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• Sect: No Cure for Death review – angry music for angry times

  23-11-2017 22:00
  (Southern Lord Recordings)Formed by veterans of bands such as Cursed, Racetraitor and Catharsis, Sect are something of a supergroup in hardcore circles, and their second album delivers accordingly. Guitars rage and howl like packs of hungry wolves. Blast beats explode like military hardware. It borders on thrash metal at times – a 17-minute, 10-song, short, sharp shock of fury at the state of the planet, kicked off by a song called Open Grave. Singer Chris Colohan’s guttural words ar
  
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• Anna Ternheim: All the Way to Rio review – a wonderful, autumnal record

  23-11-2017 21:40
  (BMG)Anna Ternheim, a proper pop star in Sweden, wrote her seventh album in Rio – hence the title – but there’s nothing carnivalesque about it. Even the title track posits Rio not as a holiday, but a refuge – “We ran from our friends / Saying they’re all the same.” What makes this such a perfect little record, though, is the variety Ternheim extracts from a limited palette – the twisting, sinuous Hold On, building to a fuzz of guitars and organ; th
  
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• Sufjan Stevens: The Greatest Gift review – upbeat return to whimsical ways

  23-11-2017 21:20
  (Asthmatic Kitty)Sufjan Stevens’ 2015 album Carrie & Lowell, a reflection on the death of his mother, was one of that year’s best, as the Michigan musician returned to the delicate, poignant folk that made his name. This companion piece features four songs left off the record, along with demos and remixes. The grandest of the offcuts, Wallowa Lake Monster, suffers in comparison with the far superior Should Have Known Better, whose melody it briefly shares, but The Hidden River of
  
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• Readers recommend: share your unlikely collaborations

  23-11-2017 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 27 November This week we’d like your recommendations where two – or more – artists have got together in unlikely circumstances, particularly if their collaboration produced surprisingly listenable results.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 27 November October to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor George Boy
  
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• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Who Built the Moon? review – like Oasis on a sun lounger

  23-11-2017 21:00
  (Ignition Records)The third record from Noel Gallagher’s solo outfit is, according to the ex-Oasis man, merely him in “more colourful clothes”. Brightness is certainly the first thing that strikes you about Who Built the Moon, an album that cloaks Gallagher’s hardy guitar-pop in glowing Smithsian riffs, tin whistle samples from novelty 60s tunes and a heady fug of riotous glam rock. Particular highlights include the gloriously Slade-esque Holy Mountain and the singalong-f
  
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• Ian Shaw: Shine Sister Shine review – beautiful homage to female vocal stars

  23-11-2017 20:20
  (Jazz Village)One of the most moving performances I ever heard from the gifted British singer Ian Shaw was on the 2015 Jazz for Labour concert, when he held an audience at the Barbican in London spellbound with an account of Somewhere, from West Side Story, dedicated to gay politics. There are comparable moments in this diverse dedication to female vocal stars. Joni Mitchell’s Shine and UK singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert’s quietly startling lyric to Not the Kind of Girl are both be
  
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• Yuri Honing: Goldbrun review – hums with hidden spontaneity

  23-11-2017 20:00
  (Challenge)Experience means you can do more with less, as Yuri Honing, the 52-year-old Dutch saxophonist and composer, demonstrates with this seven-part suite, dedicated to European integration. Honing has worked with two late great jazz pianists in Misha Mengelberg and Paul Bley, explored Schubert song cycles, taken inspiration from dancers and pop singers, from political history and visual art. So if he appears to be doing little more than colouring in these ruminative themes in a patiently to
  
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• Teenybopper’s first love was David Cassidy | Letters

  23-11-2017 19:52
  NHS drugs bill | Facebook | Holly Golightly | David Cassidy | Pronunciation of Italian wordsIf drug companies raise pricing when drugs are debranded (NHS taken for a ride?, 22 November), why do we not establish a company owned by the NHS or directly by the government to supply the drugs at cost? Surely we cannot afford an ideology that prevents this.
  David Barnard
  Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire• Jonathan Freedland suggests “go to settings and select ‘show most recent’”
  
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• Rita Ora: I had my eggs frozen in my early 20s

  23-11-2017 19:47
  Singer reveals she had procedure, which is most effective if done at young age, but £5,000 cost is prohibitive for most peopleRita Ora has revealed that she had her eggs frozen in her early 20s.Appearing on the Australian breakfast TV show Sunrise, the British singer said her family doctor recommended undergoing the procedure sooner rather than later. Continue reading...
  
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• Kate Rusby: Angels & Men review – like a long John Lewis Christmas ad

  23-11-2017 19:40
  (Pure Records)There’s a style that’s become synonymous with the 21st-century Christmas: the sound of a grown adult singing like a child, their breath misting on a window like a spray of fake snow, old classics being turned into virtuous, fragile facsimiles. Kate Rusby has one of these voices – pretty to many, mawkish to others – and it has little variety or power on her fourth collection of festive songs. Let It Snow and Deck the Halls are delivered in the same disengaged
  
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• Goran Kajfeš/Subtropic Arkestra: The Reason Why Vol 3 review – delightfully weird covers

  23-11-2017 19:20
  (Headspin Recordings)Led by the staggeringly prolific Swedish trumpeter Goran Kajfeš, the Subtropic Arkestra are possibly the best of those many bands who meld Afrobeat, Ethio-jazz and big band funk. This is the third in the Arkestra’s Reason Why trilogy, and like the two earlier volumes, it features a delightfully weird mix of covers – obscure worldbeat gems, recent indie anthems, dippy psychedelic oddities – each creatively reinvented by a talented nine-piece.A skitter
  
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• Jim Kweskin: Unjugged review – entertaining set from a masterful guitarist

  23-11-2017 19:00
  (Hornbeam Records)In the 60s, Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band were American celebrities, pioneering a style mixing ragtime and blues that, for a while, made them headliners above the Doors or Janis Joplin. They split up before the decade was through, but Kweskin kept working, and his new album, recorded in London, shows that he is still a masterful guitarist and storyteller. He shows off his effortless, gently driving finger-picking style on songs made famous by Blind Blake or Mississippi John Hurt
  
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• Jarvis Cocker to narrate exhibition at Southbank on legacy of Abba

  23-11-2017 18:56
  Voice of Pulp frontman, who says he has been fan of Swedish group since 1976, will guide visitors round showHe was the dancing queen of Britpop, whose music was once described as a cross between Abba and the Fall. So who better than Jarvis Cocker to narrate an exhibition on Sweden’s most famous pop act?The Pulp frontman will be the voice of the new show opening at London’s Southbank Centre next month exploring the legacy of Abba, from their rise to stardom on Eurovision to their domi
  
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• Smallfoot: See Channing Tatum As You've Never Seen Him Before In His New Movie

  23-11-2017 18:55
  Channing Tatum is a yeti in the first trailer for Smallfoot.
  
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• How To Make A Bouncy Ball With YouTuber Jazzybum

  23-11-2017 18:29
  An easy peasy science experiment you can do at home.
  
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• Fifth Harmony Tease Glamorous 'Por Favor' Music Video On TRL

  23-11-2017 18:06
  The 'Down' hitmakers are about to drop the visual for their sexy Pitbull collaboration...
  
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• 11 Reality Stars Who've Had The Most Plastic Surgery Procedures: Ranked

  23-11-2017 17:53
  THIRTEEN. OMG.
  
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• British choirs aren't the best – but they could be with better support | Peter Phillips

  23-11-2017 17:31
  Foreign ensembles benefit from more funding and public interest – and the proof is in their singing. Until we treat choirs as well as we treat orchestras, we’ll suffer on the international stage, says conductor Peter Phillips
  We like to think we invented choral singing in the UK. Certainly Britain has produced some of the most esteemed choirs in the world, from King’s College, Cambridge to the Monteverdi Choir and the Tallis Scholars. From the founding of the chapel royal in th
  
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• Scotty T Puts His Sizeable Bulge On Display In This NSFW Underwear Selfie

  23-11-2017 17:12
  Fans probably weren't expecting to get an eyeful of Scotty's manhood on their Insta feed.
  
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• Schubert and Szymanowski: Piano Sonatas CD review – Debargue proves he's one to watch

  23-11-2017 17:00
  Lucas Debargue(Sony Classical)Lucas Debargue took fourth prize at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, but seems to have created more of a stir subsequently than any of those placed above him. The French 27-year-old was mostly self-taught until well into his teens, and his performance of Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto in the final in Moscow was reputedly his first ever appearance with an orchestra. The recital he gave on his return to Paris after the final was released by Sony Class
  
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• Get to Know: Yxng Bane

  23-11-2017 16:58
  We caught up with the exciting new artist to find out a little bit more about him and his music...
  
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• The forgotten women of the 1980s indie boom – in pictures

  23-11-2017 16:48
  A new book, Untypical Girls, documents the women who refused to be cowed in the male-dominated indie scene that flourished in the 1980s – from riot grrrls to shoegazersUntypical Girls by Sam Knee is out now, published by Cicada BooksContinue reading...
  
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• Vote Now For VH1's Nation's Favourite Christmas Song

  23-11-2017 16:40
  The Christmas countdown has officially begun so we want to know you're favourite ever Christmas song! Let's take a look at the contenders...
  
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• Geordie Shore's Abbie Holborn's Amazing Transformation

  23-11-2017 16:38
  She's changed so much in such a short space of time!
  
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• Camila Cabello Covers tmrw's Birthday Issue With Connor Franta and More

  23-11-2017 16:37
  The 'Havana' starlet plays model for an exclusive 20-page spread...
  
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• From Out a Darker Sea review – elegiac tribute to Britain's coal miners

  23-11-2017 16:25
  Derby Cathedral
  The hypnotic beats and electronic noises of Brooklyn-based ensemble Sō Percussion conjure the sights and sounds of industrial England“Our civilisation is founded on coal” wrote George Orwell in 1937; at its peak a century ago, Britain’s coal-mining industry employed more than a million people. Today the figure is under 700 and many of the former mining communities have never recovered. That gargantuan decline forms the backdrop to this unusual audio-visual
  
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• Kim Myhr: You | Me Myhr CD review – blissed-out twangs for big-sky vistas

  23-11-2017 16:00
  Myhr
  (Hubro)Here’s an album that feels beautifully out of season. Norwegian composer/experimental guitarist Kim Myhr is a master of slow-morphing rhythms and sun-dappled textures that seem to glow from the inside. His electronics are mellow and inviting; his 12-string acoustic guitar has a loose, blissed-out twang. With just two long tracks (A and B on the vinyl release) that loop and shimmy around a single simple hook, You | Me has a 60s psych-folk vibe and something of the roving thrum o
  
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• Algiers review – anti-fascist fury locked into a dystopian groove

  23-11-2017 15:57
  Soup Kitchen, Manchester
  The rising Atlantan band blend harsh electronics with gospel vocals to create rousing hymns for society’s underdogsBrooding drones fill the room like a heavy fog, before a sampled speech by Black Panther member Fred Hampton cuts above them. Looping piano lines and a scratchy guitar played with a bow lead to an eruption of sputtering electronics, thunderous beats and the wild, energetic vocals of Franklin James Fisher. It all collides to form Walk Like a Panther, th
  
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• From Jack Maynard to Brandi Glanville: Celebs Who Were Dramatically Kicked Off Reality Shows

  23-11-2017 15:50
  From I'm A Celebrity to Celebrity Big Brother, they just had to show these stars the door.
  
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• PVRIS: the arena rockers fighting for gay rights in Trump's America

  23-11-2017 15:12
  These high-school friends from Massachusetts are doing their growing up in public, with Lynn Gunn becoming the kind of frank frontperson fans can relate toEvening has fallen in Wantagh, Long Island, and the Jones Beach amphitheatre is filling up with people who have turned out early for a Muse concert. But perhaps the draw is also the opening band.With their ethereal electronic pop-rock alongside a vociferous support of LGBTQ rights, PVRIS have spent the past three years quietly making their mar
  
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• Frank Ocean Shines On The Cover Of 032c's 'Berlin KIDZ' Winter Issue

  23-11-2017 14:08
  The 'Slide' singer makes a rare appearance for the Berlin-based magazine...
  
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• George Avakian, jazz producer of Miles Davis and more, dies at 98

  23-11-2017 13:48
  Russian-born industry titan helped popularise albums and liner notesJazz career began in 1930s, working with Louis Armstrong George Avakian, a Russian-born jazz scholar and architect of the American music industry who produced essential recordings by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and other stars has died. He was 98.Avakian’s daughter, Anahid Avakian Gregg, confirmed that her father died on Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan. No further details were immediate available.Continue readi
  
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• From Charlotte Crosby and Vicky Pattison to Zoella: This Is How Old Celebs Were When They Made Their First Million

  23-11-2017 13:35
  This is just depressing actually...
  
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• Selena Gomez's Hairstylist Reveals How Fans Can Replicate Her Ice Blonde Hair

  23-11-2017 13:12
  The process isn't exactly easy but the results are worth it.
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: your songs about fortune tellers

  23-11-2017 13:00
  Looking to the future, this week’s playlist features Suzanne Vega, Joni Mitchell and a Robert Plant and Alison Krauss duet
  Here 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.If I’d had a crystal ball, I may have picked a different topic! This one seems to have failed to connect with some of you, and things went very qu
  
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• Björk: Utopia review – romance, angst and troublingly thin tunes

  23-11-2017 13:00
  The musician’s self-professed ‘Tinder album’ spins from ecstasy to frustration by focusing more on soundscapes than melodyAt this stage in her career, no one expects Björk’s latest record to sound much like her last one. And yet it’s hard to avoid heaving a thankful sigh when Arisen My Senses, the opening track of her ninth studio album, Utopia, crashes into life: birdsong giving way to bright splashes of electronics, beatific-sounding harp chords and cascading
  
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• Sia's 'Santa's Coming For Us' Video Is A '50s Hollywood Affair

  23-11-2017 12:55
  Kristen Bell, Stranger Things' Caleb McLaughin and the cast of It? This is one interesting Christmas...
  
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• Little Mix Fans Pay Tribute To Those Who Died in the Manchester Bombing at the MEN Arena

  23-11-2017 12:35
  Last night marked six months since the horrific attack...
  
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• I’m A Celeb Star Jack Maynard Accused Of Asking A 14-Year-Old Girl For Underwear Shots

  23-11-2017 12:17
  The YouTuber left the jungle after a series of offensive tweets were dug up from his past.
  
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• One Of The Most Popular Pokemon Evs Has Returned To Pokemon Go's Raid Battles

  23-11-2017 12:16
  We're so happy this Pokemon has returned - here are all the details on the updated Pokemon Go raids.
  
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• Beyoncé Just Dropped A Festive Capsule Collection and We're Obsessed

  23-11-2017 12:06
  Sis the season to have a thicc holiday, fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la!
  
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• Single AF Spoiler Video: Marnie Simpson Admits She Only Sees Casey Johnson ‘As A Friend’ After He Confessed To Kissing Another Girl

  23-11-2017 12:00
  Don't miss brand new Single AF, Mondays at 11pm on MTV!
  
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• Ariana Grande Is About to Release an 'Amazing' Album According to Pharrell Williams and Scooter Braun

  23-11-2017 11:44
  We cannot wait to hear this...
  
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• Why Is Demi Lovato Wearing A Wedding Dress?

  23-11-2017 11:34
  Marriage is on the mind for the 'Sorry Not Sorry' singer.
  
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• Jon Hendricks, vocal jazz pioneer and vocalese master, dies aged 96

  23-11-2017 10:59
  The early Art Tatum collaborator went on to win a Grammy with his trio Lambert, Hendricks & RossJon Hendricks, the American jazz singer who pioneered the evocative vocalese style, has died aged 96. His daughter Aria Hendricks confirmed the news. Continue reading...
  
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• These Single AF Spoiler Pics From Episode 6 Need To Be Seen RN!

  23-11-2017 10:58
  Don't miss brand new Single AF on Mondays at 11pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Check Out These Exclusive Spoilers From Just Tattoo Of Us Series 2 Episode #9!

  23-11-2017 10:51
  Don't miss brand new Just Tattoo Of Us on Mondays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Introducing Our MTV Brand New For 2018 Shortlist…

  23-11-2017 01:01
  We’ve picked out the ten artists we think are set for big things over the next 12 months…
  
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