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• Emma Watson Should Get An Oscar For Filming Beauty And The Beast With Dan Stevens In A CGI Suit

  28-05-2017 19:26
  
  Only now does everyone realise what a task she had on her hands
  
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• Selena Gomez Opens Up About Her Romance With The Weeknd (And It Is Too Cute)

  28-05-2017 19:15
  
  Selena + The Weeknd 4 Eva
  
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• Love Island's Cara De La Hoyde Hits Back At Pregnancy Body Shamers

  28-05-2017 19:06
  
  The Love Island winner has something to say about people attacking her for not looking pregnant "enough"
  
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• Mac Miller Cancels Memorial Day Weekend Concerts To Support Girlfriend Ariana Grande

  28-05-2017 18:43
  
  The singer has pulled out of dates following the Manchester bombing tragedy
  
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• Gregg Allman obituary

  28-05-2017 17:43
  
  Pioneer of southern rock and co-founder of the Allman Brothers BandAs the distinctively raw and soulful voice of the Allman Brothers Band, as well as one its main songwriters and keyboard player, Gregg Allman was a major contributor to the movement that became known as southern rock, which included the Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Charlie Daniels Band. Allman, who has died aged 69 after treatment for liver cancer, also enjoyed a long though intermittent career as a solo artist, a
  
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• The Velvet Underground & Nico Reimagined review – thin echoes of a pop masterpiece

  28-05-2017 14:33
  
  Clarence Docks, Liverpool
  A live celebration of the album, masterminded by onetime band member John Cale and featuring young indie guests, was a muted and messy affairThis year marks the 50th anniversary of The Velvet Underground & Nico, the magnum opus that appeared during flower power’s full bloom and brought to pop infinite new sonic possibilities and radically darker themes, from drug abuse to sadomasochism. With its influence stretching from David Bowie to Lady Gaga, perhaps Brian
  
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• Selena Gomez Has Teased Some 13 Reasons Why Season 2 Details

  28-05-2017 13:22
  
  The star has given an update on the next season of the hit Netflix show
  
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• Charlotte Crosby And Stephen Bear Just Shared Some Hot Bathroom And Bedroom Selfies

  28-05-2017 12:51
  
  The loved up couple are enjoying their time together on vacay
  
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• Ferne McCann Shows Off Her Teeny Baby Bump In Bright Orange Outfit

  28-05-2017 12:27
  
  The pregnant TV star is looking blooming marvellous
  
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• Your Tweets Could Affect What Happens In Season 2 Of Riverdale

  28-05-2017 12:06
  
  Veronica Lodge (aka Camila Mendes) has the details of how YOU could shape the future of the show
  
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• Lil Yachty: Teenage Emotions review – trap’s new disruptive force

  28-05-2017 10:00
  
  (Quality Control)
  The Atlanta teen’s very modern take on hip-hop is buoyant and direct. Shame about the misogynyPunk horrified its elders; now trap appals its listeners’ parents. Nineteen-year-old Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty, though, presents a very modern controversy. Releasing his first official album after two mixtapes and a slew of featured verses, Yachty isn’t just sifting the youngsters from the fossils with an annoying, Auto-tuned warble. He is gleefully disrupting hip-hop
  
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• Billy Bragg: ‘It’s my duty to make people go away feeling they’re not alone’

  28-05-2017 10:00
  
  The singer-songwriter on his new book – Roots, Radicals and Rockers – the political power of music and his thoughts on turning 60Billy Bragg, 59, is a musician, author, broadcaster and leftwing activist who fronted the 1980s Red Wedge movement with, among others, Paul Weller. Bragg’s albums include Talking With the Taxman About Poetry, and Shine a Light with Joe Henry. He has helped curate Glastonbury festival’s Left Field stage since 2010. His new book, Roots, Radicals a
  
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• Aldous Harding review – a stare in the making

  28-05-2017 10:00
  
  Omeara, London
  New Zealand’s latest export is a compellingly theatrical performer of her extraordinary songsAldous Harding fixes a person in the front row of this tiny venue with a basilisk stare. It seems to last an age. Really, it’s just the matter of a few hushed and pregnant bars of fingerpicked guitar. Then the extraordinary New Zealand folk singer pouts, juts her chin out like Keith Richards, manspreads her white-trousered legs on her stool, rolls her eyes back and opens her mo
  
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• The Amazons: The Amazons album review – cookie-cutter indie debut

  28-05-2017 09:00
  
  (Fiction)The first warning is that standard-issue indie-band name, nicked from a legendary race of superwomen by four young men from Reading. The second is opener Stay With Me, which barrels in like a generic version of the Vaccines, minus the active ingredient. The rest of this radio-ready debut is a solid base of Razorlight (Holy Roller, Junk Food Forever) and late Kings of Leon (Burn My Eyes), with occasional harder rock topnotes. The songwriting is cookie-cutter, resorting too often to hamme
  
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• Kondi Band: Salone review – West African folk meets US house

  28-05-2017 09:00
  
  (Strut)Transatlantic dialogue takes a new twist on this collaboration between a Sierra Leonean thumb pianist and a North American DJ. It’s a heartening story. Sorie Kondi is a blind street musician from Freetown, a one-man band with few assets beyond a string of cassette releases and a website, which is where DJ Chief Boima came across him. A remix of Sorie’s Without Money, No Family ensued and led to this collaboration. Boima’s touch is light, adding discreet beats to Sorie&rs
  
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• Hank Mobley: Four Classic Albums review – bursting with wit and invention

  28-05-2017 09:00
  
  (Avid)For once, the word “classic” is justified. A tenor saxophonist of infinite subtlety and an ingenious composer, Hank Mobley was somewhat overshadowed by his contemporaries, Rollins and Coltrane. At his best, though, he was unbeatable, and these four albums – Peckin’ Time, Soul Station, Roll Call and Workout – are the best of his best. Recorded for Blue Note between 1958 and 1961, they burst with invention, wit and his unique brand of rhythmic sleight of hand. T
  
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• Eivør: Slør review – pleasant but faceless

  28-05-2017 09:00
  
  (A&G)As fans of Faroese electronic folk will confirm, Slør was first released two years ago. Now, in a bid to reach a wider audience, the Copenhagen-based Faroe Islander has rerecorded her 10th LP in English with assistance from poet Randi Ward. This new version, though, strips Eivør of mystique, leaving her sounding like countless other singers whose vaguely trippy music is pleasant but faceless. The melodramatic title track is Enya goes trip-hop, while the opener, Surrender,
  
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• Beth Ditto: ‘We got too comfortable, but everyone’s awake now’

  28-05-2017 08:00
  
  Bold, outspoken and punkily positive, Beth Ditto is going solo with her first album since leaving Gossip. She talks to Craig McLean about Trump, tolerance and reasons to be cheerfulOn the stage at a small London venue, Beth Ditto is dabbing away sweat and entertaining the rabid faithful. “Gossip is over, nobody’s mad, well, some people are…” riffs the former frontwoman with the American trio who shot to global fame 10 years ago with the turbo-charged gay rights anthem St
  
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• Batons drawn on summer lawns as opera rivals battle for audiences

  28-05-2017 01:05
  
  Country house audiences are spoilt for choice this yearThe sound of great opera arias will vie with summer birdsong at a record number of country house venues over the next few months, as classical performers cater to a growing taste for formal evenings of music in a rural setting.This season two new contenders – one in Surrey, the other a reinvented opera festival in Hampshire – are challenging the busy country house scene, already well established at Glyndebourne in Sussex, at Worm
  
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