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CDs of the week

04.09.09
Jamie T's new album is witty, gritty and well worth the wait and Charlie Wilson is, in many ways, a musical throwback.... more

CDs of the week

21.08.09
Among the CDs of the week are the brilliant Artic Monkeys with Humbug and John Surman returns to what he does best - playing baritone sax... more

Beyoncé bares her soul in Cadillac Records

19.02.09
Darnell Martin's Cadillac Records is distinguished by some more than adequate performances but drifts through the story of the record label.... more

Off the record

16.01.09
Kanye West's controversial online journal is ruffling so many record industry feathers that it's become a must-read.... more

DVDs of the week

01.07.08
Be Kind Rewind has a lot of heart, Mad Men is a pitch that's hard to refuse and The Other Boleyn Girl is not what you'd expect.... more

I'm a bald supervillain with a taste for swede

01.04.08
You're doing what to Superman?" I asked. "We're sweding it," replied Adeline. "In Hackney. Why don't you come along?" Sweding, I was grateful to learn, involves neither root vegetables nor Scandinavians. The term was popularised by the recent comedy Be Kind Rewind, in which Jack Black and Mos Def play video store workers who are forced to remake such classics as Ghostbusters and Driving Miss Daisy after a freak magnetic accident wipes all the tapes in the store. They call their own amateur versions "swedes". For some reason... more

A second take too far

21.02.08
You can either surrender to the fun of Be Kind Rewind, or resist the whole thing as a mess, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Rap in a league of its own

16.04.07
Ivy League-educated rappers Naledge and Double O tell Rahul Verma why their music challenges the nihilism-obsessed genre.... more

Brimful of Asher D

26.09.06
So Solid Crew star Asher D fills in Rahul Verma on his new film Life And Lyrics, and about the battle for MC supremacy in South London.... more

DVD reviews: Racing the block

29.08.06
In this week's DVD releases Bruce Willis is back in action and a Palestinian film about a pair of would-be suicide bombers offers chilling insights about life in the West Bank.... more

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