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• Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde CD review – Jonas Kaufmann delivers a real disappointment

  29-03-2017 17:43
  
  Kaufmann/Vienna PO/Nott(Sony Classical) In an interview that serves as the sleeve notes for his recording, Jonas Kaufmann describes his first encounter as a student with Das Lied von der Erde, in the classic recording conducted by Otto Klemperer. Kaufmann says he immediately tried to emulate Klemperer’s incomparable soloist Fritz Wunderlich in the three tenor songs, but doesn’t reveal whether at that stage he thought he could sing the three other numbers too, which Mahler designated
  
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• ICP Orchestra review – jazz maestros break the rules in strutting style

  29-03-2017 15:18
  
  Vortex Jazz Club, LondonThe genre-hopping 10-piece underline their status as one of contemporary music’s enduring delights with show of typical flair and youthful agilityThe mostly uncategorisable but approximately jazz-angled Dutch collective ICP (it stands for Instant Composers Pool) celebrate their 50th anniversary this year and the 75th birthday of their wonderful drummer Han Bennink. Less auspiciously, this year also saw the death of their presiding guru, the pianist and composer Mish
  
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• Don't think twice, oh, all right: Bob Dylan finally agrees to collect Nobel prize

  29-03-2017 14:02
  
  Singer to accept prize in ‘small and intimate’ Stockholm setting having turned down invitation to official ceremony last yearBob Dylan, it seems, is not a man to be rushed. Almost five months after he was named the winner of the Nobel prize for literature, the singer will finally accept the award when he travels to Sweden this weekend.His trip brings to a close a long-running saga that began in October when Dylan was named the winner for “having created new poetic expressions w
  
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• Thundercat review – gripping freakout funk delivered with dizzying telepathy

  29-03-2017 13:22
  
  Heaven, LondonThe prodigious bassist’s songs veer between jazz fusion and intimate, soulful pop – augmented live by detours into wild improvisationHe’s the common thread linking Kendrick Lamar, Erykah Badu, questing jazz revivalist Kamasi Washington and even thrash legends Suicidal Tendencies; a crack sessioneer and serious muso, which you could probably guess by the plush six-stringed Ibanez bass strapped high to his chest, like BB King’s beloved Lucille. (It draws hushe
  
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• Where have all the cowboys gone? California's country music scene is fading

  29-03-2017 13:00
  
  Once a hotbed for distinctively different country talent such as Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, in 2017 many of the state’s musicians are leaving to make it bigSouthern California once rivaled Nashville for supremacy in country music. From the 1930s to the 90s, country music fans across the southland could always hear a distinctive, homegrown sound. During the Great Depression, groups such as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys played “western swing” for migrant farmhands and oil w
  
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• Jesca Hoop review – ballads and belly laughs from a shape-shifting virtuoso

  29-03-2017 12:48
  
  Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
  The Californian singer-songwriter proves a supreme all-round entertainer with a show that is funny, moving and wholly unpredictableThe traditional music business strategy of finding a distinctive style and sticking to it doesn’t apply to Jesca Hoop. Since being encouraged to go into music by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, who employed her as a nanny, the Californian has made five diverse albums, including the recent Memories Are Now. Anchored by her finger-pic
  
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• Here's Your First Look At Lara Croft In The New Tomb Raider Movie Reboot

  29-03-2017 12:17
  
  Alicia Vikander is Lara Croft.
  
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• 5 Reasons You Should Listen to GoldLink – At What Cost

  29-03-2017 12:05
  
  5. It’s just really really good.
  
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• Harry Styles’ First Solo Performance Will Be On SNL And We Can't Stop Freaking Out

  29-03-2017 11:38
  
  CAN'T. STOP.
  
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• One Direction Are Now Each Worth A Really Quite Ridiculous Amount Of Money

  29-03-2017 11:06
  
  Ridiculous = We're just jealous.
  
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• Jeremy McConnell Shares Adorable Footage Of Caben-Albi Following Stephanie Davis's Furious Twitter Rant

  29-03-2017 11:01
  
  Jeremy McConnell and Caben-Albi bond.
  
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• Pet Shop Boys – 10 of the best

  29-03-2017 10:50
  
  Beneath the bright pop surface, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s long career of anthemic dance music fizzes with personal reflections, political ideas and cultural referencesA dining room in Blackpool witnessed the birth of Pet Shop Boys. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe didn’t meet there: that happened in a Chelsea electronics shop, where an idle chat about dance music and synthesisers began a lifelong friendship and musical partnership. That friendship also inspired the lyrics to the first
  
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• You Need To See Zayn Malik's Pastel Green Hair

  29-03-2017 10:11
  
  A minty marshmallow dream.
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Zahida Allen Hits Back At Chloe Ferry After Explosive B*tch Fight In The House - EXCLUSIVE

  29-03-2017 10:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore: New Radgie Rampage, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• A Fan Listened To Ed Sheeran's Music So Much She Got Arrested

  29-03-2017 09:50
  
  Just a word of warning for everyone playing the album on repeat rn.
  
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• Exclusive! James Arthur: 'It Feels Like I've Got My Purpose Back Again'

  29-03-2017 09:30
  
  Watch our exclusive interview with the 'Safe Inside' singer as he talks being back on top, dealing with anxiety and more...
  
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• This Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Cast Reunion Will Flip Turn Your Life Upside Down

  29-03-2017 09:29
  It's like 1996 all over again.
  
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• Send Me an Angel: the 80s synth-pop anthem that took over the world

  29-03-2017 02:39
  
  After three decades and endless cover versions, Australian act Real Life’s instantly recognisable hit is as enduring – and catchy – as everIt’s the song that won’t die. Three decades on, the 80s anthem Send Me an Angel is still being endlessly covered, remixed and piped through shopping centre speakers. And chances are you know it by heart, even if you don’t know you know it. Maybe you heard it on the radio (then or now), or during a montage in a formative 80s
  
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