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• Axwell /\ Ingrosso: 'Face swapping is a big part of our life'

  17-06-2016 22:37
  
  From the ashes of Swedish House Mafia rose Axwell /\ Ingrosso, the EDM duo coming to a festival near you this summer. First stop, Las VegasIt was two years ago this month at New York festival Governors Ball when Sebastian Ingrosso and Axel Christofer Hedfors, formerly of trio Swedish House Mafia alongside Steve Angello, unveiled new project Axwell /\ Ingrosso, a spinoff act that picks up where Swedish House Mafia left off. Since that first performance, the duo has released a series of smash trac
  
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• Why an experimental composer is writing an opera about the news

  17-06-2016 20:03
  
  Jacob TV has created a multimedia opera that splices the voices of Trump, Putin and more with music, building into a kaleidoscopic portrait of American mediaWhen Jacob TV sits down to watch the news, he’s less interested in learning about the state of the world than being entertained. “It’s amusement, especially Fox News,” says the Dutch composer. “I can’t believe people think like that. And I can’t believe people buy it.” But buy it they do, and l
  
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• The 7 absolute best moments from Calvin Harris and Rihanna's new music video

  17-06-2016 19:25
  
  The video for This Is What You Came For puts the focus on Rihanna.
  
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• Rick Astley back on top of the album charts after 29-year gap

  17-06-2016 19:22
  
  Elton John was straight on the other end of the line to congratulate the Never Gonna Give You Up singer.
  
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• Brodka's playlist: Os Mutantes, Vincent Gallo and Ketty Lester

  17-06-2016 18:52
  
  The Polish singer and Pop Idol winner selects her prime cuts, from a moment of pure Tropicália fun to Roman Polanski’s jazzer of choice In 2013, when I was staying in New York, I stopped at Videology Bar & Cinema in Williamsburg where they were screening a documentary about a Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália. That’s how I discovered Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, but the band that caught my attention was Os Mutantes. This song is pure fun. Wild and
  
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• This Week's Must-Hear New Music Round Up: Bastille, Chase & Status, Tinie Tempah & More

  17-06-2016 17:50
  
  ...and Alicia Keys and Jake Bugg and Sigala and Mumford & Sons and Rizzle Kicks and, and, AND...
  
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• 18 Celebs Who Have Spoken Out About Their Sexuality

  17-06-2016 17:48
  
  Love is love.
  
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• Rufus Wainwright review – Judy Garland covers with a dash of politics

  17-06-2016 17:26
  
  Carnegie Hall, New York
  High camp meets political grit in a meta night at the famous venue, which recreates July Garland’s legendary performance there over 50 years beforeTen years ago, Rufus Wainwright did something extraordinary – even bizarre: he performed a cover version of an entire concert. Judy Garland’s 1961 performance at Carnegie Hall is a legendary night in showbiz, marking a comeback after a period of ill-health and addiction in order to claim her crown as the world
  
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• Calm amid the chaos: why festivals need mental health teams

  17-06-2016 17:22
  
  When festival-goers find themselves overwhelmed by the jostling crowds and high-energy partying, help is at hand in a quiet cornerFrom the basslines oscillating every blade of grass, to the whirl of the fairground rides and the screams of their giddy riders, festivals are a relentlessly intense environment. At Wild Life festival in Brighton, the claggy waft of trans fats emanates from the gathering food vans, and endless crowds of jostling, hollering strangers seem immersed in a contest to decid
  
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• Meat Loaf is 'stable and in good condition' after stage collapse

  17-06-2016 17:01
  
  Musician’s collapse in Edmonton, Canada, was a result of ‘severe dehydration’, according to Facebook statementMeat Loaf is reported to be “stable and in good condition” after collapsing during a concert in Edmonton, Canada, on Thursday night, his representatives have told CBS News. Related: Meat Loaf collapses on stage in Edmonton during Canada tourContinue reading...
  
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• You NEED To Hear Anton Powers' #TGIF Playlist...

  17-06-2016 17:00
  
  The producer has picked out future hits and legendary club classics to soundtrack your weekend...
  
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• Chart Contender Kungs Soundtracks Your Weekend With His Top 10 Tunes Right Now

  17-06-2016 16:39
  
  The 'This Girl' tinkerer has selected you ten tracks you really should stick on your playlists...
  
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• Ryan De Le Cruz Shares Visuals For ‘Gotham’

  17-06-2016 16:30
  
  Ryan uses music to let go of all the emotion he’s built up. The tune is a banger and the video is pretty dope too, check it out below:
  
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• Double S Teams Up With JME And Heavytrackerz For ‘Style And Flowz’

  17-06-2016 16:07
  
  it’s no wonder Double S is also known as the ‘Flow Farda’. With hard-hitting lyrics and an absolutely monster of a beat, this one can only be played on full blast.
  
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• Scotty T’s Ex Heads Into Love Island And We’re Both Scared And Excited

  17-06-2016 14:32
  
  Stripper Liana is heading into Love Island and she’s ready to play the game and take who she wants.
  
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• This New Pretty Little Liars Clip Basically Confirms That One Ship Is Heading For The Rocks

  17-06-2016 14:05
  
  If this couple is your PLL OTP, then we have some bad news for you.
  
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• Mothers of invention: the women who pioneered electronic music

  17-06-2016 14:00
  
  A new festival celebrates Daphne Oram, Laurie Spiegel and other female synth wizardsIt’s not often, if at all, that you find a festival focusing on women in electronic music without making gender the star attraction. While “all-female bills” have gained traction to address the stark gender imbalance in dance and electronic music bookings, they can feel tokenist, where gender comes before talent. But not so at London’s Southbank Centre next weekend: its Deep Minimalism fes
  
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• Watch Highlights from Anne-Marie's Performance at ‘MTV PUSH Futures Live At Aloft Hotels’!

  17-06-2016 13:35
  
  Emerging artist and karate-kicking singer Anne-Marie took to the stage to do an exclusive acoustic live performance at the Aloft London Excel...
  
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• Theatre of the World review – an operatic journey through a Bosch-like world

  17-06-2016 13:25
  
  Carré, Amsterdam
  Dazzling performances in this new theatre piece about a Jesuit polymath bring Louis Andriessen’s exhilarating soundworld to life
  Dutch National Opera, named as opera company of the year at last month’s international opera awards, is on a high at the moment. At its inaugural Opera Forward festival in March, it premiered new works by Michel van der Aa and Kaija Saariaho. The company’s contributions to this month’s Holland festival, meanwhile, are not
  
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• Kritz93 Unveils New Scribz Riley Produced Banger ‘Make It Happen’

  17-06-2016 13:04
  
  Set to be releasing more music throughout the summer, not to mention a ‘Make It Happen’ remix, this really is just the beginning of an exciting journey for Kritz93
  
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• Merchandise’s Flower Of Sex: the best of this week’s new music

  17-06-2016 13:00
  
  US rockers’ latest is a bombastic goth stomper that reeks of crimped hairTRACK OF THE WEEK Continue reading...
  
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• Lakuti’s favourite tracks: ‘Louie Vega is firing from all cylinders’

  17-06-2016 13:00
  
  The Berlin-based house selector on her dancefloor highlights Continue reading...
  
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• Yevgeny Sudbin review – Scarlatti brought close to perfection

  17-06-2016 12:53
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  Fast becoming a major Scarlatti proponent, the Russian pianist dispatched five of his sonatas with dazzling eleganceYevgeny Sudbin opened his recital with three of Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas (he wrote a staggering 555), adding another two when it came to encore time. The young Russian pianist has already established himself as a major interpreter of the composer’s work, and perhaps no one has conveyed its originality and emotional range with such fines
  
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• Hare Squead Release Brand New Single ‘If I Ask’

  17-06-2016 12:42
  
  With more music planned for release throughout the course of 2016 and ‘If I Ask’ undoubtedly set to heat up playlists across the summer, expect to be hearing a lot more from Hare Squead in the months to come.
  
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• The Hills' Spencer Pratt Gives His Verdict On Hiddleswift: 'It's 100% Real - But Those Pap Shots Are Staged!'

  17-06-2016 12:26
  
  Who better to wade into the debacle than the former reality star, who knows a thing (or ten) about playing the media...
  
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• Parquet Courts review – a sweaty hour of buzzsaw riffs and detuned melody

  17-06-2016 12:26
  
  La Belle Angèle, Edinburgh
  Success looks unlikely to mellow the DIY art-punk quartetDon’t call them slackers. Parquet Courts have cranked out five albums of agitated art-punk in as many years. But even as the venues steadily get bigger, the DIY quartet haven’t sanded off any of their spikier corners. When one fan in this enthusiastically crammed club won’t stop shouting requests, singer/guitarist Austin Brown shuts them down with the cheerful sarcasm of a veteran standup
  
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• Ariana Grande Just Dropped A New Lipstick And Lip Gloss For MAC Cosmetics

  17-06-2016 12:25
  
  Following the success of Ariana Grande's debut lipsticks for MAC Cosmetics VIVA Glam in aid of the MAC AIDs Foundation, she's just announced she's releasing two more. All the details at MTV.co.uk
  
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• Liana Bank$ Unveils New Track 'Off'

  17-06-2016 12:16
  
  the 25 year old has said “I’ve always found it alluring , the way we buy clothes to please the eye, and the eye in turn only wishes to remove them”.
  
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• Marsha Ambrosius Shares Dennis Brown Tribute 'Have You Ever'

  17-06-2016 12:06
  
  Putting her own twist on Reggae veteran Dennis Brown’s ‘Have You Ever Been In Love’, taken from his 1982 album ‘Yesterday, Today and Tommorow’. The track definitely has a blissful vibe to it, making it memorable and uplifting.
  
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• Taylor Swift Responds To Kim Kardashian's Shade Throwing

  17-06-2016 11:58
  
  The singer wasn't going to let Kim's GQ interview slide...
  
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• Demi Lovato Throws Major Shade At Mariah Carey In The Best Way Possible

  17-06-2016 11:58
  
  Demi has been defending her celebrity pals in the most amazing way – on social media so we can all witness it.
  
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• ‘Wicked’ The Movie Is Finally A Thing That’s Happening

  17-06-2016 11:38
  
  The Broadway hit is getting its very own movie adaptation, and there’s already a release date too.
  
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• twenty one pilots Feature On Suicide Squad Soundtrack With New Track 'Heathen'

  17-06-2016 11:32
  
  It's amazing...
  
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• Calvin Harris & Rihanna Drop Brand New Video For 'This Is What You Came For'

  17-06-2016 10:53
  
  WE LOVE IT!
  
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• Vicky Pattison Dubs Love Island's Zara Holland 'Miss BJ' After On-Screen Romp With Her Ex Alex Bowen

  17-06-2016 10:37
  
  She was recently stripped of her Miss Great Britain title after having sex on TV, but trust our Vicks to lighten up the situation...
  
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• F**k It Friday: Maisie Williams

  17-06-2016 10:33
  
  She deffo deserves to win the Game of Thrones
  
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• Calvin Harris Has Broken His Silence Over Taylor Swift And Tom Hiddleston

  17-06-2016 10:19
  
  Calvin Harris has had his say over Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about broken promises

  17-06-2016 09:39
  
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week. You have until Monday 20 JunePacts and pledges left in pieces the theme this week: think of a track and note it down below for next week’s playlist.
  Back in 2015 there was “promises and choices” rundown, you can find a list of all previous themes and songs picked and so ineligible for the series here.Continue reading...
  
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• Singer Meat Loaf collapses on stage in Edmonton, Canada – video

  17-06-2016 09:01
  
  Rock singer Meat Loaf collapsed on stage during a concert in Edmonton, Canada on Thursday night, falling to the floor during his hit I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That). In footage posted online by a concert attendee members of Meat Loaf’s band and security can be seen rushing to his side. Police and ambulance services later arrived at the venueMeat Loaf collapses on stage in Edmonton during Canada tour
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• Singer Meat Loaf collapses during concert in Canada

  17-06-2016 08:54
  
  EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Rock singer Meat Loaf collapsed on stage during a concert in Edmonton, Alberta, on Thursday night and was taken to a hospital in unknown condition.
  
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• The Stone Roses – what we learned from their gigs this week

  17-06-2016 08:41
  
  They sound good, the fans still love them, and they matter – even if the world they sing about has changed beyond recognitionEver since they started, the Stone Roses have made a habit of playing surprise gigs in unusual locations, from railway arches to disused warehouses. They’ve tapped into this tradition again with the suggestion that they will be playing some gigs in towns big bands rarely visit, which began with last week’s surprise gigs in Halifax and Carlisle. I wasn&rsq
  
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• Meat Loaf collapses on stage in Edmonton during Canada tour

  17-06-2016 08:04
  
  Concert footage shows singer being helped by bandmates after falling to the floorThe American rocker and actor Meat Loaf has collapsed on stage during a concert in Canada.Video footage from a concert in Edmonton, Alberta, on Thursday evening shows the musician, born Marvin Lee Aday, falling to the stage floor during a performance. Continue reading...
  
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• Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli collaborate: archive, 17 June 1972

  17-06-2016 06:00
  
  17 June 1972: Interview with the great violinist Menuhin about an unlikely alliance between classical and jazzMR YEHUDI MENUHIN and Mr Stephane Grappelli were recently, and according to the mores of the times, united in holy televisual wedlock by His Grace Michael Parkinson. Even with such august patronage, it seemed an unlikely marriage: Menuhin the cultivated man of the classics whose “spiritualised sensuousness” has enraptured Sir Neville Cardus and many more during the nearly two
  
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• Crown Princess Victoria and Princess Sofia both glamorous in white at music awards

  17-06-2016 02:56
  
  Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and her sister-in-law Princess Sofia were perfectly in sync as the Swedish royal family stepped out for the Polar Music Prize on Thursday evening. Victoria looked stunning as she showcased a floor-length Ralph Lauren dress which she teamed with a shoulder necklace by high street favourite H&M's 2014 Conscious Exclusive Collection. The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, best known as the manager of Swedish supergroup Abba.
  
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• Jimmy Page testifies Stairway to Heaven chord sequence 'been around forever'

  17-06-2016 01:57
  
  The Led Zeppelin guitarist, in court for a copyright lawsuit, also says he was unaware of the instrumental song he is accused of plagiarizing Guitarist Jimmy Page testified on Thursday that he could not identify the musical elements of the sheet music for the Spirit song Taurus that he is accused of lifting for the intro to Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven.The estate of Spirit’s founder, the late Randy Wolfe, claims Led Zeppelin violated the song’s copyright. Continue reading.
  
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• Gary Barlow teams up with BBC One to launch exciting new TV show

  17-06-2016 01:24
  
  He's one of the country's most successful singer/songwriters, and was a judge on The X Factor for three years, so it should come as no surprise that Gary Barlow is once again on the hunt for UK's freshest talent.
  
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