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• Reactions To Lady Gaga's Cancelled Tour Shows How Little We Understand Invisible Illness

  01-03-2018 20:02
  Pippa Stacey talks fibromyalgia, and why people were much more sympathetic about Ed Sheeran's broken bones...
  
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• Reactions To Lady Gaga's Cancelled Tour Showed How Little We Understand Invisible Illness

  01-03-2018 20:02
  Pippa Stacey talks fibromyalgia, and why people were much more sympathetic about Ed Sheeran's broken bones...
  
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• Elvis Presley's power, Tina Turner's legs: musicians pick their biggest influences

  01-03-2018 19:18
  Sade taught Jessie Ware quiet confidence, while Sly Stone helped Baxter Dury ‘make the unlikely into something rational’: some of our contemporary favourites salute the stars who had the most impact on them● Guardian writers on the most influential artists in music todayMy greatest influence probably isn’t very evident in my music. Sly and the Family Stone, or more Sly, captured my imagination from the moment it was forced out of a giant pair of Tannoy speakers placed in
  
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• Bon Iver, Frank Ocean and … Shania Twain? Here are the most influential artists in music today

  01-03-2018 19:17
  To mark Bon Iver’s reissue of his super-influential debut, Guardian music writers make the case for the musicians they think have had the biggest sway on music right now● Paloma Faith, Wolf Alice, Slipknot and more pick their own biggest influenceIn 2006, Justin Vernon headed to a remote Wisconsin cabin – presumably in a flannel shirt – and recorded his album For Emma, Forever Ago. With an anniversary edition out now and Vernon installed in an eight-night London concert r
  
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• Contemporary album of the month – Brad Mehldau: After Bach

  01-03-2018 19:00
  The pianist intersperses classic Bach pieces with his own responses in a headscratching album of harmonic adventuresAlso reviewed: Niklas Paschburg | OceanicNo composer looms over modern jazz quite like Johann Sebastian Bach, whose harmonic rigour seems to have provided the basis for bebop and all that followed. Listen to the endlessly mutating semiquavers tumbling from Charlie Parker’s saxophone and it could be the top line of a Bach fantasia; the jolting cycle of chords in John Coltrane&
  
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• Camp Cope: How to Socialise & Make Friends review – the raw sound of the #MeToo generation

  01-03-2018 18:00
  Melbourne three-piece’s songs have an unrestrained gusto that will empower more women to tell their own storiesIn his “mongrel memoir” How to Make Gravy, Paul Kelly has a chapter on circle songs – songs that are built on a chord progression that cycles in the same order from beginning to end. The melody may vary, but there’s no bridge or change in the chorus to break the circle. Wide Open Road, by the Triffids, is a circle song; so too Kelly’s Careless. A lot
  
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• Get to Know: Lewis Capaldi

  01-03-2018 17:56
  We caught up with the exciting new artist to find out a little bit more about him and his music...
  
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• Disneyland Paris Is Getting a Marvel, Frozen and Star Wars Makeover

  01-03-2018 17:28
  This looks amazing...
  
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• Meghan Trainor Wows In Amazing ‘No Excuses’ Music Video

  01-03-2018 16:49
  The 'Lips Are Movin'' star is back...
  
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• Hailu Mergia: the Ethiopian jazz legend who jams in his taxi

  01-03-2018 14:23
  He fled his native country with his group, the Walias Band, in 1981 and now drives a cab in Washington DC, in which he also composes. But, despite his lo-fi setup, ‘if you have a good bassline you can create anything’On a Monday afternoon, Hailu Mergia is driving through the suburbs of Washington DC, his laminated cabby licence tacked to the back of his seat. It’s rare that one of his customers realises that their driver is an Ethiopian musical legend, the keyboardist and accor
  
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• 11 Thoughts You Have In Your First Ever PT Session

  01-03-2018 14:00
  So. Many. Emotions.
  
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• Victoria's Secret Model Throws Shade At Taylor Swift In The Least Subtle Way Possible

  01-03-2018 13:59
  Customised clothing ranks pretty high on the savagery scale.
  
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• Imagine Dragons review – fun, but as shallow as a paddling pool

  01-03-2018 13:30
  O2 Arena, London
  What the massively successful pop-rockers lack in blue-sky thinking, they make up for in crowdpleasing bangersImagine Dragons’ career trajectory to date has been nigh on flawless. Ten years and three ruthlessly commercial albums down the line, the Las Vegas rock band have notched up close to 50m record sales, and ascended to the rarefied level where they can fill two nights at the 20,000-capacity O2 arena.This steep rise is all the more remarkable as they are distinctly sh
  
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• MNEK Debuts Incredible New Single ‘Tongue’ on Annie Mac

  01-03-2018 13:26
  You need to hear this now...
  
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• The Breeders: All Nerve review – reunited rockers get dark and deep | Alexis Petridis' album of the week

  01-03-2018 13:00
  Kim Deal’s cult band – having returned to the lineup of their classic Last Splash – deliver an album that blends ancient monuments and crushed beetles into a spectral brewA sense of “What if?” hangs over the career of Kim Deal. It seems a strange thing to say about someone who’s been a member of not one but two seminal rock bands, an alt-rock figure so beloved that journalists unironically open profiles of her with the words “It is not possible to overst
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about fairness

  01-03-2018 13:00
  The Rolling Stones, Lauryn Hill and Depeche Mode are among artists railing against things that are simply not fair
  Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of stories and suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.“There are many things in life that are not fair,” said the US president Jimmy Carter, who was replaced by sunny optimist Ronald Reagan just o
  
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• Geordie Shore Episode 9 Spoiler Video: Sam Gowland Is ‘Fuming’ After Chloe Ferry Questions Whether He’s Looking At Other Lasses

  01-03-2018 13:00
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore, Tuesdays at 10pm on MTV!
  
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• Who Is Katie Champ? Everything You Need To Know About The Ex On The Beach OG

  01-03-2018 12:55
  Ex On The Beach starts Tuesday 20th March at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Kim Kardashian Just Designed The Perfect Kardashian-Jenner Family Member

  01-03-2018 12:54
  This is wild.
  
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• Camila Cabello Adds Extra Dates to Tour Due to High Demand

  01-03-2018 12:34
  When will your faves?
  
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• It Looks Like Cara Delevingne Got A Massive New Ear Modification And It's Quite Something

  01-03-2018 12:06
  The model debuted the new modification at a Christian Dior show during Paris Fashion Week.
  
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• Brandon Flynn Responds To Memes Of Him Kissing Sam Smith

  01-03-2018 12:00
  The couple shared a very intense snog outside a London fish and chip shop.
  
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• Who Is Tom Litten? Everything You Need To Know About The Ex On The Beach OG

  01-03-2018 11:54
  Don't miss brand new Ex On The Beach on Tuesday 20th March @ 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Demi Lovato And Wilmer Valderrama Might Be Getting Back Together

  01-03-2018 11:10
  The 'Tell Me You Love Me Singer' has been spending time with her ex.
  
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• Fanny: behind the reunion of a groundbreaking all-female rock band

  01-03-2018 11:00
  Fifty years after they released their landmark album, the ‘godmothers of chick rock’ whose fans included Bowie are back with new musicFifty years ago, when June Millington and her sister Jean formed the all-female rock band Fanny, they felt like they were living a secret. “As a girl, you couldn’t tell anyone ‘I’m in a band,’” June Millington recalled. “You might as well say ‘I’m flying to the moon.’ It just wasn’t in t
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Is Done With People Criticising Her Baby Bump Pictures

  01-03-2018 10:53
  The pregnant KUWTK star has basically instructed all the trolls to jog on.
  
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• The Director Of Disney's 'Frozen' Hasn't Ruled Out Giving Elsa A Girlfriend

  01-03-2018 10:49
  Frozen's director Jennifer Lee addressed Elsa's sexuality.
  
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• Liam Gallagher compares Noel and wife to Fred and Rosemary West

  01-03-2018 10:15
  The feud between the Oasis brothers continues, as Liam accuses Noel’s wife Sara McDonald of being ‘the reason Oasis is no longer’Liam Gallagher has compared his brother Noel, and Noel’s wife Sara MacDonald, to the serial killers Fred and Rosemary West in an extraordinary – even by his standards – Twitter rant.Liam blamed MacDonald, Noel’s second wife, who he married in 2011, for breaking up Oasis, writing: “She’s the reason Oasis is no longer
  
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• Introducing MTV OMG Our Brand New Music Channel!

  01-03-2018 09:00
  A brand new place to get obsessed with music and gossip…
  
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• Keith Richards apologises to Mick Jagger for saying he needed a vasectomy

  01-03-2018 04:00
  Rolling Stones guitarist made comment in interview with Wall Street Journal Magazine calling frontman a ‘randy old bastard’The Rolling Stones have been rocking together for a half century but the legendary tensions between Keith Richards and Mick Jagger look to be very much alive.
  Richards has apologised to his bandmate after the guitarist suggested that the fecund frontman needed a vasectomy. Continue reading...
  
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