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Bride does her nails at 2:30pm on her wedding day. Now ‘Type B’ brides are speaking out: ‘I doordashed my veil from Spirit Halloween an hour before’

There are two kinds of brides: the ones with a color-coded, minute-by-minute timeline… and the ones casually applying press-on nails mid-afternoon on their actual wedding day.

The Mary Sue

“Paul McCartney likes to control things under the guise of saying, ‘Play as free as you like.’ Then he’ll start to pick it all apart”: Chris Spedding’s favorite sessions

From handling Jack Bruce’s temper, to Brian Eno’s budget studio and Macca’s post-Beatles era, the UK session veteran picks his most treasured moments

Guitar World

Boston woman looks up man online after kissing him at the bar the night before. Then she finds his wedding website: ‘You have to tell her’

A Boston woman meets a guy on a night out and they share a kiss. When she Googles him the next morning, she sees a link to his wedding website. Viewers debate whether she should tell his fiancée.

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“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”: Why this cult classic was hailed as one of the most influential albums of all time

“A savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback”

MusicRadar

HVAC tech addresses her pregnancy. Then she discovers her fiancé’s clever ploy: ‘I’ve been sitting here smoking…the entire time’

A couple calls an HVAC technician fix their heater before a winter storm. The man creates a clever fib to get it fixed faster but doesn’t tell his fiancée, creating an awkward situation when the worker asks her if she’s having a “boy or a girl.”

The Mary Sue

Music Review: A post-'Brat' Charli xcx broods on the 'Wuthering Heights' soundtrack

Charli xcx's first release post-"Brat” summer is a brooding soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” and it aims to stand on its own

The Independent UK

Charli xcx: Wuthering Heights review – atonal, amorous anthems that more than stand apart from the film

Casting off her Bratty cigarettes and sunglasses, the pop visionary channels the torments of Heathcliff and Cathy and the tumult of the Velvet Underground on her latest captivating pivot

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Charli xcx review, Wuthering Heights – A spectacular, phantasmagorical fever dream

5/5 On her wild, gothic soundtrack album, the pop star proves herself much more in tune with the terrible complexity of Emily Brontë’s original vision than film director Emerald Fennell

The Independent UK

What to Stream: Charli xcx, Chalamet in 'Marty Supreme,' Ethan Hawke, 'Cross' and Mario Tennis Fever

Timothée Chalamet starring as a table tennis wizard in “Marty Supreme” and Charli xcx’s soundtrack to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are some of the new television, films, music and video games headed to a device near you

The Independent UK

“The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album

Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him

Louder

Woman gets carsick in Uber ride, but her real nightmare begins when her driver starts to ‘freshen’ the air

That's low-key biological warfare.

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"They took a record that I'd made and erased all my songs, all my vocals. I thought, 'I won’t let you get away with this'": From goth glory to bad blood - the Gene Loves Jezebel story

Reflecting on both success and rancour, identical twins Michael and Jay Aston look back on their time in the band – and at each other’s throats

Louder

‘This is not real’: Passenger films what older woman does to her during Emirates flight and viewers are baffled

Being nice cost her the entire flight.

We Got This Covered

Lily Allen’s live return, Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights and Simon Rattle’s Janáček: music to listen out for in 2026

Raye, Deftones and Yungblud do UK tours, Jill Scott returns for more neo-soul, and classical world gears up to celebrate György Kurtág at 100

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Charli xcx releases haunting new Wuthering Heights ballad Chains of Love

Charli xcx has shared the second track from the Wuthering Heights soundtrack.

The Guardian - UK

Charli xcx: House ft John Cale review – haunt me, then! An elegant, brutal taste of the Wuthering Heights OST

Featuring a lugubrious monologue from the Velvet Underground legend, its jagged strings are more reminiscent of that band than anything on Brat

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Charli xcx goes goth on new song House from Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights soundtrack

Charli xcx has channelled her inner goth on her latest track, House.

The Independent UK

Pop icon moved to tears by collaboration with music legend

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Charli XCX opens up on Wuthering Heights collaboration with Velvet Underground icon: ‘It made me cry’

Pop star says she’s a ‘huge fan’ of John Cale as they collaborate on harsh song for new film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel

MusicRadar

“I sent him some songs… he recorded something and sent it to me. And it was… well, it made me cry”: Charli XCX on how a phrase John Cale once used about the Velvet Underground’s music led to their new Wuthering Heights collaboration

House was released on Monday 10 November

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Charli XCX teases Wuthering Heights track House

Charli XCX has teamed up with The Velvet Underground's John Cale for the new song House, which is to feature on the soundtrack to the much-anticipated Wuthering Heights film starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

Evening Standard

Charli XCX teases ‘elegant and brutal’ new Wuthering Heights song with John Cale

The singer announced earlier this year that she was writing an album for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the novel by Emily Bronte.

Louder

“For the few brave souls who invested, it was no easy listen. It was the most extreme music the young rock epoch had yet produced”: This 1969 album was a prog leap too far – and it wasn’t even by a prog band

Later regarded as a massively inspirational work, it was too demanding a prospect when American quartet made it

Guitar World

“Kurt felt things about bands that had a certain honesty. His stamp of approval stood us in good stead”: The Raincoats’ Gina Birch on star fans Kurt Cobain and Kim Gordon, and why John Cale led her band into pop when they didn’t want to go there

With nearly five decades of experience, the post-punk icon explains her resistance to being a pocket player, the merits of classic chords, and the drive behind her second solo album

Guitar World

“He had some good ideas. I remember when we met, he was eating an incredible amount of ice cream”: David Byrne on what happened when Talking Heads met Lou Reed

Byrne says Reed wanted to sign Talking Heads to a management-production deal but they backed out because they thought they were too green

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