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• Indies feel pushed out of vinyl boom as 'dad rock' sells in record numbers

  10-12-2017 16:45
  Small labels report lengthy production delays as big stars monopolise Europe’s two main pressing plantsA surge in demand for records by “dad rock” bands and blockbuster acts such as Ed Sheeran is delaying new releases by independent labels, as vinyl sales hit a 25-year high.Indie labels say it is now taking several months, rather than weeks, to bring out a new record as the small number of surviving vinyl factories struggle to cope with orders. Continue reading...
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Just Got Another Ex's Tattoo Removed After Her Split With Stephen Bear

  10-12-2017 14:39
  She's cleaning house y'all!
  
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• This YouTuber Just Got His Head Stuck In A Cement-Filled Microwave And WTF?

  10-12-2017 14:01
  Jay TGFbro is not in the firemens' good books...
  
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• Niall Horan Wants To Collaborate With Justin Bieber For The Sweetest Reason Ever

  10-12-2017 13:30
  OMG we can't with him.
  
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• Fans Think Kylie Jenner Just Announced The Sex Of Her Baby With A Christmas Picture

  10-12-2017 13:04
  Well that would be v festive...
  
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• Chris Rea cancels Brighton concert after on-stage collapse

  10-12-2017 13:04
  Driving Home for Christmas singer in stable condition following fall during live performance in OxfordThe singer-songwriter Chris Rea has cancelled a scheduled concert in Brighton following his collapse while performing in Oxford.Rea, who had a stroke last year, was mid-song at the New Theatre when he suddenly clutched his microphone and fell to the stage. He had been 45 minutes into the 35th concert in his 37-leg Road Songs For Lovers tour.Continue reading...
  
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• Matt Smith Said Selena Gomez Should Play Meghan Markle In The Crown And Fans Are NOT Happy About It

  10-12-2017 12:39
  And they have let their feelings be known...
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Is Backing THIS I'm A Celebrity Campmate To Take The Jungle Crown

  10-12-2017 12:08
  And it might not be who you think...
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Ripped Into Geordie Shore's Kyle Christie In The Funniest Way As She Hung With Charlotte Crosby And Holly Hagan

  10-12-2017 11:39
  "What is that tho?"
  
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• Gorillaz review – all stars blurred into one

  10-12-2017 10:00
  O2, London
  Bits of Oasis and other super-guests join the party as Gorillaz’sHumanz tour ends in triumphThe last night of a tour often has a reckless, demob flavour to it, and the denouement to Gorillaz’s live rendering of Humanz – an album already cast as “a party for the end of the world” – is no exception. During an all-star rendition of We Got the Power, Blur guitarist Graham Coxon tosses his guitar high into the air, narrowly avoiding clouting Noel Gallagh
  
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• Zombie Zombie: Livity review – engrossing grooves

  10-12-2017 09:00
  (Versatile)Grooves are Zombie Zombie’s stock in trade. You could spend this album’s playing time analysing how this French combo – now on their third studio outing – draw from analogue cinema soundtracks, tribal psychedelia, krautrock and vintage 808s, or ponder the red herring of the title. Livity, the killer opener, takes its name from Rastafarian righteous living, but short of a few dubby echoes, reggae is the one genre Etienne Jaumet, “Cosmic” Neman and Dr
  
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• Tom Rogerson With Brian Eno: Finding Shore review – improvisation in the right key

  10-12-2017 09:00
  (Dead Oceans)Three Trapped Tigers frontman Tom Rogerson plays piano and submits himself to Eno’s improvisational techniques on his debut solo album. In a very Enoesque way, a chance meeting outside a toilet led to the producer training infrared beams on the pianist’s keys and improvising around signals created when the beams were broken. The results are easy enough to digest, even if the process isn’t, with just enough repetition and structure to prevent attention drift. Most o
  
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• Juicy J: Rubba Band Business review – bold hip-hop, with a side of misogyny

  10-12-2017 09:00
  (Kemosabe/Columbia)Memphis rapper Juicy J is an artist renowned for bangers rather than lyrical depth, as is the case on his fourth studio album. Reverberating with gritty, theatrical, rocket-fuel beats from the best trap producers around (Metro Boomin, Mike Will Made It, Lex Luger), and featuring some stellar guests (Ty Dolla $ign, Wiz Khalifa, Migos’s Offset), it has plenty of anthems for grinding in the club. The puerile misogyny is unfortunate (Drop a Bag ends by shaming women who post
  
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• Fiona Maddocks’s best classical music of 2017

  10-12-2017 09:00
  Opera for babies, late-night Bach, Debussy to die for, plus women – and men – making waves• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullWhichever way you shake 2017, it was the year of Rattle. Simon Rattle. Appointed music director of the London Symphony Orchestra two years ago, galloping in ever louder and quicker like a Rossini crescendo, he finally arrived. The first official concerts began in September. This Is Rattle, blasted the series title. It looked like hype but
  
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• Fela Kuti: Vinyl Box Set 4 review – dream present for Afrobeat fans

  10-12-2017 09:00
  (Knitting Factory)Having other musicians “curate” Fela’s sprawling catalogue has helped maintain the legacy of Nigeria’s notorious rebel and Afrobeat founder. Soul queen Erykah Badu follows Questlove, Ginger Baker and Brian Eno in choosing seven albums centred on Fela’s industrious late 1970s, when his best band, Africa 70, was intact. Badu’s favourite is Coffin for Head of State, a mournful elegy for his mother, murdered by government troops. More typical of
  
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• Dan Michaelson: First Light review – morning glory

  10-12-2017 09:00
  (The state51 Conspiracy)On the evidence of First Light, Northampton’s Dan Michaelson isn’t the sort who leaps out of bed to greet the day. His seventh album (two solo, five with the Coastguards) concerns itself with that first moment of consciousness, and his weary voice sounds suitably hypnopompic. Indeed, there are echoes of Bill Callahan in his delivery, the sense that his measured baritone could imbue even the most mundane line with emotion. Arnulf Lindner’s orchestral arra
  
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• Blanco y Negro: Timbero review – imaginative marriage of Latin and jazz

  10-12-2017 09:00
  (Stunt)Ten years ago, when Blanco y Negro first appeared, their combination of Cuban music and Scandinavian jazz seemed an exotic novelty. Now, relaunched with some phenomenal new players, they’re almost mainstream, but by no means run of the mill. The trickiest task is keeping the Latin and jazz elements in balance, and this they manage perfectly. The music is dynamic and imaginative, and the musicianship superb. All five members have a hand in the composition. Outstanding among them are
  
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• NERD: No_One Ever Really Dies review – it’s Pharrell with bells on

  10-12-2017 08:00
  (Columbia)NERD’s comeback sounds very much like Williams’s show – and it’s brimming with killer tracks and star guestsSelf-titling your fifth album sends a signal. The glad tidings are that No_One Ever Really Dies is not one of those rock fusions NERD have made in the past just to prove how versatile the production duo of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (and their childhood friend Shae Haley) could be.NERD are not only back, for the first time since 2010’s Nothing a
  
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• Christmas celebrations fuel huge public demand for new carols

  10-12-2017 01:02
  Among the traditional favourites being sung by concert-goers this year will be hundreds of pieces written by modern composersAs many as 300 new carols have been written this year, the result of enduring public affection and a boom in competitions and commissions from choirs, churches, schools and broadcasters.Some of the most notable contemporary composers – Judith Weir, Michael Berkeley, Harrison Birtwistle and Roxanna Panufnik – have written 21st-century carols, and firm favou
  
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• Chris Rea 'stable' after on-stage collapse at Oxford theatre

  10-12-2017 00:05
  Show cancelled after Driving Home for Christmas star, who had suffered a stroke last year, was nearing the end of a 37-venue tourSinger-songwriter Chris Rea has collapsed on stage in the middle of a song, just a year after suffering a stroke. Related: Chris Rea cancels Brighton concert after on-stage collapseContinue reading...
  
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