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• This Is How Long It Takes To Become Someone’s Best Friend

  30-03-2018 17:08
  Being upgraded to BFF status is actually a matter of hours.
  
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• Kim Kardashian Has An Archive Of Kanye West’s Most Iconic Accessories

  30-03-2018 16:05
  Now this is true love.
  
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• Chloe Ferry Is Convinced She And Sam Gowland Had An Alien Experience Last Night

  30-03-2018 15:21
  The Geordie Shore couple experienced something weird in Middlesbrough.
  
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• The Weeknd: My Dear Melancholy review – beautiful backings for breakup bawling

  30-03-2018 14:31
  Abel Tesfaye’s surprise EP – the follow-up to the massively successful Starboy – features ghostly and gorgeous production but lyrics that are suffocatingly solipsisticFew recent releases have had a more offhand kind of advance promotion than The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy,. It isn’t so much a surprise release as one announced with a shrug: “Should we drop Friday? I’m indifferent, to be honest,” ran the text message published by Abel Tesfaye on Ins
  
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• This Dating App Requires DNA To Help Find Your Perfect Match

  30-03-2018 14:01
  Pretty sure this is destined to become a Black Mirror episode.
  
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• Are Liam Payne And Cheryl Heading On A Secret ‘Make Or Break’ Holiday?

  30-03-2018 13:15
  The couple have been faced with a whole heap of split rumours recently.
  
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• Travis Scott Is Being Sued For Cancelling A Performance After Kylie Jenner Gave Birth

  30-03-2018 13:00
  This isn't ideal.
  
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• Charlotte Gainsbourg review – legacy and legend meet in a strobe-lit icon

  30-03-2018 12:44
  Village Underground, London
  With a whisper of a voice, Serge’s daughter channels her father’s lascivious magnetism into a mesmerising, euphoric showThere are many ways for a shy performer to deal with their anxieties. One is to adopt a larger-than-life stage persona. There are crutches, such as Brian Wilson’s piano, and props such as Sia’s surrogate performers. Or, like Andy Partridge and Tracey Thorn, you can just not bother performing. Charlotte Gainsbourg rarely tours
  
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• Coraline review – creepy adaptation of Neil Gaiman's tale will turn kids on to opera

  30-03-2018 11:50
  Barbican, London
  Terrific performances and special effects ensure children in the audience love Mark-Anthony Turnage’s take on the cult novellaGiven its world premiere by the Royal Opera at the Barbican, Coraline is Mark-Anthony Turnage’s fourth opera, though it also marks something of a new departure for its composer. It’s his first stage work specifically aimed at a family audience, and consequently avoids the overtly combative or scatological stances of its predecessors.Its
  
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• Marnie Simpson Leaps To The Defense Of Scarlett Moffatt After Cosmetic Surgery Accusations

  30-03-2018 11:48
  The Ex On The Beach star is fed up of people jumping to conclusions.
  
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• This week’s tracks reviewed: Roger Daltrey, Erin Rae and Girli

  30-03-2018 11:30
  Featuring some wholesome country, a cover of a 1964 R&B banger and a flamingo-haired Spice Grrrl Continue reading...
  
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• The Voidz: Virtue review – Julian Casablancas growls but doesn't bite

  30-03-2018 11:30
  (RCA)Julian Casablancas warmed up for the release of the second album by the Voidz – they’ve dropped their frontman’s name as part of the band identity since their 2013 debut, Tyranny – with a wildly entertaining and enormously confused interview, during the course of which he asserted that the world had not appreciated Jimi Hendrix or David Bowie during their lifetimes, and that the internet had killed truth but people are also much more informed than they were in 2004.
  
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• Czarface & MF Doom: Czarface Meets Metal Face review – action-filled hip-hop supersquad

  30-03-2018 11:00
  (Get on Down)The undergroup hip-hop group Czarface – made up of Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck, MC Esoteric and producer 7L – get more super still, with the addition of metal-masked rapper MF Doom. This Avengers-style squad, already nerdily fixated on comic books and prone to supervillainous pronouncements regarding their prowess – be it lyrical, sexual or pharmaceutical – are given very free rein, and there are some ponderous skits for guys to giggle at alone with th
  
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• What Is Kendall Jenner’s Connection To This Pizza Themed Instagram Account?

  30-03-2018 10:47
  People think the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is up to something.
  
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• The Vaccines: Combat Sports review – instinctive, top-drawer garage rock

  30-03-2018 10:30
  (Columbia)The Vaccines were apparently booked to be on the cover of the NME the week it ceased its print version forever. Bad luck, given their energetic garage rock makes them as close to a perfect NME band as there currently is. But the extremely high quality songwriting on their fourth album means that their church will surely broaden beyond the indie faithful.There’s a huge waft of Dylan in the keening entreaties and imagery (“If I climb the mountain now / in my patent leather sh
  
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• Kate Nash: Yesterday Was Forever review – slightly stale pop nostalgia

  30-03-2018 10:00
  (Girl Gang Records)‘I want a takeaway with you / I don’t care if it’s Chinese food,” sings Kate Nash on her fourth album. It’s a lyric that could easily belong on her first, 2007’s Made of Bricks, a collection of gauche kitchen-sink pop that topped the charts and established Nash as the heir apparent to her early champion Lily Allen. But while the latter has continued to pump out attention-grabbing and occasionally brilliant pop, Nash’s career has flound
  
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• Contemporary album of the month – Laurence Pike: Distant Early Warning review

  30-03-2018 09:30
  This Australian drummer’s solo debut introduces pleasing layers and textures to a minimalist palette
  Laurence Pike is an Australian drummer who has appeared in a variety of settings over the past 20 years – making ambient jazz with Triosk; working with his brother Richard in the jerky math rock outfit Pivot; duetting with the one-time ECM pianist Mike Nock; and exploring tantric music with electronic artist Luke Abbott and Portico Quartet saxophonist Jack Wyllie in Szun Waves.His deb
  
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• Arcade Fire: 'People have lost the ability to even know what a joke is. It’s very Orwellian'

  30-03-2018 07:00
  The indie rockers rolled out their last record, Everything Now, with a satirical ad campaign. The result? Mass confusion and bad reviews. As they hit UK arenas, frontman Win Butler is defiant: ‘Let’s see if we can break through the noise’
  In a corner booth, Win Butler sits beaming in a broad-brimmed black hat, at his elbow a large martini glass garnished with three fat green olives. It is Thursday evening in Manhattan’s theatre district and Butler has chosen a steakhouse
  
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