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• Bob Dylan's controversial born-again phase explored in new film

  16-03-2018 18:54
  Trouble No More combines concert footage with specially commissioned sermonsThe acute and sometimes obtuse angles of Bob Dylan’s career have teased and infuriated his public for more than half a century. But nothing – not the bizarre Christmas album, his no-show at the Nobel ceremony or allowing his music to be used in a Victoria’s Secret lingerie ad – has provoked the degree of derision that greeted his conversion to Christianity at the end of the 1970s, which is the sub
  
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• Is pop ready for Beyoncé's rap alter-ego?

  16-03-2018 13:59
  Queen B recently dropped bars on DJ Khaled’s Top Off – a risky move from singer to MC that not many pop stars are capable of pulling offThere inevitably comes a time in every rapper’s career when they think: Hang on, maybe I can sing? Everyone from Eminem to Mase (do YouTube his shaky ballad Jealous Guys) to Lil Wayne has tried it – and, quite honestly, in 2018 anyone can do it with a bit of Auto-Tune and clever production. But going from singing to rapping? That’s
  
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• Gigi Hadid Makes A Seriously Powerful Statement Following Her Split From Zayn Malik

  16-03-2018 13:41
  The Tommy Hilfiger model and the One Direction lad announced their split this week.
  
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• Jazz album of the month – Keith Jarrett Standards Trio: After the Fall

  16-03-2018 13:30
  The Trio’s first concert after Jarrett’s return from illness in 1998 bubbles with rediscovered power and energyGary Peacock, Keith Jarrett’s double bassist in the piano star’s 35-year-old Standards Trio, once told JazzTimes that when: “You don’t feel you have to make a statement any more, you enter a space of enormous freedom.” It was perhaps a disingenuous observation, since Jarrett almost certainly had a statement in mind when he founded this influenti
  
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• The Woman Who Shot And Killed Her Boyfriend In A YouTube Stunt Gets Jailtime

  16-03-2018 12:36
  20-year-old Monalisa Perez pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter.
  
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• Geordie Shore Fans Left Shocked By Close Up Of Sam Gowland's Chloe Ferry Tattoo

  16-03-2018 12:21
  Geordie Shore fans are fully shook by the Love Island lad's commitment.
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Halsey, Charlie Puth, Louisa

  16-03-2018 11:54
  Sabrina Carpenter, Yxng Bane and Seinabo Sey are also back with new tunes...
  
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• Essaie Pas: New Path review – techno dystopias with witty flashes of funk

  16-03-2018 11:30
  (DFA)From Run the Jewels to Gary Numan, musicians technophobically fretting over the future of humanity have long used Philip K Dick as a touchstone – and that’s not counting the endless riffs on Vangelis’s synthscapes from the Dick-derived Blade Runner. Essaie Pas, married producers Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau, have used Dick’s druggily dsytopian novel A Scanner Darkly as inspiration for their fifth album, and tap into his dread much better than most. Their aesth
  
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• Liam Payne Hints He's Going To Miss His And Cheryl's Son's First Birthday

  16-03-2018 11:21
  The former One Direction lad hinted he won't be around for baby Bear's first birthday.
  
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• Did Zayn Malik's Sister Just Throw Shade At Gigi Hadid On Instagram?

  16-03-2018 11:07
  Her comment about "horrible people getting nowhere" is pretty ill-timed.
  
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• Meshell Ndegeocello: Ventriloquism review – timeless, lustrous take on 90s R&B

  16-03-2018 11:00
  (Naïve)Meshell Ndegeocello isn’t a fan of modern R&B: “I find myself not being able to listen to a lot of [it],” she recently told Billboard, “just because of the vibration it gives off.” Little wonder then that, after a grief-filled year in which she buried one parent and half-lost the other to dementia, the feted neo-soul pioneer chose to reach backwards, to the comfort of familiar, past sounds.Ndegeocello is no stranger to covers projects. Recent years h
  
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• Kendall Jenner Reveals Shocking Reason Behind Her Lip Tattoo: "I Was Drunk!"

  16-03-2018 10:37
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star admits she wasn't thinking 'clearly'.
  
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• Yo La Tengo: There's a Riot Going On review – blue sky doo-wop with a crunchy rock edge

  16-03-2018 10:30
  (Matador) The chorus that Georgia Hubley sings softly on the second track of Yo La Tengo’s 15th studio album serves almost as a mission statement for the trio: “Whenever I see you, there are shades of blue.” Yo La Tengo are, as so often, blue: but theirs is not the midnight blue of despair, but the pale blue of melancholy, and sometimes the sharp, unending blue of a cloudless sky. The song exemplifies the group in other ways: its jaunty rhythm is taken straight from 60s beat po
  
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• James Bay review – sex, sparkles and shades of Prince in husky revamp

  16-03-2018 10:23
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  The troubadour behind Hold Back the River has ditched the hipster hat for thigh-length boots – and a sleek new soundJames Bay’s ascent to pop stardom has appeared effortless. Having scooped the Brits Critics’ Choice award in 2015, the Hitchin-born singer-songwriter duly saw his debut album, Chaos and the Calm, hit No 1 and go double-platinum in the UK and Top 20 in the US, picking up a slew of industry awards along the way.A stellar rise, and yet his pr
  
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• Kendall Jenner Opens Up About The Birth Of Stormi Webster For The First Time

  16-03-2018 10:15
  The 22-year-old reveals how becoming an aunty has been "different" this time around.
  
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• 15 Celeb Snogs You'll Wish You Were A Part Of

  16-03-2018 10:04
  We're down if they are...?
  
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• All The Kardashians' Beauty Hacks In One Place

  16-03-2018 10:02
  FINALLY...
  
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• Yo La Tengo on their greatest hits: 'Maybe no one else is listening'

  16-03-2018 10:00
  They are sometimes written off as a band for music nerds – but their vastly varied three decades of music has something for everyone. The band pick out their own favourite songs, from duets with air conditioners to Sun Ra covers about 9/11Subscribe to Yo La Tengo’s playlist of their favourite tracks across their career Continue reading...
  
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• The Magic Gang: the Magic Gang review – amiably harmonic, lovelorn indie

  16-03-2018 10:00
  (Warner Bros/YALA!) The last time major labels were signing amiable, jangly indie bands came in the aftermath of Creation Records’s dissolution, when Columbia Records attempted to turn Teenage Fanclub’s Britpop-adjacent success into hot cash. Spoiler alert: it didn’t work, and the two parties amicably parted ways. Continue reading...
  
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• 9 Boner Hacks Every Dude Should Know

  16-03-2018 09:54
  Because men need help sometimes...
  
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• Iconic Jacqueline Wilson Characters Who Probably Shaped You As A Person

  16-03-2018 09:47
  Bog off, Justine
  
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• Selena Gomez 'Suffered From Depression' After Undergoing Kidney Transplant

  16-03-2018 09:42
  Organ donor Francia Raisa has opened up about the impact of the operation.
  
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• Jack White: ‘As an artist it is your job not to take the easy way out’

  16-03-2018 07:00
  As the messiah of analogue and vinyl goes digital on his new solo album, Jack White talks about the need to be contrary, his love of objects – and his dislike of the pressJack White is back in the UK for the first time since Seven Nation Army became the unofficial rallying cry for Jeremy Corbyn. But he doesn’t know much about Corbyn and anyway: “I feel like I have to be insanely careful these days because the press has had a lot of fun with me over the years.”White is wea
  
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