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Jean-Michel Jarre lit up the skies over Bratislava with his "Bridge from the Future" concert on Sunday evening. The French electronic music pioneer was headlining the Starmus festival. He was joined by Brian May, guitarist with Queen and co-founder of the gathering in Slovakia. Jean-Michel Jarre promised that his performance would not be "just another music concert", but a genuine _"_civic event at the heart of Europe". The event attracted more than 100,000 people. Jarre, who describes the fears aroused by artificial intelligence as unfounded, used AI to design the fireworks and laser shows fo...
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Every month of 2024, Euronews Culture takes a trip down memory lane and handpicks a trio of albums celebrating a major milestone. These are the three records you should choose to (re)discover as they respectively turn 10, 20, and 30 this May. Turing 10 in 2024: Sharon Van Etten – Are We There(Release date: 27 May 2014) 'Are We There', confusingly titled without a question mark, is an absolute gem of an album. It is the fourth from American singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, and in it, she offered up an urgent collection of simultaneously swoon-worthy and haunting songs that were hands down he...
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It’s been a bumper start to the year for pop fans. First there was the return of Beyoncé with ‘COWBOY CARTER’, the 27-song long second part in her purported trilogy of genre-bending albums. Then, last month came Taylor Swift’s 11th album ‘THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT’, an hour-plus long album that was immediately doubled in length by the addition of 15 more songs just hours after its release. By comparison, Dua Lipa, the British-Kosovo Albanian popstar’s third album ‘Radical Optimism’ released today is a far more taut affair with just 11 songs running at around 36 minutes. Swift’s latest was ...
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The Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals are next week, before the Grand Final on Saturday 11 May. Putting aside all the controversy and security concerns, the Euronews Culture team have picked their hot favourites for glory. Theo Farrant’s top pick: Nemo – The Code (Switzerland)If I had to put my money on a Eurovision winner this year, it would be 'The Code' by Nemo, representing Switzerland. Why? Well, firstly, it's my favourite out of the bunch; an incredibly original and catchy song. Secondly, it's currently the bookies' number one darling. 'The Code' is pretty batshit. It mixes drum and ba...
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The exhibition coincides with the 68th Eurovision Song Contest which is scheduled to take place in Malmo starting on 7 May, following the country's victory at the 2023 contest with the song "Tattoo" by Loreen.
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Today drops ‘Hyperdrama’, the new album by French electro duo Justice – their first record in more than seven years. Having listened to some of it, it’s a welcome return to form, with some live-tailored hooks that show the band have still got it, even if the album's hit and miss moments of downsized French house may disappoint earlier fans of Justice and the heavier beats present on their best album – 2007's ‘Cross’. Still, it sounds like their strongest work since their debut, and the eagerly anticipated comeback of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay signals that despite the retirement of Daft...
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Taylor Swift has released her new album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, which dropped at midnight - followed by a “surprise double album” two hours later. For the sake of sanity, our writer David Mouriquand, a proud but occasionally tortured Swiftie, is keeping it to the original 16 tracks of 'TTPD'. Here’s his take. "An uneven but entrancing post-mortem on love and its pitfalls"Time has no meaning and journalistic outlets should just bite the bullet at this point and revamp themselves as “What has Taylor Swift been up to today?”. Hardly a day goes by without an article on her relationships;...
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"Were you rushing? Or were you dragging?" It really matters. The Russian republic of Chechnya is said to have ruled that all music should "correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM)" - meaning a lot of modern western music would be banned from being played publicly in the conservative Islamic society. The new standard of music is relatively slow compared to a lot of modern-day pop music, as well as electro, rave, dubstep and techno music – which tends to be of a higher BPM. Most pop songs range from 100 to 130 BPM, a tempo commonly used to create catchy and danceable rhythm. For...
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The full solar eclipse hits Mexico, the US and Canada today, while Europe will have to wait until August 2026 when it crosses the northern parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain. And we think you'll agree that everybody needs something to listen to during a cosmic adventure... Here are our handpicked, genre-spanning, eclipse and eclipse-adjacent songs to accompany you through the sunlight block – in chronological listening order too. Don’t say we don’t treat you. 'Steal My Sunshine' – LenSingled out, this 90s hit by one-hit-wonder Canadian alt-rock band Len is arguably the least essential track...
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