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• Jimmy Page wins delay in permission for Robbie Williams to build pool

  29-05-2018 23:41
  Led Zeppelin guitarist fears major underground project will damage his homeLed Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has pleaded with planners not to allow his next-door neighbour, the singer Robbie Williams, to build an underground swimming pool in the latest skirmish in the long-running planning battle between the two musicians.The pair have been involved in a dispute for about five years since Williams bought his £17m mansion, the former home of film director Michael Winner, in Kensington, west
  
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• Cardi B Drops New Latin Themed Music Video for ‘I Like It’ Featuring Bad Bunny & J Balvin

  29-05-2018 18:39
  "Spicy Mami"
  
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• Joan Baez review – queen of folk bids a poignant farewell

  29-05-2018 18:31
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  Eco-protests met lover’s laments as the 77-year-old marked her final tour with a stirring reminder of her fighting spiritJoan Baez has said this will be her final tour, so this was less concert than communion, a congregation coming to terms with its collective past. The audience was greying, supportive and eager to join in with It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and The Boxer, the song with which she concluded her 100-minute set
  
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• Pop, passion and enemas: how online forums created a new musical culture

  29-05-2018 16:22
  In the first of a new monthly essay series on music, we explore how messageboards became a meeting point for 00s music fans – and how, after being killed off by social media, they might rise againBack in the 00s, I ran an online music forum, most of whose regulars were bored office workers. Once, we made a sketchy calculation, based on rates of posting and average wages, of how much the site had cost the UK economy in terms of time wasted arguing about Daft Punk, Outkast, Britney and more.
  
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• Lili Reinhart Sets The Record Straight On Rumours She’s Pregnant With Cole Sprouse’s Baby

  29-05-2018 16:14
  "My body is something that I will NEVER apologise for."
  
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• Just Tattoo Of Us’ Charlotte Crosby And Scotty T Talk His Stephen Bear Bum Tattoo: “I Can’t Escape Looking At His Face!” - Exclusive

  29-05-2018 15:53
  Just Tattoo Of Us continues Mondays at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• Did Scotty T Just Hint At Previous Encounter With One Of The Love Island Newbies?

  29-05-2018 15:29
  It wouldn't be the first time a past romance has entered the villa...
  
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• Pimp My Weekend: Toronto

  29-05-2018 15:14
  All the food, views and amazing nightlife...
  
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• Slam Dunk festival review – crowdsurfing in a dinghy to pop-punk paradise

  29-05-2018 14:35
  Various venues, Leeds
  Thousands of devotees descended on the alt-rock festival, lapping up everything from Chapel’s synthpop to Brutality Will Prevail’s anvil-heavy riffingSlam Dunk has come a long way from its origins as a club night in Leeds’ now defunct Cockpit. A staple fixture in the alternative rock calendar, the festival runs over three days at three sites – Leeds, Birmingham and Hatfield in Hertfordshire – with a travelling bill of more than 50 bands across
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Responds To Rumours She And Josh Ritchie Will Have Their Own Reality Show

  29-05-2018 13:37
  The former Geordie Shore lass has had her say on the speculation.
  
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• Troye Sivan Announces New Bloom Album TOUR, Release Date & Cover Art

  29-05-2018 13:13
  Will we get some UK dates on this tour?...
  
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• Peter Brathwaite: Why I'm celebrating 'degenerate' music

  29-05-2018 13:09
  Musicians calling for equal rights regardless of gender, race and sexuality in 1930s Germany were banned. We need their voices more than everA few weeks ago I posted a photograph on Twitter. Yellowed and cracked with age, it showed my mum as a young nurse in London, smiling, proud and starched in her puff- sleeved uniform. The Windrush scandal was raging and it pained me to hear the palpable sorrow in her Bajan lilt when we discussed the treatment of those who had been labelled “illegal&rd
  
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• Scotty T Reveals Why Gemma Collins Is In His ‘Bad Books’ And Teases Mystery Celebrity Crush

  29-05-2018 13:06
  The former Geordie Shore lad isn't on the best of terms with the GC.
  
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• Here's The Official Love Island 2018 Cast And Their Instagram Handles

  29-05-2018 13:02
  Let's crack on.
  
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• 9 Expert-Approved Ways To Motivate Yourself To Work Out

  29-05-2018 12:57
  Because motivation is hard, okay?
  
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• Sophie Kasaei's Severe Post-Festival Struggle Is The Most Relatable Thing You'll See Today

  29-05-2018 12:08
  The Geordie Shore star had a reet old sesh.
  
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• Taylor Swift Fans Aren’t Happy With Greg James After He Told Her To Take A Shower

  29-05-2018 12:05
  "THE NERVE."
  
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• Stewart Lupton, frontman of indie rockers Jonathan Fire*Eater, dies aged 43

  29-05-2018 11:13
  The cult New York band, driven by Lupton’s ‘gut-wrenching genius’, influenced Yeah Yeah Yeahs and InterpolStewart Lupton, frontman of cult New York indie rock band Jonathan Fire*Eater, has died aged 43. No official cause of death has been given, but his cousin, Sarah Lupton, confirmed the news in an Instagram post. She described him as “an inspiration through the ages”, adding: “Your overwhelming, gut-wrenching genius even you don’t understand.” Co
  
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• Win A Trip to Isle of MTV Malta With OtterBox

  29-05-2018 10:58
  You and a friend could be seeing Jason Derulo, Hailee Steinfeld, Sigala with Paloma Faith & Ella Eyre and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike this summer!
  
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• Katherine Langford Drops A Major Hint About Her Future On 13 Reasons Why

  29-05-2018 10:54
  Is this farewell?
  
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• Emma Watson Has Reportedly Split With Glee Star Boyfriend Chord Overstreet

  29-05-2018 10:50
  The pair had been dating for six months.
  
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• Harry Potter Actor Matthew Lewis Just Got MARRIED

  29-05-2018 10:42
  Well slap us with a basilisk and call us a thestral.
  
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• BTS 'Love Yourself: Tear' Hits No.1 On Billboard Album Chart

  29-05-2018 10:42
  It’s the first primarily foreign language album to go No.1 in 12 years...
  
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• Off the wall: pin-up posters from glam to new wave

  29-05-2018 08:00
  From David Bowie to X-Ray Spex, Richard Hell to Suzi Quatro, a new book collates some of the best posters of the 1970s and 80s to be tacked up in teenage bedrooms everywhere Continue reading...
  
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• How we made Janis Ian's At Seventeen

  29-05-2018 07:00
  ‘It was scary. I’d never been that honest about feeling ugly’I’d made the album Stars and was getting great reviews but couldn’t get any work. I was living with my mother, spending a lot of time writing. One day I was sitting at the dining room table, reading the New York Times Magazine. There was an article about a woman who’d thought her life would change and be perfect when she had her debutante ball. The first line was, “I learned the truth at 18.&rd
  
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