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• Tool lead singer Maynard James Keenan calls rape claim 'despicable'

  28-06-2018 23:27
  After an anonymous Twitter user claimed the frontman sexually assaulted her at 17, the singer tweeted about the ‘false’ storyTool’s lead singer, Maynard James Keenan, has denied a claim that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old fan.On 22 June, an anonymous claim was made on Twitter against Keenan, recounting an alleged incident from 2000 when he was part of the band A Perfect Circle, then touring with Nine Inch Nails. Continue reading...
  
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• Get To Know: Snail Mail

  28-06-2018 20:07
  We're Getting To Know the new face of indie-rock in this week's introducing interview...
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Trolls Josh Ritchie As He Sleeps And The Footage Is Relatable AF

  28-06-2018 18:52
  But we understand Josh, life is hard.
  
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• Charli XCX Drops Fire ‘5 In The Morning’ Music Video

  28-06-2018 18:20
  The whole vid is H O T
  
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• Queer Eye’s Tan France To Style Pete Davidson For His Wedding To Ariana Grande?

  28-06-2018 17:30
  Name a more iconic duo.
  
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• Songs of the summer 2018: our writers pick their favourite tracks

  28-06-2018 17:10
  As we reach that time of year when debates heat up over which track will be named most likely to soundtrack the hotter months, which songs are Guardian writers picking? Continue reading...
  
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• Florence + the Machine: High As Hope review – older, wiser, comparatively calmer | Alexis Petridis' album of the week

  28-06-2018 17:00
  Florence Welch’s fourth album is most powerful when focused on the small, telling details of encroaching adulthoodFlorence Welch recently told a journalist that her fourth album pursues a noticeably different direction. It is, she confirmed, less “Florence-y”. It’s a statement that is hard to read without raising a quizzical eyebrow. Being Florence-y means dealing in a showy kind of musical melodrama, where tribal drums meet sawing orchestras, grandiloquent piano and the
  
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• Wireless festival adds women-only stage in response to criticism

  28-06-2018 15:52
  Twenty-five female artists, including Lady Leshurr and Paigey Cakey, will play the new stageFollowing criticism over its lack of women performers, Wireless festival has announced a stage that will exclusively feature female artists. Only three of the 37 acts announced in January were women: R&B singer Mabel, rapper Cardi B – who has since cancelled owing to her advanced pregnancy – and dancehall MC Lisa Mercedez.Artists including Birmingham MC Lady Leshurr, Spanish reggaeton arti
  
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• SOS: What To Do When Your Hair Turns Green On Holiday

  28-06-2018 15:07
  Never an ideal situation
  
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• Bernstein: A Quiet Place CD review – an intensely personal opera about loss

  28-06-2018 15:00
  A two-CD chamber reduction of Leonard Bernstein’s 1986 opera, with Kent Nagano conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, brings its seriousness into focus
  Leonard Bernstein composed one of the greatest of all musicals in West Side Story, as well as, in Candide, one of the few 20th-century comic operas that is likely to persist in the repertory. But until the end of his life he kept trying to write the great American opera – something that would hold up a truthful mirror to American
  
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• 'It's about time': the black and Asian bands 'decolonising' British indie

  28-06-2018 14:18
  Now in its second year, Decolonise festival gives a platform to musicians of colour looking to challenge prejudice and shake up a predominantly white genre
  This is not your standard punk-rock gig, even if the scruffy venue used to be a warehouse and guitars are being liberally thrashed. That’s mainly because the 150-strong crowd is not uniformly white – more than half are people of colour. Then there’s the figure crooning with restrained menace on stage. She goes by the name Ms
  
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• Ariana Grande And Pete Davidson Sang A Duet At A Karaoke Bar And It’s Everything

  28-06-2018 13:24
  The pair sang Evanescence’s ‘Bring Me To Life’. Iconic.
  
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• Pets Have Come To 'Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery' And We're Already In Love With Them

  28-06-2018 13:16
  Harry Potter with added floofs? We're IN.
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about being lost

  28-06-2018 13:00
  A reader finds a way through your suggestions, meeting Chet Baker, the Clash and Eric Clapton along the way
  Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” artist Paul Gauguin asked in 1897. To judge by this week’s playlist, creative types are still looking for an an
  
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• Geordie Shore: Everything You Need To Know About Series 17

  28-06-2018 13:00
  Geordie Shore airs Tuesdays at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• 13 Hair Inspo Pics To Screenshot And Take To Your Hairdresser Right Now

  28-06-2018 12:55
  The only problem is, we want them all.
  
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• Love Island’s Niall Aslam Has Finally Revealed The Real Reason For His Shock Departure

  28-06-2018 12:52
  He's thanked ITV and the public for their continued support.
  
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• MNEK Debuts Vibrant New Video For 'Colour' Featuring Hailee Steinfeld

  28-06-2018 12:46
  THIS is such a vibe.
  
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• Kim Kardashian Pleads With Tristan Thompson To Unblock Her On Instagram And It Was Awks AF

  28-06-2018 11:36
  And Kim is relentless.
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Holly Hagan Hits Out At Slut-Shamers With This Perfect Comeback

  28-06-2018 11:28
  This needs to be framed.
  
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• You Won't Expect The Collaborations On Hailee Steinfeld's Debut Album

  28-06-2018 11:12
  The 'Love Myself' singer teases us about that highly-anticipated album at Isle Of MTV 2018...
  
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• Kylie Jenner Just Revealed A Load Of Makeup Tips That We're Stealing Immediately

  28-06-2018 10:59
  If the whole being a millionaire thing ever goes downhill she’d make quite the MUA.
  
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• Sam Smith And Brandon Flynn Have Reportedly Split After Nine Months Of Dating

  28-06-2018 10:49
  The internet isn't taking it well.
  
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• Jason Derulo Spills Deets On That Rumoured BTS Collab

  28-06-2018 10:47
  EXCLUSIVE! We caught up with the 'Tip Toe' superstar at Isle Of MTV Malta!
  
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