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• Farrah's Latest Single AF Date Did NOT Go As She Expected

  30-06-2017 19:39
  
  Was hunky model Luca a hit or a miss?
  
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• 6 Reasons Why Barcelona Is The Place To Live The High Life This Summer

  30-06-2017 17:38
  
  Rooftop cocktails, amazing architecture and ALL THE SANGRIA...
  
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• Australian Rapper Miles Glyphers Unveils New single 'On Me'

  30-06-2017 16:46
  
  Miles Glyphers is the 21-year-old rapper who’s getting Australian rap on the map!
  
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• Maleek Berry Releases New Track ‘Been Calling’

  30-06-2017 16:36
  
  Following the runaway global success of his ‘Last Daze of Summer’ EP - spawning the global underground hit ‘Kontrol’ which has amassed over 46 million streams in less than a year – artist and producer Maleek Berry returns with the release of his new track ‘Been Calling’.
  
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• Calvin Harris: Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1 review – EDM's Mr Darcy warily eyes a post-disco future

  30-06-2017 16:05
  
  The $60m DJ corrals a firmament of stars from Rihanna and Pharrell to Lil’ Yachty for this somewhat apprehensive, understated 80s-tinged solo album Interviewed in a recent issue of a men’s lifestyle magazine, Calvin Harris exudes a quiet confidence, as indeed you might if your job netted you an alleged $300,000 a night. Once a prickly and difficult interviewee, he now gives out a Zen-like calm – uninterested in the thoughts of critics who suggest almost no one in musical histor
  
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• Courtney Act Shuts Down Gender Trolls In The Sassiest Way: 'I'm Here To Educate'

  30-06-2017 15:24
  
  Serving educational realness
  
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• "F**k It!" Friday: Ariana Grande

  30-06-2017 15:10
  
  Ariana's our "F**k It!" Friday inspo this week, here's why...
  
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• Daphni’s Tin: a slick and summery techno banger

  30-06-2017 15:00
  
  Also this week: The Horrors take a walk on the dark side, while MIA finally shrugs the weight of the world off her shouldersTRACK OF THE WEEK Continue reading...
  
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• The Way I Are (Dance With Somebody) (Ft. Lil Wayne)

  30-06-2017 14:59 via mtv.co.uk
  
  The Way I Are (Dance With Somebody) [feat. Lil Wayne]
  
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• Nintendo Switch Leak Reveals New Feature That CHANGES EVERYTHING

  30-06-2017 14:42
  
  OMG we hope this is true!
  
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• Costa del pop: how Despacito is breaking down music's language barrier

  30-06-2017 14:30
  
  Move over Macarena: Luis Fonzi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s hit is the unmistakable sound of summer. Could the rest of pop music follow suit? Related: Why Despacito is the perfect summer song in Trump's America | John Paul Brammer The schools may not yet have broken up, but the song of the summer has been decided. From the beach-side botecos of Rio to the cheesy discos of Andalucia and the indoor malls of British commuter towns: Despacito. The track, by Puerto Rican crooner Luis Fonzi
  
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• Jay-Z: 4:44 review – a bracingly honest but conservative confessional

  30-06-2017 14:08
  
  The rapper’s first album since the infidelity accusations on Beyoncé’s Lemonade sees him rowing back on recent hubris and doing battle with his egoBack in the 80s and 90s, rap albums just got released. No matter how big the artist, it was simply another album, and rarely a cultural event that had people up in the night, waiting to analyse every lyric. How Jay-Z must wish it were 1996 now, the year he released Reasonable Doubt without the weight of the world on his shoulders. N
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Sónar Festival 2017 Was So Damn Hot

  30-06-2017 14:07
  
  We're already dreaming of 2018...
  
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• Teen Mom UK's Amber Butler Reveals Some Fans Mistake Brooklyn For A Girl Because Of His Cute Long Hair - EXCLUSIVE

  30-06-2017 14:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Teen Mom UK, starting Wednesday 19th July at 8pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Celebs Took To Twitter To Wish A Boy Who Was Being Bullied Happy Birthday

  30-06-2017 14:00
  
  Spoiler alert: Stormzy was one of those celebs...
  
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• ASOS Models Are Showing Off Their Stretch Marks And It's Awesome

  30-06-2017 13:36
  
  The brand isn't airbrushing them out and everyone is loving it.
  
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• Big Brother 2017: Savannah O'Reilly Evicted As Housemates Face Shock New Twist

  30-06-2017 13:34
  
  This won't do wonders for house morale.
  
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• DEBONAIR: ‘Underneath it all, I’m for ever an indie kid’

  30-06-2017 13:30
  
  The NTS Radio presenter and EBM, proto-techno and house DJ empties her psychic record bag Continue reading...
  
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• Impostor Syndrome: The Phobia You Probably Already Have

  30-06-2017 13:29
  Ladies, does this sound familiar?
  
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• Summer City Break Makeup Essentials

  30-06-2017 13:26
  
  Now that summer's here it's time to bring out the heroes of our makeup bags, the products that can withstand the heat of a city break...
  
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• The Maccabees review – farewell gig creates powerful fan communion

  30-06-2017 13:17
  
  Alexandra Palace, London
  Re-energised and euphoric, the band sweep away any knock-kneed flimsiness for a full-bodied final bowThere’s much to be said for perseverance. Seven years ago and two albums in, the Maccabees, if not quite the “landfill indie” of Britain’s post-Libertines era, were orbiting around it. They had the squiggly, needling guitars, the clattering drums, and from Orlando Weeks, the then customary quavering, hyper-emotive vocals. What did set them apart wa
  
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• 'I think I'm in with a chance': Annie Lennox 'scouted' by US radio

  30-06-2017 12:47
  
  Multiple award winning singer shares a message from radio employee inviting her to submit music for considerationAnnie Lennox has shared a message from a radio station employee who asks the singer to submit her music for consideration to be played on the radio station. The former Eurythmics lead singer, who has won eight Brit awards and four Grammys, shared a picture of the correspondence on Facebook, writing alongside it: “I think I’m in with a chance ??!!!”Continue reading...
  
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• What Actually Happens When You Try To Make Friends Online Using Bumble BFF

  30-06-2017 12:36
  
  Because trying to make friends as an adult is hard.
  
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• Courtney Act's Date Meets Shane For The First Time - So Did Sparks Still Fly?

  30-06-2017 12:36
  
  Time for round 2
  
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• Cheltenham festival and Macbeth: this week’s best UK classical concerts

  30-06-2017 12:30
  
  The Carducci Quartet play two days of Mendelssohn’s piano music, while Buxton hosts a new production of Verdi’s first attempt at a Shakespearean operaCheltenham music festival opens with a feast of chamber music in the Cotswolds. The Carducci Quartet, with pianist Charles Owen and baritone Marcus Farnsworth, take up residence for two days of Mendelssohn’s piano music, trios, quartets and songs, ending with his joyous teenage Octet.
  At Syde Manor, Cheltenham, 7-8 July Continue r
  
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• 10 Of The Best New Movies To See At The Cinema In Summer 2017

  30-06-2017 12:17
  
  Round up the squad and head to the cinema...
  
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• Mitridate, re di Ponto; Billy Budd; Ariadne auf Naxos review – a starry week at the opera

  30-06-2017 12:10
  
  Royal Opera House, London; Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh; Glyndebourne, Lewes
  A top cast dolls up for Mozart’s Mitridate. Plus a heart-stopping Billy Budd and a dazzling newcomer at GlyndebourneIn its cross-cultural hash – whirling dervish, kabuki mask, baroque gesture, classical peruke, all suffused in dazzling colour – the Royal Opera production of Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto is certainly spectacular. Gleaming and highly stylised, characters wearing wide hooped skirts i
  
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• Window Seat

  30-06-2017 12:00 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Window Seat
  
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• Ramsey Lewis review – grandmaster of jazz delivers wit, warmth and poignancy

  30-06-2017 11:56
  
  Ronnie Scott’s, London
  The Chicago superstar darted between soul, blues and Latin dance in an agile set that showcased his infectious funkinessLike the late Nina Simone, Ramsey Lewis was a gifted church pianist who harboured childhood dreams of classical piano fame but found inspiration in jazz, blues and soul when he was told there were no jobs for African American classical recitalists in the 1940s. And like Simone, Lewis turned that disappointment into a unique fusion of song-rooted gos
  
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• Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall Just Went Seriously Blonde And Obviously Looks Amazing

  30-06-2017 11:54
  
  Jade Thirlwall Or Daenerys Targaryen?
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Confirms She Had A Secret Fling With THIS Made In Chelsea Star

  30-06-2017 11:49
  
  Why-aye! Who could've guessed it?
  
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• Women Tell Us About Their First Gig One Month On From The Attack In Manchester

  30-06-2017 11:47
  
  The attack killed 22 people, many of them young women and children.
  
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• Marnie Simpson Says She Loves Casey Johnson As They Get Close In Cancun

  30-06-2017 11:27
  
  Wait, this wasn't the plan guys
  
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• Cole Sprouse Just Reminded Us That Ed Sheeran And KJ Apa Were Once In A TV Show Together

  30-06-2017 10:50
  
  Oh the joy that Cole brings us on a daily basis.
  
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• John Grimes Gives A Brutal Review Of His Single AF Date: 'It's Not All About Looks'

  30-06-2017 10:04
  
  The shaaade of it all
  
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• Liam Payne Stole Niall Horan’s Glasses For When He Met The Queen

  30-06-2017 09:57
  
  NIALL CALL THE POLICE YOUR GLASSES ARE ON THE RUN.
  
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• Washed Out: Mister Mellow review – plunderphonic chillwave gems

  30-06-2017 08:30
  
  (Stones Throw) Having become ever more hi-fi in recent years, Ernest Greene, prince of the none-so-hipster chillwave genre, returns to the chewed-tape aesthetic he started out with, and comes up with some psychedelic, plunderphonic gems. A little like the Avalanches, Mister Mellow has found vocal samples swimming in and out of organ tones, baggy hip-hop rhythms and tropical exotica, topped with Greene’s naive, stoned singing style. There are only a handful of actual songs, linked by burbli
  
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• Your Song

  30-06-2017 08:05 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Your Song
  
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• Drew Barrymore

  30-06-2017 08:05 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Drew Barrymore (Official Video)
  
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• TLC: TLC review – Chilli and T-Boz turn back time

  30-06-2017 08:00
  
  (Cooking Vinyl)From the beginning of their self-titled fifth album, it’s clear that TLC are keen to prove that they are, indeed, TLC. Understandably so, for the case against is convincing: this is the first album the band have released without any input from the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, generally considered the trio’s creative nerve centre. The opener No Introduction – a hyped-up list of their achievements, ironically enough – might feel forced, but from th
  
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• Flash the flesh: Manchester's gay club heroes – in pictures

  30-06-2017 08:00
  
  From sweaty encounters at the Haçienda to cross-dressing pageants in seedy pubs, Manchester’s music scene has always loved LGBT culture. The curator of new show Queer Noise talks us through its finest moments – and golden codpieces Continue reading...
  
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• Time travel, BHS and urine – the strange world of folk singer Richard Dawson

  30-06-2017 07:30
  
  The Newcastle singer meticulously researches the worlds he conjures up in song – and that can mean details of local history or the minutiae of medieval dyeing processes, he explainsIn the kitchen, Richard Dawson stands before the refrigerator, looking like a man who hasn’t quite grown into his house yet. It is only a handful of weeks since he and his partner, Sally, moved here after years of house-sharing, and he still seems surprised by domesticity and the newfound space around his
  
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• The best albums of 2017 so far

  30-06-2017 07:00
  
  From Richard Dawson’s medieval Britain to Pixx’s super-contemporary take on pop – plus sharp records by stars such as Kendrick Lamar and Drake – 2017 is already shaping up to be a great musical yearMore on the best of 2017: Film | TV | Video gamesContinue reading...
  
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• How pop music built liberal Britain | John Harris

  30-06-2017 06:59
  
  The tents may be down but the spirit of Glastonbury lives on – while the Tories are stuck in the 1950sBritish Conservatism – with both a big and small “c” – is once again feeling the pangs of crisis. Tory optimists might be hanging on to the fact that their party has just scored its highest vote share since 1983; as Brexit grinds uncertainly on, Britain remains in the grip of an avowedly rightwing vision. But the last time a Tory government was elected with a convin
  
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