The Beach Boys 40 greatest songs ranked!

 Posted on March 25, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2493 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Little Hondas … Clockwise from front right: Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson and Brian Wilson. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesLittle Hondas … Clockwise from front right: Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson and Brian Wilson. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesRankedBeach BoysAs a new documentary about Brian Wilson arrives, we take on the near-impossible task of sorting his band’s best, from lustful-teen pop to meditative balladry [Read More]

The week in audio: People Who Knew Me; Happy Hour; Whose Truth Is It Anyway?; This Cultural Life: Ni

 Posted on March 25, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1053 words  |  Valentine Belue

Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radioRadioReviewRosamund Pike is the star of a brilliantly produced new drama; a two-hander set in a London pub is snappy and fun; and Nick Cave is a dream interviewee People Who Knew Me (BBC 5 Live) | BBC Sounds Happy Hour (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds Whose Truth Is It Anyway? (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds This Cultural Life: Nick Cave (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds [Read More]

Frank Ocean stopped by police for possessing marijuana and speeding | Frank Ocean

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  252 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Frank Ocean This article is more than 11 years oldFrank Ocean stopped by police for possessing marijuana and speedingThis article is more than 11 years oldSinger tweets response admitting 'I smoke pot' after officers find him carrying drugsFrank Ocean has apparently lost his driver's permit after being cited for carrying marijuana on New Year's Eve. The 25-year-old was pulled over at around 4:30pm on Monday, according to local police, after officers caught his black BMW zooming through Mono county, California. [Read More]

Michael Chapman obituary | Music

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1022 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

MusicObituaryMichael Chapman obituaryGuitarist and singer-songwriter whose fusion of jazz, rock, Indian and ragtime styles made him a cult heroMichael Chapman, who has died of a heart attack aged 80, was a singer-songwriter and guitarist who became a cult hero in the late 1960s and early 70s thanks to his highly original fusion of jazz, rock, Indian and ragtime styles, and thoughtful, often bleak lyrics. Praised by the DJ John Peel as “one of the most interesting and inventive guitarists around”, he was best known for the album Fully Qualified Survivor (1970), on which he was joined by Mick Ronson, who would go on to work with David Bowie, and Rick Kemp, who became a member of Steeleye Span. [Read More]

More bodies recovered from Kursk | World news

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  506 words  |  Kary Bruening

World newsMore bodies recovered from KurskInvestigators working round the clock to remove all deadInvestigators finally began the task of removing bodies from the wreck of the raised Russian submarine Kursk in dry dock yesterday. Wearing gas masks to protect themselves from toxic gases that have built up since the submarine sank in the Barents Sea after two explosions 14 months ago, forensic experts searched through three sections of the hull in the dry dock at Roslyakovo, near the Arctic port of Murmansk. [Read More]

Popeseye, London SW15 and W14

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  937 words  |  Kary Bruening

Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewTwo legendary European steak-frites joints that opened in London last year didn't cut it. But Jay Rayner finally finds a rival to New York's finest steakhouses tucked away in Putney277 Upper Richmond Road, London SW15 (020 8788 7733), and 108 Blythe Road, London W14 (020 7610 4578). Meal for two, with wine, £80 I recently came across an advert in my local Yellow Pages for a restaurant in Croydon which offers steaks 'as big as you like'. [Read More]

Pushing Buttons: Video games have always been queer here are my favourites

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1411 words  |  Valentine Belue

Pushing ButtonsGamesBecause queer people don’t go away when Pride ends, here are some gay-friendly storylines that have made me feel seen over the years Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome back to Pushing Buttons, folks. In case you’re wondering where I’ve been, I was on secondment from video games for a week covering Glastonbury. Thankfully, a decade-plus of E3 coverage prepared me well for the fragrant crowds and inevitable liveblogging tech issues. [Read More]

Robin Williams's widow: 'There were so many misunderstandings about what had happened to him' | Movi

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2251 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

MoviesInterviewRobin Williams's widow: 'There were so many misunderstandings about what had happened to him'Hadley FreemanSusan Schneider Williams watched her husband suffer with undiagnosed Lewy body dementia before he killed himself in 2014. A new film tries to educate others about the condition – and put to rest assumptions about his death After Robin Williams died in August 2014, aged 63, a lot of people had a lot of things to say about him. [Read More]

The Duke of Marlborough obituary | Heritage

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  714 words  |  Aldo Pusey

HeritageObituaryThe Duke of Marlborough obituaryInheritor of Blenheim Palace who improved its financial fortunesBlenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, has a romantic history: it was the reward for the first duke of Marlborough's 1704 victory over the French at the German village of Blenheim. The palace is also famed as the birthplace, in 1874, of Winston Churchill. But unfortunately for the 11th duke, John Spencer-Churchill, who has died aged 88, in the 20th century the care of stately homes had to become a business, or else they would crumble. [Read More]

When pretend is real: exclusive interview with stars of The Wire | Television industry

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  17 minutes  |  3603 words  |  Valentine Belue

Television industryWhen pretend is real: exclusive interview with stars of The WireStars of the cult show The Wire, Jamie Hector and Felicia Pearson play two of the most terrifying characters on TV. The former is a trained actor from New York, the latter an ex-drug dealer from Baltimore, who has done time for murder The story of Felicia “Snoop” Pearson’s life so far turns upon a single moment - a chance encounter that proved so significant, and might so easily never have occurred, it feels like a plot contrivance. [Read More]