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• The Scariest Motel In The USA Is Up For Sale

  30-07-2017 22:23
  Hope you like clowns.
  
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• A Serenade to Music review – Come ho! Schubert rarities make for a stellar season send-off

  30-07-2017 20:22
  Wigmore Hall, London
  Franz Schubert’s range of influences were brought to the fore in a fascinating and often beautiful programme of lesser-known worksThe closing concert of the current Wigmore season was a remarkable occasion on several counts. It rounded off the hall’s two-year survey of Schubert’s complete lieder with a first-half sequence of largely forgotten songs, duets, choruses and cantatas. After the interval came a celebration of music itself as a harmonising force th
  
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• SUBEME LA RADIO Remix (Ft. Sean Paul) (Lyric Video)

  30-07-2017 20:19 via mtv.co.uk
  SUBEME LA RADIO REMIX (Lyric Video)
  
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• Martin Garrix Shut Down MTV Crashes Plymouth 2017 With Mind-Blowing Performance

  30-07-2017 19:10
  Plus sets from Wilkinson, Gorgon City, Jax Jones, R3WIRE & Varksi made it a truly unforgettable day and night…
  
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• DL Menard obituary

  30-07-2017 19:03
  Cajun and country singer-songwriter best known for The Back DoorSeeing DL Menard for the first time, a lean guitar-slinger with a seen-it-all gaze, you would guess that he was an old-school country singer. Then he would speak or sing, in English or French, in the accent of southern Louisiana, and you would take him to be a Cajun musician. Both identifications would be correct. Menard, who has died aged 85, embodied the mixed DNA of Cajun and country music, and was proud of his nickname, “t
  
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• Y Not festival cancelled due to muddy conditions

  30-07-2017 17:55
  Festival in Derbyshire unable to go ahead as heavy rain leads to abandoned performances and waterlogged tentsA festival has been cancelled due to safety concerns after heavy rain, prompting complaints that organisers had failed to prepare for the realities of British summer time.Y Not festival in Derbyshire was called off on Sunday after acts had already been forced to abandon their performances due to dangerous conditions. Continue reading...
  
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• Is Justin Bieber Set To Take A Two Year Break From The Music Industry?

  30-07-2017 15:20
  The cancellation of his Purpose tour has set the rumour-mill into overdrive.
  
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• Cambridge folk festival review – May-bashing, protest songs and a conga line

  30-07-2017 15:20
  Cherry Hinton, Cambridge
  Folk-fest veteran Shirley Collins, Fantastic Negrito and a frantic Frank Turner made the weekend’s pallid country-pop acts a distant memory
  ‘Hello,” said Grace Petrie sweetly, “I’m a protest singer.” Murmurs of approval. “Actually, I’m a socialist, feminist, lesbian, leftwing protest singer …” The place erupted.
  Martin Carthy suggested recently that something intrinsic was lost to British folk when it relinquis
  
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• Sophie Kasaei On The Struggles Of A Long Distance Relationship With Joel Corry

  30-07-2017 14:51
  It's not always as easy as they make it look.
  
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• People Are Going To Extreme Lengths To Recreate Harry Styles’s Dimples

  30-07-2017 13:41
  That breathtaking smile can actually be bought.
  
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• I Feel Love review – a moving celebration of sexual freedom and LGBT rights

  30-07-2017 13:11
  City Hall, Hull
  Will Young, Alison Moyet and others raise the rafters in a heartfelt tribute to the end of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act – with a reminder of how far there is to goHeadlined by Will Young, Marc Almond and Alison Moyet, this concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of sexual freedom – simultaneously broadcast on Radio 2 - doesn’t lack party atmosphere. There are ticker-tape explosions and massed singalongs of the Village People’s YMCA and Donna Summer&rsquo
  
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• Vicky Pattison Reveals How She’s Changed Since Her Geordie Shore Days

  30-07-2017 12:56
  There's a 0.01% chance you'll find her dancing on tables these days.
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Proudly Presents Kris Jenner’s Bikini Body: “Looking Like A Snack”

  30-07-2017 11:47
  Move over Kim, Kylie, and literally everyone else.
  
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• Love Island’s Kem And Amber Just Landed Their First Ever Joint Presenting Role

  30-07-2017 11:17
  These two will be back on screens soon.
  
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• On my radar: Feist’s cultural highlights

  30-07-2017 11:00
  The Canadian singer-songwriter on discovering podcasts, the ritual of eating good food, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unrealised sci-fi epicLeslie Feist, better known as Feist, was raised in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and later Alberta. Playing in bands from the age of 15, she released her solo debut, Monarch, in 1999 and soon after began collaborating with her then-flatmate Peaches. Feist gained recognition in her home country around the release of her 2004 album, Let It Die, and
  
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• Jemma Lucy Hints She’ll Have Sex With Men And Women On Celebrity Big Brother

  30-07-2017 10:45
  The former Ex On The Beach star is "open" to finding a partner.
  
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• Love Island’s Alex Beattie Responds To Reports He And Montana Brown Have Split

  30-07-2017 10:26
  Is love dead?
  
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• Playlists for the summer: musicians and DJs choose their favourite tunes

  30-07-2017 10:00
  Whether your summer is a beach, a boat trip, a roof party or just throwing stones at bottles on a warm night, we have the perfect seasonal soundtrack – thanks to Rag’n’Bone Man, Charli XCX, Ezra Furman, Kesha and othersThis summer’s been absolutely amazing for me. We’re playing festivals in Australia, Japan, all over. We went to Toulouse, and we played a festival in Switzerland right on Lake Geneva. My whole band and I went out together on a boat and we all got to d
  
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• Plan B review – Bard boy makes good

  30-07-2017 10:00
  Shakespeare’s Globe, London
  The Globe proves an inspired backdrop for Ben Drew’s dramatic live return, complete with gremlins and groundlings
  Plan B loves a bit of drama. The rapper, singer, actor and film director also known as Ben Drew has chosen an arresting venue – Shakespeare’s Globe – to stage his live return, in anticipation of a forthcoming album. It is as yet untitled, and five years in the making.Yes, there was his short outing for Radio 1 in May, but this
  
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• Arcade Fire: Everything Now review – partying all the way to the apocalypse

  30-07-2017 10:00
  (Columbia)
  Win Butler and co counter the excesses of global infotainment with a rousing mix of disco, electropop and killer tunes
  This fifth Arcade Fire album could be subtitled “Content and its Discontents”. Everything Now takes as its starting point the vast terabytes of cultural perma-chatter that fill our shrinking attention spans. The Roman writer Juvenal identified “bread and circuses” as the tool by which emperors kept the populace mollified. We’re well into
  
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• Viper Central: The Spirit of God & Madness review – bluegrass and the rest

  30-07-2017 09:00
  (Self-released)A continent lies between the Appalachian mountains and British Columbia, but Vancouver boasts a thriving bluegrass scene, and two previous albums have shown this Canadian group have a fine grasp of the fiddle and banjo dynamics and “barn-burning tempos”. Their outreach is wide, however, embracing western swing, blues and rockabilly, mixing Al Dexter’s I’m Losing My Mind Over You and Gram Parsons’ Luxury Liner with their own material. Singer Kathleen N
  
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• Vic Mensa: The Autobiography review - righteous anger with a dose of humour

  30-07-2017 09:00
  (Roc Nation)Vic Mensa’s life story unfurls on Memories on 47th St, a tour of the rapper’s upbringing in Chicago. Lyrically dextrous, some of it is familiar from testimonies past: absent father, “kicked out of kindergarten”, police brutality, tagging graffiti; someone HIV-positive shoots up. Then Mensa falls from a bridge and gets a huge electric shock sneaking into Lollapalooza. This is a rapper who bristles with righteous anger and no little humour, dramatising heists (H
  
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• Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 review – long-lost classic

  30-07-2017 09:00
  (Saga)Recorded to accompany Roger Vadim’s film adaptation of the 18th-century novel, this music has not been heard in more than half a century, except at rare screenings. It’s typical Monk – angular, mercurial, introspective – played by his regular quartet of the time, plus French saxophonist Barney Wilen. When I saw the film, many years ago, I thought the whole story seemed touched by a strange, Monkish ambivalence. This time, I was simply overjoyed to encounter a long-l
  
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• Katie Von Schleicher: Shitty Hits review - Portishead meets the Beatles

  30-07-2017 09:00
  (Full Time Hobby)Mostly, this debut tilts at Portishead covering the Beatles’ I Want You (She’s So Heavy), with some success. Compared with her 2015 demo collection, Bleaksploitation, the richer production allows Von Schleicher’s full-throated vocals to impress, swooping and keening above serpentine riffs and distorted drums. At first, the jauntier, slightly derivative rockers signal strongest, then the darker ballads and self-scouring lyrics lure you in. Nothing builds to a bl
  
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• Juanita Stein: America review – ambling solo debut

  30-07-2017 09:00
  (Mute)As frontwoman of Howling Bells, a deliciously dark Australian rock band with country twangs to lose your heart in, Juanita Stein’s solo debut should be a thrill. These roads, though, are just too well worn, ambling through Nancy’n’Leeville on Florence – a tribute to the woman depicted in Dorothea Lange’s 1936 Migrant Mother photograph – stopping by Patsy Clinetown for Cold Comfort. The Chris Isaak romance of Dark Horse and the dusty space rock of Black W
  
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• Ethan Gruska: Slowmotionary review – hushed, but where are the hooks?

  30-07-2017 08:59
  (Sire)As one half of the Belle Brigade with elder sister Barbara, Ethan Gruska released two albums of harmony-drenched west-coast rock. His solo debut is an altogether more sparse affair, his voice often backed by just piano or, on occasion, acoustic guitar. With the exception of Rather Be, the incongruously rocking Time Is the Healer and the quite wonderful Reoccurring Dream, the effect is to largely bury the hooks that defined his previous outfit. His newfound minimalism does bring his lyrics
  
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• La clemenza di Tito; Prom 16 review – dark deeds in a Roman quagmire

  30-07-2017 08:30
  Gyndebourne, Lewes; Royal Albert Hall, London
  Musical brilliance saves Mozart from a watery Glyndebourne grave. Plus an evocative Julian Anderson premiereSwamps are treacherous places – ask Donald Trump, so keen to drain the one he believes festers at the heart of Washington DC. And in the vision of director Claus Guth and designer Christian Schmidt, ancient Rome had another, seething with intrigue and feverish with divided loyalty. And also just plain difficult to get around.Making their
  
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• Michael Spyres: Espoir CD review – hits all the high notes

  30-07-2017 08:25
  Michael Spyres (tenor), the Hallé/Rizzi
  (Opera Rara)The specialist label Opera Rara has issued a pair of bel canto “collection” discs, this one featuring the American tenor of the moment (the other is Echo by soprano Joyce El-Khoury). Michael Spyres has chosen mainly French repertoire made famous in its day by Gilbert Duprez (1806-96), credited as the first modern tenor. Arias from Donizetti’s Rosmonda d’Inghilterra, Halévy’s La reine de Chypre and Aub
  
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• Isaac: The Time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Maximilian I CD review – Savall and co excel

  30-07-2017 08:20
  La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XXI/Savall
  (Alia Vox)This splendidly planned chronological survey takes us from 1450 to 1519 in the company of one of the finest Renaissance composers, Heinrich Isaac. Praised by Webern, Aldous Huxley and many others, Isaac is still not fully recognised, except perhaps for the elegiac song Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen, wistfully done here. There’s a vast range of expression, from laments and motets to carnival songs and ceremonial music. Jordi Sa
  
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• Telemann: Fantasias for Viola da Gamba CD review – a delight

  30-07-2017 08:15
  Robert Smith (viola da gamba)
  (Resonus)Brought back into the daylight after centuries, these 12 fantasias for viola da gamba from 1735 by Georg Philipp Telemann are a delight. Their rediscovery in a Lower Saxony archive in 2015 revealed music of astonishing range, each fantasia possessing its own character and compositional signature. No 2, in D major, for instance, dances with an infectious jollity; No 4 in F major plumbs the depths of despair. Whatever the mood, this is playing of exceptional
  
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• Grocer Jack has his day as A Teenage Opera finally goes on stage

  30-07-2017 01:05
  Keith West and Mark Wirtz’s haunting 60s hit is centrepiece of completed showGrocer Jack – properly known as Excerpt from a Teenage Opera – the strange novelty song that made the number one spot in the charts worldwide in the late 1960s, is now to be heard on stage for the first time, as the mysterious “lost musical” it was written for is finally completed.The song was written by Mark Wirtz as part of a show to have been called A Teenage Opera and is still regularly
  
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