‘I wanted to make people dance, or cry, or puke’: Marc Ribot, the wildcard sideman for Tom Waits, Robert Plant and more

found 2025 › May › 27 (Tue) @ 11:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

He started as a jazz guitarist making Barbie albums on the side, and has ended up on over 500 releases. From bebop with Elton John to Americana with Alison Krauss, Ribot recalls the richest of career…

This un-American life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US?

found 2025 › Apr › 19 (Sat) @ 17:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

iPhones and Google Maps are out – and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don’t go making any new ones

I really wish I had a Tesla. Ideally it would be a Cybertruck but any Te…

This unAmerican life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US?

found 2025 › Apr › 19 (Sat) @ 11:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

iPhones and Google Maps are out – and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don’t go making any new ones

I really wish I had a Tesla. Ideally it would be a Cybertruck but any Te…

‘Our show fits in a duffel bag’: clowning duo Xhloe and Natasha on scoring a triple fringe whammy

found 2025 › Mar › 18 (Tue) @ 18:54 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

They came out of the blue and electrified Edinburgh with absurdist takes on Americana. Now the US pair are doing all three hits back to back – and dreaming of not having to share a room

It’s a story t…

One to watch: Divorce

found 2025 › Mar › 08 (Sat) @ 15:19 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

Fresh from supporting Bombay Bicycle Club and Everything Everything, the Nottingham four-piece’s richly diverse sound is made for big-hearted storytelling

On the richly executed, emotionally resonant …

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Who or what was Jean Genie, who 'lives on his back' in the David Bowie song?

found 2025 › Feb › 28 (Fri) @ 06:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Bowie described The Jean Genie - the lead single from his 1973 album Aladdin Sane - as 'a smorgasbord of imagined Americana'.

Kemi Badenoch blasts Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan saying it rewards Putin's 'aggression' as she warns era of US world leadership may be over

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 12:56 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

In a hard-hitting foreign policy speech the Tory leader warned that the era of 'Pax Americana' - world peace underwritten by the US - was 'evolving, potentially even ending'.

The Breakfast Club at 40: the teen movie blueprint for better or worse

found 2025 › Feb › 15 (Sat) @ 09:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

John Hughes set the formula for many films and TV shows in his wake with his uneven 1985 high school-set comedy

It is the burden of all art wielding sufficiently vast influence that its revelatory pow…

An oral history of Twin Peaks by its unforgettable stars: ‘I put my waitress uniform on and began bawling’

found 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 09:06 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

Mystery, magic and mayhem reigned behind the scenes as well as on screen. Mädchen Amick, Joan Chen, Dana Ashbrook and others recall the making of the beloved TV series – and the genius of David Lynch

…

An oral history of Twin Peaks by its unforgettable stars

found 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 07:32 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

Mystery, magic and mayhem reigned behind the scenes as well as on screen. Mädchen Amick, Joan Chen, Dana Ashbrook and others recall the making of the beloved TV series – and the genius of David Lynch

…