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• 68% of Music Fans Say Albums Should be Released on Friday or Saturday…

  15-04-2015 22:41
  
  Given the choice, which day of the week do you think albums from your favorite artists should be released?
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• Alan Gilbert: Orchestras in the 21st Century - a new paradigm

  15-04-2015 20:30
  
  Read an edited version of Alan Gilbert’s 2015 Royal Philharmonic Society LectureMusic helps to define what it means to be human, and orchestras will continue to do what we have always done: play powerful, intriguing, uplifting, thought-provoking music. But the challenges facing people in today’s world call for something new in the way that music and musicians can touch people’s lives on all levels: emotionally and spiritually, of course, but also socially, psychologically. What orchestras
  
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• Not only but also … remembering Dudley Moore the jazz pianist

  15-04-2015 19:51
  
  Comedy made him a star, but Dudley Moore was a dazzling pianist who scored his own films and used his keyboard to escape his demons. In the week he would have turned 80, Neil Cowley celebrates a star who never knew his own talentDudley Moore’s comedy legacy kind of passes me by. It’s not that I don’t love watching him corpse at Peter Cook’s deadpan delivery. He’s charming and lovable, but in a supporting role rather than a lead. It was his musical voice that always inspired me, both as
  
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• Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies; Cinq Rechants etc CD review – lucid and precise but cool

  15-04-2015 19:26
  
  Marcus Creed conducts these little-known Messiaen works with precision, but the sense of abandon and ecstasy that the music strives to express is missing Continue reading...
  
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• Royal Opera's Pappano says 'mathematician conductors' fail music

  15-04-2015 19:19
  
  By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - The Royal Opera's music director Antonio Pappano said modern composers were ill-served by "mathematician conductors" who fail to find emotion in the music. The comments appeared to be a pre-emptive defence for a new work by Austria's Georg Friedrich Haas that is part of the 2015-16 programme that the opera house announced on Wednesday.
  
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• Bryn Terfel, Sarah Kane and the chance to prom: the Royal Opera House’s 2015-16 season

  15-04-2015 19:06
  
  A wide-ranging slate of productions include a new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Katie Mitchell directing Lucia di Lammermoor, Placido Domingo’s Nabucco and four brand-new ballets Continue reading...
  
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• DiDonato/Heggie/Brentano Quartet review – beautiful but too close to pastiche

  15-04-2015 18:47
  
  Milton Court, London
  Jake Heggie’s song cycle about the sculptor Camille Claudel is immaculately tailored to Joyce DiDonato’s voice but lacks originality Continue reading...
  
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• Ritchie Blackmore: 'I have a bad reputation, but I don't mind'

  15-04-2015 18:39
  
  This week, Ritchie Blackmore turns 70. To pay tribute to one of rock’s great eccentrics, this week’s Rock’s Backpages presents an interview given to Trouser Press magazine in July 1978 Continue reading...
  
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• This Guy's Robin Williams Impressions Are Unbelievably Realistic

  15-04-2015 18:28
  
  No really, if you close your eyes you'll actually think this it's the late actor himself…
  
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• Alfie Deyes Dishes Out His Top Tips To Becoming A YouTuber

  15-04-2015 18:25
  
  Better start taking notes, this guy knows what he’s talking about…
  
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• The playlist: Metal – Faith No More, Demonical, Kamelot and more

  15-04-2015 18:05
  
  The latest roundup includes Swedish death metal and all-bass clank, Floridian symphonic power-metal bluster – and sheer awesomeness from Faith No MoreTo say that the heavy-metal world was collectively chuffed when Faith No More not only reunited but also pledged to make a brand new-album – their first since 1997’s Album of the Year – would be a massive understatement. In an era where metal’s veins are increasingly clogged up with throwaway bandwagon bilge, these inveterate mavericks an
  
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• Music Review: Halestorm delivers tight, yet very basic rock

  15-04-2015 17:47
  
  Halestorm, "Into the Wild Life" (Atlantic)
  
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• Lou Reed's sister: singer's electroshock therapy wasn't for homosexuality

  15-04-2015 17:47
  
  Ahead of his Hall of Fame induction, Merrill Reed Weiner addressed rumors about Velvet Underground founder’s mental health treatment and historyDays before Lou Reed’s posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, his sister wrote about long-held rumors concerning the musician’s mental health treatment and history.Merrill Reed Weiner said she hoped the piece would provide “clarity and context” to Reed’s childhood, which has been subject to increased scrutiny since he died
  
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• Wire review – lean and passionate, with visceral menace

  15-04-2015 17:34
  
  The Lexington, London
  Wire’s skewed sweetness, airy pop, splintered rage and a scorching rendition of fan-favourite Brazil satisfied a generationally divided crowd Continue reading...
  
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• Wiz Khalifa's Paul Walker Tribute 'See You Again' Racing To No.1

  15-04-2015 17:00
  
  The rapper's Paul Walker tribute leads the charge in this week's Official Chart Update...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Reveals Everything She Eats In A Day (And The Two Things She Definitely Doesn’t)

  15-04-2015 16:35
  
  The reality TV star shares 24 hours of her life with Harper’s Bazaar…
  
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• Adam Lambert: 'I've Finally Become More Grounded About Fame'

  15-04-2015 16:34
  
  The singer has opened up about life, music and his new sound…
  
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• I love every Kanye West album – so I've ranked them, from great to really great

  15-04-2015 16:31
  
  As the world waits for So Help Me God – and his forthcoming Glastonbury headline show – Ben Westhoff reflects on how his previous records stack upKanye West is a god. We all know that. He told us on his song I Am a God. No, but seriously, I think he’s great. I’m eagerly anticipating his forthcoming seventh solo album So Help Me God (it’s his ninth if you include his collab albums). That’s because every album he puts out is good. Hear what I’m saying, comments section? Let me repeat
  
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• Tyrese Gibson Reveals Paul Walker’s Daughter Meadow Was ‘Proud’ Of Fast & Furious 7

  15-04-2015 16:23
  
  Meadow apparently felt that the movie ‘checked all the boxes’...
  
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• We Love What We've Heard Of Leona Lewis's New Album So Far!

  15-04-2015 16:01
  
  The singer has made her highly anticipated comeback and we can't wait for more...
  
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• King Size review – an evening of song to make anyone smile

  15-04-2015 15:52
  
  Linbury Studio, London
  Alban Berg, the Kinks, Münchener Freiheit and a granny eating spaghetti from a handbag – Theater Basel’s show has something for everyone Continue reading...
  
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• Duff admits to playing catch up in fast-paced music biz

  15-04-2015 15:45
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Though Hilary Duff is 27, when it comes to the music industry, she's first to admit she's trying to make up for lost time in the seven years since she last released an album.
  
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• Kendall Jenner Goes Topless For Sexy GQ Magazine Cover Shoot And We Can’t Cope

  15-04-2015 15:44
  
  The 19-year-old model fronts GQ’s Love, Sex & Madness issue…
  
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• OMG, Union J's Josh Cuthbert Was In A Car Accident...

  15-04-2015 15:33
  
  It's okay JCats, the cute couple are fine...!
  
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• Duran Duran: 10 of the best

  15-04-2015 15:05
  
  Whatever the rock snobs thought at the time, Duran Duran were one of the great British singles bands of the 1980s. Don’t believe us? Have a listenDuran Duran emerged out of the state-funded art-school free-for-all of the 1970s, though their naked ambition and subsequent years of success would coincide with those of Margaret Thatcher; it’s difficult to imagine they could have existed at any other time. They were managed by the entrepreneurial Berrow brothers, owners of the Rum Runner nightclu
  
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• Nadine Shah review – irresistible, inimitable and powerful

  15-04-2015 14:55
  
  Deaf Institute, Manchester
  Shah is formidable, and puts so much into her bleakly haunting performance that she occasional recoils from the mic, as if drained Continue reading...
  
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• 10 Things You Need To Know About Lip Sync Battle

  15-04-2015 14:12
  
  As new channel Spike launches in the UK, we check out one of its most popular shows…
  
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• Percy Sledge obituary

  15-04-2015 14:02
  
  Soul singer best known for his million-selling hit When a Man Loves a WomanAlthough his career stretched from the 1960s to well into this century, Percy Sledge, who has died of liver cancer aged 74, will always be identified with his first and greatest hit, When a Man Loves a Woman. Driven by Sledge’s passionate, pleading delivery, the million-selling song topped the US pop and R&B charts in 1966 (and reached No 4 in Britain), instantly establishing him as an exceptional talent, even in a
  
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• Iggy Azalea Wants Everyone To Know She's "Extremely Excited" About Britney Song

  15-04-2015 13:48
  
  Hey, the star even broke her self-imposed Twitter ban to gush about 'Pretty Girls'...
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Transforms Into Cinderella For Fairytale Photoshoot

  15-04-2015 13:41
  
  The Geordie Shore star takes on Lily James as the ultimate Cinders…
  
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• Simon Cowell To Pinch Rita Ora From The Voice?

  15-04-2015 13:27
  
  Reports claim SiCo wants Ora to join himself and Chezza on the X Factor judging panel...
  
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• Florence Welch breaks foot in festival stage dive

  15-04-2015 13:24
  
  The singer sustained the injury after leaping off the stage.
  
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• Thomas Rhett's Crash and Burn: the Uptown Funk of country

  15-04-2015 13:00
  
  The song is precision-tooled to be a smash and it’s wittier than its competitors, but it shows up the insecurity of a genre on a strange quest to be ‘funky’In just two years, Thomas Rhett has established himself as one of country music’s most successful – and divisive – new artists. The son of country star Rhett Akins, who had a string of hits in the mid-1990s (including the No 1 hit Don’t Get Me Started) and now writes smashes for the likes of Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan, Thomas
  
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• Swoon Over Shawn Mendes In This Exclusive 'Life Of The Party' Performance

  15-04-2015 12:58
  
  Check out this amazing acoustic performance for this week's MTV PUSH treat...
  
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• Is Taylor Swift Teaming Up With Kendrick Lamar On A Remix Of Her New Single ‘Bad Blood’?

  15-04-2015 12:58
  
  The unlikely friends HAVE been in the studio together…
  
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• What the new One Direction press shot tells us about the band's future

  15-04-2015 12:49
  
  It’s been 22 days, 2 hours and 7 minutes since Zayn Malik left the world’s biggest boyband to pursue his existence as a 22-year-old. The rest of the band, however, ploughs on. But for how long? A great photograph lets you into a secret. A great photograph reveals everything its subject hopes to hide. A great photograph is a window on the truth. A great photograph is the truth. These are just some of the quotes I was forced to fabricate when a Google search for “Inspirational + quotes + pho
  
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• Rihanna's Posts Rih-ly Amusing Response To THOSE Coke Rumours

  15-04-2015 12:28
  
  The Bajan babe has also reportedly commented on a leaked video, insisting she wasn't doing the Class A drug at Coachella...
  
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• Rihanna Posts Rih-ly Amusing Response To THOSE Coke Rumours

  15-04-2015 12:28
  
  The Bajan babe has also reportedly commented on a leaked video, insisting she wasn't doing the Class A drug at Coachella...
  
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• Nicole Scherzinger Turns Victoria’s Secret Model For The Day… Somebody Sign Her Up!

  15-04-2015 12:03
  
  The former Pussycat Doll looks smokin’ in this lingerie shot...
  
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• Ed Sheeran Says Harry Styles Doesn't Have A Little Thing!

  15-04-2015 11:34
  
  The red-haired star has also accused Hazza of leaking his OWN naked photo...
  
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• Exclusive! Holly Hagan Gets Angry: "I've Gone From Too Fat To Too Thin"

  15-04-2015 11:09
  
  The Geordie Shore star just can't get it right as far as the media are concerned...
  
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• Watch Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande And Kendall Jenner Lip Sync To Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘I Really Like You’

  15-04-2015 11:03
  
  Featuring Justin and Kendall being well flirty.
  
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• Astronaut Chris Hadfield to release full album

  15-04-2015 11:01
  
  Following his viral cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, Hadfield plans to release a full album with parts recorded in outer space Continue reading...
  
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• MTV Go Behind The Scenes At Abbey Road Studios!

  15-04-2015 10:58
  
  Google is giving you the chance to see inside the world famous recording house...
  
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• Bruce Jenner 'Ready To Reveal Big Decision' In Tell-All Interview

  15-04-2015 10:43
  
  Kim Kardashian's stepdad appears to tease rumoured sex change in second Diane Sawyer interview promo...
  
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• Who Are Aquilo And What Do They Want?

  15-04-2015 10:38
  
  To give us some amazing new music THAT'S what...
  
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• The First Pic Of The 'Beauty And The Beast' Cast Has Arrived!

  15-04-2015 10:20
  
  Josh Gad has posted a snap of himself, Emma Watson and Co on Instagram... and we are TOO excited!
  
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• Jack White to take 'long' break from playing live

  15-04-2015 10:09
  
  The former White Stripes and Raconteurs man will play a series of acoustic dates before temporarily retiring from the live scene Continue reading...
  
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• Hit or miss: can you learn musical originality from a book?

  15-04-2015 10:00
  
  A number of twee tools and new manuals have arrived to coax blocked musicians out of a creative rut. But can they really help? Continue reading...
  
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• You'll Never Guess Who's Joining Pharrell Williams At Glastonbury?!

  15-04-2015 09:54
  
  The event has confirmed 70, yes 70 new acts who will be taking over Worthy Farm in June! Check them out here...
  
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