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• Avicii – a life in pictures

  20-04-2018 22:50
  The death of the 28-year-old Swedish DJ and producer cuts short a globally successful career, filled with arena tours and big star collaborations Continue reading...
  
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• Swedish DJ Avicii dies at 28 – video obituary

  20-04-2018 22:25
  Avicii, whose real name is Tim Bergling, has been found dead in Muscat, Oman at the age of 28. The DJ, from Sweden, retired from live performances in 2016 due to a string of health issues. Bergling's representative who announced the death has said 'no further statements will be given'.Avicii, Swedish DJ, dies aged 28Continue reading...
  
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• Superstar DJ Avicii Found Dead at 28

  20-04-2018 20:36
  The ‘Levels’ hitmaker was in Oman...
  
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• BBC editor joked about Cliff Richard playing Jailhouse Rock, court told

  20-04-2018 19:35
  Declan Wilson made comment to colleague while discussing broadcaster’s plan to cover raid on singer’s home A BBC editor joked that Sir Cliff Richard would soon be playing Jailhouse Rock, after learning police were investigating an allegation of historic sexual assault against the singer. Declan Wilson, who at the time ran the BBC’s north of England bureau, made the comment to a colleague while discussing the broadcaster’s plan to cover a police raid on the veteran singer&
  
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• Ex On The Beach Spoiler: Becky Taylor Finds Out About Ex Zach Tull’s Filthy Shower Sex After He And Laura Brown Confess All To Marnie Simpson And Casey Johnson

  20-04-2018 17:47
  Ex on the Beach continues Tuesdays at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• J Cole: KOD review – a brilliantly brooding antidote to hip-hop excess

  20-04-2018 16:52
  With only an alter-ego for company, J Cole casts himself as rap’s moral compass with this masterfully pared-back fifth albumWhen J Cole announced the imminent arrival of KOD earlier this week, some of excitement was caused by the tracklisting: not the titles themselves so much as the fact that two of them seemed to feature a guest appearance, albeit from a hitherto-unknown artist called kiLL edward. The one thing everyone knows about J Cole is that his albums almost never feature special g
  
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• Wallets at the ready! Join our tour of the UK's greatest record shops

  20-04-2018 16:11
  As Record Store Day returns, we go on ‘record store crawls’ around four UK cities with the country’s best new DJs, to find the bricks-and-mortar gems that keep pushing the culture forwardIt’s Record Store Day on Saturday, a juggernaut that is still picking up pace in its 11th year, with many exclusive special-edition records released as a way to focus music fans’ attention on bricks and mortar. And now there’s a new way to take it all in: in the US, the Record
  
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• Can We All Just Agree That Unicorn And Mermaid Makeup Is Actually Kind Of The Worst

  20-04-2018 15:37
  Here's some other useful things to focus on instead
  
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• CCTV footage shows Prince visiting doctor the day before his death

  20-04-2018 14:52
  Material released after the investigation into the musician’s death also includes a police interview with Sinead O’Connor in which she alleges he was violent to womenA wealth of material gathered as evidence in the investigation into the death of musician Prince has been released, following the ruling that no criminal charges will be filed over his accidental overdose of the opioid painkiller fentanyl. Among the 15GB of data made public by the Carver County sheriff’s office in
  
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• Watch The FINAL Trailer For Deadpool 2 Rip Apart The DC Movies

  20-04-2018 14:12
  The final trailer has landed for Deadpool 2.
  
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• Gary Barlow and Madonna! Pop’s strangest crossovers

  20-04-2018 13:58
  This month marks the 21st anniversary of Barlow’s solo album Open Road, which features a track penned by Madonna. From Beyoncé to Victoria Beckham and beyond, it’s not the first oddly matched musical ventureMusic lovers, rejoice! This month sees the 21st-anniversary re-release of Gary Barlow’s stone cold solo classic, Open Road. Don’t you just love a 21st birthday? In the United States, it means your first legal taste of alcohol and your final frat house parties. I
  
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• Normani Confirms Missy Elliott Collaboration Is Happening

  20-04-2018 13:38
  The newly-solo star also teases the release date of her debut album...
  
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• The Beauty Products MTV Staff Can't Live Without

  20-04-2018 13:36
  These tried and tested hair, makeup and skincare goodies are our ultimate faves.
  
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• Ariana Grande: No Tears Left to Cry review – instant earworm dances against the odds

  20-04-2018 13:11
  Grande’s first new single since the Manchester Arena attack is defiantly joyful, but takes time to send a few barbs at the hatersOn 19 April, Ariana Grande teased fans with a snippet of her first new music to be released since a suicide bomber killed 22 people at her concert in Manchester last May. It sounded, from those 30 seconds, as though No Tears Left to Cry might be a ballad, with the 24-year-old turning her pliant vocal range to gospel. It would have made for an appropriate, traditi
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Shares Footage Of Josh Ritchie’s VERY Peachy Naked Bum

  20-04-2018 12:59
  The Ex On The Beach star was minding his own business when Char snapped the shot.
  
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• 11 Perfumes Celebrities Actually Wear

  20-04-2018 12:24
  'Cos why wouldn't you want to smell like a famous person?
  
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• Superstar DJs: the best playlists curated by musicians

  20-04-2018 12:00
  Chance the Rapper celebrates his 25th birthday with a carefully constructed playlist, following Father John Misty and LordeMusicians tend to have a love-hate relationship with streaming services. Sometimes they invest in one at the goading of an industry titan (Jay-Z, Tidal and all of Jay-Z’s friends). Other times, they stage protests by withholding their entire catalog from a platform (Taylor Swift v Spotify). And then they eat their words by not only adding it all back, but using streami
  
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• Trivium review – heavy metal headbangers just wanna have fun

  20-04-2018 11:50
  O2 Academy, Glasgow
  The veteran Florida foursome make faintly ridiculous music that incites a fevered response – even the stage banter prompts crowdsurfingWith such cheerfully titled songs in their setlist as Inception of the End and Drowned and Torn Asunder, eight-album veteran Floridian heavy metal foursome Trivium look, on paper, like a band in need of an emergency sense of humour transplant. But to see them live is to be reminded that sometimes even serious headbangers just wanna have
  
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• You Can Now Eat Bloody Tampon Macarons If That’s What You’re Into

  20-04-2018 11:28
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• New Music Round-Up: Ariana Grande, Liam Payne, Anne-Marie

  20-04-2018 11:12
  J Cole, Travis Scott and Khalid also dropped new music this week...
  
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• Does This Picture Prove Zayn Malik And Gigi Hadid Are Back On?

  20-04-2018 11:08
  He was pictured leaving her apartment in 'the same clothes as the night before.'
  
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• Sting & Shaggy: 44/876 review – you can practically hear the conch shells

  20-04-2018 11:00
  (Polydor)Like a “what I did on my holidays” school project given a handsome major-label budget, or a Post-It note from a feverish Channel 4 ideas meeting cast with a magical spell, this unlikely partnership sees Sting pair his smooth tones against Shaggy’s raggamuffin ruminations, over lightweight roots reggae and dancehall pop. Halfway into track one and Sting has already invoked the ghost of Bob Marley and given up trying to resist doing a Jah-may-cahn accent – you can
  
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• Lord Huron: Vide Noir review – pop goes the astral plane

  20-04-2018 11:00
  (Republic Records) For all the appeal of Lord Huron’s elegiac, ethereal Americana, Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver were ahead of them in a very crowded field. So after two albums of hymnal beauty with acoustic guitars – and a track, The Night We Met, popularised by Netflix – the Michigan band led by Ben Schneider have changed course. Now on a major label, the songs no longer conjure up vast rural or mountainous landscapes but the even more widescreen spaces of the cosmos. The title me
  
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• Did Chloe Moretz Shade Brooklyn Beckham With This Outfit Detail?

  20-04-2018 10:39
  Fans think this could be a statement of independence.
  
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• 8 Reasons Taipei Is Holiday Goals

  20-04-2018 10:33
  Ear-popping skyscrapers, volcanoes, SO MUCH FOOD, and a hell of a lot more...
  
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• Jenny Wilson: Exorcism review – a masterclass in catharsis

  20-04-2018 10:30
  (Gold Medal Recordings)The opening track on Jenny Wilson’s fifth album is called Rapin*. It’s a stark, shocking title for a stark, shocking song: the lyrics describe the night the Swedish musician was sexually assaulted. But Rapin* isn’t just monumentally disturbing, it’s also strangely upbeat. In it, Wilson says she had been clubbing before the attack, and she carries the earlier part of the evening into the song too, as whirring synths and crisp, insistent beats coalesc
  
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• Ariana Grande's 'No Tears Left to Cry' Is A Phenomenal Return

  20-04-2018 10:24
  The pop superstar pays tribute to Manchester with a master class in poptimism...
  
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• Alexis Taylor: Beautiful Thing review – confessional electro marvels

  20-04-2018 10:00
  (Domino)The more you listen to Beautiful Thing, the more you realise what a marvel of sequencing it is: here are songs that truly talk to each other, musically and lyrically. You hear it musically in the way the walking bassline of Roll on Blank Tapes rolls into Suspicious of Me, the principal thematic link between two songs that are otherwise very different. You hear it lyrically in the transition from There’s Nothing to Hide into I Feel You. In the former, Taylor assures us gently: &ldqu
  
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• Anne-Marie: the platinum Essex pop star fighting anxiety and body shame

  20-04-2018 09:00
  After five years of hit singles, artistic doubts and dodgy relationships, the pop singer’s debut album is finally landing. She explains why she’s glad it took so long: ‘I don’t want someone to have control over my career’Six days after the terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris in November 2015, the singer Anne-Marie was due to play the venue with the dance act Rudimental. The news poleaxed her. “It really just fucked me up,” she says. “I was in
  
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