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• EA At E3 2016 Highlights: Battlefield 1, Mass Effect Andromeda & More

  12-06-2016 18:05
  
  All the most exciting reveals from EA at E3 2016.
  
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• Les Siècles/Les Illuminations review – Aldeburgh aimed high, with acrobats

  12-06-2016 16:26
  
  Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
  Sarah Tynan hit the high notes on Britten’s song cycle with the help of circus troupe, while Les Siècles gave Rameau rhythmic punchLes Siècles, the orchestra founded in 2003 by the conductor François-Xavier Roth, has shown itself to be much more than a narrowly specialised period-instrument band. Its repertoire ranges across five centuries, and the concerts in its residency with Roth during the first week of this year’s Aldeburgh festiva
  
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• Little Mix Shut Down Split Rumours And 'Sexist' Haters Who Comment On Their Clothes

  12-06-2016 16:03
  
  YAS QUEENS.
  
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• Mother Of A Girl With Peanut Allergy Who Died After Kissing Her Boyfriend Speaks Out To Warn Others

  12-06-2016 15:21
  
  Such a sad story :(
  
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• Katy Perry Hangs Out With Orlando Bloom’s Ex-Wife Miranda Kerr At Moschino Fashion Show

  12-06-2016 14:31
  
  See ya later, 'feud' rumours
  
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• Adam Ant review – still a king of the wild frontier

  12-06-2016 13:56
  
  O2 Academy Brixton, London
  Ant might no longer be the lithe, dandy highwayman of his early years, but he continues to strikes a defiant pop-star poseThere have been few more curious bands than Adam and the Ants. In the early 1980s, they married the jittery angst and experimentation of post-punk with the flamboyance of the glam-influenced new romantics – and became the biggest pop band in Britain.Their apotheosis was their No 1 album, Kings of the Wild Frontier (1981), which quixotic singer
  
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• Kim Kardashian Is ‘The Wife Of Pablo’ As She Pays Tribute To Kanye West

  12-06-2016 13:30
  
  A swimsuit-based tribute, that is.
  
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• Margot Robbie Admits She Got Prince Harry And Ed Sheeran Mixed Up

  12-06-2016 12:41
  
  Oops.
  
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• Christina Grimmie’s Manager Sets Up a GoFundMe Page After The Singer's Tragic Death

  12-06-2016 11:53
  
  Her manager, who is also Selena Gomez's stepfather, set up the page to help Christina's family.
  
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• Zayn Malik Pulled Out Of Capital FM’s Summertime Ball Because Of ‘Crippling Anxiety’

  12-06-2016 11:12
  
  We're sending Zayn loads of love.
  
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• William Tyler: Modern Country review – Americana too sublime for words

  12-06-2016 10:00
  
  (Merge)American guitarist William Tyler’s excellent fourth album begins with an anxiety attack and ends with an interpolation of Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing so subtle, I’m still not sure it’s there. The instrumental album strung between those two poles is of such eloquence it renders them superfluous. Context almost gets in the way. Modern Country is a beatific and expansive ambient record daubed in acoustic and electric guitars, analogue oscillations, some really scar
  
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• Tom Odell: Wrong Crowd review – a few new moves, but still playing it safe

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  (Columbia)The idea of angel-faced piano man Tom Odell hanging with the wrong crowd is, frankly, risible. But the title track of the Ivor Novello award-winner’s second album adds a couple of new dimensions to Odell’s nicey-nicey USP: a regretted past, possibly fictional, and some more muscular moves. Magnetised rues a wrongly polarised relationship with arena ambitions redolent of Odell’s most direct antecedent, Chris Martin. The arresting Concrete, meanwhile, finds Odell bustin
  
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• The Invisible: Patience review – smooth, floaty grooves

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  (Ninja Tune)After veering down a dark road on 2012’s Rispah, which was troubled by the death of frontman Dave Okumu’s mother during recording, the Invisible have crossed very resolutely back into the light. On Patience, their third album, the south London trio have smoothed away the jagged guitar work and jittery electronics to create a tight, cohesive record bathed in a hazy West Coast glow (Okumu cites time spent in Los Angeles as an influence). You could call it excellent dinner-p
  
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• Sylvia Patterson: ‘The famous can be fairly obnoxious’

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  The music journalist’s frank memoir, chronicling her time at Smash Hits, details encounters with the likes of Prince and Amy Winehouse… and a few class AsAfter three decades of interviewing pop stars, Sylvia Patterson is “deeply uncomfortable” with it happening to her. With the imminent publication of her memoir, I’m Not With the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music, there’s going to be a lot of being on the other side of the tape recorder, and she&rsquo
  
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• Spring King: Tell Me If You Like To – pop sheep in wolves’ clothing

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  (Island)Drummer Tarek Musa’s Spring King project took off when the four-piece was the first band played on Apple’s Beats 1. Pop sheep in punky wolf clothing, they’re ideally positioned for a channel posing as alternative but planning to be mainstream. Lyrically this debut isn’t the most sophisticated, ticking off key stage 1 rock themes of nights, cities, darkness and escape. But the music has plenty of sticky-floored fun, hinting at everything from surf rock to Spri
  
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• Nabucco review – Plácido Domingo exudes charisma

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  In the title role, Domingo played the ageing king with captivating physicalityAround a decade ago Plácido Domingo was still singing Tristan. Shortly after, his tenor voice fading, he switched down to baritone, choosing his roles carefully, favouring Verdi. Managing the notes is only a starting point to distinguishing a voice type. Timbre, strength and control from top to bottom of the range all contribute. The common complaint has been that Domingo still has the
  
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• Kate Williams: Four Plus Three review – a convincing jazz-classical blend

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  (KW Jazz)The four is the Guastalla string quartet and the three, the jazz trio led by pianist and composer Kate Williams. As the daughter of the great classical guitarist, John Williams, she was brought up in a world where boundaries between musical genres were always fluid, and that is certainly the case here. There is nothing forced or stilted in the combination. The trio plays with genuine swing; the quartet freely deploys its own natural dynamics. Of all the jazz-classical blends I have hear
  
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• Garbage: Strange Little Birds review – a sluggish comeback

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  (Stunvolume)It’s 21 years since the release of Garbage, a treasure chest of irresistibly schlocky, digitally warped pop-grunge manifestos for the defiantly damaged. Singer Shirley Manson has claimed this sixth album is a kindred spirit to that debut, but instead it encapsulates the problem for reforming 1990s bands: you can’t go back, and going forward is even harder. Garbage’s sound is a tricky reupholstering job, their brand of angst period-passe, and Strange Little Birds sea
  
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• Christopher Gunning: Violin concerto, Cello concerto review – prolific and accessible

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  RPO/Gunning
  A warm celebration of the Brecon Beacons and a dark meditation on ageing and loss are added to the composer’s impressive canonYou could never accuse Christopher Gunning of low output: nine symphonies, chamber music, award-winning film and TV scores and concerti for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and saxophone, now joined by works for violin and cello. Harriet Mackenzie’s expressive playing makes Gunning’s sinuous solo line sing like a bird in his unashamedly lyrical c
  
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• Chorus vel Organa: Music from the Lost Palace of Westminster – review

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge/Webber,Magnus Williamson (organ)(Delphian)Hidden beneath the gothic revival Houses of Parliament is the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, much restored, the only remains of the medieval collegiate chapel of St Stephen, a lost royal foundation. The resourceful Geoffrey Webber has pieced together a sequence of music from its final years under Henry VIII, based around the music of Nicholas Ludford’s Lady Mass cycle. His Gonville & Caius choir i
  
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• AC/DC review – it’s all about the dynamics

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  Etihad Stadium, Manchester
  With temporary new frontman Axl Rose rolling back the years, and guitarist Angus Young recalling Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC look as indestructible as everClumping around the stage on a brace, jeans torn off at the knee, Axl Rose – temporary American singer of Australian rock powerhouses AC/DC – has the air of a pirate regaining his sea legs and his authority.Rose is not smiling, exactly. But there is a malevolent gleam in his eye as he tosses a fat microphone from
  
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• Florida police seek motive for killing of 'The Voice' singer

  12-06-2016 08:55
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Christina Grimmie was a vivacious, outgoing singer whose career was born on social media and propelled toward the big time by television. She didn't consider herself a famous person, not like the judges on "The Voice," where she competed, but she had a following that was as enthusiastic about her music as she was.
  
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• Claudia Aurora: Mulher do Norte review – a gentler fado singer

  12-06-2016 08:00
  
  (Red Orange)The title, woman of the north, refers to the city of Porto, which Aurora left for Bristol, where she discovered her talents as a singer of fado, Portugal’s yearning music of fate. This second album confirms the promise of her debut, Silêncio. Aurora has a melodic voice – an easy fit for a genre soaked in melodrama and poignancy – but she is less severe than fado’s current queen, Mariza. She writes much of her material, and arranger Javier Moreno brings e
  
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• Led Zeppelin stars to appear in court for Stairway to Heaven copyright trial

  12-06-2016 07:06
  
  Jimmy Page and Robert Plant to attend the trial in Los Angeles on Tuesday over claim the opening of the song was copied from a track by the band SpiritLed Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant will appear in court on Tuesday to defend Stairway to Heaven, one of the most recognisable songs in rock history, from accusations of plagiarism.Spirit, a psychedelic band from Los Angeles that enjoyed a niche following, claim the famous melancholic guitar that opens the song was lifted from its ins
  
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