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• New inhabitant: Katy Perry triumphs over nuns in convent lawsuit

  13-04-2016 23:25
  
  The star is free to move into a former convent in Los Angeles after a judge invalidated an effort by its former residents to sell it to a restaurateurKaty Perry will get her chance to live in a former Roman Catholic convent after a judge on Wednesday invalidated the property’s sale to a restaurateur. The months-long real estate dispute in Los Angeles has involved a group of nuns, the archdiocese and a former convent, built in the style of a Roman villa.Continue reading...
  
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• Bono's plan to combat Isis with comedians suggests he's lost the plot

  13-04-2016 21:59
  
  Singer’s suggestion that Amy Schumer and Chris Rock should be employed to counter Islamic State reveals showbiz has consumed his entire way of thinking On Tuesday during a meeting with a Senate subcommittee on Capitol Hill, Bono suggested that comedians should be sent to counter Islamic State. Stressing he was serious numerous times, the U2 frontman explained: “Don’t laugh. I think comedy should be deployed. It’s like, you speak violence, you speak their language. But you
  
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• All Saints: 'TOTP Wanted Us To Take Tops Off'

  13-04-2016 20:20
  
  Recently reformed all-female band All Saints have reportedly claimed they were pressured by producers to go topless on a pre-recorded episode of Top Of The Pops. But fellow singer Natalie Appleton said the group "did not want that vision".
  
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• Rihanna is getting her own documentary

  13-04-2016 18:56
  
  ‘Rihanna’ promises an ‘unfiltered look into Rihanna’s life and how she’s ascended to become a global icon’.
  
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• 6 Tricks To Play Quantum Break Like A Total Badass

  13-04-2016 18:31
  
  Shawn Ashmore, star of the awesome time-bending shooter, reveals his insider hacks to playing like a badass.
  
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• Should Perrie Edwards Be Accused Of Cultural Appropriation Over Her Shoes? Fans Can't Decide

  13-04-2016 18:03
  
  Thoughts? Opinions?
  
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• Make Music Day festival is coming to dozens of US cities

  13-04-2016 17:36
  NEW YORK (AP) — More than 35 U.S. cities will be hosting Make Music Day, a free one-day outdoor festival celebrating music and music-making.
  
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• The Story So Far Banned From Venue After Parker Cannon Kicks Selfie Woman Off Stage

  13-04-2016 16:46
  
  She was just taking a selfie...
  
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• Bibi Bourelly Drops Visuals For 'Sally'

  13-04-2016 16:22
  
  Rising musician Bibi Bourelly (also known for co-writing Rihanna's Bitch Better Have My Money and featuring on Nick Brewer's 'Talk To Me') is back with a new video for ‘Sally’, illustrating all sorts of people from different walks of life, which in some ways showcases her diversity as a musician.
  
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• The BBC Proms 2016: few surprises, but a solid programme

  13-04-2016 16:20
  
  There are few innovations in David Pickard’s first year heading the Proms, nor big orchestral premieres – but there’s plenty to look forward to, from Boulez to Berlioz and BowieRegime change at the Proms is always a rather protracted affair, but the latest changing of the guard for the summer festival has been more involved than it usually is. Roger Wright stepped down as Radio 3 controller and director of the Proms at the beginning of the 2014 season, and with no carefully cho
  
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• ICYMI: Mont Jake Shares Video For 'Shadow' With Masta Killa

  13-04-2016 16:18
  
  Mont Jake is definitely an artist who is completely mysterious and not to mention – faceless! He has unveiled his first track 'Shadow' via Island Records with Wu Tang Clan veteran Masta Killa, to gear a nostalgic and soulful vibe.
  
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• Henrietta Unveils ‘Broken By Love’ Visual

  13-04-2016 16:13
  
  Following a hugely successful stint on the Blonde UK tour, electro-soul singer/songwriter Henrietta unveils the visual for her brand new track ‘Broken By Love’.
  
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• Harry Styles Is 'Going To Live At Sea' In Preparation For His New Movie, Because He's Method Now

  13-04-2016 16:07
  
  Oh here we go.
  
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• Chihiro Yamanaka review – effortless virtuosity and warmth

  13-04-2016 16:00
  
  Ronnie Scott’s, London
  The delighted elan of Yamanaka’s straightahead classic-jazz piano recalls Oscar Peterson and Mulgrew MillerSince the heyday of Oscar Peterson, few pianists have either refined the technique or cultivated the desire to play straightahead classic jazz with the kind of showboating virtuosity that makes listeners doubt their senses. Chihiro Yamanaka, the prizewinning classically trained pianist from Japan (and a rising star in her adopted New York), is one of the w
  
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• Beethoven Symphonies (Rattle/Berlin Phil) - technically immaculate but curiously incoherent

  13-04-2016 16:00
  
  Dasch/Vogel/Elsner/Ivashchenko/Berlin Radio Choir/Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle
  (Berlin Philharmonic)Simon Rattle’s first set of the Beethoven symphonies appeared from EMI (now Warner Classics) in 2003. Recorded with the Vienna Philharmonic and using Jonathan Del Mar’s then newly completed edition of the scores, it was a much-hyped release, which never quite lived up to all the fuss around it. The latest version, based on a cycle that Rattle conducted in the Berlin Philharmonie conc
  
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• The Secret Life of Organs review – a night of embracing the majesty

  13-04-2016 15:31
  
  Union Chapel, London
  Contemporary compositions and improvised jazz celebrate the sonorities of the church organ in the masterly hands of James McVinnie and the NecksEven those of us who’ve been coming to concerts at the Union Chapel in London for yonks might not have noticed the venue’s enormous pipe organ, hidden as it is behind the octagonal pulpit. Tonight’s bill celebrates the sonorities of this unique instrument in a variety of unlikely settings, while cameras relay live i
  
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• The Secret Life of Organs review – a night embracing their majesty

  13-04-2016 15:31
  
  Union Chapel, London
  Contemporary compositions and improvised jazz celebrate the sonorities of the church organ in the masterly hands of James McVinnie and the NecksEven those of us who’ve been coming to concerts at the Union Chapel in London for yonks might not have noticed the venue’s enormous pipe organ, hidden as it is behind the octagonal pulpit. Tonight’s bill celebrates the sonorities of this unique instrument in a variety of unlikely settings, while cameras relay live i
  
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• Mysterious Phenomenon Frank Gamble Debut New Single ‘Something Wrong’

  13-04-2016 15:23
  
  It looks as if we may just be getting closer to solving the mystery that is Frank Gamble…
  
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• All Saints: 'We were told to go topless on Top of the Pops or be cut from the show'

  13-04-2016 15:14
  
  All-girl pop group reveal how little autonomy they had as women in male-dominated music industry in late 1990sPop group All Saints have revealed the sexism they faced as an all-girl group in the late 1990s, including being pressured to go topless on Top Of the Pops. The group, who recently reformed after a decade apart, said they were told if they did not remove their tops, they would be cut from the popular BBC programme. Continue reading...
  
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• Get Ready! New MTV Prank Show Bugging Out Has The Most Fun With Tech Fails

  13-04-2016 15:08
  
  A talking dog? We can't wait to see this...
  
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• Proms 2016 to feature performance on top floor of Peckham car park

  13-04-2016 15:00
  
  Proms director David Pickard reveals new series called ‘Proms at ...’ which will see music performed away from Albert HallThe minimalist music of Steve Reich will be performed on the top floor of Peckham’s municipal multi-storey car park as part of the 122nd BBC Proms season.Unveiling his first season in charge, the Proms director, David Pickard, revealed a new series called “Proms at...” which will see music performed away from the Royal Albert Hall. Continue readi
  
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• Isabelle Faust/Kristian Bezuidenhout review – magisterial, dancing Bach

  13-04-2016 13:48
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  The partnership between Faust’s violin and Bezuidenhout’s modern harpsichord was exhilarating It took a few pages of Bach’s Sonata No 1 for violin and harpsichord in B minor for Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout to get the balance between their instruments right in this Wigmore Hall recital. Yet once they had done so, with Bezuidenhout’s bright modern harpsichord, a 2010 copy of a French instrument of 1769, reined in and Faust’s violin so
  
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• OAE Jurowski review – gentle fascination of period-instrument Mahler

  13-04-2016 13:18
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Vladimir Jurowski’s unshowy reading of Mahler’s Second Symphony as the composer might have heard it offered a wealth of detailThe Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is celebrating its 30th birthday by giving the period-instrument treatment to a pair of late-Romantic 19th-century symphonies, under two of its principal artists. Next week, Simon Rattle will conduct Bruckner’s Sixth, but first, Vladimir Jurowski took on Mahler’s Second, the Resu
  
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• Little Simz Remixes Kanye's 'Heard Em Say'

  13-04-2016 13:13
  
  ​All hail Queen Little Simz, the UK rapper has been busy touring the world, ​and today, drops some very introspective bars over Kanye West's 2005 'Heard Em Say'.
  
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• Pixies – 10 of the best

  13-04-2016 13:00
  
  Sample the band’s Samson and Delilah for the stoner college crowd, spectral lyrics of bizarre bodily physics, and emotionally tense alien road-traffic accidentsIn retrospect it’s a miracle that Black Francis, Pixies’ own Dr Jekyll, made it through the entrance interview for the band’s collegiate cradle – the University of Massachusetts Amherst – without the authorities being alerted. After all, it takes his leftwing backpacker date in I’ve Been Tired &nd
  
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• Coachella: will Guns N' Roses unite the generations?

  13-04-2016 13:00
  
  The emphasis placed on groups reuniting means Coachella will never be just kids rolling in neon sunglasses – but can an aging Axl Rose impress the late-stage millennials as well as moms and dads? I’m about to make a very damning admission: I’ve never been to Coachella. Now, I’m not saying this is shameful because everyone should go to Coachella before they die or some other pretentious proclamation. I’m ashamed that I’ve never been because living in Los Angele
  
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• Milwaukee's Bankx Blends EDM & Hip-Hop on 'Alive'

  13-04-2016 12:47
  
  If you're not acquainted with Bankx, then now is the right time to board the wave.
  
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• Chloe Ferry Celebrates Weight Loss After Being Left ‘Upset’ Over Seeing Herself On Geordie Shore

  13-04-2016 12:46
  
  Naked Worldie Alert!
  
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• Briana Jungwirth Posts First Video Of Baby Freddie As Louis Tomlinson Shares More Cute Pics

  13-04-2016 12:42
  
  Family time!
  
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• Geordie Shore's Marnie Simpson Admits She 'Only Had Eyes' For Co-Star Aaron Chalmers After Re-Joining The Show

  13-04-2016 12:41
  
  The Newcastle lass admitted that despite being newly-single, she only had eyes for her inked-up Geordie co-star...
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Isn’t A Fan Of Stephanie Davis’ Lips: She's Had A Bit Too Much Put In

  13-04-2016 12:00
  
  Char has her say.
  
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• Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby Just Dropped The Biggest Hint Yet That Things With Gary Beadle Are Pretty Much Over

  13-04-2016 11:54
  
  Best friends?! WHAAAT? What does this MEAAAN???
  
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• Drummer Covers Sonic The Hedgehog & It's Genius

  13-04-2016 11:39
  
  Green Hill Zone memories flooding back in 3..2...1...
  
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• Tanika Shares The Visuals For Powerful New Track ‘Rude Boi’

  13-04-2016 11:21
  
  After collaborating with the likes of Stormzy, Wretch 32 and Chip on her latest EP, Brixton born artist Tanika is back with the visuals for her brilliant new track ‘Rude Boi’.
  
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• She's Back! Sophie Kasaei Returns To Geordie Shore For Reunion Special: 'This Is My Home'

  13-04-2016 11:04
  
  She's got some definite thoughts on the new cast too...
  
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• Benedict Cumberbatch Stars In First Doctor Strange Trailer & It Will Blow Your Mind

  13-04-2016 11:03
  
  This Marvel movie is different to anything we've seen before...
  
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• Sturgill Simpson: country music's young outlaw shifts shape again

  13-04-2016 11:00
  
  Simpson’s new album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, blends New Orleans soul and Memphis funk to attain the electrifying peaks of his live showsHow spooky was Merle Haggard’s death? He died on his 79th birthday, a date he had accurately predicted a week prior, according to his son.Haggard also died a week before the release of Sturgill Simpson’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, another sign of serendipity. Had he not passed, Haggard’s name would once again appear in conj
  
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• Glitter Face Makeup Tutorial With Lucy Bridge

  13-04-2016 11:00
  
  Learn how this fantastical makeup look is done behind the scenes at the BSD Academy.
  
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• Bono: send Amy Schumer and Chris Rock to fight Islamic State

  13-04-2016 10:58
  
  U2 singer reassures Senate subcommittee he is serious about using comedians to humiliate ‘goose-stepping’ Isis with the power of laughterNever one for holding back on an opinion, Bono has come up with a new way of destroying Islamic State – not with bombs, but with belly laughs. The U2 singer said sending comedians such as Amy Schumer and Sacha Baron Cohen would be an effective alternative to airstrikes. Bono was speaking in front of a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday 12 April, d
  
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• Lea Michele's New Tattoo Tribute To Cory Monteith Will Make You Cry

  13-04-2016 10:51
  
  In honour of her late boyfriend.
  
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• Bono: comedy can help fight Isis – video

  13-04-2016 10:24
  
  U2 frontman Bono tells a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday to deploy comedy in order to aid the fight against Islamic State. During a wide-ranging discussion on the Middle East and the refugee crisis, Bono says that sending comedians such as Amy Schumer and Chris Rock could be used to humiliate Isis extremists Continue reading...
  
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• Cheryl Borrows Justin Bieber's Bomber Jacket Of Dreams For Date Night With Liam Payne

  13-04-2016 10:13
  
  We want oneeeeeee.
  
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• No strings attached: why the trend for classical ‘raves’ needs to end

  13-04-2016 10:00
  
  Iconic nightclubs like Cream and The Haçienda are coming back from the dead with an orchestra in tow but is it ‘rich exploration’ or shameless nostalgia cash-in?Anyone familiar with Manchester’s cottage industry of club nostalgia will have noted the latest addition to dance music’s legacy: a full-blown orchestra. Last month saw the debut of Haçienda Classical, where house classics were pumped out by the club’s former mainstay DJs Graeme Park and Mike P
  
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• Bek Moore: why the Brisbane punk scene will never forget its unruly queen

  13-04-2016 06:45
  
  Founding member of Brisbane underground bands Clag and Scrabbled will be remembered for her courage, mischievousness and flying her freak flag highIt was early morning when I heard about the death of Bek Moore, founder and mainstay of Brisbane underground bands Clag and Scrabbled.Bek Moore – queen of the unruly, a scoundrel, no bullshit, a fervent supporter of DIY and underground Australiana, her freak flag waving high, courageous, mischievous – no longer with us. Not possible, pleas
  
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• Avalanches confirm first live shows in 15 years as Splendour in the Grass announces lineup

  13-04-2016 02:16
  
  Australian band, who will also play Spain and England, will be joined at the festival by the Strokes, Sigur Ros and the CureThe Avalanches will play their first live shows in 15 years in Australia, Spain and England in 2016, answering rumours of a reunion that emerged on Tuesday, after the band updated each of their social media accounts with the same mystery photo. Related: The Avalanches update social media accounts, sparking album rumoursContinue reading...
  
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• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: PersonA – exclusive album stream

  13-04-2016 01:31
  
  Alex Ebert says the departure of Jade Castrinos forced the band to stop leaning on a ‘cutesy boy-girl dynamic’ and develop their musicianshipThe 10-piece psychedelic indie folk collective Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have premiered their fourth album, PersonA on the Guardian. It is the culmination of an intense period of change for the band, which began in 2014 with the sudden departure of founding member Jade Castrinos.Related: Misty Miller: The Whole Family Is Worried revie
  
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• Boom! Club MTV Are Crashing Coventry With The Chainsmokers, Pete Tong & Wilkinson

  13-04-2016 01:01
  
  ...and there's even more acts to be announced soon!
  
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