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• Books Recommendations Based On Your Favourite Netflix Shows

  15-12-2017 18:55
  What to read if you loved 13 Reasons Why, Stranger Things and more...
  
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• Throwing It Back To Gaz Beadle And Vicky Pattison's Geordie Christmas Single: "A Parsnip In A Pear Tree."

  15-12-2017 18:09
  Who can forget this canny Christmas classic...
  
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• Charli XCX and French Montana Unveil 'Dirty Sexy Money' Video

  15-12-2017 17:40
  The 'Unlock It' singer runs an all-girls mob in the flashy visual...
  
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• The Geordie Shore Cast Rally Around Aaron Chalmers Before His BAMMA Fight

  15-12-2017 17:29
  Marnie Simpson, Nathan Henry and co. have come forward with words of support.
  
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• Shawn Mendes Wants To Collaborate With BTS

  15-12-2017 16:58
  Is a 'MIC Drop' remix about to happen?
  
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• Get to Know: Dan Caplen

  15-12-2017 16:47
  We caught up with the exciting new artist to find out a little bit more about him and his music...
  
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• Charli XCX Drops 'POP 2' Mixtape Featuring Carly Rae Jepsen and More

  15-12-2017 16:46
  The follow-up to 'Number 1 Angel' goes even harder...
  
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• 8 Easy Ways To Do Some Good This Christmas

  15-12-2017 16:45
  From charitable gifts to donating a little bit of your time, here's how to spread the good cheer.
  
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• HIM review – fond and florid farewell for Finnish metal monsters

  15-12-2017 15:45
  Barrowland, Glasgow
  The multimillion-selling Byronic goths are on their final tour, blending torrid emotion with last-day-of-school mischief
  Over the course of two decades and eight albums, Finnish goth-rockers HIM have chiselled out a decadent niche by combining melodic power with a Byronic glower. By the early 2000s, they had become multimillion-selling metal monsters across mainland Europe, and while the five-piece never quite crossed over into the UK and US mainstream, the distinctive HIM si
  
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• WATCH The Geordie Shore Cast Remake THIS Iconic Love Actually Scene

  15-12-2017 15:28
  Geordie Actually, is all around.
  
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• The 10 Most Googled Beauty Questions Of 2017 And How To Solve Them

  15-12-2017 15:09
  Bet you've searched for these before
  
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• The Most Googled Beauty Questions Of 2017 And How To Solve Them

  15-12-2017 14:40
  Bet you've searched for these before
  
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• Björk and the ‘lost’ Wu-Tang Clan sessions: are we really missing out?

  15-12-2017 14:00
  From Prince to Bowie and the Beach Boys, not everything that goes unreleased is a masterpieceWhat’s the best album you’ve never heard? Last week, Björk finally confirmed a rumour that has rumbled through the music biz for years. That, shortly before releasing Homogenic, she had collaborated on some tracks with the Wu-Tang Clan. “Magic” was how she described these unheard songs. That idea of the Shaolin swordsmen and the ice maiden jamming together at their respective
  
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• New Music Round-Up: LiIly Allen, Charli XCX, Brockhampton

  15-12-2017 13:28
  N.E.R.D, Anne-Marie and Eminem are also back with new tunes...
  
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• Russell Simmons accused by Kelly Cutrone of attempted rape

  15-12-2017 12:33
  Hip-hop mogul responds to 12th allegation of sexual misconduct against him by starting #NotMe social media campaign ‘to hold my accusers accountable’Kelly Cutrone, the US fashion publicist, TV personality and author, has accused Russell Simmons of attempted rape. The accusation comes as the New York police department are reportedly opening an investigation into Simmons after a number of other women have accused the Def Jam co-founder of rape and other sexual offences. Simmons has den
  
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• Kim Kardashian Gives Everyone A Tour Of Kris Jenner's Christmas Decor And Obviously It's A Winter Wonderland

  15-12-2017 12:25
  The definition of EXTRA
  
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• Camila Cabello Takes The 'Crown' On Brilliant Collab With Grey

  15-12-2017 12:16
  The 'OMG' singer goes EDM for the 'Bright' soundtrack...
  
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• 20 Of The Most Beautiful Books In The World

  15-12-2017 12:16
  You shouldn't judge a book by its cover but sometimes it's pretty tempting...
  
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• Eminem and Ed Sheeran Team Up On The Epic Collaboration 'River'

  15-12-2017 12:05
  The iconic rapper is back with a brand new album and this major duet is a must-hear...
  
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• The Most Popular Chocolates In Each Christmas Tin Have Been REVEALED

  15-12-2017 11:55
  Justice for the Coconut Eclair
  
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• Chloe Ferry Attempts To Inject Herself With Lip Filler And We Wouldn't Recommend It

  15-12-2017 11:55
  Probably not the best idea the Geordie Shore lass has had so far...
  
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• Cole Sprouse Opens Up About How Photography Helped Him Fight Depression

  15-12-2017 11:52
  The actor and photographer explains how a hobby really can change everything...
  
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• Of Course Justin Bieber Is Decorating His Christmas Tree Topless

  15-12-2017 11:33
  Did anyone expect anything less?
  
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• Chrissy Teigen And Shawn Mendes Are Throwing Shade At Each Other On Twitter

  15-12-2017 10:58
  We're absolutely here for this.
  
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• The best albums of 2017, No 6: LCD Soundsystem – American Dream

  15-12-2017 07:00
  Plot twist! James Murphy and co returned with an exquisite ode to love, musical heroes and middle-ageMore on the best albums of 2017More on the best culture of 2017It was the comeback that was never supposed to be, for a band that were never allowed to disappoint, after they flamboyantly broke up with farewell shows at Madison Square Garden in 2011. The stakes were high: fans had been given an unimpeachable legacy and a perfect ending. Why, went the logic, would James Murphy dare sully the music
  
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• 'It sounds like Michael Bubbly!' Big Shaq rates his rivals for Christmas No 1

  15-12-2017 07:00
  The coat-obsessed Man’s Not Hot rapper has made the viral pop hit of the year – and could now be the Christmas No 1. So does he think he can beat Ed Sheeran, Mariah Carey and Gregory Porter?Amid the usual sleigh bells, string sections and festive lyrics in this year’s Christmas No 1 race comes a man in a big coat, adamant that he is not overheating. Big Shaq’s Man’s Not Hot has become a snowballing breakthrough hit during the last few months: a parody of hardnut Lon
  
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• Man's Not Hot (Live At Yo! MTV Raps London) (Bonus Performance)

  15-12-2017 01:00 via mtv.co.uk
  Witness Michael Dapaah in full flow as Big Shaq performing his chart-smashing single 'Man's Not Hot' at XOYO for Yo! MTV Raps: London, not seen in the full TV show!
  
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• TootArd: Laissez Passer review – Middle Eastern music without borders

  15-12-2017 00:45
  (Glitterbeat)Hasan Nakhleh and his brother Rami describe themselves as stateless musicians. They are singer-songwriters from a village in the Golan Heights, the plateau in south-west Syria that has been occupied by Israel since it seized it during the six-day war in 1967. “I do not exist on the ID card … without a nationality, without borders,” as Hasan explains on the opening track Laissez Passer. The brothers have created their own unlikely style, but their guitar-and-saxoph
  
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• Fela Kuti: Box Set 4, curated by Erykah Badu review – witty, informative selection of music from a master

  15-12-2017 00:30
  (Knitting Factory Records)It wasn’t easy getting hold of Fela Kuti’s extraordinary music during much of his lifetime, but that changed dramatically after his death in 1997. The legendary Nigerian creator of Afrobeat had recorded over 50 albums, which have since been re-mastered and re-released, with classic tracks reappearing on a series of vinyl and CD compilations. The most recent box sets have been curated by musicians: Questlove, Ginger Baker, Brian Eno, and now the American sing
  
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• REM: Automatic for the People, 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition review – the perfect mix of playful, angry melancholy

  15-12-2017 00:15
  (Craft Recordings/Universal)Admittedly, you need your own home studio to get the benefit of the Dolby Atmos treatment given to REM’s superstardom album, but you only need ears to hear why it sold 18m copies. From start to finish, it’s a perfect mix of sombreness, playfulness, anger and melancholy, with one moment of great mass communication – Everybody Hurts, a song whose power is undimmed by constant exposure. A stunning live disc repositions Drive as a stomping rock song, and
  
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• The Fall: Singles 1978-2016 review – from angular post-punk oddities to alt national treasures

  15-12-2017 00:00
  (Cherry Red)Although the Fall’s formidable reputation was built on classic albums such as This Nation’s Saving Grace, this exhaustive compilation traces their slightly lesser-heralded prowess as a singles group. Over 38 years, seven CDs, 51 A-sides and 66 B-sides, the group make dizzying progress, from angular Salford post-punk oddities to alt national treasures. A multitude of lineups hurtle through northern rockabilly (Fiery Jack), hypnotic repetitive mantras (Living Too Late), Bri
  
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