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• Lady Gaga set to take over from Beyoncé in A Star is Born remake

  16-06-2016 23:36
  
  Gaga is rumored to be nearing a deal to lead Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, in which he would also starIt appears that Lady Gaga has lined up her next major acting gig.The singer, who recently won a Golden Globe for her work on American Horror Story: Hotel, is said to be nearing a deal to take on the lead role initially offered to Beyoncé in a remake of A Star is Born. According to Deadline, Gaga screen-tested successfully, and is director Bradley Cooper’s first choice fo
  
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• Vimeo wins U.S. appeal in music copyright case

  16-06-2016 23:30
  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Video-sharing website Vimeo LLC cannot be held liable for copyright infringement for unknowingly hosting older music uploaded by its users, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday, dealing a blow to record labels seeking broader protections. In a victory for internet service providers, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also held that the mere fact that Vimeo employees had viewed videos with copyrighted sound recordings was not enough to prove t
  
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• Jake Bugg: On My One review – from endearing to cringeworthy

  16-06-2016 23:30
  
  (Virgin EMI)Jake Bugg’s third album lends itself to morbid fascination. That’s not necessarily a bad thing – there’s always been something bracingly audacious about the Nottingham native’s swaggering, broad-brushstroke take on the folk and blues traditions of half a century ago. On My One, however, sees Bugg also draw on a more diverse range of genres in a way so crude and conspicuous that it is strangely captivating. Sometimes the resulting tracks are just cri
  
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• Fantastic Negrito: The Last Days of Oakland review – a bluesy howl for modern America

  16-06-2016 23:15
  
  (Blackhall Universe) Xavier Dphrepaulezz has the kind of backstory legends are made of – leaving home at 12, living as a hustler in LA, getting a major label deal as an R&B artist, in a coma after a near-fatal car crash – but that’s just something to pique the curiosity, because anyone hearing his first album as Fantastic Negrito will realise that, in the words of Berry Gordy, “it’s what’s in the grooves that counts”. The Last Days of Oakland is blue
  
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• Big Brother 2016: Marco Pierre White Jr, Andy West, Georgina Leigh Cantwell And Emma Jensen Are Put Up For The First Nominations

  16-06-2016 23:10
  
  It's all kickin' off...
  
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• Let’s Eat Grandma: I, Gemini review – creepily catchy outsider pop

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  (Transgressive) Related: Let’s Eat Grandma: the freaky teenagers reinventing pop, in Norwich At a time when every major album release is a fastidiously managed event designed to be as bleeding-edge as possible, we should be thankful for Let’s Eat Grandma, two multi-instrumentalist 17-year-olds from Norwich who seem to have zero interest in tailoring their outsider pop to current tastes. Their debut album is likely to be one of the few this year that features the deeply
  
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Getaway review – a mournful, streamlined return

  16-06-2016 22:45
  
  (Warner Bros) Related: Rock music is dead, says Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea The funk-rock veterans’ return got off to a stuttering start: sessions were put on hold following bassist Flea’s snowboarding injury, Anthony Kiedis was hospitalised with intestinal flu, and around 30 songs were scrapped before this album was completed. The stormy, sullen first single Dark Necessities is far from shambolic, however. With production from Danger Mouse, who takes over Rick 
  
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• Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin: nine divorces, two addictions, one perfect mix

  16-06-2016 22:44
  
  When the musicians started singing together, they discovered they harmonized effortlessly – the start of an accidental and extraordinary creative union Even Steve Earle admits that by the time you’re in your fifth decade of writing songs, inspiration can be tough to find.Then came an invitation by Shawn Colvin, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. In late 2014 she asked Earle to join her for a week of shows together. Unlike most twin bills where two songwriters swap songs onstage, C
  
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• Gojira: Magma review – hulking grandeur from modern metal greats

  16-06-2016 22:30
  
  (Roadrunner)Twenty years after forming in their hometown of Bayonne in France, Gojira’s slow but steady rise shows no signs of fizzling out. Magma strikes another ferocious blow for originality and intelligence in heavy music, as its creators embrace a greater sense of sonic space than ever, not least on the thunderous undulations of opening sprawl The Shooting Star. There are succinct, groove-driven anthems here too – the surging Silvera, the angular, fidgeting Stranded – but
  
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• Case/Lang/Veirs album review – classy, classic pop from sisterly supergroup

  16-06-2016 22:15
  
  (ANTI)Several years ago, “on a whim”, kd lang emailed Neko Case and Laura Veirs to ask if they’d be interested in working with her. The approach first bore fruit when Case and Lang guested on Veirs’ 2013 album, Warp and Weft, and has now produced this wonderful 14-tracker. Their pure, alternating voices compliment each other perfectly, and when they come together in harmony, the results are glorious. The lush arrangements echo the classy, classic 60s pop of Burt Bacharach
  
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• Mitski: Puberty 2 review – unflinching confessional pop full of wit and pain

  16-06-2016 22:00
  
  (Dead Oceans)Given this generation’s supposed fondness for oversharing, you’d think albums as open and unflinching as Mitski’s fourth would be ten-a-penny. But in fact it’s quite the opposite, and this New Yorker’s sheer candidness can make you wince: “I told him I’d do anything to have him stay with me,” she sings on the opening track, Happy, before a hollow tale unfolds of being discarded after sex. Bright Eyes-esque confessional folk, riot grrrl
  
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• Coco Teams Up With Toddla T Once Again On Dope New Track, ‘My G’

  16-06-2016 21:11
  
  These two have landed on a magic formula which could be gold for them! Toddla drops the dirtiest baseline while Coco laces the beat with his bouncy flow and catchy hooks.
  
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• Correction: Music-Kaleo story

  16-06-2016 20:57
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a story June 15 about Kaleo, The Associated Press reported erroneously the band recorded its first U.S. album for Atlantic Records. The band is signed to Elektra/Atlantic.
  
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• Mor Karbasi: Ojos de Novia review – sophisticated Sephardic sounds

  16-06-2016 20:00
  
  (Alama)Now based in Jerusalem, Mor Karbasi specialises in the Ladino-language songs of Sephardic Jews, expelled from Spain in the late 15th century. Comparisons with Yasmin Levy are inevitable, but Karbasi has a less dramatic but quietly commanding approach and a distinctive style. Her mother is from a Moroccan Sephardic family, and the set begins with traditional Moroccan Berber songs, with Cameroonian bass star Richard Bona backing Karbasi’s cool, reflective vocals on Hayken Juar. Elsewh
  
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• Maarja Nuut: Une Meeles review – startling, atmospheric folk from Estonia

  16-06-2016 19:45
  
  (maarjanuut.com)Maarja Nuut is a fiddle player and singer from Estonia who uses technology to rework Baltic folk styles to create impressively original, often edgy and unsettling songs and soundscapes. She mostly performs solo, helped by a producer and sound engineer who helps her to construct sound loops of her instrument and voice, matching repeated phrases against melody lines. It’s not a new technique, but the results are often startling. She plays both plucked and bowed fiddle, has a
  
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• Janet Street-Porter says the Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston romance is 'a PR stunt'

  16-06-2016 19:44
  
  Loose Women’s Janet Street-Porter has had her say on the pictures of singer Taylor Swift kissing actor Tom Hiddleston.
  
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• Benet McLean: The Bopped and the Bopless review – quirky, but this is no gem

  16-06-2016 19:30
  
  (33 Jazz)Strange to be pinning two stars on any venture from the remarkable pianist, violinist and idiomatically wacky singer Benet McLean – one of the London jazz scene’s most valuable sidemen, notably as an adventurous violinist in the chamber-jazzy Partikel. This melange of bebop, punk, horn-riffy swing and McLean vocals that occasionally seem to splice Mark Murphy and a Scottish Jeff Buckley, just slips back from the brink of being a quirky gem. A distantly Kurt Weillian vocal, D
  
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• Patti Smith: ‘You decide your fate. Are you going to fall apart or own it?’

  16-06-2016 19:09
  
  The punk-poet genius behind Horses is finally fulfilling her wish to play Hyde Park next month. She talks about life as an outsider, New York’s scuzzy past and why she loves Peter Pan
  Before meeting Patti Smith, I receive a few pointers: “She’s not a chitchat person. Do not be any later than 11.30am. Find her in the lobby bar and introduce yourself.”I don’t fancy getting on the wrong side of her. Smith first made a name for herself on the 1970s New York poetry circu
  
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• Glastonbury tributes to Bowie, Prince and Lemmy revealed

  16-06-2016 18:56
  
  A 50-piece orchestral performance, a DJ set and giant sculptures in honour of each of them among the plansFull details of Glastonbury’s plans to commemorate David Bowie, Prince and Lemmy have been revealed, including sculptures in honour of each of them, a 50-piece orchestral performance and a DJ set.The festival’s co-organiser, Emily Eavis, had previously hinted that the event would honour the three stars, who died in the last six months, giving the 177,000 crowd a chance to both mo
  
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• Two Door Cinema Club’s Alex Trimble: ‘I wasn’t prepared to go back into hell’

  16-06-2016 18:30
  
  After six years on the road, the Irish indie band couldn’t stand to be in the same room. But thanks to DIY and yoga, they’re back – and warming up for a tour disguised as their own tribute actAs cover bands go, Tudor Cinema Club are pretty convincing. Walking on stage at a rammed Whelan’s in Dublin, their bassist and guitarist are the spitting image of Two Door Cinema Club’s Kevin Baird and Sam Halliday. Their renditions of Two Door favourites Undercover Martyn, Som
  
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• Kim Kardashian Just Reignited The Taylor Swift & Kanye West Feud

  16-06-2016 18:13
  
  Oh no she didn't.
  
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• You'll Be Playing Fallout 4 In Virtual Reality Next Year

  16-06-2016 18:09
  
  Survival mode is going to be INTENSE.
  
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• M83: 'Tangerine Dream are the reason I’m obsessed with synthesisers'

  16-06-2016 18:00
  
  Electronic musician Anthony Gonzalez shares the five albums that have inspired him most, from Brian Eno and krautrock to the power of Polish composer Henryk GóreckiM83’s music tends to inspire some creative description: “Imax electro-pop”, “post-acid-house shoegazing” and “a signature post-rock sound for the masses” are phrases that have all been used. Here Anthony Gonzalez talks about his favourite five electronic albums, the power of krautrock a
  
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• Mez Goes In Over Davinche's 'Badlands' Instrumental

  16-06-2016 17:56
  
  The video shows Mez - with cameos from Davinche himself - spitting over the 'Badlands' instrumental
  from the VinchOnacci EP.
  
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• All Tomorrow’s Parties events company announces closure

  16-06-2016 17:55
  
  Company cancels upcoming Iceland event and says it will be ‘closing down the entire live side of ATP Festivals and live promotions with immediate effect’All Tomorrow’s Parties: where did it all go wrong for the beloved indie festival?
  ATP Festivals has announced its administration. As well as the cancellation of its forthcoming strand in Iceland owing to a lack of funds, the festival and events company has confirmed that its entire live division will now be shut down. Founded i
  
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• Caspar Lee's Mum Attempts To Find Him A Date On Tinder

  16-06-2016 17:23
  
  Can Caspar Lee's mum find him a perfect match? Let's find out...
  
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• What Are Eternal (One Of The UK’s Biggest R&B Groups) Up To Now? We Found Out...

  16-06-2016 17:14
  
  No, really...
  
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• Did Harry Styles' Tattoos Inspire The New Gucci Collection?

  16-06-2016 16:40
  
  The internet thinks yes.
  
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• Laura Mvula: The Dreaming Room review – vivid, original, it's the real deal

  16-06-2016 16:30
  
  The twisted, off-centre vision of Mvula’s debut, Sing to the Moon, is everywhere in this rich and seductive follow-upIn the best possible way, the rise of Laura Mvula seemed like a case of the public being sold goods under false pretences. Before her debut album, Sing to the Moon, arrived in 2013, she was touted as the latest in a profitable line of MOR singer-songwriters with a retro-soul twist, who’d been brought to attention via the BBC’s Sound of poll and the Brits critics&
  
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• Cliff Richard inquiry was mired in controversy from the start

  16-06-2016 13:50
  
  Serious questions raised over investigation, its proportionality and the testing of allegations before raid on singer’s homeFrom the moment a BBC helicopter hovered over Sir Cliff Richard’s £3m Berkshire mansion broadcasting images of police inside riffling through his belongings, the investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse against him has been mired in controversy.Since that search, which took place at a time of a media frenzy over claims that celebrities might ha
  
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• Kylie Jenner Looks Hot AF In Nude Bikini Snap

  16-06-2016 13:29
  
  Kylie Jenner shows off her nude skimpy bikini in a new Instagram post.
  
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• Piaf! The Show – Carrere's soaring voice clinches slow-burn tribute to French star

  16-06-2016 13:27
  
  Barbican, London
  Anne Carrere takes Edith Piaf from Montmartre busker to Carnegie Hall in this theatrical concert whose thrills come graduallyShe died in 1963 but, more than 100 years since her birth, Edith Piaf lives on the London stage. Piaf! The Show is not to be confused with the theatrical production that ran at two West End theatres recently. This event is a tribute concert – fronted by singer Anne Carrere – that takes us from rags to riches, starting with Piaf busking for penn
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about interlopers

  16-06-2016 13:00
  
  Our reader picks from your suggestions including Peter Gabriel and the Cure for a playlist that might not belong – but sure feels like itBelow 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. Related: Readers recommend: share your songs about broken promisesContinue reading...
  
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• Sir Cliff Richard: 'I was hung out like live bait' – full statement

  16-06-2016 12:15
  
  Singer responds to announcement that he will not face charges over allegations of sexual abuseSir Cliff Richard’s statement in full after the announcement by the CPS that he will not be prosecuted over allegations of non-recent sexual abuse. “After almost two years under police investigation I learned today that they have finally closed their inquiries.Continue reading...
  
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• This Is How Everyone Is Reacting To Taylor Swift And Tom Hiddleston Making Out On Some Rocks

  16-06-2016 11:55
  
  In case you weren't aware, Taylor and Tom are now a thing.
  
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• This Is How Every Is Reacting To Taylor Swift And Tom Hiddleston Making Out On Some Rocks

  16-06-2016 11:55
  
  In case you weren't aware, Taylor and Tom are now a thing.
  
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• Was Calvin Harris ‘Suspicious’ Of Taylor Swift Before Being ‘Betrayed’ By Her Romance With Tom Hiddleston?

  16-06-2016 11:41
  
  The pictures of Taylor and Tom have shocked the world, but was Calvin already ‘suspicious’ before his split with Swifty?
  
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• Mila Kunis And Ashton Kutcher Are Expecting Baby Number 2

  16-06-2016 11:39
  
  We hear congrats are in order for Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher who are expecting their second baby.
  
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• Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page: I had never heard Spirit song before

  16-06-2016 10:35
  
  The British musician said the instrumental track Taurus was “alien” to him and he was “confused” about why it was being linked to his classic 1971 hit.
  
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• First Look Pictures Of Pretty Little Liars Season 7: Can Emily Save Alison From Dr Rollins?

  16-06-2016 10:27
  
  Pretty Little Liars Season 7 first look pictures
  
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• Brandy Clark: 'I sing about real, truthful, unpretty subjects'

  16-06-2016 09:00
  
  Her father died in a mill accident and she grew up touring pageants with her mom in a band called Sagebrush and Satin. But gay singer-songwriter Brandy Clark is far from your average country starBy the time Easter came round, Brandy Clark had spent just three days of 2016 at home in Nashville. The radio tour for her second record, Big Day in a Small Town, started on the fifth day of the year, even though it wasn’t out until June, taking her to two or three different stations a day. “
  
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• Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift pictures: as close as we'll get to two memes dating

  16-06-2016 08:10
  
  Looking at pictures of the two canoodling, it’s as though someone searched for ‘happy couple’ on the Meme Generator website and it spat out ‘Swiddleston’What a joy it is, seeing Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston canoodling. If you don’t know what canoodling means, it’s what American celebrity journalists say to class up descriptions of famous people groping each other. In the case of Hiddleston and Swift – or “Swiddleston”, which I am onl
  
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• Exclusive: Tom Fletcher reveals his secrets to a happy family life with Giovanna and the kids

  16-06-2016 06:20
  
  Tom Fletcher and wife Giovanna have amassed a huge following over the past few years, much of this thanks to their two adorable children Buzz and Buddy. The singer has become famous for his super-cute videos, which give us an insight into their life and serious family goals. For the second time since becoming a father, Tom has been named the icelolly.com Celebrity Dad of the Year, after his first win in 2014.
  
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• The Stone Roses review – stadium-sized eruptions of communal joy

  16-06-2016 01:26
  
  Etihad Stadium, Manchester
  Among classics from their mercurial debut, there was room – for the first time in two decades – for new materialThe problem faced by many reformed bands is how to sustain the same level of interest – when you’ve played the old favourites to an adoring faithful, what do you do next?
  No such problems for the Stone Roses. Four years ago, the Mancunians’ long-rumoured, never-quite-believed-until-it-happened return gigs at their hometown’
  
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• Taylor Swift Pictured Kissing Tom Hiddleston Just Two Weeks After Splitting From Calvin Harris

  16-06-2016 00:21
  
  Pictures have surfaced of Taylor making out with the actor, and everyone's a little shocked.
  
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