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• Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool review – something they've never achieved before

  08-05-2016 22:37
  
  Radiohead have always sounded like a band in constant motion: every album has seemed like an agitated shift from the last(XL)Last Tuesday, the world was treated to the improbable spectacle of tastemaking US music website Pitchfork earnestly trying to explain 1960s and 70s UK kids’ show Trumpton to its American readers. Their London-based contributing editor was drafted in, the better to elucidate the importance of Pugh, Pugh and Barney McGrew, as was the son-in-law of the show’s 96-y
  
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• Radiohead release new album A Moon Shaped Pool

  08-05-2016 20:20
  
  Band’s first album since 2011’s The King of Limbs appears on Apple Music and Tidal ahead of physical release in JuneShare your reviews Radiohead released their long-awaited ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, on Sunday night.The album is available on iTunes, Apple Music and Tidal, but has yet to arrive on Spotify. It was mistakenly posted on Google Play earlier on Sunday but was soon taken down, and has not yet reappeared on the platform. Continue reading...
  
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• Geordie Shore's Holly Hagan: 'We All Want Better For Charlotte Crosby'

  08-05-2016 16:31
  
  Sob.
  
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• Ensemble Modern review – musicanship, agility and some glorious rudeness

  08-05-2016 16:28
  
  Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
  Detail outpaced dazzle in this too-obscure festival programme from the Frankurt contemporary music specialistsIt made sense and it didn’t make sense. Securing two concerts from Ensemble Modern was a major coup for Plug, a student festival whose usual raison d’etre is to test out trials and errors of trainee composers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The festival turned 10 this year and invited Frankfurt’s contemporary music specia
  
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• Emma And Matt Willis Welcome A Baby Girl

  08-05-2016 15:51
  
  And she's got the cutest name.
  
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• GoGo Penguin review – rhapsodic themes and driving grooves

  08-05-2016 15:23
  
  Koko, LondonThe former Mercury contenders’ looping hooks and bass drones are an intelligent twist in the story of dance music Related: GoGo Penguin: Man Made Object review – club-ready electronics and jazz Lou Reed said that one chord was fine, two chords pushing it, three and you were into jazz. Former Mercury contenders GoGo Penguin pushed it to two chords and a few more at Koko, but their looping hooks, steady bass drones and percussion throb nonetheless proved Reed’s implic
  
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• Chrissy Teigen’s Spray Tan Story Has Happened To All Of Us

  08-05-2016 15:10
  
  Been there, got the fake tan-tinged t-shirt.
  
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• Vicky Pattison Admits She 'Still Fancies' Spencer Matthews As She Talks About ‘Friend-Zoning’ Him

  08-05-2016 14:17
  
  The pair's brief romance ended last month.
  
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• These Skydiving Harry Potter Fans Took Quidditch To The Next Level

  08-05-2016 13:29
  
  TOO. GOOD.
  
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• Afeni Shakur and the mothers who shaped hip-hop

  08-05-2016 13:00
  
  The death of Tupac’s mother is a reminder that moms hold a special place in rap; as managers, critics and, often tragically, defenders of their late children’s legacies Though it’s 20 years ago, the death of Tupac Shakur is still a painful subject to his most devoted fans. And on Monday we were reminded of the great rapper’s absence once again when his mother Afeni Shakur, died in her northern California homeaged 69.Though it feels as though, with her death, our last nota
  
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• Rainbow Eyelashes Are Our New Obsession

  08-05-2016 12:54
  
  So pretty.
  
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• Chris Hemsworth Makes His Daughter The Best Birthday Cake

  08-05-2016 12:22
  
  #GOALS
  
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• Briana Jungwirth Hits Back At ‘Fake’ Freddie Theories In Mother’s Day Post

  08-05-2016 11:57
  
  'I am beyond disgusted by it all'.
  
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• James review – joyous singalong

  08-05-2016 10:00
  
  O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
  With a hit album, a sellout tour and no sign of the tunes running out, James continue to live the indie-rock dream Spotlit by phone flashes and smiles, James singer Tim Booth roams through the crowd, making his way up to a delighted balcony. The crowds part fluidly for this messianic lead singer, his clear voice never faltering. He’s generous with the hand-clasps and half-hugs though; a Bono with whom you might conceivably share a vodka smoothie.Thirty-four ye
  
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• Anohni: Hopelessness review – a radical album for a time of crisis

  08-05-2016 10:00
  
  (Rough Trade)This extraordinary album, authored by the artist formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons, is all about radical changes, and radical change.Having excised the letter T, Antony is now Anohni, bringing both brand and public face in line with Anohni’s long-held female identification among intimates. Gone are the Johnsons, the non-ensemble who used to underscore Antony’s emotive vibrato. Two digital producers at the vanguard of electronica replace them – Hudson Mohawk
  
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• Kevin Rowland: ‘I’ve expressed myself in the way I wanted’

  08-05-2016 09:30
  
  Soon to release a cover album of his favourite songs, the Dexys frontman talks about his Irish roots, his grudges – and why he wore a dress for Reading 1999I meet Kevin Rowland for lunch in his local vegan restaurant in east London. He is dressed down today, at least by his often extravagant sartorial standards, in buttoned-up denim shirt, wide denim jeans and a large flat cap. The look, from the stripy fisherman’s jumper draped over his shoulders to his well-groomed ’tache and
  
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• Kammer Klang; Igor Levit review – from minimal to maximal

  08-05-2016 09:30
  
  Cafe Oto; Wigmore Hall, London
  A cool cafe crowd gives its full attention to the spare, experimental work of Christian Wolff. And Igor Levit goes where other pianists fear to treadItalian Vogue once called Cafe Oto in Dalston the coolest venue in London. They should know. That was a while ago but it remains the place to go for the untrod, the untried, the novel. The name is a Japanese word meaning noise, sound or music. Founded eight years ago as an all-day cafe and night-time music place, Oto t
  
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• White Lung: Paradise review – an alluring blur of melody

  08-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Domino)With Deep Fantasy, Vancouver punk trio White Lung made one of the most thrilling albums of 2014, its vicious riffs following the line of least resistance to punchy choruses, all dispatched at frantic speed, frontwoman Mish Barber-Way’s full-throated roar recalling Courtney Love at her most ferocious-sounding. There is greater variety on this follow-up, their fourth album, the more measured likes of Below and Sister reining in the speed and aggression, and sounding positively slowco
  
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• Tony Murena: Indifférence review – a curiosity from the 1930s

  08-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Milan)Making a fusion of jazz and other idioms is nothing new. In the 1930s, the accordionist Tony Murena’s hybrid of American jazz and French musette vied for popularity with the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. A virtuoso of the instrument, he toured major concert halls throughout Europe and South America. Listening to him today, you sometimes wish he’d take it easy on the virtuosity and give music more of a chance, but it’s impressive nevertheless. H
  
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• Thomas Cohen: Bloom Forever review – sensitive response to living with grief

  08-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Stolen Recordings)There is a terrible sadness at the heart of the first solo record by Thomas Cohen, formerly of London art rockers SCUM. It was written over four years, and charts a range of life experiences, but it is unavoidably the songs about the death of Cohen’s wife, Peaches Geldof-Cohen, that form the album’s emotional core. The largely acoustic Country Home is especially powerful, addressing the subject with such candour that you feel caught between applauding its courage a
  
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• Kaytranada: 99.9% review – a testament to hip-hop chops

  08-05-2016 09:00
  
  (XL)The debut by name-to-drop Montreal producer Kaytranada (drop it thus: Kaytra-NAH-duh) is a millennial collection that flares its nostrils at genre. On paper, the Haitian-born Louis Celestin is a hip-hop-head turned remixer, gaining traction from reworking Janet Jackson. These slightly disjointed 15 tracks provide ample evidence of 360-degree skills, of house and funk steals, often undercut with the clattery skip of bass music. A woozy Anderson .Paak feature, Glowed Up, where beats fall a nan
  
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• JS Bach: Mass in B minor review – dazzling transparency

  08-05-2016 09:00
  
  Soloists, Concerto Copenhagen/Mortensen(CPO)The sound world of Bach’s last great Mass has changed radically in recent decades; one-to-a-part performance practice is, as conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen puts it, “changing our entire notion of Bach’s acoustic universe”. This bold claim is amply proven in an account of dazzling transparency, dance-like rhythms and utter clarity. Sometimes the balance seems not quite right, for example when organ continuo dominates, but some su
  
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• Jarlath Henderson: Hearts Broken, Heads Turned review – well worth the wait

  08-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Bellow)It’s taken 10 years for Ulster-born piper Jarlath Henderson to convert his Young Folk Award into a solo album, so busy has he been with collaborations (two records with Ross Ainslie), and with qualifying as a doctor. Now 29, he has delivered a handsome traditional album in Hearts Broken, its eight antique songs given modern treatments built on the punchy bass playing of producer Duncan Lyall, with brass, electronica and even beatbox in the mix. Henderson is foremost a uillean piper
  
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• James Blake: The Colour in Anything review – bleakly mesmerising

  08-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Polydor) Related: James Blake: ‘I'm the opposite of punk. I've subdued a generation’ Stealth-released two weeks after his pivotal guest spot on Beyoncé’s Lemonade, The Colour in Anything finds James Blake consolidating an international reputation as digital music’s premier little boy lost. More soulful, perhaps, than its predecessors, but overlong at 17 tracks, it expands Blake’s bleak vision. Standout love songs like FOREVER dial it back to just voice and p
  
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• Great Moments at Carnegie Hall review – a fascinating gallop through 125 years

  08-05-2016 08:59
  
  (Sony) (2 CDs)This is exactly what it says: selected highlights from 125 years of performance history at New York’s great concert hall, which opened on 5 May 1891. The choice may look like a box of bonbons – it is – but it’s fascinating as a swift if slightly jerky gallop through performance styles and big stars of the past (mainly) half century. The earliest track, from 1943, is the last movement of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1, conducted by Arturo Toscanini w
  
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• Skepta: Konnichiwa review – pulses with nervy energy

  08-05-2016 08:00
  
  (Boy Better Know)A key figure on the grime scene since the early 00s, Skepta rebooted his career and gave the entire genre a jolt in 2014 with the electrifying That’s Not Me. This keenly awaited album, his fourth, rides the wave of that resurgence, which intensified with last year’s brilliant Shutdown, but it also bristles under the pressure. Moments of insecurity – “I can’t be up there with them people,” the Tottenham rapper frets on Corn on the Curb, “
  
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• AC/DC review – Axl Rose brings menace as rock legends pull off a triumph

  08-05-2016 06:10
  
  The Guns N’ Roses singer might have been confined to a ‘throne’, but he delivered a masterly first appearance fronting AC/DCAC/DC couldn’t really have handled the departure of their singer Brian Johnson much worse – a curt statement on their website announcing he could no longer tour owing to hearing loss, and their intention to continue with a stand-in – short of announcing a compulsory redundancy programme for all Florida-resident geordies with a penchant fo
  
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• AC/DC perform Shoot to Thrill with new frontman Axl Rose – video

  08-05-2016 05:18
  
  Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose made his debut with AC/DC at a concert in Lisbon on Saturday, standing in for lead singer Brian Johnson on the veteran Australian rock band’s world tour. AC/DC had to reschedule dates on the US leg of the Rock or Bust tour in March after Johnson, 68, was advised by doctors to stop touring ‘or risk total hearing loss’. Rose was announced as a replacement a month later Continue reading...
  
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• Levine leads last opera as Met music director after 40 years

  08-05-2016 01:46
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The cast walked off the stage and left conductor James Levine to watch and listen Saturday as the orchestra cheered and the Metropolitan Opera House audience broke into rhythmic applause.
  
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