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• Shania Twain: Now review – bouncing back with country-pop queen

  28-09-2017 23:30
  (Mercury Nashville)From the mid-90s to the early 2000s, Shania Twain’s zingy country-pop was at its most potent. On songs such as Man I Feel Like a Woman, I’m Gonna Getcha Good and That Don’t Impress Me Much, the Canadian singer gave the genre a new lease of life, paving the way for the likes of LeAnn Rimes, Carrie Underwood and – later – one Taylor Swift. However, vocal issues, Lyme disease and a messy divorce saw her career stall. Unsurprisingly, Now – Twain
  
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• Wolf Alice: Visions of a Life review – exuberant guitar-driven genre jumble

  28-09-2017 23:00
  (Dirty Hit)A rare success story in this era of British guitar music’s managed decline, Wolf Alice’s ambitions stretch far beyond the old genre labels, not only hoping to top this week’s album charts with their second album, but also set to squeak into the box office Top 10 as the subjects of Michael Winterbottom’s not-quite-rock-doc On the Road. It’s indicative of a freewheeling outlook that sets them apart from more orthodox arena-bothering peers like Royal Blood.
  
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• Protomartyr: Relatives in Descent review – sensational, bloodied but unbowed post-punk

  28-09-2017 22:45
  (Domino)A slow-burn apocalypse of ennui and injustice crackles through the sensational fourth album from these Detroit post-punks. Singer Joe Casey’s captivating voice is variously reminiscent of Nick Cave at his most brow-furrowed, talky punks such as Parquet Courts, or a more animatedly pissed-off Matt Berninger of the National; on the anti-patriarchal Male Plague, he even adopts the doltish musicality of Donald Trump’s public speeches. Casey’s soapbox poetry alludes to the w
  
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• Miley Cyrus: Younger Now review – big-hearted country-pop from Miley v4.0

  28-09-2017 22:30
  (RCA)‘No one stays the same,” sings Miley Cyrus on the excellent title track of her sixth studio album, surely referring to a career of reinventions from Disney child star to Wrecking Ball-era sledgehammer-licking controversies to Dead Petz’s psychedelic weirdness. On Younger Now, she has taken control of the songwriting and production and emerges as a conservative, big-lunged, country-tinged pop star with songs about breaking free. In Malibu, she mourns the loss of an ordinary
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about spinning

  28-09-2017 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 2 October We’re spinning around for your song suggestions this week. For more on how to interpret the theme, keep an eye on the comments.You have until 11pm on Monday 2 October to post your nomination and make your justification. RR contributor Sarah Chappell (who posts as AFictionHabit in the comments) will select from your recommendations and produce
  
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• London church rebuffs bishop's efforts to get it to remain concert venue

  28-09-2017 20:53
  St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in Holborn, widely known as the National Musicians’ Church, is set to ban non-religious eventsA central London church that was a national hub for musicians for more than 70 years has rebuffed efforts by the acting bishop of London to persuade it to reverse a ban on “non-religious hiring” from the end of the year.St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in Holborn, known more widely as the National Musicians’ Church, has rejected pleas from church figures
  
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• Marius Neset: Circle of Chimes review – deft, poignant and jam-packed with ideas

  28-09-2017 19:45
  (ACT)The Norwegian reeds star Marius Neset often sounds like several saxophonists playing simultaneously, and, as a composer, he can similarly suggest he’s aiming to pack in every possible new discovery he’s made from album to album. Circle of Chimes develops his growing interest in idiomatic hybrids, with a central role for classical cellist Andreas Brantelid, and world musician Lionel Loueke on vocals and guitar. Bookended by the sombre chiming of tubular bells, peppered with mind-
  
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• The Young'uns: Strangers review – joyous folk music sung with stirring urgency

  28-09-2017 19:30
  (Heretu)Love songs sung by hearty northern men about other men are hardly 10 a penny in folk. Neither are songs about Teesside grandads feeding refugees, Guyanese foster carers or Syrians swimming in dark water. Twice winners of Radio 2’s best folk group award, the Young’uns tackle urgent, largely contemporary real-life stories on Strangers, galvanising them with bullish harmonies and rousing folk melodies. Be the Man (the story of Matthew Ogston, whose boyfriend committed suicide) i
  
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• Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi, Trois Petites Liturgies CD review – swirling, stunning and seductive

  28-09-2017 19:15
  Seattle Symphony/Morlot/Archibald
  (Seattle)For a lesson in how to sing rapture without getting gushy or vague, try Jane Archibald’s performance of Messiaen’s ecstatic Poèmes pour Mi. The title refers to the composer’s nickname for his first wife, Claire Delbos (he called her “Mi”, French for the highest string on the violin), and the nine poems marvel at beauty, at nature, at God. Archibald delivers the cosmic vocal lines with stunning cool; she swirls and s
  
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• CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – trio of trebles bring wide-eyed wonder to Mahler

  28-09-2017 19:07
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  Three boy singers added a new perspective to Mahler’s Fourth, in a programme that also featured two marvellously refined Sibelius miniaturesMahler’s Fourth is still the most frequently performed of all his symphonies, the most classically proportioned, and the easiest to accommodate in a varied programme. Its only out-of-the-ordinary requirement is for a solo soprano to sing the setting of the Des Knaben Wunderhorn poem Das Himmlische Leben, with which the s
  
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• Kamasi Washington: Harmony of Difference review – impressive band papers over the cracks

  28-09-2017 19:00
  (Young Turks/XL)His impressive collaborations with Kendrick Lamar have turned the dashiki-clad tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington into something of a marquee name and a poster boy for a new jazz generation. This mini-album, however, rather shows up his failings as a composer.Related: The new cool: how Kamasi, Kendrick and co gave jazz a new grooveContinue reading...
  
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• Andriessen: Theatre of the World CD review – a superb, surreal journey

  28-09-2017 19:00
  Melrose/Kesselman/Zavalloni/Los Angeles Philharmonic/De Leeuw
  (Nonesuch, two CDs)Louis Andriessen’s “grotesque in nine scenes”, built around the life and work of the 17th-century German polymath Athanasius Kircher, received its premiere in LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in May last year, and arrived in Amsterdam with the same cast the following month. Like almost all of Andriessen’s stage works, Theatre of the World hovers somewhere between opera house and concert ha
  
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• Charli XCX and Julia Michaels Reflect On Britney's Iconic 'Blackout' Album

  28-09-2017 18:56
  10 years after its release, Miss Spears finally talks about the making of the album...
  
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• Tiggs Da Author Releases Infectious New Single ‘Work It Out’

  28-09-2017 18:26
  South London artist Tiggs Da Author is back with a new infectious single ‘Work It Out’..
  
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• 15 Moments That Prove Rebecca Walker Was The Most Underrated Geordie Ever TBH

  28-09-2017 18:26
  What a queen
  
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• Cardi B Teased A Seriously Amazing New Song On Instagram

  28-09-2017 18:13
  The 'Bodak Yellow' star is dropping her debut album soon...
  
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• People On Twitter Are Taking The Concept Of Winged Eyeliner Literally

  28-09-2017 18:06
  Meet the beauty trend that we can all get on board with.
  
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• Get to Know: Ten Tonnes

  28-09-2017 17:33
  We caught up with the exciting new star to find out a little bit more about him and his music...
  
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• A life in music: Arthur Russell, the disco cellist in a world of echo

  28-09-2017 17:22
  In the first of a new monthly Guardian series introducing songs by great artists alongside the stories of their creation, we explore the work of the whimsical kid from Iowa whose spectral songcraft straddled underground nightclubs and avant-garde lofts Continue reading...
  
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• 8 Celebrities Who Have Brutally Exposed The Truth About Other Celebs Online

  28-09-2017 17:10
  Never leave a paper trail....
  
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• Stargazing (Ft. Justin Jesso)

  28-09-2017 17:01 via mtv.co.uk
  Stargazing
  
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• Pills & Automobiles (Ft. Yo Gotti, A Boogie wit da Hoodie & Kodak Black) [Explicit]

  28-09-2017 17:01 via mtv.co.uk
  Pills & Automobiles (Official Video)
  
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• Losing All Sense

  28-09-2017 17:01 via mtv.co.uk
  Losing All Sense
  
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• If I'm Lucky (Part 1) [Explicit]

  28-09-2017 17:00 via mtv.co.uk
  If I'm Lucky
  
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• Riverdale's Lili Reinhart Opens Up About The Worst Panic Attack Of Her Life

  28-09-2017 16:48
  Gets real about her battle with anxiety.
  
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• Don't Tempt Me [Explicit]

  28-09-2017 16:47 via mtv.co.uk
  Don't Tempt Me
  
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• You’re The Best Thing About Me

  28-09-2017 16:46 via mtv.co.uk
  You’re The Best Thing About Me (Official Video)
  
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• You’'re The Best Thing About Me

  28-09-2017 16:46 via mtv.co.uk
  You’re The Best Thing About Me (Official Video)
  
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• Zac Efron Reveals The Moment In High School Musical That Still Makes Him Cry

  28-09-2017 16:34
  It's a real tear-jerker.
  
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• Demi Lovato Previews 'Daddy Issues' and It's A Banger

  28-09-2017 16:17
  'Lonely' also sounds like a MAJOR bop...
  
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• This New Assassin’s Creed: Origins Mode Is A Serious Game Changer

  28-09-2017 15:53
  Play games AND learn? What a dream..
  
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• Coffee Flavoured Coke Is Now A Thing And This Could Be Heaven Or Hell

  28-09-2017 15:49
  How much caffeine is ~too~ much caffeine?
  
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• We Might Be Getting A Hocus Pocus Sequel

  28-09-2017 15:34
  Happy Halloween!
  
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• Lorde and Khalid Wow Us at Alexandra Palace

  28-09-2017 15:16
  The 'Green Light' hitmaker brought her Melodrama tour and the 'Location' star to London last night...
  
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• 8 Super Awkward Geordie Shore Hook Ups You Probably Forgot Happened

  28-09-2017 15:14
  What a time to be alive
  
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• Benjamin Clementine: I Tell a Fly review – the difficult second album

  28-09-2017 15:07
  The Mercury-winner has swerved the mainstream and made an avant garde concept album about Aleppo, the refugee crisis and two flies in love
  Earlier this year, Benjamin Clementine told the Observer about the difficult process of submitting his second album to his record label. Things became so fraught, he said, that he threatened to return from whence he came: the Paris Metro, where he was discovered as a homeless busker. “I said to them: ‘Listen, if you want me to do what you want, th
  
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• Linda Ronstadt: 'I don’t like any of my albums'

  28-09-2017 14:39
  The country music legend has won 11 Grammys, made 28 studio albums and worked with everyone from Paul Simon to Frank Zappa. She says listening to any of it now is horrifyingHi, Linda. It has been 40 years since the release of your hugely successful album Simple Dreams (1). Do you have happy memories of it?Well, I don’t ever listen to my stuff once I’ve finished it, and I don’t really know what’s on it. I’m not saying it’s a bad record, I’m just saying I
  
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• She's On My Mind

  28-09-2017 14:00 via mtv.co.uk
  She's On My Mind (Official Video)
  
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• Tell Me (Ft. Kojo Funds & Jahlani)

  28-09-2017 13:48 via mtv.co.uk
  Tell Me (Ft. Kojo Funds & Jahlani)
  
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• Good Old Days (Ft. Kesha)

  28-09-2017 13:45 via mtv.co.uk
  Good Old Days (Ft. Kesha)
  
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• Cole Sprouse Is About To Be Your New Favourite Beauty Vlogger

  28-09-2017 13:05
  He has some interesting ideas on how to apply lipstick.
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about taboos

  28-09-2017 13:00
  A regular reader tests your boundaries with a playlist that includes Frank Zappa, Skunk Anansie and a taboo-breaker by Tom RobinsonHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.My dog hates this playlist. There are taboos, it appears, that disturb man and beast alike – but I hope that while some songs below about certai
  
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• Will Charlotte Crosby And Stephen Bear Go Up Against Each Other In Celebrity Bake Off?

  28-09-2017 12:55
  Looks like the former Geordie Shore star could be going bread to bread with her bae.
  
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• 25 Early Geordie Shore Hairstyles That Will Just Leave You Plain Confused About Life

  28-09-2017 12:49
  The glo up is SO real
  
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• Chloe Ferry Puts Her Incredible Weight-Loss On Display In Cropped Jumper

  28-09-2017 12:39
  With abs like that, it'd be a shame to cover them up.
  
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• Kylie Jenner's Pregnancy And All The Kardashian Drama: Everything We Know So Far

  28-09-2017 12:18
  Is it real or nah?
  
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• Perfect (Lyric Video)

  28-09-2017 12:17 via mtv.co.uk
  Perfect (Lyric Video)
  
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• Katy Perry Announces 'Will You Be My Witness' Documentary

  28-09-2017 12:10
  The 'Swish Swish' star is taking us behind-the-scenes of her famous 4-day live stream...
  
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• Geordie Shore Spoiler Video: Gaz Beadle And Abbie Holborn Have An Awks Confrontation As He Rates Their Norty Rome Neck On To Her Face

  28-09-2017 12:00
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Reveals She's Still 'Trying To Teach' Stephen Bear How To Be In A Relationship

  28-09-2017 11:43
  Good thing, because he's in it 'forever'.
  
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