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• 10 Reasons Why Western Australia Is The Ultimate Destination To Work & Travel On A Budget

  06-04-2018 19:01
  We're booking our trip to Western Australia ASAP...
  
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• Lil Dicky & Chris Brown’s ‘Freaky Friday’ Is The UK’s Number 1 Single!

  06-04-2018 19:00
  The body-swapping collab dethrones Rudimental in this week’s Official Singles Chart…
  
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• Jersey Shore’s JWOWW Talks The Infamous Time She Punched The Situation In The Face: “I Feel Like He Deserved It!”

  06-04-2018 17:51
  Jersey Shore Family Vacation starts Monday 9th April at 9pm only on MTV!
  
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• Cecil Taylor: a visionary pianist who breathed fire and life into jazz

  06-04-2018 17:37
  With his dream of music as a multi-celled organism, Taylor broke free of conventional structures – and unleashed a lava-flow of creative energyWhen the description “force of nature” leaps to mind, it’s often an honest reaction to dazzling passion in an artist, while sidelining the focused discipline and hard graft that made it possible. As a creator and as a character, the pianist, poet and mixed-genre experimenter, Cecil Taylor was as entitled to the tag as anyone in the
  
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• Jersey Shore Spoiler Story: Ron Ortiz-Magro Talks About His Ex Sammi Giancola Not Appearing In Family Vacation: “Do You Really Want To Deal With That Bullsh*t?”

  06-04-2018 16:46
  Jersey Shore Family Vacation starts Monday 9th April at 9pm only on MTV!
  
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• Cecil Taylor, free jazz pioneer, dies age 89

  06-04-2018 16:26
  The New York-born pianist’s unique and radical improvisation style was a broad influence on the jazz avant gardeThe jazz pianist Cecil Taylor has died at the age of 89, at home in Brooklyn. The cause of death is unknown, but his passing has been widely reported amongst his peers online.Taylor was one of the key figures in the free jazz revolution, a change heralded by the pianist’s 1956 album Jazz Advance, which upended the 1950s “cool school” sound. By the mid-1960s, he
  
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• Twitter Reacts To Cardi B's 'Invasion Of Privacy'

  06-04-2018 15:58
  Chrissy Teigen had something to say about *that* RiRi threesome comment...
  
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• Geordie Shore's Marnie Simpson Shares Behind The Scenes Look At Her Botox Session

  06-04-2018 15:56
  The Geordie Shore star disabled comments on the post after facing some backlash.
  
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• A Handy Guide To Which Type Of Skincare Acid You Actually Need

  06-04-2018 15:35
  Hyalu-what now?
  
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• Kojo Funds review – champagne, confetti and raw street life

  06-04-2018 14:12
  Electric Brixton, London
  London’s leading Afro-swinger pitches his mix of diasporic grime, rap and trap in this spectacular show that sees him outpowered by his guestsA leading figure on London’s vibrant Afro-swing scene alongside artists such as Not3s and J Hus, Kojo Funds mixes the diasporic sounds of grime, Afrobeats, and road rap together. This blend is evident from the start of his first headline show, as Funds walks on to Fear No One’s glistening trap beat. Dressed in all
  
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• Heaven or hell? The problem of the posthumous album

  06-04-2018 14:00
  A new Cranberries album is due, featuring the vocals of Dolores O’Riordan. But the issue of what a late musician ‘would have wanted’ is often a dilemma for both bands and the fans Modern Toss on posthumous albums“After much consideration we have decided to finish what we started,” the remaining members of the Cranberries wrote on their website this month, announcing their first new album since 2012. Dolores O’Riordan, who died earlier this year, had already fi
  
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• Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy review – Bronx Cinderella grinds her heel into hip-hop sexism

  06-04-2018 13:50
  (Atlantic)
  A magnificent debut that fuses vulnerability, sexual voraciousness, paranoia and party music shows the rapper is capable of far more than punchy put-downsLeading up to the release of this debut album, Cardi B could be seen on her Instagram stories working late into the night, finishing its final tracks just days before it was due out. Tired, reportedly pregnant, without makeup and lit in her phone’s blue light, she again showed the unguarded realness that has made her rap’
  
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• Geordie Shore's Sophie Kasaei Comes Clean About Pauly D Romance Rumours And We're Off To Buy a Hat

  06-04-2018 13:08
  Our dreams of a Geordie Shore and Jersey Shore crossover romance live on...
  
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• 5 Seconds of Summer review – punky dreamboats fight to quit boyband ghetto

  06-04-2018 12:43
  Heaven, London
  Sydney’s guitar popsters nakedly woo their young female fans but cut the flirting as they pitch for the crossover adult market
  ‘Seventy five per cent of our lives is [spent] proving we’re a real band. We don’t want to just be, like, for girls. We want to be for everyone,” said 5 Seconds of Summer drummer Ashton Irwin in 2015. His Sydney punkish-pop quartet were then basking in the afterglow of having sold out almost every date of a world tour; their s
  
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• This week’s tracks reviewed: the Lemon Twigs, Sam Smith and Lil Yachty

  06-04-2018 12:00
  Featuring precocious mulleted New Yorkers, Chilean-Norwegian indie pop and a teen tearaway who went viral Continue reading...
  
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• Disney plots High Fidelity TV series with female lead

  06-04-2018 11:56
  A new version of Nick Hornby’s romcom will focus on a female record-store owner chronicling her past relationships and will be shown on the studio’s streaming serviceDisney is reportedly planning a gender-flipped television adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity. The book was made into a movie by Stephen Frears in 2000, with John Cusack as a record-store owner. In the new project, Cusack’s character is expected to be played by a woman.The series is expected
  
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• Facebook Admits To Scanning Your Messenger Conversations

  06-04-2018 11:49
  Ever feel like you're living in The Truman Show?
  
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• Cole Sprouse, Demi Lovato and More Get Together For The Disney Reunion Of Dreams

  06-04-2018 11:46
  Alyson Stoner and Debby Ryan were in on it too.
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Dua Lipa, Calvin Harris, Cardi B, Justin Bieber

  06-04-2018 11:44
  John Legend, The Aces, Thirty Seconds To Mars and Charli XCX all deliver the goods this week also...
  
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• Daniel Avery: Song for Alpha review – majestic, cavernous techno

  06-04-2018 11:30
  (Phantasy)Between 1992 and 1994, Warp Records released the Artificial Intelligence series of albums. Including key early work by household names in electronica circles – Aphex Twin, Autechre, Richie Hawtin – it was ostensibly home-listening music, all unfolding minor-key melodies, gurgles and washes of sound. But it was also bathed in the afterglow of the rave explosion, much more about bodily pleasure than nerdy detail-spotting.Lately, the Artificial Intelligence sound has been bubb
  
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• Dua Lipa and Calvin Harris' Unleash Summer Anthem 'One Kiss'

  06-04-2018 11:13
  This A-list collaboration has not let us down...
  
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• Zac Efron Is As Bad At Online Flirting As The Rest Of Us

  06-04-2018 11:02
  The Baywatch star has been trying to flirt up a storm with Alexandra Daddario.
  
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• Revamp: Reimagining Elton John review – Sheeran and Gaga join middling covers rehash

  06-04-2018 11:00
  (Virgin EMI)More than 17 years after Two Rooms, a pair of new albums reinterpret Elt and Bern with a new generation of A-listers. Taupin is behind Restoration, featuring Nashville stars countrifying the catalogue, while John invited his showbiz pals to fill Revamp. When it’s good, Revamp is very good. When it’s bad, it’s awful. And in between there’s the requisite amount of anonymous competence. Sad to say, the track with Elton’s involvement is the worst – an
  
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• Kylie Minogue: Golden review – yearning country reinvention

  06-04-2018 10:30
  (BMG) The “Nashville album” offers artists a chance to work with bulletproof songwriters, foreground their craft, or age gracefully. This is the backdrop to Kylie Minogue’s 14th album, the product of two weeks writing in London (before recording it over there). Yet Kylie opts not for copper-bottomed songcraft, but the unholy intersection of country and EDM: drops beget scratchy fiddle breakdowns, while banjo clucks meet tropical house in a mush of mild euphoria. Even the most t
  
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• 'We threw chorizo at the walls!' Inside Madrid's buzzing garage rock scene

  06-04-2018 10:00
  Spain’s teens, reared on Europop, were oblivious to DIY rock. But a feeling of helplessness amid their country’s economic collapse has been the catalyst for Hinds, Baywaves, the Parrots and others to kick out the jamsI had never been to a gig before and I paid €3 to get in and discovered a culture I never knew existed,” Hinds singer Carlotta Cosials says of the day of her graduation, when she accepted an invitation to see a theatre group pal’s fledgling garage rock b
  
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• Folk album of the month: Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse and David McGuinness – What News

  06-04-2018 09:30
  The Scottish musician’s collaboration with Skuse and McGuinness is tender and intricateTo work well in folk music, you have to be an industrious soul, and there are few more industrious in the field than Alasdair Roberts. The Scot, who grew up around traditional song in a hamlet near Stirling, has been yomping without pause for more than 20 years, releasing more than 15 albums since he was a teenager. He only got his first Radio 2 folk award last year, as part of the Furrow collective (for
  
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• Drake’s progress: the making of a modern superstar

  06-04-2018 07:00
  Both R&B loverman and hip-hop thug, Toronto homeboy and global magpie, Drake’s universal appeal has made him the definitive pop star of his generation. How did he get to the top – and how long can he stay there?Lots of weird things have happened at the top of the UK charts: Musical Youth informing the nation which way to pass a joint, one-hit wonders Brian and Michael appraising the work of Mancunian painter LS Lowry, and pop’s forgotten couple Eamon and Frankee spending se
  
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