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• How Chance the Rapper redefined the music business's boundaries

  13-05-2016 22:17
  
  The Chicago rapper, who released his third free mixtape on Thursday, has pursued a singular artistic vision outside the usual structures a record labelWhen Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap was released in 2013, there were no streaming services battling for exclusive rights to the record. First week sales, not streams, still defined whether a record was a hit or a flop, and the line between a mixtape and studio album was clearly defined.Between then and Thursday night, when the Chicago artist&r
  
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• Everything That's Been Said About One Direction's Break

  13-05-2016 20:08
  
  Because we have zero idea what's going on...
  
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• Skepta Scores First Top 10 Album As Radiohead Claim Their Sixth UK No.1

  13-05-2016 19:00
  
  Plus Drake holds onto ANOTHER week at the top of the Official UK Singles Chart...
  
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• Teesside Uni, Your MASSIVE Pimped Summer Ball Line Up Includes Sigma, Katy B, Example & More!

  13-05-2016 18:24
  
  Club MTV and MTV TRAX are closing your year in style...
  
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• Burr Goes Bare To Prove Herself Online

  13-05-2016 17:52
  
  Tanya's had some trouble with those pesky haters...
  
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• 13 Times We Were All Hannah Horvath From 'Girls'

  13-05-2016 17:43
  
  We are not successful adults.
  
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• New band of the week: Daniel Wilson (No 103)

  13-05-2016 17:27
  
  Michigan indie-gospel wunderkind currently wowing lovers of classic soul and disco as well as modern R&BHometown: Ypsilanti, Michigan. The lineup: Daniel Wilson (vocals, instruments).Continue reading...
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Hits Out At Paparazzi For Snapping Topless Photos Of Girlfriend Danielle Campbell On Holiday

  13-05-2016 17:17
  
  Not cool.
  
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• Celeb Couples We Forgot Dated

  13-05-2016 17:07
  
  No really, we had no idea THEY were together...
  
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• These Young Money Makers Are Our Entrepreneur Inspo

  13-05-2016 17:06
  
  And it's in celebration of the ultimate entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg's, b-day!
  
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• How Well Do The Captain America Cast Know Their Marvel Abs?

  13-05-2016 16:59
  
  Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan take the ultimate Avengers quiz!
  
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• EXCLUSIVE! David Beckham Interview: My Life In Music

  13-05-2016 16:46
  
  INCLUDING: Which Spice Girls track he can't get enough of!!
  
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• Harry Styles Helped Design A Fan's Tattoo Because He's Nice Like That

  13-05-2016 16:29
  
  Excellent work, Directioner.
  
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• The Misfits – five reasons to welcome their reunion

  13-05-2016 16:21
  
  After decades of bickering, pop-punk pranksters Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only have buried the hatchet to play two festival shows. Here’s why it’s exciting newsSo, the Misfits are back together, to headline Riot Fest in Chicago and Denver in September, in something close to the classic lineup – something that was unthinkable until very recently. Frontman and founder Glenn Danzig dissolved the band in 1983, going on to form, first, Samhain and then the hugely successful Danzig. A d
  
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• The Dark Mirror: Zender's Winterreise review – Ian Bostridge is impeccable despite prosaic staging

  13-05-2016 16:15
  
  Barbican, London
  Netia Jones’s direction is uncharacteristically neutral, but the Britten Sinfonia rises to Zender’s pungent scoring to lead us on a powerful musical journeyAs tenor Ian Bostridge has himself chronicled, his relationship with the most famous of all song cycles stretches back through his entire career as a singer. As well as performing Schubert’s Die Winterreise many times in concert, he has sung it in stage dramatisations, and even written a book about his endur
  
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• Michael Fassbender Stars In The First Trailer For The Assassin’s Creed Movie

  13-05-2016 16:03
  
  AND KANYE'S IN IT TOO?
  
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• How English composers turned minor poems into major works

  13-05-2016 16:00
  
  New titles, altered words, axed stanzas – composers from Elgar to Vaughan Williams brutally reworked the verse they set, and made it immortalThe composer Charles Wilfred Orr once said of AE Housman that “he wrote verse that was (a) beautiful, (b) scanned, (c) rhymed, and (d) made sense. He is, I think, to English songwriters very much what Heine was to German and Verlaine to French composers.” Heine is one of the most – and most successfully &ndas
  
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• Kylie Jenner And Scott Disick Party With Anwar Hadid, Lucky Blue Smith And More At The Nylon Young Hollywood Bash

  13-05-2016 15:46
  
  So fanceh.
  
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• This Week's Must-Listen New Music Round Up: OneRepublic, David Guetta x Zara Larsson, MØ & More!

  13-05-2016 14:16
  
  Get your fill of this week's brand new music releases here...
  
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• Three of the best… classical concerts this week

  13-05-2016 14:00
  
  Kronos Quartet | Stravinsky: Myths & Rituals | Become Ocean Though they are regular visitors to London, the Kronos Quartet rarely embark on UK tours as extensive as this. Their programme is a typical mix of pieces specially composed or arranged for them, which varies slightly from venue to venue. The only constant is One Earth, One People, One Love by Terry Riley, who has become associated with the group in recent years. Steve Reich’s Different Trains will feature in some performances,
  
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• Justin Robertson's favourite tracks

  13-05-2016 14:00
  
  The Balearic trailblazer and Lionrock star empties the contents of his psychic record bag
  The Comet Is Coming: Cosmic Dust Continue reading...
  
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• Five of the best… gigs this week

  13-05-2016 14:00
  
  Brian Wilson | Thomas Cohen | Katy B | Bat For Lashes | Father John MistyIt is 50 years since one of the most iconic albums in pop history was released. Unfortunately, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass will not be re-forming to run through classics from What Now My Love, so we’ll have to make do with Brian Wilson playing Pet Sounds instead. The former Beach Boy probably won’t have too much to contribute himself, but his band will no doubt cover for him with heavenly harmonies and e
  
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• Alicia Keys's In Common: the best of this week's new music

  13-05-2016 14:00
  
  Keys has come out from behind the piano to unleash an upbeat housey belterContinue reading...
  
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• The Stone Roses' new single is just another anticlimax from a returning band

  13-05-2016 13:50
  
  The more important a band was, the harder it is for new material to match past glories – as the Velvet Underground, Pixies and Guns N’ Roses also found“It sounds like the Seahorses,” much of the world sighed, as the Stone Roses’ first new song in 21 years emerged on Thursday night. It’s not so much that All for One was terrible, more that is was underwhelming. “It’s a disappointment only because of what the band once were,” wrote our own Tim
  
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• Lady Gaga is set to star as Cilla Black on the big screen

  13-05-2016 13:46
  
  Lady Gaga will play Cilla Black in a new film based on the life of soul singer Dionne Warwick, who will be played by LeToya Luckett.
  
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• The First Trailer For Season 7 Of Pretty Little Liars Is Here & It’s Crazy AF

  13-05-2016 13:37
  
  WHAT IS HAPPENING.
  
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• Gaga To Play Cilla Black In Dionne Warwick Film

  13-05-2016 13:35
  
  Lady Gaga is to play the late singer and TV star Cilla Black in a biopic about the American soul star Dionne Warwick. Warwick, 75, was in Cannes to announce the project which will see former Destiny's Child member LeToya Luckett play her. Black, who died aged 72 on 1 August last year, and Warwick were chart rivals in the 1960s.
  
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• Lady Gaga plays Dionne Warwick's nemesis Cilla Black in soul singer biopic

  13-05-2016 13:25
  Lady Gaga has been cast as Cilla Black in a new film based on the life of soul singer Dionne Warwick.
  
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• Chloe Moretz And Brooklyn Beckham Continue Their Love Fest On Instagram

  13-05-2016 13:10
  
  Young love is sickly sweet, isn't it?
  
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• After Years In The Making, RY X Talks His 'Sacred' Debut Album

  13-05-2016 13:07
  
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• Martin James Bartlett on winning the BBC Young Musician competition

  13-05-2016 13:01
  
  Pianist Martin James Bartlett, 2014’s winner, reflects on two years in which his life has changed enormously and offers some advice to this year’s finalistsI first entered BBC Young Musician in 2012, when I was 15, and made it to the keyboard final. It was the start of the most rewarding and exciting journey in my life so far – the whole experience was incredibly inspirational, and it definitely made me think far more critically about my playing. Related: From the classical arc
  
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• Durex Are Petitioning Those Mysterious Emoji Makers To Get The Safe Into Sexting

  13-05-2016 12:27
  
  Banana + Doughnut + ...
  
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• 'Bowie kept it cool to the end' – Twin Peaks pick their favourite 1970s records

  13-05-2016 12:13
  
  The Chicago garage rockers take a distinctly Stonesy turn on their new album, so we asked them to nominate some favourites from the decade that inspired itThis week, Chicago’s finest young garage-dwellers, Twin Peaks, release their third album, Down in Heaven. Over its 13 tracks, the five-piece explore the nooks and crannies of a distinctly 1970s take of rock’n’roll: it’s an album both rolled and stoned. For proof, have a look at their new video – released on Friday
  
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• Super Furry Animals – Bing Bong video premiere

  13-05-2016 12:00
  
  Watch the video for the first Super Furry Animals single since 2009. Bing Bong is a ‘communal disco anthem’, sung in Welsh and described by the band as a ‘lunar howl’. The band adds: ‘Bing Bong is finally revealed to the world after its prolonged hibernation, released to bring colour and hope to Europe’s footballing, and semi- or non-footballing, nations. Bing Bong isn’t a song of victory or defeat, but a beacon of faith to return to when your best centr
  
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• You Need To See Meghan Trainor Completely Face Planting On Jimmy Fallon

  13-05-2016 11:54
  
  ICONIC.
  
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• Afrika Bambaataa denies accusations he sexually assaulted boys in the 1980s

  13-05-2016 11:46
  
  Hip-hop pioneer responds to claims from Ronald Savage and three other men by telling Fox 5 News: ‘I never abused nobody’Afrika Bambaataa has denied sexually abusing boys, after facing a series of allegations. In an interview with Fox 5 News in the US – his first TV interview to address the accusations – the hip-hop DJ said: “I never abused nobody. You know, it just sounds crazy for people to say that, to hear, ‘You abused me.’ You know all my people back
  
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• Justin Bieber Gets His Coyote Ugly On As He Dances On The Bar At Boston Night Club

  13-05-2016 11:40
  
  Oh Biebs.
  
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• You Can Become A REAL-LIFE POKEMON MASTER At The Pokemon National Championships

  13-05-2016 11:31
  
  Pokken Tournament & 3DS competitons are happening in the UK and it's going to be intense.
  
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• 'Like Bryan Adams fronting Rainbow’ – Stone Roses: All For One readers' reviews

  13-05-2016 11:29
  
  Stone Roses released their first single for 21 years. Was it worth the wait? We asked fans to review the new single. Here’s what they saidStones Roses released a new single Thursday, their first new studio material since the B-sides to the single Ten Storey Love Song in March 1995 – fans have been waiting 21 years since the band revealed Moses and Ride On, neither of which featured on the album Second Coming.The Guardian’s music editor Tim Jonze, enjoyed its psychedelic vocals,
  
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• Katy Perry Just Shut Down Those Selena Gomez & Orlando Bloom Rumours For Good

  13-05-2016 11:25
  
  Sassy Katy is BACK.
  
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• F**k It Friday: Lena Dunham

  13-05-2016 11:20
  
  Celebrating the awesome power of just saying "F**K IT"!
  
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• Just Announced! Kano's Crashing Coventry With Club MTV!

  13-05-2016 10:59
  
  BOOM!
  
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• Jared Leto Reveals The Weird Way He Cracked the Joker’s Creepy Laugh

  13-05-2016 10:54
  
  The freakiness keeps on coming...
  
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• It’s not meant to end like this, Ozzy. You’re the Prince of Darkness

  13-05-2016 08:20
  
  Ozzy Osbourne’s alleged affair with his hairdresser – and the way that Sharon rumbled him – is enough to shake your faith in love, marriage – and even reality TVYou can never accuse Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne of dodging the zeitgeist. If popular culture is celebrating something – be it heavy metal or reality TV or Louis Walsh’s big, dumb, competition-winner of a face – you can guarantee that you’ll find the Osbournes somewhere in the foreground, clat
  
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• A secret star-studded memorial has been held for Prince

  13-05-2016 02:17
  
  The event was reportedly organised by the late singer’s ex-wives and guests included Spike Lee, Gwen Stefani and Nile Rodgers.
  
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• ABC cancels country music drama 'Nashville' after 4 seasons

  13-05-2016 02:03
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABC said it's canceling the country music drama series "Nashville" after four seasons.
  
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• Azealia Banks suspended from Twitter following racist attack on Zayn Malik

  13-05-2016 01:46
  
  The rapper’s latest Twitter feud saw her strike out at former One Direction star Malik with homophobic and racially charged slursRapper Azealia Banks has been suspended from Twitter following a series of racially charged tweets attacking singer and former One Direction star Zayn Malik.After Banks accused Malik of copying a music video of hers for his single Like I Would, Malik tweeted “My @’s too good for you” – a reference to the fact that Banks had not directed th
  
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