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• 'Guy Clark's songs were like Peckinpah movies – that powerful'

  17-05-2016 21:23
  
  Friends and peers pay tribute to the late country star whose songs, which brought a literary gravitas to the genre, were covered by the best in the businessGuy Clark, a songwriter who elevated American popular song by infusing it with literary depth, died in Nashville on Tuesday after suffering from cancer. He was 74.Clark influenced not just younger generations for songs that had the storytelling gravity of a serious novelist, but he also raised the artistic stakes for his peers. A displaced Te
  
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• Grammy-winning Tejano star Emilio Navaira dies in Texas

  17-05-2016 20:44
  DALLAS (AP) — Grammy-winning musician Emilio Navaira, known for his mix of traditional Mexican music and accordion-based polka known as Tejano, has died at his home in Texas. He was 53.
  
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• Skream, DJ Premier and Maya Jane Coles to headline MoMA PS1 Warm Up

  17-05-2016 20:30
  
  Exclusive: annual outdoor party at the Queens art venue offers its usual diverse selection with hip-hop and techno giants sitting alongside a British invasionMoMA PS1 has released the details of its annual Warm Up summer parties, which will feature acts ranging from hip-hop and techno stalwarts such as DJ Premier and DJ Stingray to British dance music stars in the form of Skream and Maya Jane Coles. Related: Skream’s favourite tracksContinue reading...
  
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• BBC Young Musician is worthy of attention in the Guardian’s print edition | Letters

  17-05-2016 20:23
  
  Prince’s death merited an eight-page tribute supplement plus days of analysis. The Eurovision song contest merited three-quarters of a page and a host of other articles. On Sunday, three exceptional young people – a cellist, a saxophonist and a horn player – showed us talent and commitment beyond measure, and beyond the stereotypes of teenagerdom. Of the three, one went on to win the title of BBC Young Musician of the Year with a performance that had his audience gripped.I&rsqu
  
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• Ruth B: six seconds about Peter Pan that made her a star

  17-05-2016 19:15
  
  When her Vine snippet of a ‘cheesy’ song went viral, the singer-songwriter decided to write the whole thing, piece by piece – and now she’s scaling the chartsIt’s a Thursday afternoon and 20-year-old singer-songwriter Ruth B finally has a free weekend. “I’ve been out on the road for so long that it really feels good to be sleeping in my own bed. It’s nice to be home.” Her brief respite comes in the middle of what’s been a whirlwind thre
  
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• Guy Clark, Grammy-Winning Musician, Dead at 74

  17-05-2016 18:41
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark, who helped mentor a generation of songwriters and wrote hits like "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting for a Train," has died. He was 74.
  
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• You Need To See The Tattoos This Kylie Jenner Fan Got Inspired By Her Lip Kits

  17-05-2016 18:37
  
  This guy seriously loves himself a matte liquid lipstick.
  
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• Guy Clark, legendary country singer-songwriter, dies aged 74

  17-05-2016 18:19
  
  Known along with wife Susanna as Nashville’s king and queen, Clark penned songs recorded by the likes of Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris and Willie NelsonThe “godfather” of Nashville songwriters, Guy Charles Clark, has died at the age of 74. The celebrated country and folk musician died in Nashville on Tuesday from persistent health problems, according to a release on his Facebook page.Continue reading...
  
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• WTF Is IDAHOBiT?

  17-05-2016 18:11
  
  Spoiler: it has nothing to do with hobbits
  
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• Texas songwriter Guy Clark dies at 74 after a career of heartfelt music

  17-05-2016 18:10
  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas-born singer and songwriter Guy Clark, who penned tunes recorded by some of the biggest stars in country music, has died at the age of 74 after a long illness, his family said on Tuesday. While he never achieved star status and shunned many of the commercial aspects of country music, Clark was revered by contemporaries as one of the finest craftsman of lyrics in the business. Born in the oil patch Texas town of Monahans in 1941, Clark joined the P
  
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• Kendall Jenner Schools Us All On How To Wear The Lingerie Trend On The Cannes Red Carpet

  17-05-2016 17:51
  
  Because undies are the new outies.
  
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• Madam Butterfly review – Minghella's production still looks good but the words are lost

  17-05-2016 17:49
  
  Coliseum, London
  With its cherry blossoms and origami birds, this 11-year-old production is strikingly beautiful, and Rena Harms and David Butt Philip give strong performancesMadam Butterfly, as staged in 2005 by the late Anthony Minghella, has been an ENO signature show in the past decade. On its sixth revival, again directed by Sarah Tipple, it doesn’t look in any need of freshening up. The bright block colours of Peter Mumford’s lighting, the sliding paper screens of Michael Levin
  
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• DJ searches for elderly couple who tore it up at Fabric nightclub

  17-05-2016 17:09
  
  Jacob Husley intrigued by fun-loving Polish septuagenarians who surprised revellers at London superclub by dancing and drinking teaWhat do Polish couples in their 70s do for fun when they come to visit their children living in London? Go dancing in the capital’s superclubs, of course. At least that was the choice of one couple on Sunday night, who turned up to WetYourSelf!, Fabric’s weekly house and techno night, at 10pm and stayed dancing and drinking cups of tea until 5am the follo
  
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• Sinéad O'Connor found safe after going missing from Chicago suburb

  17-05-2016 16:33
  
  Officials reportedly feared for Irish singer’s health after she disappeared from Wilmette, Illinois, prompting search and concerned messages on FacebookSinéad O’Connor has been found safe, local police have confirmed, after a desperate hunt was launched to find the Irish singer when she disappeared on Sunday from a suburb of Chicago.News that she had not been seen since early on Sunday morning immediately sparked alarm as reports emerged on Monday that authorities were concern
  
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• TWU x Charlotte Turnbull x Sundown

  17-05-2016 15:59
  
  Charlotte gives us her own take on the play on player persona giving us a serious side to this love tale.
  
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• War of Words review – gripping staging of a Monteverdi madrigal

  17-05-2016 15:56
  
  London festival of baroque music
  Monteverdi’s music drama setting of a passage from Tasso came off best in the Monteverdi String Band’s colourful programme of contemporaneous instrumental pieces and madrigalsPerformed at this year’s London festival of baroque music by the Monteverdi String Band under its director Oliver Webber, War of Words was essentially a contextualisation of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Monteverdi’s unclassifiable setting of a passage from
  
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• See The New Legend Of Zelda Game Early - Here's How

  17-05-2016 15:47
  
  The first every high def Zelda gameplay is about to be unveiled.
  
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• 9Bach review – charm and fragile beauty from the Welsh-language sextet

  17-05-2016 15:42
  
  Komedia, Brighton
  The ambitious and versatile folk band win the audience over after a difficult startA Welsh-language band steeped in folk tradition they may be, but there is nothing remotely parochial about 9Bach. They deal in infectious grooves, funky bass lines and international themes amid nods to Greek rembetika, psychedelia, trip hop and Middle Eastern rhythms on subjects as disparate as slavery, white rhinos, crows and, er, the apocalypse.This is an intimate gig. The six band members sque
  
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• OMG! Perrie Edwards Gets The Shock Of Her Life During This Radio Interview

  17-05-2016 15:40
  
  Eek.
  
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• OMG! Perrie Edwards Gets The Shock Of Her Life During A Radio Interview

  17-05-2016 15:40
  
  Eek.
  
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• Watch Aida Garifullina perform the Bell Song, from Florence Foster Jenkins

  17-05-2016 15:31
  
  Florence Foster Jenkins features a tantalising glimpse of the Russian soprano performing the Bell Song from Delibes’s opera Lakmé. Watch the full aria hereRussian soprano Aida Garifullina makes a cameo appearance in Florence Foster Jenkins as star singer Lily Pons; a well-placed reminder of quite how glorious an opera singer should sound and a corrective to the wincingly tuneless arias of Ms Jenkins. Garifullina was cast by director Stephen Frears himself - apparently a fan of the s
  
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• How to manage mental health: the music industry's new priority

  17-05-2016 15:00
  
  This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week has placed a special focus on relationships. Here Fiona McGugan, general manager of the Music Manager’s Forum, reports on the increasingly vital role of the emotionally responsible manager in the industryLife in the music industry is likely to take its toll on a person regardless of mental vulnerability. Being thrust into the spotlight can be difficult enough – never mind the added pressures of completing a busy promo circuit or travelli
  
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• Geordie Shore's Chloe Ferry Reveals New Nose & How She's Completely Addicted To Surgery

  17-05-2016 13:24
  
  Chlo's next to go under the knife…
  
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• Bat for Lashes five-star review – the Bride marries grief with hope on her big night

  17-05-2016 13:02
  
  Union Chapel, London
  Natasha Khan’s voices flows from an easy, Karen Carpenterish warmth to a haunted falsetto as she debuts songs from her band’s ambitious fourth albumNatasha Khan, the creative spirit and tortured soul of Bat for Lashes, glides up the church aisle. Clad in a blood-red maxi dress, clasping a bouquet and with a black veil trailing down her back, she is the Bride, a tragic heroine at the heart of Bat for Lashes’ new direction, and the eponymous narrator of the b
  
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• Pretty Little Liars' Shay Mitchell Teases Fans With Serious Emison Feels & We Can’t Handle It

  17-05-2016 12:53
  
  WE SEE WHAT YOU’RE DOING.
  
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• Gigi Hadid's 21st Birthday Was Unforgettable All Thanks To Zayn

  17-05-2016 12:49
  
  He showed her the way.
  
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• WSTRN Release Visuals For ‘Come Down’ Remix Featuring Avelino, Yungen and Krept & Konan

  17-05-2016 12:46
  
  None of are are strangers to the vibes that WSTRN bring, so when we heard that they've dropped visuals to their 'Come Down' remix, it's safe to say that we were pretty excited.
  
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• Mez Links Up With Bonkaz On 'MadTing'

  17-05-2016 12:39
  
  Nottingham based MC Mez has well and truly been on top of his game this year as he releases tune after tune. Seemingly in no rush of slowing down, he's just dropped a mad ting with Bonkaz - no really, it's actually called 'MadTing'.
  
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• Great Escape: journey across genres at the Guardian's stage

  17-05-2016 12:15
  
  If you’re heading to Brighton for the Great Escape this weekend, don’t miss our hand-picked lineup at the Sallis Benney theatre on Friday nightPlease don’t let the Sallis Benney theatre be empty for the opening artist of our four-act showcase. Nadia Reid’s debut album, Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs, bowled over a series of our writers late last year – Kitty Empire, Laura Barton and me among them – and it wasn’t just us: whoever heard the album
  
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• Jeremy McConnell Hits Out At Stephanie Davis After Claims That She's Pregnant With His Baby

  17-05-2016 11:58
  
  Here we go again…
  
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• Kim Kardashian Promises ‘Nude Selfies Until I Die’ As She’s Honoured With ‘Break The Internet’ Award

  17-05-2016 11:55
  
  Amazing.
  
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• Cult heroes: Miracle Legion – the band Thom Yorke loved, who could have been REM

  17-05-2016 11:40
  
  Mark Mulcahy’s lyrics cut directly to profound childhood memories, whoch are being revived in a reunion of the band that almost flatlinedEven at the time, in April 1986, I knew it was unnecessary hyperbole on my part when my submitted Melody Maker feature about an emerging quartet from New Haven, Connecticut included the claim, “If all the praise about REM was true, then they’d be Miracle Legion.”I’m glad the line was cut from the published version, because a) all t
  
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• Justin Timberlake Drops Brand New Feel-Good Music Video For 'Can't Stop The Feeling'

  17-05-2016 11:28
  
  WE LOVE IT!
  
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• Cheryl Reveals What It's Really Like To Date Liam Payne And It Involves Cheeseburgers

  17-05-2016 11:22
  
  Mmm, burgers.
  
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• British YouTubers Sentenced To Jail For Internet Prank

  17-05-2016 11:17
  
  Uh-oh spaghetti-Os.
  
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• Jamila Woods Shares New Track 'Heavn'

  17-05-2016 10:47
  
  The soulful songstress tells a wonderful tale surrounding love; the track is seriously contagious.
  
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• Bobby Brackins And Eric Bellinger Team Up For 'YaYa'

  17-05-2016 10:18
  
  ‘YaYa’ is a vibe for the summer, and as expected, it’s pretty catchy. I won’t say that it’s my favourite track from either of the two, however it is definitely worth a few repeats;
  
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• Demi Lovato Makes Nick Jonas Sweat Over His Dating History With Selena Gomez & Miley Cyrus In Their Amazing Carpool Karaoke

  17-05-2016 10:09
  
  LIES! LIZA MINNELLI!
  
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• Brooklyn Beckham And Chloe Moretz’s First Red Carpet Together Was The Cutest

  17-05-2016 09:27
  
  Total OTP if ever we saw it.
  
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• How we made Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go

  17-05-2016 08:00
  
  James Dean Bradfield: ‘One minute we were backstage with Arthur Scargill. The next we were on stage with Kylie’In early 1995, we went to a place called House in the Woods to record demos. Richey [Edwards], our lyricist and guitarist, wanted to continue with the darkness of our previous album, The Holy Bible, but the rest of us felt that would be falling into caricature. We wanted to breathe a bit more. But there was no tension, no arguments. Continue reading...
  
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• Sinead O'Connor found safe after going missing in Chicago area

  17-05-2016 02:08
  By Suzannah Gonzales and Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - Irish-born singer Sinead O'Connor turned up safe at an undisclosed location on Monday, hours after police in Illinois said she was missing, citing a concerned caller who told authorities she had failed to return from a bicycle ride. The brief scare surrounding the well-being of the firebrand performer unfolded after a series of Facebook posts in recent days in which she agonized over her 12-year-old son, whom she said had been left in the
  
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• Sinead O'Connor is known as much for her opinions as music

  17-05-2016 01:04
  
  Uncertainty for several hours Monday over the whereabouts of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor — who was found safe by Chicago-area police after a call saying she hadn't been seen since leaving for a bicycle ride Sunday — was only the latest episode involving the talented but troubled musician.
  
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