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...Intense in manner and ascetic-looking, Steve Albini represented a sound and an ethos. “I like noise,” he explained. “I like big-ass vicious noise that makes my head spin.”...
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...Higman (who co-created the piece together with director Rachel Lemon and actor Julia Grogan) fills in the narrative while also playing her own haunting music on guitar and drums....
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...His playing is accurate and thoughtful, if seldom truly magical. As the light eventually rises, we see an arrangement of several circular basins, like inverted hand drums, filled with water....
...“In this context investors might have wanted to see an external candidate come in and shake things up,” added Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell....
...Ramaphosa’s personal polling “still looks better than the ANC as a whole, and better than opposition leaders individually,” according to William Gumede, head of the Democracy Works civic foundation, but...
...While 49 of Africa’s 54 countries will be represented, only 21 heads of state or government will come to the summit, fewer than half of the 43 leaders who attended the last one in 2019....
...Head-nodding grooves were dotted round the set. But it was Francies who imposed his stamp, shifting tension and mood....
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...Sanchez Balcazar, head of global bonds at Pictet Asset Management....
...“The new year is normally very buoyant and that has only been exaggerated by this excess of demand due to the rate developments”, said Lee Cumbes, head of debt capital markets for Emea at Barclays, one of...
...If we want the US to stick to supporting Ukraine, Europe has to show the American people that we stick ourselves to supporting Ukraine,” Kristersson said on Wednesday in Oslo after meeting Ukrainian President...
...OpenAI has been showcasing Sora, its artificial intelligence video-generation model, to media industry executives in recent weeks to drum up enthusiasm and ease concerns about the potential for the technology...
...There were passages of house, techno and drum and bass alongside the blocky beats of their core 1990s sound, a kind of dance-music boom-bap....
...Iran’s government has been seeking to drum up enthusiasm among voters for tightly-controlled elections to choose members of parliament and the assembly that will appoint a successor to the 84-year-old Supreme...
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...Today, the European Commission will present plans to boost the EU’s defence sector and drum up military investment....
...The picture looks so simple, it might have been drawn by a child, with stick figures and red pen....
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