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Britt Julious

Chicago-based writer and founder of Inland magazine. Follow her on Twitter @britticisms.

March 2019

  • ‘I really want to make work to be discovered 50 years from now’ ... Solange, grounded in Texas.

    'Blackness will never go away': how Solange takes pride in her roots

    At an immersive, city-wide multimedia presentation of her new album When I Get Home, the singer-songwriter explains how her childhood home of Houston nourished her creative spirit

August 2015

  • ***BESTPIX***2015 Lollapalooza - Day 2<br>CHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 01: Charli XCX performs onstage at the 2015 Lollapalooza music festival at Grant Park on August 1, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Josh Brasted/FilmMagic,)***BESTPIX***

    Festivals 2015
    Lollapalooza review – Charli XCX and Gary Clark Jr shine amid the storms

    It may feel like a festival struggling to find its identity at times, but Lollapalooza’s mid-market mix still stood out despite the rain

July 2015

  • Miguel and Frank Ocean Guardian composite

    Frank Ocean v Miguel: music's latest rivalry is another press-driven distraction

    Miguel has made headlines for calling his own work ‘better all the way around’ – but such flaps in the media ignore what really matters: the music

June 2015

  • Chris Rock has retired his routine on the n-word.

    The N-word might be part of pop culture, but it still makes me cringe

    Britt Julious
  • Fetty Wap, the man of the moment.

    XXL's Freshman Class list is way off the mark – again

May 2015

  • Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange

    BET awards draw anger over snubbed acts – but is it really all that surprising?

    Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange and Azealia Banks attacked the show for being too mainstream, but as a premier event in the music calendar can it afford not to be?

April 2015

  • Spike Lee will direct Chiraq

    Do the right thing: Spike Lee's Chicago film must avoid the city's crime clichés

    Spike Lee’s next venture needs to do more than add to the growing list of reductive and voyeuristic feature films and documentaries about the Windy City

March 2015

  • Is Empire really

    TV and radio blog
    Hollywood 'race casting': what the industry is getting wrong about diversity

    An article in trade publication Deadline argued that white actors were now at a disadvantage compared to ethnic minority peers. Britt Julious explains why that’s complete nonsense and shows why diversity makes commercial sense

February 2015

  • Empire

    'The Empire economy': how the hit Fox show is making Chicago swing

  • Katy Perry and Missy Elliott: the ying and yang of pop.

    Missy in action: why pop needs Missy Elliott to get her freak on again

January 2015

  • Colorado demonstrate outside Bill Cosby's comedy show

    Larry Wilmore pulls no punches in taking on Bill Cosby allegations

  • More foreign films? Fabrizio Rongione and Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night.

    2015 the year ahead
    Guardian US critics: our cultural new year's resolutions

December 2014

  • Reggie Watts, St Vincent, Fred Armisen and Questlove

    Can bandleaders breathe new life into late-night TV?

    Jimmy Fallon has the Roots, Seth Meyers has Fred Armisen and James Corden has just appointed Reggie Watts as his bandleader. But why does getting the right in-house band matter so much? Britt Julious explains

November 2014

  • Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea

    Music blog
    Iggy Azalea and J-Lo's AMA Booty show caps a banner year for the butt

    The singers are warned ‘no cracks, no rubbing’ when they perform at the AMAs on Sunday – but in 2014 there’s no resisting the rear. And that’s a good thing
  • Eminem

    Music blog
    Lana del Rey is just the latest woman to be attacked by Eminem

    His latest violent rap in CXVPHER Freestyle shows how little our attitudes to women have changed in the 15 years since he shot to fame, writes Britt Julious
  • John Malkovich as Che Guevara (1960).

    Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: a tribute to the power of the image

    A show in which John Malkovich recreates famous photographs of the past is funny – but its real subject is the way images permeate public consciousness

October 2014

  • Dr Luke and Kesha pose onstage at the ASCAP pop music awards in 2011.

    Kesha's lawsuit against Dr Luke and the murky history of pop svengalis

    Britt Julious: The allegations in the singer’s lawsuit against her producer suggests pop music badly needs more women in influential positions

September 2014

  • Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett

    Music blog
    Music's finest odd couples, from Gaga and Tony Bennett to MJ and Macca

    To mark the release of Cheek to Cheek, Gaga’s collaboration with the octogenarian crooner, we take a look at 10 unlikely duos who made beautiful music together
  • David Bowie Chicago

    Chicago's David Bowie Is exhibition shows galleries how to face the changes

    Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting an exhibition dedicated to David Bowie’s protean career and personalities
  • Janelle Monae

    Forget U2: five bands we'd like to see reach 500 million people

    iTunes gave U2’s latest album to half a billion people, but U2 are already huge. How about giving someone else a chance? asks Britt Julious
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