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• Black Lips: Satan's Graffiti or God's Art? review – garage rockers embrace scuzzy trash again

  11-05-2017 23:30
  
  (Vice) The Black Lips’ 2014 album, Under the Rainbow, which was produced by the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, didn’t deliver the perhaps expected commercial breakthrough. Thus the cult Atlantans’ ninth studio album sees them reverting to the sound established when they were trashy garage rockers who once caused outrage in India with their onstage nudity. Produced by Sean Lennon – it features backing vocals from his mother, Yoko Ono, but unfortunately they are inaudibl
  
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• Girlpool: Powerplant review – blink-and-you'll-miss-em grunge lullabies

  11-05-2017 23:15
  
  (Anti-)Part twee folk, part ratty punk, California duo Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker make music that’s nostalgic for 90s riot grrrl outfits like the Breeders, while also effusing millennial ennui; Magnifying Glass, from their 2015 debut LP, Before the World Was Big, was 39 frantic seconds of string-plucking and lyrics about wanting to hold the world inside your head, while early single Blah Blah Blah was mostly built around those three words, delivered in a mocking tone. This new record
  
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• PWR BTTM: Pageant review – explosive, emotional glam rock

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  (Polyvinyl) Related: Glitter, glam, gender politics: the LGBTQ bands paving a new future for punkGlam was as much a sartorial movement as a musical one – with glitter, platforms and androgynous fashion forming an exciting and, to some, frightening new visual language. Dressed in blouses and smeared, sparkly makeup, PWR BTTM certainly seem to hark back to the era with their aesthetic, as well as their brand of intermittently explosive rock. But the New York duo deviate from the glam templat
  
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• J Hus: Common Sense review – unashamed grooves from east London rapper

  11-05-2017 22:45
  
  (Black Butter)If there was one thing you might not expect from 21-year-old east London rapper J Hus, it’s a bold sax solo. And yet the opening title track of his debut album sets out his stall as a dude of unashamed groove by pairing his biting, guttural rap with some funky disco-brass. Not to be confused with plain old grime (so 2015, guys!), J Hus leads a wave of MCs who blend the genre’s hard-hitting, distinctly UK flow with bashment and Afrobeat. On Common Sense, Hus show that mi
  
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• Paul Weller: A Kind Revolution review – robustly written and emotionally satisfying

  11-05-2017 22:30
  
  (Parlophone)After folding in psychedelic electronics and rollicking rock to his soulboy style in recent years, the changing man continues to surprise with this tonally rich new album. She Moves With the Fayre has strings wafting across a steadily strutting funk beat, before Robert Wyatt pops up like some flower-crowned shaman of Albion; One Tear is downtempo Scandinavian disco topped with Boy George using so much vibrato that he almost ululates. Sometimes, in his quest for novelty, Weller loses
  
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• Ross Couper and Tom Oakes: Fiddle and Guitar review – gleaming folk musicianship

  11-05-2017 20:00
  
  (Haystack Records)It takes a certain, frisky confidence to name your debut album so simply, but after more than 1,000 gigs and folk festivals together, Ross Couper and Tom Oakes aren’t exactly rookies. The Shetland-raised Couper has long been skittering his bow across strings with Celtic band the Peatbog Faeries, while the Devon-born Oakes teaches traditional flute at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; his intricate guitar-playing is a mere impressive sideline. These 10 tracks gleam with
  
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• Dona Onete: Banzeiro review – feisty Brazilian septuagenarian brings power and emotion

  11-05-2017 19:45
  
  (Mais Um Discos)Dona Onete is a remarkable person. A singer-songwriter from the Amazon in northern Brazil, she worked as a teacher and union campaigner until recording her debut album at the age of 73. Now she is rightly hailed as “the grande dame of Amazonian song”, for her wickedly feisty compositions, influenced by the carimbó dances of the region’s indigenous and Afro-Brazilian people, and her soulful boleros. She will be 78 next month, but is still in powerful and e
  
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• The Kinks’ Ray Davies: Brexit is ‘bigger than the Berlin Wall’

  11-05-2017 19:31
  
  On his first solo album in a decade, Americana, Ray Davies explores his troubled relationship with the US – next, he’s writing a book about Britain
  As a keen-eyed chronicler of British manners and mores, Ray Davies is thinking about Brexit a lot. He’s currently writing a book about Britain – “focusing on what it had when I was young” – and he predicts a potentially problematic departure.“It’s going to be a shift of gigantic proportions,&rdquo
  
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• Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse review – futuristic jazz with Arabic scales

  11-05-2017 19:30
  
  (Naim)She’s played with everyone from Radiohead to Lee “Scratch” Perry, but the 2012 debut by this Bahrain-raised, London-based trumpeter was a spartan collection which tried, tentatively, to fuse the maqam melodic modes used in Arabic music with Miles Davis’s modal jazz. This time, however, Ahmed improvises more fluently in these Arabic scales. It adds a futuristic, Fourth World dimension to the textures created by an unorthodox, Bitches Brew-style line-up that features
  
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• Miley Cyrus Returns With Breezy New Single ‘Malibu’ & A Very Chill Music Video

  11-05-2017 18:25
  
  "This is Miley leaning into her roots more than I've ever heard," dad Billy Ray Cyrus shared with Billboard. "For her, this is honest."
  
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• Get To Know: Sigrid

  11-05-2017 17:55
  
  This week’s featured artist is Norwegian songstress, Sigrid.
  
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• 7 Reality Stars Who Cheated On Their Partner On The SAME Show

  11-05-2017 17:53
  
  BUSTED.
  
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• It ain't me babe: Dealer uncovers Dylan art forgery

  11-05-2017 17:36
  
  Auction house tells cautionary tale after £10,000 loss on ‘elaborate fake’ picture with forged signature of songwriterForgers have turned their attention to artworks created by Bob Dylan, it has emerged, after a British dealer mistakenly spent £10,000 on a hoax artwork purported to have been by the singer-songwriter.Peter Harrington, London-based specialists in antiquarian book and sketches, purchased the artwork, sold as a 1968 Dylan original, at an auction in 2014. The
  
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• American Horror Story Moments That Actually Happened In Real Life

  11-05-2017 17:35
  
  Thought American Horror Story was just a nightmare? Think again. Here's all the moments that actually happened at IRL, over at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Light My Body Up (Ft. Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne)

  11-05-2017 17:34 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Light My Body Up (Ft. Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne) (Official Video)
  
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• Cosmo Pyke: ‘You don't have to be some working-class rapper'

  11-05-2017 17:34
  
  A skater, graffiti artist and model, this Peckham teenager has already appeared in a Frank Ocean video. Now he’s turning his hand to jazzy indie-soulCosmo Pyke may only be 18, but he’s far from naive about the murky world of music that he’s entering: “I hate every industry, I hate ‘the big industry’ full stop.“They don’t actually really care at all,” he continues, before launching into an impression of a scheming industry figure: “&lsqu
  
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• Geordie Shore Spoiler Video: Zahida Allen Goes Pure Radge And Swills Marty McKenna After Major Sarah Goodhart Dramz

  11-05-2017 17:30
  
  Don't miss all the kick-off drama in brand new Geordie Shore: New Radgie Rampage, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Reveals She And Kim Kardashian Aren’t On Speaking Terms Right Now

  11-05-2017 17:12
  
  "I've kind of let everything calm down."
  
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• Premiere! Get A First Listen Of Tom Walker's 'Rapture'

  11-05-2017 17:00
  
  Hear one of the tunes taken from the newcomer's debut EP...
  
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• 7 Celebs Who Went On A Break A La Ross And Rachel

  11-05-2017 16:50
  
  THEY WERE ON A BREAK.
  
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• This Boomerang Of Charlotte Crosby Falling Off An Inflatable Turtle Is Mesmerising

  11-05-2017 16:47
  
  Nice.
  
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• 7 Of The Most Celeb Ways To Announce Your Pregnancy

  11-05-2017 16:43
  
  So many choices!
  
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• Gold

  11-05-2017 15:13 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Gold
  
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• Kasabian Light Up As They Talk Thundercat, Public Enemy & More In Our Next 'MTV Records'

  11-05-2017 14:12
  
  We took Kasabian to London's legendary Rough Trade West to talk about Thundercat, the vinyl resurgence and much more...
  
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• Megan McKenna Shares Glimpse Of New Swimwear Collection With Super Sexy Snap

  11-05-2017 13:30
  
  How about that potted plant though?
  
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• ‘Gangnam Style’ Star Psy Is Back With A New Album & Two Frenetic Music Videos

  11-05-2017 13:11
  
  Watch both 'New Face' and 'I Luv It' right here...
  
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• Kyung Wha Chung review – live performance at its scariest

  11-05-2017 13:06
  
  Barbican, London
  The violinist’s dignified solo Bach had moments of exquisite lightness and poise alongside introspection and commitmentIt began with a stage empty except for a piano stool and a small Persian rug, and ended with a standing ovation. The journey in between, as Kyung Wha Chung traversed JS Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, rarely felt easy. Chung may be promoting her new, long-awaited recording of this monumental cycle, but this was certainly not the concert
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about hedonism

  11-05-2017 13:00
  
  A playlist in the pursuit of pleasure, with Pet Shop Boys, Magnetic Fields and Lionel Richie all joining the party
  Here is this week’s playlist of songs picked by a reader from your suggestions, after last week’s callout. Read more about how our weekly Readers recommend series works at the end of the piece.There were two prime considerations for inclusion on the list this week. It occurred to me early on that while there were plenty of lyrics suggested which simply referenced drink,
  
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• 16 Self-Care Tips To Try This Weekend

  11-05-2017 12:46
  
  Wanna start on the self care train but don't know where to begin? Here's a few tips to try this weekend, over at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Ferne McCann Breaks Down In Tears As She Opens Up For First Time About Pregnancy During Acid Attack Ordeal

  11-05-2017 12:25
  
  Poor Ferne.
  
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• Big Brother Debuts 2017 Eye As The Series Pledges To Reflect The 'Culture Clash Of Modern Britain'

  11-05-2017 12:13
  
  Intriguing.
  
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• Kylie Jenner's Been Chilling Out On Instagram In A Thong Because YOLO

  11-05-2017 11:51
  
  Bum's the word.
  
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• “Who The F*ck Are All These People?” - Deadmau5 Hits Out At Calvin Harris' Feature-Packed New Album

  11-05-2017 11:50
  
  "I personally like that I’ve managed to do everything myself. I wouldn’t trade that for a million album sales. Some would.”
  
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• This Fan Favourite Game Is Making A Massive Comeback

  11-05-2017 11:40
  
  You'll be playing it later this month.
  
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• Miley Cyrus Teases New Song Malibu As She Proves Hannah Montana Is Alive And Well

  11-05-2017 11:35
  
  Can we go to Malibu plz?
  
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• £250m London concert hall project begins search for architects

  11-05-2017 11:35
  
  Start of design competition is big step forward in creation of new base for Simon Rattle’s London Symphony OrchestraBackers of a new concert hall in London have begun the search for architects, engineers and acousticians to create a building from scratch in the heart of the Square Mile.The announcement of a competitive process represents a significant step forward for a project that seemed dead in the water after the government withdrew support from the scheme last year. Continue reading..
  
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• Stephanie Davis Rushed To Hospital After Jeremy McConnell 'Split' Takes Its Toll

  11-05-2017 11:13
  
  He's denied those assault charges.
  
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• Harry Styles Is On Snapchat Now And Has Already Used It To Debut New Song Woman

  11-05-2017 10:32
  
  There is a *slight* catch.
  
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• La Bohème review – jazz-age colour and vitality animate Scottish Opera's new production

  11-05-2017 10:27
  
  Theatre Royal, Glasgow
  Scottish Opera’s crowd-pleasing production is set in a bohemian, interwar Paris, with Hye-Youn Lee as a dignified, touching MimìJust as Puccini based his opera on Henri Murger’s “scenes of bohemian life”, Scottish Opera’s new production of La Bohème is – literally – an enormous vintage picture postcard of Paris. The curtain rises on a modern-day flea market, with tourists taking selfies, sellers touting their wares an
  
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• Do It Like Me (Icy Feet) (Ft. Sage The Gemini & Kelis) [Explicit]

  11-05-2017 10:25 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Do It Like Me (Icy Feet) (Ft. Sage The Gemini & Kelis)
  
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• 13 Reasons Why's Miles Heizer And Brandon Flynn Share A Kiss In Short Film As It's Revealed They Aren't Dating

  11-05-2017 09:44
  
  Yesss but also nooooo.
  
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• My Lover Cindy

  11-05-2017 09:37 via mtv.co.uk
  
  My Lover Cindy
  
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• Jump Out The Window [Explicit]

  11-05-2017 09:37 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Jump Out The Window
  
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• Baby

  11-05-2017 09:37 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Baby
  
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• Sufjan Stevens – 10 of the best

  11-05-2017 09:00
  
  A master of what he called the ‘strummy-strum acoustic guitar song’, Stevens’ affecting music tackles issues as tricky as abandonment, death and Christmas with family1. We Are What You SayWith his wavering voice and penchant for high concept experimentation, he has had his fair share of detractors, yet few artists elicit the level of affection enjoyed by Sufjan Stevens. Perhaps because he manages to bare his soul while revealing so very little. His music is as intimate as it is
  
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• Alright everyone, chill: why ambient is one of the sounds of the summer

  11-05-2017 07:00
  
  Brian Eno’s favourite music genre is getting cool again, as a number of events dedicate new areas to the art of the chillout. But why now? Related: 10 of the best music festivals in Europe Unless you’re from the new breed of permanently hydrated festival-goer that brings chia seeds to snack on at their 9am terrarium-making workshop, chances are you’ll feel a bit fragile at some point. Hardened festivallers will know the feeling: the kind of fragile where even putting on wellies
  
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• There's A Honey

  11-05-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  
  There's A Honey
  
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• Somebody

  11-05-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Somebody
  
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• Legend Has It

  11-05-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Legend Has It
  
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• I Win (Ft. Skepta)

  11-05-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  
  I Win (Ft. Skepta)
  
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