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• From Justin Bieber To Taylor Swift: 9 Celebrity Death Hoaxes That Had The Internet Fooled

  20-05-2018 17:26
  These celebrities can't come to the phone right now. Why? Because they're (not) dead.
  
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• From Kim Kardashian To Vicky Pattison: 11 Celebrity Tweets That Sum Up The Spectacle Of The Royal Wedding

  20-05-2018 16:29
  Everyone is feeling a tiny bit more romantic than usual.
  
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• Machine Head review – thrillingly brutal metal marathon

  20-05-2018 15:17
  Roundhouse, London
  The pioneering rockers deliver a thunderous show that passes in a blur of flailing limbs, airborne beer – and furious politicsAfter receiving some uncomfortably mixed reviews for their latest album, Catharsis, Machine Head could have embarked on their latest world tour with major concerns about the state of their reputation. The cheering reality is that virtually every show on the Oakland quartet’s current tour has sold out, including two nights at the Roundhouse.
  
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• Chloe Ferry And Holly Hagan Compete For Peachiest Bum In Near Identical Belfies

  20-05-2018 14:39
  The Geordie Shore lasses are dialling up the temperature in their bikinis.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Serves Up All The One Piece Inspiration In This Blue Swimsuit

  20-05-2018 13:32
  The former Geordie Shore lass has officially inspired us to go holiday shopping.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Serves Up All The Holiday Inspiration In This Gorgeous Blue Swimsuit

  20-05-2018 13:32
  The former Geordie Shore lass has officially inspired us to go holiday shopping.
  
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• The Great Escape review – raunchy rap, cracking synthpop and rock'n'roll fireworks

  20-05-2018 13:08
  Various venues, Brighton
  A handful of standout acts were exhilarating but this celebration of new music highlighted a drift towards sameness and whimsyIf Brighton’s three-day festival of new music is any guide, and it’s usually a good one, the talent pool feeding into pop is currently on the tepid side. The sense in previous years that you could dive in at random and pluck out pearls is missing. The drift is towards homogeneity and uninspired solipsism. So many indistinguishable drea
  
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• Louis Tomlinson & Lady Gaga Are Crowned MTV's Pop Royalty King & Queen!

  20-05-2018 12:50
  The Royal Wedding was a stunning show but we've found out which pop stars have stolen your hearts...
  
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• Scotty T Had The Most Priceless Response To Princess Anne’s Royal Wedding Outfit

  20-05-2018 12:44
  The former Geordie Shore lad has seen her ruby wraparound dress before...
  
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• Do You Agree With Vicky Pattison’s “Controversial” Opinion About The Royal Wedding?

  20-05-2018 11:51
  The former Geordie Shore lass has weighed in on one element of the special occasion.
  
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• Parquet Courts: Wide Awake review – indie heroes bring in Danger Mouse

  20-05-2018 10:00
  (Rough Trade)If the ballad-heavy Human Performance (2016) found New York’s Parquet Courts finally starting to cast off their lo-fi trappings, then the follow-up, their sixth album, takes their shuffle into commercialism several steps further by bringing in Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton as producer. Musically, it’s easily their most expansive set to date, with squally punk (Total Football) rubbing up against 60s bubblegum pop (Mardi Gras Beads), woozy psychedelia (Back to Ea
  
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• Chvrches: ‘It only takes two seconds to say: I don’t agree with white supremacy’

  20-05-2018 10:00
  The Glaswegian synth-pop trio rose to fame on the back of relentless touring, even as frontwoman Lauren Mayberry fended off online abuse. Their new album finds them aiming for the topLauren Mayberry has two boiled eggs waiting for her at home. Chvrches are about to go on tour for a year and a half, and she wants the protein. When I first met the band, in a Thistle hotel in east London in 2012, Mayberry was strengthening her diaphragm for the demands of singing live. On the back of their debut al
  
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• The Last Poets: Understand What Black Is review – hip-hop progenitors bounce back wiser

  20-05-2018 09:00
  (Studio Rockers)Born in the wake of the civil rights movement, Harlem’s Last Poets performed politically charged spoken word to musical backings. Cited alongside Gil Scott Heron as hip-hop progenitors, there’s some ambivalence to the tag. Not merely a rap history footnote, their work stands alone as “jazzoetry”.Compelled by a new civil rights struggle, the Last Poets’ first album in over 20 years marks 50 years since their founding. It finds two of the outfit’
  
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• Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet: Brother Raymond review – a fab 15

  20-05-2018 09:00
  (Lyte)American tenor saxophonist Jean Toussaint made his reputation as a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He came to London to teach for three months at the Guildhall. That was 30-odd years ago and, happily for us, he’s still here. During that time he has taught at some of our leading music colleges and mentored many of our best young players.This album, his first in four years, involves 14 musicians on the current British jazz scene, making up the ever-changing membership of
  
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