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...The mythological Helen of Troy maligns herself with this odd turn of phrase in Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s Iliad....
...The grime and stains left behind on the exquisite furniture and a massacre of the household’s pet doves make for a brutal foreshadowing of France’s convulsive stride into modernity....
...In the US, Hulu continues to operate as a separate service to Disney and is the home to edgier programming, such as R-rated films....
...Troy Vaughn, the President and chief executive of Los Angeles Mission, who lived on Skid Row himself in the 1990s, says a lack of affordable housing is a big factor behind the homelessness crisis....
...She brings together electro-experimentalist Grimes and late-1990s soul-popster Dido for the unexpectedly pretty, breakbeat-fuelled “Fly to You”....
...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....
...Letter in response to this article: Steps Britain must take to be a science superpower / From Professor Robin Grimes, Foreign Secretary and Vice-President, Royal Society, London SW1, UK...
...This year, she’s hopeful things will be better, but she still rolls her eyes at the fact the pop/R&B category contains no R&B artists and that Little Simz has been nominated for Best New Artist, four albums...
...UK vocalist Tiana Major9 sings the title track’s R&B hook. The mix of styles and geographies continues in the lyrics. In romantic slowie “Beautiful”, Kojey quotes Jay-Z....
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...The backing band gave their 1990s R&B hits an old-fashioned soul revue feel, while super-slick dancers did backflips....
...Next week we’re talking about the streaming wars with Chris Grimes and then bees. Jonathan Guthrie puts a monetary value and a very high one on the debt we owe them....
...Fender Mustang Micro, £89.99, fender.com Lumi Keys piano tutorRoli has in less than a decade established itself as a leader in music keyboards, with the great Hans Zimmer and Canadian musician Grimes as...
...The rally came after a user on Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets forum urged people to buy shares and silver options to put a squeeze on banks....
...Prices for silver rose almost 10 per cent at one point on Monday to more than $30 a troy ounce, following a 6 per cent climb last week....
...Silver futures, which soared as much as 11 per cent on Monday, settled 10 per cent lower at $26.40 a troy ounce....
...The spot price of gold rose as high as $1,750 per troy ounce, close to an all-time high....
...[R]elative to global equity market capitalisations, investors have allocated just 3% of their assets to gold....
...In “Solomon R....
...No 5 Collaborations Project, which was an extended play, too short in length to be a proper album, teamed him with various UK rappers and grime MCs....
...There were imperious dance moves, defiantly in the mould of disgraced brother Michael, while the sharp contours of her 1980s R&B hits gleamed amid the setlist’s over-rushed tempo....
...JPMorgan Chase has hired the Perella Weinberg Partners head of capital markets Troy Wagner for its private capital markets operations, according to Bloomberg....
...It will present the drummer in a “new urban jazz” strand that also includes American jazz supergroup R+R=NOW and British saxophonist Nubya Garcia....
...The 21-year-old inhabits a novel space bordered by rap, grime, UK Afrobeats and R&B, a self-possessed interpreter of London’s constantly shifting sounds....
...Mvula’s music is already lush and maximalist — her willingness to employ the harp and celeste might have been a signal that she was never going to make coffee-table R&B records — and Troy Miller’s arrangements...
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