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• BB King fans flock to his legendary Mississippi club to pay tribute

  16-05-2015 20:55
  
  Club Ebony, which once hosted the likes of Howlin’ Wolf and James Brown, opened its doors again Friday to commemorate the guitarist Related: 'We all have the blues': tributes pour in after BB King dies aged 89 Club Ebony was once a hopping juke joint, a place where blues masters BB King, Little Milton and Howlin’ Wolf performed for residents of a humble farming community looking to spice up their Saturday nights with dinner, dancing and maybe some drinks. Related: BB King obituaryContinue re
  
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• Kendall Jenner And Kourtney Kardashian In Amazing 'Twins' Pic

  16-05-2015 17:17
  
  Kris Jenner marvels that she gave birth to both of them...
  
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• Kendall Jenner And Kourtney Kardashian In Amazing "Twins' Pic

  16-05-2015 17:17
  
  Kris Jenner marvels that she gave birth to both of them...
  
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• Kendall Jenner And Kourtney Kardashian In Amazing Height-Difference Pic

  16-05-2015 17:17
  
  Kris Jenner marvels that she gave birth to both of them...
  
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• Taylor Swift And Martha Hunt Team Up For New Bad Blood Teaser Poster

  16-05-2015 15:46
  
  Singer and model look deadly with samurai swords in latest promo artwork...
  
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• Fifty years on, Grateful Dead tour breaks box-office records

  16-05-2015 13:35
  
  Fans fork out $50m for farewell shows but some ‘Deadheads’ accuse the West Coast band of ‘selling out’ and betraying hippy ideals Continue reading...
  
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• Willie Nelson memoir: my lowest point – and my first hit

  16-05-2015 13:00
  
  One cold night in Nashville, the young Willie Nelson lay down in the road. Would anyone give him a break? In this exclusive extract from his new book, he describes the moment his luck turned Continue reading...
  
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• Willie Nelson: ‘I’ve bought a lot of pot, and now I’m selling some back’

  16-05-2015 13:00
  
  Four wives, seven children, 350 albums and his own line in marijuana: Willie Nelson has never done anything by halves. Lifelong fan Zoë Heller boards the tour busI walk up and down 57th Street a couple of times before I spot Willie Nelson’s tour bus, Honeysuckle Rose V. Oh, the disappointment! The Honeysuckles of yore – the ones he rode in the 80s and 90s – were gaudy, brown and silver behemoths with western scenes painted on their flanks; this sleek, bullet-grey vehicle has all the chara
  
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• Two Become One As Geri Halliwell Gets Married - But Where Were The Spice Girls?

  16-05-2015 12:43
  
  Emma Bunton is her only former bandmate to turn up for her big day...
  
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• Tom Hardy On Crack Addiction: I'd Have Sold My Mum For A Rock

  16-05-2015 11:46
  
  Actor declares that he is lucky to be alive...
  
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• Pupils Trick Teacher Into Letting Them Watch Fifty Shades Of Grey In Class

  16-05-2015 10:59
  
  Cheeky kids take advantage of naive teacher...
  
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• Rita Ora Gets Braid In Full For Her New Hairdo

  16-05-2015 10:18
  
  Pop star shares snaps on Instagram...
  
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• Shamir, Steve Gunn, Unknown Mortal Orchestra: this week’s new live music

  16-05-2015 10:00
  
  Shamir | Steve Gunn | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Bradford Threadfest | Stefano Bollani | Welsh National Opera: Peter Pan Continue reading...
  
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• Joe Goddard's favourite synths

  16-05-2015 10:00
  
  Hot Chip’s self-confessed synthesizer addict has 15 of the things clogging up his living room. He gets techie about the best classic models Continue reading...
  
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• Hot Chip: ‘Come along, have some punctual fun. That's the Hot Chip pledge’

  16-05-2015 10:00
  
  The band has been blending distinctive dance-pop hybrids for 15 years, and now they’re back with a new album. But what makes them tick? And how do they stay relevant?Read more of Hot Chip’s specially curated culture content Continue reading...
  
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• Alexis Taylor and David Byrne: in conversation

  16-05-2015 10:00
  
  The Hot Chip frontman and Talking Heads legend fire up Skype for a candid chat about collaboration, cybernetics and how best to cover Prince Continue reading...
  
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• James Joyce, Moodymann and Bloodline: Hot Chip's culture matrix

  16-05-2015 10:00
  
  The British pop band map out their culture picks on a big sheet of graph paper, taking in everything from the urbane to the unashamedly trashyRead more of Hot Chip’s specially curated culture content Continue reading...
  
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• Believe in miracles: Errol Brown by Pete Fowler - cartoon

  16-05-2015 10:00
  
  Peter Fowler, the Hot Chip tour DJ and Welsh illustrator best known for his work with Super Furry Animals, imagines the late Errol Brown’s party in heavenRead more of Hot Chip’s specially curated content Continue reading...
  
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• Cerys Matthews: modern music to complement the 70s revival

  16-05-2015 07:00
  
  Dr Crotchety, our musical agony aunt’s alter ego, goes back to the 70s futureI’ve seen denim button-up skirts and cork wedges filling the racks. Is there any new music that follows this 70s style? I want to dive in. Continue reading...
  
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• Hot Chip's Guardian edit

  16-05-2015 07:00
  
  What happens when you give one of Britain’s best-loved pop bands the freedom to commission their own content? An interview with David Byrne, gaming with Peter Serafinowizc and nerding out over synths…Ever since they bounded onto the scene singing about toy monkeys and miniature cymbals, Hot Chip have stuck out as dance-pop’s odd guys. They wear funny outfits, their singer sounds sombre, and they distil influences like Roxy Music and Prince, Arthur Russell and Madonna with a nerdy zeal. Ten
  
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• The art of FKA Twigs’ music videos dissected

  16-05-2015 06:59
  
  Music video maverick FKA Twigs is creating seven short films for this year’s Manchester international festival. Here Neil Dougan, a media lecturer at Bolton University, breaks down her best clips
  • The Guardian is the festival’s media partnerWe start with a close-up of Twigs’s mouth, and a slow zoom-out reveals her trussed in ropes of her own hair, suspended from a ceiling. It’s a powerful image created by Twigs and co-director Paula Harrowing, echoing the vulnerability and pain in the
  
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• B.B. King and Robert Drasnin Have Passed Away

  16-05-2015 01:42
  
  Legendary blues musician B.B. King passed away on May 14th. King passed in his home in hospice care. He was 98 years old. Composer Robert Drasnin has passed away, according to...
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