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• Radiohead erase internet presence – is it a cryptic message?

  01-05-2016 23:33
  
  Fans speculate over when – and how – band will release its ninth album
  The band have a history of unveiling their music in unusual waysRadiohead’s internet presence has essentially disappeared and the band have sent out cryptic leaflets in the mail, fueling speculation over when – and how – the band will release its ninth album.A visit to Radiohead.com on Sunday offered viewers only a blank page, while the band’s six-year-old Twitter feed was also empty, featu
  
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• What Could Happen In Tomorrow's Game Of Thrones?

  01-05-2016 18:34
  
  Reddit has a wild imagination…
  
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• Beyoncé’s Biographer Squeezes The Truth Out Of Lemonade

  01-05-2016 17:17
  
  What really went down with Jay Z?
  
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• Kesha’s Message To Her Fans Will Melt Your Heart

  01-05-2016 16:49
  
  We love you, Kesha…
  
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• Ghostbusters Is Now The Most Disliked Movie Of All Time

  01-05-2016 16:30
  
  At least on YouTube…
  
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• Tidal: can Prince and Beyonce save the underdog of streaming services?

  01-05-2016 16:00
  
  It was one of the few platforms that Prince trusted with his music and bills itself as the artists’ friend. So why is Jay Z’s Spotify rival still in such choppy waters?When Beyoncé’s Lemonade appeared online last weekend, many fans were furious that it was only available through one streaming service. They weren’t going to sign up to a £9.99-a-month plan just for a Beyoncé album, they decided, and off they went in search of illegal downloads. When Drak
  
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• Regina Carter review – jazz violin in a floating groove

  01-05-2016 15:25
  
  Ronnie Scott’s, London
  The Detroit-born musician brings a fresh and thrilling creative edge to her respect for jazz and classical traditionsIf attention spans are getting shorter in the 21st century, nobody’s told Regina Carter. The Detroit-born jazz violinist played Ronnie Scott’s with a drummer-less acoustic group, sometimes at a barely perceptible murmur, but her unfolding of a theme is so revealing, and her improv ideas so fresh, that listeners soon sense they can’t a
  
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• Live at Leeds review – big ideas, intimate moments

  01-05-2016 15:01
  
  Various venues
  This rapidly growing celebration of homegrown indie talent sends punters racing breathlessly around the city in pursuit of the next big thingBack in 2007, Live at Leeds started to showcase the city’s homegrown talent. Now in its 10th year, it’s one of the UK’s best established street festivals, with 180-plus bands (compared to 2007’s 54) playing at 16 venues. Attendance has also grown massively, from 1,500 to 10,500 punters pressed body-to-body in tiny bars
  
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• Meet Vicky Pattison’s New Favourite Band, FooR

  01-05-2016 14:00
  
  They’re “the next biggest thing” apparently…
  
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• CBSO/Volkov review – wonderfully agile quest for identity

  01-05-2016 13:33
  
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  Soloist Alexandre Tharaud brings all the right moves to Hans Abrahamsen’s atmospheric concerto for piano left handHans Abrahamsen’s composing career has developed in phases, including a period in the 1990s when he produced nothing new at all. But over the last decade he has written some of the most bewitching music to have emerged from Europe so far this century, works that seem to reinvent familiar musical devices in an utterly original way. Two years ago,
  
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• Gwen Stefani hailed as hero with Radio Disney Music Award for philanthropic work

  01-05-2016 13:29
  
  Gwen Stefani was hailed a "hero" at the Radio Disney Music Awards as some of the biggest stars in pop were honoured for their work.
  
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• Kim Kardashian Has Some Thoughts About Rob Kardashian And Blac Chyna

  01-05-2016 13:27
  
  Never go against the family…
  
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• This Lipstick Is Like A Mood Ring For Your Face

  01-05-2016 12:57
  
  Now there’s no hiding from your crush…
  
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• This Legit Online Shopping Hack Could Save You Some Serious Cash

  01-05-2016 12:10
  
  Time is money…
  
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• Nao review – back to the funky future

  01-05-2016 10:00
  
  Village Underground, London
  The latest digital R&B singer draws on the genre’s past and her own rich talent to rise above the packFuturistic R&B is becoming something of a hegemonic sound, not to mention an overcrowded marketplace. Once reserved for arty margin dwellers such as Kelela and the recherche FKA twigs, this highly processed variant of mainstream R&B has become the defining innovation of this decade, with ranks of young women signing up to coo ecstasies over glacial m
  
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• Beyoncé: Lemonade review – furious glory of a woman scorned

  01-05-2016 10:00
  
  Female endurance and pragmatism are celebrated with warmth, anger and wit on this astounding visual albumThe cycle of infidelity can be broken with forgiveness, Beyoncé implies – but not before she breaks stuffIt’s unlikely there will be many more albums this year that will unite high art and low in the same way as Beyoncé’s jaw-slackening latest. Stealth-released like its predecessor, Beyoncé’s self-titled visual album of 2013, Lemonade was expected
  
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• 9Bach: Anian review – ethereal and complex

  01-05-2016 09:44
  
  Real World RecordsLargely recorded live at Real World studios, Welsh-language band 9Bach’s third album takes simple elements – Lisa Jên’s ethereal vocals, piano, bass and percussion, harp and hammer dulcimer – and weaves complex patterns. Opening track Llyn Du sets the pace with an organic, trip-hoppy feel, an atmosphere that lingers through the title track and Yr Olaf, before Ifan – weirdly, a musing on the true story of a boy raised by a pack of wild dogs in
  
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• Pleasure; Tannhäuser – review

  01-05-2016 09:30
  
  Opera North, Howard Assembly Room, Leeds; Royal Opera House, London
  Lesley Garrett is fabulous as a perceptive toilet attendant in Mark Simpson’s opera set in a gay club. But a revival of Tannhäuser leaves everyone in the darkThe scene is Pleasure, a gay club in an unnamed city in the north of England, “where men come to express their instincts and desires”. Hedonism rules. Out the back with her knitting and her bumper pack of bleach is Val, lovely Valerie, “bel
  
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• Brix Smith Start: ‘Mark E Smith? He’s complicated’

  01-05-2016 09:30
  
  Ex-Fall guitarist Brix Smith Start endured wild and colourful marriages with both Mark E Smith and Nigel Kennedy. Now she’s written her memoir… In May 1983, Brix Smith, then aged 20, arrived in Manchester. A Californian by birth and disposition, her first impressions of the city were not favourable. The buildings, she writes in her entertainingly bonkers memoir, The Rise, the Fall and the Rise, “looked like mean structures where horrible atrocities had been committed”. T
  
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• Britta Phillips: Luck Or Magic review – elegant and woozily seductive

  01-05-2016 09:30
  
  (Double Feature)The formula that the bassist Britta Phillips and her guitarist husband (and former Luna bandmate) Dean Wareham hit upon for their three albums together as Dean & Britta – sumptuous pop arrangements and an even mix of astutely chosen covers and original material – acts as a template for her solo debut. Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide is given a Lana Del Rey makeover; the addition of warm synths makes the Cars’ Drive even ghostlier. The original songs don&rsqu
  
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• Afro Celt Sound System: The Source review – daring and triumphant

  01-05-2016 09:15
  
  ECCWorld fusions come no more eclectic than that of the Afro Celts, with their meld of west Africa and the Gaelic diaspora. The group’s first album in 10 years tones down the electronica of earlier incarnations for a more acoustic but no less propulsive approach in which the kora, balafon and chants of Guinea vie with the pipes, flutes and reels of Highland and Ireland, and the dhol drums of bhangra. It’s an often giddy mashup: nowhere else will you hear a female African chorus along
  
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• Simon Trpčeski: Brahms/Ravel/Poulenc CD review – a disc to savour

  01-05-2016 09:00
  
  Simon Trpčeski (piano)
  (Wigmore Hall Live)Unlike so many collections of piano works on CD, Wigmore Hall’s live recordings are proper recitals, meticulously planned to offer that satisfying arc of emotion that marks out an outstanding concert. Here, the wondrously talented Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski opens daringly with Brahms’s wistful Intermezzo, Op117, before a dazzlingly reading of the Op24 Variation and Fugue on a theme by Handel. Then the totally different soundw
  
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• Drake: Views review – more sharp introspection

  01-05-2016 09:00
  
  The Canadian rapper continues to dissect relationships and miscommunications, though there’s no new Hotline BlingDrake is probably the premier male artist of the selfie generation, making a career out of revelatory introspection mixed with a rapper’s reflex high dudgeon. The Toronto-themed Views follows last year’s hit mixtape with more Auto-Tuned post-mortems on Drake’s convoluted love life, balanced out by slightly more routine hip-hop swagger. Although tracks like One
  
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• Danielsson, Neset, Lund: Sun Blowing review – brilliant improvisation

  01-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Act)Three musicians meet in a Copenhagen studio. They have never played together as a trio and have nothing prepared. In one afternoon, they must record whatever they come up with. This was once quite normal; now, with everyone writing their own material, it’s risky. In the event, bassist Lars Danielsson, saxophonist Marius Neset and drummer Morten Lund formed an instant bond. They all play brilliantly, especially Neset, who is famous for the care he takes over preparing his recorded work
  
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• Brian Eno: The Ship review – epic eeriness

  01-05-2016 08:59
  
  (Warp)In his sleeve notes to 1978’s Music for Airports, Brian Eno wrote that ambient music “must be as ignorable as it is interesting”. That is true of The Ship, his first solo album in four years, which is inspired by the sinking of the Titanic and comprises two epic songs, one of which, Fickle Sun, is a three-movement piece featuring the comedian Peter Serafinowicz. The opener, the title track, is eerie and portentous, Eno’s impossibly deep spoken vocal perched atop syn
  
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• Gwen Stefani, Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber among the stars honoured at the Radio Disney Music Awards

  01-05-2016 08:08
  
  The No Doubt singer received the Hero Award as she joined a host of stars for the Radio Disney Music Awards.
  
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• Openly gay rock singer changing tune on Mormon religion

  01-05-2016 04:07
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two years after coming out as gay and praising the Mormon church for offering support, the lead singer of a popular rock band is denouncing his faith in his latest music video.
  
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