The Inspirational Life Story Of Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard – A Self-Described “Reluctant Billionaire”

The Inspirational Life Story Of Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard - A Self-Described "Reluctant Billionaire"

When Yvon Chouinard was in his 20s he spent more than six months of each year criss-crossing North America and the Alps climbing mountains with his friends. They would live off 50 cents a day. […]

Culprit Curates ‘XLR8R+040,’ with Galen, Lorenzo Dada, and Robotek Reagan

XLR8R+37 is a Kenyan Special Featuring Jinku, Nu Fvnk, RVMP, and Jebet

Neo-classical deep house, IDM, and breaks wrap up this edition. We’re ready to present the 40th edition of XLR8R+. This month’s edition comes from America’s west coast, where XLR8R was first born, because it’s helmed […]

Dear Snoop Dogg, Your Death Row Records Dream Has Come True!

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Photo Credit: Rhythmic Rebellion The following comes from Rhythmic Rebellion, a company DMN is proud to be partnering with. Dear Snoop Dogg, Congrats on being the new proud Papa of Death Row Records. So you […]

Three things with Zan Rowe: ‘I never washed my Take That T-shirt … then it started to smell’ | Life and style

‘He yelled out, “Come on Zan, bring it here!”’: how Rowe finagled a signature from Paul McCartney

This month one of the ABC’s best-loved radio segments is making the jump to the small screen. Take 5, the Double J mainstay hosted by Zan Rowe every Friday morning, will air five episodes on […]

Feted opera singer with links to Putin garners boos – and cheers | Opera

Vladimir Putin awards Anna Netrebko the people’s artist of Russia honour during celebrations marking the 225th anniversary of the Mariinsky theatre in 2008.

On the opening night of Anna Netrebko’s first run of performances at the Vienna State Opera since the Kremlin launched its war in Ukraine, the Russian soprano was met with boos as she made her […]

‘I’ve got to stop somewhere!’ How Steve Roud compiled his epic folk song archive | Folk music

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When Steve Roud was young, he began collecting records. Hardly unusual for a child of the 1950s – but this boy from south London was different. Not content with just listening to LPs, Roud began […]

Emily in Paris’s Lucas Bravo: ‘People loved it or loved to hate it’ | Movies

Lesley Manville and Lucas Bravo in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.

Lucas Bravo, the French actor who shot to fame in 2020 playing Gabriel, AKA the “hot chef”, in Netflix’s Emily in Paris, would like to put a few rumours to bed. The first concerns his […]

Beatles’ Revolver reissue shows band in new light: ‘This is the record where we were each most ourselves’ | The Beatles

The feted cover of Revolver, designed by Klaus Voormann.

You may think you know Yellow Submarine, that jokey, surreal number by the Beatles that Ringo Starr sings and children love. But an extraordinary, poignant early version of the song, soon to be revealed alongside […]

‘A nonconformist with a conservative’s regard for tradition’: Ralph Vaughan Williams at 150 | Ralph Vaughan Williams

The composer with his second wife and muse Ursula Vaughan Williams.

When encountering an unfamiliar composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams, I find myself asking the same questions: where have I heard this before? Do I know this already or am I simply imagining it? Clear answers […]

Sudan Archives: ‘In so many places in the world the violin brings the party’ | Pop and rock

Sudan Archives performing at Coachella in 2018

Brittney Parks is on a mission “to show the Blackness of the violin”, she says. As a child in Ohio, she learned to play the instrument by ear. She moved to Los Angeles in her […]