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• YG Enlists Drake And Kamaiyah For 'Why You Always Hatin?'

  22-05-2016 23:40
  
  The summer is fast approaching, which means that we’ll be treated to a flood of bangers to heat up the season. YG has dropped his latest offering ‘Why You Always Hatin?’ featuring Drake and Kamaiyah, teasing listeners for his highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Still Krazy’.
  
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• Ameriie Unleashes Her Brand New EP 'Drive'

  22-05-2016 23:35
  
  The songstress is now back with her brand new EP ‘Drive’, released independently.
  
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• Every Time Scott Disick Was The Best Thing About Keeping Up With The Kardashians

  22-05-2016 17:50
  
  He's our no.1.
  
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• Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Went Instagram Official In The Cutest Way

  22-05-2016 17:38
  
  Happy birthday to all of us…
  
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• BBCSO/Ibragimova/Oramo review – orchestral sonorities meet choral intensity

  22-05-2016 16:53
  
  Barbican Hall, London
  Joseph Phibbs morphs Bach into a witty tango under Oramo’s baton, with Vaughan Williams and Béla Bartók proving the Chorus’s power Joseph Phibbs’s new work for the BBC Symphony Orchestra is called Partita – and yes, it has six movements whose names broadly fit with the old-style dance suite, perfected by JS Bach, that it’s named after. But those movements run together with only one break to form a substantial, 25-minute work. The
  
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• Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Are Our London Fashion Idols

  22-05-2016 16:52
  
  Look at them slay…
  
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• Former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza dies after collapsing on stage

  22-05-2016 16:28
  
  Musician who played on band’s most successful albums thought to have suffered heart attack during session with his band OHM at jazz club in Los Angeles The former drummer with the US thrash metal band Megadeth, Nick Menza, has died after collapsing on stage at a gig in California. Menza, who was 51, is said to have suffered a heart attack during one of his regular sessions with his band OHM at a small Los Angeles jazz club, the Baked Potato.Menza’s management issued a statement confi
  
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• Cheryl’s Divorce Is Getting Pretty Messy Right Now

  22-05-2016 16:20
  
  Team Cheryl all the way…
  
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• Saint Ludmila review – heathen-smiting in luminous tone from the Hallé choir

  22-05-2016 16:18
  
  Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
  Mark Elder conducts an archaic oratorio about a Bohemian martyr for an exultant end to the Hallé’s Dvořák festivalIn October 1886 the committee of the Leeds festival secured the services of Antonín Dvořák to present a major new choral work. What they asked for was a grand oratorio on a familiar Biblical theme. What they got was an arcane, three-part study of the development of Christianity in ninth century Bohemia.Nonethele
  
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• Get Well Soon! Calvin Harris Cancels Second Concert After Car Crash

  22-05-2016 15:58
  
  But it looks like he’s on the mend already…
  
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• Boycott over LGBT law impacts more than just the music fans

  22-05-2016 15:31
  GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Hotels, restaurants and even community groups who work at arena concession stands are feeling the economic shockwaves from the growing number of canceled concerts and shows over North Carolina's new LGBT law.
  
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• Bieber Fans In Protest March Over Tour Ban

  22-05-2016 14:48
  
  Hundreds of 'Beliebers' have marched through Argentina's capital city to ask authorities to let the Canadian pop star perform there. The singer, who is embroiled in a judicial case in the South American country, tweeted that he won't be able to visit on his world tour due to the legal issues. Justin Bieber is accused of sending bodyguards to attack a photographer outside a Buenos Aires nightclub during a tour in 2013.
  
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• New Next-Gen Batman Is On It's Way, Bat Fans!

  22-05-2016 14:43
  
  It's time to Return to Arkham.
  
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• The New Star Trek Beyond Trailer Shows The Darker Side Of Space

  22-05-2016 14:38
  
  It’s not all fun and games…
  
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• Vicky Pattison Made Some Adorable New Friends In Tokyo

  22-05-2016 14:12
  
  Heroes in a half shell…
  
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• Bat for Lashes: ‘Get off your phone and listen to the music’

  22-05-2016 14:00
  
  Natasha Khan talks weddings, flower crowns and why festival-goers should forget social media and get into the spiritHello Natasha! How are you?Very well. I’m just getting ready for a vocal warmup and making adjustments to my new gown. Continue reading...
  
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• CAN'T STOP THE FEELING!

  22-05-2016 13:53 via mtv.co.uk
  
  CAN'T STOP THE FEELING!
  
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• Meet The £5 Highlighter Everyone’s Obsessed With

  22-05-2016 13:51
  
  If you can find it…
  
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• The Great Escape festival review – Stormzy caps off Brighton's feast of discovery

  22-05-2016 13:30
  
  Various venues, BrightonNew-music weekender delivers delight after delight, from South Korean sea shanties with virtuoso violins to grime’s own human bullwhip
  Three days and nights. So many bands. So many beards. So many bobs. So many bands with bobs and with beards. Brighton’s The Great Escape is what you make it: a feast of variety and discovery, or a long weekend of by-the-numbers banality. Pinballing around town semi-randomly turns up delight after unheralded delight. The thick,
  
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• Who’s The Fairest Of Them All? The Best Disney Princess Has Been Revealed!

  22-05-2016 13:27
  
  It’s a golden oldie…
  
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• Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds review – a spectacularly moving evening

  22-05-2016 11:29
  
  Euphoric whoops greet opening set of glorious singles from 60s at evening that brilliantly renders his back catalogueThe pursuit of artistic perfection is fraught with dangers for the mental equilibrium of the artist. It is a brave man indeed who declares, as Brian Wilson did 50 years ago, that he intended to make “the greatest rock and roll album ever”. Once sights are set so high, there is a long way to fall.Yet there are many who feel that he succeeded. The album in question, the
  
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• Calvin Harris cancels second concert after car crash

  22-05-2016 10:51
  
  British DJ and producer pulls out of festival in Alabama after going to hospital with cut nose sustained in collision in Los AngelesSuperstar DJ Calvin Harris has pulled out of a second concert following a car crash in Los Angeles.The Scottish producer was taken to hospital with a cut to his nose after the collision at around 11pm local time on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• Various: Day of the Dead review – 59 covers with sonic ambition

  22-05-2016 10:00
  
  The National’s Dessner brothers have compiled a five-CD tribute to the work and lasting influence of the hippy stalwarts, with varied and intriguing resultsMy disdain for the Grateful Dead probably comes from ancient tribal suspicion. The punk-derived, alternative rock universe I grew up in generally shunned tie-dye. I have always loathed the Dead, with their bloated songs and sense of counter-cultural entitlement. There are so many superior bands to take heroin to.A timely snapshot of lef
  
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• Madam Butterfly; Mahan Esfahani – review

  22-05-2016 09:30
  
  Coliseum; St John’s Smith Square, London
  ENO’s Madam Butterfly looks stunning, but what are they singing? As the company enters a new phase, there’s work to be doneHard though it is to measure impressions, the mood seemed brighter at English National Opera last week – and it has been fairly morgue-like of late – before curtain-up on Puccini’s Madam Butterfly. The previous evening at the Savoy theatre, ENO’s chorus, whose work has continued to dazzle desp
  
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• Beethoven, Schumann, Françaix: Equal CD review – colour and nuance

  22-05-2016 09:10
  
  Sebastian Bohren (violin), Chaarts Chamber Artists(RCA Red Seal)Youth to the fore here, with the stylish Sebastian Bohren giving a silky account of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, accompanied by the conductorless Chaarts Chamber Artists, founded by former members of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 2010 and since embellished by instrumentalists from leading orchestras and chamber ensembles. Their deliciously forthright reading of the Beethoven makes the Schumann Phantasie for violin and o
  
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• John Williams: The Guitar Master – The Ultimate Collection CD review – total mastery

  22-05-2016 09:09
  
  John Williams (guitar)
  (Sony) (2 CDs)John Williams has been a five-star artist for me since I heard him play the massive Bach D minor Chaconne on the guitar with total mastery, 40 years ago. The celebrations of Williams’s 75th birthday have had us nostalgically recalling the optimistic time when through his advocacy classical music was everywhere, feeding into film scores, and a natural part of light entertainment television. This soft-edged compilation gathers his biggest film hits from T
  
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• Various: Space Echo: The Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde review – classy pop archaeology

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Analog Africa)The Cape Verde islands are known for the sorrowful songs of the late “barefoot diva” Cesária Évora, but the archipelago has spawned more sprightly genres, cross-pollinating its African and Portuguese ancestries. Drawn from the early 1980s, this compilation weaves an intriguing story in which traditional dances and instruments, especially accordion, acquired a futuristic approach bristling with guitars and synths. One reason for the electronic infusion was
  
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• Richard Ashcroft: These People review – bloated production and clunking metaphors

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Righteous Phonographic Association/Cooking Vinyl)Richard Ashcroft must be delighted that the Stone Roses have set the bar so low for big indie comebacks. His first album in six years finds him trying hard to relocate the Verve’s sense of symphonic grandiosity (to that end he has been reunited with Urban Hymns co-producer Chris Potter and strings arranger Wil Malone), but ultimately falling short. With the exception of the poignant and understated Black Lines, Ashcroft’s material is
  
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• Laura Mvula review – she’s got the ex factor

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  Gorilla, Manchester
  The singer’s baroque soul, now shot through with heartache, has never sounded quite so polished and concise“I kind of plan to give you my all tonight,” Laura Mvula tells a rapt-to-the-rafters Gorilla at the start of this sold-out gig. “I’m just in one of those moods.” Mvula’s early interviews were awash with admissions of stage fright. So this opening gambit – the kind of thing a hardened professional might say every night &ndas
  
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• Franck: Piano Quintet, Debussy: String Quartet CD review – a game of two halves

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin (piano)(Hyperion)Of all the music César Franck wrote, four works made his name: the Symphonic Variations, the Violin Sonata, the Symphony in D minor and this Piano Quintet. The quintet (1879) shares that same big, romantic sound and emotional intensity of the violin sonata, beautifully brought out here by Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács in a stirring, virtuosic recording - an ideal way to encounter a still unfamiliar wo
  
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• Claire Martin & Ray Gelato: We’ve Got a World That Swings review – jazz artistry

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Linn)Claire Martin can grasp the essence of any jazz-oriented style that appeals to her and make herself instantly at home in it. This time it’s the irresistible mixture of swing, jump-and-jive and sheer bonhomie purveyed by Britain’s “Godfather of Swing”, singer and saxophonist Ray Gelato. It’s a great combination, with far more jazz artistry involved than you might at first expect. Take, for instance, the easy relaxation in the vocal exchanges between the tw
  
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• Bob Dylan: Fallen Angels review – easygoing charm

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Columbia)The meeting of grizzled musical icon and great American songbook has yielded variable results, but Dylan got it right with last year’s Shadows in the Night, his take on songs once sung by Frank Sinatra. He shows the same sure hand and musician’s affection here for a collection of standards by writers such as Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen. His vocals are engaging, the arrangements are sensitive and spare – gently brushed drums and steel guitar on Polka Dots and Moonbe
  
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• Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman review – a refinement of her sound

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Universal/Island)While Ariana Grande’s second album, 2014’s My Everything, was a commercial success, it also felt like she’d lost her identity, her debut’s pristine, retro R&B lost in the pop melee. Dangerous Woman is a refinement of her sound, shifting from the low-slung groove of the title track and Moonlight’s jazzy refrain, to the throbbing electro of new single Into You and the pulsating, Future-assisted Everyday. Elsewhere, she tries her hand at disco (th
  
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• Andy Shauf: The Party review – an accomplished new voice

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  (Anti-)Comparisons between musicians are blunt instruments. But if a more orchestral take on Elliott Smith appeals, Canadian troubadour Andy Shauf is a find. A singer-songwriter with a Beatles hang-up and a voice like sodden velvet, Shauf is on his second properly available album. The Party isn’t a concept album so much as a set of closely observed tracks linked by intersecting characters where Shauf replaces Smith’s more misanthropic tendencies with compassion and wry understatement
  
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• The biggest stars in pop prepare for the Billboard Music Awards

  22-05-2016 08:01
  
  Adele leads the British charge with eight nominations, while David Bowie is up for a posthumous award for his album Blackstar.
  
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• Musician Calvin Harris injured in Los Angeles car crash

  22-05-2016 04:14
  
  DJ, whose public profile has risen since dating pop star Taylor Swift, was travelling in sport utility vehicle struck by another carScottish musician Calvin Harris, one of the world’s top earning DJs, sustained minor injuries in a car crash in Los Angeles and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, police said on Saturday. Harris, 32, was a passenger in a sport utility vehicle late on Friday when it was struck by a car that had crossed over the center line, Los Angeles police spokeswoman Nor
  
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• Madonna in Prince tribute at Billboard Music Awards

  22-05-2016 01:05
  Madonna will pay tribute to Prince at the Billboard Music Awards, despite calls for other artists to be involved in the homage.
  
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