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• NBC silences Janelle Monáe during Black Lives Matter speech

  16-08-2015 19:45
  Singer talks about police brutality after Today show performance of new protest song Hell You Talmbout and anchor cuts her offSinger Janelle Monáe was in effect silenced during an appearance on NBC’s Today show on Friday morning, shortly after saying in a speech in support of the Black Lives Matter movement: “We will not be silenced.” Related: 'I dream about it every night': what happens to Americans who film police violence?Continue reading...
  
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• Nines Drops New Mixtape: 'One Foot In'

  16-08-2015 18:32
  
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• Anna Calvi attacks pressure put on women

  16-08-2015 17:30
  
  The Mercury Music Prize-nominated singer thinks society is regressing in gender roles.
  
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• Blizzard's New Single 'Come At Me Bro' Means Business

  16-08-2015 17:25
  
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• Captain America And Iron Man Throw Down In Trailer For Movie Threequel

  16-08-2015 17:09
  
  Superheroes at war are the surprise hit of D23...
  
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• RSNO/Gardner at Edinburgh festival review – thrillingly stark Sibelius

  16-08-2015 16:52
  Usher Hall, EdinburghEdward Gardner bought out the drama in the Finnish composer’s Kullervo following a long-awaited festival debut from soloist Colin CurrieSibelius was young and intense when he wrote Kullervo, an epic combination of symphony and cantata that he infused with such bombastic patriotism he would later look back and cringe. “This Finnishness has got into my flesh and blood,” he told his future wife while working on the score, and boy, does the music let it show. T
  
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• Tough Love / Ginuwine - Interview

  16-08-2015 16:19
  
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• AR Rahman review – impressively varied if patchy

  16-08-2015 15:59
  O2 Arena, LondonThe Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire composer showed his gift for fusion, but this show lacked spectacle and his most popular hits went to wasteThis should have been a glorious celebratory party. It was Indian Independence Day and the country’s best-loved and bestselling songwriter was promising “The Greatest Hits Live”. AR Rahman has enjoyed an extraordinary career, providing soundtracks more than 100 films since the early 90s, while his Oscar-winning music fo
  
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• Did Kris Jenner Try To Set Kendall Up With Zayn Malik?

  16-08-2015 14:04
  
  Reality TV matriarch reportedly left daughter red-faced...
  
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• BBCSSO/Dausgaard review – striking Sibelius with smudges and sweep

  16-08-2015 13:57
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  Thomas Dausgaard’s rough-and-ready Finlandia showed character, but it was the Second Symphony that proved the highlight of this all-Sibelius celebrationSibelius featured on the first night of this year’s Proms, though the main celebrations of the Finnish composer’s 150th birthday have come later in the season with a series of concerts begun by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The second performance was given under the ensemble’s principal gue
  
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• Singer Anna Calvi attacks pressure put on women

  16-08-2015 13:07
  
  Singer Anna Calvi has hit out at pressure put on women to be "beyond perfection" after being asked highly gendered questions when she became famous.
  
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• The First Poster For Star Wars: The Force Awakens Is Here And It Is Amazing

  16-08-2015 11:35
  
  Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Harrison Ford appear in artwork...
  
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• Hold On, Is Zayn Malik Moving To Los Angeles?

  16-08-2015 11:07
  
  Former One Direction star reportedly house-hunting...
  
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• Swift Harmony! Taylor Swift Becomes 'Twinzies' With Fifth Harmony At Gig

  16-08-2015 10:18
  
  Pop star dresses in matching outfit with girl group as they join her on stage...
  
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• Dr Dre: Compton review – velvety production and righteous anger

  16-08-2015 10:00
  (Aftermath/Interscope)Reviewers often have an ongoing list of albums in production. These LPs hang around under the heading “forthcoming”, “TBC” or “YR” – “yeah, right”. Here, alongside My Bloody Valentine and D’Angelo, Guns N’ Roses spent the noughties with Dr Dre, as their Chinese Democracy album and Dre’s magnum opus, Detox, lingered indefinitely in that limbo reserved for rich, attention-deficient perfectionists.It is ax
  
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• Felicity Jones Is So Badass In Star Wars: Rogue One Cast Photo

  16-08-2015 09:48
  
  British star looks grimy and dangerous in exciting snap...
  
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• On my radar: Jonny Greenwood’s cultural highlights

  16-08-2015 09:30
  The Radiohead musician on his debt to Clive James, the comedy podcasts of Richard Herring, and why Netflix drives him crazyJonny Greenwood is the lead guitarist and keyboard player in Radiohead and has composed a number of film soundtracks, including Norwegian Wood, The Master and Inherent Vice. Born in Oxford in 1971, the multi-instrumentalist enrolled to study psychology and music at Oxford Brookes University, but left after his first term when Radiohead signed a six-album deal with EMI. Green
  
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• The Last Hotel; Rudolf Buchbinder; Modigliani Quartet; L’heure espagnole/ L’enfant et les sortilèges – review

  16-08-2015 09:15
  Royal Lyceum; Playfair Library, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh; Glyndebourne, East Sussex
  Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s dark, intoxicating new chamber opera appeals to head and heartA gas cylinder, a tube, a plastic bag and a few coloured balloons to cheer the final journey: even diehard optimists would find the fixtures and fittings in this desolate hotel room enough to bring on the blues. Yet the world premiere of The Last Hotel, a collaboration between the composer Donnacha Dennehy a
  
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• 9 Things Anyone With An Embarrassing Mum Knows To Be True, As Demonstrated By Madonna

  16-08-2015 01:06
  
  Does she *have* to dance like that in public?
  
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• Paul Young: 'Best of' album has made me ready to go solo again

  16-08-2015 01:02
  
  The No Parlez singer felt nostalgic after helping choose tracks for a compilation of his hits.
  
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