, pop with spoken word elements (think The Streets" Mike Skinner), and her music digs deep into far-ranging...

Almost Healed review | Bloated, one-dimensional self-therapy from ...
whynow.co.uk > read...Aptly titled "Therapy Session," Alicia Keys is heard checking up on the rapper after the loss of both his brother and close friend King Von within... ...Lil Durk is obviously grieving. The opening track lays out the reasons as to why, which also provides the background to this release.... ...Kodak Black, which perhaps won't come as a shock to listeners of his new release today, delivers some of the worst bars of the project on his verse... ..."Sad Song" and "Moment of Truth" see Lil Durk contemplating his past relationships, yet are ruined by awful, whiny choruses on both tracks....

Quentin Tarantino confirms his new film is not about Pauline Kael ...
whynow.co.uk > read...Tarantino spoke to Deadline at the Cannes Film Festival where the cult director held a special screening of John Flynn"s 1977 movie Rolling Thunder... ...Quentin Tarantino"s tenth and potentially final film, The Movie Critic, will not be based on the life of infamous critic Pauline Kael.... ...His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle [Robert DeNiro"s character in Taxi Driver] might be if he were a film ... ...Tarantino also ruled out his Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood collaborators Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio as too old....

The Absolute State of Guinness World Records
whynow.co.uk > read...With all the good records gone, the Guinness World Records have become a cash grab, eroding the authority of their name, and turning what should... ...Because this lot bloody love a Guinness World Record.... ...“On behalf of Guinness World Records,” they wrote after acknowledging that massive star, “congratulations to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow,... ...That rousing tune was penned by Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan"s former president (his son now holds the title), and current chairman of...

But Here We Are review | Foo Fighters work through grief on ...
whynow.co.uk > read...Written and recorded in the wake of the death of Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl"s mother, But Here We Are is a heavy Foo Fighters album, both in lyric... ...When his bandmate, the Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, took his own life in 1994, Grohl looked to music to ameliorate the grief.... ...Making his first public appearance during Paul McCartney"s triumphant headline Glastonbury in June, it wasn't hard to spot grief"s indelible marker... ...When news arrived that Foo Fighters" drummer Taylor Hawkins died from a cardiac arrest last March, Grohl was thrown back into bereavement's disorienting...