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Candidates Make Final Pitches Ahead Of Election Day

VP Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump hold campaign rallies in key states before Election Day to secure last-minute support.

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Taylor Swift Fans Are Demanding The Singer ‘Speak Now’ On Gaza: ‘Your Silence Is Deafening’

Swifties are using the hashtag #SwiftiesForPalestine to call out the singer's silence.

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Bess Atwell: Light Sleeper review – poignant, dreamlike miniatures

This striking English singer-songwriter embraces life in all its complications on her classy third album, produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner

The Guardian - UK

Zayn Malik tries out a new direction with his latest introspective album

Billy Mahonie and DIIV are also among the acts releasing new music this week.

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift embraces the modern rustic trend in one of her favorite recording locations – The Long Pond Studios

The isolated recording studio in New York's Hudson Valley is an unexpected source of on-trend decorating inspiration, brought to light by Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review – a whole lotta love gone bad

On her 11th album, the American singer-songwriter picks apart her romantic travails in unsparing fashion, while her ability to turn sorrow into songwriting gold remains unparalleled

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"The Tortured Poets Department" is agony

In the singer's 11th studio album, she addresses various exes, from Joe Alwyn to Matty Healy

Salon

Taylor Swift’s new album is about a reckless kind of freedom. If only it sounded as uninhibited

The Tortured Poets Department depicts a spell of post-breakup mania against the perfect backdrop of the Eras tour – a thrillingly immature reality undermined by safe music

The Guardian - UK

Who Helped Taylor Swift Write ‘The Tortured Poets Department’? One Co-Writer Speaks Out After Album Release

"We started working on these songs over two years ago and it feels like they have kept us company..."

Marie Claire

Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' is written in blood

With The Tortured Poets Department, the defining pop star of her era has made an album as messy and confrontational as any good girl's work can get.

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Breakups, fantasies and her most cutting lyrics: inside Taylor’s Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

What are the big takeaways from Swift’s new album? She’s refining her sound, confronting elements of her fanbase and done with romantic idealisation

The Guardian - UK

The National review – euphoric catharsis from an era-defining band

Aided by a fanbase who joyfully sing every word, the Ohioans channel their full range of melancholy Americana and pulverising post-punk in a stunning two-and-a-half-hour epic

The Guardian - UK

The National on coming back from the brink: ‘Everything was evidence of failure’

On the heels of their surprise new album, the American five-piece meet again with Laura Barton to speak about facing depression, bonding as ‘brothers’, and finding ‘joy’ in their ‘incredibly sad’ songs

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Discovering new songs on Apple Music is about to get a lot easier and I love it

The latest iOS 17 beta includes a welcome new feature in Apple Music that'll help you find new tunes.

Tribune News Service

Ranking Taylor Swift's albums from worst to best

She had me at the opening lyric.

The Guardian - UK

‘It felt like a falling apart’: Ben Howard on returning to music after two strokes

When he suffered two mini-strokes last year, Ben Howard felt like ‘the world was pouring in’. But the experience has fuelled his most fluid, experimental album yet

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift performs in the pouring rain in her final Nashville show

‘A professional in true sense of the word,’ one fan wrote

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Apple Music Live will stream Ed Sheeran's London concert live this week

Apple Music Live is back for a second season and will kick off with Ed Sheeran at the Eventim Apollo in London

Daily Mirror

Ed Sheeran says talking to Taylor Swift is 'like therapy' as she 'truly understands'

Ed Sheeran has opened up about his decades-long friendship with his unlikely close pal, pop star Taylor Swift, as he claims she's the 'only one who truly understands me'

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Aaron Dessner’s cultural highlights

The producer and musician from rock band the National on an inspirational Ethiopian pianist, a great Icelandic book on the climate crisis, and the cuisine of the Hudson Valley

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran: Subtract review – a grownup record that swings from coping to not coping

Framing his recent grief and depression in a gauzy wash of sound, the embattled songsmith continues to deal in powerful universals

The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran to perform 'Subtract' album on Apple Music Live

Ed Sheeran will put his new album on full display with the help of Apple Music

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran: Subtract review – easily his best ever album

Grief and his wife’s brush with cancer inspired Sheeran to make this insular record with Aaron Dessner of the National. It’s downcast yet full of new ideas – but will fans take to it?

The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran review, Subtract: Aaron Dessner collaboration proves that less is definitely more

The final album in the singer-songwriter’s ‘maths’ series includes some beautifully pared-back musicianship, and Sheeran at his most vulnerable

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