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• Juggalos march on Washington: ‘We’re a family not a gang'

  17-09-2017 17:29
  Fans of the band Insane Clown Posse protested against the FBI’s gang designation, as nearby a pro-Trump rally drew a smaller than expected crowd
  In 1864, Abraham Lincoln was being besieged by a clown.
  Dan Rice, the most famous clown of the time – he was also an animal trainer and a strongman – was running for state senate in Pennsylvania. He had based his campaign on attacking Lincoln over his handling of the civil war. Continue reading...
  
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• LCD Soundsystem review – euphoric dancefloor pop reignited

  17-09-2017 16:59
  The Warehouse Project, Manchester
  Six years after a farewell tour, frontman James Murphy gets back under the glitterball to revive his special brand of thunderous, emotional dance musicAt midnight in Manchester, blue neon bathes the bricks of a former air-raid shelter under Piccadilly station. The floor is sardined with young clubbers and ageing, ecstatic ravers, all heralding a band currently at No 1 in the US.Related: LCD Soundsystem: American Dream review – virtuosic comeback full of ha
  
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• Charlotte Dawson Spent Almost £1,000 During Date Disaster

  17-09-2017 14:26
  Charlotte was stiffed with all the bills when she embarked on a saucy trip to Amsterdam
  
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• Ed Sheeran Forced To Cancel US Gig Over Violent Protest Fears

  17-09-2017 14:13
  The star was due to play in St Louis, Missouri, on Sunday night
  
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• So Jennifer Lawrence Once Auditioned To Play A Lead Role In Gossip Girl

  17-09-2017 13:56
  JLaw's loss was Blake Lively's gain
  
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• Rob Kardashian’s Break-Up With Blac Chyna Just Got A Lot More Expensive

  17-09-2017 13:41
  The couple split up earlier this year - and legal bills have been clocking up ever since
  
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• Miley Cyrus Reveals How She Won Back Liam Hemsworth When They Split Up

  17-09-2017 13:20
  Turns out being put in the 'friend zone' was the best thing that could've happened
  
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• Jessie J Reveals Health Scare Stopped Her Making Music For The Past Two Years

  17-09-2017 12:43
  The chart topper has had a tough couple of years
  
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• Amber Davies Is Sick Of 'Jealous' Former Love Island Stars Hating On Her And Kem

  17-09-2017 12:16
  The Welsh beauty is hitting back at her critics
  
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• Vicky Pattison Says She Almost Killed Joe Swash With Her Awful Driving

  17-09-2017 12:07
  The Geordie Shore babe is terrible behind the wheel
  
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• On my radar: Pauline Black’s cultural highlights

  17-09-2017 11:00
  The Queen of Ska on James Baldwin, punk tailoring – and her musical contemporary Debbie HarryBorn Belinda Magnus in Romford, London, then renamed Pauline Vickers by her adoptive parents, Pauline Black chose her stage name when she co-founded 2-Tone ska band the Selecter in 1979. Soon the band had a hit with On My Radio, and Black earned the nickname Queen of Ska. The group split in 1982 after making two albums, but have re-formed a number of times. Black has acted in films, TV and theatre;
  
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• Foo Fighters: Concrete and Gold review – no reinventions, no crises of faith

  17-09-2017 10:00
  The stadium rockers’ ninth album boasts impressive guests but few real departures from their trademark soundImagine all the world’s big rock bands adrift on a leaky raft. Supplies are low. Who’s shark bait? It’s a scenario sadly untestable in the field, but few rock fans would conceivably pick Foo Fighters over more divisive arena-fillers – Red Hot Chili Peppers, say, or U2.Born from the ashes of Nirvana, but transformed into a juggernaut thanks to Dave Grohl&r
  
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• Yusuf/Cat Stevens: The Laughing Apple review – a late-career highlight

  17-09-2017 09:00
  (Cat-O-Log/Decca)Yusuf marks the 50th anniversary of his first two albums, both released in 1967, by reinterpreting some of his songs from the era, including four from New Masters and others never released at the time. It helps that he’s reunited with his old 1970s foils Alun Davies (guitar) and Paul Samwell-Smith (production), resulting in cleaner, less cluttered arrangements. Northern Wind, in particular, benefits, Yusuf’s gravelly, age-weathered voice now giving it a greater gravi
  
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• Sløtface: Try Not to Freak Out review – polemics and partying

  17-09-2017 09:00
  (Propeller)Having attracted notoriety, and then fallen foul of social media safeguards, the band formerly known as Slutface reconfigured their name last year. Their sense of mischief remains intact, however. The Norwegian pop-punk outfit come out fighting on the nagging Magazine, a cheerful diatribe against the objectification of women: “Patti Smith would never put up with this shit,” sneers the chorus. They’re avowedly political, having protested over the contamination of a fj
  
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• Ariel Pink: Dedicated to Bobby Jameson review – flashes of brilliance

  17-09-2017 09:00
  (Mexican Summer)Indie provocateur Ariel Pink’s visibility has depended on a willingness to say anything for attention, controversy overshadowing uncertain talent. His songs, like his interviews, often teeter on the unlistenable edge of annoying, but push past the weaponised irony and you’ll find Another Weekend and Feels Like Heaven are his most seductive melodies since breakthrough album Before Today. Elsewhere, joyous pile-up pop mixes the He-Man theme, lo-fi new wave and 60s psych
  
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• Angus and Julia Stone: Snow review – dreamy Australian indie rock

  17-09-2017 09:00
  (Because)After years of contributing separate songs to their albums, Australian siblings Angus and Julia Stone were saved from splitting in 2014 when Rick Rubin suggested they write together. They’ve embraced co-writing fully on this self-produced record, where dreamy indie rock of songs such asChateau is shaded by the retro-summer Instagram filter as Beach House or the War on Drugs. It’s the psychological richness of different viewpoints coming together, the intimations of trouble i
  
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• Action Bronson: the rapper sending food TV fans into raptures | Ed Cumming

  17-09-2017 07:00
  He’s big, bearded and very sweary. He’s also on a mission to tell you about great food. Ed Cumming talks to Action BronsonSpeaking to Action Bronson, the thick-bearded, 300lb tattooed Albanian-American rapper who has forged a second career as a gourmand TV presenter, it seems surprising that more musicians aren’t foodies. Surfing from city to city on expense accounts, with plenty of free afternoons, life on tour offers a lot of scope for exploring out-of-the-way restaurants and
  
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• U2 and Ed Sheeran cancel St Louis shows due to security concerns

  17-09-2017 02:16
  Protests in St Louis over the acquittal of a white former police officer charged with murdering a black man have led to more than 30 arrestsBoth U2 and Ed Sheeran have cancelled concert dates in St Louis over security concerns amid protests in the city after the acquittal of a white former police officer charged with murdering a black man.
  The Irish band were booked to play at The Dome at America’s Center on Saturday night, while English singer Sheeran had sold-out a Sunday night show at t
  
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• Juggalos come to Washington – in pictures

  17-09-2017 00:59
  Fans of the Insane Clown Posse rap group gather in the US capitol to protest about their designation as a gang by the FBIContinue reading...
  
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