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• Jax Jones’s Instruction: a Macarena for our times

  14-07-2017 15:00
  
  Also this week: Drake is making music for Louis Vuitton – no, really – while Haim phone it inTRACK OF THE WEEK Continue reading...
  
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• Sex with your ex: the perils of getting the band back together

  14-07-2017 14:30
  
  Spandau Ballet are the latest band to reunite then combust again. So, why does it keep happening? Related: Only when you leave: Tony Hadley quits Spandau Ballet IF YOU’RE A MEMBER OF ABBA, STOP READING NOW! If you’re not one of the four human beings in whose potential-reuniony hands rest both the success of Glastonbury 2019 and the future of all human existence, let’s face some facts: band reunions are lovely for punters, but if you’re in a band they are the gateway to an
  
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• Single AF: Marnie Simpson Arrives At The Paris Chateau As The Singletons Get Ready For The Next Stop In Their Romantic Journey

  14-07-2017 14:05
  
  This is going to be one HECK of a trip.
  
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• Beyoncé and the Instagram that gained 5m likes (and counting)

  14-07-2017 13:49
  
  Beyoncé has released the first photo of her newborn twins, choosing – as per – a Botticelli-inspired, floral-heavy photograph for Instagram. It’s a hyper-stylised image, and one that will likely break the internetLike every mother who has just given birth, Beyoncé is finding it tough to get dressed and leave the house. You know what it’s like: you’ve been wearing your dressing gown for days and the furthest you have been in a month is the front steps w
  
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• Zendaya And Tom Holland Respond To Rumours That They’re Dating In The Best Way

  14-07-2017 13:43
  
  The pair have been the subject of quite the tabloid gossip this week.
  
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• Daniel Miller: ‘Roland M Dill is the perfect accompaniment to morning chores’

  14-07-2017 13:30
  
  The Mute Records founder empties the contents of his psychic record bag, from Canned Heat to Michael Nyman Continue reading...
  
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• Sophie Kasaei And Joel Corry Talk Baby Plans

  14-07-2017 13:26
  
  Can they agree on potential names?
  
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• Barb From Stranger Things Gets The Justice She Deserves After Being Nominated For An Emmy

  14-07-2017 13:00
  
  At least that campaign was good for something.
  
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• Harry Styles Skipped The Dunkirk After Party To Support Lou Teasdale At Bleach Make-Up Launch

  14-07-2017 12:51
  
  Harry and Lou go way back so it was only the polite thing to do.
  
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• Staatskapelle Berlin and Zazà: this week’s best UK classical concerts

  14-07-2017 12:30
  
  Daniel Barenboim conducts the two Elgar symphonies as part of the Proms, while Opera Holland Park revives Leoncavallo’s sentimental comedyDaniel Barenboim has become an annual visitor to the Proms. The orchestra that he conducts in Berlin appears regularly with him at the Albert Hall, too, and it’s the Staatskapelle that dominates the first weekend of the new summer season with a pair of concerts in which Barenboim conducts the two Elgar symphonies. In the first of them, Symphony No
  
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• Lea Michele Shares Touching Tribute To Cory Monteith On The Four Year Anniversary Of His Death

  14-07-2017 12:26
  
  Glee stars Dianna Agron and Kevin McHale also shared messages.
  
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• "F**k It!" Friday: World Youth Skills Day Special

  14-07-2017 12:20
  
  These young people are our career inspo this week for saying "f**k it!" in order to pursue their passions, shake things up, and turn the industry on its head.
  
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• BambinO – opera for real beginners

  14-07-2017 12:15
  
  Heywood Civic Centre, Rochdale; Grange festival, Hampshire; Royal Opera House, London
  An audience of under-twos is captivated by Scottish Opera’s latest new work – and so, for many reasons, is our criticEugene, seven months old, has discarded his shirt and is down to his vest. George, quite senior at 16 months, tumbles modishly in rainbow jumpsuit. A tiny infant on all fours, frock over her head, is investigating someone’s legs. They are about to witness their first opera. Not
  
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• Taylor Swift Breaks Instagram Silence To Show Support For Selena Gomez

  14-07-2017 12:00
  
  It's been MONTHS.
  
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• Secret Garden Party and Sheer Mag: this week’s best UK rock and pop gigs

  14-07-2017 12:00
  
  Catch the final instalment of the quirky Cambridgeshire festival and take in Philadelphia’s punk-minded, groovy rockersFamed for its quirky decadence, the Cambridgeshire festival bows out this year, with founder Freddie Fellowes explaining that “you can’t be avant garde from within an institution”. Before that, they’ll stage one last almighty bash with help from Ray BLK and Peaches.
  Abbots Ripton, 20-23 July Continue reading...
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Kesha and More

  14-07-2017 11:17
  
  Listen to this week's best new music from Lana Del Rey, MNEK, Mura Masa and more...
  
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• Harry Styles Took The Sweetest Date To The Dunkirk Premiere

  14-07-2017 11:08
  
  The actor and singer has his first ever starring role in the new Christopher Nolan war flick.
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Didn't Get Any Emmy Nominations And Fans Aren't Happy About It

  14-07-2017 11:03
  
  And none for 13 Reasons Why.
  
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• Rapper DMX arrested over $1.7m tax evasion charge

  14-07-2017 10:35
  
  Earl Simmons, who scored No 1 albums in the US as DMX, is accused of a ‘multi-year tax’ evasion scheme, following a string of other criminal offencesThe US rapper DMX has been arrested on 14 counts of tax fraud, after being alleged to have concealed millions of dollars in earnings and evaded $1.7m of tax.DMX, born Earl Simmons, will appear before a judge in New York today following the arrest. As well as being charged over tax evasion and failure to file tax returns, he allegedly con
  
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• Love Island's Jess And Dom Have Done A Seriously Hot Couples Shoot For Boohoo

  14-07-2017 10:23
  
  So steamy.
  
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• Dynabeat

  14-07-2017 09:48 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Dynabeat
  
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• This Great Cole Sprouse Lookalike Also Happens To Be Someone's Aunt

  14-07-2017 09:45
  
  LO-actual-L.
  
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• As You Are

  14-07-2017 09:30 via mtv.co.uk
  
  As You Are
  
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• Beyoncé Shares First Photo Of Twins Sir And Rumi As She Confirms When They Were Actually Born

  14-07-2017 09:27
  
  It's the most Beyoncé thing she's ever done.
  
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• Beyoncé publishes photo of her twins on Instagram

  14-07-2017 09:25
  
  Photo shows singer with Sir Carter and Rumi, who are one month old, in homage to pregnancy announcement pictureBeyoncé Knowles-Carter has released the first image of her twins on Instagram, and has confirmed rumours of their names: Sir Carter and Rumi: Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today. ❤️ Continue reading...
  
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• Mura Masa: Mura Masa review – trop house brimming with nowness

  14-07-2017 08:00
  
  (Interscope)Much like Disclosure did four years ago, Guernsey producer Alex Crossan has assembled a debut record that is brimming with nowness. Swapping the Lawrence brothers’ house-garage hybrid for the dancehall-lite tones of its slightly problematic relative tropical house – and sourcing guest vocals from A$AP Rocky, Desiigner, Charli XCX, Christine and the Queens and more – he has made an album that runs the gamut from unpleasantly basic to brilliantly clever, often in the
  
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• Clean raving: how club culture went wild for wellness

  14-07-2017 08:00
  
  With non-alcoholic raves thriving and nightclubs serving up meditation and hip-hop yoga, a new breed of promoter is bringing mindfulness to the masses
  The stench of dead flesh and discarded bones wafts through a chattering crowd dressed in sequins, wacky wigs and neon Lycra. It’s 7am, and hundreds of ticket holders are waiting near Brixton’s meat market to enter a “rooftop beach” venue in south London.They’re here for the fourth birthday of Morning Gloryville, an ev
  
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• Lucy Rose: Something’s Changing review – well-travelled mellow indie

  14-07-2017 07:00
  
  (Communion Records)It’s a music industry story as old as time: DIY folkie signs to major, becomes tired of compromise, leaves label and sets off on tour across South America, sustained exclusively by the food and makeshift beds provided by fans and their families. The “if you book me a gig, I’ll come and stay” method Lucy Rose employed throughout Latin America, where she has an unexpectedly healthy audience, rejuvenated her career, but her globetrotting exploits have had
  
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• Glory (MTV Laid Bare Exclusive Commentary)

  14-07-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Bastille's Kyle and Dan talk us through their music video for 'Glory'...
  
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