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• Bruce Springsteen: 'We are part of the new resistance' in the age of Trump – video

  22-01-2017 23:41
  
  Bruce Springsteen, who is on tour in Australia, says being on the other side of the world for the inauguration of Donald Trump feels ‘a long ways away, but our hearts and our spirits are with all the millions of people that marched yesterday, and the E Street band – we are part of the new resistance’ Continue reading...
  
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• Ellie Goulding And Boyfriend Bobby Rich Are "Moving In Together" In £6 Million Mansion

  22-01-2017 15:43
  
  The singer and her fitness enthusiast lover are spending more and more time together
  
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• Vicky Pattison Gives Fans An Update Of Her Body Transformation By Stripping Down To A Pink Bikini

  22-01-2017 15:05
  
  The Geordie Shore beauty is looking cracking as 2017 gets underway
  
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• AJ Tracey – thrilling chaos from grime's rising star

  22-01-2017 14:39
  
  Fibbers, York
  The London MC keeps total control even as his hook-laden grime turns the body-slamming circle pit into a scene from a punk gigAJ Tracey has traded crime for grime. The young London MC was studying criminology at university before he withdrew from his studies when his music started making waves. He has hardly looked back. “You said I wouldn’t go far,” he raps at some imaginary naysayer. However, a plug from superstar Drake saw Thiago Silva – Tracey’s co
  
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• Kendall Jenner Flaunts Star Shaped Nipple Pasties As She Heads Out In See-through Top

  22-01-2017 14:33
  
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has been making bold fashion choices in Paris
  
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• Kendall Jenner Flaunts Star Shaped Nipple Covers As She Heads Out In See-through Top

  22-01-2017 14:33
  
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has been making bold fashion choices in Paris
  
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• The Flaming Lips review – potent hit of feelgood psychedelia

  22-01-2017 14:10
  
  Brixton Academy, London
  The psychpop veterans throw rock’s greatest acid punch party, complete with confetti canyons, balloons and overgrown aliensNothing says I’m over it like riding on to the Brixton Academy stage on a unicorn with a neon mane, wearing glitterball trousers and a fruit codpiece and flinging handfuls of glitter from Barbarella’s handbag. While your mind de-boggles, some context: the 2013 album The Terror by Oklahoma’s legendary psychpop experimentalists t
  
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• Spencer And Heidi Explode After Nicola McLean Doesn't Save Them From Eternal Eviction

  22-01-2017 13:52
  
  The Hills couple have fallen out with Nicola in epic style
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Shares Cute Moment He Helps Son Freddie Celebrate First Birthday

  22-01-2017 13:19
  
  The One Direction star was a proud dad as he helped his son celebrate one year in the world
  
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• Cape Town - Budget vs Blowout

  22-01-2017 13:12
  
  See South Africa's best city on budgets ranging from 'broke af' to 'Kardashian Level'...
  
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• Justin Bieber Lashes Out At The Weeknd Slamming His Music As "Whack"

  22-01-2017 12:50
  
  Sounds like the Biebs is not happy that The Weeknd is dating his ex, Selena Gomez
  
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• Olly Murs' Twin Brother Hits Back At Family Saying Fame Destroyed Their Bond

  22-01-2017 12:29
  
  Olly's twin brother Ben is having his say after his family feud spilled onto the headlines
  
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• Chloe Ferry Hits Back At Coleen Nolan After She Called Her "Disgusting"

  22-01-2017 11:59
  
  The Geordie Shore lass is not holding back as she gives her opinion on the Loose Women star
  
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• Philip Glass: ‘My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies’

  22-01-2017 10:00
  
  About to turn 80, the composer talks about his slow, taxi-driving road to success, and why he is anything but a minimalist…The American composer Philip Glass, 80 this month, has been one of the dominant, boundary-crossing influences of the past half century. He first won a worldwide following in the 1970s with Koyaanisqatsi, Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha, and has collaborated with Allen Ginsberg, Robert Wilson, Doris Lessing, Martin Scorsese, Ravi Shankar, David Bowie, Paul Simon a
  
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• Loyle Carner: Yesterday’s Gone review – a startling debut

  22-01-2017 10:00
  
  (AMF)
  Croydon rapper Ben Loyle-Carner is candid and driven on a beguiling album that features a guest turn by his mum…Hip-hop has a sentimental streak a mile wide. Few rappers miss the chance to build up a bittersweet creation myth, establishing hard-knock lives as well as street cred. And there’s no shortage of rappers who love their mums. But newcomer Loyle Carner (Ben Coyle-Larner, to the Student Loans Company) takes these old tendencies to a startling new place.He not only loves
  
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• Trish Clowes: My Iris review – an awesome foursome

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Basho)Contemporary jazz nowadays rarely falls into familiar patterns, and getting the hang of something new is part of the fascination. Trish Clowes’s fourth album defines its own terms in a particularly listener-friendly way. There is, for instance, a piece dedicated to the early jazz drummer Baby Dodds that cleverly hints at the ancestral connection between jazz drumming and tap dancing. Another, In Between the Moss and Ivy, conjures the atmosphere of an English country garden. With jus
  
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• Mozart, Ligeti, Bach: Labyrinth CD review – delightful puzzles

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
  (Resonus)Mozart, Ligeti, Bach? A curious combination but one suggested to the impressive Dudok Quartet Amsterdam when considering musical labyrinths. Mozart uses rhythmic and dynamic ruses to confuse us in his String Quartet No 14 in G major and wrong-foots us completely with a double fugue, while Ligeti employs thickets of micropolyphony to obscure the way through his frightening String Quartet No 2, cogently played by these imaginative players. And the link with Bach? B
  
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• Hurray for the Riff Raff review – troubadours play their Trump card

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  Sebright Arms, London
  With their combative new sound, Alynda Segarra’s roots radicals are leading America’s fight against the rightGood music, like good literature, or film, can take you deep inside the experience of others in ways you might not have foreseen. So it is that, by the end of this tiny gig by Hurray for the Riff Raff, roughly 130 people crammed into an east London pub basement are probably ready to rise up and embrace all our Puerto Rican sisters and brothers in the Sout
  
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• Future Politics: Austra review – glossy sounds and soaring vocals

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Domino)There has always been something slightly otherworldly about Austra, the synthpop persona of Canada’s Katie Stelmanis. Her previous records conjured up vast, icy soundscapes shot through with desire, foreboding and occasional rays of tropical warmth. On her third album, Stelmanis reflects on the possibilities of the future through the lens of a troubled present – song titles include Utopia, Gaia and Beyond a Mortal – and the sound, accordingly, has become even more gloss
  
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• Foxygen: Hang review – an invigorating blast of perpetual motion

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Jagjaguwar)Psychologists suggest that continual encounters with novelty can make time go slower. Try it out on the third album from these stylistic magpies. It spans only half an hour – a fraction of the California duo’s last sprawling effort – but it’s near perpetual motion. Animated by a game 40-piece symphony orchestra, Hang filters the glam maximalism of the 70s – heavy on Bowie, Reed and Rundgren – through a digital attention span. A phenomenal range of
  
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• Archivo Pittoresco: Lula Pena review – a fluid, multilingual trance

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Crammed)Her two previous albums have found this Portugese singer counted among the new generation of fado vocalists, though Lula Pena has little in common with the theatricality of divas such as Mariza. Indeed, there are times here when her vocals retreat into a delirious mumble, while her repertoire ranges across Brazilian and Greek composers, medieval troubadours, Sardinian folk and Belgian surrealism. Small wonder her adopted theme tune is Come Wander With Me, from 1960s sci-fi series The Tw
  
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• Apocalipstick: Cherry Glazerr review – a lot to love

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Secretly Canadian)From a slight nod to the Breeders’ Cannonball to the way 19-year-old singing guitarist Clementine Creevy audibly bares her teeth on the word “guys”, Cherry Glazerr’s recent single Told You I’d Be With the Guys is a tremendous indie rock tune powerful enough to restore your faith in the genre. The NSFW video for their even more recent single, the grungy ballad Nuclear Bomb, finds Creevy getting rude with a Rickenbacker. There is a lot more to love
  
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• A Shadow in Time: William Basinski review – multilayered and hypnotic

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  (2062)Best known for his Disintegration Loops series of albums from the early 00s, New York-based avant-garde composer William Basinski sculpts samples, drones and feedback loops into soundscapes rich in melancholic atmosphere. The two tracks on his 23rd album include a eulogy to David Bowie, For David Robert Jones, that’s rather less literal than Lady Gaga’s Grammys tribute and all the more powerful for it. Its eerily distorted saxophone, a nod to Low, takes six minutes to surface,
  
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• LSO/Rattle; The Last Supper; Written on Skin; La traviata review – the sound of a golden age

  22-01-2017 08:30
  
  Barbican, London; City Halls, Glasgow; Royal Opera House, London
  Mark-Anthony Turnage led the way in a notable week for British composersAnnouncing plans for his first season as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, beginning in September, Simon Rattle reminded us that British composers now lead the world in variety and talent. In the current national mood, this simple statement gave cheer. News of a golden age may not surprise those of us whose job, and mostly delight, is to report
  
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• Haydn: String Quartets Opp 54 & 55 CD review – countless pleasures

  22-01-2017 08:25
  
  London Haydn Quartet
  (Hyperion)Haydn wrote the six quartets of Opp 54 and 55 in 1788, by now a celebrated composer across Europe and still opera Kapellmeister at Esterházy. These period instrument players, whose very name declares their affinity for Haydn, excel in the latest in their Hyperion series. Ever spry in fast movements, faultless in dexterity and intonation, they find a special warmth of feeling in the slower moments: the songful Adagio Cantabile of Op 55 No 1, the puz
  
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• Shostakovich: Piano Concertos 1 & 2; String Quartet No 8 CD review – an ingenious disc

  22-01-2017 08:20
  
  Boris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Petrenko
  (Naxos)Always under the shadow of a regime he had to support but privately feared, Shostakovich in Russia took refuge both in tortured private music and ironic public music. The two come together in this ingenious disc, which couples the two extrovert piano concertos with new transcriptions for solo piano of string quartets, including the whole of the Eighth Quartet. This introverted, depressive medita
  
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• How music affects the brain | Daniel Glaser

  22-01-2017 07:00
  
  Music and dance can help patients with restricted movement dance and those without speech to singLa La Land is tipped for Oscar success following its triumph at the Golden Globes. Some have wondered if its appeal is partly as an escapist response to these troubled times. Related: A neuroscientist explains: how music affects the brain - podcastContinue reading...
  
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• It’s time Britain embraced classical heritage, says Taboo composer

  22-01-2017 01:05
  
  Max Richter, a leading British composer whose work is used on stage and screen, says UK audiences don’t get the credit for having broad tastesThe renowned composer Max Richter, whose work includes major film and ballet scores, as well as TV themes such as BBC1’s hit drama Taboo, has urged Britain to take greater pride in its classical music heritage, from Henry Purcell to Harrison Birtwistle.“In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs,&rdqu
  
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