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• Kendrick Lamar Claims His First UK No 1 Album

  22-03-2015 20:45
  
  As Sam Smith and John Legend stay at top of singles chart...
  
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• U.S. rapper Kendrick Lamar scores UK album number one

  22-03-2015 20:05
  
  U.S. rapper Kendrick Lamar scored his first British number one album on Sunday when his "To Pimp A Butterfly" knocked Sam Smith's "In the Lonely Hours" off the top spot in its first week of release, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday. Lamar's follow-up to his 2012 debut had already broken global records for music streaming service Spotify when it was streamed more than 9.6 million times on the service on Monday. British singer-songwriter Smith, however, reta
  
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• Buena Vista Social Club: the legends look back

  22-03-2015 19:00
  
  It was the soundtrack to every late-90s dinner party. But did Buena Vista Social Club sell a distorted, tourist-friendly view of Cuban culture? As the farewell tour heads for Britain, Laura Barton meets its surviving members Continue reading...
  
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• Jackie Trent obituary

  22-03-2015 18:51
  
  Singer and songwriter behind several pop hits of the 1960s, she also co-wrote the theme tune to the Australian TV soap Neighbours Continue reading...
  
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• Brandon Flowers on The Desired Effect: 'Every song on this album is a single'

  22-03-2015 17:51
  
  The Killers frontman has gone solo again with a record that’s precision-tooled for the big time, launched on Saturday night in his hometown of Las Vegas Continue reading...
  
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• Warpaint review – deft dark sounds from sunny California

  22-03-2015 17:12
  
  Birmingham Institute
  West coast pop meets post-punk dub as the LA band find another gear on stage Continue reading...
  
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• Boulez at 90 review – a viscerally exciting tribute

  22-03-2015 17:03
  
  Barbican, London
  Under Thierry Fischer, the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s playing offered a powerful reminder of Boulez’s place in the pantheon of 20th-century music Continue reading...
  
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• Neighbours theme tune writer Jackie Trent has died

  22-03-2015 17:00
  
  The UK singer-songwriter’s biggest hit was ‘Where Are You Now?’.
  
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• Madama Butterfly review – beauty and tragedy take flight

  22-03-2015 16:40
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  Kristine Opolais makes for an authoritative geisha and Brian Jagde packs character into Pinkerton in this thoughtful revival of Puccini’s opera Continue reading...
  
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• Find Out Why Taylor Swift Has Been Buying Porn Domains

  22-03-2015 16:16
  
  Pop star makes some unexpected purchases on the web...
  
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• Jackie Trent, singer-songwriter, dies at 74

  22-03-2015 15:50
  
  Briton who wrote for Frank Sinatra, Petula Clark and Dean Martin, and also composed theme tune to Neighbours, dies in Menorca Continue reading...
  
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• Songwriter Jackie Trent dies at 74

  22-03-2015 15:02
  
  British singer-songwriter Jackie Trent, who wrote for Frank Sinatra and Petula Clark, has died at the age of 74, it was reported today.
  
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• See What Happened When MTV Took On Battlefield Hardline: Live!

  22-03-2015 13:00
  
  Thanks to EA, we tried our hand at some immersive gaming, to celebrate the release of the new Battlefield Hardline game...
  
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• Shailene Woodley To Receive MTV Trailblazer Award

  22-03-2015 11:15
  
  Divergent series star will get well-earned honour...
  
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• Scott Disick 'Leaving Rehab After One Week'

  22-03-2015 10:59
  
  Reality TV star flying back to Los Angeles for business...
  
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• You've Got To Hear Ariana Grande's Celine Dion Impression

  22-03-2015 10:38
  
  Star joins Jimmy Fallon to sing Beauty And The Beast...
  
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• Laura Marling: Short Movie review – an ongoing voyage of self-discovery

  22-03-2015 10:00
  
  (Virgin EMI)In music as in myth, adventurers are forever setting off on journeys, testing themselves. The medieval bards wandered; the Beats did too. Sixties folks imagined not only communes, but the endless road rising before them, a shoulder-slung guitar their only constant companion. (There would be other companions, of course, to sing about.)It’s no small triumph that one of the most intriguing of our contemporary questers should be the sullen, elfin daughter of a baronet. Just 25, with fi
  
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• Lithofayne Pridgon: Jimi Hendrix’s original ‘foxy lady’

  22-03-2015 10:00
  
  Sam Cooke, Sly Stone and Little Willie fought for her attention. Jimi Hendrix loved her so much he wrote songs about her. In a rare interview Lithofayne Pridgon tells Chris Campion the unvarnished story of Harlem’s wildest music scene – and how she came to be Hendrix’s greatest museNever been kissed until she met “Fever” singer Little Willie John. Seduced by Sam Cooke at only 16. Pined for by Jimi Hendrix as the one woman he loved but could never hold on to. Lithofayne Pridgon, the una
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Splits With Girlfriend Eleanor Calder

  22-03-2015 09:59
  
  Picture emerges of pop star snogging another woman at party...
  
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• Five reasons to spend Friday nights with DJ Iggy Pop

  22-03-2015 09:45
  
  As the godfather of punk lands a regular BBC radio slot, we celebrate his lust for life Continue reading...
  
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• Morrissey review – in shockingly good voice throughout

  22-03-2015 09:30
  
  Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff
  Judicious, cosmopolitan, and with Buffy Saint-Marie in support, a new-model Morrissey is back in touch with reality and sounding better than he has in yearsOf the many glimpses of the formative Morrissey provided by his bestselling autobiography, my favourite finds him as a boy, watching the Eurovision song contest on TV (“My jotter on my knee, my own private scoring system profoundly at odds with the final result”). There have been times (not least in the second
  
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• Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly review – fearless in its scope

  22-03-2015 09:30
  
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• Chiaroscuro Quartet: Mozart/Mendelssohn CD review – a shock to the ears of the best kind

  22-03-2015 09:05
  
  Chiaroscuro Quartet
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• Maurizio Pollini; The Rake’s Progress review – nuance, detail and fire

  22-03-2015 09:00
  
  Royal Festival Hall; Royal Academy of Music, London
  Maurizio Pollini delivers a masterclass, while a student Rake’s Progress captivates Continue reading...
  
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• Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit review – nuanced debut from a huge talent

  22-03-2015 09:00
  
  (House Anxiety/Marathon) Continue reading...
  
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• James Bay: Chaos and the Calm review – ruthlessly efficient

  22-03-2015 09:00
  
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• Mother and daughter singers Melissa Bell and Alexandra Burke on their special relationship

  22-03-2015 08:00
  
  Alexandra Burke has wanted to be a singer ever since she saw her mother on Top of the Pops. Now she knows just how much she owes her success to her mumMum raised us in Islington, north London, with my grandfather and aunt, as my dad was in and out of our lives. I remember watching her perform on Top of the Pops with Soul II Soul and thinking: “This is what I need to do with my life.” She didn’t force me into it, but when she knew I wanted to sing, she wouldn’t let me muck
  
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