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...J Lafferty London E10, UK...
...when 3 b8=Q or 2 b8=R draw by stalemate, 3 b8=B cannot win with two dark-squared bishops, and 3 b8=N+ Kb7 draws. Chess: 2314 1 Kd3! If Kf5 2 Kd4 mate, or Kd5 2 Qd4 mate....
...The proposal has been met with scepticism by other government officials, including the state senate president and the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker....
...Such retro notes are evident from this album’s R&B-inflected opener, “Cut My Hair”, where she seductively schemes and sighs: “Good girls are so over-rated.”...
...The breathy shimmy of “Good At Breaking Hearts” is enriched by the gorgeous vocals of UK R&B talent JNR Williams....
...The songs’ subject matter isn’t sophisticated, full of raunchy double entendres, but musically things are more interesting: a pan-Latin pop blitz, including reggaeton, R&B and trap, with an occasional dash...
...He has fallen off the jazz radar of late, but remains busy behind the scenes in high-profile hip-hop and R&B — credits range from Nas and Mos Def to Mary J Blige and Kendrick Lamar....
...We went from a very smooth kind of R&B to a very cool way of inflecting our rock’n’roll approach.”...
...Her multi-platinum repertoire has spanned golden-age R&B, punk-pop riffing, country-tinged ballads and clubby bangers, all powered by her gloriously sweet-spiky vocals and irrepressible attitude....
...Her music was an idiosyncratic but coherent blend of R&B, electronic music, hip-hop and surreal passages of Irish fiddle-playing, performed with bravura stage presence....
...Brought up as Anna Mae Bullock, she was given the stage name Tina by the R&B bandleader Ike Turner, who recruited her after hearing her sing in a St Louis nightclub in 1957....
...“I was really enjoying playing with all these genres, but I think maybe it was confusing for people; they didn’t know whether I was supposed to be a pop star, alternative or an R&B singer....
...July 7-9, northseajazz.com Wireless, London This London weekender brings the best in hip-hop, grime and R&B from both sides of the Atlantic to Finsbury Park....
...Mirroring the musical direction of his recent albums, they are mainly drawn from a pre-British Invasion repertoire of country music, orchestral pop, rock ’n’ roll, doo-wop, blues and R&B....
...The reason that’s bad is because a) it doesn’t usually work, and b) it just invites retaliation....
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...Black British Artist Grant, an annual programme giving a leg up to figures within the arts and addressing diversity and visibility across the creative sector. a-cold-wall.com; community.samuel-ross.com B...
...Amid these mainly male supporting roles, US R&B vocalist Kehlani lends her voice to romantic slow jam “Solid”....
...“Vintage T-shirts tap into nostalgia,” says 34-year-old Deeps Samra, who collects rare hip-hop and R&B T-shirts....
...R Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University....
...Developed by creative director Paola Antonelli, curator and director of R&D at MoMA, the symposium was titled “Agency for the Future: Design and the Quest for a Better World”....
...According to the annual Nielsen report, hip-hop and R&B surpassed it as the dominant genre in the US in 2017. (Later than I had guessed.)...
...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...
...Tash pours two glasses of extremely nice champagne and opens a big bag of salt ’n’ vinegar chipsticks. I calm down enough to start lighting candles....
...But, according to Goldman Sachs, in 2020 about half of those catalogue streams were songs from the 2010s, a decade that was dominated by hip hop and R&B....
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