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• SXSW co-founder Louis Meyers dies on day 2016 festival opens

  11-03-2016 23:20
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A colleague of SXSW co-founder Louis Meyers says the musician has died on the day the major entertainment festival opened for the 30th year. He was 60.
  
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• Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies at 71

  11-03-2016 23:17
  
  The experimental musician and keyboard player with 1970s supergroup ELP has died at his home in Los AngelesKeith Emerson, the keyboardist with the progressive rock ‘supergroup’ Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died at the age of 71, his bandmates have confirmed.Emerson was known as one of the most successful and experimental musicians of his era, with most of his work with the band being released in the 1970s. Continue reading...
  
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• Charlotte Church defends Kim Kardashian's naked selfie

  11-03-2016 21:57
  
  The singer and activist told the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World festival said she has become more ‘liberal’.
  
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• Madonna seeks to end custody battle with Guy Ritchie over son Rocco

  11-03-2016 20:17
  
  Madonna’s lawyers say she wants to ‘heal the wounds’ after launching proceedings to get her son to return to the USA judge will decide whether custody proceedings launched by Madonna in a dispute with ex-husband Guy Ritchie over the future of their 15-year-old son Rocco can end.Mr Justice MacDonald finished hearing evidence on Friday and is expected to deliver a ruling in the near future. Continue reading...
  
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• Crazy days for George Martin and the Temperance Seven | Letters

  11-03-2016 19:28
  
  I am curious that in your obituary for George Martin (10 March) you fail to mention the band that gave him his first No 1 hit, the Temperance Seven’s You’re Driving me Crazy, which was significant for both George and us. We went on to enjoy considerable success, including sharing top of the bill with Shirley Bassey for a season at the London Palladium.George was a great appreciator of quirkiness. What other jazz band would have included an interlude with a quartet
  
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• Letters: John Chilton obituary

  11-03-2016 18:51
  
  John Childerhouse writes: In the late 1950s as secretary of the sixth-form society of the boys’ county school, Harrow, I regularly engaged Johnny Chilton and his Dixielanders to play at Saturday-night school hops. New Year’s Eve drew especially large crowds from the local neighbourhood who joined regulars from the school’s Afro-American Music Society. Jazz was a word the head would not allow. Many years later, I turned up at Ronnie Scott’s with a ticket for a 1958 dance f
  
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• Gwen Stefani says there is a 'good, juicy story' behind her split from husband Gavin Rossdale

  11-03-2016 18:51
  
  The Hollaback Girl singer was left heartbroken after the sudden break-up with her husband of 13 years.
  
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• Quiz: Which Celeb BFFs Are You And Your Best Friend?

  11-03-2016 18:23
  
  Sweeran? Narry? Or maybe Jaspar?
  
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• Nailed It Failed It (5 - 11 March)

  11-03-2016 18:22
  
  This week's biggest winners and losers from the world of celeb.
  
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• Selfies Of The Week Including Liam Payne, Kim Kardashian & More!

  11-03-2016 18:12
  
  It's been quite a week for Instagram.
  
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• The Guardian on Beats 1: listen to a new radio show with Lady Leshurr

  11-03-2016 18:00
  
  On the next of the Guardian’s takeovers on Apple Music’s radio station, grime star Lady Leshurr and music writer Sam Wolfson discuss the best new musicListen to the show live on Saturday, 7pm More about the Breaking Good seriesUntil the end of March, the Guardian is taking command of the streaming station Beats 1 on Apple Music with the show Breaking Good, where special guests from the forefront of music will play tunes by artists they think are getting it really, really right now an
  
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• New York Philharmonic/Salonen review – explosive and unmissable

  11-03-2016 17:34
  
  David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
  Olivier Messiaen’s maximalist Turangalîla-symphonie is a 75-minute rush of sound that hits like a grand orchestra opus raised to the power of an electro-acoustic provocationOrchestras advertise big-name guest conductors and splashy guest soloists on a monthly basis. Familiar as this marketing move has become, sometimes the gesture can still rise above a pro forma feel and take on true “event” status. At Lincoln Center this weeke
  
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• Maxine Ashley Unleashes The Wavy Visual For New Single ‘Lobster’

  11-03-2016 16:08
  
  the clip is full on wavy, filmed in rewind and featuring Maxine and some friends kicking it.
  
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• New Music Out This Week: Zayn, Martin Garrix, Gwen Stefani & More!

  11-03-2016 16:07
  
  Get your weekly dose of the new music releases out there right now...
  
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• 20 Pictures Of Austin Swift's Face Photoshopped Onto Taylor Swift's Body, You're Welcome

  11-03-2016 16:05
  
  THIS IS IMPORTANT.
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Holly Hagan Hits Back At Haters Over ‘Lip Filler’ Criticism

  11-03-2016 15:38
  
  She’s over it.
  
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• Enno Poppe: Speicher review – varied, vivid and full of incident

  11-03-2016 15:13
  
  Coronet, London
  The London Sinfonietta present a clear and authoritative account of the German composer’s most ambitious ensemble pieceThough Enno Poppe’s music has featured at the Huddersfield contemporary music festival for 10 years now, very little by the 46-year-old German composer has been heard in London. But the opening concert of this year’s London Ear festival was devoted to the first UK performance of Poppe’s most ambitious ensemble piece to date, the 75-minute
  
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• Sexism on repeat: how the music industry can break the cycle

  11-03-2016 15:06
  
  From Kesha’s case against Dr Luke to Miles Kane’s objectification of a female journalist, the industry has to admit there’s a problem before sexism is curbed Watching the eddies of controversy around gender and pop in 2016 has been nothing if not soul-crushing. Inciting incidents pop up; they get passed around, then analyzed to seemingly no end; and eventually they recede into the background. That’s until the next big to-do, the one that might, finally, stop the cycle whe
  
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• Aubrie Sellers debuts gritty, raw garage country sound

  11-03-2016 14:40
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Aubrie Sellers' debut album, "New City Blues," introduces her as a musician that seamlessly links the indie rock enclave of East Nashville to her country roots in Texas. It's a sound she's branded "garage country," a blend of fuzzed-out electric guitars, high-energy rock 'n' roll and Sellers' country vocals and songwriting.
  
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• Vanessa White And Kojey Radical Take On Bryson Tiller’s ‘Exchange’

  11-03-2016 14:23
  
  This time round, the alternative R&B siren calls in the assistance of the incredible Kojey Radical, who is also a name on everyone’s lips.
  
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• Riton’s favourite tracks

  11-03-2016 14:00
  
  The synth hero and chart-busting electro DJ on his fave floorfillers, hidden gems and Boyzone bangers Continue reading...
  
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• Mike Posner’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza: the best of this week’s new music

  11-03-2016 14:00
  
  Mike Posner | Meghan Trainor | Sigala ft Imani & DJ Fresh | Years & Years ft Tove LoPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• Gaika: ‘If you’re a black guy you’re supposed to make grime, reggae or coffee-table music’

  11-03-2016 14:00
  
  The Brixton musician is testing the confines of British black music with his high-concept image and futuristic beats. He wants to shift where ‘normal’ is…In the video for his debut single, Blasphemer, gothic images of Gaika, bare-chested, wearing a horned mask and writhing in anger, flicker ghost-like across the screen. Haunting piano and swooping synths back an Auto-Tuned patois that laments “killer cops” and “needing jobs”. It’s a visceral state
  
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• James Bay Talks Sex Education and His Collab With Justin Bieber Ahead Of Sport Relief

  11-03-2016 13:43
  
  “We need to be a lot more open"
  
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• Grace Helbig Takes The 60 Second Makeup Tutorial Challenge

  11-03-2016 13:42
  Because who else would you want to teach you how to do makeup?
  
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• Geordie Shore's Holly Hagan Flaunts Her Bod In Raciest Red Hot Selfie Yet

  11-03-2016 13:42
  
  FriYAY.
  
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• Kurt Vile review – heavy-lidded rock seduces with its simplicity

  11-03-2016 13:40
  
  Roundhouse, London
  Vile and his band only rarely break out of their slacker reverie, but when minimalism is this hypnotic, why bother?When Kurt Vile played a half-empty field at last summer’s Citadel festival, the crowd mostly responded with a mixture of confusion and obliviousness, like a dog might if it had been shown a card trick. Loud chatter around the edges of the audience tonight suggests Vile is a taste even some of his fans have yet to truly acquire.The truth is, this is music whi
  
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• Kadiata Gets Trappy On 'Dumb'

  11-03-2016 13:20
  
  'Dumb' isall about Kadiata not giving a care in the world to what any one says of thinks of him,
  
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• Pia de' Tolomei review – accomplished performances in taut drama

  11-03-2016 13:07
  
  Hackney Empire, London
  The four central players stand out in English Touring Opera’s exciting production of this rare Donizetti workEnglish Touring Opera is continuing its advocacy of rare Donizetti with the UK stage premiere of an opera from the composer’s maturity, written only a couple of years after such widely admired pieces as Lucia di Lammermoor and Maria Stuarda.
  Briefly mentioned in Dante, the tragic story of Pia must have been broadly familiar to medieval Italian readers. I
  
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• This Is What Zac Efron Is Eating To Maintain Those Serious Baywatch Abs

  11-03-2016 12:56
  
  Not a diet we massively fancy ourselves.
  
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• Grimes review – big, danceable pop that could rattle a stadium

  11-03-2016 12:51
  
  Brixton Academy, London
  Claire Boucher’s bubbling electronica brought rapture and bursts of sonic strangenessClaire Boucher doesn’t do encores, she says towards the close of tonight’s show, because of chronic nerves. Instead, she hardcore screams and high-kicks her way through closer Kill v Maim – a track from last year’s album Art Angels that sounds like demonic cheerleaders chanting over the tinny electronica of a trashy continental car advert. It’s not as i
  
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• Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby Flaunts Her Bangin' Bikini Bod As She Launches Her New Line Of Sexy Swimwear

  11-03-2016 12:33
  
  The Newcastle lass looks every inch the proper worldie as she celebrates her debut swimwear launch...
  
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• The Drugstore Beauty Product Kylie Jenner Uses To Control Her Spots

  11-03-2016 12:13
  
  Make like Kylie and say BUH-BYE to breakouts.
  
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• Bataclan owners condemn Eagles of Death Metal frontman's suggestion their guards were complicit in massacre

  11-03-2016 12:10
  
  Jesse Hughes said six of the security team did not turn up at Paris venue on 13 November, and it ‘seems rather obvious that they had a reason’The owners of the Bataclan in Paris have reacted angrily to the suggestion by Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes that its security guards were complicit in the massacre that left 89 concertgoers dead on 13 November 2015, calling his remarks “insane”.“Jesse Hughes spread some very grave and defamatory accusations again
  
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• Zayn Malik Dedicates Cute Post To ‘Inspirational’ Girlfriend Gigi Hadid & Now Our Hearts Hurt

  11-03-2016 11:39
  
  SO CUTE.
  
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• We're Up For A British LGBT Award And We Need Your Help!

  11-03-2016 11:32
  
  Go on, give us a cheeky vote
  
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• The Guardian Radio Hour with Ben Beaumont-Thomas – listen live at 2pm

  11-03-2016 11:30
  
  In the latest edition of our live radio shows on NTS, Kate Hutchinson and Ben Beaumont-Thomas teamed up for a primer on the crate-digging labels mining the past for new soundsMore about the Guardian Radio Hour seriesThis week The Guardian Radio Hour – the Guardian’s series of radio shows on east London internet station NTS - featured Guardian journalist Ben Beaumont-Thomas, in a show dedicated to the international independent labels that dig up the sounds of the past so you don&rsquo
  
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• Joey Bada$$ Pays Tribute to Notorious B.I.G. on ‘Brooklyn’s Own’

  11-03-2016 11:26
  
  ’Brooklyn’s Own’ is definitely worth a listen, with Joey Bada$$ showcasing his renowned abilities to adapt his flow and deliver memorable lyricism.
  
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• Young Thug Drops an Impressive Visual to Go with ‘For My People’

  11-03-2016 11:18
  
  Taken from the ‘I’m Up’ EP, the track itself embodies distinctive production which will sit memorably amongst listeners.
  
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• George Martin: musicians pay tribute to the genius behind the Beatles

  11-03-2016 11:11
  
  The Beatles studio guru invented the concept of the modern producer. Ten of his successors reveal the lessons he taught them Continue reading...
  
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• F**k It Fridays: Lupita Nyong'o

  11-03-2016 10:59
  
  Celebrating the power of just saying, 'F**K IT'!
  
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• Cheryl Hits Back At Haters Over Liam Payne Romance With Inspiring Insta Post

  11-03-2016 10:55
  
  Yaaas Chezza.
  
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• 11 Things Every Scuba Diving Virgin Needs To Know

  11-03-2016 10:53
  
  So. Many. Finding. Nemo. Gifs.
  
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• Madonna gives tearful performance as judge considers custody case

  11-03-2016 10:42
  
  Singer performs in Melbourne in front of images of son Rocco, subject of custody battle with ex-husband Guy Ritchie Madonna has delivered a tearful performance in front of blown-up images of her teenage son Rocco, who is at the centre of a custody battle with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie.The US pop superstar appeared four hours late as she rode a child’s tricycle on to the stage at Melbourne’s Forum on Thursday dressed as a clown.Continue reading...
  
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• Beyonce v Rihanna: Battle of the divas in Formation and Anti stadium tours but who wins?

  11-03-2016 10:00
  
  Beyonce and Rihanna are possibly the most compared women in pop. Both women are heading out on massive tours in 2016 but only one appears to be winning so IBTimes UK takes a look at whether RiRi's Navy or queen Bey's Beyhive have the bigger force. After four years away from music, Rihanna returned with her much-delayed eighth studio album Anti in January.
  
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