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Reçu aujourd’hui — 9 décembre 2025

The art of going ‘Instagram official’: how 10 celebrity couples shared their love with the world

9 décembre 2025 à 18:23

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are the latest A-listers to announce their relationship status online. But there are many ways to do it - from fancy dress to panicked deletions

As a mark of pure intent, going Instagram official has become a firmly entrenched dating marker. To post a picture of you and your new partner on Instagram – on the grid, mind you, not hiding behind the cowardice of a story – is to not only declare that you are in love, but also that you are confident enough in your future to share it with the world.

As such, Katy Perry’s decision to go Instagram official with Justin Trudeau is a classic of the genre. Long dogged by rumours that they might be together, Perry this week debuted a sanctioned image of them both. They are cheek to cheek. They are smiling, albeit in that slightly strained hurry-up-and-take-it way you do when someone decides to shoot a whole reel of photos. Katy Perry is pulling the exact same face she did when she stared into the camera that time she sort of went into space, which is how you know that it is really serious. Good luck to the pair of them.

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© Photograph: Instagram/katyperry

© Photograph: Instagram/katyperry

© Photograph: Instagram/katyperry

Raul Malo, frontman of band the Mavericks, dies aged 60

9 décembre 2025 à 16:57

The musician, who led the Grammy-winning band, had been receiving treatment for colon cancer

Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band the Mavericks, has died. He was 60.

Malo died on Monday night, his wife, Betty Malo, posted on his Facebook page. He had been diagnosed with cancer. The frontman of the Mavericks had documented his health journey on social media since he disclosed in June 2024 that he was receiving treatment for colon cancer.

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© Photograph: Stephen J Cohen/Getty Images

© Photograph: Stephen J Cohen/Getty Images

Hannigan/Chamayou review – strange and beautiful musical magic

9 décembre 2025 à 11:46

Wigmore Hall, London
Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou were exhilarating and extraordinary in John Zorn’s monumental Jumalattaret; a beautifully intimate performance of Messiaen’s Chants de Terre et de Ciel completed an enthralling evening

One generation’s “unperformable” is another’s repertoire staple. Tristan und Isolde, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Ninth were all once declared beyond reach. But when Barbara Hannigan – the fearless, seemingly limitless soprano with more than 100 world premieres to her name – admits that a work came close, reducing her to “a state of panic” over a multi-year study period, you believe her.

Inspired by Finland’s national epic the Kalevala, John Zorn’s Jumalattaret is less a song-cycle than a musical seance, summoning a series of spirits and goddesses in sound. The singer morphs from persona to persona in yelps and keening cries, guttural moans and shouts, sometimes anchored, sometimes released by the piano (here Bertrand Chamayou) – an ever-present sorcerer’s assistant.

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© Photograph: Sisi Burn

© Photograph: Sisi Burn

© Photograph: Sisi Burn

R&B Xmas Ball review – Toni Braxton melts hearts and Boyz II Men blow minds on trip back to the 90s

8 décembre 2025 à 15:10

OVO Wembley Arena
With additional sets from Dru Hill and Joe, this revue is a little too nostalgic and lacks the advertised festive spirit – but the vocal prowess on show is undeniable

All of the artists on the lineup for the second annual R&B Xmas Ball – Dru Hill, Joe, Toni Braxton and Boyz II Men – have Christmas albums from the last two decades, but rather than putting a twist on carols or crooner standards, this is an evening that merely uses Christmas as an excuse for a night out to hear earnest, heart-rending 90s R&B.

Dru Hill deliver classic R&B in matching outfits, as their 2000s music videos – as seen on kebab shop TVs nationwide – play out behind them, while a set of mostly slow jams from Joe sets the stage for Braxton.

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© Photograph: Laura Rose/Laura Rose / The Guardian

© Photograph: Laura Rose/Laura Rose / The Guardian

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‘It’s been called the greatest hip-hop film ever’: how we made cult graffiti classic Wild Style

8 décembre 2025 à 16:02

‘I handed a guy a starting pistol for a stick-up scene. But instead he reached into his car and took out the sawn-off shotgun you see in the movie’

I was part of the New York graffiti artists the Fabulous 5, who were primarily known for painting whole subway cars on the Lexington Avenue line. Lee Quiñones was the group’s Michelangelo. I’d been running with Jean-Michel Basquiat and wanted to take graffiti art into art spaces. I thought that an underground independent film could tell our story in the way we wanted.

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© Photograph: Cathy Campbell

© Photograph: Cathy Campbell

© Photograph: Cathy Campbell

The 50 best albums of 2025

9 décembre 2025 à 14:57

From prog cabaret and joyful jangle-pop to a pop star who will drag you to the club, here are the year’s finest LPs as decided by 30 Guardian music writers
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© Composite: Guardian Design/Cody Critcheloe/Getty Images

© Composite: Guardian Design/Cody Critcheloe/Getty Images

Trump claims rave reviews for hosting Kennedy Center Honors – before ceremony even ends

8 décembre 2025 à 09:22

President refers jokingly to renamed ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ at celebration of stars from music and film

Donald Trump added another job title – awards host – to his presidential portfolio on Sunday when he took charge of the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, claiming his show was getting “rave reviews” even before it ended.

The US president stayed away from the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during his first term. But since returning to office in January, he has made the complex a lightning rod in a broader attack against what he has labelled “woke” anti-American culture.

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© Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

© Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau make their relationship Instagram official

8 décembre 2025 à 03:10

The singer posted a photo of the pair smiling cheek to cheek and a video of them eating sushi together while in Japan

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau have launched their relationship on Instagram, after the singer posted a photo of the pair smiling cheek to cheek and a video of them eating sushi together while in Japan.

Perry’s post appeared to confirm the pair are in a relationship, after months of speculation about a possible romance between her and the former Canadian prime minister.

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© Photograph: Instagram/Katy Perry

© Photograph: Instagram/Katy Perry

© Photograph: Instagram/Katy Perry

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Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges

5 décembre 2025 à 19:24

Producer says creatives need to own their intellectual property so they can license it to generative AI platforms

The Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart has said artificial intelligence is an “unstoppable force”, and musicians and other artists should bow to the inevitable and license their music to generative AI platforms.

These platforms use artificial intelligence to analyse existing songs and tracks, using that knowledge to generate completely new ones as prompted by a user. For example, someone could ask the AI platform to generate a song about a boozy night out in the style of a Britpop band, and it would draw on songs with similar sounds and themes to create its own.

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© Photograph: Lawton Howell/Tyler Lee Aubrey

© Photograph: Lawton Howell/Tyler Lee Aubrey

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