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• Million Dollar Baby’s Lateysha Grace Reveals How She Deals With Social Media Critics: ‘It’s Hard To Be Honest’ – EXCLUSIVE

  10-05-2018 18:54
  Don't miss brand new Million Dollar Baby, Wednesdays at 8pm on MTV!
  
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• Whole lotta debt: can Gibson guitars strike a chord again?

  10-05-2018 18:49
  The guitar-maker favoured by everyone from Jimmy Page to Johnny Marr has filed for bankruptcy. But with old models fetching up to £200,000, the firm should still be able to trade on its reputationIt is impossible to imagine recorded music without Gibson guitars. Pick a guitarist, regardless of style or genre, acoustic or electric, and they will have played a Gibson somewhere along the line. Chuck Berry’s sliding introduction to Johnny B Goode? Played on an ES-350T. Jimmy Page’s
  
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• Spotify removes all R Kelly songs from its playlists amid sexual assault allegations

  10-05-2018 18:44
  While his songs will remain available to stream, the R&B singer will no longer appear in Spotify-curated playlists as part of new ‘hateful conduct’ policyMusic streaming service Spotify has removed all R Kelly songs from its own playlists, as pressure continues to build on the R&B star amid sexual assault allegations against him.His songs can still be streamed on Spotify, and users can add them to their playlists, but they no longer feature in Spotify’s own mood-based p
  
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• Taylor Swift v Katy Perry: when even an actual olive branch can't end the froideur

  10-05-2018 18:43
  For six years, the spat between the stars has been fought out on social media. So, naturally, when Katy tried to say sorry, Taylor only went and shared it with 107 million of her closest followers‘It was basically to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me.” Has there ever been a more corporate musical feud than that between Taylor Swift and Katy Perry? Almost certainly. Perhaps asset stripper
  
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• Get to Know: NSG

  10-05-2018 17:52
  We caught up with the exciting new collective to find out a little bit more about them and their music...
  
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• There's One Awkward Thing In The Way Of Aaron Chalmers And I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here

  10-05-2018 17:38
  The Geordie Shore lad fancies his chances on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.
  
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• Childish Gambino captures the grim surrealism of being black in America | Mitchell S Jackson

  10-05-2018 17:28
  In his provocative new video This is America, Donald Glover, as his hip-hop alias Childish Gambino, artfully uses the surreal to comment on black lives
  Once upon a night in my black life, I bought a 9mm Glock 16 replete with an extended clip off the street, bought it because I’d been robbed for the drugs I sold a time or two and decided against being a mark again, that the next dude that tried me would suffer bullets. Decades ago, that was my America. Decades later, it’s an America t
  
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• Selena Gomez Returns with Stunning Single ‘Back to You’

  10-05-2018 16:26
  We are obsessed...
  
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• Dr Dre loses copyright battle with gynaecologist Dr Drai

  10-05-2018 14:33
  The rap mogul argued there would be confusion between his name and that of the Pennsylvania doctor, but the US trademark office disagreesRapper and music mogul Dr Dre has lost a copyright battle over his name, after he tried to prevent gynaecologist Draion M Burch from trademarking the name Dr Drai.As well as practising gynaecological and obstetric medicine, Burch is the author of books including 20 Things You May Not Know About the Vagina, and is a public speaker on women’s health issues.
  
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• Kara Marni Walks Us Through Her 'Love Just Ain't Enough' EP

  10-05-2018 14:02
  Kara gives us a track-by-track rundown of her latest release...
  
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• Shawn Mendes and Normani Perform with Khalid on Tour

  10-05-2018 13:45
  This is amazing...
  
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• UK Eurovision hopeful SuRie: 'Anything is possible!'

  10-05-2018 13:39
  She’s a fan of Jeff Buckley who once harboured dreams of signing for Bella Union. So, can this dance diva succeed where Blue and Bonnie Tyler faltered?● How Eurovision winner Dana International made trans visibility mainstream “Welcome to my hooooome,” SuRie deadpans, before bursting into laughter. We are meeting ahead of the Eurovision final in Lisbon, and the UK’s contestant is perched on a velvet-upholstered chair in the opulent Portuguese embassy in London. She
  
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• Gaz Beadle Absolutely Rinses Chet Johnson's Extremely Strange Looking Foot

  10-05-2018 13:35
  The Geordie Shore star noticed something odd in the snaps for his clothing brand, 11 Degrees.
  
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• Viva la diva! How Eurovision's Dana International made trans identity mainstream

  10-05-2018 13:30
  Twenty years ago, the Israeli singer cemented Eurovision as a celebratory space for LGBTQ people everywhere with her winning song Diva. But, she admits, she didn’t believe in the song when she first heard itBritish Eurovision hopeful SuRie believes ‘anything is possible’She was tall, svelte and glamorous in a floor-length glitter gown, with luscious brown curls and the kind of dramatic arm movements that would put an ice dancer to shame. Plus, she had an unmistakable pronunciat
  
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• Pokémon Go's Summer Tour 2018 Will Bring Pokemon To The Real World With These Exciting Events You Can Join

  10-05-2018 13:20
  Soak up the sun and get moving with Pokemon IRL this summer.
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about youth

  10-05-2018 13:00
  Songs from Judy Garland, the Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift celebrate the glory of being young
  Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.What is youthfulness? Pedants may say it is the quality of being young and tie it in with a particular stage of our life. We start as infants, go through childhood, teenage years, adol
  
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• Tristan Thompson Says He Wants More Kids But Doesn't Mention Khloe Kardashian

  10-05-2018 12:29
  The NBA star opened up about dad life.
  
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• Geordie Shore 17 First Look: Sam Gowland Kicks Off With New Aussie Housemate Alex Macpherson After Chloe Ferry Flirt: "No One Touches My Missus"

  10-05-2018 12:11
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore starting on Tuesday 15th May @ 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Clean Bandit and Demi Lovato Tease New Collaboration

  10-05-2018 12:01
  This is going to be massive...
  
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• Overwatch Has Released A New Limited Edition Mercy Skin And There's A Very Special Reason Behind It

  10-05-2018 11:48
  This is Overwatch's best skin yet.
  
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• Years & Years Wow with Summer Bop ‘If You’re Over Me’

  10-05-2018 11:42
  You need to hear this...
  
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• Taylor Swift Calls Kim Kardashian Out On Stage With Powerful Lesson On Bullying

  10-05-2018 11:40
  The star kicked off her Reputation tour with a not-so-subtle dig at Kim.
  
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• Steam's New App Lets You Play Your Steam Games On Your Phone

  10-05-2018 11:33
  Here's how to play your Steam library of games and movies on your smartphone.
  
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• Sharks love jazz but are stumped by classical, say scientists

  10-05-2018 11:21
  A study at Macquarie University in Sydney found that sharks could recognise jazz – if there was food on offerResearchers at Sydney’s Macquarie University have discovered that sharks can recognise jazz music.In a paper published in Animal Cognition, the researchers, led by Catarina Vila Pouca, trained juvenile Port Jackson sharks to swim over to where jazz was playing, to receive food. It has been thought that sharks have learned to associate the sound of a boat engine with food, beca
  
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• Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino review – funny, fresh and a little smug | Alexis Petridis' album of the week

  10-05-2018 11:00
  Channelling Serge Gainsbourg and the Beach Boys, the Arctic Monkeys move on from stadium indie in a smart album that sees Alex Turner wearing a constant smirk“I just wanted to be one of the Strokes,” sings Alex Turner at the outset of the Arctic Monkeys’ sixth album. “Now look at the mess you made me make.” Certainly, he and his band seem to have traversed a far greater distance in the last 12 years than any of their peers, to the point where they seem almost unreco
  
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• Have Ariana Grande And Mac Miller Split?

  10-05-2018 10:59
  The couple have reportedly called it quits.
  
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• Harry Styles Has Earned The Most Out Of The One Direction Lads

  10-05-2018 10:45
  The Sunday Times Rich List has revealed the top musical earners under 30...
  
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• Selena Gomez Had The Most Hilarious Response To Her Fake Tan Fail At The Met Gala

  10-05-2018 10:42
  She's running with the Wolves to get away from her Met Gala pics.
  
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• 50 great tracks for May from Florence + the Machine, Christina Aguilera, Deafheaven and more

  10-05-2018 10:00
  From Róisín Murphy’s erotic disco to Onyx Collective’s post-bop jazz and Deafheaven’s soulful metal, here’s our roundup of the best new music. Subscribe to the playlist of all 50 tracks and read about our 10 favourites Continue reading...
  
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• Midnight Oil: 1984 review – the year Australian rock music went nuclear

  10-05-2018 03:39
  Ray Argall’s film captures a fascinating moment in history alongside a band that was on top of the world – and trying to save it • Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noon For those old enough to remember it, 1984 was a year full of dread and apocalyptic overtones. It wasn’t just the paranoia of George Orwell’s dystopian novel of the same name: in some ways, the current age of mass corporate/state surveillance and black-is-white propaganda ma
  
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