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• Cue the music, cue the drama! Lee Daniels introduces 'Star'

  09-12-2016 21:05
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The title of Lee Daniels' latest venture, "Star," might very well identify this celebrated producer-director-writer. His films include "Monster's Ball," ''Precious" and "The Butler," while two seasons ago he roared into series TV with Fox's smash music drama "Empire."
  
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• Adele targets ticket touts for Wembley Stadium concerts

  09-12-2016 18:51
  
  The singer has previously called ticket touts “terrible people”.
  
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• What You Missed In Music: Will Smith, OneRepublic, The Maccabees & More

  09-12-2016 18:35
  
  A coroner also said that we may never know what caused the tragic Viola Beach crash.
  
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• Kanye West, newly blond, resurfaces in LA after mystery hospital stay

  09-12-2016 17:52
  (Reuters) - Kanye West, sporting a new blond look, has surfaced for the first time since spending more than a week in a psychiatric hospital. The "Jesus Walks" rapper was photographed visiting a furniture exhibition at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood on Thursday. An Instagram snap of the 39 year-old musician, posted by Italian artist Giovanni Bassan, showed him sitting alone on a wooden chair with a blond hairstyle, wearing a gray sweatshirt, dark pants and white trainers.
  
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• 12 Charlotte Crosby Quotes To Send To That Guy You're Trying To 'Date'

  09-12-2016 17:24
  
  Wink, wink.
  
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• The Shallows In VR: How To Survive A Virtual Reality Shark Attack

  09-12-2016 17:21
  
  Or swear through one, at least.
  
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• Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik release surprise duet for Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack

  09-12-2016 17:08
  
  Sending their enormous combined fanbase into meltdown, I Don’t Wanna Live Forever is the first new music from Swift this yearTaylor Swift and former One Direction member Zayn Malik have redeemed 2016 for their fans, releasing a surprise new song together for the soundtrack to Fifty Shades Darker.I Don’t Wanna Live Forever unexpectedly appeared in the US iTunes Store just before midnight Friday US eastern time. iTunes described it as “two of pop’s brightest stars [teaming
  
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• You Need To Hear Varski & Bluey Robinson’s Brand New Track ‘Questions’

  09-12-2016 17:04
  
  Such a tune!
  
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• Has PewDiePie Stayed True To His Promise To Delete His YouTube Channel?

  09-12-2016 16:52
  
  Blimey.
  
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• Adele cast black star in Hello video to address 'police brutality'

  09-12-2016 16:50
  
  ‘It was her desire that we wouldn’t cast a caucasian male in this,’ says director Xavier Dolan on the choice of The Wire’s Tristan Wilds as her love interest Xavier Dolan has spoken about the inspiration behind Adele’s video for Hello, explaining that casting The Wire’s Tristan Wilds was a deliberate attempt to address “police brutality” in the US.In an interview with Vulture, the French-Canadian film-maker said that while it was his idea to cast W
  
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers review – funk indestructibles rock their socks off

  09-12-2016 16:13
  
  The Hydro, Glasgow
  The age-defying band’s vitality and absurd humour keep them the right side of silliness for handstands and cross-generational singalongsTheir days of doing drugs and dressing their genitals with socks mercifully long gone, LA funk-rock indestructibles Red Hot Chili Peppers have become the kind of generations-spanning band to attract both parents and their teenage kids to shows. They ought to have long since descended into total self-parody with their icky sex jams, but t
  
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• You Need To Watch Jimmy Fallon Play The Nintendo Switch In Its TV Debut

  09-12-2016 16:04
  
  He goes nuts.
  
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• Vinyl indignity: record sales are up, but small labels don't see the benefit

  09-12-2016 15:30
  
  Those of us who run indie labels are finding it harder to sell records than ever before – because all the sales go to mass-market reissuesEarlier this week, it was widely reported that vinyl is outselling digital downloads in the UK for the first time since the iTunes store was launched here in 2004. Finally, some good news! After all the tragic losses from the world of music in 2016, here was some seasonal good cheer: the warm and wonderful crackle of vinyl was finally fighting back again
  
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• Louis Tomlinson's Mum Johannah Deakin Passes Away After Brave Battle With Leukaemia

  09-12-2016 14:32
  
  Our hearts go out to Louis and his family
  
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• Against Me! review – punk-rock poignancy from Laura Jane Grace

  09-12-2016 14:31
  
  Electric Ballroom, London
  The transgender frontwoman sounds both authoritative and breakable as glass as the band pour out their sweat and emotionIn 2012, Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace came out as transgender. It’s a change that has been mirrored in her punk-rock output, too. For the band’s sixth studio album, 2014’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Grace focused her songwriting on her gender identity, while their seventh, Shape Shift With Me, released in September, saw t
  
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• Naughty Boy Opens Up About Zayn Malik Twitter Beef & How He Never Took It That Seriously

  09-12-2016 14:14
  
  He's SO over it...
  
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• All The Times Liam Payne Was The Actual Best Boyfriend To Cheryl

  09-12-2016 14:06
  
  Literally giving us life along the way.
  
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• Laura Mvula’s Ready Or Not: how to pull off a Fugees cover

  09-12-2016 14:00
  
  Also this week, Alicia Keys has some difficult conversations, while Ty Dolla $ign lives every 14 year-old boy’s fantasyTRACK OF THE WEEK Continue reading...
  
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• From Bieber to Rick Astley: in 2016 there's no room for snobbery in music

  09-12-2016 14:00
  
  We live in an age where all tunes are created equal, and Justin Timberlake has as much merit as Thom Yorke. It’s time music criticism shed its superiority complex Related: Rick Astley review – 80s icon returns unfeasibly intact The end-of-year list is one of music journalism’s more peculiar traditions. For writers, the process of ranking 12 months’ worth of releases is generally a thankless task; for readers the result simply serves as an opportunity to leave outraged com
  
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• Fatboy Slim: 'I've witnessed religious moments to Love Is In The Air'

  09-12-2016 14:00
  
  The superstar DJ on the magic of John Paul Young’s classic and why he loves waking up to an isolated bass Continue reading...
  
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• This Week’s New Music Round Up: Zayn Malik, Taylor Swift, J. Cole & More

  09-12-2016 13:36
  
  Also featuring DJ Fresh, Fetty Wap & Nicki Minaj!
  
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• The X Factor Finalist's Song Choices Have Been Revealed For The Weekend

  09-12-2016 13:19
  
  Not long to go now...
  
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• Justin Bieber to headline Hyde Park's BST festival

  09-12-2016 13:03
  
  Justin Bieber has been announced as the fourth headline act for next year's British Summer Time festival in London's Hyde Park. The Sorry singer will bring his Purpose tour to the heart of the capital, where he will sing to 65,000 fans. Bieber has also announced he will play Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Friday 30 June, two days before the London gig.
  
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• Lady Gaga Continues To Top The #MTVStars 2016 Leader Board

  09-12-2016 12:46
  
  But it's still all to play for...
  
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• Singing for Syria: why I'm putting my mouth where my money is

  09-12-2016 12:33
  
  Artist George Butler created the Hands Up Foundation after first-hand experience of the devastation in Syria. He explains how we can help – by raising our voicesThe young man with the infectious smile would never tell you, and you’d never know, that he was imprisoned, tortured and beaten almost to death by the Syrian regime for demonstrating against the government at the start of the current crisis. Remarkably, by the time his family arrived, believing they had come to collect his bo
  
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• This Photo Of Brunette Niall Horan Holding A Baby Is Honestly The Cutest Thing Ever

  09-12-2016 12:26
  
  Hey, that's the same way we look at garlic bread.
  
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• Vicky Pattison Posts Totally Naked Selfie As She Holidays With Her New Man

  09-12-2016 12:11
  
  WHAT. A. WORLDIE.
  
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• First Trailer Drops For Spider-Man: Homecoming And It’s AMAZING

  09-12-2016 11:40
  
  Check out the FIRST trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming right here!
  
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• Nadia Rose, AJ Tracey & SG Lewis Kick Off Brand New For 2017 At Our Launch Party

  09-12-2016 11:29
  
  Such a good night.
  
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• Liam Payne Sticks Up For Cheryl As He Tells Louis Walsh To 'Shut The F**k Up For Once'

  09-12-2016 11:23
  
  Aww.
  
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• 7,800 New Pokestops And Gyms Added To Pokemon Go, In Starbucks

  09-12-2016 11:13
  
  The rumours were true, at least in part.
  
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• Justin Bieber Will Play A UK Festival Exclusive At BST Hyde Park 2017

  09-12-2016 10:36
  
  Can it just be summer already?
  
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• Taylor Swift And Zayn Collaborate For Fifty Shades Song, Leave The Fandom Shook

  09-12-2016 10:05
  
  Well we really didn't see this one coming.
  
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• Justin Bieber to headline British Summer Time festival 2017

  09-12-2016 10:02
  
  Singer will join Phil Collins, Kings of Leon and Green Day at Hyde Park for his only London show of the yearJustin Bieber will headline this year’s British Summer Time Hyde Park 2017, bringing his Purpose world tour to the annual event.Scheduled for 2 July, the Canadian pop star is the latest big name to be added to next year’s series of concerts, topping the bill alongside Phil Collins, Green Day and Kings of Leon.Continue reading...
  
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• Best albums of 2016: No 6 Hopelessness by Anohni

  09-12-2016 08:30
  
  The musician formerly Antony Hegarty returned with staggeringly beautiful protest songs that are escapist as well as subversiveMore of the best albums of 2016More on the best culture of 2016As album titles go, you’d be hard pressed to find one more appropriate for 2016 than Hopelessness. It was a statement of despair – angry and unwavering, bold and unmistakably bleak, furious at the world. You’d also be hard pressed to find an album this year as fearlessly political – or
  
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• Ready Or Not

  09-12-2016 03:22 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Ready or Not (Official Video)
  
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• I Would Like (Lyric Video)

  09-12-2016 03:21 via mtv.co.uk
  
  I Would Like (Lyric Video)
  
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• Oh No

  09-12-2016 03:20 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Oh No (Official Video)
  
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