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• Winehouse family criticizes 'misleading' movie about singer

  26-04-2015 23:49
  
  LONDON (AP) — The family of Amy Winehouse has criticized a documentary about the late singer that is due to have its premiere at next month's Cannes Film Festival.
  
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• Amy Winehouse family publicly condemn Asif Kapadia's new documentary on singer

  26-04-2015 23:16
  
  Singer’s family claims it’s “misleading”, while film makers say they approached it with “total objectivity”.
  
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• Wiz Khalifa Holds On To UK No 1 Single

  26-04-2015 20:56
  
  As Josh Groban goes straight in at top of albums chart...
  
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• Wiz Khalifa's tribute to Furious 7's Walker keeps UK chart top spot

  26-04-2015 19:01
  
  American rapper Wiz Khalifa's tribute to actor Paul Walker, "See You Again", kept the top spot in Britain's music charts for a second week, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday, saying it had also broken the country's all-time streaming record. The song, featuring Charlie Puth, is on the sound track to the movie "Furious 7", and pays tribute to cast member Walker who died during filming in November 2013. A remix of OMI's 2012 reggae song "Cheerl
  
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• Holly Herndon: the queen of tech-topia

  26-04-2015 19:00
  
  Acrylic nails tapping on a smartphone, Skype breakups, pop-up adverts … it’s all music to Holly Herndon. We meet the avant-garde techno producer bringing ‘paradise politics’ to the dancefloorWhich musical instrument conveys the most emotion? Piano, cello, guitar? For Holly Herndon, whose ultra-contemporary compositions reflect on everything from targeted advertising to betrayal by the NSA, it’s the laptop.“A lot of people complain about it being less engaging, less natural, less emot
  
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• Marc Almond review – songs of life before Tainted Love

  26-04-2015 17:27
  
  Leeds Town Hall The former Soft Cell frontman was on impish form, revelling in bawdy humour, past hits and his childhood memories of Southport beach Continue reading...
  
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• Skepta’s New Single is a ‘Shutdown’

  26-04-2015 16:36
  
  Listen to the Grime legend’s new release here...
  
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• BBC Philharmonic/Gourlay review – Rachmaninov and Ravel’s grand face-off

  26-04-2015 16:15
  
  Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
  Fine playing from four pianists – Martin Roscoe, Kathryn Stott, Peter Donohoe and Noriko Ogawa – revealed the connections between the two very different composers in this concert series finale Continue reading...
  
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• CBSO/Gardner review – an invigorating all-English programme

  26-04-2015 16:05
  
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  The CBSO were on blistering form in Tippett’s fiendish Second Symphony, while Alban Gerhardt brought out the vulnerable side of Elgar’s Cello Concerto Continue reading...
  
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• Snoop Dogg: ‘Pharrell loves to critique me’

  26-04-2015 13:00
  
  After his flirtation with Rastafaria, Snoop Dogg is back in his biggest ever collaboration with Pharrell. He talks to Luke Bainbridge about convincing Stevie Wonder and Kendrick Lamar on to his record, prize swedes and why he could never be a politicianIt’s pretty unusual to smell someone’s presence before you see them, before you’re even in the same room. But with Snoop Dogg you’d almost feel cheated if you didn’t. Sure enough, before I even enter the London studio where I’m meeting
  
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• Ariana Grande And Fifth Harmony Win Big At 2015 Radio Disney Music Awards

  26-04-2015 10:40
  
  Popstars are celebrated for their musical achievements…
  
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• Do the charts matter in the age of Spotify?

  26-04-2015 10:15
  
  The BBC is about to launch a new chart show, on children’s channel CBBC. But with our increasingly fragmented listening, will it have any relevance? Continue reading...
  
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• Liam Payne Hints One Direction Are Playing Capital FM's Summertime Ball

  26-04-2015 10:10
  
  Boy band member tells warns fans of big news coming tomorrow...
  
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• Ryan Reynolds Gets Bloodied-Up For Deadpool

  26-04-2015 10:05
  
  Actor shares a snap from the set of his new movie...
  
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• Laura Marling review – tough, tender and all points in between

  26-04-2015 10:00
  
  Corn Exchange, CambridgeLaura Marling goes properly electric in a riveting set that showcases her increasingly muscular songs Continue reading...
  
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• Super Furry Animals: ‘Any more years for the Conservative party and it’s going to be disastrous’

  26-04-2015 10:00
  
  Beloved pop collective Super Furry Animals will play their first gigs in six years next month. As they also prepare to reissue their Welsh-language classic Mwng, they talk to Laura Barton about politics, patriotism and the joys of touringAt the back of the storage unit the photographer’s assistant holds up a silver space helmet. “Is this theirs?” she asks. We are at the Musicbox, a hub for the Cardiff music scene, where Super Furry Animals have long rehearsed – and where they keep the ac
  
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• Solange Knowles Channels Big Bird At Fashion Bash

  26-04-2015 09:32
  
  Pop star stuns in eye-catching yellow fur coat...
  
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• Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim/Martha Argerich/Lisa Batiashvili review – an exceptional musical moment

  26-04-2015 09:30
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Childhood friends Barenboim and Argerich conjured unforgettable magic, while Lisa Batiashvili was an electrifying soloist later in the week Continue reading...
  
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• Blur: The Magic Whip review – a different sort of creature to its predecessors

  26-04-2015 09:30
  
  (EMI)In a recent interview, Blur guitarist Graham Coxon described the impromptu recording sessions in 2013 that led to The Magic Whip, Blur’s first album as a foursome in 16 years. The Hong Kong facility was cramped; the instruments ranged from rudimentary to esoteric; the band were often physically touching. “We were making sounds that were not particularly Blur sounds in this very un-Blur city in a very un-Blur studio,” explained Coxon, whose mission it became to transform these sketches
  
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• Kris Humphries Backtracks Over Bruce Jenner Mean Tweet

  26-04-2015 09:10
  
  Kim's former hubby 'clarifies' message that caused a Twitterstorm...
  
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• La clarinette française CD review – totally charming

  26-04-2015 09:00
  
  Lisa Shklyaver (clarinet), Jos van Immerseel (piano)
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• George FitzGerald: Fading Love review – intimate and beautifully textured

  26-04-2015 09:00
  
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• Eska: Eska review – session singer takes centre stage with ‘mind-bending gem’

  26-04-2015 09:00
  
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• Bill Fay: Who is the Sender? review – rich follow-up to unlikely comeback

  26-04-2015 09:00
  
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• Thomas Gould: Live in Riga review – poetic and elegant in Beethoven and The Lark Ascending

  26-04-2015 09:00
  
  Thomas Gould (violin), Sinfonietta Riga
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• Jackie Oates: The Spyglass & the Herringbone review – bright as a May morn

  26-04-2015 09:00
  
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