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• Lianne La Havas: ‘I go to studios and I jam – that’s my job’

  31-05-2015 20:59
  
  Prince drinks tea in her living room and she has a voice that can shatter glass. But don’t go saying La Havas has soulThere have been three seismic shifts in Lianne La Havas’s life since she started releasing music in 2011. The first was a rekindled romance. The second was a trip to Jamaica, where she experienced a creative epiphany. And the third – and possibly the biggest upheaval of all – was the arrival of a small man famous for wearing purple.For two years, she and Prince courted, p
  
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• Jason Derulo Tops Singles Chart With Want To Want Me

  31-05-2015 20:33
  
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• The 1975 tease fans with cartoon suggesting they are to disappear

  31-05-2015 19:00
  
  Band whose debut album topped the charts issue a bizarre statement saying ‘The hardest part of any relationship is to say goodbye’For some time, the 1975 have been teasing some momentous event to take place on 1 June. Now, in a cartoon strip posted to Instagram and Twitter on Sunday afternoon by singer Matty Healy, it is suggested the band – whose debut album was a No 1 hit – might be disappearing for some unspecified period from that date.“Our projected identity must change not only v
  
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• Sun Kil Moon: Universal Themes review – mourning dying possums

  31-05-2015 17:23
  
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• Daniel Barenboim review – Schubert at its most intense

  31-05-2015 17:14
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Performing on his eponymous new piano, a breathtaking Barenboim brought fiery power to Schubert’s sonatas Continue reading...
  
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• Emeli Sande Is Back And She's Got An Awesome New Song For You

  31-05-2015 14:48
  
  Comeback star's new material sounds amazing...
  
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• So, Are Niall Horan And Little Mix Jade An Item Or What?

  31-05-2015 14:24
  
  Twitter goes into meltdown after party video shows pop pair dancing together...
  
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• Pelléas et Mélisande review – superb revival of Debussy’s magical opera

  31-05-2015 14:09
  Millennium Centre, Cardiff
  Welsh National Opera’s David Poutney adds layers of mystery to Debussy’s enigmatic work Continue reading...
  
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• One to watch: Mary Lambert

  31-05-2015 14:00
  
  The Same Love singer with a talent for making people cry explains why stardom has given her reason to be joyful Continue reading...
  
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• Adam Levine Cancels Maroon 5 Gig, Makes Up For It With Naked Video

  31-05-2015 12:48
  
  Poorly star seen in his birthday suit in new pop promo...
  
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• Bryan Ferry review – pop enigma still sets knees trembling

  31-05-2015 12:34
  
  Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
  Ferry is as relaxed yet regal as ever, even as a borderline riot erupts when he breaks out the Roxy Music hits Continue reading...
  
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• Mississippi bids musical farewell to blues legend BB King - video report

  31-05-2015 12:11
  
  Hundreds of mourners gather in Indianola, Mississippi on Saturday to bid farewell to legendary blues giant BB King. The funeral service was held at Bell Grove Baptist Church and the casket was accompanied by his beloved custom-made guitar, Lucille. The 15-time Grammy winner and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was ranked by Rolling Stone Magazine as No. 6 on its 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists Continue reading...
  
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• Is Taylor Swift House-Hunting In Berkshire?

  31-05-2015 11:25
  
  Pop megastar reportedly looking for a blank space to live near the Thames...
  
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• Michelle Keegan And Mark Wright Share First Wedding Picture

  31-05-2015 11:08
  
  Celebland's newest married couple reveal Hello magazine cover...
  
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• ‘Beat the balafons’: Senegal gets back in touch with its true musical roots

  31-05-2015 11:00
  
  In Dakar’s thriving club scene, previously overlooked musical traditions are finding common ground with modern influences such as hip-hopSaturday night in Dakar, Senegal. Youths from outlying suburbs such as Pikine and Guédiawaye are busy reinventing hip-hop. In April, Paris’s Banlieues Bleues festival set aside a whole evening to proclaim that “Dakar is Rap”, celebrating this high-voltage scene that has started airing its views on politics, anything from problems with the water s
  
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• 'Always a rotten apple': BB King, poison and the daughters of an infertile legend

  31-05-2015 11:00
  
  As a blues man is laid to rest in the Mississippi Delta, questions linger about how he died. Between the white horses and the family intrigue, the thrill is never goneBB King always slept with the light on, even as an old man, because he’d never shaken his fear of the dark. One summer night when he was a boy, a tornado howled across the Delta and deposited small fish in the cotton fields and left him in his mother’s arms in a cabin without a roof. Related: BB King was that rare thing –&nbs
  
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• Shirley Collins: ‘When I sing I feel past generations standing behind me’

  31-05-2015 10:45
  
  Shirley Collins is one of the great voices of British folk music. Ahead of a star-studded celebration to mark her 80th birthday, she looks back on a remarkable careerLewes, East Sussex, is a lovely, slyly rebellious town. Pretty shopfronts and streets mask its political history: Thomas Paine wrote his first pamphlet here demanding better rights for workers; Irish Easter Rising revolutionaries were interned in its prison and Lewes Bonfire remains a heartland of anti-establishment fervour every No
  
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• How British MCs found a voice of their own

  31-05-2015 10:00
  
  Has UK rap and grime music finally found the confidence to succeed on its own terms? We talk to the next-gen stars marching to the beat of their own drumSometimes it feels like British rap music has had as many false dawns as So Solid Crew had members. There was the 1990s UK hip-hop generation, the likes of Rodney P, Roots Manuva and Blak Twang, alongside the rave-driven MC cultures of ragga, jungle and UK garage. Then the grime wave of 2003-5, when Dizzee Rascal, Roll Deep, Kano, Wiley, Lethal
  
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• Florence and the Machine: How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful review – big and blue and still on the up

  31-05-2015 10:00
  
  (Island)How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, the title of the third album by Florence and the Machine, looks up and marvels at the sky above Los Angeles. Within the opening retro guitar shimmer of Ship to Wreck, you can tell America and its sounds have increased their hold on Florence Welch, a singer previously best understood as a very British eccentric, one gifted with a megaphone for a larynx and a dressing-up box turned up to 11.Over two hit albums – 2009’s Lungs and 2011’s Ceremonia
  
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• Babes in Toyland review – deliciously righteous anger

  31-05-2015 09:30
  
  O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, LondonThe Minneapolis power-punk trio are back, 25 years after their first single – and with as much raw aggression as ever Continue reading...
  
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• Nick van Bloss/Beethoven: Diabelli Variations review – fast and furious

  31-05-2015 09:00
  
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• Coming up: the gigs and albums not to miss in June

  31-05-2015 09:00
  
  The Observer’s pop critic picks the month’s musical highlights, from the 40th anniversary of Patti Smith’s Horses album to Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour Continue reading...
  
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• John McLeod: Moments in Time review – reflections on conflict and myth

  31-05-2015 09:00
  
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• Soak: Before We Forget How to Dream review – a heartfelt, self-assured debut

  31-05-2015 09:00
  
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• Major Lazer: Peace Is the Mission review – sharply focused third album

  31-05-2015 09:00
  
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• Danny Goffey: soundtrack of my life

  31-05-2015 09:00
  
  The Supergrass co-founder – now with his own band, Vangoffey – on his Dexys obsession, relentless Inspiral Carpets and his sentimental love of the Floyd Continue reading...
  
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