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• Paul McCartney serves up surprise show in Liverpool pub

  22-06-2018 19:42
  Rock star returns to home city for appearance on Carpool Karaoke with James CordenAs homecoming gigs for one of the world’s biggest rock stars go, it was fairly low key: a small band on a slightly bigger stage in a local pub. But for the drinkers who just happened to be in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms in Liverpool, seeing Sir Paul McCartney perform was probably the best gig of their lives.Continue reading...
  
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• Demi Lovato Bags Her 1st UK No.1 Single With Clean Bandit On 'Solo'

  22-06-2018 19:00
  It's Clean Bandit's fourth chart-topper...
  
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• World Exclusive! James Arthur Stuns With Acoustic 'You Deserve Better' MTV Performance

  22-06-2018 14:50
  Incredible.
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Little Mix, Years & Years, Jax Jones, Skepta & More!

  22-06-2018 14:43
  With Tom Walker, Jaden Smith, Florence + The Machine and Bebe Rexha also making new appearances…
  
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• Pusha T’s Whitney Houston homage: work of art or moral atrocity?

  22-06-2018 14:00
  From the recent use of the late singer’s bathroom to Kanye West’s tribute to Emma Gonzales, dissecting rap imagery in the age of moral outrage is a complex process“Everything Ye say cause a new debate,” raps Kanye West on Pusha T’s album Daytona. In the run-up to its release, West caused shock by crossing moral lines. Talking to Trump was bad enough, but tweeting in praise of him was incendiary. Then saying: “When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... for 4
  
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• #FreeThePimple Is Trending On Instagram Calling Out Unrealistic Beauty Standards

  22-06-2018 13:06
  And it’s about time. Most people get pimples – it’s normal!
  
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• 8 Beauty Products Loved By Love Island Contestants

  22-06-2018 12:54
  And if you want to get your hands on them, we've got you covered (as always).
  
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• Love Island's Sophie Gradon Spoke About The Effects Of Online Bullying In Final Interview

  22-06-2018 12:07
  The reality star passed away this week aged 32.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Doesn’t Remember her Romance With Love Island’s Adam Collard, Like, At All

  22-06-2018 12:05
  Turns out it was more forgetful than romantic lol.
  
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• This week’s tracks reviewed: The Rhythm Method, Spiritualized, Ariana Grande

  22-06-2018 12:00
  The Rhythm Method get the World Cup in motion, it’s back to outer space with Spiritualized, and Troye Sivan teams up with Ariana Grande Continue reading...
  
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• Get To Know: Alex Cameron

  22-06-2018 11:34
  We’re introducing you to the weird world of Alex Cameron in this weeks introducing interview…
  
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• Kim Kardashian Returns To Paris For The First Time Since Robbery

  22-06-2018 11:32
  Sister Kylie Jenner joined her at the Louis Vuitton Menswear show to hold her hand.
  
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• Bebe Rexha: Expectations review – fiercely trite pop

  22-06-2018 11:30
  (Warner Bros)UK audiences will know Bebe Rexha on the strength of her collaborations: with meat-headed country duo Florida Georgia Line, Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, rapper G-Eazy, and with Rita Ora, Charli XCX and Cardi B on Girls, a song about the joys of making out with women that drew condemnation from those who thought it trivialised queerness for a male gaze. These disparate hookups indicate an artist in desperate search of an identity, an impression the 28-year-old’s fiercely trite debut
  
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• Little Mix Are BACK With Cheat Codes On Brand New Summer Smash 'Only You'

  22-06-2018 11:28
  QUEENS!
  
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• 'On repeat in our house': your albums of the year so far

  22-06-2018 11:17
  After a mid-2018 Guardian rundown, here’s a selection of additional readers’ favourites from the discussion provoked
  From Lily Allen to Young Fathers – read the Guardian list
  After many listens this is definitely my favourite Father John Misty album, adding genuine heart and emotion to the usual combination of wit and irony. Can’t recommend it highly enough. BiggsDixxon Continue reading...
  
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• Blake Lively Tells Ryan Reynolds About Wanting To Cheat On Him

  22-06-2018 11:11
  ....with Anna Kendrick.
  
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• The Wave Pictures: Brushes with Happiness review – dreamlike, bluesy and unique

  22-06-2018 11:00
  (Moshi Moshi)The Wave PicturesBrushes With Happiness(moshi moshi)Three starsThis cult Leicestershire-formed trio don’t make things easy for themselves. Having previously recorded on vintage analogue equipment or with one microphone and no mixing, this time they went into the studio with no music, only frontman David Tattersall’s lyrics. Everything was improvised and put down in one take. In a comical tour de force, the band recorded while drunk, believing that this would make them mo
  
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• Panic! at the Disco: Pray for the Wicked review – a parade of emo-pop pizzazz

  22-06-2018 10:30
  (DCD2)In the mid-00s, Las Vegas outfit Panic! at the Disco made their name with a series of infectious if slightly overwrought emo-pop tunes, many of which sported memorably unwieldy titles (their Chuck Palahniuk-referencing debut single was called The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage). Like their similarly huge peers (Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance), PATD retained emo’s interior melodrama but crunched its sound into something more brashly melodic and over
  
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• Edgar Wright to direct documentary about cult pop duo Sparks

  22-06-2018 09:59
  The Baby Driver director told IndieWire that he has been a fan of the Los Angeles band since seeing them on Top of the Pops in 1979Following his 2017 heist film Baby Driver, Edgar Wright is to direct a feature-length documentary on cult pop duo Sparks. The British director shot the Los Angeles band’s concert at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London this May for inclusion in the documentary and is gathering archival footage of the duo. “I have been a fan of them since I saw them on Top
  
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• The war against rap: censoring drill may seem radical but it's not new

  22-06-2018 08:00
  Rap crew 1011 need to tell the authorities when they have made new music. But can censoring artistic expression reduce youth violence?The long and inglorious relationship between the police and rap hit a new low last week when a judge issued a court order banning five drill rappers from recording new tracks without police permission. West London group 1011 – the numbers refer to local postcodes W10 and W11 – were up on charges of conspiracy to commit violent disorder after being arre
  
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• Nile Rodgers: ‘My family were high-functioning addicts. I inherited that gene’

  22-06-2018 06:59
  After a tumultuous childhood, drug addiction and the death of disco, the coolest man in pop is bringing back Chic‘It’s been crazeeee,” Nile Rodgers says of his 65 years on the planet. We have barely met and he is already on to his parents’ heroin addiction, his mother’s three coat-hanger abortions, sexual abuse he witnessed at the convalescent home he was sent to for acute asthma as a child, mingling as a young boy with Eartha Kitt and Thelonious Monk, and life as a
  
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