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• Music Review: Dr. Dre's 'Compton' feels classic

  09-08-2015 18:35
  
  Dr. Dre, Compton (Aftermath/Interscope)
  
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• This Is Not A Drill! Ed Sheeran And Nicole Scherzinger Reportedly Dating

  09-08-2015 15:07
  
  Pop stars claimed to be in early stages of relationship...
  
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• FKA Twigs Reveals She Broke Down Over Racist Abuse To Dying Fan

  09-08-2015 14:26
  
  Singer shares heartbreak after terminally ill woman was trolled...
  
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• Has Tyga Just Given Kylie Jenner Ex-GF Blac Chyna's Old Car?

  09-08-2015 13:59
  
  Eagle-eyed hacks notice Mercedes has same registration plate...
  
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• Vegas Baby! Perrie Edwards Wants Everyone To Know She's Having A Ball In Sin City

  09-08-2015 12:23
  
  Little Mix star shares pics and video on Instagram...
  
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• Harry Styles Is A Real-Life Cookie Monster

  09-08-2015 11:49
  
  Star accepts biscuits from young girl and hogs them for himself...
  
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• Kim And Kourtney Kardashian Vamp It Up In Booby Instabanger

  09-08-2015 11:03
  
  Reality TV sisters go goth for photoshoot...
  
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• Kim And Kourtney Kardashian Vamp In Up In Booby Instabanger

  09-08-2015 11:03
  
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• The Sugarhill Gang vs Melle Mel and the Furious Five review – original rappers still delight

  09-08-2015 10:00
  Jazz Cafe, London NW1
  It may be the oldest of old-school hip-hop, but this coming together of the genre’s originators is as fresh as everAnyone who wants to understand the true nature of hip-hop’s perennial concern with “keeping it real” has only to go back to the music’s formative moment. As bold statements riven with ill-concealed ideological fault lines go, Rapper’s Delight – the multimillion selling (numbers were inexact due to bootlegging) 15-minute rhapsody that established r
  
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• Frank Turner: Positive Songs for Negative People review – cryptic struggles and affairs of the heart

  09-08-2015 10:00
  (Xtra Mile/Polydor)Say what you like about Frank Turner’s political leanings – and many people have since an appearance at the Olympics opening ceremony catapulted him to the big league and wider scrutiny in 2012 – it’s hard to deny the passion in his music. When his band Million Dead split in 2005, he retained their punk intensity but started writing songs that were more informed by English folk music. It’s this intensity, allied with an impressive work ethic, that has made him such a
  
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• Tête à Tête festival; BBC Proms review – from the supine to the sublime

  09-08-2015 09:00
  Prone cellists and dodgy acoustics are part of the fun at Tête à Tête. Plus life-changing Bach at the PromsTo compress the entire gamut of a mother-daughter relationship, from labour pangs to death bed, into a pop-up drama involving two singers, two cellists and a pillow stuffed up a dress takes special panache. Opera is what you make it. For the annual Tête à Tête festival nothing is off-limits. Orlando Gough’s My Mother, My Daughter, blunt and beautiful as well as shatt
  
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• Handel in Italy Vol I CD review – a dazzling disc from the Bevan siblings

  09-08-2015 09:00
  Benjamin Bevan, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, London Early Opera/Cunningham
  (Signum)Unlike JS Bach, who hardly ever went outside the central German towns where his family worked, Handel was a cosmopolitan who travelled widely and settled in England. Crucial to his development was a journey to Italy in 1707, where he wrote for cardinals and courts. London Early Opera’s new project gets off to an odd start, with the Gloria discovered in 2001, which may not actually date from the Italian years, but n
  
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• Martin Bussey: Through a Glass: Songs CD review – Marcus Farnsworth on mellifluous form

  09-08-2015 09:00
  Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)/Kemp
  (Resonus)Educationist and musician Martin Bussey (b1958) is a chameleon composer, able effortlessly to adapt his style to the contours of his chosen poetry: warmly lyrical for Housman’s Blue Remembered Hills; interestingly angular for Yeats’s The Mask; silky soft for Auden’s Lay Your Sleeping Head. The Mask opens the cycle Through a Glass, Darkly, composed for Marcus Farnsworth when he was still a student, and scored for string trio
  
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• Jimmy López: Perú Negro, Synesthésie, Lord of the Air, América Salvaje CD review – bold and colourful

  09-08-2015 09:00
  Julius Castro-Balbi (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Harth-Bedoya
  (Harmonia Mundi)
  Virile, noisy and rhythmic, tonal and modal, the music of Peru’s Jimmy López (b1978) is widely known in America but less so to audiences here. (His opera Bel Canto, based on the Ann Patchett novel and starring Renee Fleming, premieres in Chicago later this year.) These orchestral works show the influence of Afro-Peruvian music, in the pulsating Perú Negro especially, but López is also
  
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• Richard Fairhurst and John Taylor: Duets review – remarkable set filled with light and space

  09-08-2015 08:59
  (Basho)Duets for two pianos are rare in jazz. In the past, they were mainly confined to bone-crushing trials of strength between boogie-woogie specialists. There’s none of that here. In fact, the whole set is remarkable for the amount of light and space these virtuosi are careful to include in their joint performance. They’ve been working on the duet format for several years, starting with the exploration of some Bill Evans compositions – three beautifully calm and reflective Evans pieces
  
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• Spotify Preparing to Offer Premium-Only Content, Sources Say

  09-08-2015 08:33
  
  Spotify will soon be shifting towards a premium-only, ‘gated access’ model, according to several sources speaking in confidence with Digital Music News over the weekend.  The...
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• Karen Ruimy: Zik’r East/West review – the foot-rapping strut of Andalucia

  09-08-2015 08:00
  (Karais)Karen Ruimy is a glorious fusion oddity; a French-Moroccan ex-banker who abandoned her steady job at 30 to become a writer and performer. This second album, co-written with producer Youth, accompanies a live show that traces flamenco’s evolution from India to Spain via the Middle East. It’s an intriguing story, with the depth of flamenco’s roots in India brought startlingly to the fore before it turns into the hand-clapping, foot-rapping strut of Andalucia. While Zik’r East lacks
  
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• Julio Bashmore: Knockin’ Boots review – a feelgood blast of house music

  09-08-2015 08:00
  (Broadwalk)Since coming to notice as Julio Bashmore in 2009, Bristol producer and DJ Matt Walker has released a number of high-impact singles, including 2012 Ibiza floorfiller Au Sève, but it’s taken him until now to deliver his debut album. His reticence is understandable – house music often marries unhappily with the album format – but this diverse, engaging and immensely likable collection plays at least as well on headphones as on the dancefloor. It opens with a feelgood blast �
  
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• Health: Death Magic review – dated and attention-seeking

  09-08-2015 08:00
  (Fiction)For Los Angeles noise rockers Health, the apocalypse cannot come soon enough. “Let the guns go off/ Let the bombs explode/ Let the lights go out,” the quartet sing on New Coke, their third album’s first single, marrying the worldview of survivalists to the sound of a Neil Tennant-fronted Nine Inch Nails. As those references indicate, Death Magic is dated and, for all its attention-seeking titles (Drugs Exist, Hurt Yourself), dull. Victim tries to be threatening but fails miserably
  
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• Mac DeMarco: Another One review – wry pop songs about the vicissitudes of love

  09-08-2015 08:00
  (Captured Tracks)Any fans worried that the acclaim for his 2014 album Salad Days might have changed Canadian songwriter Mac DeMarco can rest easy. He continues to craft wry pop songs about the vicissitudes of love and his slackerish geniality pervades Another One, from its hype-diffusing title to the offer of a cup of coffee that he extends to listeners on the final track. Though nothing on this record gives the impression of being overthought, there’s a familiar strangeness to his songwriting
  
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• Georgia: Georgia review – a constantly shifting soundtrack to modern London

  09-08-2015 07:59
  (Domino)On her debut album, inspired in part by her parents’ divorce, 21-year-old Brit school alumna and drummer-for-hire Georgia Barnes has created a constantly shifting soundtrack to modern London. At times bolshy and aggressive (the MIA-esque clatter of Move Systems; Be Ache’s “you’re making me the enemy” mantra), it proffers its own strand of UK hip-hop, weaving in post-punk, grime and airy R&B. There is also heartache bubbling under the surface, specifically on the pretty mini
  
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