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• Will Young: ‘People confuse me with Olly Murs. That tests me. I thought I was better-looking.’

  07-07-2017 18:28
  
  It’s funny being a 38-year-old pop star, but the Pop Idol winner is now a writer, activist and podcast host, too. He talks about Gay Pride, homophobia at the BBC – and why he quit Strictly Come Dancing
  Will Young has lived in his beautiful country cottage for six months, and I can’t work out how much of the house’s contents belong to the popstar or were left by a previous, elderly, owner. There is heavy furniture, gardening books, and paintings the colour of dust; a
  
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• No Lie (Ft. Dua Lipa) (MTV Live Stage)

  07-07-2017 16:36 via mtv.co.uk
  
  No Lie (Ft. Dua Lipa) (MTV Live Stage)
  
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• Five Things We Learned At Kings of Leon's BST Hyde Park Show

  07-07-2017 16:12
  
  They didn’t Waste a Moment winning us over...
  
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• Watch The FREAKY AF Trailer For New Horror Movie WISH UPON – Exclusive!

  07-07-2017 15:45
  
  Scary stuff AND Barb From Stranger Things?! Sign us up!
  
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• Clean Bandit’s Disconnect: so gossamer light it almost tickles

  07-07-2017 15:00
  
  Also this week: Vince Staples new one has all the subtlety of a brick, while Maliibu Miitch takes a walk on the dark sideTRACK OF THE WEEK Continue reading...
  
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• A little help from my friends: the guest stars transforming pop albums

  07-07-2017 14:30
  
  Recent records by DJ Khaled, Calvin Harris and Gorillaz show the format is being overloaded with endless musical cameosAs the world we call pop gets all het up about who’s in the right, Katy or Taylor, Beyoncé or Jay-Z, summer 2017’s real battle is taking place elsewhere. From Calvin Harris’s Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1 to Gorillaz’ Humanz, the season’s hottest debate is who’s got the most guest star-festooned album – and what’s in it for them? R
  
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• This Swedish Music Festival Is Banning All Men In Response To Mass Sexual Assaults

  07-07-2017 14:27
  
  Comedian Emma Knyckare is taking a stand.
  
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• Review: Bleachers Bring Their Wild Hearts To London’s Bush Hall

  07-07-2017 14:08
  
  Go and see them live immediately.
  
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• Kele Okereke webchat – your questions answered on protest music, Pixar films and #GrimeForCorbyn

  07-07-2017 14:08
  
  The Bloc Party frontman shared his stories about meeting Vanilla Ice while wasted, working with Olly Alexander and his impending graphic novel 1.08pm BSTThank you very much for letting me into your comment section! I hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me. Peace out bitches! 1.07pm BSTDomingoSunday asks:A lot of Bloc Party’s older catalogue consist of songs of protest. With George W Bush, music formed part of an effective and pervasive counter-culture, but against Trump no level
  
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• Who's Actually Left In Taylor Swift's Squad? Because Lorde Just Implied That She Isn't

  07-07-2017 14:07
  
  Is anyone in the squad anymore?
  
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• Brother

  07-07-2017 13:51 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Brother
  
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• Arcade Fire review – disco grooves and midlife crises incite rapture

  07-07-2017 13:48
  
  Castlefield Bowl, Manchester
  With Abbaesque new songs alongside older shoutalong ones, the Canadian band keep the euphoria flowing even as they reinvent their soundFor a band who have sometimes been accused of taking themselves too seriously, Arcade Fire know how to throw a party. Drums and guitars are played over band members’ heads while singer Win Butler showers water over the open air amphitheatre’s crammed in crowd, who rapturously bellow every “whoah ohh”. Meanwhile
  
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• Mary Anne Hobbs: ‘I’d rather gnaw my own leg off than go to Ibiza’

  07-07-2017 13:30
  
  The BBC 6 Music DJ and long-time champion of bleeding-edge electronic music empties her psychic record bag Continue reading...
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Thinks Chloe Ferry Needs To Get Over Marty McKenna

  07-07-2017 13:11
  
  And she's got some classic advice.
  
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• Animal Shelter Denies Lena Dunham's Claims Her Dog Was Was Abused Before Adoption

  07-07-2017 13:09
  
  Lena owned her dog for four years before giving him up to a professional dog facility.
  
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• The Rock Is Planning A Fast & Furious Spinoff

  07-07-2017 13:06
  
  NEED TO SEE THIS.
  
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• Billie Lourd And Taylor Lautner Have Reportedly Split

  07-07-2017 13:02
  
  Why why why why why.
  
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• Did Scott Disick Just Send Bella Thorne A Huge Bouquet Of Flowers Or What?

  07-07-2017 13:01
  
  It's impossible to keep up with these two.
  
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• Jemma Lucy Straddles Rumoured Ex On The Beach Star Girlfriend Zaralena Jackson

  07-07-2017 12:58
  
  Packing on the PDA.
  
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• Unpredictable

  07-07-2017 12:49 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Unpredictable
  
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• The Man

  07-07-2017 12:40 via mtv.co.uk
  
  The Man
  
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• 19 Awkward Stages Of Getting It On At A Music Festival

  07-07-2017 12:37
  
  Tent acrobatics, trying not to get caught and the whole people overhearing issue.
  
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• Tupac letter claims race issues caused breakup with Madonna

  07-07-2017 12:19
  
  In a letter written from prison the same year as his death, the rapper suggests Madonna’s race was problematic for his career, leading to the couple’s splitA newly unearthed letter penned by rapper Tupac Shakur reveals personal details of his relationship with Madonna, explaining how their eventual split was prompted by racial tensions.The letter, dated 15 January 1995, would have been written from a New York prison where Shakur was serving a four-and-a-half year sentence for sexual
  
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• Coldplay and Craig David: this week’s best UK rock and pop gigs

  07-07-2017 12:00
  
  The pop superstars continue their world tour in Dublin and Cardiff, while the R&B man brings his banging tunes to Rochester and CleethorpesIf your last remaining shred of affection for Chris Martin and co had been eviscerated by their painful flirtation with EDM and the godawful Chainsmokers collaboration that followed, prepare to be confused – new single All I Can Think About Is You sees them resurrect the gauzy Radiohead rip-off melodies that made the band’s early work so hypno
  
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• Edward Grimes Gets Stood Up On Single AF, So He Dates A Horse Instead

  07-07-2017 11:54
  
  Of course
  
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• Aaron Chalmers Weighs In On Love Island Couples Discussing Marriage And Babies

  07-07-2017 11:54
  
  Incredible response.
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Kesha, Liam Payne, Jennifer Lopez and more...

  07-07-2017 11:48
  
  Listen to this week's best new music from HAIM, Coldplay, AJ Tracey and more...
  
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• Bad bromance: what's going on with Jay-Z and Kanye?

  07-07-2017 11:00
  
  Business disagreements, traded insults and on-stage meltdowns have left the former bosom buddies recast as hip-hop’s best-known frenemiesThe mercurial visionary and the unflappable hit machine, Kanye West and Jay-Z, have been dominating hip-hop together for years. Kanye’s beats inform what’s often called Jay’s best album, 2001’s The Blueprint, and Jay later launched Kanye’s career as a rapper on his Roc-A-Fella label. They teamed up for 2011’s acclaimed
  
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• Casey Johnson Calls Farrah Abraham A Witch After She Blocks Him On Twitter

  07-07-2017 09:45
  
  But Elliot reckons there's more to it...
  
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• Broken Social Scene: Hug of Thunder review – invigorating emotional anthems

  07-07-2017 09:00
  
  (City Slang)With 15 members and a rickety yet ambitious sound, Broken Social Scene have the feel of a Merry Pranksters-style hippie cult, and their shared values and sense of community prove bracing in an age of Trumpian individualism. With members like Feist and Emily Haines back in the fold for the band’s first album in seven years, every song is big, anthemic and emotionally invigorating, with the jazzy breakbeats in the rhythm section keeping them endearingly dog-eared rather than pomp
  
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• All aboard Warpaint's world tour – in pictures

  07-07-2017 08:00
  
  From cramped buses to Icelandic spas, the four women of experimental indie rock band Warpaint have tasted all sides of life on the road. Tour manager Robin Laananen captured it all through her camera, and shares her inside storyContinue reading...
  
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• Haim: Something to Tell You review – California gleamin' by LA's glossy sister act | Alexis Petridis' album of the week

  07-07-2017 07:00
  
  Haim return with another album of polished sun-soaked rock and pop perfection, which they want you to know they wrote all by themselves
  In January, Este Haim offered a slightly prickly explanation for the four-year gap between her band’s debut album, Days Are Gone, and its follow-up. The delay had been caused, she noted, not just by the extensive promotion of its predecessor, or Haim’s apparent perfectionism in the studio, but because: “We write and produce everything ourselves
  
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• The world's most remote music festival – in pictures

  07-07-2017 02:19
  
  The Birdsville Big Red Bash country music festival in Australia’s Simpson Desert takes place on a claypan in front of a 40-metre-high sand dune – a two-day drive from the nearest major city, near Queensland’s border with South Australia. This year’s festival features Missy Higgins, Lee Kernaghan, James Reyne and Mark Seymour Continue reading...
  
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