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• If Donald Trump held a concert, who might perform?

  11-05-2016 22:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — While Elton John and Katy Perry have hit the stage for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, and supporters of opponent Bernie Sanders include Bonnie Raitt and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's Rolodex of musicians-slash-friends is short. Really short.
  
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• Taylor Swift Continues To Channel Her Inner Jenny Humphrey At The BMI Awards

  11-05-2016 18:34
  
  She also won the Taylor Swift award. Seriously.
  
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• Tanya Burr Owns Body Shamers Claiming She Photoshops Her Instagram Pics

  11-05-2016 18:17
  
  Slaaaaaay.
  
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• Perrie Edwards Shows Off Her Bikini Bod Down Under With Her Little Mix Crew

  11-05-2016 17:40
  
  Oh hot damn.
  
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• The Magic Flute review – Fischer conducts with infectious joy

  11-05-2016 17:37
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  The Budapest Festival Orchestra’s staged concert, directed by conductor Iván Fischer, was a real treatAlways one to do things differently, conductor Iván Fischer has taken up opera direction of late. For his current European tour with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, he is presenting a staged concert – in effect a multimedia version – of The Magic Flute. Fischer reminds us that Mozart’s opera is, despite the gloss with which it is
  
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• Azealia Banks axed from UK festival after racist rant at Zayn Malik

  11-05-2016 17:29
  
  Hip-hop star triggers Twitter storm after posting racist and homophobic comments aimed at former One Direction singerAzealia Banks has been dropped from her headlining slot at a British musical festival after posting racist and homophobic tweets towards former One Direction member Zayn Malik.The American musician began trending worldwide after she posted the string of comments which referred to Malik in highly derogatory terms. Continue reading...
  
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• 30 Bikinis That Are Perfect For Bigger Boobs

  11-05-2016 16:59
  
  You're gonna want every single one.
  
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• MTV Review: Birdy Soars At Camden’s Roundhouse

  11-05-2016 16:57
  
  Seriously good stuff.
  
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• 30 Bikinis Best For Smaller Boobs

  11-05-2016 16:50
  
  Prepare to want 'em all.
  
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• Geordie Shore's Sophie Kasaei Reveals The Truth Behind Her Incredible Three Stone Weight Loss And Body Transformation - EXCLUSIVE

  11-05-2016 16:45
  
  There's no denying that Newcastle lass Sophie Kasaei, 26, looks worlds apart from the Sophie we saw at the start of series one...
  
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• Gaz Beadle speaks out on relationship with Charlotte Crosby: "I haven't got a clue what's going on between us"

  11-05-2016 16:30
  
  The Geordie Shore lad admits the pair haven't had a proper chance to talk since his return from Thailand...
  
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• Shez Raja review – inventive bassist gives jazz fusion a good name

  11-05-2016 16:15
  
  Pizza Express Jazz Club, London
  Raja turned Indo-jazz on its head with everything from funky bass to freestyle rapWhen the term Indo-jazz fusions first turned up in the 1960s, it often represented cool-bop saxes picking their way through intricate mazes of western melody and Indian ragas. Shez Raja takes a more robust approach, with his fat Fender-bass sound and guitar-hero strutting, Indian melodies chattering against pounding funk, synths, electric violins and freestyle rap. Raja’s third
  
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• Cher Lloyd is the spitting image of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini as she attends event in the US

  11-05-2016 16:02
  
  The singer is looking strikingly like her X Factor mentor these days.
  
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• Beyoncé's Lemonade is capitalist money-making at its best

  11-05-2016 16:00
  
  From slavery to the present, black female bodies have been bought and sold. What makes this commodification different in Lemonade is intent – its purpose is to seduceFresh lemonade is my drink of choice. In my small Kentucky town, beautiful black, brown and white girls set up their lemonade stands and practice the art of money-making – it’s business. As a grown black woman who believes in the manifesto “Girl, get your money straight” my first response to Beyonc&eacu
  
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• The 11 Stages Of Surviving Exam Revision

  11-05-2016 15:33
  
  Welcome to the world of competitive procrastination. Population: you.
  
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• Underworld webchat – your questions answered, on the Olympics, Batman and Born Slippy

  11-05-2016 15:27
  
  Karl Hyde from Underworld joined us to answer your questions, about everything from how he writes lyrics to the greatness of Glasgow Barrowlands 2.15pm BSTWe’ll leave the thanks to the man himself...Thank you to everyone who's taken part in this. It's been interesting to talk to you in this way. My thanks to the speedy fingers that have translated my gibberish and I look forward to seeing you all out in the world soon. 2.14pm BSTAmaranthus asks:Now it is so easy to make and produce dance m
  
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• Thanks To Our Suppliers For Geordie Shore: Big Birthday Battle

  11-05-2016 15:23
  
  Get the deets on all the items featured in the series...
  
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• Underworld webchat – live now!

  11-05-2016 14:47
  
  Karl Hyde is answering your questions now 1.47pm BSTJack Caramac talks up a classic:When did you first become aware that Born Slippy had become something more than just a well regarded Underworld track?For me, the moment Rick played me the groove, I knew it was special. When he played me the chords that he'd added to it after I'd ranted over the top of his groove, it felt that it was going to have a life of its own. Following that, it became our most successful release when Junior Boys Own put i
  
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• Olivia Chaney: celebrating Henry Purcell, the bawdy baroque populist

  11-05-2016 14:26
  
  Whether raunchy or religious, everything Purcell wrote had the same unstuffy grit. Ahead of her show at the London festival of baroque music, the folk star pays tribute to champion of the vernacularWhen I was nine or so, a nymph-like young woman with long blond plaits and steel-rimmed specs (think Joni Mitchell meets Virginia Woolf) came to teach me and my friends in Oxford Girls’ Choir “baroque dancing” on Saturday mornings.I’m not sure how authentic our interpretations
  
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• Elvis Costello review – stripped-back star at his impish best

  11-05-2016 14:24
  
  Palladium, London
  Costello is on playful form in a show that pays tribute to 60s light entertainment“Welcome to my opening night at the London Palladium – I’ve been waiting to say that since I was seven years old,” smirks Elvis Costello on the first of his solo Detour tour’s four nights in the illustrious home of light entertainment. He’s certainly set out to make that seven-year-old’s Tarby-hosted dreams a reality. Dominated by “on air” sign
  
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• Blac Chyna Appears To Slap Kylie Jenner Lookalike In New Emoji App

  11-05-2016 14:04
  
  Awks.
  
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• James Blake Drops Video For 'I Need A Forest Fire' With Bon Iver

  11-05-2016 13:31
  
  Directed by UVA, we are presented with various artistic fixtures, which compliments the concept behind the track perfectly.
  
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• Riccardo Muti to return to La Scala for first time since 2005

  11-05-2016 13:12
  
  Maestro who quit as Milan opera house’s musical director amid acrimony will conduct two concerts in JanuaryRiccardo Muti is returning to La Scala in Milan next year for the first time since 2005, when he abruptly ended his 19-year tenure as musical director amid backstage turmoil. Related: Riccardo Muti severs ties with the Opera of RomeContinue reading...
  
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• Declan McKenna – the story behind Paracetamol

  11-05-2016 13:10
  
  The young musician tells of how the death of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen from Ohio, spurred a flurry of songwriting he hopes will encourage people to careI’m 17 now. I wrote Paracetamol between the ages of 15 and 16. With many of my songs, I have this strange habit of spending months fumbling over song structure ideas before suddenly writing all the lyrics in one day, and that’s what happened here. What sparked that flurry was a story I read about a transgender girl called Leel
  
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• Kaytranada Shares Visuals For 'Lite Spots'

  11-05-2016 13:09
  
  The eccentric video shows Kaytranada with his very own personal robot whilst they pep their way through various spots including a basketball court and the beach.
  
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• Here's How You Can Basically Get Kylie Jenner's Lip Kits For Half The Price

  11-05-2016 13:01
  
  At least according to this beauty blogger.
  
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• Selena Gomez And Orlando Bloom Are Pictured Looking Cosy In Las Vegas, But What About Katy Perry?

  11-05-2016 12:07
  
  OH SNAP.
  
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• LCD Soundsystem – 10 of the best

  11-05-2016 11:47
  
  James Murphy’s pioneering dance-punk project began with him singing about midlife crises. Yet they were always ready to fill the dancefloor, too
  “I’m losing my edge / the kids are coming up from behind,” half-mutters James Murphy, for the opening lyrics of the first track he released as LCD Soundsystem. Over the next four minutes he both predicted the shape of his own career and deflected many of the criticisms that might be levelled at it; that he’s a middle-aged h
  
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• Ibiza Rocks 2016 Second Wave Line Up Including Skrillex, Wolf Alice, Dizzee Rascal & More!

  11-05-2016 11:44
  
  WE WANT TO GO TO THERE.
  
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• Zendaya Spectacularly Shuts Down Twitter Troll Calling Her 'A Gay Dude Wearing Makeup'

  11-05-2016 10:48
  
  Keep on slaying Zenny...
  
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• Azealia Banks Hits Out At Zayn In Shocking Twitter Rant

  11-05-2016 10:24
  
  Oh. My. God.
  
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• Gene Simmons apologises after calling Prince's death 'pathetic'

  11-05-2016 10:19
  
  ‘I have a long history of getting angry at what drugs do,’ explains Kiss singer as he backtracks on comments made in Newsweek interviewThe surprise wasn’t so much that Kiss’s Gene Simmons might say something provocative and inflammatory about the death of Prince, but that he might then backtrack and apologise. After telling Newsweek it was “pathetic that he killed himself”, Simmons issued a public mea culpa on Twitter, admitting he “just got such shit fr
  
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• David Bowie's second album breaks Discogs' price record

  11-05-2016 09:37
  
  Vinyl copy of the album that was later retitled Space Oddity has sold for nearly £5,000 in the wake of the singer’s deathAn original copy of David Bowie’s second album has become the most expensive record ever sold on the record collectors’ site Discogs.The original UK pressing of the 1969 album David Bowie – which was later retitled Space Oddity – fetched $6,826 (£4,722), beating the record set in 2015 by Chung King Can Suck It, a limited-edition 12in b
  
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• Warrant says doctor prescribed medication for Prince before death

  11-05-2016 08:19
  
  Police have questioned Dr Michael Todd Schulenberg, who visited star on day before death, according to search warrantPolice have returned to Prince’s estate in Minnesota as investigators questioned a local doctor who prescribed medications to the musician and visited him the day before he died, according to a search warrant.Related: Probate lawyers allowed to obtain sample of Prince's blood – judgeContinue reading...
  
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• Yacht's sex tape hoax undermines real 'revenge porn' victims, say activists

  11-05-2016 02:45
  
  The LA band is facing backlash over its fake sex tape stunt, which activists say may make it harder for real victims of non-consensual porn to be believedExperts on sexual assault have criticised LA band Yacht for creating a fake sex tape to promote their new album, something activists say may make it harder for “revenge porn” victims to be believed.Bandmates Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans, who are in a relationship, announced on Monday on the group’s Facebook page that a sex t
  
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