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The 2022 Reading & Leeds Festival line-up promises brilliantly curated eclecticism
Megan Thee Stallion! Actual Arctic Monkeys! What more could we ask for!

The WTF genre from this year’s Spotify Wrapped, Dream SMP, reveals the service’s real motives
One of the most popular style from the marketing tool's 2021 edition isn't a style at all

Arctic Monkeys’ mysterious new album roll-out is refreshing in an age of over-exposure
'AM7' info has dripped out via Suffolk farmhouse Instagrams and non-committal interviews

New doc ‘Queens Of Rap’ reinforces the importance of ‘WAP’, more than a year on
Catch the vital film, about Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's raunchy hit, on All4 now

ARIA Awards 2021: Change cannot stop at a gender-neutral Best Artist category
This year’s ARIA Awards will be the first without the gendered categories of Best Female and Male Artists. But there’s still a long way to go

Arrested development: how ‘Stath Lets Flats’ perfects the classic juvenile sitcom
Jamie Demetriou's comedy clown comes from a long line of childish TV buffoons

Bury him deep in love: why has it taken so long for the Triffids’ David McComb to get his due?
The singer-songwriter is the subject of a new documentary, 'Love In Bright Landscapes', that should start to cement his legacy

Rishi Sunak’s Beatles museum will merely be a monument to Tory cluelessness
The chancellor has promised £2million towards a Beatles Museum, a meaningless gesture that does nothing to support British music. Again.

Roar off, Carole Baskin – we don’t need another ‘Tiger King’ show
The animal activist has made a follow-up to the scandalous Netflix doc

Are you not entertained? Squid Game and the poor as playthings on screen
Korea's bloody mega-hit isn't the first to set society's few against its many

With Coldplay’s eco-friendly tour, music is again at the forefront of progressive ideas
The band are set to embark on one of the most carbon-neutral tours ever

Can slapstick horror ‘Scream’ survive the genre’s issue-obsessed modern era?
A new sequel has just released its first trailer