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• John Lee Hooker: 10 of the best from the blues legend

  27-03-2017 20:43
  
  In what would have been his centennial, we take a look at the essential tracks from an artist who, along with Chuck Berry, changed rock foreverCall John Lee Hooker a “blues legend” and you’re not just mouthing a cliche. You’re missing the specificity of what he brought to the form, the unique strand of DNA he sent coursing through the gene pool of countless rockers and blues artists in his wake. Related: CD box set: John Lee Hooker, HookerContinue reading...
  
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• Culture minister says Met's 696 form discriminates against grime artists

  27-03-2017 20:01
  
  Matt Hancock warns that controversial risk-assessment may damage London’s night-time economy and stifle young musiciansGrime artists are being unfairly targeted by the Metropolitan police through their use of a risk-assessment form, according to culture minister Matt Hancock.The Met’s event risk-assessment form 696 is “potentially stifling young artists” and damaging the UK capital’s vibrant music scene, Hancock wrote in a letter to the London mayor, Sadiq Khan.Cont
  
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• Mike Will Made-It: Ransom 2 review – mixtape masterclass from the trap titan

  27-03-2017 19:48
  
  After Drake’s playlist last week comes a more traditional mixtape from the Atlanta producer, and with guest stars that double as clients, it’s a clever ployThroughout hip-hop’s history, the term “mixtape” has changed nearly as much as hip-hop itself. What was once used to describe bootleg recordings of live DJ sets – often accompanied by rapping – at hip-hop parties eventually came to connote DJ-curated compilations featuring an array of exclusive tracks
  
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• Why the TLC comeback matters so much

  27-03-2017 19:01
  
  The trio’s anthems of respect and empowerment stood out above all others – and they even nailed mansplaining years before its timeLast week, Ed Sheeran was forced to add the writers of TLC’s No Scrubs to the credits of his Shape of You after the similarities in sound between his song and the 1999 hit were pointed out. But No Scrubs’s significance for now goes much further than the writing credits on 2017’s most omnipresent album. With TLC, Rozonda “Chilli&rdqu
  
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• Watch Stormzy’s Incredible, 4-Track Radio 1 Live Lounge Special Here

  27-03-2017 17:01
  
  This is amazing.
  
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• HSVN Releases Debut Album ‘Back2Back’

  27-03-2017 16:59
  
  Following the astronomical reception to lead single ‘Come Fly’, which now sits at over 200k streams; DJ and producer HSVN returns with the release of his debut album ‘Back2Back’.
  
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• Jemma Lucy Exposes Nipples After Transforming Hospital Gown Into Racy Lingerie

  27-03-2017 16:54
  
  Jemma Lucy had an odd hospital visit.
  
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• Gigi Hadid To Play The Green Power Ranger?! Power Rangers Cast Reveal Sequel Ideas!

  27-03-2017 16:53
  
  The Power Rangers squad reveal who they want to join them in the sequel.
  
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• ‘Get Out’ - A Wake Up Call For White Ignorance

  27-03-2017 16:37
  
  Why Jordan Peele's horror is an important modern masterpiece.
  
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• Power Rangers Cast Reveal Their Funniest Moments BEHIND THE SCENES

  27-03-2017 16:21
  
  The Power Rangers have a Whatsapp group chat and it's FIRE.
  
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• Here's How The Cast Of Pretty Little Liars Have Changed Since Episode 1

  27-03-2017 16:21
  
  The final season of Pretty Little Liars is nearly here, so let's take a look at how much the cast have changed since the first episode. See their transformations at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Take That’s Gary Barlow Confirms Secret Star Wars Cameo

  27-03-2017 16:09
  
  The force is with Take That.
  
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• You Might Not See Any More Pics Of Liam Payne And Cheryl’s Baby From Now On And This Is Why

  27-03-2017 15:58
  
  Understandable, tbh.
  
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• Introducing WAJU And His Euphoric New Single ‘FADed’

  27-03-2017 15:34
  
  Introducing WAJU… the production and songwriting maestro who is set to take the music world by storm with his brand new release ‘FADed’.
  
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• Happy Family

  27-03-2017 14:58 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Happy Family
  
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• BBC 6 Music festival review – Depeche Mode preach post-watershed pop in Glasgow

  27-03-2017 14:45
  
  Various venues, Glasgow
  New bands – Honeyblood, Temples – make a strong showing, while Father John Misty, Ride and Depeche Mode explode: 6 Music’s weekend hits the heightsA steadily more popular haven on the airwaves for fans of time-honoured and emerging alternative sounds, it seems strange now to think that BBC 6 Music was on the verge of closing seven years ago. The station’s annual city festival came to an unseasonably sunny and warm Glasgow this year to celebrate its
  
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• LPO/Stutzmann review – confrontations with mortality honour London's terror victims

  27-03-2017 14:15
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Nathalie Stutzmann, conducting with great insight, dedicated the evening to victims of the Westminster attack. It is hard to imagine a finer tributeThis haunting London Philharmonic concert, part of the Southbank’s Belief and Beyond Belief series, took place “by an irony of fate”, as conductor Nathalie Stutzmann put it, addressing the audience days after the London terror attack, and was dedicated to its victims and their loved ones. Strauss’s
  
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• !Sdrawkcab: Missy Elliott, the Beatles and the joy of backwards lyrics

  27-03-2017 13:56
  
  The gibberish in the chorus of Missy’s hit Work It is still surprising people 15 years on. At least she wasn’t praising Satan …In one of those instructive “you’ve been using hairgrips wrong your whole life” moments, the backwards lyrics in Missy Elliott’s 2002 banger Work It have been rediscovered, to online palpitations. The line following, “I put my thing down flip it and reverse it,” one of the trickiest portions of a song to navigate in
  
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• Could Justin Bieber & Zayn Malik Be Collaborating On A New Single?

  27-03-2017 13:55
  
  This. Could. Be. Special.
  
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• Glass Animals Talk Us Through Their Oddball 'Pork Soda' Music Video

  27-03-2017 13:34
  
  Watch our exclusive Laid Bare with Dave and Drew here...
  
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• Kylie Jenner Breaks Down After Fearing An Intruder Had Robbed Her House

  27-03-2017 13:23
  
  Security Breach at the Kardashians.
  
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• Just Tattoo Of Us World Exclusive: Charlotte Crosby Can’t Contain Her Shock Over The Show’s First Tattoo Design

  27-03-2017 13:16
  
  Don't miss brand new Just Tattoo Of Us, starting on Monday 3rd April @ 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Rap Rundown: Energy

  27-03-2017 13:15
  
  In this week’s Rap Rundown, we’ve got Avelino’s BBC Radio 1Xtra Live Lounge session, news of Giggs’s forthcoming mixtape and a live performance from Ghetts and Young T & Bugsey at the Reebok Classic x Size? Club Workout launch party.
  
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• A Timeline Of The Charlotte Crosby VS Jemma Lucy Feud

  27-03-2017 13:12
  
  Charlotte Crosby and Jemma Lucy have major beef, so here's a timeline of their rivalry. Read it all over at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Megan McKenna Breaks Down During Pete Wicks Row: “You’re Miserable 24/7”

  27-03-2017 13:08
  
  Dramz.
  
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• Mingus skewers segregation-era Arkansas – protest playlist No 4

  27-03-2017 13:00
  
  Every week we will bring you a Resistance Now track chosen by a current artist. Lanre Bakare talks to electronic musician Roberto Carlos Lange, also known as Helado Negro, who picks Fables of Faubus by Charles Mingus Continue reading...
  
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• Wire on Wire – the five songs that define their career

  27-03-2017 12:39
  
  To mark their 40th anniversary, the band discuss the evolution of their sound and pick five crucial recordings, from then to nowColin Newman (vocals/guitar): In February 1977, we played the Roxy punk club in London and were told not to come back. Then George [Gill, founder/original guitarist] fell down the stairs and broke his leg, and we kicked him out of his own band. When we played the Roxy again on 1 April, you wouldn’t have recognised the band that had previously been playing George&r
  
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• Stephanie Davis Celebates Her First Ever Mother's Day As Jeremy McConnell Posts Touching Message

  27-03-2017 12:32
  
  Jez and Steph first Mother's Day.
  
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• Adele: “I Don't Know If I Will Ever Tour Again”

  27-03-2017 11:48
  
  Please can this be a joke?
  
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• United Airlines Stand By Decision To Ban Girls From Wearing Leggings On Flight

  27-03-2017 11:45
  
  How about no.
  
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• Is There A Kardashians Cartoon On The Way?

  27-03-2017 11:41
  
  Sorry, Kartoon.
  
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• WTF Ever Happened To The Cast Of Jersey Shore?

  27-03-2017 11:37
  
  Find out what happened to the cast of Jersey Shore, over on MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Cute New Mario Kart Characters And Battle Modes Revealed!

  27-03-2017 11:32
  
  This will make you want to play the new Mario Kart right now.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby And Stephen Bear Launch A Public Vote On Their Popularity And Things Got VERY Awkward

  27-03-2017 11:17
  
  CharBear square up.
  
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• Brooklyn Beckham Is Off To University And Guess What He's Studying

  27-03-2017 09:54
  
  Surprise, surprise...
  
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• Is This What Liam Payne And Cheryl Are Planning To Name Their Baby Boy?

  27-03-2017 09:22
  
  The pair each revealed their favourite name choice for a boy...
  
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• New band of the week: Phoenix and the Flower Girl (No 145)

  27-03-2017 09:00
  
  The last ever New Band of the Week brings an appropriately phantasmagoric end to the column’s 11-year runHometown: Tokyo and London.
  The lineup: Phoenix Troy (music), Flower (artistic director).Continue reading...
  
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• Facing the music: Benjamin Appl

  27-03-2017 08:00
  
  The German baritone on out-of-tune yodelling, dancing to Robbie Williams and his first career in a bankWhat was the first record or CD you bought? Unfortunately I think I am already a dinosaur, as I grew up with cassette tapes and not CDs. It was a series of the famous children’s radio play in German about an elephant who was able to speak, called Benjamin Blümchen (which means little flower). By the way, it also became my first nickname in school. Continue reading...
  
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