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• Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington dies aged 41 – video obituary

  20-07-2017 23:29
  Chester Bennington, the lead singer of Linkin Park, died at his home in Los Angeles County on Thursday morning in what is being treated as a suspected suicide. Bennington, who was 41 years old, had been with the band since 1999. Linkin Park are perhaps best known for hits including In The End and One Step CloserChester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park, dies at age 41In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255.In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123.In
  
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• Linkin Park's Chester Bennington Found Dead, Aged 41

  20-07-2017 21:09
  
  TMZ reports the singer, aged 41, was found this morning after committing suicide...
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about repression

  20-07-2017 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 24 July We’re looking for songs where repressed emotions are expressed in tune this week. For more on how readers and our playlist picker are interpreting the theme, keep an eye on the comments.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 24 July to post your nomination and make your justification. Continue reading...
  
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• Rio Mira: Marimba del Pacifico review – slinky rhythms, haunting melodies

  20-07-2017 20:00
  (AYA)Based in Esmeraldas, a town on the Pacific coast in the north of Ecuador, and named after a river that flows just over the border in Colombia, Rio Mira rework and revitalise the music of the slaves who were brought over from Africa, some of whom escaped to find shelter in the region. The region’s music has a unique style that has been granted cultural heritage status by Unesco, but there is nothing quaint or old-fashioned about this intriguing and enchanting band. Their distinctive so
  
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• Milhaud/Martinů: Complete String Trios CD review – stripped-back, quicksilver sound

  20-07-2017 19:45
  Jacques Thibaud String Trio(Audite)“Chamber music is a genre with which one can express one’s deepest feelings,” said Darius Milhaud; just listen to the tough, halting chorales of the Modéré from his 1947 String Trio to hear what he means. There are good reasons to pair the music of the Provençal Milhaud and his Moravian-Bohemian contemporary Bohuslav Martinů. Both gravitated to jazz-crazed Paris after the first world war, but neither forgot the specia
  
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• Laucan: Frames Per Second review – a dreamy, come-hither folk debut

  20-07-2017 19:45
  (Sunday Best)
  As hotbeds of British folk go, Lewes shakes its bells loudly. Shirley Collins has long lived in the town, there is a huge celebration on bonfire night, and folk music is played in its pubs, clubs and a dedicated record shop. Townsman Laurence Galpin, AKA Laucan, dips elements of this music in more ambient waters, with fingerpicked guitars and fiddles adding textures to his songs. Tracks such as Up Tomorrow and You Give Way sound almost like offcuts from Jeff Buckley’s Grace,
  
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• Dvořák/Suk: Piano Quartets CD review – earthy themes of big-hearted beauty

  20-07-2017 19:30
  Josef Suk Piano Quartet(Supraphon) There’s lineage here: when Josef Suk signed up for composition lessons with Antonín Dvořák at the Prague Conservatory in the 1880s, he landed himself not just a mentor but also a father-in-law (he would marry Otilie Dvořák in 1898). Suk wrote his First Piano Quartet under Dvořák’s tutelage in 1891; Dvořák wrote his own Second Quartet around the same time, and one is as youthful and excitable as
  
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• Alexander Hawkins: Unit[e] review – dramatic improv with shape-shifting narratives

  20-07-2017 19:30
  (AH Music)Oxford-based keyboardist and composer Alexander Hawkins walks his own line between free-improv and contemporary-classical composition, when he isn’t touring as a world-music one-off with the veteran Ethiopian star Mulatu Astatke. A bold Hawkins balance of left-field dancefloor punch, abstract collective-improv sounds and cutting-edge composition fuels this double album, with one disc performed by the pianist’s regular sextet including Sons of Kemet stalwarts Shabaka Hutchin
  
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• Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute CD review – an articulate, buoyant delight

  20-07-2017 19:15
  Ashley Solomon
  (Channel Classics)I restarted the first piece on this album about 20 times because the sound of Ashley Solomon’s opening note, played on a grenadilla wooden flute modelled on an instrument from 1750, is just astonishing. It’s so warm, grainy, broad and breathy that it sounds more like a low recorder than a modern flute. Telemann’s Fantasias were meant for instruction as well as performance; they are a test and a bounty for flautists, a tangle of freewheeling chal
  
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• Stanley Cowell: No Illusions review – surprise-filled set from overlooked original

  20-07-2017 19:15
  (Steeplechase) The 76-year-old US pianist and teacher Stanley Cowell is an intriguing but overlooked jazz original – good enough to partner sax legend Joe Henderson in the 1970s; a visionary co-founder of the Strata-East label (it recorded Gil Scott-Heron); and an open-minded but under-recorded composer. This surprise-filled set, made with a contemporary-sounding rhythm section and eloquent Washington reeds-player Bruce Williams, is all original, save for John Lewis’s gently lyrical
  
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• The Pollyseeds: Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol 1 review – Terrace Martin's space-age soul

  20-07-2017 19:00
  (Ropeadope)For more than a decade, producer and multi-instrumentalist Terrace Martin has served as a conduit between LA’s jazz, R&B and hip-hop scenes, the missing link between artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Kamasi Washington and Robert Glasper. His latest project uses some heavyweight jazz talents but takes us into more mainstream R&B territory, with decent neosoul numbers including Intentions (featuring Chachi) and You and Me (featuring Rose Gold) mixed with rather b
  
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• Bruckner: Symphony No 3 CD review – consistently superb, with buoyant strings

  20-07-2017 19:00
  Gewandhaus Orchestra/Nelsons
  (Deutsche Grammophon)Andris Nelsons does not conduct his first concerts as music director of the Gewandhaus Orchester in Leipzig until March next year, but he has already begun his first recording project in his new role. This performance of the Third Symphony, taken from concerts in the Gewandhaus in June last year, inaugurates a complete Bruckner cycle from Nelsons and the orchestra, and he has opted to begin with what is perhaps the most contentious of the 10 symp
  
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• Spectrum Is Releasing A Mean Girls Makeup Brush Collection Complete With A Real Life Burn Book

  20-07-2017 18:23
  
  So freakin' fetch.
  
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• 11 Things That Happen When You've Been Single Forever

  20-07-2017 18:08
  
  One plus none equals one.
  
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• Avey Tare: Eucalyptus review – invigorating reminder of Animal Collective's oddness

  20-07-2017 18:00
  (Domino)The recurring criticism of Avey Tare’s solo work to date has been that it strays too close to the output of his day job as vocalist for Baltimore oddballs Animal Collective. In truth, so distinctive is Tare’s slacker warble that you could stick it on top of a recording of Gregorian chanting and it would probably still sound like his parent band. Yet, there was definitely an inescapable hint of AC’s limpid weirdo-pop on 2010’s Down There and 2014’s Enter the
  
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• Love Island's Sam Responds To Gaz Beadle Lining Him Up For Geordie Shore

  20-07-2017 17:47
  
  Would he be up for it?
  
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• 24 Pieces From The Geordie Girls' Summer Wardrobes You Can Buy Irl

  20-07-2017 17:09
  
  Haway, a pyar radgie wardrobe
  
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• Get to Know: Hak Baker

  20-07-2017 17:07
  
  We caught up with the London singer to find out a little bit more about him and his music...
  
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• The Ska Vengers: 'The worst that could happen? We could get lynched'

  20-07-2017 17:00
  India’s first ska band talk about how they got together – and how their radical lyrics have led the secret police to spy on their gigs Six years ago a Croydon-born, New Delhi-based keyboard player called Stefan Kaye corralled some local musicians to form a new band. They were, by all accounts, faintly nonplussed by his proposal. “I just never thought it would be possible,” shrugs vocalist Taru Dalmia. “I said to him,” – his voice takes on a slightly incr
  
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• Damian Marley: Stony Hill review – sweet, lamplit nothings and odes to weed

  20-07-2017 17:00
  (Island)While others in the Marley family carry on Bob’s name through premium headphones, gourmet coffee and decaffeinated tea, his youngest son continues to push reggae forward. Blockbuster trap production is put to skanking service on Here We Go, but there’s still room for classic roots on Looks Are Deceiving. Lyrically, it’s what you might expect, with odes to the medicinal properties of marijuana (Medication), lamplit sweet nothings (Grown and Sexy), and a string of sociall
  
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• Lynn Castle: the secret singer-songwriter who used to cut Jim Morrison's hair

  20-07-2017 16:26
  She spent the 60s working as a hairdresser to the stars, while hiding in a closet to write music. Now, 50 years on, her debut album is finally being releasedIt’s 8am in California when Lynn Castle answers the phone, and she hesitates briefly before confirming her identity. The 78-year-old lives as the rather more extravagantly titled Madelynn Von Ritz; interest in her old name relates to recordings made some 50 years ago, only two of which were ever released. Now, after half a century, she
  
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• Alfie Deyes Opens Up About Facing Harassment At His Home With Zoella

  20-07-2017 16:18
  
  He also reveals the pretty drastic security measures they have taken at their new home.
  
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• Declan McKenna: What Do You Think About the Car? review – sun-soaked protest songs

  20-07-2017 16:00
  (Columbia)With a major label deal and a super televised Glastonbury appearance under his belt at the age of 18, Declan McKenna has the youthful self-confidence to tackle material that older songwriters rarely touch. His subject matter ranges from the suicide of US transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn and media portrayal of LGBT communities (Paracetamol) to Fifa World Cup corruption (Brazil, penned when he was 15) and law enforcement and Black Lives Matter (Isombard). They are protest songs, but so
  
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• Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott: Crooked Calypso review – wise, witty and weighty

  20-07-2017 15:00
  (Virgin EMI)During his Housemartins days, Paul Heaton masterfully squeezed his observations about British society’s ironies and inequalities into infectious four-minute pop songs. On Crooked Calypso, his third album with his Beautiful South bandmate Jacqui Abbott, it’s a mode he returns to with gusto, his droll lyricism drilling into subject matter from obesity on The Fat Man to racial politics (The Lord Is a White Con) and the cavernous divide between rich and poor (People Like Us),
  
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• Childhood: Universal High review – coming of age with old-school pop

  20-07-2017 14:00
  (Marathon Artists) Childhood’s 2014 debut album Lacuna bore the psych-indie-pop, Stone Roses-lite hallmarks of that moment, as shared by artists such as Peace, Swim Deep and Gengahr to name but a few. Fast forward three years and – similarly to Birmingham’s Superfood – the Brixton five-piece are less aligned with specific trends, and are instead playfully tapping into old-school pop and retro soul for a free and pleasingly experimental follow-up, recorded in Atlanta. Cali
  
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• Did Kim Kardashian Just Reveal A KKW Beauty Product By Accident?

  20-07-2017 13:51
  
  She'll cry at the end of the day, not with fresh make-up.
  
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• Kim Kardashian Just Found Out That She's More Of A Chrissy Teigen Than A Kim Kardashian

  20-07-2017 13:41
  
  She's as into online quizzes as the rest of us.
  
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• The Best Summer Cover Ups To Take You From Beach To Bar

  20-07-2017 13:34
  
  For when you're craving chips and a cocktail
  
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• The Sexiest Spoilers From Ex On The Beach Series 7 Episode #6

  20-07-2017 13:31
  
  Don't miss brand new Ex On The Beach, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Ex On The Beach Spoiler Video: Chloe Ferry Kicks Off At ‘Freak’ Ex Sam Scott For ‘Barely Touching’ Her

  20-07-2017 13:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Ex On The Beach, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Dizzee Rascal: Raskit review – the grime kingpin reclaims his crown

  20-07-2017 13:00
  (Dirtee Stank/Island)
  Returning to a pop world in which the music he pioneered is huge, Dizzee has gone back to basics with a stripped-down album that shows off his lyrical skills In July 2008, Dizzee Rascal released the single Dance Wiv Me. It was both the biggest hit of his career to date and the sound of a man exasperatedly throwing in the towel, abandoning grime in a craven bid for commercial success. Who could blame him? His records had sold respectably, but not in a way that reflected the
  
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• BBCSO/Weilerstein review – simpatico siblings power expressive Prom

  20-07-2017 13:00
  Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe orchestra’s second Proms appearance this year saw Joshua and Alisa Weilerstein lead a smartly restrained recital of of Pascal Dusapin’s concertoOutscape, Pascal Dusapin’s concerto for cello and orchestra, was the novelty in the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s second appearance at this summer’s Proms. The concert was conducted by Joshua Weilerstein, and his elder sister Alisa was the soloist in the piece Dusapin composed for her, which she had p
  
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• Vicky Pattison's Grandparents Reveal The Date She'll Get Married

  20-07-2017 12:58
  
  It's about to get seriously sentimental up in here.
  
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• Love Island’s Cally Jane Beech And Luis Morrison ‘Have Split’ Following The Birth Of Their Daughter

  20-07-2017 12:53
  
  The couple who met before they went on the show have parted ways.
  
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• There's Now A Love Island Themed Hen Party Package So Great That You'll Want To Get Engaged Immediately

  20-07-2017 12:47
  
  What a time to be alive.
  
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• Horace Andy review – king of the dancehall still in fine, energetic voice

  20-07-2017 12:01
  Komedia, Brighton
  The reggae veteran has some of his eerieness smoothed out in a brisk and businesslike set – but his vibrato-laden voice remains spellbindingThere is an irony in Horace Andy’s present renown among British audiences stemming from his work with Massive Attack, who are now assumed to have been his patrons. For when the band approached him in the early 90s they were near unknowns audaciously pitching to a major name on the reggae scene – Andy was celebrated for his
  
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• Is Kyle Christie Moving On From Holly Hagan With David Hasselhoff's Daughter?

  20-07-2017 11:58
  
  The pair have been spotted out and about together.
  
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• 15 Moments From The Premiere Episode of My Super Sweet 16 That Will Make You Totally Jel

  20-07-2017 11:55
  
  Don't miss BRAND NEW My Super Sweet 16, starting Tuesday 25th July at 8pm - ONLY on MTV!
  
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• Is This Cryptic Tweet From The Weeknd A Subtweet At Selena Gomez?

  20-07-2017 11:40
  
  These mysterious song lyrics have got some fans wondering if it could spell trouble in paradise.
  
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• Randy Newman writes comic song about Donald Trump's penis

  20-07-2017 11:32
  Oscar-winning songwriter left vulgar song off new album Dark Matter so he wouldn’t ‘add to the problem of how ugly the conversation we’re all having is’Veteran songwriter Randy Newman has revealed he wrote a song about Donald Trump for his latest album – comparing the relative size of their penises.In an interview with Vulture, Newman revealed the lyrics to the song: Continue reading...
  
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• Fans Are Yet Again Convinced That Madison Beer And Brooklyn Beckham Are Dating

  20-07-2017 11:32
  
  These two are rumoured to be dating every other day, but this time there's evidence...
  
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• Woman (Ft. The Dap-Kings Horns) [Explicit]

  20-07-2017 11:24 via mtv.co.uk
  Woman (Official Video)
  
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• Butterfly Effect

  20-07-2017 11:24 via mtv.co.uk
  Butterfly Effect
  
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• Oh Woman

  20-07-2017 11:01 via mtv.co.uk
  Oh Woman
  
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• Oh Man

  20-07-2017 11:01 via mtv.co.uk
  Oh Man
  
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• Stephen Bear Leaves Fans Baffled After Claiming He And Charlotte Crosby Are Done

  20-07-2017 10:53
  
  But hold up, there's a catch.
  
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• Niall Horan Insists One Direction Would Have ‘Lost The Plot’ Without Louis Tomlinson

  20-07-2017 10:31
  
  Niall has opened up about Louis' recent comments about feeling 'insecure' in One Direction...
  
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• Pretty Girl (MTV Laid Bare Exclusive Commentary) [Explicit]

  20-07-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  Pretty Girl (MTV Laid Bare Exclusive Commentary) [Explicit]
  
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• Forgive Forget

  20-07-2017 02:00 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Forgive Forget
  
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• Radiohead perform in Israel despite opposition from activists

  20-07-2017 00:21
  
  Band play in Tel Aviv, rejecting calls from protesters and campaigners for them to join cultural boycott of countryRadiohead have performed their much-anticipated gig in Israel, after calls from protesters to cancel the show.Related: Radiohead are wrong to play in Israel. Here’s why | Dave RandallContinue reading...
  
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