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• Jess Glynne Extends Her Chart Record As 'I'll Be There' Becomes Her 7th UK No.1 Single

  15-06-2018 19:00
  She also just levelled a record with Tinie Tempah and Calvin Harris...
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Troye Sivan

  15-06-2018 16:26
  And more from Mura Masa, David Guetta, Rudimental, Nao & MORE!
  
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• Primavera 2018: Everything You Need To Know

  15-06-2018 15:29
  From Arctic Monkeys to DJ Koze, here's who we loved at this year's Primavera Sound...
  
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• 7 Of The Best Summer Makeup Products For Anyone With Oily Skin

  15-06-2018 13:46
  Mattify, mattify, mattify.
  
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• Mamzer Bastard review – haunting Hasidic opera illuminates '77 New York blackout

  15-06-2018 13:27
  Hackney Empire, London
  The past returns to throw the future into question in Na’ama Zisser’s anguished drama about family secrets and lost love‘People do in the dark what they wouldn’t allow themselves to do when the light is on,” we are told in Mamzer Bastard by Na’ama Zisser, the Israeli-born doctoral composer in residence at the Royal Opera House and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The antithesis between darkness and light is integral to the opera, whi
  
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• How To Fake Tan In Six Easy Steps

  15-06-2018 13:27
  The hand-blending step is everything.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Removes The Last Remains Of Stephen Bear Relationship: "Time To Die Fishy!"

  15-06-2018 13:17
  The babe posted on her Insta her finally getting the tattoo fully removed (-ish).
  
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• Sam Gowland Slips Into Chloe Ferry's Skin-Tight Animal Print Dress, But Who Wore It Better?

  15-06-2018 12:59
  The Geordie Shore lad was in the moo-d for a cow print dress.
  
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• 12 Summer Accessory Trends That Will Make Any Outfit Instantly Chicer

  15-06-2018 12:57
  It's easy to look expensive on a minimal budget with these accessories.
  
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• David Byrne review – disarming performance that makes perfect sense

  15-06-2018 12:52
  Oxford New Theatre
  Barefoot and besuited, the Talking Heads frontman delivers an entrancing show of often extraordinary musicAt the end of last year, David Byrne posted a tweet claiming that his forthcoming world tour was “the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense”. On one level, that’s just a smart way to drum up business. If you’re a left-field rock star 40-odd years into your recording career, it never harms to compa
  
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• In-Flight Beauty: What To Pack For Your Chicest Flight Ever

  15-06-2018 12:24
  Pick up the products you've seen all over influencers' Instas.
  
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• Katy Perry review – desperate pop pantomime boosted by bangers

  15-06-2018 12:11
  O2 Arena, London
  Giant flamingos and comedy skits baffle in a show that works best when the energetic star sticks to the hitsKaty Perry finds herself in a tricky position vis-a-vis her day job. One of the most successful pop stars of the decade with nine US chart-toppers and 13 UK Top 10 singles to date, she’s used to letting her gold-plated hits act like placeholders while an identity is constructed behind them. However, last year’s muddled, banger-free Witness album brought the fac
  
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• Tracks of the week reviewed: Tove Lo, A$AP Rocky, Smashing Pumpkins

  15-06-2018 12:00
  Tove Lo gets graphic, A$AP Rocky ropes in a grime elder statesman, and Billy Corgan returns with a squelch Continue reading...
  
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• Martin Garrix & Khalid Team Up On The Beautiful 'Ocean'

  15-06-2018 11:38
  Watch their brand new music video here...
  
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• 15 Ultimate Pairs of Sandals That Have All Your Summer Needs SORTED

  15-06-2018 11:37
  Dig those sandals out, it's going to hit 25 degrees...we hope.
  
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• Kim Kardashian Isn't Going Into Politics Any Time Soon Despite Her Recent Efforts

  15-06-2018 11:36
  We're still rooting for KKW to become president, tbh.
  
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• Melody’s Echo Chamber: Bon Voyage review – a psych-pop hotchpotch

  15-06-2018 11:30
  (Domino)French singer-songwriter Melody Prochet’s self-titled debut – a collection of radiant psychedelia produced by her then-boyfriend, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – was released almost six years ago. In 2014, she began trailing its follow-up. Only now, however, has Bon Voyage actually arrived. The reasons for the four-year delay are rather hazy: in 2017 it was revealed that Prochet had been hospitalised following a serious accident (the details of which have never reach
  
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• Hollywood Vampires: 'You've got to have ego to do what we do'

  15-06-2018 11:28
  Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry discuss addiction, rock-star excess, middle-age mellowing – and the mythical all-star drinking club that gave the band their nameIn the early 70s, Alice Cooper helmed his own secret late-night drinking club. Based in an exclusive loft at Hollywood’s legendary Rainbow Bar and Grill, it provided boozy sanctuary to many fellow stars including Ringo Starr, John Belushi, John Lennon, Keith Moon, Keith Emerson, Harry Nilsson and Marc Bolan. Their all
  
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• Miley Cyrus Defends Pal Selena Gomez After Stefano Gabbana Calls Her ‘Ugly’

  15-06-2018 11:16
  The fashion designer called Selena ‘ugly’ online but Miley is having none of it.
  
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• Cheryl Chowed Down On A Kebab While Writing Songs About Liam Payne

  15-06-2018 11:11
  She's no prima donna.
  
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• Premiere! ALMA Jumps On Miriam Bryant’s ‘Black Car’ – Watch

  15-06-2018 11:00
  Get an exclusive first look at this brand new version of Sweden’s No.2 smash…
  
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• Mike Shinoda: Post Traumatic review – grief for Chester Bennington

  15-06-2018 11:00
  (Warner Bros)From telling the Guardian about being sexually abused in childhood to screaming in songs about inner demons, to the frenzy surrounding his 2017 suicide, Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington’s life and death were played out very publicly. A year on, his bandmate has released a musical diary of an equally visible grief. Indeed, you wonder whether there are any filters here, or if Shinoda is similarly letting everything pour out. Related: Sign up for the Sleeve Notes email: musi
  
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• Johnny Marr: Call the Comet review – the light that never went out

  15-06-2018 10:30
  (New Voodoo)There’s always an elephant in the room with Johnny Marr, a lumbering old elephant Marr last worked with 31 years ago. Ahead of the release of Marr’s third solo album, said elephant had been trumpeting on about Anne Marie Waters and Tommy Robinson, but this may, oddly, be to Marr’s benefit. The dismay Morrissey has caused appears to have led some people to take the view of Marr – whose every public utterance displays a man of empathy and grace – as &ldquo
  
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• Sophie: Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides review – taking it to sexy extremes

  15-06-2018 10:00
  (Transgressive)In the same extruded plastic lane as pop provocateurs PC Music, Sophie emerged in 2013 with tracks that were as shiny, artificial and joyously fun as the plastic waterslides of their cover artwork: they lurched around, you could feel the joins to each section, and serious people refused to go near them. A shadowy figure, she was snapped up to work with Madonna, Charli XCX and Vince Staples, before emerging earlier in 2018 with the first single from this debut full-length, It&rsquo
  
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• Ammar 808: Maghreb United review – an exuberant, full-tilt affair

  15-06-2018 09:30
  (Glitterbeat Records)It starts with the sound of distant voices at what could be an ancient North African ceremony. Then come repeated, chanting vocals from Sofiane Saidi, urged on by the pounding, insistent electro-percussion that dominates this intriguing blend of ancient and modern styles. Ammar 808 is the name currently used by Sofyann Ben Youssef, the band’s Tunisian leader, producer and arranger, responsible for the electronics on the album, and it was inspired by his love of that vi
  
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• ‘I'm not the next Billy Bragg’: On the road with Idles’ Joe Talbot

  15-06-2018 08:00
  The band’s debut album, Brutalism, was hailed as a rage-fuelled masterpiece. The singer recalls how frustration at being a carer for his sick mum led him down a dark path – and how he learned to channel that angerA man walks into a bar and says: “Have you got any alcohol-free lager?” The landlady asks: “Why, love? Are you driving?” “No,” he says. “I’m a recovering alcoholic.”It’s not the world’s worst ma
  
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• Alice Glass on leaving Crystal Castles: ‘The cruelty never ceases to amaze me’

  15-06-2018 08:00
  The singer found fame with the electro band before leaving and accusing her ex-bandmate of nonconsensual sex and controlling behaviour. Here, she talks about her decision to go publicAlice Glass’s Los Angeles home is a picture of gothic splendour. Her kitchen resembles a graveyard of dead flowers; she is annoyed that her living black lilies never droop when she is looking. There is a fake Goya on the way down to her basement studio, where skulls surround the drums. A spider crawls out of t
  
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• Crazy in love: can marriages between rock superstars ever really work?

  15-06-2018 07:00
  Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s UK tour dates this week have been a public display of their love. But from Sonny and Cher to Fleetwood Mac, rock pairings are notoriously turbulentWhen Beyoncé and Jay-Z flew into Salford this week, ahead of their On the Run II show in Manchester, the gossip columns noted several details: that Beyoncé wore a black hooded jacket, their children were not with them and, most provocatively, that the pair landed in separate helicopters.The insinuation wa
  
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