Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Their last album, 2009’s The Eternal, was dedicated to the memory of one of their idols, The Stooges’ guitarist Ron Asheton. This vein of sentimentality is absent from Gordon’s work....
...It also follows her biggest sales success yet as a songwriter, co-writing a hit EP released last year by the K-pop girl group NewJeans....
...The mixed languages and vocals are typical of K-pop, and can be frenetic — but not so here....
...People waved glowing plastic hearts on sticks, a common prop in South Korean K-pop. “Jay” was written on the hearts in Roman script alongside Chinese characters....
...Later, Bob Dorough’s “Naughty Number Nine” celebrates arithmetical magic with blousy horns and Ron Sexsmith’s love song “Right About Now” eases back sensuously over sparse hip-hop shades....
...K-pop girl group NewJeans rub shoulders with US rapper JID and Colombian singer Camilo on “Be Who You Are (Real Magic)”, a Sesame Street-style paean to self-acceptance so sickly sweet that it comes with...
...None of those novels, though, boasts the uniqueness of Oliver K Langmead’s Calypso (Titan £12.99), which tells a generation starship tale in blank verse — and hats off to the editor who got that through...
...“In the US in particular you see leading political figures like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis attacking corporate leaders as woke ideologists and cultural Marxists....
...“Gritty Troubador’s Backstreet”, written by chatGPT, Ludo Hunter-Tilney, Voicify.ai and Boomy....
...A lacklustre early performance by Florida governor Ron DeSantis in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination is reopening the market for alternatives to Donald Trump....
...US politics: Hunter Biden is due to appear in a Los Angeles court for an arraignment on tax charges after House Republicans moved to hold the president’s son in contempt of Congress yesterday....
...If I’ve sold you on the excellence of linen presses, but you’d rather skip the auction house, I highly recommend dealer Ron Green’s selection....
...Meanwhile, the FT’s porcine critic slipped incognito into row K, block 110, notebook and poisonous pen at hand....
...“K-pop albums have been released on Chinese music-streaming platforms and local small-scale K-pop-related events have been held by fans....
...The comments of Ron DeSantis, the nearest rival for the nomination, suggest that he is basically supporting Trump’s narrative....
...“Eighty per cent of what we buy [from auction] goes through our workshop to be waxed thoroughly and working as it should,” says Will Green, co-owner of Ron Green Antiques in Northamptonshire....
...Stephanie Hunter provided additional research assistance. (This line has been amended since publication to correct the surname.)...
...His co-producer Ron Aniello plays a number of instruments. A distinguished guest also turns up — Sam Moore, former member of the classic soul duo Sam & Dave....
...That’s now a big problem for musical artists in the age of AI, as the FT’s pop critic Ludo Hunter-Tilney demonstrates....
...Republicans notched up a string of convincing victories, particularly in Florida, where governor Ron DeSantis cruised to re-election by a 20-point margin....
...When asked recently about passing gun control measures, Ron Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin replied: “Before we pass anything new, let’s enforce the laws we already have....
...Best pop albums of 2022 Pop critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney picks his 10 favourite albums of the year....
...I don’t think we should underestimate the degree to which we sitting here might not think the Hunter Biden stuff and the Biden crime family stuff has any real basis....
...Most ominous for Trump, however, was the thumping re-election of Ron DeSantis as governor of Florida....
...To see where such politics can lead, look no further than the authoritarian “war on woke” of Republican White House hopeful Ron DeSantis....
International Edition