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Playlist: "Dreams and Daggers" by Cecile McLorin Salvant

“Your talent like that comes only once in every generation. Maybe every two generations!” said Wynton Marsalis about Cecile McLorin Salvant. And he should know, as legendary jazz trumpeter and ...

Playlist: "Miss You" by Carla Bruni

M odels are only too happy to say, like a cliché, that most of them far from the catwalk are blessed with rather manageable talent. France's former first lady and still model Carla Bruni has be...

Playlist: "Alaska" by Maggie Rogers

"And I walked off you And I walked off an old me Oh me oh my I thought it was a dream That's how it seemed" Hard -nosed hip hoppers are known not to be shaken by anything – except maybe t...

Festival fever: Allude goes Coachella 2017

While the thermometer here only manages a crisp ten degrees, California is already preparing for the outdoor season. If you're still thinking about planning a vacation (or rather, escaping the c...

Playlist: Hold On by The XX

Some bands that quickly become very successful often have a rather short half-life in the charts. She either breaks in the face of rapid fame, annoys the press and fans with exaggerated airs...

Playlist: Internal by Angel Olsen

"Everyone I know has got their own ideal I just want to be alive, make something real" B efore Angel Olsen made waves with her music, she was touring the area with Bonnie "Prince" Billy an...

Playlist: Heaven Scent by Soulwax and Chloe Sevigny

M odel, permanent it girl, actress and now also a singer? There seems to be nothing Chloë Sevigny can't do. The American journalist Jay McInerney already knew that when he wrote a seven-page homag...

Playlist: Writings on the Wall by Sam Smith

"If I risk it all Could you break my fall?" Sam Smith's Bond ballad "Writings on the Wall" became the number one hit as the first theme song of the legendary Agent film series. And the Allude team...

Playlist: Little by Little by Groove Armada

"Today, today If you believe that there is no other way Trying living, today, today Little by little in your own way" - Groove Armada, "Little by Little" G roove Armada have been an integ...

Playlist: Goldmine by White Lies

"I saw her blue eyes Candied in the headlight She's got a new style I saw her white smile digging in the gold mine For a new life." T he White Lies song is all over the place right now. "Goldmine"...