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• Glastonbury plans final encore for David Bowie, Prince and Lemmy

  05-06-2016 23:00
  
  Organisers of this year’s festival say hundreds of tributes to the three stars will be staged throughout the eventHundreds of tributes celebrating the music of David Bowie, Prince and Motörhead’s Lemmy will be staged during this month’s Glastonbury festival as the Somerset event morphs into a rolling commemoration of three rock stars who passed away since Christmas.Organisers have revealed that they are finalising “participatory aspects” for the 177,000 sellout
  
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• Selena Gomez To Donate Proceeds From North Carolina Show To LGBT Organisation

  05-06-2016 17:33
  
  The pop star has decided to go ahead with her show instead of cancelling it.
  
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• Spike Lee throws a party for Prince

  05-06-2016 17:17
  
  Spike Lee threw a huge party for Prince ahead of the late singer’s 58th birthday.
  
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• 18 Times Troye Sivan Nailed The Whole 'Fashion' Thing

  05-06-2016 16:48
  
  A look back at some of Troye Sivan's best fashion moments yet...
  
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• L'Italiana in Algeri review – Ezgi Kutlu turns girl power on Ottoman camp

  05-06-2016 15:30
  
  Garsington Opera at Wormsley
  The Turkish mezzo thrills as the heroine striving to avoid entrapment in a harem, while director Will Tuckett sprinkles movie glamour on Rossini’s farce“Whether gentle or rough, men are all the same,” we’re told in L’Italiana in Algeri, Rossini’s culture-clash comedy of sexual mores, given a new production by Garsington Opera, directed by Will Tuckett and conducted by David Parry. Rossini was only 21 when he wrote it. It was one of
  
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• Paul Walker's Daughter Announces Scholarship Winner For Her Late Father's Foundation

  05-06-2016 14:47
  
  Meadow set up the foundation for her father after he died.
  
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• Chris Hemsworth Steals Our Hearts With Adorable Family Instagram Pic

  05-06-2016 13:56
  
  His family are the cutest EVER!
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Admits To Extra Soccer Aid Pressure Due To Jamie Vardy Movie Role

  05-06-2016 13:31
  
  We're rooting for you Louis!
  
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• Coldplay in Manchester review – visual treats and infectious niceness

  05-06-2016 13:08
  
  Their love of cliches may be comical at times, but band prove there are few serious challengers to their own heavyweight titleHalfway through Coldplay’s two-hour extravaganza, the band are on the time-honoured stadium rock trudge to a smaller stage in the middle of the audience, when they turn back to see the image of Muhammad Ali making one of his old speeches. On the day The Greatest died, to hear him say, “When I die, if there’s a heaven, I’m going to see it” pro
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Reckons She Should Be On The Next Series Of Strictly Come Dancing

  05-06-2016 12:54
  
  *dancing lady emojis*
  
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• Gigi Hadid Singing Along To Zayn Malik's 'Pillowtalk' On Snapchat Is The Cutest Thing Ever

  05-06-2016 12:11
  ZIGI FOREVER!
  
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• Kylie Jenner Is Officially Ready For Summer As She Posts Sizzling Swimsuit Pic

  05-06-2016 11:37
  
  We're SO envious of King Kylie's choice of swimwear.
  
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• Justin Bieber Shows Off New Hair Colour As He Hangs Out With Lewis Hamilton, Neymar & Jamie Foxx

  05-06-2016 11:07
  
  JB's rocking this summer's platinum blonde trend rather well.
  
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• Let’s Eat Grandma review – a singular, genre-blurring vision

  05-06-2016 10:00
  
  Electrowerkz, London
  Norwich’s otherworldly teenage friends veer between breathtakingly original… and too infantile for their own goodBacklit, the much-hyped Norwich teen duo Let’s Eat Grandma start their set in a blur of whirling long hair and hands playing pat-a-cake in the gloom, an enigma wrapped in creepy infantilism. The depth-charge beats of their extraordinary debut single, Deep Six Textbook – imagine Cocteau Twins playing trip-hop, or early Joanna Newsom gone wi
  
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• Here Are 21 Inspirational Troye Sivan Quotes That Will Give You Life On His Birthday (& Always)

  05-06-2016 10:00
  
  HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!
  
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• Paul Simon: Stranger to Stranger review – still creative after all these years

  05-06-2016 09:59
  
  (Virgin)Thirty years after Graceland ushered in a phenomenal second act for the already-revered 60s folk hero, 74-year-old Paul Simon remains a class act on the move. There is a constancy to his melodic voice but his albums probe tonal frequencies as though he were a much younger digital wunderkind.At the moment, the singer says, his focus is more on sounds than lyrics. “When words desert me,” he sings on the oscillating reverie Proof of Love, “music is the tongue I speak.&rdqu
  
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• Ala.Ni: You & I review – beguiling songs of doomed love

  05-06-2016 09:59
  
  (No Format)It’s hard to fall for a new artist whose break came courtesy of that bastion of cutting-edge music programming, Later With Jools Holland. But Ala.Ni is a beguiling singer capable of torching lazy assumptions. Somewhere between Judy Garland and Julee Cruise, she is a west London-born, Paris-based former session singer of Grenadian extraction who harks back to a time when songbirds glided on gentle orchestral breezes. This assured debut is largely about a doomed love affair, a cur
  
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• Rachmaninov: Op 39 & Op 16 CD review – beguiling ambiguity

  05-06-2016 09:00
  
  Boris Giltburg (piano)(Naxos)Rachmaninov wrote two sets of études-tableaux, literally study-pictures. Outside the sphere of pianists and Rachmaninov fans, they remain a fairly well hidden secret. The Russian-Israeli Boris Giltburg, in his CD note to the later set, Op 39, describes them as short stories: “captivating, meticulously crafted to trim all excess… movies with accomplished cinematography and lighting”. Each of the nine jewel-like miniatures in the cycle –
  
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• On my radar: Jamie Hince’s cultural highlights

  05-06-2016 09:00
  
  The Kills guitarist and singer on Russian animation and photography, inspirational musicians and the poshest bar in ParisBorn in 1968, Jamie Hince is a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in indie-rock duo the Kills. He studied drama at Goldsmiths College in London in the early 90s, and played in rock bands Fiji, Scarfo and Blyth Power largely while living in squats. He met American singer Alison Mosshart when she heard him play guitar in the apartment above her and in 2000 they formed the Kills,
  
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• Dexys: Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul review – inspired and joyful

  05-06-2016 09:00
  
  RhinoThe covers that comprise Dexys’ fifth album are rather more inspired than its none-more-descriptive title suggests, from Irish folk standards such as Carrickfergus and The Curragh of Kildare through to a powerful rendition of Rod Stewart’s You Wear It Well and even a successful reimagining of LeAnn Rimes’s How Do I Live. Kevin Rowland hasn’t lost his ability to convey passion and empathy, qualities never more apparent than on The Town I Loved So Well, Phil Coulter&rs
  
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• Cat’s Eyes: Treasure House review – lush strings, garage rock and all points between

  05-06-2016 09:00
  
  (RAF)Few side projects turn out as well as Cat’s Eyes, a bit of extracurricular fun for Horrors frontman Faris Badwan and Italian-Canadian soprano Rachel Zeffira, which has so far delivered two swooningly lovely records and a pair of guerrilla gigs in the Vatican and Buckingham Palace. The musical chemistry is undiminished on their third album where a languid kind of heartache holds sway. Their vocals drift over lush orchestral arrangements and twine elegantly on the stately sadness of We&
  
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• Brad Mehldau Trio: Blues and Ballads review – extraordinarily inventive

  05-06-2016 09:00
  
  (Nonesuch)A deceptively sweet-sounding set which, once you cotton on to the pianist’s way of treating a few mainly well-known tunes, is absolutely absorbing. Instead of the usual jazz method of improvising on a tune over and over again, known as “playing choruses”, he plays the song with a few variations and then goes into a kind of free meditation on it. And every phrase is a cliffhanger. Probably, only a musician of Mehldau’s extraordinary powers of invention can do thi
  
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• Allen Toussaint: American Tunes review – an affecting swansong

  05-06-2016 09:00
  
  (Nonesuch)His final studio album proves an affecting swansong from the late New Orleans composer, producer, pianist and legend. Here Toussaint treats jazz classics by Fats Waller, Billy Strayhorn, Bill Evans and others to his intricate yet funky piano skills, much as he did on 2009’s The Bright Mississippi. Rhiannon Giddens adds muscular vocals to a brace of Duke Ellington tunes, but it’s mostly a low-key, instrumental affair. Toussaint’s hero, Professor Longhair, is twice hono
  
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• Tegan and Sara: Love You to Death review – glossy pop with razor-sharp lyrics

  05-06-2016 08:59
  
  (Warner Bros)After 15 years in the outer reaches of the indie mainstream, the Canadian sisters Tegan and Sara Quin dived headlong into pure pop on 2013’s excellent Heartthrob. Now they have reunited with the producer Greg Kurstin (Sia, Kylie), Love You To Death is poppier still, each song buffeted by fizzing synths, pin-sharp drumbeats and chant-along, glitter-bomb choruses. While their musical palette has shifted, their lyrical detail remains razor-sharp – dissecting the complexitie
  
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• German music festival cut short after lightning strikes

  05-06-2016 05:47
  German authorities on Sunday canceled the third and final day of a rock music festival attended by more than 90,000 fans after lightning strikes injured 80 people, some seriously, and more bad weather was forecast, festival organizers said. Festival organizers had halted performances for several hours on Saturday during another thunderstorm, temporarily sending some 92,500 fans to their cars and tents for safety, but vowing to resume the open-air event. The event website initially reported 42 pe
  
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