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• OMG! Have One Direction Really Agreed 'To Disband In March'?

  23-08-2015 23:57
  
  Boy band reportedly won't tour their fifth album...
  
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• WWE SummerSlam: Dean Ambrose Backing Seth Rollins To Beat John Cena

  23-08-2015 22:08
  
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• Kim Kardashian Visits Seriously Ill Fan In Hospital

  23-08-2015 18:41
  
  Reality TV queen answers Make-A-Wish plea...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Visits Serious Ill Fan In Hospital

  23-08-2015 18:41
  
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• Foo Fighters 'Rickroll' Anti-Gay Protesters

  23-08-2015 16:54
  
  When members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church demonstrated outside a venue where the Foo Fighters were to perform, the group hit back with the power of music and "Rickrolling". Frontman Dave Grohl and fellow bandmates danced on the back of a truck as Rick Astley's 1987 single "Never Gonna Give You Up" blared out in front of the street protest. The US musicians also held up signs saying "Keep it Clean" and "You Got Rick Roll'd Again" outside the Sprint Center in Kansas City, where Westboro
  
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• This Lego Jurassic World Video Is Everything

  23-08-2015 14:55
  
  Chris Pratt and co get a blocky makeover...
  
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• Morrissey's first novel, List of the Lost, to be published in September

  23-08-2015 13:31
  Fansite True to You announces that the book will be published by PenguinMorrissey may have had a troubled couple of years, with health issues forcing the cancellation of gigs, but as he pointed out on the Smiths’ third single, “the devil will find work for idle hands to do” – and in this case, Lucifer has had the singer writing his debut novel.List of the Lost will be published next month, according to the Morrissey fansite True To You, which is regarded as the nearest th
  
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• #MTVFestivalSeason: Kasabian, Olly Murs & Sam Smith Make V Festival's 20th Birthday One To Remember

  23-08-2015 13:30
  
  The lads all brought their own unique highlights to day one of V Festival 2015...
  
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• Kasabian Share The Goss On That Disclosure Stage Invasion

  23-08-2015 13:20
  
  Before they went on to smash their set at V Festival...
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Caught In Bed With Kris Jenner

  23-08-2015 12:21
  
  Movie star and reality TV matriarch muck around on Instagram...
  
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• Now Example And Conor Maynard Have Told Zayn Malik To Pipe Down

  23-08-2015 11:50
  
  Former One Directioner is criticised by fellow pop stars...
  
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• Wiz Khalifa 'Slammed And Cuffed' For Riding Hoverboard In Airport

  23-08-2015 11:31
  
  Rapper taken down by seven cops for refusing to get off device...
  
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• Rita Ora: 'I'm In Therapy For Death Phobia'

  23-08-2015 11:05
  
  X Factor judge reportedly seeking help for anxiety issues...
  
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• WWE NXT TakeOver Brooklyn Results: Triple H Announces UK Tour!

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• Beach House: Depression Cherry review – indie pop’s abstract expressionists

  23-08-2015 10:00
  (Bella Union)Reliability is seldom given its due in art. The idea of the bloody-minded maverick is deeply rooted, particularly in the creative thickets abutting the mainstream. (Blame Bob Dylan.) Creativity, in this discourse, is all about risk-taking; switching it up.Spare a thought, then, for Beach House, Baltimore purveyors of gauzy and somnambulant pop. The duo have been astonishingly consistent in pursuit of one sound throughout a decade and five albums, growing a fanbase, probably turning
  
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• Sadie Harrison: Solos and Duos for Piano and Strings CD review – glittering intensity

  23-08-2015 09:02
  Peter Sheppard-Skaerved (violin), Roderick Chadwick (piano), Diana Mathews (viola), Mihailo Trandafilovski (violin)
  (Toccata Classics)Australian-born and UK-based, Sadie Harrison took some time out from composition to work as an archaeologist and professional gardener, activities which nourish these new works, mostly written in the past four years. Her fascination with fragments, minutiae and painted miniatures has resulted in five groups of tiny pieces each lasting around three minutes or less.
  
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• Wes Montgomery: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Broadcasts review – a mellow reminder from the past

  23-08-2015 09:00
  (Jazz on Jazz)New York’s night-time airwaves used to be full of stuff like this: casual live broadcasts from Manhattan jazz clubs. Not programmes exactly, more slices of reality-jazz radio. Here we have the late Wes Montgomery, still a powerful influence on today’s guitarists, and the Wynton Kelly Trio at the Half Note, a comfortable little joint in the Village. Like most unmediated recordings, this has its ups and downs, but Montgomery’s fluency and the whole band’s rela
  
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• The Bohicas: The Making Of review – ‘high-velocity moshpit riffing’

  23-08-2015 09:00
  (Domino)“You’ve heard it all before but baby we’re just to die for,” drawls one of the choruses here, a bullish sales pitch for the Bohicas’ music in general. The Essex quartet strive for the surge and swoon of rock’n’roll and aren’t remotely fussed about breaking new ground. There’s an undeniable thrill in the high-velocity charge of tracks such as Swarm, the kind of pell-mell riffing indie moshpits were made for, and Red Raw does
  
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• Sunn O))); Atomic Bomb! review – cacophony in the key of ))) major

  23-08-2015 09:00
  Meltdown festival, Royal Festival Hall, London
  The Seattle noise merchants cover Meltdown in dry ice and primal frequencies, while David Byrne and co celebrate cult songsmith William OnyeaborWere the Southbank hoping they’d bought a little more star power when they netted arch-collaborator David Byrne – former Talking Head, owner of world music label Luaka Bop, and recent author of How Music Works – as Meltdown curator?A glance down the “what’s on” list of thi
  
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• Salzburg festival 2015; Opera UpClose: Carmen; Grimeborn: La bohème – a great escape and small adventures

  23-08-2015 09:00
  Salzburg, Austria; Soho theatre; Arcola theatre, London
  Jonas Kaufmann in Fidelio was just one star attraction at glitzy Salzburg. But pocket-sized festivals can be beautiful tooJonas Kaufmann, currently one of the most revered names in the classical world, hurled himself across the stage, writhing and rolling and stopping just short of the orchestra pit where the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – another of the most revered etcetera – nearly found the alluring German tenor in their la
  
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• Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats review – rootsy soul with real heart

  23-08-2015 09:00
  (Stax)Having made the entirely sensible decision to buck up his rather run-of-the-mill Americana with a sassy new band and a shot of brass, Denver songwriter Rateliff finds his move validated by a release on venerable label Stax. If his fourth album doesn’t quite live up to that pedigree, its rootsy take on soul – swigging deep from the spirit of Van Morrison and the E Street Band and ending up in a warm O-Dexys-Where-Art-Thou fug – is rambunctiously satisfying, powered by knee
  
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• GentleFolk: Into the Greenwood review – consciously quaint but equally charming

  23-08-2015 09:00
  (Dharma)Trees, woods and forests play a major role in folklore and folk song, where paeans to oak, ash, thorn and holly are commonplace. Here, south London bard Nigel Hoyle reasserts the tradition with a set of original numbers promising “a journey through the old woods of England”; among them Brighton’s elms, Kent’s service trees and Dartmoor’s oaks. Guitar, fiddle, cello, flute and shruti box (a hand-held harmonium) provide a slightly rickety, drone-heavy backdrop
  
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• Contradictions by Paul Smith and the Intimations review – vivid imagery

  23-08-2015 09:00
  (Billingham)Newcastle’s Maximo Park stood out among the glut of British guitar bands that came to prominence a decade ago thanks to lyrics that suggested frontman Paul Smith had spent his youth reading books, as opposed to engaging in petty crime like some of his peers. That literary sense extends to his second solo album, with vivid imagery illuminating these 13 songs. Musically, there’s a loose, relaxed feel, the likes of All the Things You’d Like to Be sounding oddly summery
  
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• Cerys Matthews: I’m forever on my hands and knees getting food off my records

  23-08-2015 09:00
  The singer and 6 Music presenter on proper curries and childhood foodMy first memory, at three or four, is of a huge old sow falling from a trailer in front of us on a Pembrokeshire lane and my mother bursting into the folk song Mochyn Du [Black Pig] – “Oh how tasty a bit of pig meat, with potato as a rare treat”.When they lived in Sheffield, before I was born, my parents’ neighbours were Gujaratis who taught Mum to make proper curries. They remain my favourite meals, pre
  
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• Brahms: Songs Vol 6 CD review – just the right level of ardour

  23-08-2015 09:00
  Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)(Hyperion)Graham Johnson has accompanied Angelika Kirchschlager, Christine Schäfer, Simon Bode, Robert Holl and Christopher Maltman so far in Hyperion’s questing journey through all of Brahms’s songs. Now he and tenor Ian Bostridge breathe new life into Lieder und Gesänge, Op 32, Vier Lied, Op 96 and other individual items. The lovesick texts are somewhat overwrought and highly coloured to modern ears, but Bostridge is total
  
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• Bach: Goldberg Variations CD review – simplicity and wit from Lars Vogt

  23-08-2015 09:00
  Lars Vogt (piano)(Ondine)Every keyboard player wants to play Bach’s Goldberg Variations, immortalised for modern times by Glenn Gould in two sets of recordings, and by András Schiff among countless others. The German pianist Lars Vogt refers to this 75-minute work as a “sacred object”. It was 17 years before he was ready to record it. Informed by period performance practice but playing on a modern grand, Vogt uses very little pedal and keeps ornaments clean and graceful.
  
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• Drinks: Hermits on Holiday review – a disappointing collaboration

  23-08-2015 08:59
  (Birth/Heavenly)Quite what one should expect from a collaboration between Welsh indie chanteuse Cate Le Bon and US DIY psychedelic outlier Tim Presley, latterly of White Fence, is unclear, but a record that looks to the 60s, tunefully, as album opener Laying Down the Rock does, was one possibility. Instead, the bulk of Hermits on Holiday is an angular, improvisational post-punk confection, a bit more dissonant and Savages and Field Music than you’d wager. As well as intoning, Le Bon can do
  
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• Lemar and Angelo Starr’s special musical relationship

  23-08-2015 07:00
  The Fame Academy singer prizes his guitarist’s experience. And for Angelo, joining the band was like finding a new musical family after the death of his famous brotherWhen Angelo started in my band around 2003, it was shortly after I’d been on Fame Academy. The whole celebrity thing was quite raw for me. I was so caught up in the intensity and whirlwind of fame that I wouldn’t say I engaged with him immediately. But once it came to the rehearsals for my tour I knew he was someo
  
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• Jewish musician faces down controversy with reggae set in Spain

  23-08-2015 03:07
  
  An American Jewish musician who was controversially barred from a reggae festival in Spain before being invited back to play performed to catcalls from some pro-Palestinian protesters on Sunday, though the concert passed off peacefully after a tense build-up. Matisyahu, who fuses reggae, hip-hop and rock with Jewish influences in his songs, was uninvited from the Rototom Sunsplash festival last week when he failed to reply to a demand to clarify his position on Palestinian statehood. Amid a pack
  
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