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• 17 Things To Get You Through That Exam Stress

  11-05-2018 18:46
  Don't freak - you got this.
  
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• Million Dollar Baby’s Lateysha Grace Admits She Didn’t Speak To Wynter’s Dad Ben Charles For A Week After His Just Tattoo Of Us Design Disaster – EXCLUSIVE

  11-05-2018 18:35
  Don't miss brand new Million Dollar Baby, Wednesdays at 8pm on MTV!
  
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• Nick Jonas Teams Up With (DJ) Mustard For 'Anywhere'

  11-05-2018 18:00
  He's back! And it's even better than we expected...
  
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• Joan Armatrading webchat – post your questions now

  11-05-2018 17:25
  The songwriter who broke through in the 70s with Love and Affection has a new album, Not Too Far Away, and will answer your questions live from 4pm BST on Tuesday 15 May 4.25pm BST From the wistful Love and Affection to the barnstorming Drop the Pilot, Joan Armatrading has cut through tastes and trends to become the kind of musician who strikes a chord with everyone. Her voice, always yearning for intimacy and honesty, is equally resistant to easy definition. She rarely opens up about her person
  
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• 'There’s still a big imbalance': how music festivals are working on gender equality

  11-05-2018 15:56
  Festivals such as Wireless, Green Man and Slam Dunk have been criticised for heavily male lineups this year. Organisers argue that there aren’t enough female acts to go round – but is enough being done to change that?A male-dominated culture, exclusivity clauses and a lack of female promoters have all led to gender imbalances on music festival lineups, industry experts have said.Recent initiatives, such as the PRS Foundation’s Keychange pledge to achieve a 50/50 gender split on
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Shows Off Her Incredible Bod In Completely Topless Snap

  11-05-2018 15:47
  The Geordie Shore lass is looking proper mint.
  
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• R Kelly and XXXTentacion rail against their removal from Spotify playlists

  11-05-2018 15:34
  R&B star’s representatives hit out at ‘smear campaign waged by enemies’ in wake of streaming service’s new ‘hateful conduct’ policyThe R&B singer R Kelly and the rapper XXXTentacion have protested at their music being removed from Spotify’s playlists as part of the streaming service’s new policy around “hateful conduct”.In a statement on Thursday, Spotify said the policy means artists that do not “reflect our values”
  
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• Jennifer Lopez Confirms Cardi B Collab Is Coming Soon

  11-05-2018 15:25
  And a certain Mr DJ KHALED (!) is involved too...
  
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• Selena Gomez 'Terrified' Of Releasing New Album

  11-05-2018 15:11
  The 'Back To You' singer has opened up about the long-awaited 'Revival' follow-up...
  
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• Problem in Brighton review – novelty wears thin in David Shrigley's indie panto

  11-05-2018 14:54
  The Old Market, HoveWith songs about Jacob Rees-Mogg and moonboots, the artist gives us wacky indie rock for car exhausts and one-string guitars – but the truly quirky moments are spread too thinArtist David Shrigley has dabbled in music before – a 2007 compilation album involved names including Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand and Dirty Projectors turning his poems into short songs – but a sense of mystery attends his main commission for this year’s Brighton festival. Advance p
  
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• Arctic Monkeys may have ‘saved rock'n'roll’ but can they save the album?

  11-05-2018 13:57
  By eschewing pre-release whistles and bells with their new album, the band are boldly going back to basics Related: Sign up for the Sleeve Notes email: music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras It might just be the most skin-crawling moment in recent music history. To watch it back now is to have every greasy pub band in Camden inside you at the same time. It is, of course, when Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner got up at the 2014 Brits and tried to make a Braveheart speech defending guitar
  
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• Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison: a songwriter who found humanity in our flaws

  11-05-2018 13:51
  The Scottish musician, who has died aged 36, offered an alternative to blokey songcraft, confiding that sex could be awkward and life could be hardNews: Body found in search for Frightened Rabbit singer Scott HutchisonScott Hutchison was incredibly shy as a child, so much so that his mum called him a frightened rabbit. It’s a poetically neat phrase on its own, vivid and unmistakably sad – but given Hutchison’s use of it as a band name, it becomes instilled with power and pride.
  
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• Marnie Simpson Is Absolutely Furious At Casey Johnson For Cutting All Of His Hair Off

  11-05-2018 13:18
  The Geordie Shore lass is raging at Casey for cutting his hair without telling her.
  
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• Chris Pratt Will Receive The GENERATION AWARD At The 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards

  11-05-2018 13:06
  Chris Pratt will receive the coveted annual award at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards! Here are all the details.
  
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• Chris Pratt Will Receive The GENERATION AWARD At 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards

  11-05-2018 13:06
  Chris Pratt will receive the coveted annual award at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards! Here are all the details.
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Rita Ora, Arctic Monkeys, Years & Years

  11-05-2018 12:55
  Selena Gomez, Christina Aguilera and Jungle also drop massive new tracks this week...
  
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• Beyoncé donates giant butterfly ring from Jay-Z to London museum

  11-05-2018 12:30
  Tsavorite-laden ring will join jewels once worn by Catherine the Great and Elizabeth I in V&AA ring owned by Beyoncé will be displayed alongside jewels previously worn by Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great and Empress Joséphine in one of the most spectacular jewellery collections in the world.The V&A Museum announced on Friday that the singer had gifted her Papillon ring, which was a present from her husband, Jay-Z. Continue reading...
  
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• Rita Ora, Cardi B, Charli XCX and Bebe Rexha Unite On ‘Girls’

  11-05-2018 12:18
  The all-female collaboration of the summer is here…
  
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• Tracks of the week reviewed: Christina Aguilera, Céline Dion and Kanye West

  11-05-2018 12:00
  Xtina’s back and incredible, Céline returns to her power ballad best, and Kanye’s political debate sounds like someone winging their homework Continue reading...
  
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• Bella Hadid And The Weeknd Pictured Sharing A Passionate Smooch

  11-05-2018 11:07
  Looks like the former couple are back on.
  
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• The Sea and Cake: Any Day review – elegantly disheveled, melodic jazz rock

  11-05-2018 11:00
  (Thrill Jockey)Founded in 1994 and in tune with the pastoral indie-jazz of their Chicago peers Gastr del Sol and Tortoise, the Sea and Cake have evolved into one of the classiest bands in the US, and their 11th album hones – and slightly over-polishes – their core sound. Drummer John McEntire’s pacy jazz breakbeats and garage-rock chug, all played with a featherlight touch, carry Archer Prewitt’s prettily chiming guitar lines forward, topped by Sam Prekop’s unique v
  
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• Junglepussy: JP3 review – charismatic rapper champions black womanhood

  11-05-2018 10:30
  Shayna McHale’s fun, warm third release is a well-paced triumph“You think you popping cos your new chick low maintenance? Yeah, you can’t handle it and I don’t have the patience.” So begins Junglepussy’s State of the Union on this captivating third album. She wastes no time in taking snipes at our cultural moment. “Everybody wanna be black, it’s so tragic” she raps, over gluttonous beats, before declaring: “They was waiting for Junglepu
  
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• Shawn Mendes Is Keeping Hailey Baldwin In The Friend Zone

  11-05-2018 10:28
  But why, Shawn, why are you doing this to us?
  
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• Beach House: 7 review – dream-poppers follow their glorious rulebook

  11-05-2018 10:00
  (Bella Union) It’s easy to understand why Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally don’t like people saying their albums all sound the same. Who wants to be told they’ve spent a decade running on the spot? And, of course, their albums don’t all sound the same. Just very similar. Take organ, synthesisers, some spidery guitar patterns, add Legrand’s blank vocals, some drums, and then locate a place where you can see the Velvet Underground in one direction and shoegaze bands i
  
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• Laura Jurd/Dinosaur: Wonder Trail review – jazz trumpeter's 80s synthpop adventure | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

  11-05-2018 09:30
  (Edition)In 2017, the UK trumpeter/composer Laura Jurd and Dinosaur’s Together, As One was Mercury-nominated for its captivating balance of Miles Davis trumpet poignancy, Celtic folk music, and Django Batesian capriciousness. Typically, Jurd has opened another door for the follow-up rather than revisiting a winning formula. Wonder Trail is an invitation to her sure-footed and adaptable Dinosaur quartet to explore what a contemporary jazz take on 1980s synthpop might sound like. Jurd’
  
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• 'I’m not a token black guy': A day in the life of Big Narstie (and his mum)

  11-05-2018 07:00
  Despite his increasingly mainstream profile – a major label album, a Channel 4 show and Ed Sheeran as his daughter’s godfather – the rap star is still a fixture in his Brixton neighbourhood. He took us on a tour‘I’m the kinda guy that wants to get physical / Run up in your house and take all your Sky Digital.” Big Narstie collapses into hysterics after I ask him to recite some lyrics he wrote in his youth. He pauses. “Yeah, OK, it’s fair to say I w
  
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