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• 'We've got to open minds': meet the composers reshaping opera

  08-06-2018 18:21
  What is a good subject for opera? These three women are creating vibrant and passionate works that flow from their own experiences and contemporary concerns - and prove that the genre need not be suffocated by its own historyWe’re crammed in along one wall of a rehearsal studio in Hackney, east London – hoodies and coffee cups, bare walls and strip lighting – as two singers work on a short scene. From a piano jammed between members of the creative team, a repetiteur sketches ne
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Kanye & Cudi, Jorja Smith, Tove Lo & More!

  08-06-2018 14:17
  And new stuff from Lily Allen, You Me At Six, Kim Petras and Jay Rock also making appearances...
  
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• Moves like dadda: why embarrassing dancing is a pop staple

  08-06-2018 13:56
  From Thom Yorke to Bruce Springsteen and, most recently, Friendly Fires, the dad dance makes an everyman out of pop starsThe video for summer anthem Love Like Waves by Friendly Fires is utterly generic in almost every way: there is a swimming pool, a DJ, a nice location and plenty of young people having a wonderful time. Except for one thing, that is. For a reason that we may well never discover, nobody in it can dance very well. They’re all giving it their best shot. Some of them clap the
  
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• 25 Father's Day Gifts Your Dad Will Love

  08-06-2018 13:39
  ‘Cos he means the world.
  
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• Marnie Simpson Reveals Casey Johnson's Surprisingly Tiny Body Part

  08-06-2018 13:26
  And we're talking TINY.
  
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• 15 Crochet Dresses To Take You From BBQ to Beach This Summer

  08-06-2018 11:59
  No longer reserved for your Grandma, this summer’s hottest dresses are crochet!
  
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• Arctic Monkeys review – cheesy irony dissolves into masterful rock'n'roll

  08-06-2018 11:58
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  With his mocking intros and bingo-hall croon, Alex Turner is not entirely genuine – but this greatest-hits set is the stuff of a bona fide rock powerhouse The Royal Albert Hall, a music hall with ideas about its station, is a weirdly apposite place for the Arctic Monkeys to play. The band’s most celebrated mode is the fast, literate indie-punk of their first LP which modulated into brawny desert blues and then on to soulful, swaggering stadium rock for their
  
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• Kim Kardashian Reveals Hilarious Joke She Made About Khloe Kardashian To Donald Trump

  08-06-2018 11:47
  Top banter from Kimmy.
  
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• 5SOS Announce 'Meet You There' UK Headline Tour Dates!

  08-06-2018 11:41
  YASSSSSSS!
  
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• Virginia Wing: Ecstatic Arrow review – rhythmic dream pop with a bite

  08-06-2018 11:30
  (Fire Records)As well as being militarily neutral, Switzerland’s absolute lack of pop history means it feels musically neutral too – and thus perhaps the only place this Mancunian dream-pop duo could alight on the visionary, totally idiosyncratic sound they recorded there for their third LP. There’s the rickety, pre-internet cosmopolitanism of the exotica movement, post-punk bands such as A Certain Ratio, and the “fourth world” music of Jon Hassell, but all deployed
  
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• Brooklyn Beckham Is Apparently Smitten With THIS YouTube Star

  08-06-2018 11:25
  Brooklyn Beckham and Lexy Panterra are apparently 'definitely together'.
  
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• Germaine Greer criticises Beyoncé: 'Why has she always got to be naked?'

  08-06-2018 11:18
  Controversial feminist says nudity is ‘usually a sign of submission, inequality’ Germaine Greer has criticised Beyoncé for the “sexual display” in her stage outfits.Speaking in a BBC documentary that will be aired on Saturday, called Germaine Bloody Greer, and reported in the Sun and the Mirror, she says: “Someone like Beyoncé – who I think is a fantastic musician, a beautiful voice as true as a bell – why has she always got to be fucking n
  
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• Lykke Li: So Sad So Sexy review – despair you can dance to

  08-06-2018 11:00
  (RCA)From the post-adolescent ennui of Lorde’s Melodrama to the Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy EP and Drake naming his latest single I’m Upset, lugubrious pop is all around. Indeed, a recent study found that the genre has become sadder over the past 30 years, a kind of Adele-ification process, if you will. Despite this, it’s also “more danceable” and “party-like”, which may explain why the latest album from Sweden’s sad-pop champion Lykke Li has
  
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• Has Kendall Jenner And Anwar Hadid's Relationship Status Just Been Revealed?

  08-06-2018 10:56
  This is apparently what's going on between the two genetically blessed humans.
  
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• 13 Reasons Why These Summer Jams Are The Best Ever

  08-06-2018 10:31
  Get your summer sorted with our selection of some of the best UK No.1 summer smashes...
  
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• Jorja Smith: Lost & Found review – soulful debut from R&B prodigy

  08-06-2018 10:30
  (The Orchard)Most people will know Jorja Smith either by voice, thanks to her sunny R&B vocals on Drake’s Get It Together, or by face, thanks to her many magazine covers, five-storey high billboard campaigns and fashion brand endorsements. Others in the music industry will know her as Bruno Mars’s tour support, and Kendrick Lamar’s co-writer on I Am from the Black Panther soundtrack. After a clutch of singles and a Brits critics’ choice award, this pop-R&B debut a
  
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• Gruff Rhys: Babelsberg review – never mind dystopia, feel the orchestra

  08-06-2018 10:00
  (Rough Trade)Perhaps Gruff Rhys has suffered as a result of his reputation as one of pop’s eccentrics. His band Super Furry Animals were always willing to confound, and his solo career – this is his fifth album, plus the Set Fire to the Stars soundtrack – has appeared dictated as much by whimsy as foresight. That’s meant his love of melody is sometimes overshadowed by the novelty: cor, you’ll never guess what he’s done now! So one might be forgiven for approac
  
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• Pop star Kim Petras: ‘I just write about emotions – nothing to do with being transgender’

  08-06-2018 08:00
  Her defiantly hedonistic music has put her on the map, and she wants to make people forget their problems with songs about ‘love, superficiality and rich dudes who broke my heart’In an era of “woke pop” – in which Beyoncé’s dancers are raising black power fists, Katy Perry is flogging “political liberation” anthems and Lana Del Rey singles allude to tensions in North Korea – Kim Petras’s music is almost defiantly apolitical. As t
  
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• Lily Allen: No Shame review – divorce, deceit and the Daily Mail in gloriously raw return

  08-06-2018 08:00
  The singer’s broken marriage is laid bare in an album that offers spikiness, regret and vulnerability via uniformly first-rate popIt’s hard not to heave a weary sigh as Lily Allen’s fourth album gets under way. From the title down, No Shame has been trumpeted as a ballsy return to form following 2014’s Sheezus – and yet the opening track, Come on Then, sounds remarkably like something off that album. A relative of Wind Your Neck In or URL Badman without the latter&r
  
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• 'A new room in the Great Pyramid': lost 1963 John Coltrane album discovered

  08-06-2018 06:00
  An album of previously unheard original compositions by the legendary jazz saxophonist has been discovered, 55 years after its recordingA lost album of originals by John Coltrane, the American saxophonist who took jazz to new heights of freedom and expression, has been unearthed.The album, being released on 29 June as Both Directions at Once: the Lost Album, was recorded in a session on 6 March 1963, at the Van Gelder studios in New Jersey. Joining Coltrane in the quartet that also recorded clas
  
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