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• Dave DK: Val Maria review – mere gorgeousness

  23-04-2015 23:45
  
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• After the Flood: Van der Graaf Generator at the BBC 1968-77 review – prog power

  23-04-2015 23:30
  
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• Skinny Lister: Down on Deptford Broadway review – stomping shanties

  23-04-2015 23:15
  
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• Mew: +/- review – low-slung, prog-pop chill-out

  23-04-2015 23:00
  
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• Best Coast: California Nights review – LA teen rock demands attention

  23-04-2015 22:45
  
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• Tim Berne’s Snakeoil: You’ve Been Watching Me review – rugged avant-funk

  23-04-2015 22:30
  
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• Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power review – fine selection of songs

  23-04-2015 22:20
  
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• Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit: Erta Ale review – a percussion juggernaut

  23-04-2015 22:15
  
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• Ayub Ogada: Kodhi review – a relaxed and sunny outoor jam session

  23-04-2015 22:05
  
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• 'Rap is the new wrestling': how hip-hop heavyweights compare with WWE stars

  23-04-2015 22:04
  
  A$AP Rocky says hip-hop acts are adopting the same theatrical antics of WWE’s superstars. Here’s a look at rap’s biggest acts and their wrestling counterparts Continue reading...
  
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• Big Screen: Take One review – a smart salute to cinema

  23-04-2015 22:00
  
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• Breaking: Local Norwegian Stations Don’t Want FM Radio to Be Killed

  23-04-2015 21:49
  
  The following comes from a release sent out by the Norwegian Local Radio Association, in response to the government’s decision to kill FM radio. Oslo,...
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about ambition

  23-04-2015 21:00
  
  Hopes, dreams and plans … can they be hardened into action? Whether they stay as fantasy or become reality, suggest songs that capture what we want to become
  “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine,” said Elvis Presley, whose motor roared into action with as much thrust as any famous figure in music’s history. But once on the road, ambitions can change, and where the King was concerned, this came around 1960 when, until his incredible ’68 comeback concert, he spent most of the decade mak
  
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• Ne-Yo: “Streaming Companies Enjoy Billion-Dollar Revenues at Our Expense…”

  23-04-2015 20:59
  
  The following op-ed comes from Ne-Yo, one of the most successful songwriters in the world. Songwriters shouldn’t have to subsidize the billion-dollar streaming industry. The music...
  
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• WWE's Renee Young Reckons Noel And Liam Gallagher's Harmonising Could See Oasis Reform

  23-04-2015 19:56
  
  Oasis megafan says: “That’s why Oasis will ultimately get back together, they just got to harmonise”
  
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• Smule Raises $38 Million for Music-Making Apps

  23-04-2015 19:52
  
  Smule has announced that they’ve raised $38 million in equity and debt funding. The round was led by Adam Street Partners. Previous investors who also...
  
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• Heaven Knows I’m Mexican Now: Morrissey's Latino connection goes live

  23-04-2015 19:47
  
  His music is much loved in Mexico. And now the country’s top musicians are giving the Moz’s songs a remix in LondonIt was a lyric about Reggie Kray that really stumped Camilo Lara. Translating Morrissey lyrics into Spanish had been proving tricky enough for the Mexican Institute of Sound DJ, what with Moz’s fondness for black humour and elegant phrasing. But the east London criminal namechecked in Last of the Famous International Playboys? Nobody in Mexico City was likely to know who he wa
  
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• Schubert String Quintet in C major CD review – sounds lovely but puzzlingly laid-back

  23-04-2015 19:44
  
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• Harry Styles Looks Great Even With Chips Up His Nose, Because Of Course

  23-04-2015 19:38
  
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• Janáček: Orchestral Works Vol II CD review – rhapsodies with grit

  23-04-2015 19:30
  
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• Xenakis: IX CD review – delicacy and swing

  23-04-2015 19:15
  
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• Tori Amos: 'I’m too raw for straight men. They are tortured by my shows'

  23-04-2015 19:00
  
  Almost 25 years since her debut album, the ‘Cornflake Girl’ has a teenage daughter, knows how to handle onstage malfunctions and still loves Madonna Hi, Tori! Nine in the morning is early to be doing an interview.I’m always up by now. I’m more of an early bird these days. Our daughter Tash is in school in London, but we’re with her a few days a week. (1) Mark [Hawley, her husband] has a studio here and that’s where we’re working on the Light Princess album (2), but teenagers change
  
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• Castiglioni: La Buranella; Altisonanza; Salmo XIX CD review – muscle as well as beauty

  23-04-2015 19:00
  
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• Wait, Did Demi Lovato Try The #KylieJennerChallenge?!

  23-04-2015 18:56
  
  No no no this can't be really happening...
  
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• TIDAL Is Going to Let Indie Artists Upload Their Music Directly

  23-04-2015 18:44
  
  TIDAL is coming off the download high that their celebrity-studded launch gave them, but they aren’t fading into obscurity just yet. Comparing TIDAL and Spotify...
  
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• Ellie Goulding And Major Lazer Team Up For New Song Powerful

  23-04-2015 18:34
  
  And it’s a bit good.
  
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• Carly Rae Jepsen: ‘I sound gritty because I was vaping for a week’

  23-04-2015 18:19
  
  Call Me Maybe was the song of 2012, yet the Canadian singer admits she didn’t want it released as the lead single off her album Kiss. She talks about being pigeonholed, going super-viral and getting hooked on fake cigarettesLast month, appearing on US television at the beginning of the promotional campaign for her ludicrously catchy new single I Really Like You, Carly Rae Jepsen did something genuinely shocking; she forgot the lyrics to a song so embedded in popular culture it has been sung by
  
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• The Rock Says Furious 8 COULD Happen, But Not For A While

  23-04-2015 17:40
  
  “Vin and I were talking the other day and we think the best thing [is] to probably create a little bit of space," says megastar...
  
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• Could Blur And Oasis Be Headlining Glastonbury? TOGETHER?!

  23-04-2015 17:23
  
  A new album, a reformation, could this be the news we’ve all been waiting for?
  
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• Courteney Cox Kinda Forgot About Ugly Naked Guy And We're Heartbroken

  23-04-2015 17:17
  
  Eww, look. Ugly Naked Guy lit a bunch of candles.
  
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• Bonkaz Drops Highly Anticipated ‘We Run The Block’

  23-04-2015 16:52
  
  Listen to the UK Rapper’s single here...
  
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• Bruce Jenner Wants To Know How His Story Ends (And So Do We!)

  23-04-2015 16:38
  
  Another preview from his tell-all interview with Diane Sawyer has landed and it looks totes emosh...
  
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• Kanye West Just Can’t Make Up His Mind About All This TIDAL Stuff

  23-04-2015 16:24
  
  Is this him recognising that it’s kind of a flop?
  
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• Shawn Mendes Is The Youngest Artist Since Justin Bieber To Top The Billboard Album Chart

  23-04-2015 16:17
  
  Plus watch an exclusive performance of 'Something Big' for this week's MTV PUSH treat...
  
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• Lindsay Lohan Gets Cheeky For Notion Mag, But Wears Knickers With Her Fur Coat

  23-04-2015 16:11
  
  Notion reveal their fourth issue 69 cover star and she’s a good ’un…
  
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• Amy Schumer Take Note: This Is How You Get Kanye West's Attention

  23-04-2015 16:02
  
  Oh so he DOESN'T want women falling at his feet?
  
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• Dwayne Johnson Teases 'Fast & Furious 8' Could Happen Without Paul Walker

  23-04-2015 15:56
  
  However, the actor says the cast and crew are currently riding the success of the seventh flick before "talks" can happen...
  
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• Tidal Music App Crashes Down The Charts

  23-04-2015 15:38
  Tidal - the service backed by the likes of Madonna and Kanye West to take on Spotify - appears to have flopped. Last week Kanye West deleted most of his tweets about Tidal, and removed his Tidal Twitter avatar.
  
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• Cara Delevingne Tweets She’s “Very Much In Love” & St. Vincent Retweets It!

  23-04-2015 15:33
  
  Rumours of a split between Cara and Annie appear to be just that…
  
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• Video Premiere | Howling 'Stole The Night'

  23-04-2015 15:00
  
  Exclusive | Ry X and Âme's Frank Wiedemann come together for this darkly beautiful video...
  
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• Chris Brown's Baby Daughter Is Already A Mini Beyoncé In The Making

  23-04-2015 14:58
  
  Sassy starts at a seriously young age these days...
  
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• Zayn Malik Planned To Quit One Direction A Year Ago? Say It Ain't So

  23-04-2015 14:28
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• 7 Songs Guaranteed To 'Shut Down The Dance'

  23-04-2015 14:19
  
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• Has The Reason Why Big Sean Dumped Ariana Grande Been Revealed?

  23-04-2015 14:10
  
  TMZ claims her "immaturity" pushed the rapper over the edge...
  
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• The Directioners Are Seriously Hating On Naughty Boy Right Now, Uh Oh!

  23-04-2015 13:59
  
  Zayn Malik has found himself in the middle of a heated debate...
  
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• Taylor Swift Guest Edits Glamour’s June Issue, Flashes Her Pants On The Cover

  23-04-2015 13:56
  
  Swifty does an Anna Wintour for the new issue of Glamour (and we don’t mean the knicker flashing)…
  
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• Westlife's Markus Feehily Gives His Opinion On Zayn Leaving One Direction

  23-04-2015 13:23
  
  Former boyband star reveals he 'admires' the former 1D star for leaving the group...
  
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• Sheamus Tells The Whole World To Kiss His A***

  23-04-2015 13:05
  
  WWE's Irish hard man reveals he has no time for "underdog" superstars ahead of this weekend's Extreme Rules...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Has Exec Produced A Documentary About Mental Illness & Social Media

  23-04-2015 13:03
  
  #RedFlag will premiere on May 5th – but what should we expect?
  
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• The Truth About Porn Revealed: We Bust The Biggest Myths

  23-04-2015 13:01
  
  Our very own Becca Dudley chats to an adult film star to uncover the biggest myths around the porn industry...
  
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