ShortcutsGwen StefaniThe band were forced to pull their latest video, with its Native American visuals. Did Gwen Sefani have an attack of 'feather, teepee and tomahawks' syndrome?"Do you think I'm looking hot?" sings Gwen Stefani on No Doubt's new single Looking Hot. If the reaction to the video is anything to go by, the answer is most definitely a "not".
In the clip, Stefani plays a Native American princess in a variety of culturally questionable garb (feathered headdress, tasselled tribal dress, moccasin boots). Read More...
Roy AnderssonReview(Cert 15)When Ingmar Bergman died in July last year, the soul-searching and breast-beating began on the subject of whether there was anyone who could possibly take his place. There isn't. Why should there be? At the time, though, I made a muted and qualified proposal that one candidate has a sliver of something little noticed in Bergman: his sense of humour. This was the Swedish film-maker Roy Andersson, whose poignant and hilarious movies - like a hypnotic succession of sumptuously mounted Beckettian tableaux - take him an enormously long time to fund and produce. Read More...
Miles Davis performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1969, the month before he went into the studio to record Bitches Brew. Photograph: David Redfern/RedfernsMiles Davis performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1969, the month before he went into the studio to record Bitches Brew. Photograph: David Redfern/RedfernsMiles DavisOn the 50th anniversary of Bitches Brew, one of the contributing musicians and the director of a new documentary share their thoughts on the record Read More...