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9 of the best music documentaries to watch this weekend (Disney+, Netflix, Prime Video)

Banish your Glastonbury blues by streaming a brilliant music documentary this weekend.

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Smoke on the water, and music in the air: the magic of Montreux, Switzerland

The town’s fabled music festival is just one side of a place that is framed by natural beauty to hike through – and wine heritage you can savour

The Guardian - UK

Bettye Lavette: Lavette! review – more heart-on-sleeve power from the soul veteran

Backed by a superb session band, Lavette continues her renaissance with an album of songs that play to her considerable strengths

The Guardian - UK

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Nina Simone, Bob Marley and powerviolence: why Zulu are the most vital hardcore band of 2023

Code Orange and Turnstile might have put hardcore back on mainstream radars, but LA's Zulu are paving the genre's future

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Venus Williams and artists are helping to restore Nina Simone's childhood home

Venus Williams is helping to save the childhood home of music icon and civil rights activist Nina Simone.

Los Angeles Times

$6m raised to preserve Nina Simone's childhood home

NEW YORK: An art auction and New York gala have raised nearly US$6 million to preserve and restore the childhood home of soul music legend and civil rights activist Nina Simone, organisers said Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

Ballet Black at Theatre Royal Stratford East review: Nina Simone’s story in dance is a fierce crowd-pleaser

Ballet Black channels art, activism and radical beauty with this invigorating double bill

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Venus Williams is restoring Nina Simone's historic home in North Carolina – here's how

'I'm so excited to be a part of this expansive project centering on the life and legacy of Nina Simone': how the tennis star is restoring the singer's 'humble' childhood home

Homes & Gardens

Ballet Black: Pioneers review – an uplifting tribute to Nina Simone

Mthuthuzeli November’s passionate new work celebrating the musician is paired with Will Tuckett’s fine piece inspired by the poet Adrienne Rich

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From The Great British Bake Off Musical to Bonnie and Clyde

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

43 best movies on Disney Plus to watch now (January 2025)

We've gone through Disney Plus to pull the very best of the best from the House of Mouse. Here are the best movies on Disney Plus.

Tom’s Guide

Which Nina Simone song was a tribute to the writer Lorraine Hansberry? The Saturday quiz

From Joe Biden’s birthplace to Fuzzypeg, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

Angelo Badalamenti: Composer with a penchant for unsettling soundtracks

His dreamlike pieces for David Lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks’ left an eduring mark

The Independent UK

Angelo Badalamenti was a master composer who created theme music history with Twin Peaks

The composer had an esteemed career working with David Bowie and Nina Simone, but it was his unique partnership with David Lynch that set a benchmark for dramatic scores

The Guardian - UK

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Angelo Badalamenti, Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet composer, dead at 85

Badalamenti also dabbled in music away from film and TV, working with The Pet Shop Boys, David Bowie, Anthrax, Nina Simone and more.

The Guardian - AU

Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch’s composer on Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and more, dies aged 85

Musician collaborated with Lynch on multiple projects and albums, and also worked with the likes of Paul McCartney, David Bowie and Nina Simone

The Conversation

The folk philosophy of Bob Dylan: riffs, grifters, history – and a terrific playlist

Bob Dylan, sing-songwriter and Nobel laureate, has spent a career confounding expectations. What, then, should one expect of his new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song? Firstly, “modern song” should read “American modern song”, since almost all of the 66 songs discussed by Dylan are American. And by “modern”, we…

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The folk philosophy of Bob Dylan: Riffs, grifters, history – and a terrific playlist

Bob Dylan, sing-songwriter and Nobel laureate, has spent a career confounding expectations.

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Aria crown: Chicago has a karaoke champion

In the first citywide singing contest, Chicago Sings Karaoke, Jason E. Jackson beat out 540 others to take the top prize of $5,000. Mayor Lori Lightfoot belts out ‘Dancing in the Street.’

Tribune News Service

Music is a matter of life, death, redemption for The War and Treaty's lead singers, Tanya and Michael Trotter

As the ebullient husband-and-wife singing team who head the Nashville, Tennessee-based band The War and Treaty, Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter are happy to discuss the joy their wonderfully soulful music brings them and their audience.

The Guardian - UK

Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie’s Listening Diary: ‘Dave Matthews Band? Ouch’

The Anacortes, Washington-based DIY hero takes us through his week in listening, from a “sexually suggestive” EDM song by Pickle to a Nina Simone record picked out by a jazz-loving child

Evening Standard

How 2022 Mercury Prize winner Little Simz took over the world

Seven years after her debut album, the London based rapper is finally getting the industry recognition she deserves.

Evening Standard

Lady Blackbird interview: the ‘Grace Jones of Jazz’ on female empowerment and becoming an accidental activist

We talk to the star ahead of the Jazz FM Awards and her appearance at the EFG London Jazz Festival

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Three Times a Countess; Queen High; Nina Simone’s Gum – review

An eye-opening biography of Raine Spencer; an exciting counterfactual novel set in postwar Britain; and Warren Ellis’s witty account of devotion

The Guardian - UK

You give me diva: Meghan Markle shies away from a word worth reclaiming

‘Diva’ has good, neutral and bad connotations – but as singers from Maria Callas to Beyoncé have shown, it is a trait of sheer excellence

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