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• 2017 MTV EMA: Kesha Wows the EMA Crowd with Stunning Performance of 'Learn to Let Go'

  12-11-2017 23:34
  What a star...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Shawn Mendes Steals The Show With 'There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back'

  12-11-2017 23:32
  The star performed his massive hit single that won the EMA for Best Song...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Shawn Mendes Rules With 4 Awards! Here's The Full Winners List

  12-11-2017 23:15
  Camila Cabello, Eminem, Dua Lipa, Stormzy and more all took home EMAs at the bash in London. Check out the full winners list here...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Best Red Carpet Hair And Beauty Looks

  12-11-2017 22:59
  If it wasn't for shimmer highlighter this lot wouldn't have known what to do for their MTV EMA beauty looks...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: French Montana and Swae Lee Deliver a Brilliant Performance of 'Unforgettable'

  12-11-2017 22:47
  What an incredible song...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Demi Lovato Stuns With 'Tell Me You Love Me' Medley

  12-11-2017 22:42
  The 'Daddy Issues' star gave a stellar performance...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Louis Tomlinson Wins Best UK & Ireland Act!

  12-11-2017 22:13
  YASSSSS!
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Rita Ora Slays EMA Medley in Style

  12-11-2017 22:11
  What a performance...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Stormzy Brings Grime Centre Stage at the EMAs

  12-11-2017 22:07
  This was incredible...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Liam Payne Delivers Epic 'Strip That Down' Performance

  12-11-2017 21:35
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Eminem Blows Us Away With Powerful 'Walk On Water' Performance

  12-11-2017 21:34
  The rap legend performed his new Beyoncé collaboration for the first time ever...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Stefflon Don Owns the Red Carpet with Incredible 'Hurtin' Me' Performance

  12-11-2017 20:33
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Best Dressed On The Red Carpet

  12-11-2017 20:20
  From Charlotte Crosby looking like an absolute bae to Camila Cabello ready to hit the catwalk, check out the best dressed lot on planet earth...
  
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• 2017 MTV EMA: Stormzy Is Stuck In The Ladies' Loo At The MTV EMAs

  12-11-2017 20:14
  Will he make it out in time for his big performance?
  
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• Riverdale Star Madelaine Petsch Talks About That Unsettling Date Rape Scene

  12-11-2017 14:40
  Madelaine has made a Public Service Announcement to help those in need
  
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• Kylie Jenner's Fans Are Convinced She Is Engaged

  12-11-2017 14:11
  Could there be more reasons for the Kardashians star to celebrate?
  
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• Drake And Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown Posed For Instagram And Everyone Lost Their Minds

  12-11-2017 13:56
  Drake + Eleven = Instagram HEAVEN
  
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• It Seems There Is A Lot To Be Discussed About Harry Styles' X Factor Outfit

  12-11-2017 13:39
  The chart topping star has been compared to a god - and a teletubby
  
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• Vicky Pattison's Fans Urge Her To Audition To Become A Bond Girl After Sharing Sizzling Bikini Throwback

  12-11-2017 13:08
  Fans are shaken, stirred, and excited by Vicky's latest Instagram post
  
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• Chucho Valdés/Gonzalo Rubalcaba review – Cuban wizards conjure a pulsating piano stampede

  12-11-2017 12:48
  London jazz festival/Barbican Hall
  This wonderfully well-matched pair laid on an evening of dreamy improv that underlined the festival’s eclecticism and earned them a rapturous ovationBetween Friday morning’s opening shows and the arrival of Cuban piano maestros Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba at the Barbican on Saturday afternoon, some 40 events of the EFG London jazz festival’s 2017 programme had already hurtled by, with 300 or more still due in the coming days in
  
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• Spice Girls Are Set To Reform In 2018 - With All FIVE Returning

  12-11-2017 12:47
  Great news for all the people of the world (every boy and every girl)
  
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• Geordie Shore And TOWIE Collide In Epic Night Out For Sophie Kasaei's Birthday

  12-11-2017 12:22
  The Geordie lass celebrated turning 28 in absolute style
  
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• Rita Ora Shares Sizzling Selfies As She Hits The Gym Ahead Of The MTV EMAs

  12-11-2017 11:44
  The 2017 host is looking in incredible shape for the big night ahead
  
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• Taylor Swift: Reputation review – lust, loss and revenge

  12-11-2017 10:00
  (Big Machine)
  The pop star’s love life and squabbles take centre stage on a riveting R&B set that carries her even further from her country rootsBy now, any self-styled grownup who still believes pop music is “just” pop music will be thoroughly disabused of the notion. Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album, Reputation, is a riveting record, whose release is hard to extricate from the context into which it drops.Fifteen tracks long, and with songs that range from forgettab
  
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• Father John Misty review – great songs, shame about the trolling

  12-11-2017 10:00
  Hammersmith Apollo, London
  Josh Tillman rolls out his lush songs with a knowing razzmatazz, only slightly tainted by his offstage anticsIf you have ever concluded that your precious life was being played out in an absurdist dystopia, you are not alone. American folk-rock musician Father John Misty’s third album, Pure Comedy, released last April, is all about us “demented monkeys” who live in a system only “a madman would conceive”.There are scraps of comfort, though
  
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• Björk: ‘People miss the jokes. A lot of it is me taking the piss out of myself’

  12-11-2017 10:00
  Icelandic icon Björk is in positive mood with her new album, Utopia. In her home town Reykjavik, she gives us a sneak listen, and discusses creative control, the trouble with men – and why she started Friday flute clubIt’s quite hard talking to Björk about her music. This is for a few reasons, the most important of which is that she doesn’t make music to talk about it. She makes music because that is what she does (“I write one song per month,” she says, &
  
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• Yung Lean: Stranger review – hypnotic soundscapes

  12-11-2017 09:00
  (Year0001)The 21-year-old Swedish innovator is back with an album of hypnotic soundscapes that thankfully feels more comfortable in itself than 2016’s ropy Warlord. Indeed, in the year that saw the emo cloud rap of Lil Uzi Vert’s XO Tour Llif3 become song of the summer, Yung Lean’s sadboy aesthetic feels more fitting than ever. Channelling his uniquely hazy take on melodic southern hip-hop, Lean’s lyrics pour forth Bart Simpson-bravado (on Skimask) as much as harrowing in
  
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• Sumie: Lost in Light review – oddly beautiful but wilfully wan

  12-11-2017 09:00
  (Bella Union)Swedish singer-songwriter Sumie Nagano (sister of Little Dragon frontwoman Yukimi) seemingly paints only in watercolour. Her second album tries to don the weeds of gothic Americana for a darker tone than the pale folk of her eponymous debut, yet remains washed out, like an overexposed negative: oddly beautiful but wilfully wan. From the Mazzy Star-lite reverbed strums and detached vocals of Fortune and the spectral saloon torch song of the mild west that is Night Rain to the soft co
  
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• Sampa the Great: Birds and the BEE9 review – an intriguing appetiser

  12-11-2017 09:00
  (Big Dada)Technically, Birds and the BEE9 is a mixtape, intended to whet appetites for this Sydney-based rapper’s debut album proper, due next year. But categories dissolve around Sampa Tembo – born in Zambia, raised in Botswana and now based in Australia, having spent time in California. Though swaggeringly up to date in places, her tracks sound far closer to Lauryn Hill than they do to 2017’s breakout star Cardi B, nodding to reggae, soul and jazz. The complex question of ide
  
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• Pnau: Changa review – the perfect winter tonic

  12-11-2017 09:00
  (etcetc)Australian trio Pnau, led by Nick Littlemore, one half of ludicrous space-pop outfit Empire of the Sun, clearly have no concept of timing. Changa, their fifth album, is a DayGlo riot of fizzing pop, squelchy disco and festival-ready anthems that practically reeks of sun cream and has for some reason been released in November. Still, the majority of the songs try their hardest to warm the soul, particularly last year’s outrageously infectious single Chameleon, the swirling psych-pop
  
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• Mulo Francel: Mocca Swing review – utterly disarming

  12-11-2017 09:00
  (Act)Best known as a member of world music band Quadro Nuevo, Mulo Francel is a German saxophonist and composer with a unique approach to jazz. His tone, on a variety of saxophones plus clarinet, is sweet and gentle, his compositions lyrical and playful by turns, and the total effect utterly disarming. This double album features Francel with both his regular quartet and the Munich Radio Orchestra. Since his highly accomplished playing betrays no obvious jazz influences, it’s all a refreshi
  
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• Ken Boothe: Inna de Yard review – classy, unplugged reggae

  12-11-2017 09:00
  (Wagram/Chapter Two)Arriving in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains for his first album in 25 years, Ken Boothe asked: “Where’s the studio?” His producer, Frenchman Romain Germa, gestured towards the terrace of the house where Boothe and a band of fellow veterans were to record live in the open air… in the yard! The result is a splendid stroll through the catalogue of one of reggae’s finest, most distinctive voices. Boothe still sounds like Sam Cooke’s Caribbean c
  
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• Escape-ism: Introduction to Escape-ism review – wilfully lo-fi solo debut

  12-11-2017 09:00
  (Merge)As frontman of Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up and latterly Chain and the Gang, Ian Svenonius has spent a quarter of a century sprinkling agitprop-heavy garage rock with gospel influences and James Brown showmanship, with mixed results. His solo debut represents a departure thanks to its wilfully lo-fi arrangements, his voice and guitar sketches fleshed out by just a drum machine. Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day, a stripped-down reworking of a recent Chain and the Gang song, is a call to
  
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• Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem; Bernstein: Chichester Psalms CD review – beautifully sung

  12-11-2017 08:24
  Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Cleobury, Ailish Tynan (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Britten Sinfonia(King’s College)Vaughan Williams’s dramatic cantata Dona nobis pacem (1936), to texts from Walt Whitman, the Bible and the mass, was written for large orchestra and the Huddersfield Choral Society. Here it has been re-orchestrated (by Jonathan Rathbone) to suit small orchestra and chapel choir, giving heft by upping the use of harp and organ. It’s beautifully
  
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• Maderna, Berio: Now, and Then CD review – a heady mix

  12-11-2017 08:20
  Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/Davies(ECM)A heady mix of new and old: the first recording of Berio’s Chemins V for solo guitar and small orchestra weaves a sensuous aura around the guitar’s nostalgic flamenco chords; atmospheric but elusive. The transcriptions of early Italian music by Bruno Maderna are in a style much favoured earlier in the 20th century, done with real taste. Dennis Russell Davies’s fine orchestra plays them with a clarity and poise that is rather untypica
  
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• Why The Velvet Underground’s landmark debut album still resonates after 50 years

  12-11-2017 01:05
  The Velvet Underground & Nico comes home this week, as John Cale and guests prepare to play it in its entirety in New YorkTwo albums stood out in 1967, that turbulent year half a century ago. One came from the British side of the Atlantic – the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – and the other from its American shore – The Velvet Underground & Nico. Between them, they changed the sound of sound.This week, the Velvets’ album comes home, to w
  
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