“There is nothing to do here except drinking and fucking. So then … this is what we do,” so begins the White Lies’ account of Reykjavik’s music festival, Iceland Airwaves. And here’s what the experience looked like …
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Lanre Bakare: The sound of hip-hop done the Glaswegian way has spread from its native city and caught the attention of electronica fans worldwide
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You review: Critics have been strongly divided by the Coen brothers’ new film. But what did you make of it?
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Tom Service: The great Russian composer died 100 years ago this year, but his works are poorly represented in concert programmes
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Carol Rumens: Arnold’s formal innovation in this honeymoon poem shows he could have been a great poet
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Watch a clip from Transports Exceptionnels, Philippe Priasso’s emotional duet with a 13-tonne digger
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A strange mix of Leibovitz’s celebrity images and personal photographs in the National Portrait Gallery’s retrospective leaves Liz Jobey bewildered
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Xan Brooks: After a sunny first week, the films and the weather at the festival start to get a little chillier
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Although involved in pirate radio, there’s more to Riz than urban chatter, ranting and rhyming: he’s just as comfortable debating the complexities of 21st-century culture and politics
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John Crace gets to grips with Huxley’s classic view of the future
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