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• Phil Collins returns, saying: Take a (new) look at me now

  26-02-2016 21:07
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Singer and drummer Phil Collins is taking one tentative step out of musical retirement by offering up huge chunks of his past.
  
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• Kesha fans protest Dr Luke contract verdict outside Sony headquarters

  26-02-2016 20:47
  
  Protesters denounced company, which owns alleged rapist’s record label, while advocating for sexual abuse survivors: ‘It’s for women everywhere at this point’Kesha fans gathered outside Sony headquarters in Manhattan on Friday, one week after a judge denied the singer’s request to be released from a recording contract with producer Dr Luke, who Kesha claims sexually and physically abused her. Led by Michael Eisele, a 19-year-old from Newtown, Connecticut, who manage
  
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• Are Chris Brown, Future and Kanye West churning out too much music?

  26-02-2016 19:04
  
  Considering artists like Adele take four years to put out new collections, that is an awful lot of material. Thanks to social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Soundcloud, it takes just the click of a button for a musician to put their product directly in the hands and ears of their fans. Reducing the role of an A&R team, social media allows the artist to not only communicate with their fans directly but to upload a song to Soundcloud and share links to singles and albums
  
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• Raleigh Ritchie's playlist: Laura Mvula, Hozier, Sarah Blasko and more

  26-02-2016 19:00
  
  The musician and Games of Thrones star picks wavy electronics, effortlessly cool pop and a subtle Nile Rogers collaborationTiggs has managed to make what could essentially have been a retread of Tequila by The Champs and made it this effortlessly cool and joyful song. It’s not a disposable song either; I particularly like the line: “You can call me pussy / pussy is power.” Continue reading...
  
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• The Speech Olly From Years & Years Was Going To Give If They Won A Brit Is All Kinds Of Awesome

  26-02-2016 18:27
  
  SPEECH GOALS
  
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• Striking English National Opera choristers sing against cuts – video

  26-02-2016 18:26
  
  Choristers at the English National Opera (ENO) sing outside the Arts Council England offices in London on Friday morning, in protest over planned redundancies and wage cuts by ENO management. 42 members of the 44-strong choir backed industrial action in a ballot held by union EquityContinue reading...
  
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• Muse to headline Glastonbury 2016

  26-02-2016 18:22
  
  Theatrical galactic-rock trio will play the Pyramid stage on Friday night, joining Coldplay and PJ Harvey on the lineupMuse have been confirmed as Glastonbury’s Friday night headliners. The Devonshire trio join Coldplay on the lineup, and become the first band to headline the Pyramid stage on all three nights of the festival – having previously topped the bill on Sunday in 2004 and Saturday in 2010.The group – who triumphed in the rock album category at this year’s Grammy
  
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• Huw Watkins Composer Portrait review – his versatility knows no bounds

  26-02-2016 17:57
  
  Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
  In this performance of works spanning a decade, it was the most recent pieces that were conveyed with greatest expressivity and huge emotional intensityHuw Watkins succeeded Simon Holt as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s composer-in-association in September, but the orchestra has been performing his works periodically since his piece Sinfonietta in 2000. Watkins’s trajectory has been remarkable, as this composer portrait underlined in works spanning a dec
  
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• 11 Things I Wish I'd Known Before Getting A Boob Job

  26-02-2016 17:49
  
  1. The pain. THE PAIN.
  
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• F**K It Fridays: Miley Cyrus

  26-02-2016 17:14
  
  Celebrating the power of just say 'OH F**K IT'
  
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• New Geordie Shore Lass Chantelle Reveals That Charlotte & Gary 'Couldn't Take Their Hands Off Each Other' While Filming

  26-02-2016 17:12
  
  Chaz is real!
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Reveals He’d ‘Definitely Like More Kids’

  26-02-2016 16:40
  
  Oh GAHD.
  
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• 'Pokemon Sun & Moon' Revealed - Watch The New Trailer Now!

  26-02-2016 16:34
  
  Not one but TWO new Pokemon games just got announced.
  
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• This Is Why Kylie Jenner Should Never Quit Instagram

  26-02-2016 16:27
  
  Please stay Kylie, please
  
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• New band of the week: Conducta (No 92)

  26-02-2016 16:21
  
  Bristolian production wunderkind in love with ’90s US R&B and UKG creates acutely lovely modern versions of soulful 2-step
  Hometown: Bristol. The lineup: Collins Nemi (music, production). Continue reading...
  
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• L’Elisir d’Amore review – la dolce vita comes to Donizetti's opera

  26-02-2016 16:15
  
  Grand theatre, Leeds
  Opera North’s Fellini-esque production fizzes with energy as a holiday atmosphere takes hold and Vespa scooters putter around the stageCan there be any greater cure for the February blues than Opera North’s Elixir of Love? It must be said that, like the vintage Vespa scooters puttering back and forth across the piazza, Daniel Slater’s production has been around the block a few times (it was first produced in 2000). But, like a favourite holiday spot, the el
  
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• Is opera the most misogynistic art form?

  26-02-2016 16:00
  
  They stab themselves, throw themselves on funeral pyres, go mad and die. From Aida to Lulu, opera is extravagantly cruel to its female characters. Isn’t it time the divas were free to sing to their own tune?How can I love an artform that is so consistently, insistently cruel to its female characters? Operatic heroines are delivered into numberless violent deaths. In Rigoletto, Gilda sacrifices herself to save the life of the faithless duke. Leonora in Il Trovatore takes poison in order to
  
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• The Beatles legacy in Liverpool – in pictures

  26-02-2016 15:52
  
  Research shows the band continues to add £81.9m to Liverpool’s economy a year and supports 2,335 jobs Continue reading...
  
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• ASOS Just Launched A Rewards Scheme And It's Going To Change The Way You Shop Forever

  26-02-2016 15:52
  
  YES. THIS.
  
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• MTV Review: The 1975’s New Record Is Everything We Dreamed Of & More

  26-02-2016 15:49
  
  The boys are back, and better than ever…
  
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• Talking pineapples and 200-hour sets: what EZ can expect as he joins the extreme DJing ranks

  26-02-2016 15:00
  
  The UK garage great is spinning for a solid day in aid of cancer research – which is fine, but it doesn’t touch the blistering feats attempted by the titans of the formWhen DJ EZ – arguably UK garage’s greatest DJ – announced that he was going to play records for a solid 24 hours in aid of Cancer Research UK, the internet gave him a collective slap on the back. EZ, who will be performing his charity set on 27 February, is already a cult figure in UK dance music, wor
  
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• With CDs, Phil Collins says: Take a (new) look at me now

  26-02-2016 14:56
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Singer and drummer Phil Collins is taking one tentative step out of musical retirement by offering up huge chunks of his past.
  
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• Wolfie Drops Video for 'Obi Wan'

  26-02-2016 14:55
  
  cementing her dark, smooth and hazy R&B style, and by the looks of things, with now visuals in tow, it looks like Wolfie's ascent is only going to continue up.
  
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• Yuna And Usher Unite For Brand New Track ‘Crush’

  26-02-2016 14:37
  
  Listen to 'Crush' taken from Yuna’s forthcoming album ‘Chapters’
  
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• The Boss and a 90s girl band par excellence both return

  26-02-2016 14:00
  
  All Saints | Bruce Springsteen | Kero Kero Bonito | WildernessAll Saints were a good band. Possibly not good enough to warrant three separate comebacks, but it’s safe to say that posterity has seen them trounce contemporary girl band rivals in the back-catalogue stakes. Their latest return will see the foursome play a headline show (KOKO, NW1, 4 Apr) – their first in a decade – and while new single One Strike is dreary, they’re sure to dust off the spookily now-sounding l
  
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• Mikael Seifu: the Ethiopian producer linking the Old Testament to techno

  26-02-2016 14:00
  
  He samples centuries-old street music and bolts it on to Berghain-approved techno. Meet the artist dubbed ‘Ethiopia’s Flying Lotus’ Related: Ethiopiyawi: the new African hand-me-down sound Electronic musicians have long mined old-world sounds to contrast with their crisp beats, but Mikael Seifu’s music transports the listener all the way back to 1,000 BC. On the one hand, he’s Ethiopia’s answer to Flying Lotus, LA’s maker of futuristic, cosmic jazz-laced
  
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• Gwen Stefani’s Make Me Like You: the best of this week’s new music

  26-02-2016 14:00
  
  Gwen Stefani | Tiggs Da Author ft Lady Leshurr | Hozier | XO ft James Chatburn | Rudimental ft Anne-Marie & Will HeardPICK OF THE WEEK Continue reading...
  
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• Club picks of the week

  26-02-2016 13:59
  
  Fabriclive | Ricardo Villalobos | Midnight Vapour Trail | Ame | Karnival 10th BirthdayA launch party here for Fabric’s latest mix CD. It’s from My Nu Leng, who have been spearheading a multifarious kind of UK bass: one where garage, drum’n’bass, grime, dub and techno combine with the kind of low-end wobble that threatens to detach your corneas. The duo headline, assisted by Dread MC; Breakage is in support, still going steady with his skittering junglism, but now to be he
  
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• Holly Hagan Shows Off Her Bikini Bod As She Suns Herself On Bondi Beach

  26-02-2016 13:57
  
  She looks HOT…
  
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• Talay Riley Debuts His Take On Kanye West’s ’30 Hours’

  26-02-2016 13:56
  
  Talay excels on the track, from the incredible vocals to the impeccable songwriting to the subtle Nelly sample, Talay’s take on ’30 Hours’ truly does give Kanye a run for his money.
  
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• When We Were Young

  26-02-2016 13:48 via mtv.co.uk
  
  When We Were Young
  
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• Fifth Harmony Premiere 'Work From Home' Music Video & Twitter Explodes

  26-02-2016 13:37
  
  We love it but here's what the Harmonizers think...
  
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• Mikill Pane Shares Latest Project 'Let MC It'

  26-02-2016 13:32
  
  When describing the title, 'Let MC It', Mikill explains: 'It's purely to celebrate the MC, as there are only lyricists on it'.
  
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• Il Trittico review – Puccini's trilogy touches on genuine greatness

  26-02-2016 13:24
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  The revival of this Richard Jones production is uneven, but the best of it is tremendous, and Ermonela Jaho is unmissableRichard Jones’s Royal Opera staging of Puccini’s trilogy of one-act operas was first given complete in 2011 and much admired at the time, though its first revival is a variable effort, touching genuine greatness in places, but revealing inequalities elsewhere. Jones updates all three operas to the years immediately after the second world w
  
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• This Woman Is Getting A University Degree In One Direction

  26-02-2016 13:17
  
  Fandom goals.
  
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• Jacob Banks Unveils Visual For ‘Unknown’

  26-02-2016 13:15
  
  Set to be the final visual to be released from his EP 'The Paradox' and following in the footsteps of previous videos ‘Grace’ and ‘Monster’, Jacob Banks continues to move audiences serving up powerful and memorable visuals throughout his entire EP campaign.
  
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• ZAYN Drops A New Video But Has Anyone Actually Seen It?

  26-02-2016 13:14
  
  The fans react...
  
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• Watch Kano's documentary: Made in the Manor

  26-02-2016 13:09
  
  Exclusive to the Guardian, this documentary goes behind-the-scenes with the UK grime star in the studio and revisiting his east London rootsTen years after his debut album Home Sweet Home, Kano’s Made in the Manor re-established the MC one of grime’s leading proponents – an album that was as much a celebration of his East London roots as it is a snapshot of modern Britishness. On it, he addresses his childhood, his estranged family, lost friends, unresolved arguments and the wa
  
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• Choristers at English National Opera vote to strike

  26-02-2016 12:54
  
  Chorus will refuse to sing in first act of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten in protest at ENO plan to cut pay and axe jobsChoristers at English National Opera have voted to strike during the first act of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten in three weeks’ time in protest against a cut in contracts.The union Equity announced the action as the chorus sang Hail, Poetry from Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance on the steps of Arts Council England’s headquarters in London. Continue
  
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• Elton John accuses Janet Jackson of lip-syncing in expletive-filled rant: 'I'd rather see a drag queen'

  26-02-2016 12:35
  
  In a candid interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the Candle In The Wind crooner accuses Jackson, 49, of lip-syncing during her live performances and slams the media for treating celebrities like "royalty". John, 68, addresses his previously long-standing feud with queen of pop Madonna whom he once described as a "fairground stripper" and admits he pushed the boundaries in his public criticism of the singer. "You know, f*****g music magazines writing a review of Janet Jackson saying, 'This is t
  
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• In Honour Of The 1975, Here's 11 Ridiculously Long Album Titles

  26-02-2016 09:15
  
  You won't believe some of these...
  
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