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• ‘We underestimated Gurrumul’: an unlikely career on the edge of two worlds

  08-04-2018 20:00
  A new documentary and posthumous album dispel the myths surrounding a beloved Australian Indigenous artistGeoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu did exactly what you’d do if you didn’t want to be successful – but he succeeded anyway.
  It’s an observation wryly made midway through a new documentary on the life and career of the late singer, a blind Gumatj man from Arnhem Land in Australia’s remote north. Continue reading...
  
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• Pimp My Weekend: New Orleans

  08-04-2018 18:07
  Voodoo, Gumbo, and ALL THE JAZZ...
  
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• Cecil Taylor obituary

  08-04-2018 17:54
  Jazz pianist with a radical improvisation style described as one of the most ‘incorrigibly sublime’ figures in the recent history of musicThe maverick African-American jazz pianist and poet Cecil Taylor, who has died aged 89, gave an impression of constant motion and restless speed. He fused a virtuosic classical technique and an improvisational jazz one in a frenzy of fingerwork augmented by pounding fists and elbows, blurring quicksilver sequences of notes into firestorms of sound.
  
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• Bernstein's Mass review – meticulous take on a fascinating failure

  08-04-2018 17:01
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Marin Alsop commands an army of performers including the National Youth Orchestra and a marching band as they tackle Bernstein’s uneven period pieceLeonard Bernstein’s Mass was neglected for many years after its 1971 premiere, when it opened Washington’s Kennedy Center. The neglect is now a thing of the past. This performance was at least its third professional outing in London in the last decade. The revival of interest tells us something about this
  
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• Unplug On A Digital Detox In Portugal To Get Away From All That Life Stuff

  08-04-2018 15:30
  Okay we might have Instagrammed a little bit, shhhh...
  
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• The Courteeners review – indie-rock underdogs defy the naysayers

  08-04-2018 13:55
  Manchester Arena
  The atmosphere is like a football match as this once-maligned band celebrate 10 years at the top with massed chants and singalong chorusesIt’s 10 years since a British newspaper declared of the Courteeners debut, St Jude: “I confidently predict that exactly no one will be listening to it in 10 years time.” The quote is now cheekily emblazoned across the vinyl of the new “unplugged” version of the album and was being tweeted by singer Liam Fray this
  
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• Billy Bragg to lecture central bankers on how to build a new England

  08-04-2018 13:44
  I’m not going to be polite, warns singer and leftwing activist invited to ‘shake things up’ at Bank of England talkThree decades after penning hit single A New England, singer-songwriter and leftwing activist Billy Bragg has been invited by the Bank of England to lecture City financiers about how to build a better society.The pro-Corbyn protester who formed a punk band in 1977 and gigged for striking miners in the 1980s will give a speech next week at Threadneedle Street. It wi
  
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• Chloe Ferry Teases MAJOR News With Sam Gowland And Fans Have Some Theories

  08-04-2018 13:11
  The Geordie Shore lass has hinted that something huge is about to go down.
  
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• The Insane Amount Of Money Travis Scott Spent On Stormi’s Welcome Party

  08-04-2018 11:54
  Prepare to feel poor.
  
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• You’ll Never Guess Who Love Island’s Amber Davies Is Reportedly Dating Now

  08-04-2018 11:23
  We're taking these rumours with a pinch of salt, but it certainly seems possible...
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Holly Hagan Is Officially Flawless AF In This Bright Pink Bikini

  08-04-2018 10:49
  Anyone else feeling slightly jealous of her rockin' bod?
  
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• The British jazz explosion: meet the musicians rewriting the rulebook

  08-04-2018 10:30
  The UK is home to a diverse, collaborative and newly confident jazz scene. We meet seven musicians whose innovative sounds are liberating the genre for new audiencesEvery so often, British jazz pops its head above the parapet, gets a Mercury nomination, and has a noodle on telly to remind everyone that it’s still there, like it’s always been, parping away from mainstream view. For many of us, jazz has seemed like something other people listened to. But in the past few years, the genr
  
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• Zayn Malik ‘Plans To Erase Gigi Hadid Tattoo’ After Deleting All His Instagram Posts

  08-04-2018 10:23
  Closing the chapter on his past.
  
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• The Elvis we forgot: film shows star as driven young man

  08-04-2018 01:04
  New documentary, backed by Presley’s former wife, charts his early influencesMore than 40 years after Elvis Presley’s death, a documentary backed by his former wife, Priscilla, will chart the singer’s early life as a young man from Tupelo, Mississippi.A two-part, three-hour HBO documentary, Elvis Presley: The Searcher, will be broadcast in the US this month. It has been backed by the Presley estate, in the hope that it will re-focus attention on Presley’s captivating musi
  
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