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• Matt Corby review – electro-swoons and lustrous laments

  16-03-2016 19:01
  
  Roundhouse, London
  Bearded Corby is so laid-back he’s positively beatific: his sumptuous croons could be unfolding behind glassMatt Corby had the kind of false start that can sink a career before it has even begun. In 2007, as a callow 16-year-old, he was a series runner-up in the Australian Idol TV talent show, earnestly warbling overwrought covers of the Verve and Coldplay.Close on a decade, a relocation to London and an impressive debut album, Telluric, later, Corby has reinvented himse
  
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• David Gilmour, Pink Floyd guitarist, to play in Pompeii

  16-03-2016 18:38
  
  Forty-five years after the band made a documentary at site, the rock musician is to return for concerts at Roman amphitheatreFormer Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will perform in the preserved ancient Roman town of Pompeii this summer, Italy’s culture minister has announced.The psychedelic British rock band that propelled Gilmour to fame made a film in 1971 at the site, which lay buried under ash for more than 1,600 years after nearby Vesuvius erupted in AD79.Continue reading...
  
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• The Workouts Loved By Celebs That You Can Do Too

  16-03-2016 18:28
  
  How to work out like Harry Styles, Taylor Swift and Khloe Kardashian.
  
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• There Might Be A Darker Story Behind Cheap Clothes Than You Realise

  16-03-2016 18:20
  
  Lidl are selling jeans for £5.99, but how?
  
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• 24 John Boyega Facts You (Probably) Didn't Know!

  16-03-2016 18:13
  
  He's the Stormtrooper who crash-landed onto Jakku and into our hearts.
  
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• Chris Brown Teases Upcoming Documentary 'Welcome To My Life' With New Poster

  16-03-2016 18:08
  
  He'll finally get to tell his story in his own words...
  
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• 17 Important Questions We Have After The Pretty Little Liars Season 6 Finale

  16-03-2016 18:04
  
  Question 1: WHYYYYYYYY?
  
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• Hozier, Rita Ora, Jack Garrett And More Mark Five Years Of Syrian Conflict

  16-03-2016 17:47
  
  The video tells the story of 15-year-old Omar
  
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• 6 Mouthwatering Moments From Gigi Hadid’s Lip Sync Battle That We’re Still Fangirling Over

  16-03-2016 17:35
  
  Gigi in that black catsuit. No words.
  
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• Universal Orlando Resort's New King Kong Ride Looks Bonkers

  16-03-2016 17:28
  
  In an amazing-this-is-gonna-be-badass-kinda way...
  
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• Tchaikovsky: Snegurochka CD review – very fine performance of a neglected work

  16-03-2016 17:28
  
  MDR Leipzig RSO/Järvi
  (Sony)The folk tale of the Snow Maiden, Snegurochka – the girl of the forest, daughter of Grandfather Frost and the Spring Fairy, who cannot love because her heart is made of ice – became the source for one of the greatest of 19th-century Russian operas, by Rimsky-Korsakov, first performed in St Petersburg in 1882. Rimsky adapted his libretto from a play based on the tale by Alexander Ostrovsky, that had its first performance nine years earlier, in a produc
  
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• Anthrax's Scott Ian's playlist: Iron Maiden, Fall Out Boy and more

  16-03-2016 17:04
  
  The guitarist selects the five tracks – some metal, some country – that rock his world the hardestIt’s rare that I like a cover version more than the original. But maybe not so rare when I don’t like the original anyway, as is the case with The Promise. Sturgill Simpson owns this When in Rome song. The heartbreak in his voice is palpable and it gets me every time. Beautiful.Continue reading...
  
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• Warning: art may broaden the mind. It should never apologise

  16-03-2016 17:02
  
  The Royal Opera House has issued a content warning to opera-goers who’ve bought tickets for Lucia di Lammermoor. It’s a slippery slopeImagine the scene. All round the Royal Opera House, hoards of weeping children, begging to be admitted to Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, which opened in a new production this week. “Please, Mum! It’s not fair. It’s the original 1869 version! You promised.” But their careful parents have just read the programme: Please note th
  
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• Ralph Alessi Quartet – jazz of fine details and nuances

  16-03-2016 16:13
  
  Pizza Express Jazz Club, London
  The uber-cool quartet’s inner heat was unmissable in this razor sharp and yet reflective performance of originals from new album Quiver
  The gaunt and unobtrusively studious New York trumpeter Ralph Alessi can resemble a man on a philosophical rather than a musical mission, and on a casual listen there can seem to be an impassive rigour to his investigations of contemporary postbop, which fans of jazz’s unpredictable collisions and fiery outbursts might
  
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• These Disney Princess Wedding Dresses Are The Stuff Of Fairy Tale Dreams

  16-03-2016 16:11
  
  Shining, shimmering, splen-diiiiid.
  
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• Riot Ensemble review – adroitly realising Dutilleux's characteristic finesse

  16-03-2016 16:06
  
  School of Music, Cardiff
  Shape-shifting ensemble bring precision to new music by Sierra, Hesketh, Roe, Serrano and Holloway-Nahum Riot Ensemble is a small but select shape-shifting group, dedicated to new music, on this occasion fielding a quartet of players: oboe, harpsichord, double bass and percussion. Fans of Dutilleux will recognise the instrumentation of Les Citations, originally conceived to honour Peter Pears, and named for its quotations from Britten’s Peter Grimes and from Jehan
  
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• "I Don't Want To Be Friends With Them" Scotty T Is DONE With Stephanie Davis & Jeremy McConnell

  16-03-2016 16:03
  
  The man has spoken.
  
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• Ben Beaumont-Thomas on the ultimate crate-digging labels - the Guardian Radio Hour podcast

  16-03-2016 15:53
  
  The Guardian’s Ben Beaumont-Thomas plays some of the best tracks from the new slew of crate-digging labelsThis week Guardian journalist and self-confessed music nerd Ben Beaumont-Thomas gives us a primer on the new crop of uber-specialist, crate-digging labels that have sprung up over the last few years, unearthing some of the best musical obscurities so you don’t have to.Ben takes us down the rabbit hole, from Trinidadian calypso about 1950s Britain on Honest Jon Records to Finnish
  
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• Dynamic Releases Fresh Visual For ‘Out My Face’

  16-03-2016 15:49
  
  Following the release of two incredibly strong bodies of work in the form of his ‘The Image God’ and ‘Smokers Only’ projects, North London rapper Dynamic returns with his brand new video for ‘Out My Face’.
  
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• Michelle Obama releases song with help from Missy Elliott and Zendaya

  16-03-2016 15:47
  
  Songwriter Diane Warren says the tune, This is for My Girls, which the first lady commissioned, is ‘kind of like We Are the World meets Lady Marmalade’Michelle Obama has released a star-studded new song ahead of her speech at the South by Southwest music festival on Wednesday.Written by Diane Warren, This is for My Girls – an anthem of female empowerment – features Missy Elliott, Janelle Monaé, Kelly Rowland, Kelly Clarkson, Lea Michele, Zendaya and others. The fir
  
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• Sonna Rele Debuts New EP ‘Wildhearts’

  16-03-2016 15:42
  
  After spending the best part of the last two tears recording her debut album between London and LA, British born singer/songwriter Sonna Rele is finally ready to unveil to the world, her brand new EP ‘Wildhearts’.
  
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• Glasses Niall Posts Selfie, Makes All Our Wildest Dreams Come True

  16-03-2016 15:29
  
  Oh, the chest hair.
  
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• Malcolm McLaren's son to burn £5m of punk memorabilia

  16-03-2016 15:28
  
  Joe Corré will destroy clothes in response to Punk London, an event he claims is endorsed by the QueenThe son of the late Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren is planning to burn his collection of punk memorabilia, estimated to be worth around £5m. Joe Corré, who set up lingerie brand Agent Provocateur, says the ceremonial burning is a protest at the way punk’s legacy has been co-opted by the mainstream. The incineration will take place in Camden, London, on 26 November,
  
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• Mariah Carey Is Getting Her Own Reality Show, So Here’s 9 Examples Of Her Excellent Shade

  16-03-2016 15:23
  
  Bow down.
  
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• Kylie Jenner Reckons Snapchat's New Filter Might Just Be Making Fun Of Her Lips

  16-03-2016 15:14
  
  But she's still pretty into it.
  
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• Grimes Electrocuted On Stage At Gig In Dublin

  16-03-2016 14:59
  
  The incident happened mid-performance due to faulty equipment...
  
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• Christine and the Queens review – a brilliant, fevered musical force of nature

  16-03-2016 14:59
  
  Koko, London
  The French superstar’s hip-hop chamber pop is energising and she goes all out to impress with a potent mix of sincerity and absolute authenticity – this is pop at its transformative bestIn 2010, Heloise Letissier arrived in London searching for an identity and seeking adventure. Six years later, she’s back with a new guise, playing to a sold-out crowd for her first headline gig in the capital. “This is where it all started for me,” she says, her mile-wi
  
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• Is the future of the British music industry really so white?

  16-03-2016 14:25
  
  Music Week’s list of the 30 most influential young British music biz insiders only includes two black faces. Did they not notice the rise of grime?If there is one theme running throughout popular culture in 2016, it’s that under-representation in the arts can no longer pass without demonstration, protest and scrutiny. From the controversy and subsequent backlash surrounding the Oscars, the Baftas and, most recently, the Brit awards, you’d think that the days of unbalanced celeb
  
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• Camila Cabello's Done An Acoustic Cover Of Rihanna's 'Work' & It's SO Good!

  16-03-2016 14:25
  
  Oh and she throws in a bit of Drake for good measure...
  
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• Justin Bieber's Instagram Girl Just Landed A Modelling Campaign For Very

  16-03-2016 14:05
  
  Check out what happened behind the scenes on set right here.
  
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• Scottish Ensemble/Montero review – engaging, crisp Piazzolla on a crowded platform

  16-03-2016 13:40
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  In a South Atlantic-crossing programme, Gabriela Montero and the Ensemble’s adaptable string players gave punchy accounts of the Argentinian leg of the trip
  They don’t often squeeze 14 musicians onto the small Wigmore Hall platform, never mind a grand piano as well. But the string players of the Scottish Ensemble are an adaptable and up-for-it band who have played in more challenging venues than this. Nevertheless, this highly engaging concert, in which the ensem
  
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• Prog rock musician Keith Emerson's death was suicide, rules coroner

  16-03-2016 13:29
  
  Girlfriend of Emerson, Lake and Palmer keyboardist says health conditions affecting his live performances had ‘made him depressed, nervous and anxious’ Related: Keith Emerson's playing was in stark contrast to my troglodyte brutality Keith Emerson’s death has been officially ruled suicide. The co-founder and keyboardist of the influential prog-rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer died last week at the age of 71. Continue reading...
  
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• Student asks out Jennifer Lawrence in the form of a music video... and it's interesting

  16-03-2016 13:18
  
  At one point he paints himself entirely blue. Just because.
  
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• Aerosmith – 10 of the best

  16-03-2016 12:00
  
  ‘You’ve got to lose to know how to win’ went an early, prescient lyric by the band who became the biggest unit-shifting, power-balladeering rock behemoth of the 90sSteven Tallarico wrote Dream on during stolen moments on a hotel Steinway piano, four years before Aerosmith came to be, and longer still before he assumed the stage name Steven Tyler. Initially the band had to pay their dues not just with the public, but with their record company CBS; competition was strong from con
  
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• ‘It became me, that was all I was’: can the man who made the Harlem Shake escape its shadow?

  16-03-2016 10:00
  
  It was the viral hit that broke YouTube records. But for its creator Baauer the Harlem Shake soon became a burden. We meet a reluctant EDM superstar February in New York is excruciatingly cold; so icy that there are reports of a dog being found in Central Park with its paws frozen to the ground. There’s no conceivable reason you’d choose to stand around in this kind of bone-chill, but that’s exactly what a huddle of desperate people are doing outside the doors of ridiculously e
  
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• Mariah Carey review - a polished war chest of blue-chip ballads

  16-03-2016 08:00
  
  SSE Hydro, GlasgowScaled back from her Las Vegas pomp, with at times eccentric staging, the pop royalty diva delivers a sometimes cheesy, but well-tailored packageOn the opening night of her first UK tour in 13 years, Mariah Carey is putting a brave face on things. Not one but two of her personal on-stage throat-relieving sprays are defective. To make matters worse, someone has also forgotten to switch on the fans that invisibly caress her impressive blonde hair. “Turn them up, don’t
  
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• Taylor Swift shows off bikini body during beach vacation with Calvin Harris

  16-03-2016 07:15
  
  The couple recently uploaded a series of very romantic photographs from their tropical beach vacation together. The young lovebirds posed for a foot popping kiss as the waves lapped at their feet and even posted an image of their initials drawn in the sand: TS+AW (Adam Wiles, Harris's real name). The Bad Blood singer uploaded a video of her jumping on an aqua trampoline and captioned it: "That time when we finally took a vacation." Making the rest of us jealous, Rita Ora's ex-boyfriend added a p
  
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• 'Hometown Glory' for Adele as debuts tour in London

  16-03-2016 03:03
  Adele made a triumphant London debut to her music tour on Tuesday, kicking off a series of concerts in the British capital that saw one couple get engaged during the singer's performance. Talking about makeup, burps, pimples and taking selfies with the audience, the singer-songwriter won over thousands of fans at London's O2 arena with her stage chat as she belted out her chart-topping hits. In a simple production that saw the London-born singer perform just alongside her musicians, Adele sang h
  
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