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• Asa Butterfield Reveals What It Was Like To Make Out With Britt Robertson For 'The Space Between Us'

  23-02-2017 23:32
  
  Asa Butterfield reveals what it was *really* like filming the most romantic scenes in his new sci-fi love story!
  
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• Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now review – a fun, debauched, ear-perforating din

  23-02-2017 23:00
  
  (Sub Pop)If these berserk times demand similar music, then Pissed Jeans are the go-to combo. Co-produced by Lydia Lunch, the Pennsylvania quartet’s fifth album both captures and rages against the lunacy of modern life, pouring derision on everything from fetish webcams and office sexism to the increasing predominance of what singer Matt Korvette calls “shitheads”. Their vehicle for this is a right old racket, as they rampage from sludgy post-hardcore to a kind of debauched grun
  
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• Peter Silberman: Impermanence review – intimate and intense

  23-02-2017 22:45
  
  (Transgressive) The arrangements of the songs on Impermanence, Brooklyn singer Peter Silberman’s first solo album, are so minimal and sparse that they make his exquisite recordings with his group the Antlers seem positively rococo. On intimate tracks such as Maya and Karuna, Silberman’s croon is accompanied by nothing more than the occasional strum of a guitar. His multi-octave voice is as intense as Jeff Buckley’s or Anohni’s, but it’s vulnerable without being prec
  
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• Thundercat: Drunk review – a lopsided wonderland of stoned soul

  23-02-2017 22:30
  
  (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)Now that sun-squelched jazz is having a mainstream moment – thanks in part to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly – Flying Lotus’s cosmic sidekick sets out his stall in vivid high-definition. Thundercat’s 23-track third album, Drunk, takes you down a rabbit hole and turfs you out in his lopsided wonderland of funk, soul, hip-hop and soft rock, with guest characters including Lamar, Pharrell, saxophonist Kamasi Washington and Wiz Khalifa. It&
  
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• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: The Tourist review – teetering on the edge of hysteria

  23-02-2017 22:15
  
  (Wichita)2017 is the year of renewal for former Pitchfork deities: Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and now Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, whose 2005 debut caused major palpitations in the world of noughties blog rock. Last remaining member Alec Ounsworth’s fifth album begins with a promise of recalibration: The Pilot and A Chance to Cure are lusciously produced, but that spaciousness quickly resolves into knotty, ambling anthems of frustration. His voice is a caw which teeters on the edge
  
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• Beyoncé drops out of Coachella on doctor's orders

  23-02-2017 22:12
  
  Singer will not perform in 2017 but is set to headline in 2018 after her medical team advised her to ‘keep a less rigorous schedule’ due to her pregnancyBeyoncé will not join Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar as one of the headliners at the Coachella music festival this April, after she was advised to pull out of the gig by her medical team.The singer was set to headline the Saturday night show of the 18th annual festival, which takes place over two weeks at the Empire Polo Club in
  
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• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Flying Microtonal Banana review – not as wacky as they sound

  23-02-2017 22:00
  
  (Heavenly)The first of five albums the Melbourne outfit are set to release in 2017 (frontman Stu Mackenzie is “no good at chilling”), Flying Microtonal Banana contains nine tracks of chugging psychedelic garage interspersed with classic riffage, including the kind of 60s melodies that sound almost Tudor. King Gizzard have always been prolific – they’ve averaged two albums a year since their 2010 inception – but that’s not to say their dense and complex work is
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about the music industry

  23-02-2017 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 28 February This week we’re looking for songs that reference anything to do with the record industry: think labels, the experience of touring, gigs, corporates, the charts, all those things that help – and hinder – music getting from the artist’s brain to the audience’s ear.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 28 February to post your
  
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• Jan Lundgren: Potsdamer Platz review – a pianist with the most polished of touches

  23-02-2017 20:00
  
  (ACT)That the Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren has often accompanied mainstream leaders such as the US saxophonists Harry Allen and Scott Hamilton is no accident – Lundgren’s intuitions about when to do more with less make him an ideal accompanist, he has the most polished of keyboard touches, and a songwriter’s ear for melodies that sound simultaneously conventional and new. Potsdamer Platz – one in an ongoing stream of releases from Munich’s classy ACT label on its 25
  
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• Méhul: Uthal CD review – crisp and classy French comic opera

  23-02-2017 19:45
  
  Deshayes/Beuron/Bou/Les Talens Lyriques/Choeur de Chambre de Namur/Rousset
  (Palazzetto Bru Zane/Ediciones Singulares)Palazzetto Bru Zane’s exhumation of 19th-century operas continues with Uthal by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul, a leading composer in post-Revolution France getting renewed attention on the 200th anniversary of his death. Composed in 1806 for Paris’s Opéra Comique, it’s only an hour long, and a quarter of that is dialogue, delivered here in suitably m
  
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• Lee Konitz: Frescalalto review – fascinating improv from a cool school graduate

  23-02-2017 19:45
  
  (Impulse!)Not many jazz improvisers manage to remain inquisitive, unpredictable, uncategorisable and entertaining throughout a six-decade career, but the 89-year-old Chicagoan alto saxophonist Lee Konitz is a momentous exception. Konitz’s sound was honed in the 1950s cool school, and his sax became the tap from which poured streams of fresh melody on any theme or harmony, or on none. That said, this straight-ahead set is predominantly a vehicle for the fine pianist Kenny Barron’s tri
  
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• Notos Quartett: Hungarian Treasures CD review – fiery performance of lost early Bartók

  23-02-2017 19:30
  
  Notos Quartett
  (Sony/RCA)Play the last four tracks to your music-nerd friends and ask them to name the composer. They’ll never get it. This all-Hungarian disc by the Berlin-based Notos Quartett ends with the 1898 Piano Quartet by Bartók – but a 17-year-old Bartók, sounding more Brahmsian than Brahms himself. The work was lost, and while it’s unclear whether this really is the first ever recording, it’s certainly the only one generally available. The Notos pl
  
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• John Warren/John Surman: The Traveller’s Tale review – memorable melodies

  23-02-2017 19:30
  
  (Fledg’ling) During their long and fruitful partnership, Canadian-born composer John Warren and UK saxophone original John Surman have never surpassed their magnificent 1971 big band venture Tales of the Algonquin – but this previously unreleased 1993 suite, inspired by the composer’s roving ancestors, is now a striking rival. All Warren’s virtues – enrichment of simple motifs worthy of Gil Evans or Kenny Wheeler; shrewd swaps of floating moods and swing; inspired i
  
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• You Can Download These Xbox Games For Free This Month

  23-02-2017 18:32
  
  Xbox’s Games with Gold lets you download these for nothing...
  
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• Geordie Shore's Chloe Ferry Finally Reveals Her True Feelings For Scotty T And Marty McKenna - EXCLUSIVE

  23-02-2017 18:10
  
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore: New Radgie Rampage, starting Tuesday 28th March at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Aaron Chalmers Reveals What Fans Can Expect From His Relationship With Marnie Simpson In Series 14 - EXCLUSIVE

  23-02-2017 18:10
  
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore: New Radgie Rampage, starting Tuesday 28th March at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• 17 Celeb Pairs That Keep Us Guessing Whether They Are Together Or Not

  23-02-2017 17:47
  
  TELL US DAMMIT
  
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• Spoon frontman Britt Daniel: ‘I wanted to be a musician, not a rockstar’

  23-02-2017 17:30
  
  The Austin act may not be famed for their wild exploits – but they’re one of the finest bands of their generation. They explain how a love of new wave and the Young Ones gave them a pop-culture education
  The first group Britt Daniel loved was the Bee Gees. He was seven or so, and was allowed to use his dad’s record player for the first time. His dad – a doctor, the most gainful employment in Temple, Texas, where the hospitals were the biggest business – had bought a
  
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• Premiere | Sam Feldt & Hook N Sling Team Up For 'Open Your Eyes' - Listen

  23-02-2017 17:30
  
  Get a listen of their summer-ready tune first with MTV...
  
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• Who Wore What For The BRIT Awards 2017 After Parties

  23-02-2017 16:50
  
  Niall Horan, Brooklyn Beckham, Niomi Smart and more.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Declares She's "Single" And Explains Her Relationship With Stephen Bear

  23-02-2017 16:23
  
  Charlotte Crosby reveals she's single despite Stephen Bear relationship rumours.
  
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• LPO/Jurowski review – looking death in the face with unflinching intensity

  23-02-2017 16:20
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Patricia Kopatchinskaja brought tenderness to the heartbreak of Berg’s violin concerto, and the London Philharmonic were outstanding in Shostakovich’s 15thEven in the week of radio presenter Steve Hewlett’s very public passing, death is still often the last taboo. Vladimir Jurowski’s latest themed concert with the London Philharmonic looked the grim reaper straight in the eye from start to finish. It consisted of three works, all written in dea
  
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• Stormzy: Gang Signs and Prayer review – teeming with original ideas

  23-02-2017 16:00
  
  The south London MC arrived on the grime scene fully formed and at just the right time – but it’s his lyrical gifts that have made him a starThe second track of his debut album finds Stormzy reflecting on his rise to fame. “I just went to the park with my friends, and I charted,” he says of the video for Shut Up, which went from YouTube sensation to gold-selling Top 10 hit, transforming him from a hotly tipped grime MC into a mainstream star. It was obviously a bit more c
  
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• What Loofahs Are Made From Will Blow Your God Damn Mind

  23-02-2017 15:47
  
  Well, it might do.
  
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• Reggae DJ David Rodigan: ‘My name was adopted by a Kingston gangster. He’s dead now’

  23-02-2017 15:29
  
  He may look like ‘a bank manager’, but after 40 years immersed in the genre, the DJ is respected from Jamaican dance halls to London superclubs. As he releases his memoirs, he recalls his criminal namesake and reggae’s rebel rootsDavid Rodigan is explaining the rules of a reggae soundclash to me. He is doing it with breathless enthusiasm, but it is still taking quite a long time because, as it turns out, the rules of a reggae soundclash are a thing of byzantine complexity. I&rs
  
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• Uncovering the forgotten punks of San Francisco – in pictures

  23-02-2017 15:00
  
  Photographer Jim Jocoy’s Order of Appearance is the latest book to shed light on the punk scene in San Francisco which produced bands like the Dead KennedysBay of punks: remembering when punk rock invaded San Francisco
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• Bay of punks: remembering when punk rock invaded San Francisco

  23-02-2017 15:00
  
  The scene in the Bay Area was never chronicled in the same way as New York or Los Angeles. Now a new crop of photography books and projects are bringing San Franciscan punk into focusUncovering the forgotten punks of San Francisco – in pictures
  In early 1979, photographer Jim Jocoy attended an auction at the Peoples Temple in San Francisco. More than 900 of its worshipers had died in a mass suicide-murder which came to be known as the Jonestown massacre, led to their deaths by activist-tur
  
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• Win VIP Tickets To Parklife 2017 With The Chance To Watch A Headliner Side Of Stage!

  23-02-2017 14:42
  
  Find out how you can win this incredible prize here...
  
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• BBCSO/Koenigs review – Rihm's piano concerto keeps you guessing

  23-02-2017 13:43
  
  Barbican, LondonRihm’s second piano concerto was negotiated in style by Lothar Koenigs and soloist Nicolas Hodges, while an account of Bruckner’s Seventh was magnificently convincingWolfgang Rihm has written a number of works for piano and orchestra – until recently, though, none of them had been called a concerto. But the work that was first performed at the Salzburg festival in 2014 and which the BBC Symphony Orchestra introduced to the UK, with Nicolas Hodges as the soloist
  
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• These Two Models Saved Six Teens After Seeing Them Fall Through Ice

  23-02-2017 13:24
  
  They just happened to be in Central Park at the time.
  
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• Chaucer, the opera: how to make Middle English sing

  23-02-2017 13:15
  
  Immersing himself in Chaucer’s world to write the libretto for the Tale of Januarie, Stephen Plaice found plenty of inspiration in its vivacity and unabashed bawdiness, and a writer who still has plenty to teach us todayI spent the summer before last in 14th-century Lombardy. I went to the local spice market and watched the women hawking poudre-marchant tart, galingale and blankmanger.I was invited to a wedding where I drank pyment, meeth and spiced ale, and ate wafres, pipying hoot out of
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about recovery

  23-02-2017 13:00
  
  Things are looking up as our reader scours your suggestions and selects a restorative playlist including Yazz, PJ Harvey and Judy Garland
  Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from your suggestions after last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly Readers recommend series works at the end of the piece.Recovery is a tricky subject to pin down as people’s ideas of what it means are so personal. A lot of you mentioned struggl
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Gaz Beadle Is Ready To Help The Lads Neck On After Making It Official With Girlfriend Emma McVey

  23-02-2017 13:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore, starting Tuesday 28th March at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• The Geordie Shore Gang and Other Celebs Rally Behind Marnie Simpson After Lewis Bloor Cheating Shock

  23-02-2017 12:55
  
  Aaron Chalmers has gone IN...
  
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• Kylie Jenner Adds A Metallic 'Kylighter' Range To Her Cosmetics Empire

  23-02-2017 12:41
  
  Kylie Jenner launched kylighters
  
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• 8 Things We Learned About Travelling From E4's Gap Year

  23-02-2017 12:16
  
  PACK. IMODIUM.
  
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• Tango, dance and shred guitars: five best takes on Vivaldi's Four Seasons

  23-02-2017 12:04
  
  Jazz pianist Bruno Heinen has collaborated with Camerata Alma Viva for a new take on one of the most instantly recognisable classical works of all time. He picks his five favourite versions of Vivaldi’s famous compositionAs a composer who also attempts to bridge the gap between musical genres, Richter’s minimalist recomposition of the seasons speaks to me in volumes. Although Richter is quoted as saying he discarded 75% of Vivaldi’s original material, the soul of the original i
  
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• Ex On The Beach Spoiler Video: ZaraLena Jackson Quits The Show After Being Stuck In Aaron Chalmers And Becca Edwards' Love Dramz

  23-02-2017 12:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Ex On The Beach, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Aaron Chalmers Rips Into Marnie Simpson’s Cheating Boyfriend Lewis Bloor: She’s Far Too Good For Him

  23-02-2017 12:00
  
  He's not holding back.
  
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• Ed Sheeran Has Just Revealed Actual Information About Harry Styles’ New Music

  23-02-2017 11:39
  
  Nobody panic. Okay we're panicking.
  
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• Watch The BRIT Awards 2017 Performances In Full!

  23-02-2017 11:38
  
  Re-live the performances from the BRITs 2017 featuring Little Mix, The 1975, Emeli Sandé, Bruno Mars and more..
  
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• How Would You Feel (Paean) (Live)

  23-02-2017 11:37 via mtv.co.uk
  
  How Would You Feel (Paean)
  
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• Black Rain

  23-02-2017 11:37 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Black Rain
  
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• Grace Slick takes fast food company's money to fund causes it opposes

  23-02-2017 11:36
  
  Singer let Chick-fil-A use Starship’s hit Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now so she could give the proceeds to civil rights organisation supporting LGBTQ peopleFormer Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship singer Grace Slick has revealed that she allowed a fast food chain to use her music in an advertisement, specifically so she could use her payment to fund causes to which the chain’s management is opposed.Writing in Forbes, Slick said her first reaction when asked if Chick-f
  
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• Get To Know: Declan McKenna

  23-02-2017 11:32
  
  This week's featured artist is young, up and coming artist Declan McKenna...
  
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• Gemma Styles: Why Fashion Week Should Remind You To Be Yourself

  23-02-2017 11:31
  
  "My aim for the future is to only buy clothes that I look at and love."
  
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• Pregnant Cheryl Shows Off Her Baby Bump In New Campaign For L'Oreal And The Prince's Trust

  23-02-2017 11:23
  
  She's definitely got a bun in that oven.
  
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• One Direction ALL Pay Tribute To The Fans After Taking Home A BRIT Award

  23-02-2017 11:13
  
  One Direction tweet their thanks for BRIT Awards
  
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• Jesy Nelson Continues To Fuel Chris Clark Romance Rumours At Brit Awards As Perrie Edwards Enjoys PDA With Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

  23-02-2017 10:52
  
  It was a romance fuelled evening.
  
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• Lewis Bloor Insists He ‘Still Loves’ Marnie Simpson After Cheating On Her As Aaron Chalmers Sticks Up For His Ex

  23-02-2017 09:37
  
  Marnie's back-up has arrived.
  
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