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• Jim Mullen and Rob Luft review – bluesy rebirth of the cool

  18-12-2017 17:50
  Vortex Jazz Club, London
  Breezy improv from Luft – nearly 50 years younger than fellow guitarist Mullen – helped keep their blues and jazz standards freshThe Scottish music writer Rob Adams once described Glasgow guitar legend Jim Mullen’s right thumb as the best blues singer the city ever produced. This was a nod to the voice-like warmth Mullen gives an electric guitar melody by plucking with his thumb rather than a pick, as his short-lived idol Wes Montgomery did. After succe
  
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• Bach to the future: how the Dunedin Consort keep the baroque rolling

  18-12-2017 17:46
  In obsessively trying to recreate a mythic past, baroque specialists became militant and intolerant. But guided by John Butt’s pluralistic ethos, this music is becoming inclusive and future-facingMake America Great Again, Put the Great Back Into Britain – today’s populist slogans are obsessed with some imagined past. So, I hear you ask, what does that have to do with baroque Christmas music? In his book Playing With History, John Butt – keyboardist, Bach scholar, Glasgow
  
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• Kim Jong-hyun: Shinee star dies amid an unforgiving K-pop industry

  18-12-2017 17:16
  The 27-year-old singer was one of the beautiful, well-drilled entertainers who make K-pop so thrilling – and who are often treated miserably by their management companiesThe death of Kim Jong-hyun of South Korean boyband Shinee marks, if not definitely the end, then a crushing blow to one of the country’s most enduring pop outfits. With their earnest, keeningly romantic songs, paired with immaculate choreography, Shinee marked the apotheosis of their country’s boyband craft.Whi
  
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• 50 New Pokemon Have Come To Pokemon Go

  18-12-2017 17:02
  The third generation of Pokémon are available to catch now.
  
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• UB40 Urge Brits To ‘Come Back’ To The Caribbean

  18-12-2017 16:22
  The region is suffering following a series of devastating hurricanes...
  
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• Love Island's Jamie Jewitt Comes Clean About That Explosive Street Argument With Camilla Thurlow

  18-12-2017 16:19
  Jamie Jewitt opens up about what started the argument with his Love Island lady.
  
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• Anna Kendrick Shut Down Plans For "Sexier" Outfits In Pitch Perfect 3

  18-12-2017 16:07
  Badass Anna Kendrick reveals she wasn't having any of it.
  
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• 17 Trends That Need To Stay in 2017. Why? Because They're Dead!

  18-12-2017 16:00
  Hairy nostrils, clear plastic jeans and more style no-nos.
  
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• The Official UK Charts in 2017: The Success Stories

  18-12-2017 15:30
  Who dominated the UK charts this year?
  
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• Deadpool, X-Men and Fantastic Four WILL Join The Avengers In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

  18-12-2017 15:30
  It's confirmed that Deadpool and the X-Men will be join the MCU. Here are all the details.
  
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• Nicki Minaj Teases Epic ‘Krippy Kush’ Visual on Instagram

  18-12-2017 13:40
  We need to see this now...
  
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• Gaz Beadle's Girlfriend Emma McVey Hits Out At Trolls Claiming She's Not Really Pregnant

  18-12-2017 13:40
  The Geordie Shore lad's girlfriend is sick of comments about the size of her bump.
  
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• A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie review – new-school rap star taps up old-school stagecraft

  18-12-2017 13:23
  Electric Brixton, London
  The 21-year-old Bronx rapper incites moshpits and stage diving with a battery of earworm hooks – and gets a cameo from Stefflon DonAt 21 years old, rising Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie draws his influences less from the NYC hip-hop pioneers working with two turntables and a microphone, and far more from the megastar MCs of the noughties. Over the course of a self-released mixtape (2016’s Artist) and a major label album (this year’s A Bigger Artist
  
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• 11 People Who Prove You Can Be Fit At Any Size

  18-12-2017 12:57
  This lot are beyond inspirational as they break that fitness stereotype we're all just beyond bored of at this point.
  
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• There's A New Open-World Adventure Time Game Coming Out

  18-12-2017 12:56
  Shiver me timbers! New game Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion is on the way: here are all the details.
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2018: Take A Look Inside The House

  18-12-2017 12:11
  Is this the most luxurious Big Brother house yet?
  
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• Dua Lipa, Stromzy and More Will Perform at the Brits 2018

  18-12-2017 12:10
  Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith will also sing at the prestigious event...
  
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• What You Can Do If You Come Across Someone Homeless This Winter

  18-12-2017 12:03
  130,000 children are expected to wake up homeless this Christmas.
  
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• The 10 best music videos of 2017, from Kendrick Lamar to Haim

  18-12-2017 12:00
  The year provided a range of visually daring, often audacious videos that were also able to provide powerful social commentary. Here’s our pick of the 10 best“Videos now provide a consciousness and a need to stand out, where in the past they didn’t as much,” said Dave Meyers, one of 2017’s most acclaimed music video directors, earlier this year. “They sort of were spectacles. Now, they carry a truth with them.” Related: How artist Kahlil Joseph restored
  
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• Kylie Jenner’s $360 Makeup Brushes Are Now On Sale And The Reviews Aren't Great

  18-12-2017 11:45
  The make-up mogul is still the centre of some dramz over her brush set price tag.
  
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• Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall's Extra AF Birthday Party Looked Beyond Amazing As She Was Joined By Jesy Nelson And Leigh-Anne Pinnock

  18-12-2017 11:13
  Jade Thirwall, Jesy Nelson, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock pulled out all the stops for the drag-themed soirée.
  
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• 25 Christmas Present Ideas For Anyone Who's Going To Be Spending January In The Gym

  18-12-2017 10:48
  A helping hand for that New Years Resolution
  
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• 21 Last Minute Christmas Present Ideas For The ‘WTF Am I Going To Buy’ Person In Your Life

  18-12-2017 10:48
  We've all got one
  
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• 19 Festive Ways To Do Christmas Exactly Like Zalfie

  18-12-2017 10:42
  You will need: one sprout hat
  
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• Selena Gomez And Justin Bieber Go On Dates To The Mall Now

  18-12-2017 10:11
  They are you just like you and me. Except way richer. And with better hair.
  
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• Tinsel Tits Are The Most Extra Way To Share Your Festive Cheer

  18-12-2017 09:48
  Jingling your bells is so 2016.
  
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• Bruce Springsteen on Broadway: born to run … and run

  18-12-2017 08:00
  The New Jersey rocker has added four more months to his Broadway residency – quenching fans’ insatiable thirst for ‘the great American poet of our time’Born to run, indeed. Bruce Springsteen’s hit Broadway show, Springsteen on Broadway, which was originally slated to last until 26 November, and then February, has now been extended again to June 2018. The new tranche of tickets goes on sale on Tuesday.The extension of the rocker’s Broadway run confirms Springst
  
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• The top 10 classical shows of 2017

  18-12-2017 07:00
  A magisterial Monteverdi cycle, Oliver Knussen’s adventures in haiku – and a hero’s return for Simon Rattle. Our critic picks his highlights Continue reading...
  
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• The best albums of 2017, No 5: Perfume Genius – No Shape

  18-12-2017 07:00
  Mike Hadreas’ genre-switching fourth album was breathtakingly original, his lyrics of personal pain spiking a shimmeringly sublime scoreMore on the best albums of 2017More on the best culture of 2017Several records this year aimed to bridge the gap between high art and the melodic mainstream: St Vincent’s Masseduction and Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism, to name just two. But even those tremendous outings had their longueurs. Perfume Genius’ No Shape boasted end-to-end action
  
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