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• Who Is Nicole Dutt? Everything You Need To Know About The Ex On The Beach Star

  01-06-2017 22:12
  
  Ex On The Beach starts Tuesday 20th June at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• Who Is Jordan Wright? Everything You Need To Know About The Ex On The Beach Star

  01-06-2017 22:12
  
  Ex On The Beach starts Tuesday 20th June at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs influenced by dub

  01-06-2017 21:00
  
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 5 June This week we’re looking at dub – and the music it has influenced over the past 60 years or so.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 5 June to post your nomination and make your justification. RR contributor George Boyland (who posts as sonofwebcore in the comments) will select from your recommendations and produce a playlist, to be published on 8
  
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• Gaz Beadle Has Already Been Linked To Another Reality Star Following His Split From Emma McVey

  01-06-2017 18:03
  
  The Geordie Shore parsnip is back in action.
  
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• Re-rewind! The odd tale of how UK garage legends Artful Dodger became Original Dodger

  01-06-2017 17:54
  
  The DJs who made Craig David a household name have returned, though – having signed away their own name – they never really went away Pete Devereux and Mark Hill seem to be perpetually surprised by their popularity. When their 1999 Artful Dodger track Re-Rewind with Craig David took them from “struggling to pay the rent” to “doing Top of the Pops every other week” it caught them completely off-guard. Indeed, for the entirety of their 18-month flash of mega-suc
  
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• Katy Perry's Twitter Followers Are Mostly Bots, So Guess Who's Really The Most Followed Celeb?

  01-06-2017 17:18
  
  'Cos baby now we got bad bots, HEY
  
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• Loads of Festival Hair Ideas That Don't Involve Flower Crowns, Thank F***

  01-06-2017 17:17
  
  Looking for some festival style inspo? Here's a load of dreamy hairstyles to try this summer, over at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Orchestre Poly-Rythmo review – Benin veterans return in stomping style

  01-06-2017 17:02
  
  The Venue, London
  One of west Africa’s finest bands are back with a new album and should become festival favouritesThe 10 musicians came on stage chanting, dressed in matching white and red uniforms, then launched into a tight, confident set that justified their role as the latest lineup of one of west Africa’s finest bands. And yet the group, who hail from Cotonou on the south coast of Benin, have never quite enjoyed the success they deserved. Formed in 1968, in the 70s they became
  
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• Watch Foo Fighters Rock With The Elderly In Surprise New Track ‘Run’

  01-06-2017 16:29
  
  Geriatric Foo Fighters are the best Foo Fighters.
  
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• Who Is Dean Ralph? Everything You Need To Know About The Ex On The Beach Star

  01-06-2017 16:04
  
  Ex On The Beach starts Tuesday 20th June at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• Richard Dawson: Peasant review – muddy glorious

  01-06-2017 16:00
  
  A concept album set in medieval north Britain shouldn’t work. But Dawson’s way with lyrics and melodies makes it unique and often breathtakingIt’s hard to stop certain alarm bells ringing before you’ve even heard a note of Richard Dawson’s sixth solo album. The follow-up to 2014’s acclaimed Nothing Important is, we are informed, a song cycle based on the lives of inhabitants of Bryneich – a kingdom in Yr Hen Ogledd, or the Old North – in the early
  
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• Graduating Student Gets Three Hour Delay On Subway, So Passengers Throw Him An Onboard Ceremony

  01-06-2017 15:42
  
  This student missed his graduation thanks to subway delays, so the passengers threw him their own ceremony instead. See more at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham: ‘I said to Christine, ‘You can’t leave again’

  01-06-2017 14:41
  
  The guitarist talks about how Christine McVie – with whom he has recorded a duet album – rejoined the bandHello Lindsey. Where are you? I’m in London and it’s quite hot.I’m in Los Angeles and you’d think it would be hotter, but it’s actually quite cool. Continue reading...
  
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• Kiss review – bombast and nostalgia from a slick, monetised hit machine

  01-06-2017 14:02
  
  O2 Arena, London
  After Gene Simmons waggles his tongue for the 100th time, it feels as if you are humouring a beloved grandad’s party trick – then paying themPretty much any band who plod on well into their fifth decade will have long ago passed the point of self-parody. This rule of thumb does not apply to Kiss, who splendidly sidestepped the problem by being a masterclass in self-parody from day one.It’s been 44 years and more than 100m record sales since the face-painted, se
  
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• 10 Reality Show Couples Gush About Their Love And It Will Melt The Coldest Of Hearts

  01-06-2017 13:50
  
  GET US SOME TISSUES
  
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• Love Island's Olivia Buckland Reveals The Teary Way She Found Out About Cara De La Hoyde's Pregnancy

  01-06-2017 13:49
  
  Adorable.
  
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• You're Going To Want These New Lego Dimensions Minifigs

  01-06-2017 13:44
  
  Is ANYTHING cuter than these?!
  
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• Selena Gomez Has Her Say On A Rumoured Collab With Boyfriend The Weeknd

  01-06-2017 13:34
  
  Are The Weeknd and girlfriend Selena Gomez finally gonna collab on some music? Find out over at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Czech conductor and former BBCSO chief Jiří Bělohlávek dies aged 71

  01-06-2017 13:07
  
  The conductor who led the BBC Symphony Orchestra for six years has died after a long illnessRelated: Facing the music: Jiří Bělohlávek Jiří Bělohlávek, former chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, has died, aged 71, after a long illness, the Czech Philharmonic said on Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about welcoming

  01-06-2017 13:00
  
  A reader talks us through a playlist chosen from your suggestions – this week Björk, Bob Dylan and Fats Domino all make the cut
  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.Here in the American south, it’s been said that proper welcomes come only in the form of a smile or a shotgun. To the contrary, our playlist suggests,
  
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• New Order: eschewing heritage rock for a conceptual synth orchestra

  01-06-2017 13:00
  
  Not for New Order the safe haven of a classic album tour. Instead, the band are artfully reconfiguring their back catalogue. ‘Creative people like to do something new,’ says Bernard Sumner.It’s not easy being the vanguard of technology. When Joy Division metamorphosed into New Order after the death of singer Ian Curtis in 1980, the band found a new direction by exploring the possibilities of synthesizers and decided, with misplaced confidence, to take the machines on tour. &ldq
  
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• Marnie Simpson Swears Off Cosmetic Surgery After Completing Her 10th Procedure

  01-06-2017 12:48
  
  She's done.
  
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• Bella And Gigi Hadid's Father Could Go To Jail Over His Crazy New Mansion

  01-06-2017 12:47
  
  Gigi and Bella Hadid's dad is in trouble for building his new mansion and could even go to prison for it. Read more over at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• Your First Time, As Told By GIFs

  01-06-2017 12:26
  
  "What do I do with my hands??"
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Dishes The Details On Her Dream Wedding To Stephen Bear

  01-06-2017 12:09
  
  Charlotte Crosby's already planning her dream wedding to boyfriend Stephen Bear. Find out her plans over at MTV.co.uk.
  
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• 'Simon Fuller did his market research': remembering the Spice Girls' US invasion

  01-06-2017 12:00
  
  Twenty years ago this week the British pop act brought Girl Power to the states, and with it ideas of friendship and sexual freedom that shocked, but were eventually accepted by small-town AmericaI turned 15 in my mother’s hometown of Dumfries, Scotland, in 1996, where we’d decamped from upstate New York for the summer. Wannabe was on the radio and for rainy days (all of them) I had a thick stack of glossy issues of Hello! and OK! to sift through. I gleaned weekly updates on the well
  
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• Liam Gallagher: listen to his debut solo single Wall of Glass

  01-06-2017 11:37
  
  Gallagher debuts a robust blues-rock anthem as he denies rumours of an Oasis reunion at the benefit concert for victims of the Manchester Arena attackLiam Gallagher has unveiled his debut solo single, Wall of Glass, having debuted it at an emotional Manchester concert earlier this week.Buoyed by bluesy harmonica and pounding drums, it’s a robust offering from the former Oasis frontman, who said he worked with Adele superproducer Greg Kurstin to give his forthcoming album more melodic heft.
  
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• The new Beatles’ dazzler: Sgt Pepper reviewed - archive, June 1967

  01-06-2017 11:20
  
  The Beatles are forgetting their ability to write tunes is Guardian critic Edward Greenfield’s verdict on Sgt Pepper, while the Observer’s George Melly feels there is a ‘tendency to overdo the curry powder’Alan Johnson’s Sgt Pepper pilgrimage: “It was a musical high from which I’m yet to descend”The new Beatles’ dazzler
  By George Melly
  The Observer, 4 June 1967On the collage sleeve of their new record – Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely He
  
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• Party, Instagram & Chill Like A Beyonce-Level Baller In Anguilla

  01-06-2017 10:12
  
  Live the Instagram-Rich-Kid dream in this Caribbean hideaway...
  
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• Chloe Moretz 'Appalled And Angry' About Her New Animated Movie's Body-Shaming Poster

  01-06-2017 09:45
  
  Not cool.
  
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• Alan Johnson's Sgt Pepper pilgrimage: ‘The album put me on a musical high from which I’ve yet to descend’

  01-06-2017 08:00
  
  In May 1967, Johnson was 17, playing in a band and waiting for the Beatles’ new album. Fifty years after Sgt Pepper’s release, the retiring MP heads to Liverpool to join the city’s celebration of the LPI am standing “beneath the blue suburban skies” of Penny Lane on a gloriously sunny day in Liverpool; outside the barber’s shop, opposite what used to be the tram terminal, not far from the bank and the fire station. I watch as a constant stream of tourists seek
  
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• Flux: New Music, New Dance CD review – the best new ballet from Rambert

  01-06-2017 07:45
  
  Rambert Orchestra/Hoskins/Fidelio Trio/Onyx Brass/Thom/Zaccardelli/Quinta
  (NMC)The days of new ballet scores transferring quickly to the concert hall are long gone, but Rambert has been so good at selecting the recipients of its annual music fellowship that perhaps this will change. This disc showcases five dance works by recent fellows, whose inspirations range from unintentionally comic 70s public-information videos on what to do in the event of nuclear Armageddon – the seed of Gavin Hig
  
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• Dusapin: Quatuors VI and VII CD review – from dense hyperactivity to icy stillness

  01-06-2017 07:30
  
  Arditti Quartet/OPRF/Rophé
  (Aeon) The Ardittis have already recorded the first five of Pascal Dusapin’s string quartets for Aeon, and this disc (released alongside a collection featuring all his pieces for solo cello) adds the most recent, two works composed in 2009. Except that, strictly speaking, Quatuor VI, subtitled Hinterland, isn’t a string quartet at all, but rather a work for quartet and orchestra. Four of its five movements are a sequence of tentatives d’é
  
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• Simone Dinnerstein: Mozart in Havana CD review – buoyant, robust and elegant

  01-06-2017 07:15
  
  Dinnerstein/Havana Lyceum Orchestra/Méndez Padrón
  (Sony)Not yet a decade old, comprising professionals and students, the Havana Lyceum Orchestra doesn’t have the venerable history or the fancy instruments of their Strad-toting counterparts on the Mozart recordings you already own. Yet this disc of two of Mozart’s best-known piano concertos – made in the Oratorio de San Felipe Neri in the Cuban capital – is well worth shelf space. Nothing here sounds hackneye
  
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• Singing? I'm still trying to get the hang of it

  01-06-2017 07:00
  
  Singing was never his first choice, but three decades into an internationally acclaimed career, British bass Brindley Sherratt puts pen to paper to risk a few words of advice for a younger generationHonestly, I’m a little daunted by this. The next few sentences were going to be full of reasons why I don’t think I’m qualified to hand out advice on something that I seemed to just stumble into and am still, daily, trying to get the hang of. On the other hand, I am getting a bit wr
  
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• Diana Damrau: Meyerbeer: Grand Opera CD review – delightful all round

  01-06-2017 07:00
  
  Damrau/Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opera de Lyon/Villaume
  (Erato)Meyerbeer’s operas, once deemed too big for anyone’s good, are regaining their place – and here is Diana Damrau to show how their soprano arias should be sung. The first thing we hear is Mon Coeur S’élance from Le Prophète, its cartwheeling, two-octave leaps dashed off with smiling, oh-this-old-thing nonchalance. Damrau’s easy grace, brilliant tone and pliant expressiveness is everywhe
  
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• Hotel California owner says Eagles' trademark claim is 'baseless'

  01-06-2017 03:31
  
  The company behind the hotel in Baja California ‘flatly denies’ trying to mislead travellers into thinking it is linked to the famous bandThe owner of a Mexican hotel being sued by the Eagles for using the name Hotel California has called for the case to be dismissed.Hotel California Baja, the company which runs the Todos Santos hotel in Baja California, said the band long ago waived its trademark rights, having waited four decades to assert them since releasing the song Hotel Califo
  
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