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• Lin-Manuel Miranda, Justin Timberlake and Sting get Oscar music nods

  24-01-2017 19:49
  
  Lin-Manuel has won an Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award already.
  
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• Jaki Liebezeit obituary

  24-01-2017 19:16
  
  Drummer and co-founder of the pioneering German krautrock band CanThe German groups of the late 1960s and 70s deliberately set out to create a form of music that owed nothing to Anglo-American rock’n’roll, and also wanted to make a decisive break from a past overshadowed by the second world war. As the drummer Jaki Liebezeit, who has died aged 78, said in the BBC Four documentary Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (2009): “The war was definitely finished. The old way of thinking
  
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• Music Review: Dead Man Winter delivers rare gem over breakup

  24-01-2017 19:08
  
  Dead Man Winter, "Furnace" (GNDWIRE/Thirty Tigers)
  
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• SZA Reveals Release Date For Debut Album 'CTRL'

  24-01-2017 18:49
  
  TDE signee SZA has recently announce a date for her highly anticipated debut album 'CTRL'.
  
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• WSTRN Rework Yxng Bane & Kojo Funds' 'Fine Wine' With New Remix

  24-01-2017 18:38
  
  Yxng Bane has been one to watch for a while now, and this time round he's treating listeners with a remix for the 2016 summer smash 'Fine Wine' featuring Kojo Funds.
  
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• Here’s A Handy Round Up Of Today’s Deluge Of Festival Announcements

  24-01-2017 18:32
  
  Learn up, people.
  
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• Theodore Returns With ‘People I Love’

  24-01-2017 18:29
  
  Following the online success of previous release ‘Hold On’, Theodore returns with his latest visual for new single ‘People I Love’.
  
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• Introducing Joy Crookes' Timeless ‘Sinatra’

  24-01-2017 18:16
  
  With new artists surfacing left, right and centre; new voices are faced with the challenge of standing out amongst the crowd and really letting their audience know they have arrived. Meet Joy Crookes… the South London songstress making some serious noise.
  
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• The Gross Things You Didn’t Realise Were Happening to Your Skin When You Sleep in Your Makeup

  24-01-2017 17:47
  
  Ewwww.
  
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• White Lies On Getting Stranded In Russia With Gun-Toting Men

  24-01-2017 16:46
  
  Thank you to the band's drummer, Jack Lawrence-Brown, for putting up with our silly questions.
  
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• From DJ Screw to Moonlight: the unlikely comeback of chopped and screwed

  24-01-2017 16:38
  
  The 90s hip-hop technique has found itself more popular than ever thanks to Drake, The Weeknd and the soundtrack of the Oscar-nominated movieChopping and screwing, a DJing technique invented by Houston pioneer DJ Screw in the early 90s that pitches compositions down, is about feeling. Remixing a song in this way changes its texture; it makes the tones richer but also deeper and darker. In a 1995 interview with RapPages, Screw explained the technique: “The Screw sound is when I mix tapes wi
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda, Timberlake, Sting get Oscar music nods

  24-01-2017 16:35
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lin-Manuel Miranda is getting closer to EGOT status, thanks to his Oscar nomination for best original song.
  
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• Joey Essex Reveals Odd Sock Habit On The Chris Ramsey Show

  24-01-2017 16:02
  
  But is it actually a fact?!
  
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• 16 Of The Craziest Celebrity Stalkers That Will Give You The Major Creeps

  24-01-2017 16:02
  
  Srsly, goosebumps.
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Talks Painful Bum Abscess: "It Looks Like It's Been Stabbed!"

  24-01-2017 14:07
  
  Sophie Kasaei shares that she has an abscess on her arse
  
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• Ex On The Beach Spoiler Video: Alex Leslie Loses His Sh*t And Flips A Table At Joshua Ritchie

  24-01-2017 13:45
  
  Don't miss brand new Ex On The Beach, TONIGHT at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Bella Thorne Gets Naked On Twitter As She Announces Kendall Jenner Inspired Nipple Piercing

  24-01-2017 13:28
  
  Someone's been busy.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Snapchatted A Smoking Hot Naked Selfie And We’re In Awe

  24-01-2017 13:16
  
  Charlotte Crosby in all her naked glory!
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Explains Chloe Ferry's CBB Behaviour: "She's Insecure And Vulnerable"

  24-01-2017 12:51
  
  Sophie Kasaei explains Chloe Ferry's CBB behaviour
  
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• Ewan McGregor Slams Piers Morgan Over Anti-Feminist Tweet: 10 Other Mega Celeb Twitter Feuds Piers Has Started

  24-01-2017 12:17
  
  From Kim Kardashian to Harry Styles, you see him trollin'...
  
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• Oscars 2017: Full Nominations Revealed

  24-01-2017 11:54
  
  See the full list of who's in the running for the Academy Awards 2017!
  
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• Lea Michele Shares Heartbreaking Snap With Late Boyfriend Cory Monteith

  24-01-2017 11:48
  
  It just doesn't get any easier.
  
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• Lego Worlds Is Going To Make You Want A Nintendo Switch

  24-01-2017 11:35
  
  Lego + Minecraft = SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.
  
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• Bella Hadid Unleashes Her Nipples on The World In Totally See-Through Dress

  24-01-2017 11:35
  
  Bella Hadid flashes her nipples on the world at Dior event.
  
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• Kylie Jenner Had To Cut All Of Her Off Because It Was So Damaged

  24-01-2017 11:27
  
  One too many dye jobs.
  
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• She Moved Through the Fair / Leveret reviews – a touching tribute and classy and convivial folk

  24-01-2017 10:58
  
  Tron theatre / National Piping Centre, Glasgow
  The story of fearless balladeer Margaret Barry is told on stage in a gentle and poignant tribute, and Leveret bring the finest of traditional folk todayBorn 100 years ago, Margaret Barry knew how to entertain a crowd. She had to: she left home at 16 with a bicycle and a banjo and sang her way to the Albert Hall via Cork street corners and the Irish pubs of north London. She was fearless, toothless (literally), a tiny balladeer with a colossal voice
  
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• Liam Payne ‘Narrowly Avoids Nightclub Shooting’ After Gunman Opens Fire Outside Hollywood Venue

  24-01-2017 10:26
  
  Liam is safe and sound, phew!
  
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• The Blair Witch IRL: MTV Goes Potholing

  24-01-2017 10:02
  
  MTV ventures off into deepest, darkest Derbyshire for an adventure in horror-inspired potholing...
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Marnie Simpson Jokes That Scotty T ‘Might Be The Dad’ Of Stephanie Davis’ Baby

  24-01-2017 09:38
  
  Um, what?!
  
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• Pills, thrill and maracas … Bez and the great dancing mascots of pop explain their craft

  24-01-2017 09:00
  
  When Bez started bouncing around with Happy Mondays, no one could believe their eyes. But is there more to it than popping pills and shaking a tambourine? Three legendary dancers reveal all
  ‘Not in my wildest dreams did I think it would ever become a job,” says Mark Berry, the policeman’s son from Bolton who’s better known simply as Bez. “I’m forever grateful for it happening. Although it did take me years to own up to being a dancer.”But a dancer he is,
  
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• Wiley: the enigmatic Godfather of Grime

  24-01-2017 07:00
  
  After more than a decade of being fetishised and then written off, grime now dominates British pop culture. To understand why, you need to understand the man who created itWiley, perhaps the most influential musician working in Britain today, has a habit of self-sabotage. In 2010, a few weeks before the release of his new album, he fell out with his record label and decided to upload more than 200 songs from the recording sessions: finished singles, experimental demos, even unreleased work by ot
  
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• Roll over Beethoven: Desert Island Discs stars pick pop over classical

  24-01-2017 01:01
  
  Varying background of modern castaways means Radio 4 show features more diverse range of cultures and musical choicesGuests of the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs are abandoning classical music selections in favour of pop music and power ballads, according to a survey to mark the show’s 75th anniversary. The Radio 4 programme, devised by broadcaster Roy Plomley during the second world war, features celebrity guests discussing their lives and choosing eight pieces of music, as well
  
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• Star Wars Episode VIII Reveals Its Official Title

  24-01-2017 00:51
  
  **Hype intensifies**
  
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