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• Harry Styles Wants To Star In Legally Blonde 3!

  23-07-2017 15:32
  Harry Styles reveals that he wants to star in the Legally Blonde threequel and we are so on board.
  
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• Check Out The Absolutely Action Packed New Trailer For Thor: Ragnarok

  23-07-2017 14:49
  It's thunder vs death in the explosive new teaser
  
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• DUNKIRK Cast Reveal Favourite Memories & Harry Styles Tells His Best Joke

  23-07-2017 14:30
  You've got to hear Harry Styles tell his best Knock Knock joke.
  
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• Is Justin Bieber Mentoring Cruz Beckham To Become The Next Pop Superstar?

  23-07-2017 14:26
  The Sorry singer thinks the youngest Beckham son could be a huge star
  
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• Selena Gomez Predicts An 'Epic' Year Ahead As She Celebrates Her Birthday

  23-07-2017 14:13
  Selena turned 25 on 22 July 2017
  
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• Have You Heard What Shocking Sex Drug Muggy Mike Smuggled Into The Love Island Villa?

  23-07-2017 14:01
  Maybe Mike Thalassitis wanted to be on top performance for his second time in the villa
  
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• Harry Styles & The DUNKIRK Cast Answer YOUR Fan Questions

  23-07-2017 13:50
  Dunkirk stars Harry Styles, Ffion Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney and Jack Lowden answer YOUR burning questions.
  
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• You Won't Believe How Much Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt Are Going To Make After Love Island

  23-07-2017 13:34
  The reality show lovers are going to be rich as well as loved up
  
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• Vicky Pattison Defends Love Island Couples For Having Sex On TV

  23-07-2017 13:16
  The Geordie Shore lass thinks they're just doing what every young couple is doing
  
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• Max Morley Thinks Charlotte Crosby Might Ruin Her Relationship With Stephen Bear?

  23-07-2017 12:50
  What is he on about?!
  
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• Charlotte Crosby And Stephen Bear Prove They Are Still In Love In The Cutest Way

  23-07-2017 12:26
  Reports that the pair had 'split' were so wrong
  
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• Lana Del Rey: Lust for Life review – topical tunes and retro bombs

  23-07-2017 10:00
  (Polydor)
  The singer looks outward on her fourth album in a state-of-the-nation address peppered with guest stars and pop history flashbacksMost pop stars innovate every album cycle, a fraught hustle that is of a piece with this era’s frantic audio production values. That’s all beneath Lana Del Rey.The ageless 32-year-old arrived at a languid sound, a detached authorial voice and a set of obsessions on her 2012 debut Born to Die, and her fourth album remains true to them all. One fin
  
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• Jorja Smith review – homegrown R&B’s new voice

  23-07-2017 10:00
  Electric Brixton, London
  The Walsall prodigy combines soul with classical grace in a set full of shiny new songs – so why such a long wait for her debut album?By the time you’re 20, no one is really judging you on your A-levels any more. But its worth noting that the soulful R&B phenomenon Jorja Smith – playing a sweltering, one-off gig tonight – once wrote an A-level dissertation entitled “Is Postcolonialism Still Present in Grime Music?”Her defining sing
  
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• Sibusile Xaba: Open Letter to Adoniah review – unworldly and haunting jazz

  23-07-2017 09:00
  (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)South African jazz has a distinguished history that includes giants such as Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, and lesser-known talents such as guitarist Philip Tabane, whose minimalist style is a major influence on this double-CD debut. Like Tabane, Xaba mixes fragmented lines with repeated phrases, all played acoustically to bass and drums, and integrated with high, scatting vocals. Of the two albums here, Unlearning and Open Letter to Adoniah, the latter is his respo
  
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• Dizzee Rascal: Raskit review – the grime lord returns

  23-07-2017 09:00
  (Dirtee Stank)While Dizzee Rascal was busy infiltrating the mainstream with chart-friendly fusions, grime came back. Raskit – his sixth album – is the veteran MC’s back-to-basics response, some of it predictable but much of it riveting. “I was on the mic when you were in playschool,” he sneers on Ghost. A few tracks hark back to the genre’s early days, but Make It Last has little nostalgia for the shootings and back-stabbings. Tracks like Everything Must Go ar
  
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• Daphni: FabricLive 93 review – euphoric moments from Caribou’s Dan Snaith

  23-07-2017 09:00
  (Fabric)Caribou’s Dan Snaith continues his trek from psych pop’s backwaters to the heart of the dancefloor with this mix entirely made from his Daphni project’s productions. This sort of tracklist narcissism would once have been ill-judged on club albums, but now that they have been overshadowed by not-mixed mixtapes and streamed playlists, it’s a spectacular act of generosity to give up 27 new songs to a DJ mix. Snaith’s joy at intermingling delicate melodies with
  
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• Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley: Stony Hill review – timelessly consistent reggae

  23-07-2017 09:00
  (Island/Republic)Reggae royalty Damian Marley’s fourth solo album comes 12 years after its predecessor but Stony Hill remains in largely familiar territory. Polished production, rich brass and uplifting ensemble vocals bring to life insightful, often potent social commentary about the power of people, love, and medical marijuana. It’s not groundbreaking, nor is there anything as immediate as on 2005’s Welcome to Jamrock - but be it laidback classic reggae as on Medication, intr
  
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• Avey Tare: Eucalyptus review – brilliant, but infuriating, beats

  23-07-2017 09:00
  (Domino)Avey Tare’s second solo album starts with a simple strum and ends, via reflections on the qualities of coral, with strange whirring sounds and a cry of rage. Audacious, cryptic and meandering, Eucalyptus is both brilliant and infuriating, thanks mainly to the Animal Collective man’s refusal to ditch the half-formed workouts that litter this LP. When Tare reins in his more outlandish instincts, as on Melody Unfair’s rococo folk and the jumpy tribal pop of Jackson 5,
  
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• Liane Carroll: The Right to Love review – emotional depth, superb arrangements

  23-07-2017 08:59
  (Quiet Money)Liane Carroll’s talents, as singer, pianist and all-round musical force of nature, seemed to defy all efforts to capture them successfully on record. Until, that is, she began working with producer James McMillan. This, their fourth album together, displays a characteristic mixture of deceptive simplicity and emotional depth. Following the loose theme of attitudes to love, Carroll calls on songs by, among others, Stevie Wonder, Tom Waits, Jacques Brel and Hoagy Carmichael, who
  
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• Declan McKenna: What Do You Think About The Car? review – full of indie promise

  23-07-2017 08:59
  (Columbia)The debut album from 18-year-old Hertfordshire singer-songwriter Declan McKenna suggests that the “voice of a generation” hyperbole he’s already attracted might be a little premature, yet there is much here that impresses. He certainly stands out from his peers, his hook-laden indie coming with atypically socially aware lyrics, whether at a macro (Fifa corruption on Brazil) or micro level (the bullying of transgender teens on Paracetamol). There’s a pleasing mat
  
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• Strauss: The Complete Songs 8 CD review – three great performers

  23-07-2017 08:25
  Nicky Spence (tenor), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)(Hyperion)This is the last in this superb series, devised by Roger Vignoles, of all Richard Strauss’s 174 songs for voice and piano. Those for voice and orchestra were excluded – until now. Vignoles argues the case for including the Vier letze Lieder, the composer’s famous farewell to life, in the piano transcription by Max Wolff and (only Im Abendrot) Ernst Roth. Strauss’s piano writing is alr
  
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• Peter Fribbins: Dances, Elegies and Epitaphs CD review – clear, sinuous melody

  23-07-2017 08:15
  Philippe Graffin (violin), Christopher Hart (trumpet), RSNO/Šervenikas(Resonus)This refreshing recording takes its name from the subtitle of Peter Fribbins’s concerto for violin and orchestra, a showcase for Philippe Graffin and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra that brims with vitality and clear, sinuous melody. Fribbins (b1969) takes Purcell’s Sonata in G minor as a starting point to reimagine the dance forms of one age for our own era. It’s an immediately engaging
  
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• When did charming become cranky? Why a middle-aged Morrissey is so hard to love

  23-07-2017 01:05
  As a new biopic England is Mine charts the Smiths singer’s early life, fans speak of their disillusion at his increasingly outspoken viewsLike countless musicians, managers and record labels before them, the makers of the new movie England Is Mine have discovered that nothing is easy where Morrissey is involved. The unauthorised biopic follows ambitious young Steven Patrick Morrissey up to the point, in 1982, when he met guitarist Johnny Marr and formed the Smiths, the most fiercely belove
  
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