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• Selfies Of The Week Including Zayn Malik, Kim Kardashian & Loads More!

  01-04-2016 19:10
  
  All the best celebrity selfies from the week that was...
  
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• One Direction and that's up: Zayn Malik knocks Adele off the top spot to own the album chart

  01-04-2016 19:01
  
  The singer has beaten the likes of powerhouse Adele to claim the top album chart spot.
  
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• It's Official, Zayn Lands A Number One Album With 'Mind Of Mine'

  01-04-2016 19:00
  
  YAASS ZAYN!
  
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• Loudon Wainwright III: 'I wrote a song about Donald Trump. He’s an easy target'

  01-04-2016 18:47
  
  The veteran troubadour is still on the road and using his songwriting to discuss the issues of the day, including the Republican frontrunner and SpotifyLoudon Wainwright III is just beginning a huge US tour, which runs until April 2017. At his apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, which overlooks the Hudson river, he’s preparing for the rigours of the road. Most of the coming dates will find him alone, as usual. “It’s an economic thing, to a degree,” he admits.
  
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• A Woman Should Never Be Punished For Decisions About Her Own Body

  01-04-2016 18:37
  
  We need to talk about abortion
  
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• CBSO/Collon review – Mahler's unfinished delivered with authority

  01-04-2016 17:44
  
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  Nicholas Collon’s reading of Deryck Cooke’s 10th symphony version was a reminder that it deserves canonical statusSince Simon Rattle conducted it in 1980 during his first season as the orchestra’s chief conductor, I’d guess that the City of Birmingham Symphony has played Deryck Cooke’s performing version of Mahler’s unfinished 10th Symphony more than any other orchestra. It remained part of the repertory in Birmingham throughout Rattl
  
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• Won't get fooled again: why 80s New York trumps Vinyl's 70s nostalgia

  01-04-2016 17:27
  
  The city’s 70s rock scene has been eulogised in the HBO series, but, as a reissued compilation shows, the 80s’ diverse, experimental music was far more importantLike all historical fiction, the HBO series Vinyl – Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s foray into the New-York-in-the-70s-nostalgia cottage industry – is bound to upset those who were actually there. Take, for example, the show’s imagining of the invention of punk rock anomie: not in the acts of re-crea
  
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• New band of the week: New Portals (No 97)

  01-04-2016 16:30
  
  A fantastic brother-sister act purveying the sort of pristine digital heartbreak pop you could imagine Taylor Swift singing
  Hometown: Belfast. The lineup: Ruth Aicken (vocals, percussion), Mike Aicken (vocals, synth, keyboards). Continue reading...
  
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• Elpidia review – Handel's pastiche sung with magnificence

  01-04-2016 14:51
  
  St George’s, Hanover Square, London
  Opera Settecento gave Handel’s insightful story of love and war a fine modern airing with superb performancesPremiered in 1725 and given its first modern outing by Opera Settecento at this year’s London Handel festival, Elpidia, or The Generous Rivals, is one of Handel’s pasticcios. It is a work which the composer, in his role as entrepreneur, assembled from pre-existing music – in this case mostly from arias by Leonardo Vinci and
  
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• Viola player sues Royal Opera House for 'irreversible' hearing loss

  01-04-2016 14:05
  
  Chris Goldscheider is claiming for loss of earnings after sustaining damage from rehearsal noise as loud as a jet engineA viola player is suing the Royal Opera House after rehearsals for a performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre allegedly ruined his hearing and destroyed his career. Chris Goldscheider claims that the noise from the brass section immediately behind him in the pit left him with acoustic shock, a problem more commonly experienced by headphone wearers subjected to short, high
  
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• The Comet Is Coming: how the sons of Sun Ra are taking jazz to the outer limits

  01-04-2016 14:00
  
  The London-based three-piece are the latest band to channel the late musician’s cosmic psych-jazz. It’s the in sound from far outSixty years after Sun Ra released his debut album, the influence of the late avant garde jazz musician and “cosmic philosopher” persists. In the intervening decades artists as diverse as Spiritualized, Krautrock pioneers Amon Düül and electronic minimalists Silver Apples have attempted to emulate his freeform style. But now in 2016, hi
  
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• Honey Dijon’s favourite tracks

  01-04-2016 14:00
  
  The Chicago native and fashion world fave empties the contents of her psychic record bagI never really know. It depends on where I’m playing, the size of the room, whether I’m playing peak time or closing. It varies, so I always like to be prepared for any situation that’s thrown my way. Continue reading...
  
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• Future Of The Left’s 50 Days Before The Hun: the best of this week’s new music

  01-04-2016 14:00
  
  Future Of The Left | Apothek | Yeasayer | Cornershop ft The Mike Flower Pops | The VampsPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• Oi Oi! The Most Mint Spoilers From Geordie Shore Series 12 Episode #4

  01-04-2016 13:41
  
  With the most lesbian action the show has ever seen, the next episode is set to be MORTAL...
  
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• Setting Curls Hair Tutorial With Choccy And Lottie Tomlinson

  01-04-2016 13:24
  
  Go behind the scenes as the BSD Academy and learn how to get big and bouncy hair perfect for prom.
  
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• You Won't Believe How Many Copies The New Final Fantasy Has To Sell Just To Break Even

  01-04-2016 13:22
  
  Final Fantasy XV is so big it'll need to sell a crazy amount to make any money.
  
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• Little Mix's Jesy Nelson Cries On Stage Just Hours Before Cancelling Belfast Shows

  01-04-2016 12:40
  
  #GetWellSoonJesy
  
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• Scotty T Calls Caroline Flack His ‘Celebrity Crush’ And They Already Have A Famous Shipper

  01-04-2016 12:39
  
  Lou Teasdale ships it.
  
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• F**k It Friday: King Bach

  01-04-2016 11:39
  
  Celebrating the power of those two little words - "F**K IT"
  
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• Naughty Boy Reignites Feud With Zayn Malik By Threatening To Leak ‘Original’ Version Of ‘Like I Would’

  01-04-2016 11:34
  
  Hmmm.
  
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• Cara Delevingne Reveals She Never Actually Quit Modelling As She Opens Up About Depression

  01-04-2016 11:19
  
  The model has officially set the record straight...
  
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• Is Maisie Williams Joining X-Men Spinoff New Mutants?

  01-04-2016 11:11
  
  The new movie's rumoured to have a YA vibe.
  
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• Kylie Jenner Announces New Lip Gloss Line With The Most Insane Mini Movie

  01-04-2016 11:10
  
  How you might imagine Crossroads on crack.
  
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• Music Stars' Tribute To David Bowie In NYC

  01-04-2016 10:20
  
  Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Harry and former REM frontman Michael Stipe were among the stars who paid tribute to Davie Bowie at a concert in New York. Stars of the music world performed classic Bowie hits at Carnegie Hall for the first of two sold-out benefit concerts. It was originally intended as a retrospective of Bowie's life and sold out in two hours, prompting organisers to arrange a second concert at Radio City Music Hall.
  
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• Kanye West makes The Life of Pablo available outside Tidal

  01-04-2016 10:10
  
  Contrary to earlier statements, the rapper has made his ‘living album project’ available for streaming or download on iTunes, Spotify and other servicesThe evolution of The Life of Pablo continues: two months after its Tidal release, and more than 400m streams later, Kanye West’s seventh album is now available from iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify and other major services. In a statement to the New York Times, the label Def Jam explained that a “newly updated, remixed and rem
  
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• New Music Out This Week: The Vamps, The Last Shadow Puppets, Chris Brown & More!

  01-04-2016 09:53
  
  Your weekly music round up is here!
  
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• The Music of David Bowie review – tears shed as stars pay tribute to starman

  01-04-2016 08:35
  
  Carnegie Hall, New York
  From The Flaming Lips to Cat Power to Pixies to Debbie Harry, the lineup at the heartfelt tribute night was as wide-ranging and celebrated as Bowie’s careerDavid Bowie made mutability a muse during his long career. So, it would be hard to imagine an artist better suited to the mercurial changes that define an all-star, pop tribute concert.The late icon received a salute that was far more sweet than substantive at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Though there have bee
  
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• Kylie Jenner just dropped an insane music video for her new line of lip glosses

  01-04-2016 08:14
  
  The video for Glosses sees Kylie as a getaway driver in an armed robbery.
  
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• Geordie Shore Big Birthday Battle: Reunion Series Start Date CONFIRMED And Scotty T Reveals He Ends Up In Hospital!

  01-04-2016 08:05
  
  Plus Chloe Ferry admits she plays two lads off against each other...
  
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• Wedding singer Sting witnesses that the Russians love their children too

  01-04-2016 08:00
  
  The star’s latest private gig saw him performing at the lavish celebration thrown by billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev for his son SaidOnce more to House Sting, that musical powerbase whose extensive global property portfolio means the sun never sets on its yoga mats. Headed by the eponymous troubadour and his wife Trudie Styler, House Sting is widely regarded as one of 21st-century Earth’s most savagely self-parodic entities. Committed eco-warriors Sting and Trudie are as at home dismis
  
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• 'God bless David Bowie': first tribute concert brings tearful singalong

  01-04-2016 07:51
  
  Michael Stipe, the Flaming Lips and Deborah Harry among stars at Carnegie Hall in New York with Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes on the playlist A sold-out audience joined a children’s chorus in a singalong to David Bowie’s Space Oddity in New York on Thursday night in the first of two tribute concerts to the rock legend who died in January. Related: David Bowie's last days: an 18-month burst of creativityContinue reading...
  
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• Music You Missed: 10 essential releases from the Australian underground

  01-04-2016 06:28
  
  Our first of a quarterly music column looks at No Zu’s disco jams, Gentleforce’s meditation on depression and other Australian albums that deserved more loveVictoria’s Golden Plains festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in March. The line-up featured Sleater-Kinney, the Buzzcocks and Violent Femmes but it was Australian acts Royal Headache, No Zu, the Necks and Black Cab that thrust enthusiasm into ecstasy.After six years off, garage rockers Eddy Current Suppression Ring wer
  
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• Justin Timberlake sued by Cirque du Soleil over hit song

  01-04-2016 00:11
  Cirque du Soleil is not doing flips over Justin Timberlake's hit song "Don't Hold the Wall." The Canadian theatrical performance company on Thursday sued the superstar singer with allegations that the song copied part of one of Cirque du Soleil's original compositions without permission. Timberlake's song appeared on his 2013 double album "20/20," which has sold more than two million copies. The lawsuit filed in federal court in New York claimed Timberlake borrowed from the song "Steel Dream," w
  
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• Young Thug: Slime Season 3 review – curious third instalment from hip-hop's idiosyncratic talent

  01-04-2016 00:00
  
  (300 Entertainment/Atl)Young Thug’s third instalment of his Slime Season series is curious. It comes after February’s I’m Up, a mixtape originally titled Slime Season 3 before it was changed at the last minute. In all likelihood, they are part one and part two of the same project. They have nine tracks each, which is paltry compared with the 40 served up on the first two mixtapes, but combined, it makes more sense. Musically, things are in a similar place to the first two insta
  
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• Yeasayer: Amen & Goodbye CD review – moments of brilliant weirdness

  01-04-2016 00:00
  
  (Mute)At the turn of the decade, Brooklyn band Yeasayer released their second album, Odd Blood. It was an indie record that generated a terrific amount of buzz, seeing the foursome loosely grouped with slightly eccentric but unashamedly pop-sensible acts such as Vampire Weekend and MGMT. In light of such a trendy start, it’s surprising that this fourth record sounds so much like the work of a band not rooted in time. The psychedelic references of Odd Blood remain – as do the pop melo
  
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