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• Big Brother 2016: Alex Cannon Is Nominated By 'The Others' As He Gets Close To Evelyn Ellis

  09-06-2016 23:22
  
  While the house loses their shiz
  
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• Dan Lissvik: Midnight review – suitably eclectic Balearic beat revival

  09-06-2016 23:15
  
  (Smalltown Supersound) Related: How tropical house’s dreamy escapism took dance music by storm Dan Lissvik’s 2007 album with Swedish duo Studio arrived amid the Balearic beat “revival”, a slower-paced style of house music, where the guitars sound as if they’re coated in syrup and analogue pastel synths meet disco licks. Today, the genre’s blissed-out legacy can be heard in the more two-dimensional poolside house and nu-disco made popular by the likes of YouTub
  
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• Yung: A Youthful Dream review – polite and prettified punk

  09-06-2016 22:30
  
  (Fat Possum/Tough Love)The fact that Danish band Yung are retreading old ground on their first album is a moot point: guitar rock currently feels like a place where craggy riffs and rasping vocals are reanimated in order to stir up memories of the past. Those are largely positive memories, admittedly, which makes A Youthful Dream an enjoyable record. Sometimes, as on Blanket, it sounds like a prettified version of the pounding pop-punk that used to soundtrack the Tony Hawk video games, whil
  
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• Nick Jonas: Last Year Was Complicated review – single, sad and highly sexed pop

  09-06-2016 22:15
  
  (Island)Single, sad and highly sexed, Nick Jonas wrote his third solo album in the wake of a breakup and the dawn of his dating exploration. It ushers in a sound best described as bachelor pop. Much like Zayn’s R&B debut, the Disney channel graduate and former Jonas Brother maintains mainstream music’s flirtation with melancholy and leftfield lyrics. Champagne Problems is a tale of excess that banishes Drake’s “trouble at the top” narrative to a neon-l
  
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• The Last Mermaid review – Charlotte Church thrills in dystopian eco-fairytale

  09-06-2016 22:00
  
  Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
  The singer has co-authored a fascinating update on Hans Christian Andersen, pitting her sea nymph against marine pollution and malign capitalismWhile church music has always been one of the most conservative forms of composition, Charlotte Church music is among the most innovative. The operatic prodigy who became a pop singer and actress now stars in a co-written experimental music-dance-video piece based on Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fable The Little M
  
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• Band of Horses: Why Are You OK review – indie rockers return to wistful euphoria

  09-06-2016 22:00
  
  (Virgin/EMI)After the mainstream ambitions of Infinite Arms and Mirage Rock, Band of Horses’s fifth album makes something of a triumphant return to the wide-eyed, dreamy vulnerability that marked the Seattle band’s first two records. The default mode is anthemic indie-rock that pinpoints the place where wistfulness and euphoria collide, then showers it in effervescent harmonies and melodies. But the songs run the gamut from country-rock to Hag’s unlikely, reverb-laden nod to OM
  
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• Spring King: Tell Me If You Like To review – deliciously distorted racket

  09-06-2016 21:45
  
  (Island) Here’s another album to suggest that sparky, spiky British indie bands are finding a way to pull themselves out of the landfill, even if it’s still the landfill that offers the greatest commercial rewards. This Mancunian quartet’s stock in trade is a racket pitched somewhere between post-punk and garage rock, with guitars subjected to delicious amounts of distortion. That’s down to their leader Tarek Musa, a producer who has spoken of being obsessed with “a
  
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• Loveblood

  09-06-2016 21:37 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Loveblood
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about interlopers

  09-06-2016 21:00
  
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week. You have until Monday 9 June
  Be they about intruding or not belonging, make your nominations now: keep an eye on the comments for how your fellow readers and this week’s playlist selector will interpret the theme.You can find a list of all songs previously picked and so ineligible for the series here.Continue reading...
  
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• Filmmaker claims Beyonce stole his ideas to make 'Lemonade'

  09-06-2016 20:47
  NEW YORK (AP) — An independent filmmaker filed a federal lawsuit against Beyonce on Wednesday alleging that ideas from his 2014 short film were used to create the trailer that accompanied her new visual album "Lemonade."
  
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• Casting more light on Tristan and Isolde | Brief letters

  09-06-2016 20:17
  
  Noisy restaurants | ENO lighting | Letter published at 92 | Booling your tansad | Sturm in Drang | A twitchellAs we both have hearing problems, my wife and I endorse everything said by your correspondent about noisy restaurants (and pubs) (Letters, 8 June). The big difference would be made though if clients told architects and interior designers to incorporate more sound-absorbing materials in and on floors, walls and other surfaces. By smothering reflected noise, people wouldn’t need to t
  
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• Cineasta afirma que Beyonce robó sus ideas para "Lemonade"

  09-06-2016 19:58
  
  NUEVA YORK (AP) — Un cineasta independiente presentó una demanda federal contra Beyonce el miércoles en la que alega que ideas de su cortometraje de 2014 fueron usadas para crear el avance que acompañó al álbum visual de la cantante "Lemonade".
  
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• Per Oddvar Johansen: Let’s Dance review – unflappable hipness

  09-06-2016 19:45
  
  (Edition)Per Oddvar Johansen is the widely respected Norwegian percussionist whose sensitivity to texture and ensemble awareness has enriched the work of creative leaders including Solveig Slettahjell and Christian Wallumrød. His own trio here features pianist Helge Lien and the remarkable saxophone pioneer Torben Snekkestad, sometimes playing the spine-tinglingly voice-like reed trumpet. It’s a very broad mix of idioms and moods – including the gripping north European folk-ja
  
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• Markus Stockhausen and Florian Weber: Alba review – dainty and playful

  09-06-2016 19:30
  
  (ECM)Trumpeter Markus Stockhausen – son of Karlheinz – has worked with similarly genre-crossing German pianist Florian Weber for six years, but this is the pair’s first recording, and it’s a surprisingly dainty and playful set. Some themes, such as the gliding Mondtraum, apply Stockhausen’s patient improvisations and almost trombone-like low-register descents to a lilting folk melody. He is mysterious and Miles-like over Weber’s guitar-like strumming
  
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• Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor: ‘I like the chords my cat plays’

  09-06-2016 19:29
  
  The singer has stripped everything back for his solo album,​ Piano. It’s inspired by divorce, John Lennon and, yes, random pet sounds. Is there anything he can draw on to give the Guardian​ a lesson?Alexis Taylor looks at the grand piano in front of us, and weighs up what makes it so special.“I like the fact it’s all laid out, you can see what you’re going to play, and yet you can still find new combinations of notes that surprise you,” he decides. &ldqu
  
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• John Martin: The Hidden Notes: Spirit of Adventure review – intrepid jazz explorations

  09-06-2016 19:20
  
  (F-ire)John Martin, the young British tenor saxophonist, is currently on a UK tour with this thoughtful and technically adventurous music, in a fittingly skilful quintet, including prizewinning Royal Academy vibraphonist and composer Ralph Wyld and guitarist Rob Updegraff. Martin builds improvisations with a fine concern for tonal subtleties, shrewdly making use of multiphonic sounds and advanced fingerings, coupled with swing. The mix of the elegant Wyld’s rounded vibes glow and Updegraff
  
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• Elza Soares: The Woman at the End of the World review – Brazil's samba queen still rules

  09-06-2016 19:00
  
  (Mais Um Discos)For the extraordinary Elza Soares, time doesn’t seem to matter. She is officially in her late 70s (though the archives suggest she could be older), and has survived a switchback career. Born in a tough Rio favela, she was hailed as one of the city’s greatest samba queens in the 1950s, then fell from fashion before returning as a Brazilian icon. And she has continually updated her music. Taking note that the experimental music scene is now based in São Paulo, sh
  
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• Is Caroline Shaw really the future of music?

  09-06-2016 18:59
  
  The composer won a Pulitzer, collaborated with Kanye West, is about to debut new work in New York and is astonishing both the pop and classical music worldsDecades before Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer prize for music or collaborated with Kanye West, she was lulled to sleep nightly by her father’s baffling piano playing.“He’s a doctor and he loves music very much. He also has this totally delightful, not deliberate way of putting the metronome on and being completely out of syn
  
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• Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle: Colvin & Earle review – easy, upbeat Americana

  09-06-2016 18:45
  
  (Fantasy Records)
  Steve Earle has moved on, yet again. The last album from one of the finest, most versatile songwriters of the Americana scene was Terraplane, a celebration of the blues, clearly influenced by his seventh divorce. Now comes a series of duets performed and mostly written with the Grammy-winning singer Shawn Colvin. The producer is the great guitarist Buddy Miller, the band includes guitarist Richard Bennett, who played on Earle’s gutsy breakthrough album Guitar Town in 1986
  
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• Meet Kel Assouf and Imarhan, the new wave of Tuareg rock

  09-06-2016 18:27
  
  A new generation of Tuareg bands are refreshing Tinariwen’s Saharan blues for the Facebook generation. Singers Anana Ag Haroun and Sadam Ag Ibrahim talk guitars, exile and educationThe Sahara is in a mess. It’s not just the terrorism, kidnapping, drug trafficking and other headline-hogging afflictions (the ones that tend to obsess western governments and analysts), it’s the vicious subsoil from which those headlines grow: the poverty, corruption, political indifference, un
  
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• Gershwin: Piano Concerto, Eight Preludes etc CD review – persuasive swagger

  09-06-2016 18:00
  
  Bebbington/RPO/Botstein
  (Somm)Pianist Mark Bebbington brings a nice balance of swagger and thoughtfulness to this all-Gershwin programme. He has said he finds a “Mahlerian melancholy” in the second movement of the Concerto in F, which is almost a concerto in itself, and his playing here is supported by some shapely and characterful wind playing. But the whole work brings a tautly wound performance under conductor Leon Botstein. Rhapsody in Blue starts with a clarinet solo even more l
  
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• Ryan De La Cruz’s EP ‘Pagans’ Is A Contemporary R&B Dream

  09-06-2016 17:47
  
  Talking about the project Ryan said, “I made all these tracks while I was venting about real life issues. I feel like I needed to let out everything I’ve been keeping in. So this is me opening up. Everyone’s got issues, everyone’s got Pagans."
  
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• Michael Finnissy: Beat Generation Ballads; First Political Agenda CD review – superb tribute to his piano music

  09-06-2016 17:30
  
  Philip Thomas
  (Huddersfield Contemporary Records)For anyone who wants to get a sense of the range and density of the teeming output of Michael Finnissy, 70 this year, his piano music is as a good place as any to start. It’s music that can be overwhelmingly complex and forbidding, tenderly sentimental, or frankly autobiographical. And it is strewn with allusions and references to a range of other periods and styles. Those characteristics and qualities are on display in the two large-scale w
  
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• Exchange [Explicit]

  09-06-2016 17:22 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Exchange
  
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• Leoncavallo: Zazà CD review – vivid performances and sumptuous sound

  09-06-2016 17:00
  
  Jaho/Bardon/Massi/Gaertner/BBCSingers/BBCSO/Benini
  (Opera Rara)Opera Rara here makes a plea for Leoncavallo, composer of Pagliacci, to stop being considered a one-hit wonder. His Zazà joins Puccini’s Tosca, also premiered in 1900, in an operatic subgenre of Italian works whose heroines are themselves sopranos – one rank above the tart with a heart. In the concert last autumn, after which this studio recording was made, Ermonela Jaho gave a dazzling performance as Zazà,
  
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• CMT awards serve up country music ... without the country

  09-06-2016 16:25
  
  With stars including Pitbull, Cheap Trick, Pharrell and Fifth Harmony, all this awards show seemed to prove is that country wants to be all things to all peopleNothing says country music more than Cheap Trick. But then again, at the CMT awards on Wednesday, the legendary Illinois power-pop band played with Billy Ray Cyrus, whose own country music credentials are questionable, so does it really matter?The CMT awards are the third country music awards show this year and the overlap is already show
  
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• Ladyhawke: ‘I was always drunk on stage. It’s how I hid my anxiety’

  09-06-2016 16:16
  
  After her first two albums, synthpop star Pip Brown lost herself in LA. But now she’s sober, married, and back with the vibrant glam of Wild ThingsAlmost two years ago to the day, Pip Brown lay slumped on her sofa in LA, watching terrible daytime TV, her head muddled from another debauched weekend. Mammoth drinking sessions were becoming pretty ordinary, but this was a hangover that required more than a nap and some painkillers to cure.“It was like I had an out-of-body experience. I
  
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• Ed Sheeran faces $20 million copyright lawsuit over 'Photograph'

  09-06-2016 16:11
  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two California-based musicians are suing British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for $20 million over his hit song "Photograph," which they claim bears a similar structure to one of their songs, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. The copyright infringement lawsuit was filed by Martin Harrington, a songwriter and producer, and Thomas Leonard, a songwriter signed to Harrington's company HaloSongs, in federal court in the Central District of Cali
  
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• The Invisible: Patience review – complex and brilliantly original pop

  09-06-2016 16:00
  
  Following their 2012 album inspired by grief, Dave Okumu and band now deliver one steeped in joy, and full of ingenious details that only reveal themselves with multiple listensLike its predecessor, 2012’s Rispah, you could describe the third album by the south London trio the Invisible as a record inspired by stark intimations of mortality. Four years ago, it was the death of frontman Dave Okumu’s mother midway through recording that provided the emotional fuel for the trio’s
  
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• Bartosz Woroch: Dancer on a Tightrope CD review – compelling risk-taking

  09-06-2016 16:00
  
  Woroch/Foo
  (Champs Hill)This 20th-century programme from the UK-based Polish violinist Bartosz Woroch is full of intriguing repertoire. It starts with Grażyna Bacewicz’s 1924 Solo Sonata No 2, a fierce and brilliant piece, powerfully played. At its centre is the title track, a 1993 work by Sofia Gubaidulina in which Bartosz’s violin stretches and pirouettes, yearning for flight; underneath, the piano offers a kind of safety net, its strings at first set eerily vibrating from wit
  
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• The sound of silence: Why modern music should quieten down

  09-06-2016 15:50
  
  Struggling to be heard on tinny earphones, pop’s default volume is now cranked to 11. In this new normality, are we forgetting how to listen?Quietness may be one of the most underrated values in pop music. Look up “the loudest band in the world” and you will be confronted by a history of lusty rock behemoths proudly devoted to blowing eardrums, from Manowar (who achieved a sound pressure level of 139dB during a sound check in 2008) to the Who, Motörhead and, erm, Hanson.Su
  
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• Watch Highlights from Jonas Blue’s DJ Set at ‘Club MTV Live At Aloft Hotels’!

  09-06-2016 15:38
  
  MTV turned it up with a DJ set from one of today’s most exciting emerging electronic DJs, Jonas Blue, set in Aloft Abu Dhabi’s vibrant rooftop and home to the city’s award-winning pool parties...
  
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• This Fan Perfectly Recreates Taylor Swift's Outfits

  09-06-2016 15:38
  
  18-year-old Taylor Swift fan Lottie Lutjes recreates Taylor Swift's outfits on Instagram and nails it.
  
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• Letter: Dave Swarbrick obituary

  09-06-2016 15:27
  
  Dave Swarbrick regularly appeared at Fairport Convention’s Cropredy festival in Oxfordshire long after his obituary was printed prematurely in the Daily Telegraph. At a public rehearsal before the festival one year, he turned up, hard of hearing, and with the oxygen cylinder that he needed to cope with his emphysema. Fairport started a song, Swarbrick came in late, and they all stopped.“That’s all right, Dave,” said the guitarist and vocalist Simon Nicol. “If the Gr
  
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• The Cast Of Girls Have Released A PSA About Sexual Assault As A Dedication To The Stanford Rape Victim

  09-06-2016 15:19
  
  Lena Dunham and her on-screen BFFs have released the touching clip in response to the Stanford rape case.
  
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• Every Time Justin Bieber Freed The Nip In His 'Company' Video

  09-06-2016 15:12
  
  We had a quiet morning...
  
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• So Justin Bieber Thinks Selena Gomez's New Bangs Are 'Super Hot', Because He Just Loves A Good Fringe

  09-06-2016 15:06
  
  The singer is all about the bangs.
  
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• Moby webchat – post your questions now

  09-06-2016 14:13
  
  The musician, memoirist and vegan restauranteur is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat from 7pm BST on Monday 13 June – post them in the comments below 1.12pm BSTMoby’s 1998 Play sold over ten million copies. It was also the first album to have every track licensed for commercial use - making its mash up of old blues tunes and chunky breakbeats almost ubiquitous - and the vegan Christian behind it a multimillionaire. He narrates his rocky path to success in a new me
  
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• Opera for the Unknown Woman review - it stirs neither heart nor mind

  09-06-2016 13:56
  
  Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
  This manifesto for eco-revolution is undermined by incantatory platitudes and a doomsday vision that fails to engageA glimpse of a future 300 years hence – with the last woman on the planet soon to be swept away by the ultimate flood – is what convinces a group of women that the patriarchy has failed. They determine to act together against the inevitability of doomsday. The sentiment of writer/director Melanie Wilson’s new piece for Fuel Theatre
  
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• Can A Bunch Of Adults From MTV Pass A Real GCSE?

  09-06-2016 13:52
  
  Can adults who work at MTV pass a real GCSE? Watch the video of them trying to do real past paper questions and failing hilariously at MTV.co.uk
  
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• Scott Disick Pokes Fun At Magazine Cover Claiming Khloe Kardashian Could Be Pregnant With His Baby

  09-06-2016 12:55
  
  Well, that sure would make the Kardashian family dinners (even more) awkward.
  
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• The Hot Sardines review – a special spin on retro-jazz

  09-06-2016 12:42
  
  Ronnie Scott’s, London
  The New Yorkers seemed a little subdued, but the likable outfit’s mixed set pleased the Ronnie’s crowdThe Hot Sardines, those coolly stylish New York frontrunners of the current fedoras-and-flappers early-jazz boom, are touring their second album, French Fries & Champagne. The title nails this likable outfit’s agenda – 21st-century disposability and golden-age opulence merged.Compared to their unselfconsciously vivacious Barbican show last
  
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• 23 Times Tanya Burr Really Was Ultimate Holiday Goals

  09-06-2016 12:34
  
  The super successful YouTuber sure does know how to pose by a pool.
  
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• Brian May seeks to dissociate Queen from 'Trump's unsavoury campaign'

  09-06-2016 12:15
  
  The Republican presumptive nominee had used We Are the Champions at a televised event, to the ire of the Queen guitaristBrian May has followed in the footsteps of REM and Neil Young by becoming the latest rock A-lister to complain about Donald Trump’s use of his music.On Tuesday, having triumphed in the final round of presidential primaries, the Republican presumptive nominee walked on stage at his televised victory conference to the strains of We Are the Champions by Queen, earning the op
  
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• 25 Brand New SS16 Beauty Launches That Are Guaranteed To Become Cult Staples

  09-06-2016 12:12
  
  Shop the brand new beauty products for summer that are already cult staples featuring makeup from Charlotte Tillbury, Too Faces Better Than Sex Waterproof mascara, Ouai and more. Read the full story at MTV.co.uk
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about bodily fluids

  09-06-2016 12:00
  
  You had fun picking the tunes and our reader pored over them to select the best for this list – from Peaches to Andrew W.K.
  Below is this week’s playlist – the theme and tunes picked by a reader from the comments on last week’s callout. Thanks for your suggestions. Read more about the format of the weekly Readers Recommend series at the end of the piece.Human beings, like all animals, are, basically, a big bag of gloop covered in skin. We leak, therefore we are. Here is a
  
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• Shay Mitchell Stars As Nick Jonas’ Love Interest As Pair Get Steamy In ‘Under You’ Music Video Teaser

  09-06-2016 11:48
  
  The Pretty Little Liars star couldn’t be further from her character Emily in this saucy teaser video with Nick Jonas.
  
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• Penelope Disick Was Seriously Embarrassed By Kris Jenner With These Outfits

  09-06-2016 11:42
  
  The baby of the family drew the short straw when it came to playing dress up recently.
  
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• Ed Sheeran Is Being Sued For A Shed Load Of Money Over Song ‘Photograph’

  09-06-2016 11:16
  
  Ed Sheeran is facing a $20 million bill over his song Photograph.
  
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• Beyoncé faces lawsuit over claims Lemonade trailer 'copied' ideas

  09-06-2016 10:31
  
  Film-maker Matthew Fulks says two-thirds of the pop star’s album promo was based on his short film seen by one of her collaboratorsA filmmaker has issued a lawsuit against Beyoncé, claiming the trailer for her visual album Lemonade copied images from a short film he had made.Matthew Fulks says his film Palinoia had been seen by a member of Beyoncé’s team, and that a number of scenes appeared to have been recreated in the Lemonade trailer. “The number of aesthetic
  
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