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• John Maus: Screen Memories review – infectiously mordant synthpop mischief

  26-10-2017 23:45
  (Domino)
  Maus is back with a surprisingly buoyant set of songs that walk a melodic line between pastiche and parodyYou’d be forgiven for thinking that Screen Memories, the fourth album from experimental synthpop artist John Maus, would be something of a drag. Recorded over a six-year period, while its creator embarked on a PhD in political science and handbuilt an entire studio’s worth of equipment, the follow-up to We Must Become Pitiless Censors of Ourselves is a treatise on what M
  
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• Julien Baker: Turn Out the Lights review – hymnal songs of a turbulent soul

  26-10-2017 23:30
  (Matador)Sprained Ankle, Julien Baker’s initially self-released 2015 debut, gained critical acclaim for its painstaking, delicate and melancholy depiction of her mental health. When the Memphis singer-songwriter came out to her parents aged 17, her father scoured the Bible for chapters on acceptance. These highly personal songs again explore her sexuality, Christianity, self-doubt and isolation. This first effort for a larger label has a hymnal atmosphere, in which the turbulence shows in
  
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• Kelly Clarkson: Meaning of Life review – a classier soul diva emerges

  26-10-2017 23:15
  (Atlantic)Way back in 2002 – in the days of Will Young v Gareth Gates, and Fame Academy – Kelly Clarkson triumphed on the first series of American Idol. Rasputin-like, she has since displayed a staying power that’s rare for talent-show victors, making it through the RCA deal she inked off the back of the show, before moving to Atlantic last year. While the first single from this new album – Love So Soft – is little more than Candyman-era Christina Aguilera with a hi
  
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• Ty Dolla $ign: Beach House 3 review – rap's go-to guy narrows his range

  26-10-2017 23:00
  (Atlantic)Ty Dolla $ign is the rapping, singing, gun-for-hire whose numerous features have included everything from cheeky metaphors on Fifth Harmony’s Work from Home, to scintillating emptiness on Vince Staples’ Rain Come Down. But his second album is a narrow, unimaginative collection. The tender minor keys of standouts Lil Favourite and Don’t Judge Me give them some pretty melancholy, but the hazy interludes and acoustic moments approximate Frank Ocean with none of the poeti
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about redemption

  26-10-2017 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 30 October We’re looking for themes of redemption and atonement in music this week – for more on how to interpret the topic, keep an eye on the comments.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 30 October to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor and first time guru who goes by AssameseGuy87 below the line will select from
  
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• Gilad Atzmon: The Spirit of Trane review – heart and soul homage

  26-10-2017 20:00
  (Fanfare/Discovery)Gilad Atzmon, the expat Israeli saxophonist, clarinetist and author, has bitten off as least as much as he can chew on the subject of Israeli-Palestinian politics (his new book is titled Being in Time: A Post-Political Manifesto). This homage to his teenage hero John Coltrane is a less risky pursuit for an artist of Atzmon’s sublime musicality and skill. Fifty years after Coltrane’s death, Atzmon offers this dedication to the American saxophonist, made with his Ori
  
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• Ron Miles: I Am a Man review – an understated session with a powerful grip

  26-10-2017 19:45
  (Enja/YellowBird)Cornetist and trumpeter Ron Miles connects African American blues and gospel roots to the tangled branches of contemporary genre-bending jazz with rare perceptiveness. On this set of originals, named after a civil rights-era proclamation, Miles draws regular collaborator Bill Frisell, pianist Jason Moran, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Brian Blade into seven cool thematic and improv conversations. Enhanced by Miles giving his partners the whole score, not just their own parts
  
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• Lankum: Between the Earth and Sky review – brilliant, raw, detonating folk

  26-10-2017 19:30
  (Rough Trade)
  There is folk that wants to whisper in your ear, and then there is the music of Lankum: urgent, desperate and detonating, full of lyrics and sounds smacking together like waves shattering stones in a storm. The latest folk signing to Rough Trade Records (a label delving brilliantly into traditional song in recent years), the quartet – formerly known as Lynched – marry the rawness of the Watersons with the roar of Richard Dawson, and eerie drones plunge their coarse, cla
  
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• Various artists: Andina, the Sound of the Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 review – music from an exuberant era

  26-10-2017 19:15
  (Tiger’s Milk/Strut Records)The 1960s was a time of musical upheaval and experiment in Latin America as well as in the west. In Brazil there was tropicalia, while in Peru bands pioneered Peruvian cumbia, mixing Colombian dance styles with huayno rhythms from the Andes, often adding in African Peruvian influences, or rock. The first of a three-part series from this exuberant era, compiled in part by the Peruvian DJ and restaurateur Martin Morales, this album concentrates on music from the m
  
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• Prince’s Paisley Park brought to London in O2 show

  26-10-2017 19:03
  My Name Is Prince exhibition showcases the late singer’s many stage personas and celebrates his life and musicIn August 2007, Prince began the first of 21 sellout nights at London’s 02 arena, a record-breaking run of sexy, swaggering, intensely purple shows that have gone down in the annals of musical history.It seems fitting that the first exhibition celebrating the life, music and wardrobe of the singer who died in April last year is being held in the very same London venue.Continu
  
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• Hear Queen's All Dead, All Dead with Freddie Mercury's lost vocals

  26-10-2017 19:00
  Exclusive: All Dead, All Dead was originally sung by Brian May about his dead cat – now a new version with Mercury’s vocals has surfacedAlongside We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions, on Queen’s 1977 album News of the World, sits All Dead, All Dead, a piano ballad sung by Brian May. Reflections on the death of his childhood cat seem to trigger a full-blown existential episode: “And I wonder why I still live on … But I should not grieve / In time it comes to ev
  
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• Gregory Porter: Nat King Cole and Me review – string-drenched, showbiz homage

  26-10-2017 19:00
  (Decca/Blue Note)Gregory Porter has become jazz music’s biggest crossover star in decades without appearing to compromise. He sings standards, references 1960s civil rights anthems and allows his heavyweight hard-bop band plenty of space to improvise – while becoming a fixture on teatime telly and the Radio 2 playlist. This collection of Nat King Cole songs, however, presumably aimed at the Christmas market, sees him go the full Bublé. Instead of concentrating on Cole’s
  
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• Geordie Shore's Abbie Holborn Claps Back In The Best Way After Getting Rinsed For Awkward Mistake

  26-10-2017 18:54
  Well, that told the haters.
  
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• 11 Of The Most Shocking Secrets Celebs Have Ever Revealed About Themselves

  26-10-2017 18:23
  This stuff is JUICY...
  
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• 10 Years Of 'Blackout': How Britney Spears Reinvented Pop Music Against All Odds

  26-10-2017 18:05
  On its tenth anniversary, we honour the game-changing album that birthed a new era of pop...
  
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• A Look Back At When Calvin Harris Crashed The Stage During Single AF's Jedward's X Factor Performance

  26-10-2017 18:04
  To celebrate MTV Music Week, we throw it back to when Calvin Harris crashed the stage during Single AF stars Jedward's 2009 X Factor performance...
  
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• Get to Know: Rex Orange County

  26-10-2017 17:25
  We caught up with the exciting new artist to find out a little bit more about him and his music...
  
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• These Single AF Spoiler Pics From Episode 2 Need To Be Seen RN!

  26-10-2017 17:24
  Don't miss BRAND NEW Single AF on Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• New Horror Game 'Perception' Will Freak You Out

  26-10-2017 17:13
  Perception is scary af and perfect for Halloween.
  
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• Clouds, Batman and high heels: proof that Prince had the look

  26-10-2017 17:04
  The exhibition My Name is Prince, which opens at the 02 in London this weekend, shows the star knew the importance of style. Here are five items to study .“Cool,” said Prince “is being able to hang with yourself.” As the exhibition My Name Is Prince, opening at London’s O2 on Friday, testifies, such self-love is easy if you’re Prince. Just look at the outfits. From paisley suits to black-and-white crop tops and an endless supply of satin shirts, the looks disp
  
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• The Captain Marvel Movie Has Found Its Villain

  26-10-2017 16:38
  Captain Marvel looks like it’s found its villain
  
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• Why Don’t We Attempt To Guess British Slanguage

  26-10-2017 16:35
  We put the 'Something Different' heartbreakers to the test...
  
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• These Are The Most Expensive Celebrity Weddings Ever

  26-10-2017 16:04
  We won't even have this much money in our lifetimes.
  
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• RZA: 'Martin Shkreli sold our album on eBay for $1.2m – he could have got more'

  26-10-2017 15:55
  The Wu-Tang Clan rapper-producer-director boasts 16 names and plays a mean game of chess – and he’s had the last laugh over the disgraced ‘pharma-bro’ Hello, RZA! When members of the Wu-Tang Clan are together, do you call each other by your Wu names or your given names?
  Most of the time we’re with each other, we’ll call each other by one of our nicknames, and no telling which nickname is going to be used that day. For instance, I’m hanging with Meth (1).
  
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• Check Out These Exclusive Spoilers From Just Tattoo Of Us Series 2 Episode #5!

  26-10-2017 15:14
  Don’t miss brand new Just Tattoo Of Us, Mondays at 10pm – only on MTV!
  
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• Havana (Ft. Young Thug)

  26-10-2017 15:11 via mtv.co.uk
  Camila Cabello flexes her acting muscles in 'Havana' the music video, or is it 'the movie'? The follow up to 'Crying In The Club', 'Havana' is a red hot blockbuster in which the singer plays multiple versions of herself as Nerdy Camila, obsessed with telenovelas and sneaking out to the cinema to watch Movie Star Camila strut her stuff opposite a love interest. Her best yet? We think so!
  
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• Jonas Blue Hits Up Tokyo For 'We Could Go Back' Music Video

  26-10-2017 14:22
  The 'By Your Side' producer is back with another huge hit...
  
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• Rita Ora on breakups and burnout: ‘There were helicopters. I woke up in hospital’

  26-10-2017 14:21
  A legal tangle with Jay-Z couldn’t stop the former child refugee from earning millions as a singer, actor and presenter – but exhaustion did. She discusses how hard it is to have it all, and why she worked with the notorious Terry Richardson“My meltdown was when I was 25,” Rita Ora declares. “Do you want a sandwich?”We are a mere two minutes into a conversation in a portable cabin near a sound stage in Acton, west London, five minutes’ walk from the real
  
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• How Did We Get So Dark?

  26-10-2017 14:05 via mtv.co.uk
  Would you kill for a bunny? These are one of the many questions you'll ask yourself (maybe) after watching the music video for 'How Did We Get So Dark?', the title track from Royal Blood's incredible second studio album. Mike and Ben once again team up with director The Sacred Egg (who directed their 'Lights Out' video) for this bizarre, dystopian thriller...
  
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• Rita Ora Shares Stunning Behind the Scenes Video of 'Anywhere'

  26-10-2017 14:03
  We are in love with her...
  
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• Baxter Dury: Prince of Tears review – making a success of the family business

  26-10-2017 14:00
  With his sharply observed vignettes and wry character studies of inadequate men, Dury remains in the shadow of his father Ian – but what a place to beThere is a certain irony in the fact that Baxter Dury’s fifth album is released on the same day as a 4CD super-deluxe box set version of his father Ian’s 1977 masterpiece New Boots and Panties!! Any child of a beloved rock star who chooses to follow them into the family business is guaranteed a tough time escaping their shadow, bu
  
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• Batman Villain Deathstroke Is Getting A Solo Movie

  26-10-2017 13:54
  DC is moving forward with a solo Deathstroke movie starring Joe Manganiello.
  
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• Jennifer Metcalfe And Greg Lake Will Announce Their Wedding Invite In This Very Modern Way

  26-10-2017 13:32
  Pretty casual then.
  
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• Stormzy Is Collaborating With An Unknown Rapper Thanks To Twitter

  26-10-2017 13:10
  A funny viral tweet has resulted in
  
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• Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui Is About to Release a Song with Ty Dolla $ign

  26-10-2017 13:08
  The rumoured lovebirds have hit the studio...
  
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• Single AF Spoiler Video: Marnie Simpson Finds Casey Johnson 'Very Sexy' After The Bold Singer Sabotages Her First Mexico Date

  26-10-2017 13:00
  Don't miss brand new Single AF, Tuesdays at 10pm on MTV!
  
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• 2017 EMA: Liam Payne, Travis Scott, French Montana, Clean Bandit To Perform!

  26-10-2017 13:00
  Clean Bandit will be bringing some very special guest with them too…
  
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• Olivia Attwood To Take Pregnancy Test Amid Fears She's Pregnant With Chris Hughes' Baby

  26-10-2017 12:40
  The Love Island star is 'shook'.
  
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• 9 Estranged Celebrity Relationships That Reunited And It Left Us Shook

  26-10-2017 12:37
  It's been YEARS. We'd given up all hope tbh...
  
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• Demi Lovato Teases 'Major Announcement' on Social Media

  26-10-2017 12:17
  We need to know what this is now...
  
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• Eminem Announces New Album 'Revival' With Fake Drug Campaign

  26-10-2017 11:59
  Slim Shady just revealed his return in the most ridiculous and genius way possible...
  
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• Khloe Kardashian And Tristan Thompson's Baby's Gender 'Confirmed'

  26-10-2017 11:23
  Boy or girl?
  
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• Selena Gomez Reveals That She's a 'Major Fan' of Taylor Swift's New Album

  26-10-2017 10:58
  We can't wait to hear Reputation now...
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Reveals What It’s Really Like To Be Her Assistant With Hilarious Screenshots

  26-10-2017 10:05
  The model is letting us into her phone and it's a real treat...
  
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• Fats Domino: a huge talent who inspired the Beatles, ska and bling

  26-10-2017 08:24
  The boogie-woogie master, who has died aged 89, shaped the course of popular music over and over againYou could argue for the rest of your life about what constitutes the first rock’n’roll record and, indeed, on the internet, there are people prepared to do that. An exhaustive 82-track 2011 compilation comes up with candidates for the title, with varying degrees of plausibility, and with tunes dating back to 1915.Related: Fats Domino, New Orleans rock'n'roll pioneer, dies aged 89Cont
  
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