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• Michael Eavis laments muddiest ever Glastonbury festival

  26-06-2016 20:44
  
  Founder says he hasn’t seen anything like it in the music event’s 46-year history, and says it highlights climate changeGlastonbury has suffered the worst rain and mud since the festival began 46 years ago, consuming the region’s entire supply of woodchip in the process.Founder Michael Eavis said he will not consider moving the festival to later in the summer to avoid the wet, and blamed the torrential rain that hit the site in the weeks before the gates opened on global warmin
  
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• Jeff Lynne’s ELO at Glastonbury – review

  26-06-2016 20:43
  
  Mr Blue Sky himself in the ‘legends’ slot deserved a few more singalongsThe rain might be lashing down in stair rods over Worthy Farm, but on the Pyramid stage in Glastonbury’s traditional legends slot Mr Blue Sky has broken out. As Jeff Lynne’s ELO launch into the bouncy chords of that inescapable prog pop hit, umbrellas come down and hands go up. You almost expect people to start putting out the beach towels.In truth the festival needs a bit of sunshine. This has been a
  
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• 50 Cent detained for cursing during concert in St Kitts and Nevis

  26-06-2016 19:49
  
  Rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was detained along with member of entourage by police for allegedly using ‘indecent language’ during performancePolice in St Kitts and Nevis said the rapper 50 Cent and a member of his entourage were detained and charged for allegedly using “indecent language” during a performance at a music festival.Local police said in a statement on Sunday that 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, and entourage member Bajar Walter had b
  
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• Glastonbury 2016: Jeff Lynne's ELO legend slot, Kamasi Washington and the rest of Sunday's music – as it happened

  26-06-2016 19:09
  
  It was the final day of the party at Worthy Farm, and here’s what the revellers who weren’t stuck in the mud trying to go home enjoyedShare your Glastonbury experience with the hashtag #GuardianGlasto or on GuardianWitness here
  Read our review of Saturday’s music hereSee all our Glastonbury coverage here 5.59pm BSTLolza MvulaIf any of you are into comedy I’ve got a little caption-based gag for you … 5.53pm BSTGlastonbury’s not just about music and politics. I
  
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• In the Left Field, a glimmer of hope behind the Brexit doom

  26-06-2016 18:07
  
  One subject dominated political debate in Glastonbury’s activist area – but all is not lostOn Friday morning, I stood ankle-deep in the mud, held out a microphone, and asked the people walking away from the Pyramid stage to sum up their feelings about the EU referendum result in one word. I was after gut feelings rather than eloquence, and out they came: “Crap”, “Bollocks”, “Shocking”. Only one passerby went the other way: “Great – I&rs
  
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• Minnesota judge to hold 2nd hearing in Prince estate case

  26-06-2016 18:04
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A hearing will be held in suburban Minneapolis regarding the procedures for determining who stands to inherit part of Prince's estate. Prince died in April of an accidental drug overdose, and no will has been found. The twice-divorced musician's parents are dead and he didn't have any known children, but he left behind a sister and at least five half-siblings. Others also have come forward to claim he was related to them.
  
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• Prince's legacy to be honored at BET Awards

  26-06-2016 16:56
  
  Prince received a tribute from Madonna and Stevie Wonder last month, but the late singer is getting another honor at the BET Awards, this time with Sheila E., D'Angelo, The Roots, Janelle Monae and Wonder.
  
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• Holly Hagan Looks Like A Proper Worldie In A Gorgeous Instagram Selfie

  26-06-2016 16:48
  
  YAAS.
  
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• Geordie Shore's Holly Hagan Looks Like A Proper Worldie In A Gorgeous Instagram Selfie

  26-06-2016 16:48
  
  YAAS.
  
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• Brian McFadden Has Some Advice For Zayn Malik: ‘Ignore All The Showbiz Nonsense’

  26-06-2016 15:35
  
  So there you go.
  
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• Awesome New Suicide Squad Footage Is Unveiled In The ‘Sucker For Pain’ Music Video

  26-06-2016 14:44
  
  BRB, watching this on repeat all day...
  
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• Aimard / Stefanovich / Austbø / Arditti Quartet review – clarity and ferocity

  26-06-2016 14:39
  
  Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
  Pierre-Laurent Aimard bowed out of the festival with a nod to its distinctly European flavour, ahead of displays of blistering power and staggering virtuosityRarely has the importance of Benjamin Britten’s Aldeburgh legacy been felt more strongly. The concert, 14-18 NOW: Piano Century, offered compositions spanning 100 years from the first world war to today and, by way of brief introduction to his sequence, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in the last weekend of his tenure
  
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• Blind date goes to Glastonbury: ‘There was a lot of snogging’

  26-06-2016 14:11
  
  Did strategy manager Andrew, 26, and urology nurse Katie, 31, find love in a muddy place?
  What were you hoping for?
  Fun with a nice girl. I figured Glastonbury would be a pretty magical setting for a blind date, so why not? Continue reading...
  
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• Michael Jackson’s Family Pay Tribute To The Icon On The Anniversary Of His Death

  26-06-2016 14:08
  
  The King Of Pop tragically passed away in 2009.
  
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• One to watch: Nimmo

  26-06-2016 14:00
  
  Sarah Nimmo and Reva Gauntlett lead their electro-pop outfit on a deliciously dark journey to dancefloor goldThe fear of one’s parents dying is an unusual subject for a banging dance number. But in the case of Nimmo’s UnYoung, couched among a throbbing disco beat and subtle lyrics, the sadness transforms into something danceable and celebratory. This marriage of escapist euphoria and heartfelt emotion is at the core of the sound of the electropop five-piece, led by charismatic duo Sa
  
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• Elton John review – peerless pomp and a pinch of politics

  26-06-2016 13:36
  
  Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
  It’s party time as pop’s elder statesman piles on the hits and tries to help disappointed Scots forget“We haven’t seen blue skies anywhere else in Britain,” muses Sir Elton, as Edinburgh glows in the low evening sun. “That’s because you voted to stay in Europe. You’re the only fucking sensible people in Britain.” He subsequently sums up the political mood of roughly half of the UK, Scots in particular, by playing
  
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• Kylie Jenner Sends Ariana Grande Her Whole Lip Kit Collection For Her Birthday

  26-06-2016 13:21
  
  TOO GOOD.
  
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• Rob Kardashian Gives Blac Chyna Dozens Of Totally Gorgeous Roses

  26-06-2016 12:35
  
  Lucky lady
  
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• 6 High School Musical Fan Theories That Will Blow Your Mind

  26-06-2016 12:32
  
  These weird yet plausible theories might actually IMPROVE the movie. If such a thing were possible.
  
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• Me and the muse: DJ Shadow on his sources of inspiration

  26-06-2016 12:00
  
  The California hip-hop innovator on the records at the root of two decades of beat-making, sampling and scratchingBorn in 1972, Joshua Paul Davis grew up in California and started collecting records and experimenting with music production aged 12, laying the foundations for an influential career as a DJ and producer. In the early 90s, as DJ Shadow, he built a reputation for atmospheric, sample-driven instrumental hip-hop with tracks such as Lost and Found and In/Flux. His classic 1996 debut Endt
  
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• Chloe Moretz Reveals The Seriously Sweet Things Brooklyn Beckham Has Said To Her

  26-06-2016 11:57
  
  As if these two weren't already cute enough...
  
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• Taylor Swift Is ‘Furious’ With Kanye West Over Her Naked Double Being Used In His ‘Famous’ Video

  26-06-2016 11:07
  
  Eek.
  
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• Radiohead's Thom Yorke shares petition for second EU referendum

  26-06-2016 10:31
  
  The singer has shared a petition with nearly three million signatures on it.
  
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• Rihanna review – almost an emotional experience

  26-06-2016 10:00
  
  Aviva Stadium, Dublin
  A teary glimpse of the singer behind the star breaks new ground for the R&B ice queen, but then it’s back to slickly spectacular business as usualRihanna is crying. Tears – actual droplets – are rolling down the 28-year-old’s cheeks as she fluffs the opening lines of the set’s second song, Love the Way You Lie (Part 2). It’s unclear whether the adoring screams of the Dublin crowd have moved this infamously inscrutable star. The vast b
  
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• Glastonbury through the years: the mother of all festivals

  26-06-2016 10:00
  
  As Glastonbury 2016 draws to a close, our man in the field recalls his first ‘miraculous’ visit in 1994, and the music, madness and magical transformation that have seen him return 17 timesThe first time I went to the Glastonbury festival it healed me. Truly. It was 1994. Three weeks earlier I’d been attacked in the street of my university town, knocked to the pavement and kicked in the head several times. I woke up in hospital with bruises and concussion, then drifted through
  
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• Stu Brown: Twisted Toons Vol 2 review – hilariously ramshackle

  26-06-2016 09:45
  
  Lickety SplatJazz connects, sometimes bizarrely, with most genres of music, and Scottish drummer-composer Stu Brown is fascinated by the musical gags and “rapid fire cut-and-paste” sounds that accompany classic cartoon films. These 17 tracks vary between fairly straight transcriptions and free reworkings of music from soundtracks to Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner etc, minus the crashes, splats and thuds that punctuate the originals. Brown’s ingenuity in arra
  
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• It's Glastonbowie as festival's first classical music headliner pays tribute

  26-06-2016 09:43
  
  The late Blackstar singer was on everyone’s minds as they paid tribute to him at Glastonbury.
  
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• Cassius: Ibifornia review – squelchy tunes pack summer sunshine

  26-06-2016 09:15
  
  PolydorA comeback from a much-missed French electronic duo, with an eclectic guest list that includes Pharrell Williams, Cassius’ Ibifornia (Ibiza-meets-California, might work better in French) shares much theoretical shelf space with Daft Punk’s magisterial Random Access Memories (2013). Featuring the likes of Cat Power (often singing against type, on songs such as Action), Beastie Boy Mike D and hit-maker Ryan Tedder, these squelchy tunes pack much summer sunshine, and even kitsch
  
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• Puro Instinct: Autodrama review – dangerous dreampop

  26-06-2016 09:00
  
  (Manifesto)LA sisters Piper Durabo and Skylar Cielo made, in 2011’s Headbangers in Ecstasy, the bloggiest of all blog band albums. Their second takes its template – hazy dreampop, synth haze, slightly gothic guitar – and explores a darker Hollywood delirium. On Peccavi and Tell Me there are hints of Madonna’s early pep, but dreamy and dissipated, with Durabo intoning about “wishing fiction into fact” and urging you to “forget about tomorrow”. LA&rs
  
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• Muffat: Missa in Labore Requies CD review – energetic and expressive

  26-06-2016 09:00
  
  Cappella Murensis/Les Cornets Noirs/Strobl
  (Audite)
  The recent discovery of Alessandro Striggio’s huge 40-part Mass has whetted the appetite for other multi-choir works: Georg Muffat’s late 17th-century piece in 24 parts is modest in terms of size, but musically rather more interesting. The writing is subtle and expressive, and this recording using the four galleries of the abbey church in Muri mirrors well the probable original setting in Salzburg cathedral. The autograph score was
  
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• Mala: Mirrors review – pioneering Andean dub

  26-06-2016 09:00
  
  (Brownswood Recordings)Four years after his debut, Mala in Cuba, the dubstep pioneer from Croydon releases his long-awaited second album on Gilles Peterson’s label. In this expertly curated record, Mala blends the local instruments and hypnotic polyrhythms of the Andean mountains with the menacing synths and heavy bass of the UK’s underground music scene to narrate his Peruvian travels. From the amorous soprano in Cunumicita to the acoustic guitar accompaniment in The Calling, the al
  
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• DJ Shadow: The Mountain Will Fall review – winning reboot

  26-06-2016 09:00
  
  Mass AppealTwenty years on from his landmark debut, 1996’s Endtroducing, Californian Josh Davis has changed his modus operandi. His fifth album emphasises live instrumentation and innovative production software, rather than the sampling on which he built his reputation. It broadly makes for a winning reboot, from the old-skool hip-hop stylings of The Sideshow and the urgency of Nobody Speak, a collaboration with Run the Jewels, to the more menacing atmosphere of Depth Charge and the j
  
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• Aldeburgh festival review – Britten’s not the only talent

  26-06-2016 09:00
  
  Michael Tippett, long overshadowed by Aldeburgh’s founder, finally got his place in the Suffolk sunTwo composers independently uttered cries from the heart last week, one in the grandeur of a Park Lane hotel, the other in the muggy heat of an eccentric “Tudorbethan” cinema in a Suffolk fishing village. Amid the raucous campaigning of a different kind, you may have heard neither. Oliver Knussen (b1952), receiving an Ivor Novello award for classical music, spoke of the “ext
  
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• Purcell: Come All Ye Songsters CD review – richly expressive

  26-06-2016 08:59
  
  Carolyn Sampson, Elizabeth Kenny, Jonathan Manson, Laurence Cummings
  (Wigmore Hall Live)Versatile and ever engaging, soprano Carolyn Sampson shines in this showcase of contrasting Purcell songs, recorded live at Wigmore Hall last year. She and three top baroque players have drawn on the “Gresham manuscript”, written in the composer’s own hand in the last decade of the 17th century but forgotten until the mid-20th century. The disc opens with four richly expressive songs from Th
  
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• Deerhoof: The Magic review – erratic and energising

  26-06-2016 08:59
  
  (Upset the Rhythm)Deerhoof have been wreaking merry havoc on record for almost 20 years and show no signs of mellowing here. Fifteen tracks flash by in just over 40 minutes, and you emerge feeling both energised and slightly baffled by their erratic artpop. There’s plenty to explain why the band remain a cult concern: singer Satomi Matsuzaki’s naive vocals and lyrics can be grating, and not everyone is drawn to songs entitled The Devil and His Anarchic Surrealist Retinue. But even fo
  
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• Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra review – a noble oddity

  26-06-2016 08:59
  
  (Glitterbeat)The eponymous title accurately reflects this 2014 superjam, staged in Port-au-Prince with Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen mixing it with the elite of local groups in what proves an almost seamless fusion. Allen and his core group lay down Afrobeat’s familiar loping grooves, and Haitian musicians weigh in with call-and-response chants and invocations from the vodou tradition. Less expected is the strain of futurism, with France’s Olaf Hund adding sinuous synth lines and Glasg
  
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• New Order, James Blake and more reviewed – Saturday's music at Glastonbury 2016

  26-06-2016 08:00
  
  From Anna Meredith in the morning to New Order at night, our writers were out and about yesterday scouring Glastonbury for the best musicSaturday night headliner Adele: charm offensiveContinue reading...
  
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• Brigid Mae Power: Brigid Mae Power review – so full of feeling

  26-06-2016 08:00
  
  (Tompkins Square)We don’t know what multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Brigid Mae Power has been through. As she is a relative newcomer, there are scant biographical pegs on which to hang this extraordinary, reverberating album, so full of feeling: born in London, raised in Galway, spent time in New York. Power is the sole parent of a young son. She’s heard Joni Mitchell and John Fahey too.The specifics of Power’s plot aren’t essential to the appreciation of this spa
  
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• Graeme Fowler remembers partying with Elton John

  26-06-2016 07:00
  
  The England cricketer was nervous about meeting the great man – it turned out Elton John felt the same wayThe first time I met Elton John was in a restaurant in Sydney in 1983. I was on my first tour as an England cricketer and my teammate Ian Botham had invited me along. Beefy loved Elton’s music and Elton was a big fan of cricket – he’d go so far as to schedule concerts to coincide with England’s matches abroad – and so they had become big pals.At the meal I
  
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• Sorry [Explicit]

  26-06-2016 06:37 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Sorry
  
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• Adele headlines Saturday at Glastonbury 2016 – review

  26-06-2016 01:57
  
  There were those who thought Adele’s sombre ballads weren’t enough to carry off a Saturday headline slot. They reckoned without her force of personalitySaturday night at Glastonbury – as it happenedSee all our Glastonbury coverage here Related: Adele: ‘I can finally reach out a hand to my ex. Let him know I’m over it’ Adele as Glastonbury’s Saturday night headliner is an intriguing choice. On the one hand, it feels like a coup for the festival: she&rsquo
  
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• Glastonbury 2016: Saturday night, with Adele, Tame Impala and more – as it happened

  26-06-2016 01:10
  
  Adele plucked fans from the crowd and reminisced about her first festival experience as she took the whole crowd with her in a storming headline setShare your Glastonbury experience with the hashtag #GuardianGlasto or on GuardianWitness here
  See how the daytime at Glastonbury unfolded hereSee all our Glastonbury coverage here 11.57pm BSTSo that’s all from me, at least until tomorrow night when I’m here from 7pm to warm up for Coldplay’s Sunday night headline set.
  Read Alexis Pe
  
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• Glastonbury: drag queens lead salute to Orlando’s victims

  26-06-2016 01:05
  
  The NYC Downlow nightclub at the festival unites with Florida in celebration, remembrance and defiance“We will not stand for discrimination, we will not stand for alienation, we will unite all hands across this country, that country, my country, your country, every country on this planet, every race, creed, sexuality and religion ... we are all human and we all deserve to love and respect each other.”As the speech made by house DJ Roger Sanchez rang out through NYC Downlow, the dark
  
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