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• EXCLUSIVE: 5 Seconds of Summer Want One Direction to Reunite

  02-03-2018 19:27
  Well half of them do...
  
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• A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Carsen's classic staging makes a welcome return

  02-03-2018 18:21
  Coliseum, London
  Conductor Alexander Soddy leads a strong ensemble through a striking revival of Robert Carsen’s clean, uncluttered 1995 ENO production of Britten’s operaHere’s a thing. Robert Carsen’s production of Britten’s Shakespeare opera first arrived at ENO in 1995 and was most recently revived in 2004. In 2011, it was replaced by a Christopher Alden production whose seedy, sexualised 1950s boys’ school setting delighted the radicals and offended the tr
  
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• The Marriage of Figaro review – beguiling cast bring clarity to the confusion

  02-03-2018 18:19
  Hackney Empire, London
  English Touring Opera’s production is beautifully sung and manages to bring out the tenderness within the comedyThe centrepiece of English Touring Opera’s spring season is a new production by Blanche McIntyre of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro that veers, at times uneasily, between tradition and quirkiness.
  McIntyre likes to remind us that what we are watching is artifice. During the overture, the cast arrive in modern dress, before scrambling into costum
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Beyoncé, MNEK, Meghan Trainor

  02-03-2018 17:40
  SG Lewis, Not3s and Diplo are also back with new tunes...
  
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• Is Spotify really worth $20bn?

  02-03-2018 16:53
  Music service will soon have its IPO and investors think it can be as big as Netflix. Are they right?When Spotify lists on the New York Stock Exchange in the coming weeks the loss-making music streaming service is likely to be valued at more than $20bn (£15bn): such is the faith of investors in its charismatic Swedish founder, Daniel Ek. Ek, they believe, can build Europe’s answer to Netflix – a global cultural behemoth that can take on industry incumbents and the big four tech
  
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• Warner Wants Kristen Wiig For Wonder Woman 2

  02-03-2018 16:51
  We're 100% down for this.
  
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• What Your Handwriting Actually Says About Your Personality

  02-03-2018 16:17
  That illegible scrawl in your Year 10 jotter does genuinely mean something.
  
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• Get Involved With Tekken Mobile NOW If You Want To Get These Sweet Goodies

  02-03-2018 16:16
  We're not even Tekken the mick!
  
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• Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby Tweets Then Deletes This Declaration Of 'Love' For Josh Ritchie

  02-03-2018 15:31
  The Geordie Shore babe and her Love Island lad are a match made in reality TV heaven.
  
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• Adventures in motion and pitches: how minimalism shook up classical music

  02-03-2018 15:05
  Conductor Charles Hazlewood on the sounds that sparked a cultural revolution and redrew musical boundariesWhen I was an organ scholar at Oxford University in the late 80s the very idea that Kraftwerk and Japan were as important to me as Mozart and Poulenc incited scorn from my tutors. I was warned that I would never be taken seriously as a musician if I didn’t give up my passion for rock’n’roll. But no matter how stern the warning to stifle my dark side, I continued to love mus
  
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• Bland for the reload: why has George Ezra got a podcast?

  02-03-2018 14:00
  In order to boost their brands, pop stars like Jessie Ware and Will Young are reinventing themselves as chatty talk show hostsEd Sheeran is detailing his rise to fame, which – it transpires – involved lots of toilet venues and anxieties around his weight, but few showers. Now, Rag’n’Bone Man is talking about the difficulty of getting other artists to return his calls. If their candour seems unusual, that might be because both are in conversation with George Ezra, on the s
  
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• Little Mix Win Big at the First Ever Global Awards Ceremony

  02-03-2018 13:18
  The girls are unstoppable...
  
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• Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall Delivers Powerful Feminist Speech at the Global Awards

  02-03-2018 13:06
  The Little Mix star delivered the speech of dreams.
  
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• Camila Cabello and Charli XCX Are Supporting Taylor Swift on Tour

  02-03-2018 12:55
  This is going to be major...
  
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• Mike Huckabee quits Country Music Association role due to protester 'bullies'

  02-03-2018 12:29
  The ultra-conservative Republican politician, who twice ran for president, managed one day at the CMA’s philanthropic foundation after his appointment was decried as ‘shameful’Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who twice ran for the Republican presidential nomination, has resigned from the board of the Country Music Association Foundation one day after joining it, thanks to vociferous protests against his appointment.The foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Co
  
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• Kylie Jenner's Post-Baby Body Is Quite Literally Out Of This World

  02-03-2018 12:17
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star posed in lingerie just one month after giving birth to Stormi Webster, and damn.
  
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• Tracks of the week reviewed: Janelle Monáe, UMO, Belly Squad

  02-03-2018 12:00
  Monae’s right on the money, Unknown Mortal Orchestra are nigh-on indecipherable, and Belly Squad might need to grow up a tad Continue reading...
  
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• Jersey Shore Cast And Fans React To The Show Being Renewed For A Second Season In The Best Way

  02-03-2018 12:00
  Don't miss brand new Jersey Shore Family Vacation, coming soon to MTV!
  
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• Kylie Jenner Posts Her First Snaps With Baby Stormi And We Can't Even Cope

  02-03-2018 11:31
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashian's star posed up a storm with her daughter.
  
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• Tracey Thorn: Record review – funny, graceful songs of female power

  02-03-2018 11:30
  (Unmade) Since emerging in John Peel favourites Marine Girls in 1980, Tracey Thorn has been half (with husband Ben Watt) of bedsit/acoustic romantics turned electronic hitmakers Everything But the Girl; written an enthralling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen; worked with Massive Attack and sported one of pop’s best haircuts. Her fifth solo album returns to the style of EBTG’s subtly pumping anthems, but lyrically delivers what she calls “nine feminist bangers”. The singer-songw
  
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• Tory Lanez: Memories Don't Die review – a gutless rap rip-off

  02-03-2018 11:00
  (Mad Love/Interscope)Tory Lanez made hip-hop headlines recently after he was pictured on Instagram alongside fellow Torontonian singer-rapper Drake, their longstanding beef finally quashed. But Drake might want to reanimate it on hearing this astonishingly hackneyed, aggressively chameleonic LP, and how shamelessly Lanez apes his flow. Well, just the cocksure scorn of his more thugged-out moments – there is very little of Drake’s melodic invention on show here. He’s not the onl
  
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• Selena Gomez Posted A Seriously Cute Birthday Message For Justin Bieber

  02-03-2018 10:59
  The 'Wolves' singer shouted out her man on his 24th birthday.
  
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• Gwenno: Le Kov review – Cornish identity in full-colour psychedelia

  02-03-2018 10:30
  (Heavenly)The fourth track on Gwenno Saunders’ second album raises a question about whether lyrics really matter. Saunders narrates the verses of the brilliant Eus Keus? in a monotone, before the sung bursts into colour at the chorus, a euphoric series of chords with Saunders suddenly urgent over the top. She’s singing in Cornish – after the Welsh language of her debut album, she’s switched to her second mother tongue (English is her third language) – and one wonder
  
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• 'We are the people who are desperate beyond emotion': Lou Reed's lost poetry to be published

  02-03-2018 10:13
  Poetry reflecting on nationhood, sex and whiskey, written in 1970 after Lou Reed left the Velvet Underground, is to be published for the first time“We are the crystal gaze returned through the density and immensity of a berserk nation.” It’s a line that could have been written by an angry young poet from Trump’s America, but it was actually penned decades previously, by the bard of New York’s grimy rock’n’roll underbelly: Lou Reed.A collection of the son
  
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• Superorganism: Superorganism review – sharp pop-culture mashups

  02-03-2018 10:00
  (Domino)‘Everybody wants, nobody’s ashamed, everybody wants you to know their name,” sing Superorganism on Everybody Wants to Be Famous, catching the obsession with celebrity culture and the supposedly instant fix of fame that has become so central to our culture. Ironically, the super-catchy song is making them not exactly famous, but certainly virally well-known, after the song’s video racked up 1.5m views online. Being championed by Frank Ocean and Vampire Weekend&rsqu
  
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• Mary J or Miguel, Sufjan or Showman: who will win the Oscar for best song?

  02-03-2018 08:00
  Can Diane Warren bag a best original song Oscar on her ninth attempt? Will Sufjan Stevens’ fingerpicking lose out to Miguel’s strumming? Here are your runners and riders for the big race
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