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• Arrest Madonna for 'blow up the White House' remark, says Newt Gingrich

  23-01-2017 20:24
  
  Republican says pop star is part of ‘an emerging leftwing fascism’ after her comments at Women’s MarchThe former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich has said Madonna “ought to be arrested” for telling the crowd at the Women’s March on Washington that she had “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House”.
  The singer said on Sunday that she had been speaking metaphorically. “I am not a violent person,” she wrote on Instagram.
  
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• A music venue that reflects our diversity

  23-01-2017 20:23
  
  While the desire expressed by Sir Simon Rattle and others for a new concert hall is understandable (Report, 18 January), I wonder if it is really relevant to the UK as it stands. The population is multiracial, practising and supporting a wide variety of different kinds of music, not just the western orchestral, chamber music and recital repertory. This would apply not only across arts spectrum but in scientific research. What we need are new centres that can house diverse kinds of musi
  
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• Aidan O’Rourke, Alasdair Roberts, Alex Neilson and Stephanie Hladowski review – compelling combination

  23-01-2017 18:50
  
  Platform, Glasgow
  A wide-ranging Celtic Connections set of Scots tragedies, Irish ballads and macabre ditties is imbued with plenty of good Glaswegian spiritSuch an esteemed gathering of the clans as Lau fiddler Aidan O’Rourke, Scottish folk singer-guitarist Alasdair Roberts, Trembling Bells drummer Alex Neilson and Bradford-based folk singer Stephanie Hladowski can scarcely fail to prove a compelling combination. Such an esteemed gathering of the clans as Lau fiddler Aidan O’Rourke
  
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• The Osmonds: how we made Crazy Horses

  23-01-2017 17:28
  
  ‘When the army caught Saddam Hussein, they found this in his record collection’Being in the Osmonds was like being in a war zone after 1972. Fans ruined limousines by jumping on top of them and smashed windows as we tried to leave places. When we played arenas, we couldn’t hear anything because of the screaming. We tried earmuffs, but they didn’t work.Continue reading...
  
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• Can's Jaki Liebezeit: the man who marched to the beat of his own drum

  23-01-2017 17:10
  
  The late drummer of krautrock band Can influenced the likes of Roxy Music and Talking Heads by restructuring rock’s basic rhythm and drumming like a machineAlong with Klaus Dinger, a founder member of Neu! and inaugurator of the “motorik” beat, Can’s Jaki Liebezeit was responsible for restructuring rock’s basic rhythm, influencing countless bands including early Roxy Music, Talking Heads and Joy Division. He devised a more continuous, open-ended alternative to the A
  
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• AMA LOU Shares Video For ‘Not Always’

  23-01-2017 16:47
  
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• Lyves Shares Her Debut EP ‘Like Water’

  23-01-2017 16:43
  
  Check out Lyves debut EP here
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Styles Out Awkward Coleen Nolan Blunder While Defending Chloe Ferry

  23-01-2017 16:40
  
  Char was just trying to defend her BFF!
  
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• BBCNOW/Søndergård review – the orchestra played out of their skins

  23-01-2017 16:39
  
  St David’s Hall, Cardiff
  Mahler’s extremes of shrill, manic violence and tender pastoral idyll spoke directly of the world’s predicament and made for a shattering experienceTragic and catastrophic are the words most often used to describe Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Yet, in this performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and in the context of the US presidential inauguration just hours earlier, the work carried a newly cataclysmic resonance and foreboding that made
  
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• 13 Mega Fights The Geordie Shore Cast Had With Each Other That Blew Our Minds

  23-01-2017 16:35
  
  The beef heard across the Toon...
  
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• Marnie Simpson Is Having Non-Invasive Liposuction In Preparation For 'A Bikini Body'

  23-01-2017 16:33
  
  Marnie Simpson having non-invasive liposuction on her body
  
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• LSO/Rattle review – eloquently expressive Turnage and mighty Mahler

  23-01-2017 16:13
  
  Barbican, London
  Under Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s reflective Remembering was in no way discountenanced by being followed by Mahler’s mighty sixth symphonyThere are several memorial pieces in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s output. His new work for the LSO and its chief conductor designate Simon Rattle was written in memory of Evan Scofield, son of jazz guitarist and regular Turnage collaborator John Scofield, who died four years ago in his mid
  
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• Chloe Martini Debuts New Chiara Hunter Assisted Banger ‘Change of Heart’

  23-01-2017 16:04
  
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• Kojey Radical Makes Colors Berlin Debut

  23-01-2017 15:59
  
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• NEW GEN Announce Live Album Show With BRITs & WarChild

  23-01-2017 15:48
  
  Great announcement for NEW GEN!
  
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• xXx: Return Of Xander Cage MOST INSANE STUNTS Behind The Scenes With Vin Diesel

  23-01-2017 15:40
  
  Vin Diesel, Ruby Rose, Nina Dobrev and Michael Bisping reveal what really went into the movie’s CRAZY stunts.
  
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• Prodigy Release 'The One and Only' Visuals

  23-01-2017 15:33
  
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• Mott the Hoople bassist Peter Overend Watts dies, aged 69

  23-01-2017 15:24
  
  The musician was the prime mover behind the glam-era band’s distinctive imageMott the Hoople bassist Peter Overend Watts has died at the age of 69. He had been suffering from throat cancer.His Mott bandmate, Ian Hunter – the group’s singer – tweeted: “Oh dear. My extremely eccentric, lovely mate – Peter Overend Watts – has left the building. Devastated.” Continue reading...
  
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• Black Sabbath review – Ozzy Osbourne in imperious form

  23-01-2017 14:47
  
  Manchester Arena
  After five decades of headbanging, Sabbath remain uncannily connected to the dark heart of their songs of doom and deathUnless Black Sabbath follow the example of Meat Loaf and Jay Z and perform a “farewell tour” and forget to say farewell, then this really is – as the tour title has it – The End for them, at least as a touring unit. However, there are no grand goodbyes or misty-eyed nostalgia, just three legendary metal musicians (with Tommy Clufetos rep
  
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• The Isle Of Arran

  23-01-2017 14:46 via mtv.co.uk
  
  The Isle Of Arran
  
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• Sprint to buy a third of Jay Z's music streaming service Tidal

  23-01-2017 14:44
  (Reuters) - U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Corp said on Monday it would buy 33 percent of Tidal, a music streaming service owned by rapper Jay Z. The deal would make exclusive content from Tidal available to 45 million retail Sprint customers, marking the company's move to more content driven services in a highly competitive wireless market. Apple Inc was in talks to buy Tidal to boost its Apple Music service, according to a Wall Street Journal report in June. Sprint Chief Executive Marcelo Claure
  
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• Charlie Puth Tells Us His Embarrassing Harry Styles Story

  23-01-2017 13:58
  
  #FanBoy
  
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• Here's The Low-Down On The Women's Marches

  23-01-2017 13:54
  
  We were among the many who marched.
  
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• Ye Ali Shares Visuals For 'Oceans'

  23-01-2017 13:22
  
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• Revealing Photos Show The Real Differences In New Zelda Game

  23-01-2017 13:22
  
  Here's how different The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild looks on the Wii U compared to Nintendo Switch!
  
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• Little Mix, Stormzy And Kings Of Leon To Play Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2017

  23-01-2017 12:59
  
  This year's festival will be taking place in Hull!
  
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• Watch Teenage Ed Sheeran In His Ultra Nostalgic 'Castle On The Hill' Music Video

  23-01-2017 12:34
  
  We feel like we grew up in Framlingham too...
  
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• The Snow Maiden review – a little satire in a surfeit of whimsy

  23-01-2017 12:33
  
  Grand theatre, Leeds
  Despite its contemporary Leeds setting, Opera North’s production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera does not get to the roots of its Russian fairytale originsIt wouldn’t be Christmas – or more particularly new year – in Russia without The Snow Maiden. Yet Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s fairytale opera has never quite captured the imagination elsewhere: Opera North’s new production claims to be the first fully professional staging in the UK for 60
  
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• Music video actor Ofner shot dead while filming in Australia

  23-01-2017 12:33
  An actor has been shot dead in a bar in Brisbane while shooting a music video for Australian hip hop duo Bliss n Eso. Johann Ofner was shot in the chest in what has been described by Queensland Police as a "workplace incident". Authorities are investigating the incident at Brooklyn Standard bar in the city centre around 2.00pm local time (3.00am GMT).
  
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• Waist Time

  23-01-2017 12:10 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Waist Time
  
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• The Geordie Shore Cast Hit Back At Jodie Marsh After Her Harsh Comments Over Chloe Ferry's Celebrity Big Brother Eviction

  23-01-2017 12:01
  
  They weren't the smartest targets were they?
  
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• 13 Celebrities Who Threw Their Support Behind The Women's March

  23-01-2017 11:57
  
  The celebs who marched for equality
  
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• Camila Cabello’s New Life Motto Is Simply Beyond Inspirational

  23-01-2017 11:50
  
  We're on her level.
  
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• Rap Rundown: The Future

  23-01-2017 11:41
  
  In this week's Rap Rundown we've got performances from Dave and Nadia Rose at the BBC Radio 1 Future Festival, a few words on the New Gen album after the listening party preview and a freestyle from Ghetts' celebrating ten years since the release of ‘Ghetto Gospel’.
  
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• New band of the week: Øslø Pårks (No 136) - synth music with soul

  23-01-2017 11:32
  
  Brighton duo channelling Bowie-era Berlin and 80s downer electronica for their maudlin, reverb-heavy discoHometown: Brighton.The lineup: Rob Flynn (vocals, production) and Ian Booth (bass), with help live from Chris “Chip” Phillips (guitar/keys/percussion), Alex Baron (ditto) and Thom Pettit (drums).Continue reading...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Has ‘Persuaded Kanye West To Appear On New Keeping Up With The Kardashians’

  23-01-2017 11:27
  
  PHEW.
  
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• The Killers Are Headlining BST Hyde Park 2017!

  23-01-2017 11:17
  
  Find out more on the support acts and ticket details HERE.
  
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• Fidelio review – Jurowski and the LPO look to Beethoven for enlightenment

  23-01-2017 11:01
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  With its dialogue replaced by rambling psychobabble, Daniel Slater’s semi-staging of Fidelio was frequently peculiar. Luckily, the music - under Vladimir Jurowski - was in safer handsConducted by Vladimir Jurowski and directed by Daniel Slater, the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert-staging of Fidelio marked the start of Belief and Beyond Belief, the Southbank Centre’s ambitious, year-long examination of the role played by the spiritual –
  
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• Watch Out. If RAYE Spies You On The Tube, You May End Up In A Song...

  23-01-2017 10:30
  
  The 'You Don't Know Me' singer and Brand New For 2017 nominee tells us where she finds songwriting inspo...
  
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• Actor shot dead while filming hip hop music video in Australia

  23-01-2017 10:20
  An actor has been shot dead in a bar in Brisbane while shooting a music video for Australian hip hop duo Bliss n Eso. The man in his 20s was shot in the chest in what has been described by Queensland Police as a "workplace incident". Authorities are investigating the incident at Brooklyn Standard bar in the city centre around 2.00pm local time (3.00am GMT).
  
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• Harry Styles Shares Support For Women’s Marches As He Jets Into LAX Wearing Incredible Cardigan

  23-01-2017 10:12
  
  So much HS news, so little time.
  
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• The Killers to headline Hyde Park in London in July

  23-01-2017 10:00
  
  Las Vegas band are the final headliners for the British Summer Time festival series of megagigs in the parkThe Killers have been announced as the sixth and final headliner for this year’s unwieldily named Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park festival in London.The Las Vegas quartet headline the event on Saturday 8 July, in their only UK festival appearance of the summer. It is four years since their last album, Battle Born, and given they entered the studio last year, it seem
  
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• Actor killed while filming music video in Australia

  23-01-2017 09:49
  
  The band were not believed to have been on set at the time.
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Chloe Ferry Enjoys Radge Reunion With BFFs Marnie Simpson And Nathan Henry

  23-01-2017 09:37
  
  These three
  
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• Actor killed while filming scene for Australian music video

  23-01-2017 07:44
  SYDNEY (AP) — An actor was killed while filming a scene for an Australian band's music video on Monday, police said.
  
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• Brian Eno: ‘We’ve been in decline for 40 years – Trump is a chance to rethink'

  23-01-2017 07:30
  
  The revered producer has been at the centre of pop since the days of Roxy Music. But don’t ask him about the past – he’s more interested in how to reorder societyBrian Eno’s new album is called Reflection, and what better time to reflect on an astonishing career? Or careers. There’s the first incarnation of Eno as the leopardskin-shirted synth-twiddler who overshadowed the more obviously mannered Bryan Ferry in Roxy Music. With his shoulder-length hair and androgyno
  
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• Jaki Liebezeit, drummer of seminal krautrock band Can, dies at 78

  23-01-2017 02:31
  
  German avant garde rock group announces on Facebook page that drummer died from pneumoniaJaki Liebezeit, drummer and founding member of the seminal krautrock band Can, has died from pneumonia at the age of 78.The band – which was formed in West Germany in 1968 and is widely regarded as one of the most influential avant garde rock groups of all time – confirmed his death in a post to its official Facebook page late on Tuesday GMT. Continue reading...
  
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• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band review – there’s no stopping the juggernaut

  23-01-2017 00:22
  
  Perth Arena
  ‘We are the new American resistance,’ the Boss declares as he kicks off his Australian tour with an epic, inspiring show• Bruce Springsteen: ‘This is the only thing I’m qualified to do. It matters how I do it’On page 209 of his autobiography, Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen describes the effect of growing up as a child of Vietnam-era America, and of the Kennedy, King and Malcolm X assassinations. “Dread – the sense that things might not w
  
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