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music
album: ils
The deeper sound of breakbeat from Adam Freeland's favourite producer.
album: verve remixed
Top DJ types get their filthy mitts on jazz label's back catalogue.
album: looper
Looper return with their third album, a darker sound and an alter ego.
ep: ben kweller
Lo-fi American pop/rock songwriter turns out to be a pale imitation.
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win verve // remixed album
We're compiling a list of albums, films and books of the moment. Send us your recommendations which we'll publish on the site and if we draw your name out of the collective bucket, you'll win a copy of Verve Remixed a new compilation from the legendary jazz label. Last week's winners: Angus Macdonald, Dave Loder, Howard Alutto, Simon Hodgon and Zoe Willis.
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film
cinema: lawless heart
A complex and moving drama. It can't be British, can it?
cinema: birthday-girl
Russian doll causes havoc in the home counties.
cinema: comment j'ai tue mon pere
He hates you and he wants your wife... Dads, don't you just love 'em?
dvd: the piano teacher
You'll wish you'd have stuck with those piano lessons after watching this DVD.
tv: films this week
Richard's round up including Live and Let Die, Who Dares Wins and The Godfather part III.
feature: celluloid sexuality
Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls, who do boys like they're girls...
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going out
festival: glastonbury
Glasters is back with a new fence, some old rockers and the odd decent band.
comedy: otis lee crenshaw
This week's laughing stock, Rich Hall, Emo Philips and Lee Evans.
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