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• Readers recommend: share your songs with the accordion

  17-11-2016 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 21 November As this week’s readers recommend guru said in selecting a theme: “let’s get the squeezeboxes out”.You have until 11pm on Monday 21 November to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor and first time guru who posts in the comments as LyntonCrosby will select from your recommendations and prod
  
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• Musician Jim Lauderdale: 'Downs have helped me just as much as good things'

  17-11-2016 20:20
  
  Americana legend discusses his new album, made with songs pulled from a trick bag he wrote previously with a range of respected songwriters but never released
  Time has caught up with Jim Lauderdale. Since 1991 the Nashville songwriter and vocalist has released a dizzying number of albums – 28 in all – that span honky-tonk, bluegrass, power-pop, southern soul, psychedelic and many of their hybrids. With country music in a perpetual identity crisis, Lauderdale’s music somehow has
  
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• FIF Anti-Bullying Week Special: "F**k The Haters"

  17-11-2016 18:55
  
  Take a look at some of our fave celebs who have ever said "f**k the haters!" (probably).
  
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• Dawn Richard – from girl group star to future R&B queen

  17-11-2016 18:06
  
  The former Danity Kane singer’s triumphant quest for solo stardom has taken in everything from Greek mythology to feminist reworkings of classic popWhen the R&B singer Dawn Richard abandoned the safety of the major-label machine to strike out on her own in 2011, she was gambling. All she’d managed to release under her own name was one promising but flawed mixtape. So her announcement that she intended to start her solo career with a concept trilogy of albums – despite lacki
  
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• Eddie Redmayne Just Dished All Of The Dirt On 'Dating' Taylor Swift

  17-11-2016 17:51
  
  And what really happened at her Les Miserables audition.
  
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• Tinie Tempah On LifeSkills, His New Album 'Youth' & How To Become A Rapper

  17-11-2016 17:10
  
  "I think it's my best album! Look out for my next single with Tinashe - it's a banger."
  
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• What Boys Really Want To Know About Sex With Holly Hagan And Grace Victory

  17-11-2016 16:51
  
  Faking orgasms, anal and masturbation included.
  
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• Geordie Shore's Marnie Simpson Hits Back At Sexist Trolls For Anti-Bullying Week: 'Just Because I've Got A Vagina, Doesn't Mean I'm A Sl*g' - EXCLUSIVE

  17-11-2016 16:30
  
  Our Geordie family also shared their advice for anyone who is being affected by bullying...
  
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• Layer Up Lookbook: The Best Outerwear To Shop This Autumn

  17-11-2016 16:10
  
  It's officially coat season and we're excited.
  
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• Wait, So Charlotte Crosby Is Dating This Bearded Guy Now?!

  17-11-2016 16:04
  
  Nobody panic.
  
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• Kate Bush and the K Fellowship: Before the Dawn review – a pop treasure, live and kicking

  17-11-2016 16:00
  
  This surprisingly raw audio record of her 2014 multisensory concerts finds Bush in fantastic voice and on dazzling formA pressing question looms over Kate Bush’s new live release, her first since Live at Hammersmith Odeon in 1994, an album drawn from her then most recent live shows, some 15 years before. That question being: what’s the point? Live albums can only ever hope to give the faintest flavour of the multi-sensory experience of attending a gig, and Bush’s 2014 shows at
  
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• Norma Winstone review – British great skips through an astonishing career

  17-11-2016 15:33
  
  Cadogan Hall, LondonWinstone’s remarkable London jazz festival set included a tribute to her late husband, John Taylor, and a slideshow tour of her ingenious vocal artistryNorma Winstone has scuppered the influence-spotting game throughout her inspirational career – almost everything about the revered British singer’s agile, tonally abundant voice seems to be of her own making. But the east London-born vocalist credits a raft of models nonetheless: the musicians she has shared
  
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• Ceci Bastida on the president-elect: 'We have to have our voices heard'

  17-11-2016 14:00
  
  The California-based Mexican singer-songwriter says she couldn’t believe the election result at first but now her response is a message of empathy and unityIn the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory, Ceci Bastida, the Mexican singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, can’t go a day without thinking about her five-year-old daughter, Yamila, and what the future holds for her. “I felt like the world had disappointed her and I just felt so bad,” she said. &ld
  
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• Get To Know: Mahalia

  17-11-2016 13:45
  
  We caught up with Mahalia, a singer-songwriter from Leicester, check out interview...
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: your songs about farm produce

  17-11-2016 13:00
  
  This week a reader has harvested your suggestions and produced a multi-genre playlist including songs from Spinal Tap, Shirehorses and Anton Barbeau
  Here is this week’s playlist – tunes picked by a reader from your suggestions after last week’s callout. Thanks for them all. Read more about how our weekly readers recommend series works at the end of the piece.This week our RR collective sought out some tunes that praised the most necessary and fundamental of all things, the hard
  
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• Copy-and-paste songwriting for a switched-on world

  17-11-2016 12:49
  
  It’s called interpolation – when you sing a riff from someone else’s song over your own – and it’s the sound of pop in 2016. But is it laziness or a clever response to the global playlist?Over the last couple of years, there has been a terrible trend in pop music. It most commonly manifests itself in a dance-pop track that lifts a hook or refrain from a well-known song and – with the aid of mind-numbing repetition and a house beat – transforms it into so
  
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• Watch the Rolling Stones sing Country Honk acoustic – video

  17-11-2016 12:39
  
  In an exclusive clip shot backstage, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform an acoustic version of their 1969 honky-tonk classic Country Honk – footage taken from a new documentary that captures the band’s journey across Latin America on their 2016 tour.The Rolling Stones: Olé Olé Olé! A Trip Across Latin America is on Channel 4, 11pm, 19 NovemberContinue reading...
  
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• 10 Instagram Approved Trends To Steal This Autumn

  17-11-2016 12:38
  
  Give us that marshmallow pink knit right now.
  
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• Kourtney Kardashian And Scott Disick 'Are Living Together' Again And Our Hearts Can't Take It

  17-11-2016 12:33
  
  A REUNION?!
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Has Volunteered As Tribute To Be Kim Kardashian's Surrogate

  17-11-2016 11:45
  
  Because she's the best friend ever.
  
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• Guess Which Of The Kardashians And Jenners Earned The Most Money This Year

  17-11-2016 11:36
  
  The ranking of their earnings is kinda surprising.
  
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• You’ve Got To See This Halo Mannequin Challenge

  17-11-2016 11:10
  
  Best one yet?
  
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• Watch Adele’s Hilarious Reaction To A Bat Flying Around At Her Mexico Gig

  17-11-2016 11:04
  
  “There’s a bat! It landed right by your head!”
  
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• Gigi Hadid Had A Secret Career You Never Knew About

  17-11-2016 10:58
  
  Because being a world-class supermodel just isn’t enough.
  
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• Every Single New Product In Kylie Jenner's Mega Kylie Cosmetics 2016 Holiday Collection

  17-11-2016 10:33
  
  Dear Santa, we'll take five of everything.
  
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• Geordie Shore Spoiler Video: Chantelle Connelly Swills Marty McKenna Before Waving Goodbye To The Show

  17-11-2016 10:15
  
  The radgies wave goodbye to Chantelle for the last time...
  
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• Leonard Cohen, music's poetic visionary, died in his sleep after fall

  17-11-2016 09:53
  (Reuters) - Songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen died in his sleep after a fall in his Los Angeles home in the middle of the night, his manager has said. "The death was sudden, unexpected, and peaceful,” his manager Robert Kory said in a statement published on the Cohencentric website. No cause was given for his death when it was announced three days later on his Facebook page.
  
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• 12 Lifesaving Beauty Products For Anyone With Hormonal Period Skin

  17-11-2016 09:15
  
  Because spots and greasy chip face.
  
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• Meet J Balvin, Latin America's answer to Drake and Kanye

  17-11-2016 08:42
  
  The Colombian star is up for a best album award at the 2016 Latin Grammys – apt reward for the man making reggaeton cool againThe Colombian star J Balvin, it was suggested earlier this year by the Fader, is reggaeton’s answer to Kanye West or Drake. Someone sensitive, vulnerable – as well as suave and certain in his stardom. He’s certainly got the stardom bit nailed.José Álvaro Osorio Balvin is Latin America’s biggest emerging music star. Two years sin
  
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• Leonard Cohen died after fall at his Los Angeles home

  17-11-2016 02:46
  
  Manager says death was ‘sudden, unexpected and peaceful’, revealing singer-songwriter, 82, died in his sleep after falling in the middle of the nightLeonard Cohen died in his sleep after a fall at his home in Los Angeles, his manager has said.The Canadian singer-songwriter died on 7 November at the age of 82. His death was confirmed a few days later in an announcement on his official Facebook page, which gave no details of the circumstances. Continue reading...
  
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