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• Goldie: The Journey Man review – over-ambitious jungle epic drifts off course

  15-06-2017 23:30
  
  (Cooking Vinyl)Goldie has always been larger than life, and his giant ambition took jungle from an underground concern to music that could sketch out cityscapes in epic widescreen. That ambition is undimmed on this 100-minute-plus solo album, his first in nine years. As well as sleek and well-heeled junglism, there’s trip-hop, piano-led lounge jazz, restless, Pharrell-ish funk on Castaway, and even, on Tu Viens Avec Moi?, pleasantly noodly Balearic soft rock. But as the running time indica
  
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• Ride: Weather Diaries review – shoegaze heroes broaden their horizons

  15-06-2017 23:15
  
  (Wichita)For a genre that had shuffled out of the spotlight by the mid 90s, shoegaze is in remarkably rude health in 2017. Two months on from the well received return of Slowdive comes another assured effort from one of the genre’s big beasts, Ride, releasing their first album in 21 years. But where Slowdive’s new self-titled album felt like a meticulously preserved rendition of the feedback-swaddled sound the band were producing in their heyday, Weather Diaries sees Ride broaden the
  
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• Beth Ditto: Fake Sugar review – sequinned stompers to strut to

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  (Virgin EMI)In a world of received-pronunciation indie, wispy club-track warbling and London Grammar, it’s great to have Beth Ditto back, with her decibels to rival Aretha Franklin and flotilla of sequinned sizzle. Her first solo album since the Gossip split retells her familiar story of Arkansas gal-done-good, running the gamut of classic 1970s and 80s pop – Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, Suicide, Paul Simon – alongside the odd angular stomper that nods to the Soulwax remixes of her
  
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• Royal Blood: How Did We Get So Dark? review – an archetypal difficult second album

  15-06-2017 22:45
  
  (Warner Bros)The only guitar band on the BBC’s Sounds of 2014 list, the Brighton drums and bass (as opposed to drum’n’ bass) duo Royal Blood hit No 1 with their debut album and acquired a celeb fan in Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page. Repeating the feat hasn’t been easy: this is an archetypal difficult second album. Hard riffola, cannon fire drumming and glam preening again ignite songs pitched somewhere between Queens of the Stone Age and Muse. The duo hurl everything at
  
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• Big Boi: Boomiverse review – glitzy bangers, bold flavours and lowrider bounce

  15-06-2017 22:30
  
  (Sony)As Migos and Lil Yachty maintain Atlanta’s reputation as a hotbed of rap talent, one of its pioneers is stalling. Following 2015’s collaboration album with Phantogram comes a new solo record that throws bold flavours into the pot but ends up absent of subtlety and distinction. The 80s funk jam Mic Jack folds Maroon 5’s Adam Levine into the mix, conjuring images of Cameo’s red codpiece and side-stepping on a sticky club floor. Glitzy banger Chocolate is a tad tacky.
  
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• The Go-Betweens: Right Here review – love and thunder on film

  15-06-2017 21:00
  Red Dog director Kriv Stenders’ documentary delves into the triumphs and tragedies of the indie rockers – and may even win them new fansThe Go-Betweens inspire an awful lot of devotion for a band who never sold many records. I’m not even sure anybody merely likes the Brisbane band, who existed from 1978 to 1989 and again from 2000 to 2006: you either love them, or you don’t.While most of their contemporaries from the early days are little remembered, if at all, the Go-Bet
  
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• Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter: 'Music is about intensity … the rest is just noise'

  15-06-2017 20:06
  
  Kraftwerk reinvented pop in the 1970s, but never dreamed they could stage a multimedia spectacular. Their founding member grants a rare interview to talk about Europe, Detroit clubs and why Twitter is ‘nonsense’For someone with a reputation for – how can we put this politely – taking their time over things, Ralf Hütter isn’t one for hanging around tonight. Kraftwerk have just completed a mesmerising set at the Brighton Centre – all laser-precise beats and
  
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• Kathryn Williams: Songs from the Novel Greatest Hits review – read the book first

  15-06-2017 20:00
  
  (One Little Indian)Imagine if your favourite books came with a soundtrack. How much more swept up would you be if they had a surging musical undertow, just as they do in the movies? That’s the idea explored here by folk musician Kathryn Williams and author Laura Barnett, the former having written the accompaniment to the latter’s new novel about a Joni Mitchell-like singer who retreats from fame after her 70s heyday. For Williams, who has previously conceived a concept album about Sy
  
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• Songhoy Blues: Résistance review – Malian guitar band ready to take on the world

  15-06-2017 19:45
  
  (Transgressive)Just over two years ago, when Songhoy Blues played in a bar in Camden, north London, I suggested that the Malian guitar band had “all the makings of African-rock crossover heroes”. And now here they are, firmly established as the continent’s new young celebrities, with a second album that aims for the widest possible international market. Their original influences were desert blues and traditional Songhai styles, but here these are transformed by tight, attacking
  
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• Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas CD review – high-voltage intelligence

  15-06-2017 19:45
  
  Rustem Hayroudinoff(Onyx)Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata is one of the most notoriously challenging works in the late-romantic repertoire, but its lesser known predecessor, completed six years earlier in 1907, is no less demanding. Pairing the two on a disc, separated by the last piece Rachmaninov wrote, an arrangement of a Tchaikovsky song, means there’s a great deal of high-voltage playing on Rustem Hayroudinoff’s disc. But he always uses his prodigious technique intelligen
  
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• David Bowie honoured with three blue plaques on BBC Music Day

  15-06-2017 19:33
  
  Significant locations in late musician’s career – Soho, Maidstone and Hull – chosen for plaques honouring ‘one of our shining sons’David Bowie has been honoured with a commemorative blue plaque outside the Soho studios where he recorded Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The plaque is one of 47 being installed around he country as part of BBC Music Day, which pays tribute to those who have shaped Britain’s musical lan
  
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• Gaby Hernandez: Spirit Reflection review – weird and wonderful Brazilian grooves

  15-06-2017 19:30
  
  (Mr Bongo)She’s a Chilean-American from Los Angeles who sings in English and Spanish, but Gaby Hernandez’s electro-acoustic creations are heavily informed by the weirdest and most wonderful areas of Brazilian music, from bossa nova to funk carioca. Lo Mas Dulce is a futuristic update of Tropicália, where a clattering berimbau groove is overlaid with space-age synths. Entranced is a galloping bossa waltz where the entire song is sung on a single note, like Jobim’s One Not
  
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• Big Boi: 'Me and Andre 3000 are in a whole other dimension'

  15-06-2017 18:58
  
  As he readies his new solo album, the Outkast star talks of his love for Kate Bush and reveals his plan to rent his infamous Boom Boom Room to Marvel’s stable of superheroesAntwan André “Big Boi” Patton is telling me that he and his sometime partner in Outkast, Andre “3000” Benjamin, are two of the greatest rappers of all time. “Nobody can rate what’s not on the scale, man. We’re in a whole other dimension. We’re musicians, artists, pr
  
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• YouTube Star Austin Jones Charged Over Child Pornography

  15-06-2017 18:52
  
  He is accused of soliciting images from two 14-year-old female fans.
  
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• The Sexiest Spoilers From Ex On The Beach Series 7 Episode #1

  15-06-2017 18:37
  
  It's a holiday from Hell for 8 hunks and hottiesl Ex On The Beach is back for a brand new series. DO NOT miss the first episode on Tuesday, 20th June at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• 12-Year-Old Saves Friend's Life Using First Aid She Learnt From Reading The Hunger Games

  15-06-2017 17:44
  
  Keep calm and create a tourniquet
  
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• 15 Posts That Are Way Too Real On A Hangover

  15-06-2017 17:13
  
  Dry mouth dry mouth dry mouth,
  
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• Get To Know: Sabrina Carpenter

  15-06-2017 17:05
  
  This week's featured artist is Sabrina Carpenter...
  
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• Young MA: ‘Music is where I’m going to speak about my sexuality’

  15-06-2017 17:03
  
  The Brooklyn rapper broke through last year with the infectious OOOUUU. A year later – not to mention multi-platinum sales and 200m YouTube views – she’s ready to talk about being attracted to women and touring with BeyoncéIn Young MA’s stripped-back Brooklyn studio, there are no cameras, or fans scrambling for autographs, just a red leather couch, a small bathroom, and equipment to create her debut album. Dressed in a backwards baseball cap, sweatshirt, sweatpants
  
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• Love Island 2017: The Cast's First Instagram Selfies Are Almost Unrecognisable And It's Everything

  15-06-2017 16:52
  
  OMG CHLOE....
  
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• Stradella: Santa Pelagia CD review – light touch for colourful composer's engaging oratorio

  15-06-2017 16:30
  
  Ensemble Mare Nostrum/De Carlo(Arcana)Alessandro Stradella was one of the most colourful characters in the 17th-century Italian baroque. Though many details about his career as a composer remain sketchy, the circumstances of his death at the age of 42 in Genoa, as the victim of hired assassins, are not disputed. Stradella made enemies easily, perhaps because he was notoriously promiscuous, and his murder was not the first attempt on his life. Around 300 of his works survive, including four opera
  
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• Liam Payne Reads Out Dirty Tweets About Himself And It’s Beyond Cringe

  15-06-2017 16:20
  
  But at the same time it's really quite incredible.
  
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• This New Drug Will Give You A Natural Suntan Without Ever Going Outside

  15-06-2017 16:14
  
  Could this spell the end of fake tan forever?
  
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• Fleet Foxes: Crack-Up review – luscious harmonies and lyrical heaviness

  15-06-2017 16:00
  
  The band’s third album is alternately intriguing and irritating, garlanded with wonderful orchestrations, gorgeous melodies … and their trademark pretensionsOver on genius.com – a website where music fans annotate lyrics – Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold has recently been hard at work explaining his own song Third of May/Ōdaigahara. A track from the band’s latest album, it now features 27 annotations in Pecknold’s hand, covering everything from its a
  
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• Big Brother 2017: Marnie Simpson Leaps To Charlotte Crosby's Defense As Kayleigh Morris Reignites Feud

  15-06-2017 15:42
  
  Marns is sticking up for her lass.
  
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• Every Night Out Ever As Told By One Direction GIFs

  15-06-2017 15:20
  Basically it gets to 10pm and you just want to eat five kebabs and call it a night.
  
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• A Gif By Gif Account of Selena Gomez’s Incredible ‘Bad Liar’ Film

  15-06-2017 15:17
  
  The ‘Bad Liar’ popstar returns to her acting roots in her latest music video.
  
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• Otello: opera, identity politics and blacking-up

  15-06-2017 14:13
  
  Opera companies now eschew the once traditional black makeup for the lead in Verdi’s masterpiece, but it remains a controversial issue that highlights the need to nurture more diverse talentGerman tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his eagerly anticipated title role debut in the Royal Opera’s new production of Verdi’s Otello on 21 June. The audience’s only desire will be to “listen, transported” – like Desdemona – to Kaufmann’s opening salvo, Esultat
  
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• Made in Chelsea's Binky Felstead Shares Cute Pic Of Her New Baby Girl

  15-06-2017 13:18
  
  Who's looks has she inherited?
  
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• Bachelor In Paradise Cast Members Speak Out For First Time Since Allegations Of ‘Misconduct’ Forced Filming To Be Suspended

  15-06-2017 13:17
  
  Both Corinne and DeMario have released statements.
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs that say what love is

  15-06-2017 13:00
  
  A reader goes through your nominations seeking the meaning of love, with Roxy Music, New Order, Madness and Sade among those offering answersHere 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.Veteran rock band Foreigner sure want to know what love is. Instead of telling them to go off and Google it, let’s enlist the help of a se
  
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• Hailey Baldwin Says She's Not An Instagram Model: "Don't Ever Call Me That"

  15-06-2017 12:54
  
  Noted.
  
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• Love Island 2017: Meet New Guy Mike Who Says He Has ‘No Loyalty’ And Already Has His Eyes On THREE Of The Girls Who Are Taken

  15-06-2017 12:26
  
  We're sure that will go down suuuuper well....
  
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• Ex On The Beach Extended Preview: Marty McKenna Tashes On First And There's Major Dramz When Our Singletons First Meet

  15-06-2017 12:14
  
  Don't miss brand new Ex On The Beach Season 7 starting on Tuesday 20th June @ 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Katy Perry Slams Awards Shows For Being 'Fake' And Claims She's No Con Artist

  15-06-2017 12:13
  
  So much shade
  
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• Big Brother 2017: Gemma Collins Left Fuming After Chanelle McCleary WEES On Her In The Hot Tub

  15-06-2017 11:56
  
  Not quite the VIP experience she'd hoped for.
  
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• YouTuber Louise Pentland Just Announced That She's Pregnant

  15-06-2017 11:54
  
  Cuuuuuute.
  
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• From Candy To Prince, Jason Derulo Gives Us The Inside Story On His 'Swalla' Music Video

  15-06-2017 11:50
  
  “I thought it would be cool to have a band with all women,” Derulo told us. “I always thought that Prince was the flyest because he had a band with all beautiful women."
  
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• Shawn Mendes Stands His Ground During Fight With Alleged Autograph Tout

  15-06-2017 11:23
  
  Shawn will do anything when it comes to justice for the fandom.
  
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• Love Island: Camilla And Jonny head for Splitsville, Marcel Gets A Snog And A New Boy Is On His Way

  15-06-2017 11:18
  
  And feminism takes a downwards turn...
  
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• Cole And Dylan Sprouse Had The Sweetest Of Reunions On Instagram Stories

  15-06-2017 11:01
  
  Correction: Suitest.
  
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• Yoko Ono could get songwriting credit for Imagine – 46 years late

  15-06-2017 10:22
  
  The process to credit Ono on John Lennon’s 1971 hit has begun, decades after he acknowledged her poetic influence on itYoko Ono is being lined up for a songwriting credit on her husband John Lennon’s hit ballad Imagine, 46 years after it was written.Variety reports that the news was announced at a National Music Publishers Association event in New York, by the association’s CEO, David Israelite. He played a recording of Lennon arguing that Ono deserved a songwriting credit for
  
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• Adele And Rita Ora Visit Those Affected By Grenfell Tower Tragedy And Offer Their Support

  15-06-2017 09:58
  
  The fire has taken the lives of 12 people with that number expected to rise in the coming days.
  
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• How to take the perfect rock shot

  15-06-2017 09:00
  
  Taking pictures at gigs is harder than it looks. Jono White, who’s shot the likes of Wolf Alice from the middle of a moshpit, has some simple tips for success …Don’t rush things. Stop and wait for the photo to come to you. Too many music photographers frantically scurry around the pit to force a moment or chase a shot. The likelihood is, you’ve already lost it, so wait. If you’re constantly chasing a moment that’s already happened, you’re going to miss
  
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  15-06-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  
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