With A Whiter Shade of Pale, Gary Brooker accelerated pop’s future at warp-speed | Music

Procol Harum.

Shared from www.theguardian.com Pop music moved at high speed in the 1960s, but even so the story behind the song for which Gary Brooker was always going to be remembered almost beggars belief. It was […]

FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP Offers Italian Action at Its Wildest

Shared from nerdist.com Italian directors during the heyday of movie production in that country had to be versatile. Rare were people like Sergio Leone or Dario Argento who could only make a handful of movies […]

‘Making music is about making assets for social media’: pop stars battle digital burnout | Music – Culture | The Guardian

‘We like our words and our ideas and our stories have value’ … Tegan and Sara.

Shared from www.theguardian.com The run-up to an album release is all about teasing and pleasing the fans: thrilling videos, the promise of a fantasy-fulfilling collaboration, the drip-fed unveiling of a musician’s new era. But earlier […]

Where the disappointing ‘Severance’ on Apple TV goes wrong – Television

Shared from www.latimes.com “Severance,” which begins Friday on Apple TV+, is a vexing near-future science-fiction mystery with overtones of a corporate conspiracy thriller. Created by Dan Erickson, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, it […]