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• The Roving Crows: Bury Me Naked review – classic Irish folk from the heart of … England

  13-04-2017 20:00
  
  (Roving Crows)This particular band of musical corvids are notable for their engaging, if uneven, brand of Celtic folk-rock. The Roving Crows are based in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, but at their best they sound like a classic Irish band, especially when fiddler Caitlin Barrett reworks the reel Farewell to Chernobyl, or switches to lead vocals for an epic treatment of Ride On, the Jimmy MacCarthy song that is a part of Christy Moore’s classic repertoire. Barrett is the star on Bury
  
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• Has pop finally run out of tunes?

  13-04-2017 19:28
  
  Ed Sheeran has reached a £16m settlement over his song Photograph in the latest claim over pop plagiarism. So are songwriters out of ideas? Time to call in the musicologistsThis week, Ed Sheeran, a pop star whose stranglehold on the UK Top 40 is so extreme that his Star Wars name would be Chart Maul, avoided a lengthy legal trial by settling a $20m (£16m) copyright infringement claim out of court, for an unspecified sum. Two writers behind Amazing, a song by X Factor hat-botherer Mat
  
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• Just Tattoo Of Us Spoiler Video: Stephen Bear Brands Lateysha Grace A ‘Diva’ After The Valleys Star Kicks Off At Her Tattoo Design

  13-04-2017 18:47
  
  Don't miss brand new Just Tattoo Of Us, Mondays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• 13 Reasons Emma Watson Is Life

  13-04-2017 18:00
  
  Happy bday gurl!
  
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• Schubert: Piano Sonatas D960 & D664 CD review – sensitivity and rapture

  13-04-2017 17:00
  
  Javier Perianes(Harmonia Mundi) Javier Perianes revealed to the Guardian that his most memorable live concert experience was hearing the great Romanian pianist Radu Lupu playing Schubert’s Sonata in B flat major, D960. He said he would “never forget that emotion from the very first to the very last note”. Now he has recorded the same sonata – Schubert’s last – and made his own very personal account of its huge emotional scope.Related: Facing the music: Javier
  
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• Premiere! Quintino & NERVO Team Up For 'Lost In You'

  13-04-2017 17:00
  
  Listen to their brand new collab together here...
  
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• George Lucas Just Revealed The Crazy Way He Pitched The First Star Wars Movie

  13-04-2017 16:47
  
  It was about dogs.
  
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• 15 Cross Body Bags You Need In Your Life This Spring

  13-04-2017 16:31
  
  They really will change your life.
  
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• Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria review – compelling Monteverdi celebration

  13-04-2017 16:26
  
  Colston Hall, Bristol
  John Eliot Gardiner’s ad-hoc company of impressive singers and musicians shine in a beautifully realised semi-staging that sounded totally assuredJohn Eliot Gardiner is celebrating this year’s 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth in the best possible way, by touring concert stagings of all three of the surviving Monteverdi operas with his Monteverdi Choir and the period instruments of the English Baroque Soloists. He has assembled a cosmopolitan company
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Thinks Pete Wicks Should Seriously Reconsider Keeping His Megan McKenna Tattoo

  13-04-2017 16:11
  
  And it’s all down ‘personal time’
  
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• Elgar: Symphony No 1; Introduction and Allegro CD review – notable for its clarity

  13-04-2017 16:00
  
  Doric Qt/BBCSO/Gardner
  (Chandos)Edward Gardner definitely puts refinement before moment-by-moment impact in his first venture into Elgar on disc. His treatment of the Introduction and Allegro – with the Doric Quartet joining the strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra to provide the solo group – is notable more for its clarity and carefully graded textures than for its bracing athleticism, though it does finally deliver a real punch in the peroration.Gardner adopts a similar slow-burn
  
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• Actress: AZD review – a brilliantly twisted, introverted take on dance music | Alexis Petridis' album of the week

  13-04-2017 16:00
  
  The fifth album from one of electronic music’s most admired producers comes with a lot of high-concept baggage, but the music speaks for itselfDarren J Cunningham cuts an intriguing figure in dance music. He’s not the only former professional footballer to try his hand as a DJ, but the West Brom striker is presumably the first one to subsequently establish himself in the world of cerebral post-dubstep techno. His releases as Actress suggest an artist not at home to the idea of wearin
  
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• The music, the fashion, the parties: an insider's guide to Coachella 2017

  13-04-2017 15:55
  
  With Lady Gaga, Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar headlining and more stages than ever, this year’s desert festival promises to be the biggest, and best, to dateCoachella has been the most iconic music festival in the world for so long that it’s difficult to remember what it was like back in the salad days of 1999, when it began as a plucky little one-day dust-up in the California desert with modest crowds and esoteric booking. Now in its 17th edition (they skipped 2000), Coachella is a t
  
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• Beyoncé, Rihanna, Selena Gomez, And More Girls Who Run The World Rn

  13-04-2017 15:27
  
  What some of your favourite female celebrities get up to behind the scenes.
  
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• Thundercat on breakout album Drunk, laughing at racism – and his 'sexy cat', Tron

  13-04-2017 14:43
  
  The bass maestro and jazz extraordinaire has collaborated with everyone from Kendrick Lamar to Pharrell Williams. But his greatest inspiration may be his cat, Turbo Tron Over 9000 Baby Jesus SallyThundercat sits crosslegged and barefoot on a round leather chair, his white Birkenstocks thrown casually to one side. With his zen posture, ornate gold jewellery hanging from his septum and air of insouciance, he brings to mind a buddha. Or at least a buddha with dreadlocks and diamanté-rimmed s
  
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• Harry Styles’ Full Album Tracklisting, Artwork AND Release Date Have Been Revealed

  13-04-2017 14:16
  
  THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
  
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• Will Marnie Simpson and Aaron Chalmers Get Back Together In The Next Series Of Geordie Shore?

  13-04-2017 14:09
  
  Someone in the Geordie Shore house think so....
  
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• TCTS Hand-Picks Your Weekend Playlist With 10 Track He's Lovin' Right Now

  13-04-2017 14:02
  
  Listen to his picks ft. Waze & Odyssey, Jamiroquai and more...
  
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• Ferne McCann Looks Ridiculously Loved-Up On Her Incredible Trip To The Maldives

  13-04-2017 13:38
  
  We're so jealous, we can't speak.
  
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• 23 Artists Who've Been No.1 On The UK Singles & Album Chart At The Same Time

  13-04-2017 13:05
  
  Find out which acts have scored the accolade of achieving the legendary Chart Double...
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: your songs about Britain

  13-04-2017 13:00
  
  Stopping off at Elvis Costello, Stiff Little Fingers, WH Auden and others, a reader takes a musical tour around our fair islesHere 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 series works at the end of the piece.You can’t define the inhabitants of Britain in 13 songs, but we wouldn’t be British if we didn’t have a go... Continue reading...
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Has Gone IN On The Hollywood Stylists Who Refused To Dress Her At Her Biggest

  13-04-2017 12:52
  
  She used to feel embarrassed shopping with Kourtney and Kim...
  
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• Instagram Has Literally Lost Their Mind Over THIS Picture Of TOWIE's Kate Wright's 'Massive' Feet

  13-04-2017 12:30
  
  Surely it's the angle....
  
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• Light My Body Up (Ft. Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne) (Lyric Video)

  13-04-2017 12:24 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Light My Body Up (Ft. Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne) (Lyric Video)
  
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• Music makes me cry my eyes out – here’s a guide to the tracks of my tears | Simon Hattenstone

  13-04-2017 12:02
  
  Songs that induce weeping do you good, a study suggests. As a man who knows all there is to know about the crying game, I could have told you thatResearchers have just discovered that crying to sad music is mood enhancing. Now, I’m no Bert Einstein, but I could have told them that a lifetime ago. There is a simple reason that we call it a good weep – because it’s good for us. (OK, I just made that up, but it could – or should – be true.)The Japanese study surveyed h
  
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• Marnie Simpson and Lewis Bloor Just Turned Up To The Same Event After Their NIGHTMARE Holiday

  13-04-2017 11:41
  
  THE WORST.
  
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• Get To Know: LP

  13-04-2017 11:33
  
  This week's featured artist is LA based singer/songwriter LP...
  
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• Zayn Malik Invites Strippers, Strangers And Wild Animals To Video Shoot

  13-04-2017 11:15
  
  It's just a routine weekday night for Zayn!
  
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• The Reason For Megan McKenna and Pete Wicks' MASSIVE Bust-Up Has Finally Been Revealed

  13-04-2017 10:58
  
  And she went IN...
  
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• Bella Thorne Is ‘Single As F**k’ And Would Like To Go On A Date With A Girl

  13-04-2017 10:09
  
  She's ready to date.
  
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• Chrissy Teigen's Struggle Couldn't Be More Real As She Fights To Get Into Her Jumpsuit

  13-04-2017 09:44
  
  Oh the glamour.
  
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• Has Jesy Nelson Already Split From TOWIE’s Chris Clark?

  13-04-2017 09:22
  
  Say it aint so?!
  
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• Music You Missed: the best Australian underground releases from RVG to Nadia Reid

  13-04-2017 03:12
  
  Our quarterly music column returns to dig up the best releases you may not have heard in the past three monthsLast weekend in Melbourne, and the week before in Brisbane, A Rock & Roll Writers Festival returned for a second year to put songwriters, music critics and novelists on stage to discuss their craft. Speakers included Adalita, Bunna Lawrie, Tim Rogers, Jess Ribeiro and Jenny Valentish. I took part in a panel with three other music critics.The festival claims to “celebrate the cr
  
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