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• Can Berlin’s techno lovers defeat the far right?

  28-05-2018 18:01
  Once there was the Love Parade, a celebration of peace, joy and dance music. Now the city’s clubbers have shown their political clout with a very noisy demonstration against the AfD partyAs a cavalcade of about 30 music trucks pulsed its way past Berlin’s Victory Column and down 17 Juni Street, and other boats and barges of clubbers rocked on the river Spree, older Berliners were reminded on Sunday of the Love Parade, the techno extravaganza that was launched in the city 30 years ago
  
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• Hailey Baldwin Reveals That She And Justin Bieber Are Finally Friends Again

  28-05-2018 17:01
  The pair were involved in a brief romance back in 2015.
  
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• BBC Radio 1's Biggest Weekend review – icy Taylor Swift leads pop panoply

  28-05-2018 15:04
  Swift was imperious and Liam Payne icky, while Years & Years and Christine and the Queens were truly transportingTo the right of the main stage at BBC Radio 1’s Biggest Weekend is a hillside lined with terraced houses. It’s strangely moving to see the globe’s biggest pop stars juxtaposed against the Swansea suburbs, a surreal manifestation of how radio brings bring different worlds into remote enclaves – by turns thrillingly transgressive and profoundly humdrum.Nobody
  
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• Les Amazones d'Afriques review – regal powers hemmed in by uptight setting

  28-05-2018 13:09
  Brighton Dome
  This stripped-down but still vivacious incarnation of the West African feminist supergroup felt more suited to an intimate club than this auditorium ‘We decided to put our voices together for women’s rights and girls’ education”: Bamako-born vocalist Awa Sangho sets the warmly emphatic tone for West African feminist supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique.Les Amazones’s lineup has been fluid from the get-go – their 2015 debut show, and 2017&rsquo
  
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• Ariana Grande Had The Best Response To Millie Bobby Brown’s Romantic Instagram

  28-05-2018 13:01
  The 14-year-old shared a loved-up snap with boyfriend Jacob Sartorius.
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Is Serving Up All The Festival Inspiration By Experimenting With Long Blonde Hair

  28-05-2018 12:32
  The Geordie Shore lass has gone to the light side and she looks incredible.
  
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• All Points East review – Björk brings life to corporate festival newcomer

  28-05-2018 12:10
  Victoria Park, London
  Big-hitting headliners such as LCD Soundsystem and Lorde made the first All Points East a success, but thin afternoon bills and a fuzzy identity didn’t helpLate last year, All Points East sent shockwaves through the London festival circuit. Hosted by Coachella promoters Goldenvoice and its parent company AEG (founded by controversial Republican donor Philip Anschutz), the bumper 10-day event was set to oust long-term residents Field Day, Lovebox and Citadel from east
  
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• Did Khloe Kardashian Just Accuse Trolls Of Relishing In Her 'Downfall'?

  28-05-2018 11:56
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has penned a long statement.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Can't Go Longer Than 24 Hours Without Seeing Boyfriend Josh Ritchie

  28-05-2018 11:43
  Because distance is overrated.
  
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• Kylie Jenner Gave A Hardcore Fan The Coolest Present For His 21st Birthday

  28-05-2018 11:26
  When will we be friends with the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star?
  
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• Cyndi Lauper webchat – post your questions now

  28-05-2018 10:00
  With the 80s pop star’s musical Kinky Boots continuing its run in the West End of London, she will answer your questions in a live webchat from noon BST on Wednesday 30 May 3.53pm BST Synonymous for some with her 1980s new wave smashes, Cyndi Lauper has never let herself be defined by just one thing. She went from working in a pancake house to scoring a top-five US hit and a Grammy with her 1983 debut album She’s So Unusual, which featured Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Time After Tim
  
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• Kayo Chingonyi: ‘The most formalist poetry I have been exposed to is rap lyrics’

  28-05-2018 09:00
  The winner of the Dylan Thomas prize explains how his poems are infused with the rhythms and rhymes of garage, grime and hip-hopWhen Kayo Chingonyi was awarded the £30,000 Dylan Thomas prize for his debut poetry collection, Kumukanda, he used his acceptance speech to thank some of his former school teachers, including one who had given him a copy of Thomas’s play for voices Under Milk Wood. “I was very grateful for that, it led me to Thomas’s poetry,” Chingonyi says
  
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• From Neighbours sweetheart to pop superstar: Kylie Minogue turns 50 – in pictures

  28-05-2018 05:46
  To most she is just ‘Kylie’, but originally she was Charlene on Neighbours before her transition to chart-topping singer. She has made her experience with breast cancer public, been made an OBE and had her share of high-profile relationships. Now Minogue celebrates her 50th birthday.
  • Kylie on how ageing, breast cancer and Nick Cave all influenced her greatest hits Continue reading...
  
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• Korea's other summit: K-pop album tops US charts for first time

  28-05-2018 05:18
  Love Yourself: Tear by band BTS reaches No 1 on Billboard chart, promoted by loyal fans known as the ‘army’A Korean pop group has topped the album sales charts in the US for the first time, a milestone for the genre that has seen an explosion in global popularity in recent years. Related: BTS: Love Yourself: Tear review – K-pop's biggest band keep ploughing onContinue reading...
  
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• Cat Power on Moon Pix: 'I'm alive today because of those songs'

  28-05-2018 04:30
  Twenty years on, Chan Marshall remembers how it felt to write the album that became her ‘salvation’
  It makes me feel good and very humbled, how many people have told me Moon Pix was important to them for personal reasons. It’s beautiful.
  I turned 26 when I was in Australia recording it. Those early years are so tumultuous and strange. There’s something about that age; I had one foot still in my youth.Continue reading...
  
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