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• Rihanna spotted with Leonardo DiCaprio at Coachella

  17-04-2016 22:11
  
  Rihanna was seen chatting to Leonardo DiCaprio at Coachella, fuelling rumours of a romance.
  
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• Coachella day two: Guns N’ Roses show appetite for destruction of own legacy

  17-04-2016 17:35
  
  Much-hyped reunion show presented a band trying to rediscover the quality that gave them appeal in the first place, while Run the Jewels had much more funThe wind that had played havoc with some sets on Friday was gone on Saturday, replaced by blistering desert sun and a day where the sultry and laid back impressed more than the overblown. Continue reading...
  
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• Coachella Is Officially The Most Stylish Place On Earth

  17-04-2016 16:53
  
  Look at all these celebs…
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Embodies All Our Bed Selfie Goals

  17-04-2016 16:21
  
  Girl got style…
  
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• The Sixteen/Christophers review – timeless Estonian and Tudor works

  17-04-2016 16:14
  
  Christ Church Cathedral, OxfordThis carefully conceived programme of choral music reveals the connections between Arvo Pärt and Renaissance composers William Byrd and Thomas TallisHarry Christophers and his group have been making their choral pilgrimages every year since the beginning of the century, spending each summer touring the UK’s cathedrals and other major churches with a carefully themed selection of unaccompanied choral music. During that time, the choice of works has been w
  
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• Jared Leto Opens Up On Those “Used Condoms” And “Anal Beads” Rumours

  17-04-2016 16:02
  
  Turns out it wasn’t a laughing matter…
  
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• Thomas Cohen on life after Peaches: ‘I had to face the pain’

  17-04-2016 15:00
  
  The musician was only 23 when his wife, Peaches Geldof, died of a heroin overdose. Two years on, he talks about grief, fatherhood and the catharsis of musicThomas Cohen is considering what Peaches Geldof, his wife of 18 months when she died of a heroin overdose in April 2014, would have made of his new music.“I did actually play her a few of the songs that were written before [she died],” he says, before rolling his eyes, and laughing affectionately, “but it was hard to get her
  
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• Coachella day two: Ice Cube and Run the Jewels bask in the desert sun

  17-04-2016 14:18
  
  The number of Run for Jewels flags was reminiscent of a political rally where tight rhymes trumped inflammatory rhetoricThe wind that had played havoc with some sets on Friday was gone on Saturday, replaced by blistering desert sun and a day where the sultry and laid back impressed more than the overblown. Continue reading...
  
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• Pierre-Laurent Aimard review – rapt and intoxicating Messiaen

  17-04-2016 14:13
  
  Milton Court, London
  The pianist’s long and personal association with Messiaen’s music informed this sublime performance of Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-JésusPierre-Laurent Aimard’s Milton Court recital was given over to a single work, Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus. Written in Paris during the last months of the Nazi occupation, it was given its first performance in 1945 by Yvonne Loriod, the composer’s second wife and, later, A
  
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• Deadpool 2 Is Officially Happening *Fist Pump Emoji*

  17-04-2016 14:00
  
  We’re glad we were wearing the brown pants…
  
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• Kanye West Doing Pushups With North West On His Back Is ADORABLE

  17-04-2016 13:32
  
  New #DadGoals…
  
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• Kendall Jenner’s Rumoured New Boyfriend Just Took A Literal Leap Of Faith

  17-04-2016 13:08
  
  He’s head over heels…
  
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• Vicky Pattison Just Shared A Pretty Important And Emotional Message

  17-04-2016 12:37
  
  We’re here for you, girl…
  
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• Cheryl Fernandez-Versini Just Shut Down Those Liam Payne Cheating Rumours Like A BOSS

  17-04-2016 12:09
  
  Girl got game…
  
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• Saul Williams: ‘The bullshit lyricists have the catchiest hooks ’

  17-04-2016 10:00
  
  The American rapper and actor on the state of hip-hop, mashing up Shakespeare with his music, and backing Sanders for US presidentYour latest album, MartyrLoserKing, tells the story of a Burundian hacker who sparks a revolution via the internet. Where did the idea come from?
  Around 2012 I was spending time in places like Senegal, South Africa and Reunion island, collecting sounds and stories. All sorts of things were going on around the world – the Occupy movement, global uprisings, whistl
  
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• PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project review – rock reportage

  17-04-2016 10:00
  
  (Island)The 2015 winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Belarus-based writer Svetlana Alexievich interviews ordinary people about their experiences, unveiling the harrowing human underbelly to recent Russian history: the Soviet war in Afghanistan; the Chernobyl disaster.The Hope Six Demolition Project, PJ Harvey’s latest album, is best understood as a kindred sort of reportage, one delivered via guitar, saxophone and gospel choir. That’s not to say it hasn’t got some tunes.
  
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• Rusalka; OAE/Jurowski – review

  17-04-2016 09:30
  
  Festival theatre, Edinburgh; Royal Festival Hall, London
  Scottish Opera’s Rusalka is a gripping triumph, the OAE make Mahler their own, and the new Proms programme causes a stir…Poor Rusalka, woe, woe, woe. This is the repeated lament of a father watching his daughter try to turn herself into something she is not, destroying her sense of identity in the process. Dvořák’s water nymph who wants to be human speaks to the preoccupations of our times. The metaphor needs
  
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• Upheld by Stillness: Vol 1: Byrd review – Ora’s bold debut

  17-04-2016 09:05
  
  Ora/Digby
  (Harmonia Mundi)This impressive disc marks the debut of the 18-voice chamber choir Ora. If you’re wondering why another such ensemble is needed, the very distinctive programme is the answer: around a fluent, sober account of Byrd’s great Mass for Five Voices, artistic director Suzi Digby has commissioned a set of new works each reflecting a movement of the mass, from Roxanna Panufnik, Francis Pott and others. The more literal references to Byrd are less successful than thos
  
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• Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth review – heartfelt and homesick

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  (Atlantic)Since the days of the wayfaring bards, the touring life has largely been coded male. But not all itinerants enjoy artificial irresponsibility. Breakout country star Sturgill Simpson’s third album is not all about the conflicts of a male life in motion, but much of it deals with the pull of home, long experienced by sailors, soldiers and musicians. Pushing the boundaries of country even more than his last, faintly psychedelic album, Simpson has stuffed thi
  
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• Sonny Rollins: Holding the Stage: Road Shows Vol 4 review – phenomenal stamina

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  (Doxy/Okeh)Since the turn of the century, when he reached age 70, Sonny Rollins has recorded many of his concerts, and since 2008 he’s been dipping into them for release on his own label, Doxy Records. This is the fourth album in the series, mostly taken from performances around Europe. Wilful, peremptory, restless, unique – Rollins can’t really be judged by any standards but his own, and he’s never satisfied. Some of his ideas are riveting, others sound quite mad, but wh
  
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• Sam Lee’s Singing With Nightingales review – sweet night music

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  A dark, dark wood and a shy songbird make a magical setting for traditional folk balladsIt is 7.30pm and just starting to get dark in woodland not far from Lewes in Sussex. It’s raining steadily. A circle of people, booted, hatted and with umbrellas, sit on log benches around a defiant fire and ignore the weather. The small talk is of nightingales – one of our reasons for being here. And now, through the trees, like the Pied Piper he is (it is the marvel of his voice, as much as anyt
  
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• Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 review – vivid and engaging

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Schwarz
  (Naxos)Young midshipman Rimsky-Korsakov was destined for a career at sea and yet he never left music behind, even writing the slow movement of his deeply nationalistic first symphony many miles from home, anchored off distinctly un-Russian Gravesend. The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoys all its folk song influences in this engaging recording of Rimsky’s later revision of the work. The altogether more sophisticated third symphony dates from 1874
  
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• Metallica: Kill 'Em All; Ride the Lightning review - metal giants' early years revisited

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  (Blackened)There aren’t many metal albums more influential than Metallica’s 1983 debut, Kill ’Em All. While it might not have invented thrash metal (comedy geordie Satanists Venom have a strong claim there), it certainly popularised the genre and laid the foundations for all who followed in its wake, from Pantera to Slipknot. Now remastered and available again on vinyl, CD and deluxe boxset (the latter of which includes a wealth of bonus material across vinyl and CD, including
  
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• Margo Price: Midwest Farmer’s Daughter review – a gritty, defiant debut

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  (Third Man)The avalanche of interest in this debut on Jack White’s label owes as much to Margo Price’s backstory as to her talents as singer-songwriter. Indeed, the two are inseparable, as opener Hands of Time makes clear, detailing how Price hit the road after her dad had lost the farm. She was spurned by Nashville, spent time in jail and lost a child. It’s gritty stuff, leavened with strings and delivered with a yearning defiance that recalls Bobbie Gentry. Price and her husb
  
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• Kevin Morby: Singing Saw review – cryptic lyrics, gorgeous melodies

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  (Dead Oceans)Singer-songwriter Kevin Morby’s third solo album reveals that, at 28, he’s an old head on young shoulders. When not sounding uncannily like Bob Dylan (Water), the former member of Brooklyn psych-folk outfit Woods is worrying about his mental powers (“Will I lose my mind?” he sings on Ferris Wheel) and evoking the Band’s warped Americana. There are allusions to the modern world – I Have Been to the Mountain tackles police brutality – but Morb
  
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• J Dilla: The Diary review – Dilla’s lost 2002 vocal album

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  (PayJay/Mass Appeal)It’s taken nearly 15 years and much legal wrangling for this album by Detroit producer J Dilla, who died in 2006, to see the light of day. Having built his reputation with beats for A Tribe Called Quest, the Roots et al, Dilla took the unusual step of recruiting others to produce his major label debut so he could devote more energy to rapping. As a vocalist, The Diary shows him to be agile and often abrasive – anger against US law enforcement surges thro
  
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• Cate Le Bon: Crab Day review – whimsical, melodic sweetness

  17-04-2016 09:00
  
  (Turnstile)There’s something very cheering about the quietly blossoming career of Cate Le Bon. Each of the Welsh songwriter’s last three albums have won new fans for her idiosyncratic guitar pop, and she is now a cherished indie institution. Her fourth has the usual abundance of ideas; its scratchy guitars, free-associating lyrics, plinking keyboards are crammed into three-minute songs until they strain at the sides. You might feel less tolerant of its jarring arrangements and musica
  
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• AC/DC says Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose to join band for rest of tour

  17-04-2016 08:52
  
  Rose will complete Guns N’ Roses’ tour dates before replacing Brian Johnson after he stepped aside due to hearing lossThe Australian rock band AC/DC have announced Axl Rose, the lead singer of of Guns N’ Roses, will step in as frontman to complete the band’s latest tour after AC/DC singer Brian Johnson stepped aside due to hearing loss. Related: Coachella: will Guns N' Roses unite the generations?Continue reading...
  
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