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Pokémon taps Happy Asmara and ‘dangdut’ for Indonesian cultural collaboration
Released on Tuesday on Happy Asmara’s official YouTube channel, the project marks Pokémon’s first collaboration with dangdut music. The song is also available on major streaming platforms.
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Island girls No Na join global rise of Southeast Asian music
A year after debuting with an American record label, the Indonesian girl group is riding a Southeast Asian wave that is pushing the region’s music onto the global stage. ...
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Rolling Stones announce July 10 release of new album 'Foreign Tongues'
The Rolling Stones will release a new album on July 10 named "Foreign Tongues," the legendary British rockers announced on Tuesday. ...
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Gucci heirs threaten legal action over Ridley Scott film
The letter said the family was particularly offended by the depiction of Reggiani, "a woman definitively convicted of ordering the murder of Maurizio Gucci... as a victim".
4 years ago
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Jakarta’s premier miserablist BAP. is happy now
Better known as BAP, Kareem Soenharjo’s albums have always been an emotional rollercoaster to listen to. These days, though, he has found something approaching peace.
4 years ago
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Matthew McConaughey not seeking Texas governorship 'at this moment'
The 52-year-old's political ambitions had caused excitement in liberal circles, and particularly among Texans appalled by Governor Greg Abbott, who signed a highly restrictive law banning most abortions.
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BTS 'emotional beyond words' to play in front of fans again
The seven-member group from South Korea held the first of four "Permission to Dance on Stage" concerts at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Saturday.
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Virgil Abloh: the man who brought the street to the catwalk
Abloh died on Sunday at the age of 41, with few aware that he had been battling a rare form of cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma, since 2019.
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Gucci heirs threaten legal action over Ridley Scott film
The heirs of Italian fashion house Gucci threatened to take legal action over Ridley Scott's new film House of Gucci for depicting members of the family as "hooligans".
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Colorful sounds: New Indonesian music, from improvised gamelan to punk rock
Whether it’s a major-label backed modern R&B track or a modern take on traditional Javanese music, Indonesia hasn’t run out of fresh talent.
4 years ago
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The magical reality of Disney's 'Encanto'
The new Disney princess is delightfully relatable.
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Hong Kong protest film wins Taiwan's Golden Horse award
A film on Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement won best documentary at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, an event dubbed the Chinese-language "Oscars".
4 years ago
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Pinch of stardust: Bowie back with lost album of early songs
Known only to diehard fans, "Toy" was always a strange beast in the songwriter's long and storied career.
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Six young composers pushing Indonesian music forward
These young musicians are breaking boundaries and challenging conventions.
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David Bowie back with lost album of early songs
Known only to diehard fans, "Toy" was always a strange beast in the songwriter's long and storied career.
4 years ago
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Swift's 'All Too Well' ousts 'American Pie' as longest top hit
Taylor Swift unseated Don McLean's 8-minute, 42-second epic about the day the music died with her 10-minute, 13-second version of her smash hit "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)".
4 years ago
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Kuburan Band returns with a TikTok-inspired single
Kuburan Band released a new single called “Tikotok”, said to be inspired by the current TikTok craze among Indonesians.
4 years ago
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Port-au-Prince jazz fest postponed due to Haiti gang violence
Traditionally held in late January, the international jazz festival has been postponed indefinitely due to gang violence that has plagued the Haitian capital for months.
4 years ago
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Doomed 'Dune' storyboards sell for 2.7mn euros
The storyboards for the doomed 1970s film version of sci-fi classic "Dune" sold for 2.66 million euros (US$3 million) at auction on Monday, around 100 times the expected price.
4 years ago
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Peter Jackson's 'Get Back' finds joy in final days of the Beatles
The three-part series finds John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in January 1969, preparing for their first concert in more than two years.
4 years ago
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Kevin Spacey to pay US$31 mn after losing arbitration case with makers of 'House of Cards'
The production company said the actor's abrupt exit from the popular series required a reorganization that resulted in "substantial losses" for MRC.
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Cuban woman says Maradona abused and raped her
The victim claimed that during a trip to Buenos Aires with Maradona in 2001, she had been held against her will for several weeks in a hotel by Maradona’s entourage, banned from going out alone, and forced into a breast augmentation operation.
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'Ghostbusters' sequel scares up a N.America box office lead
Sony's latest family-friendly, wacky supernatural Ghostbusters: Afterlife took in an estimated $44 million over the three-day weekend to top the North American box office.
4 years ago
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Spotify bows to Adele, drops 'shuffle' as album song-playing default
Adele is among the artists who have campaigned for the "play" choice, and in announcing its change Spotify specifically mentioned her.
4 years ago
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K-pop's BTS snags top prize at American Music Awards
The band, known for its positive uplifting music, called the artist of the year win a miracle.
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Storyboards for doomed 'Dune' film up for auction
With a new version of "Dune" packing cinemas around the world in recent weeks, interest in the 1970s doomed version has been reignited and Christie's is valuing the storyboard at 25,000 to 35,000 euros (US$28,000 to US$40,000).
4 years ago
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Khashoggi's fiancee urges Justin Bieber to cancel Saudi performance
Hatice Cengiz wrote an open letter to the singer, urging Bieber to cancel the performance to "send a powerful message to the world that your name and talent will not be used to restore the reputation of a regime that kills its critics."
4 years ago
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Iran's Farhadi threatens not to represent Iran at Oscars
"How can I be associated... with a government whose extremist media have not stopped these past years from destroying me, marginalizing me, stigmatizing me?" he asked on his Instagram page.
4 years ago
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Storyboards for doomed 'Dune' film up for auction
Jodorowsky's doomed 1970s adaptation of Dune was supposed to bring together Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger and Pink Floyd.
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Helen Mirren to get SAG lifetime honor
Mirren, an Oscar winner, has played more than 70 roles ranging from Queen Elizabeth to a secret services assassin over her 45 year career across film, television and theatre.
4 years ago
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Kim Kardashian and Leeds aid Afghan female footballers' flight to Britain
The 35 female footballers and their families, a total of 130 people, arrived at Stansted Airport, east of London, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
4 years ago
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Britney Spears says fans 'saved' her life during conservatorship
"I'm just grateful honestly for each day and being able to have the keys to my car and being able to be independent like a woman and owning an ATM card," she said.
4 years ago
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Rapper Young Dolph shot and killed in cookie shop
Thornton was reportedly shopping at Makeda's Homemade Butter Cookies in Memphis when someone drove up and shot him, local press reports said.
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