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• Ben Lee: why a Jewish-raised Hindu musician is singing songs about Islam for kids

  08-03-2017 20:29
  
  The singer and spiritual seeker says he is standing against Trump’s travel ban – and ‘standing up for ambiguity and poetry’Protests about Donald Trump’s travel ban are taking many forms but perhaps one of the most unexpected is the release of a new album by Ben Lee, called Ben Lee Sings Songs About Islam for the Whole Family.Yes, it’s a poppy, catchy album about Allah for kids, written by a Jewish-raised dude from Sydney. Continue reading...
  
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• Stanisław Skrowaczewski obituary

  08-03-2017 18:49
  
  Conductor and composer who was inspired by Anton BrucknerThe benevolent spirit of Anton Bruckner hovered over the life and career of the conductor and composer Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who has died aged 93, from childhood until performances last year. It was while walking in the streets of his native Lwów, in Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), at the age of seven that he heard the strains of the Adagio of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony emanating from an open window.“I was in a tran
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Reveals The Biggest Lie She’s Ever Told And It Involves Geordie Shore - EXCLUSIVE

  08-03-2017 18:43
  
  DON'T MISS Charlotte on Just Tattoo Of Us - starting Monday 3rd April at 10pm, only on MTV!
  
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• 13 Unintentionally Sexist Things You Didn't Realise You Were Doing

  08-03-2017 18:32
  
  Women and men, it's time to listen up.
  
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• The Reason Stephen Bear Was Kicked Off Celebs Go Dating Has Finally Been Revealed

  08-03-2017 18:05
  
  Stephen Bear kicked off Celebs Go Dating.
  
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• Stephen Bear Thinks Charlotte Crosby Is 'One Of A Kind, Marriage Material' As He Says He Loves Her - EXCLUSIVE

  08-03-2017 18:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Just Tattoo Of Us, starting Monday 3rd April at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• 12 Times Female Reality Stars Said Something That Made Us Feel Super Empowered

  08-03-2017 17:59
  
  Are you garlic bread?
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Reveals Which Of Her Facial Features She Tries To Edit Out Of Photos - EXCLUSIVE

  08-03-2017 17:55
  
  DON'T MISS Charlotte presenting Just Tattoo Of Us, Monday 3rd April at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Reveals Which Of Her Facial Features She Tries To Edit Out In Photos - EXCLUSIVE

  08-03-2017 17:55
  
  DON'T MISS Charlotte presenting Just Tattoo Of Us, Monday 3rd April at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Steve Aoki And Louis Tomlinson Take You On An Epic Night Out With ‘Just Hold On’ Music Video

  08-03-2017 17:45
  
  Why don't magic portals really exist?
  
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• Caccini: La Liberazione di Ruggiero CD review – first opera by a woman stands firmly on its own feet

  08-03-2017 16:00
  
  Biscuola/Martellacci/Borgioni/Allabastrina/La Pifarescha/Sartori(Glossa)Francesca Caccini (1587-c1645) was in at the very beginnings of opera. She was part of a musical family who regularly played and sang at the Medici court in Florence, including performances of the earliest opera that survives more or less complete, Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, first seen in 1600. Her father, Giulio, contributed to Peri’s score and published his own version of Euridice in 1602. Caccini took her own fir
  
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• This Is Why Aaron Chalmers Is Being Forced To Go To Hospital

  08-03-2017 15:40
  
  Aaron Chalmers has fractured his elbow.
  
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• Lucky Blue Smith and Girlfriend Stormi Bree Are Expecting Their First Baby

  08-03-2017 15:36
  
  There's going to be a mini LBS...
  
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• Catfish: The TV Show series 6 sneak peek: Nev and Max read Shawny's flirty texts with her mystery bae

  08-03-2017 15:36
  
  Catch up with brand new Catch: The TV Show tonight at 9pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Wearing Makeup And More Stuff You Can Do And Still Be A Feminist

  08-03-2017 15:28
  
  Time to show these boring misconceptions the door.
  
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• When did you last hear live music? Stand up and be counted

  08-03-2017 14:28
  
  The first ever UK Live Music Census is surveying a day’s worth of live music across the country. In a digital world with ever more ways to listen, is being there still the biggest thrill?How many times have you heard music today? Maybe you’ve got a radio alarm clock. Maybe there was an ambient wash of sound playing in a shop. Maybe you streamed something at your desk, or had a CD on in the car, or were one of the innumerable people plugged into their smartphones on the pavement. Righ
  
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• Misha Mengelberg obituary

  08-03-2017 14:21
  
  One of the most creative jazz pianists to emerge in the first phase of Europe’s breakaway from American styles in the 1960sIn his last years the Dutch pianist, composer and improviser Misha Mengelberg, who has died aged 81, would sometimes whistle and sing in conversation with visiting friends when advancing Alzheimer’s disease made words particularly elusive. But conversing this way was perhaps not as big an inconvenience for Mengelberg as it might have been for some, since much of
  
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• Wolfgang Muthspiel Quintet review – jazz guitarist prefers nuances to bravado

  08-03-2017 14:02
  
  Ronnie Scott’s, London
  The Austrian guitarist called in Gwilym Simcock to air his group’s new material, keeping a full house rapt with flashes of flamenco and soul-bopWith a trumpet, an electric guitar and the firepower of one of contemporary jazz’s most exhilarating drummers – Brian Blade – in his quintet, Wolfgang Muthspiel has plenty of turn-it-up-to-11 potential on tap. The Austrian guitarist has, however, preferred nuances to bravado since he was first saluted
  
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• NHK Symphony Orchestra/Järvi review – an ensemble on bristlingly good form

  08-03-2017 14:00
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  The Tokyo orchestra’s swashbuckling performance of Mahler’s sixth was fabulously disciplined, crisp and purposeful, if a little too drivenThis visit by Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor, Paavo Järvi, was a rare UK showcase for an ensemble on bristlingly good form.Toru Takemitsu’s 1957 Requiem for Strings unfolded in gauzy, many-layered textures, sounding reticent yet eloquent, its phrases falling into the rhythms of sl
  
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• Exclusive: ‘Bots’ Used By Touts To Hoover Up Gig Tickets Likely To Be Outlawed In UK

  08-03-2017 13:40
  
  This is brilliant news for live music fans.
  
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• Ferne McCann Goes Into EXTREME Detail About Bum Abscess On Nightmare Date

  08-03-2017 13:01
  
  Ferne McCann has a bum abscess.
  
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• Sly and the Family Stone – 10 of the best

  08-03-2017 12:41
  
  From the birth of a funk superhero team to claustrophobic social comment, here are the high points in an occasionally terrifying careerBy the time they made their debut album in 1967, Sly and the Family Stone were already way out ahead of the pack in terms of the way they approached and played music. The group benefited immeasurably from the extensive experience of their leader: Sylvester Stewart, still in his early 20s, had been making records since his teens and had pulled significant stints a
  
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• Are Brooklyn Beckham And Chloe Moretz Back Together Already?

  08-03-2017 12:37
  
  They might just be.
  
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• Girls Against: Bold For Change Inspo This International Women's Day

  08-03-2017 12:19
  
  These gals are campaigning to stop groping at gigs, and nailing it.
  
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• QUIZ: Are These Famous Folks' PDA: PD-YAY OR PD-NAY?

  08-03-2017 11:53
  
  Are you grossed out or going nuts for it?
  
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• Ed Sheeran Wants To Star In & Soundtrack A Film That Mixes ‘Notting Hill & Once’

  08-03-2017 11:52
  
  "I will definitely put together a soundtrack with a bunch of my songs on it."
  
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• Aaron Chalmers Posts Cryptic Tweets After Marnie Simpson's Revelation That She Still Loves Lewis Bloor

  08-03-2017 11:47
  
  Aarron Chalmers tweets about Marnie Simpson?
  
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• Ed Sheeran Admits To Hooking Up With Some Of Taylor Swift’s Friends And Wondering ‘How The F**K Did That Happen?’

  08-03-2017 11:38
  
  Oh, Ed!
  
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• WTF Is International Women's Day?

  08-03-2017 11:24
  
  And why does it even matter?
  
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• Vicky Pattison Had A Lucky Escape From An Avalanche On Skiing Trip

  08-03-2017 10:44
  
  Vicky in snowslide horror.
  
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• That's What I Like

  08-03-2017 10:04 via mtv.co.uk
  
  That's What I Like
  
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• U-RITE

  08-03-2017 10:03 via mtv.co.uk
  
  U-RITE
  
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• Song Goes Off (Tremaine The Playboy Ep. 3) [Explicit]

  08-03-2017 10:03 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Song Goes Off (Tremaine The Playboy Ep. 3)
  
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• Blow You Up (Ft. AlunaGeorge & Less Is Moore)

  08-03-2017 10:03 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Blow You Up (feat. AlunaGeorge & Less Is Moore)
  
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• Bed bugs, Brexit and goodbyes: 20 years of indie, as told by Fortuna Pop!

  08-03-2017 10:00
  
  The legendary indie label, which gave the world Allo Darlin’, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Joanna Gruesome and Let’s Wrestle, is closing its doors. Founder Sean Price takes us through the lessons he’s learned I think indie pop is dying off in a way. It had a resurgence about 10 years ago with [London club nights] Twee As Fuck and White Heat. The demographic was right at that time – 20 years since 1986. That was when I had the Pains of Being Pure at Heart [on the labe
  
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• A Fanny Mendelssohn masterpiece finally gets its due

  08-03-2017 09:58
  
  Lost for 150 years – and mistaken for her brother’s after that – some of Fanny Mendelssohn’s bold, complex music is belatedly receiving the attention it merits. Her great-great-great granddaughter tells the story
  It’s unusual to have five Twitter accounts. Especially if you’ve been dead for 170 years. But my great-great-great grandmother, Fanny Mendelssohn, was an unusual woman, and even today she inspires extraordinary passions. In her lifetime, despite a cro
  
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• Perrie Edwards Defends Louis Tomlinson Over Airport Arrest: 'He Was Just Protecting His Girlfriend'

  08-03-2017 09:24
  
  She's showing support for Louis and Eleanor.
  
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• Just Tattoo Of Us: Tattoo Artists And Geordie Shore Guest Stars Confirmed For MTV’s Daring New Show

  08-03-2017 09:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Just Tattoo Of Us, starting Monday 3rd April at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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