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• Stranger Things Has Officially Been Confirmed For A Third Series By Netflix

  03-12-2017 16:22
  Hold onto your gorgons, mouthbreathers.
  
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• Chloe Moretz Has Been Granted A Restraining Order Against Alleged Stalker

  03-12-2017 15:29
  The man reportedly tried to gain access to her house after following her home from LAX.
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Has A Gripe With John Legend's Romantic Birthday Message

  03-12-2017 14:30
  This is a pretty handy masterclass on how to keep your S.O. on their toes.
  
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• Shawn Mendes Teases A Potential Collaboration With Riverdale's KJ Apa

  03-12-2017 13:46
  If anyone's wondering, we'd sell a portion of our soul to hear the results.
  
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• Ed Sheeran Had The Greatest Response To Being Snubbed By The Grammys

  03-12-2017 12:53
  Not everything is about critical validation, folks.
  
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• Aaron Chalmers Has His Say On What Gaz Beadle Will Be Like As A Father

  03-12-2017 11:58
  The Geordie Shore lad has peered into a crystal ball and given his verdict.
  
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• Jarvis Cocker pulps his BBC radio show

  03-12-2017 11:19
  Singer to bring his 6 Music show, Sunday Service, to an end in December after almost eight yearsJarvis Cocker has announced the end of his BBC Radio 6 Music show.The Pulp frontman will step down from Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service at the end of December. Continue reading...
  
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• Chris Hughes Admits He's Fuelled Drama In The Past And Brands Fame "Proper Weird"

  03-12-2017 11:17
  The Love Island star recently found himself at the centre of Olivia Attwood cheating allegations.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Clears Up Inaccurate Reports About Her Personal Life

  03-12-2017 10:38
  Not down with those rumours she's set to leave the Toon behind for a life in London.
  
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• Who We Be review – grime for the masses

  03-12-2017 10:00
  Alexandra Palace, London
  Spotify brought eye-popping visuals to its playlist-turned-gig starring Mobo winners J Hus and Giggs, and US rap queen Cardi BIt barely needs stating that the music streaming platform Spotify has changed the way music is consumed. Now, Spotify’s grime-heavy playlist – Who We Be – is radically reloading the way this formerly persecuted genre can be enjoyed. Grime at Alexandra Palace is not new – Skepta filled it a year ago – and scene trailbl
  
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• U2: Songs of Experience review – an insipid try-hard

  03-12-2017 10:00
  (Interscope)
  This companion piece to 2014’s Songs of Innocence is stronger on love than politics, but lacks the passion to inspireWith its Blakean set-up, there was hope that U2’s Songs of Experience might have seen the mature U2 pugnaciously restate their purpose, 14 albums into their career. Songs of Innocence (2014) focused tightly on the band’s formative experiences against the backdrop of the Troubles. This latest album, its promised companion piece, could have taken on a
  
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• The Staves & yMusic: The Way Is Read review – mind the Watford-New York gap

  03-12-2017 09:00
  (Nonesuch)The suspicion that this collaboration between Watford folk trio the Staves and New York chamber ensemble yMusic might be an incongruous one seems to be borne out by the opening two tracks. Hopeless is an a cappella piece, the Staveley-Taylor sisters harmonising beautifully; by contrast, Take Me Home is a wilfully discordant battle between flute and violin, with the vocals only adding to the chaos. But from there on in it’s a far more coherent coupling, the two divergent styles co
  
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• Peter Horsfall: Nighthawks review – bring on the lonely nights

  03-12-2017 09:00
  (APP)Edward Hopper painted it, Frank Sinatra conjured it with One for My Baby, Tom Waits anatomised it in forensic detail. Night-time loneliness in the big city is a genre of our time, and Peter Horsfall manipulates it with delicacy and skill. He’s a trumpeter as well as a singer, and although he doesn’t play on these tracks, there’s a good musician’s poise about his restrained, confidential style. Five of the seven songs are co-composed by him and Giacomo Smith, who play
  
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• Jorge Drexler: Salvavidas de hielo review – gentle but classy

  03-12-2017 09:00
  (Warner)Since winning an Oscar in 2005 for his theme song to The Motorcycle Diaries, Uruguay’s Jorge Drexler has become an eminence across the Latin diaspora, his songs much covered and graced with awards. Where his last album, Bailar en la Cueva, successfully embraced funk, electronica and rap, here he returns to the clever acoustic samba that made his name. A qualified doctor, Drexler boasts a questing intellect, referencing Gabriel García Márquez on Despedir a los glaciare
  
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• Chief Keef: Dedication review – most satisfying album to date

  03-12-2017 08:59
  (RBC Records)Chicago drill figurehead Chief Keef’s third album arrives on the five-year anniversary of his landmark debut, Finally Rich - a half-decade that’s been barren in terms of hits and marked by diminishing returns artistically. That changed with the excellent Thot Breaker mixtape in June - and Dedication builds on its playful, outward-looking aesthetic, resulting in Keef’s most varied and satisfying album to date. Noirish drama is paired with sleek melodies and streamli
  
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• Mitsuko Uchida; From the House of the Dead; Eugene Onegin – review

  03-12-2017 08:30
  Royal Festival Hall, London; New Theatre, Oxford; Arcola, London
  Mitsuko Uchida all but disappears inside Schubert’s mysterious piano sonatas. Plus, WNO’s blazing Janáček and Tchaikovsky with quite a lot taken outSpare in gesture, supple in action, Mitsuko Uchida does the maximum a musician can to allow composer rather than interpreter to speak. Yes, it’s an illusion. No one works harder to achieve this state of near disappearance than the Japanese-born, European-ed
  
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• A due alti: Chamber duets CD review – a mellifluous masterclass

  03-12-2017 08:15
  Filippo Mineccia, Raffaele Pe (countertenors), La Venexiana/Cavina
  (Glossa)Aristocratic demand for dramatic, intimate, plaintive duets proved a useful source of income for several 17th-century composers, eager to show their prowess at setting texts for the fashionable countertenor voice; Handel, of course, but also the lesser-known Steffani, Bononcini, Caresana and Marcello. Filippo Mineccia and Raffaele Pe unite here to give us a masterclass in this mellifluous repertoire, their diamond-bright
  
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• Neil Young + Promise of the Real: The Visitor review – still angry after all these years

  03-12-2017 08:00
  (Reprise)Neil Young could have settled for an easy life by now, but at 72, with 40-odd albums to his name, he still takes pleasure in confounding his fans. This second studio set with California quartet Promise of the Real features Young in gruff, Trump-baiting mode, plus blaxploitation-style funk, one spoken-word outburst and, strangest of all, a gaudy Latin romp. It shouldn’t work, but pleasingly, most of it does, thanks to the conviction of Young’s delivery. Throughout, he is eith
  
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• Paul McCartney review – wondrous night of songs, stories and a marriage proposal

  03-12-2017 01:39
  NIB Stadium, Perth
  Opening his first Australian tour in 25 years, the Beatles legend treated his fans to a crowdpleasing set to rememberLast week, in the lead-up to his tour of Australia and New Zealand, Sir Paul McCartney returned to Subiaco, Perth – where he had opened his most recent Australian tour in 1993 – to host an intimate, rare fan Q&A at the Regal Theatre.
  He had spent the week rehearsing at the venue, and on Thursday invited 10 competition winners and their guests to
  
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