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• Little Mix Break 20 Year Long Spice Girls UK Chart Record

  09-03-2018 17:38
  Jesy, Jade, Leigh-Anne and Perrie are unstoppable...
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother's Andrew Brady Has Been Accused Of Cheating On Caroline Flack

  09-03-2018 16:08
  The Celebrity Big Brother star denies having ever seen the woman.
  
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• Lil Yachty: Lil Boat 2 review – hip-hip's misunderstood upstart gets prickly

  09-03-2018 15:52
  In trading his sunlit humour for tedious boasts, the rap star has only succeeded in giving more ammunition to his many criticsLil Yachty recently pronounced himself “devastated” by the lukewarm critical and commercial reaction to his 2017 debut album Teenage Emotions. You could see why its sales figures came as a disappointment. His was a very modern rise to fame – instead of hustling demos or carving out a name in rap battles and open mic nights, he came to prominence appearin
  
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• From Sophie Kasaei To Kim Kardashian: 9 Times Reality Stars Shared Shockingly Intimate Moments Of Their LIves

  09-03-2018 15:37
  Should we be able to see this?
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Years & Years, Lily Allen, Demi Lovato

  09-03-2018 14:41
  Jason Derulo, Kylie Minogue and Chloe x Halle are also back with new tunes...
  
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• Yasiin Bey and Robert Glasper review – mercurial hip-hop star finds magic in the moment

  09-03-2018 13:31
  Troxy, London
  Teaming up with jazz maverick Glasper, the rapper formerly known as Mos Def performed a gripping set with the spontaneous vibe of an after-hours jam session In the near-decade since his last album, The Ecstatic, the artist formerly known as Mos Def has proved a vaporous figure, scheduling albums that never arrive, relocating to (and then being expelled from) South Africa and, in 2016, announcing his imminent retirement from showbiz. His debut album, 1999’s Black on Both Sides
  
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• Selena Gomez 'Nearly Died' From Kidney Surgery Complications

  09-03-2018 13:30
  An artery had to be reconstructed during the procedure.
  
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• MNEK Wows In Stunning 'Tongue' Music Video

  09-03-2018 13:19
  You need to see this...
  
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• Could Kem Cetinay Return To The Villa For Love Island 2018?

  09-03-2018 13:05
  And when does Love Island 2018 start?
  
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• Halo Eyebrows Are A Thing Now And We Have Plenty Of Thoughts

  09-03-2018 12:51
  This will definitely catch people's attention.
  
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• Mist review – rehabilitated rapper turns pain into a party

  09-03-2018 12:44
  Academy, Leeds
  The Birmingham grime MC works the crowd into a euphoric frenzy, despite the melancholy edge to his personal lyricsWhen Mist was in prison over Christmas in 2014, his resettlement officer asked him: “Who are you?” The Birmingham rapper couldn’t immediately answer, so in his cell he started writing personal, therapeutic lyrics about his parents’ deaths and the “pure pain” of knowing his daughter had “turned grown while I was in the pen&rdquo
  
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• Tracks of the week reviewed: Shame, Diplo, Sigrid

  09-03-2018 12:00
  Diplo teams up with Lil Yachty, Sigrid is happy-sad and Shame stick to the same two chords Continue reading...
  
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• Charlotte Crosby’s Got An Important Life Lesson To Share And It’s Got Us Feeling Inspired – EXCLUSIVE

  09-03-2018 12:00
  Don't miss BRAND NEW The Charlotte Show, starting Wednesday 28th March at 9pm on MTV!
  
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• Alexandra Burke: The Truth Is review – efficient power balladry with West End touches

  09-03-2018 12:00
  (Decca)Despite being among the most statistically successful X Factor winners, in many ways, Alexandra Burke’s career has never really got off the ground. Burke has spent the decade since her talent-show triumph creatively confused (she admitted disliking Hallelujah, the Leonard Cohen song she covered as her winner’s single, and the track with which she is most commonly associated, while her subsequent output has featured some unduly painful dance-pop) and mired in record label woe.
  
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• Why isn't a practical knowledge of opera a 'must-have' for ENO's chief executive?

  09-03-2018 11:48
  English National Opera’s new business boss, Stuart Murphy, is new to opera. Let’s hope he learns fastRunning an opera company may be a niche occupation, especially in the UK, where the chances to do so are pretty limited, but there are some basic requirements. A practical knowledge of the art form is always a good start, but that’s something that the board of English National Opera, which is not exactly overloaded with in-depth opera knowledge, seems to think is irrelevant in a
  
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• Editors: Violence review – brawny, hooky and tinged with feeling

  09-03-2018 11:30
  (Play It Again Sam)A man untroubled by Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours theory, 16 years in, Editors’ Tom Smith still writes lyrics like he’s planning the script for a particularly zealous ghost tour. Lovers scream, bones turn to dust, streets are paved with souls and poor old Britain has been reduced to “charred remains”. So Violence’s crowning achievement is that most of this portentous nonsense is disguised by music that is often genuinely fun. To their chag
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Hasn't Had Sex In A Seriously Long Time And This Is Why

  09-03-2018 11:24
  The struggle is real.
  
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• Geordie Shore's Marnie Simpson Straddles A Completely Naked Casey Johnson

  09-03-2018 11:20
  The Ex On The Beach babe just about saved her bae from exposing himself.
  
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• 12 Of The Most Dramatic Jersey Shore Moments EVER

  09-03-2018 11:00
  OMGTL...
  
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• Kim Kardashian's Emojis Have Sparked A Huge Debate Around Feminism

  09-03-2018 10:42
  Not everyone is a huge fan of the bumper pack.
  
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• Judas Priest: Firepower review – toned-down riffs never lower the tone

  09-03-2018 10:30
  (Columbia)What do you do when you made your name hitting notes high enough to summon all dogs within a 40-mile radius, but age takes your pitch down and puts the screech out of reach? It’s an issue particular to metal, and particularly relevant to Rob Halford of Judas Priest, who has responded to age by taking his smoke-alarm voice down an octave or two, into a stentorian baritone. Given that his voice helped define Priest, one needs to treat the assertions that this 18th album is a return
  
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• Riverdale’s Madelaine Petsch Just Weighed In On Cheryl Blossom Being A Witch

  09-03-2018 10:29
  Well we never for a minute thought that she’d actually want to be a witch.
  
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• 'Pete Doherty tried to get out of the car at 80mph': the stories behind NME's greatest covers

  09-03-2018 10:18
  From Stuart Maconie romping up the Eiger with Stone Roses to Vivien Goldman having her mind blown by reggae sound systems, writers and editors from four decades of NME delve behind the front pagesNews: NME to close print edition after 66 yearsAlexis Petridis: A rock’n’roll riot that petered into silenceReaders on their favourite NME issuesIn November 1973 – shortly after I’d moved up from deputy to editor – there was a printing strike. In the previous couple of year
  
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• David Byrne: American Utopia review – anxiety dreams from centrist dad

  09-03-2018 10:00
  (Nonesuch)The would-be Roland Barthes of the five boroughs continues his puckish, lifelong interrogation of contemporary culture. As ever, his focus is the banal stuff of everyday yuppiedom – money, cars, tourism, shopping – and there is a Once in a Lifetime-style anxiety running through it all. But like some evangelistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he also finds potential and even a kind of poetry in it. The album title, he has said, is not ironic: Byrne seems to hope, like the ult
  
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• 'We queued for it and cried in shock': readers on their favourite NME issues

  09-03-2018 07:00
  With the much loved music weekly soon to close its print edition, we asked for your memories. Here are our favourites
  The Clash were my heroes – musically, politically and ethically. They represented everything I believed in as a teenager and gave me a sense of freedom in my rather dysfunctional childhood. I was 15 when the January 1981 edition came out, with Joe Strummer on the cover, tapping on a typewriter and smoking. To my young self that illustrated his intellect and coo,l and I had
  
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• 'He tried to get out of the car at 80mph': the stories behind NME's greatest covers

  09-03-2018 07:00
  From Stuart Maconie romping up the Eiger with Stone Roses to Vivien Goldman having her mind blown by reggae sound systems, writers and editors from four decades of NME delve behind the front pagesIn November 1973 – shortly after I’d moved up from deputy to editor – there was a printing strike. In the previous couple of years, NME had been diligently reinventing itself from risible industry lapdog to credible maverick terrier; we were on a roll and it was intensely frustrating t
  
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• Sampa the Great wins Australian Music prize for best album of 2017

  09-03-2018 06:18
  Sampa Tembo beats shortlist including Paul Kelly and Jen Cloher to take out $30,000 prizeHip-hop artist Sampa the Great has won the 13th Australian Music prize for her debut album Birds and the Bee9.
  Sampa, whose full name is Sampa Tembo, beat eight other shortlisted artists, including Paul Kelly and Jen Cloher, to take out the annual $30,000 prize for best Australian album of 2017. Continue reading...
  
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