Shaping the new generation of Pinoy hip-hop with Spotify RADAR artist Hev Abi

Shaping the new generation of Pinoy hip-hop with Spotify RADAR artist Hev Abi

MANILA, Philippines – Hev Abi’s music has found its way into the playlists of millions of Filipinos at the speed of light.  He isn’t just a one-hit wonder. At one point, he had even taken […]

International Documentary Features Vy For Spot On Oscar’s Radar – Deadline

Oscar documentaries

Oscar documentary branch voters can’t be accused of parochialism. They ventured far and wide to select their shortlist of feature documentaries for 2023, tapping films from countries as varied as a U.N. roll call: Ukraine, […]

On my radar: Samantha Morton’s cultural highlights | Samantha Morton

A small girl on a bike stands next to a man working under a car

The actor Samantha Morton was born in Nottingham in 1977 and had a turbulent childhood, spending nine years in and out of foster care. At 13, she joined the Central Junior Television Workshop and in […]

When Margot Robbie Thought She’d ‘Slip Under The Radar’ In The Wolf Of Wall Street!

When Margot Robbie Thought She'd Go Unnoticed In The Wolf Of Wall Street

When Margot Robbie Thought She’d Go Unnoticed In The Wolf Of Wall Street (Picture Credit: IMDb) Thanks to her blockbuster movie Barbie, Margot Robbie is one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actresses. The actress has some notable […]

On my radar: Nitin Sawhney’s cultural highlights | Nitin Sawhney

Joanna Woodward (Clare) and David Hunter (Henry) in The Time Traveller’s Wife.

Nitin Sawhney was born in south London in 1964 and grew up in Kent, learning piano, guitar, sitar and tabla from an early age. He studied law, then accountancy at Hertfordshire University, where he met […]

On my radar: Aaron Dessner’s cultural highlights | The National

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.

Musician and producer Aaron Dessner was born in 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He plays guitar, piano and keyboard for the National, is one half of Big Red Machine alongside Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and has […]

On my radar: Hayley Williams of Paramore’s cultural highlights | Paramore

Shame. From left, Eddie Green, Sean Coyle-Smith, Charlie Forbes, Charlie Steen and Josh Finerty.

The singer and songwriter Hayley Williams was born in Mississippi in 1988. She signed her first music deal aged 14, shortly after moving to Tennessee, and went on to form the pop-punk band Paramore. The […]

On my radar: Jenny Lee Lindberg’s cultural highlights | Culture

Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman and Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader in The Batman

Born in Nevada in 1981, Jenny Lee Lindberg is a founding member of LA-based indie-rock quartet Warpaint. As a bass player and vocalist, she has recorded three albums with the band including 2014’s Warpaint, which […]