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• Glastonbury festival may move in 2017, Michael Eavis says

  02-05-2016 23:08
  
  The festival’s founder suggested to the Oxford Union that this year could be the last in the current famously bucolic – if frequently muddy – settingIts huge natural amphitheatre and expansive green fields have arguably made the Glastonbury festival as famous as the bands it puts on. But according to its founder, this summer could be the last time in its current dairy farm location. Michael Eavis, who started the Glastonbury festival on his farm in 1970, told a crowd at Oxford
  
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• Quatuor Ebène/Capuçon - compelling and fresh

  02-05-2016 22:58
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  Following Schubert’s great and overwhelming C major quintet with Beethoven’s op 130 made for a bold but exhilarating eveningHow to schedule Schubert’s C major string quintet? In the right hands, the piece is so overwhelming that anything else on the programme risks being eclipsed. But if the quintet is to be played alongside other music, what should that music be, and should the Schubert have the last word?France’s Quatuor Ebène took the bold a
  
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• Singer Nelly Furtado hits out at 'underpaying' YouTube over royalties

  02-05-2016 20:26
  
  Singer Nelly Furtado has cited late musician Prince as she called on YouTube to raise its royalty payments to music artists.
  
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• Beyonce's 'Lemonade' tops Billboard, Prince reigns on album chart

  02-05-2016 19:53
  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B star Beyonce stormed to the top of the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart with her surprise visual concept album "Lemonade," while late singer Prince's music dominated the chart as fans continued to remember his legacy through his music. "Lemonade," the sixth solo album by Beyonce, sold 485,000 albums, more than 900,000 songs and was streamed 115 million times, totaling 653,000 units according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. Beyonce debuted
  
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• Prince siblings in probate court in 1st hearing on estate

  02-05-2016 19:11
  
  CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — Five of Prince's six surviving siblings appeared in court Monday for the first hearing to start sorting out an estate certain to be worth millions, a task complicated because the star musician isn't known to have left a will.
  
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• All surprises: Radiohead and the art of the unconventional album release

  02-05-2016 17:53
  
  As the rumours of an imminent Radiohead LP grow, we look back at some of the novel ways in which the band have previously put out their musicRadiohead have become the kings of the unexpected album release. Not only does the album itself often come as a bit of a shock, but the method of its delivery tends to be a surprise. Put it this way: the first person to buy a new Radiohead album isn’t someone at their local Tesco with a crisp new tenner in their hand.So how have their releases evolved
  
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• Beyoncé and beyond: the hottest sounds of summer 2016

  02-05-2016 17:46
  
  Bob, Beyoncé and the Boss top a summer that sees Kendrick Lamar play Hyde Park and Axl Rose front AC/DC. Plus the return of Dexys, ABC – and Adam AntPistols reloaded: Alexis Petridis on how to celebrate punk’s 40th birthday
  Summer culture: Film | Dance | Theatre | Art | ComedyThe thrilling revival of Skepta has mirrored that of UK grime itself. Before the Tottenham rapper was owning 2015 with his track Shutdown, his career had become derailed by the lure of major label money,
  
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• Alan Loveday obituary

  02-05-2016 17:13
  
  Violinist who helped shape the distinctive sound of the Academy of St Martin in the FieldsThe violinist Alan Loveday, who has died aged 88, went on from prodigious beginnings in New Zealand to London, and in particular the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF). As one of the ensemble’s soloists and leaders, he helped create its distinctively brilliant and even string sound.The ASMF’s founder, Neville Marriner, asked Loveday to be the solo violin in a recording of Vivaldi’s
  
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• Joey and Chandler Had A Friends Reunion And it Was Amazing

  02-05-2016 16:41
  
  But was Miss Chanandler Bong there?
  
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• Les Talens Lyriques/Rousset/Piau review – wit and charm with grace notes

  02-05-2016 16:19
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  Christophe Rousset conducted from the harpsichord, while Sandrine Piau achieved something like perfection in this concert of baroque chamber cantatas and trio sonatasChristophe Rousset’s concert of baroque chamber cantatas and trio sonatas with members of his ensemble les Talens Lyriques was scheduled as a vehicle for mezzo Ann Hallenberg. Her indisposition, however, led to her replacement by soprano Sandrine Piau, one of Rousset’s regular collaborators and a fin
  
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• Nelly Furtado: 'YouTube pays more than nothing. That doesn't make it fair'

  02-05-2016 16:17
  
  The Canadian singer joins Debbie Harry and Nikki Sixx’s in call for YouTube to increase its payments to musicians Related: Nikki Sixx launches campaign to get YouTube to ‘do the right thing’ over music royalties I am a Canadian singer-songwriter and independent artist. I have been following the news about YouTube’s debate with Sixx:AM (Nikki Sixx’s band) and Debbie Harry. I applaud Katy Perry and the rest of the artists who have begun their petition on the issues. I
  
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• Khloe Kardashian's Amaze Nail Beauty Hack

  02-05-2016 16:11
  
  This is a total game-changer...
  
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• The Lion King Has Been Lying To Us For Years And We Are Devo

  02-05-2016 15:41
  
  There goes our trust in anything then...
  
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• Is Taylor Swift Going To Be In X-Men: Apocalypse?

  02-05-2016 15:11
  
  That would be AMAZING.
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Face Swaps With Gigi Hadid And Weirdly Looks The Same

  02-05-2016 14:23
  
  Eh? How did that happen?
  
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• Appaz One Direction Really Aren't Getting Back Together

  02-05-2016 13:55
  
  *weeps*
  
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• President Obama Says He Has No Clue What Kendall Jenner Does

  02-05-2016 13:30
  
  Does he live under a White House rock?
  
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• Emile Ford obituary

  02-05-2016 13:26
  
  Singer who topped the charts with What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?The UK’s first No 1 hit of the 1960s was What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? by Emile Ford and the Checkmates. Ford, who has died aged 78, was the first black British male singer to top the charts, and went on to a career as an acoustics engineer.He was born in Castries, St Lucia, into one of the island’s leading families. His father, Frederick Miller, was a local politician who became the isla
  
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• Dixie Chicks review – second coming of country music outlaws

  02-05-2016 13:12
  
  O2 Arena, London
  The outspoken Texan band’s timely return spans covers of Beyoncé and the Weeknd, all with a country-bluegrass core“How many of you have heard Beyoncé’s new album, Lemonade?” asks the Dixie Chicks’ lead voice and guitarist, Natalie Maines. The feeble cheer that wafts up from the full house indicates that Lemonade hasn’t made it on to many MP3 players. Undeterred, Maines announces that the next song, the country track Daddy Lessons
  
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• Lush's playlist: Peppermint Rainbow, Brett Smiley and more

  02-05-2016 13:00
  
  The shoegazers’ bassist Phil King discusses sunshine pop, French rock’n’roll and partying with Eddie Izzard Henry is my drinking buddy. If I post a photo on Instagram of the area by the Thames near where he lives, my friends say: “Uh oh!” He is a bit of a genius. He also has an EMS suitcase Synthi (bought from David Vorhaus of White Noise. Brian Eno also has one) and after a few drinks he will play the opening synth noises to Hawkwind’s Silver Machine on it. H
  
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• Justin Bieber Pets Tiger At Dad's Engagement Party And World Goes Crazy

  02-05-2016 12:42
  
  Another day, another scandal...
  
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• Niall Horan and Luke Hemmings Are Going On A Man Date And We're Shipping It Hard

  02-05-2016 11:51
  
  It's cool if we tag along, right guys?
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn officially confirmed for Glastonbury

  02-05-2016 11:09
  
  Labour leader to be interviewed on the Sunday of the festival, by the Guardian’s John HarrisGlastonbury have confirmed that Jeremy Corbyn is to appear at this year’s festival. The Labour party leader is to take part in an “in conversation with …” event in the Left Field on Sunday 26 June. Though his appearance had been pretty much certain, anyway – Left Field curator Billy Bragg had announced it – it had not been officially confirmed by the festival unt
  
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• Kylie Jenner Gets New Mystery Tiny Tattoo

  02-05-2016 11:05
  
  What does it all mean?
  
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• How we made: Donovan's Sunshine Superman

  02-05-2016 08:00
  
  ‘It’s primarily a love song – but I was also trying to get to the invisible fourth dimension of transcendental superconscious vision’Sunshine Superman was one of the first British psychedelic records, but it’s primarily a love song. It was the mid-60s and I was appearing on Ready Steady Go!, playing Catch the Wind, when I saw this girl. I said to my mate Gypsy Dave: “My God, look at that girl. She’s beautiful.” We had a dance. She told me her name
  
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• Facing the music: Ilan Volkov

  02-05-2016 08:00
  
  From Bach to Berg, Christa Ludwig to Brian Wilson, and from yoiking to drumming - conductor Ilan Volkov on the music and musicians that inspires himWhat was the last piece of music you bought?
  The new album by Andé Somby, Yoiking With the Winged Ones. He’s appearing at Tectonics in Glasgow and Oslo this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Prince's last supper went untouched, says musician's personal chef

  02-05-2016 07:33
  
  Ray Roberts, who cooked for Prince for three years, said in the months before his death he was ‘sick a lot’In the months leading to his death, Prince suffered from frequent sore throats and seemed to be losing weight, his personal chef has said.Ray Roberts cooked for the musician at his Paisley Park home in Minneapolis every day for three years. Continue reading...
  
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• The 100 best nonfiction books: No 14 – Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom

  02-05-2016 06:45
  
  Nik Cohn’s passionate account of how rock’n’roll changed the world captured the same wild energy as his subject matterPop, the cultural revolution of the late 20th century, has touched art, poetry, fiction, and everything musical, with its hot white wand. In the beginning, in the 1960s, pop was sex and drugs and rock’n’roll: a way of life. A lot of young journalists covered it, but very few transcended the genre to create a narrative that would outlive the generatio
  
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