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• Readers recommend: favourite songs and playlists | Peter Kimpton

  31-12-2015 21:00
  
  New Year? New perspective. It’s open season time: name songs about writing songs and making playlists, pick your favourite all-time RR themes, and alongside the hits, highlight songs and topics we missed“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with – nothing brings it all to life like an old mixtape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mixtape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story
  
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• Stevie Wright obituary

  31-12-2015 18:29
  
  Singer with the Australian band the Easybeats, best known for their worldwide 1966 hit Friday on My MindFor Australian music fans in the 1960s, the Easybeats were the Beatles and the Stones rolled into one. The group’s vocalist, Stevie Wright, who has died aged 68 after suffering from pneumonia, was one of the most uninhibited and exciting performers of the era, and singers including Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bon Scott of AC/DC and Michael Hutchence of INXS have acknowledged their debt
  
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• Rick Ross: ‘I ain’t trying to keep up with the trends’

  31-12-2015 17:00
  
  Marijuana arrests, kidnapping charges, label tensions: Rick Ross’s life is a rollercoaster. With the release of his new album Black Market, he talks about losing weight, ‘feeding the fans’ and staying at the top of the rap charts for 10 yearsRick Ross knows how to mix business with pleasure. On a promotional trip in New York, last night he kicked it with Floyd Mayweather, courtside at the Brooklyn Nets basketball game. Today, he is canoodling in the studio with his fiancee, the
  
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• 16 Life Changing Beauty Resolutions You Might Actually Keep In 2016

  31-12-2015 15:28
  
  Easy peasy changes that will have big results
  
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• Meet The New Cast Of Ex On The Beach... And You Won't Believe What They Say

  31-12-2015 13:42
  
  Are these the fittest hunks and hotties to hit the show EVER?
  
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• The Reason Kylie Jenner Always Poses With Her Hand Over Her Mouth Kinda Sucks

  31-12-2015 13:40
  
  She's opened up about her natural lips in her ELLE cover interview.
  
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• LCD Soundsystem to play Coachella, say reports

  31-12-2015 13:34
  
  James Murphy will re-form LCD Soundsystem for a slot at the Californian festival, according to the New York TimesLCD Soundsystem could be set for a surprise comeback, with reports suggesting they are due to play California’s Coachella festival in 2016. James Murphy’s seminal electronic outfit have not played live since a farewell show at Madison Square Garden in 2011. According to the New York Times, LCD Soundsystem will be coaxed out of retirement to appear at the festival, alongsid
  
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• Mikkey Dee: Motörhead is over, of course

  31-12-2015 13:01
  
  ‘Lemmy was Motörhead. We won’t be doing any more tours or anything,’ says the late rock star’s bandmate Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee has confirmed that without Lemmy, the band will no longer continue.“Motörhead is over, of course,” he told Sweden’s Expressen newspaper. “Lemmy was Motörhead. We won’t be doing any more tours or anything. And there won’t be any more records. But the brand survives, and Lemmy lives on in
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about gifts and giving – results

  31-12-2015 13:00
  
  Presents to recognition to devotion, RR’s Fuel wraps up a global playlist of multiple perspectives and emotions inspired by last week’s gift of a topic
  Caroline Wheeler’s Birthday Present was a big thing, bigger than others and made entirely from “the skins of dead Jim Morrisons”. It was stitched together by the Jazz Butcher and is the type of nonsensical and surreal gift you dispose of under the cover of darkness. When asked what you did with it, you say you donate
  
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• You Need To See The Biggest Pop Culture Moments Of 2015 Recreated By Barbies

  31-12-2015 12:59
  
  You haven't lived until you've seen Ken do Hotline Bling
  
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• Jedward Are Going On A World Peace Tour To Fight Terrorism

  31-12-2015 12:58
  
  Where do we even begin.
  
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• The Most Popular Tweets Of 2015

  31-12-2015 12:49
  
  But who topped the list?
  
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• Kendall Jenner reveals how the supermodel lifestyle put her in hospital

  31-12-2015 12:17
  
  Kenny opens up about a hospital stay earlier this year
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Reveals How Internet Trolls Lead Her To Transform Her Bum For New Fitness DVD

  31-12-2015 12:13
  
  She’s turned her “pancake into a peach”…
  
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• The playlist: best jazz of 2015 – Kamasi Washington, Joshua Redman, Polar Bear and more

  31-12-2015 12:00
  
  Continuing our series on some of the best music of 2015, here is our critic’s pick of the year’s best jazz tracks – from a new sax star to a hip-hop interpreterSome albums seem steered by a hidden jazz hand, even if few signs of jazz presence are audible – almost everything the resourceful Polar Bear do sounds like that, hence their latest prize nomination of the year, the Mobos’ best jazz act award. The British group’s 2015 album The Same As You was outwardly
  
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• Wait, Are Louis Tomlinson And Danielle Campbell Spending New Year's Eve Together?

  31-12-2015 11:36
  
  Still waiting for our invite.
  
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• Vicky Pattison Vows NEVER To Speak To Gaz Beadle Again After Harsh I’m A Celeb Comments

  31-12-2015 11:33
  
  He said she was hiding her true self...
  
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• SNE Drops Cinematic Visuals For “Rico Rodrigo”

  31-12-2015 11:21
  
  SNE Drops Cinematic Visuals For “Rico Rodrigo”
  
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• The playlist: the best Middle Eastern and North African music of 2015 – with Insanlar, Melechesh and Mdou Moctar

  31-12-2015 11:00
  
  From a Purple Rain tribute that doesn’t have the word purple to the keyboard king of the Nile delta, here are some of the year’s best soundtracks, metal and moreThis amazing slice of Turkish psych disco was recorded live at MiniMüzikhol studios in Istanbul in 2010. Thanks to Honest Jon’s, it finally got a full UK release – backed by two decent Ricardo Villalobos remixes – earlier this year. These time-dilating grooves, pitch-shifted vocals (the lyrics are moder
  
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• Farrah Abraham’s Daughter Shows Her Mum Who’s Boss & Tells Her She Has A “Bad Attitude”

  31-12-2015 10:59
  
  It's pretty adorable tbh...
  
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• Kendall Jenner And Harry Styles Have Dinner Together, People Immediately Assume They're Dating

  31-12-2015 10:49
  
  This not a drill. Or is it?
  
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• Sammie Releases New Mixtape “Indigo”

  31-12-2015 10:38
  
  Sammie Releases New Mixtape “Indigo”
  
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• Nadia Rose Shares Visuals For “Boom”

  31-12-2015 10:18
  
  Nadia Rose Shares Visuals For “Boom”
  
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• Lauren Goodger Shares Dramatic Before And After Pics After Losing Four Stone

  31-12-2015 10:15
  
  She’s had quite the weight loss journey…
  
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• Lauren Goodger Has Shared A Dramatic Weight Loss Picture After Losing Four Stone

  31-12-2015 10:15
  
  She’s had quite the weight loss journey…
  
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• Our favourite music interviews of 2015: Prince, Kendrick, Blur, Björk and more

  31-12-2015 10:00
  
  Goofing out with Joanna Newsome, an endurance event with Blur, and the fear and the fury of Jerry Lee Lewis … meeting the stars held unknown highlights for our writers this yearNo artist I’ve ever interviewed has elicited such fantastic interest from friends and acquaintances as Prince. Not long after I met him, I went to a party and ended up retelling the story of my encounter with him about eight times: every time I saw someone I knew, it was the first thing they asked me about. P
  
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• Music preview 2016: Tours and albums to expect from Rihanna to David Bowie and Kanye West

  31-12-2015 10:00
  
  Of course, there are artists like Beyonce and Adele, who tend to surprise fans out of the blue, but there are other pop stars and rappers who have already given fans the heads up that new music is on its way. Little is known about Digital Distortion except that the next single will be titled Team and the rapper has been taking singing lessons. As for the sound, Azalea told a fan on Twitter: "Ironically, I refer to myself as pop all the time, even on this new album.
  
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• Willing & Able (Ft. Kwabs) (Live At Wild Life Festival)

  31-12-2015 04:05 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Willing & Able (Live at Wild Life)
  
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• Spit It Out

  31-12-2015 04:05 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Spit It Out
  
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• Playground (Ft. Shakka)

  31-12-2015 04:05 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Playground
  
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• Love Myself

  31-12-2015 04:05 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Love Myself
  
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• Hourglass (Ft. Lion Babe)

  31-12-2015 04:05 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Hourglass
  
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• Why Exactly Is Spotify Being Sued and What Does This Mean?

  31-12-2015 00:04
  
  On December 28th, 2015 long-time streaming foe, David Lowery, who runs the Trichordist blog and fronts the bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, filed a class-action lawsuit seeking at least $150 million in damages against Spotify. The lawsuit alleges that Spotify knowingly, willingly and unlawfully reproduces and distributes compositions without obtaining mechanical licenses.
  Ok, so those are the facts, but what does this mean?
  Just for some basic background which will come in handy in a bit
  
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