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• Morrissey postpones July concerts amid racism row

  29-06-2018 20:39
  Concerts called off in the UK, Germany and Sweden due to ‘logistical circumstances’Morrissey has postponed all his UK and European tour dates in July, his management has said.A statement from representatives of the former Smiths frontman said concerts in the UK, Germany and Sweden had been postponed “due to logistical circumstances” beyond their control, but promised to reschedule the events.Continue reading...
  
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• From Scott Disick And Sofia Richie To Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson: 8 Reality Star Relationships That Looked Like They Would Never Work But Did

  29-06-2018 19:11
  Hats off to them tbh...
  
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• Drake: Scorpion review – a maddening monument to superstardom

  29-06-2018 16:26
  Veering from swaggering soul to eerie electronica, this mega-album is bloated, rambling – yet frequently gorgeous and funnyOn an album filled with revelations, perhaps the most startling one arrives during Can’t Take a Joke (a song that would win the award for the most Drake-esque title in history were it not for the existence of his recent single I’m Upset): Drake reads the comments. Moreover, he says, the comments are “killing me”, so much so that the personal not
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Drake, Charli XCX, Gorillaz, Florence + The Machine

  29-06-2018 14:51
  With more fire music coming out from Sean Paul, Stefflon Don, Years & Years and MORE!
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Warns ‘Don’t F**k With Me’ As She Serves Up Serious Underboob Inspiration

  29-06-2018 14:18
  Don't mess with her.
  
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• Drake Drops Epic New Double Album Scorpion

  29-06-2018 12:48
  SIDE A: Goes in. SIDE B: Goes sad. 
  
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• This week’s tracks reviewed: Little Mix, Paul McCartney and Ariana Grande

  29-06-2018 12:00
  The girl group are scoring Love Island: The Pool Party, Ariana teams up with Nicki Minaj for a thumping banger and Sir Paul is back to the comfort food Continue reading...
  
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• Joe Strummer demos and rarities to appear on new compilation

  29-06-2018 11:58
  The 32-track album will include previously unheard recordings made by the late musician before and after his time with the ClashA new compilation of Joe Strummer’s output beyond his recordings with the Clash will include 12 previously unreleased songs. The 32-track double album Joe Strummer 001 was overseen by Strummer’s widow, Lucinda Tait, and Grammy winner Peter J Moore, and includes recordings by his bands the 101’ers and the Mescaleros in addition to solo material. Related
  
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• Baby Driver 2 Might Be Happening Soon!

  29-06-2018 11:54
  Director Edgar Wright has been teasing a Baby Driver sequel. Here are all the details.
  
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• Let’s Eat Grandma on moving their music beyond the macabre

  29-06-2018 11:53
  When the Norwich duo emerged aged 16, critics dismissed them as pop puppets. Their new album bristles at the disparagement of teenage girls – and the restrictions of femininityRosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth – AKA Let’s Eat Grandma (or LEG) – don’t understand why anyone would find their music unsettling. On their 2016 debut album I, Gemini, released when they were just 16, they juxtaposed folk whimsy with anxiety inducing electronic beats and macabre lyrics. &ldq
  
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• Hailey Baldwin Just Deleted All Traces Of Shawn Mendes From Her Instagram

  29-06-2018 11:39
  This upsets us on many levels.
  
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• 7 Things You Learn in Your First Gay Relationship

  29-06-2018 11:32
  1. It's basically just like any other relationship.
  
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• 13 Poly Terms You NTK No Matter What You're Into

  29-06-2018 11:29
  What is a metamour? And what does ethical non-monogamy mean?
  
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• What's The Difference Between Being Bisexual, Pansexual And Queer?

  29-06-2018 11:28
  Let's break it down.
  
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• Drake Confirms He Has A Son And Pens His Own Incredible Album Review

  29-06-2018 11:24
  "ANYBODY ELSE > DRAKE …YEAH YEAH WE KNOW.”
  
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• 9 GLOW-Inspired High Street Gym Buys

  29-06-2018 11:17
  Channel Gorgeous Lady of Wrestling vibes with these must-have activewear items.
  
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• Memes That Just GET The LGBTQ+ Dating Experience

  29-06-2018 11:06
  Shout out to anyone who's ever been 45 weeks deep in someone's insta trying to work out their sexuality.
  
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• What It's Actually Like To Come Out As Asexual

  29-06-2018 11:02
  Writer Amelia Ace shares her experience...
  
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• Let's Eat Grandma review – bold, intense pop that gets under the skin

  29-06-2018 11:00
  (Transgressive)Let’s Eat Grandma (LEG) are barely recognisable as the duo behind their 2016 debut I, Gemini in 2016. That eerie record mingled drifting synths with recorder solos, saxophone and maddening chatter, and exuded playful insularity that provoked strong reactions. Perhaps seizing such potential to get under listeners’ skin, 19-year-olds Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton take a more confrontational approach on album two: bold synths sharpened with a diamond lathe; sights tr
  
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• All Abba's UK singles – ranked!

  29-06-2018 11:00
  To mark the release of new film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, we rate the Swedish pop band’s greatest hitsLast place for the band’s last single, taken from recording sessions for a ninth album that never came to fruition. And maybe that’s for the best: the dissonance between the robotic verses and a bizarrely jaunty chorus about being at one’s wit’s end over a stalker is too jarring to work. LS Continue reading...
  
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• Ed Sheeran sued for second time over Marvin Gaye 'rip-off'

  29-06-2018 10:59
  Singer faces $100m lawsuit over claims Thinking Out Loud copied 1973 hit Let’s Get It OnEd Sheeran has been sued for a second time over allegations that his song Thinking Out Loud rips off Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On. A company called Structured Asset Sales, which owns part of the copyright of Gaye’s song, is suing Sheeran for $100m (£76.4m), alleging that his 2014 single copies “the melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bass line, backing chorus, tempo, syncop
  
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• Kendall Jenner Spotted Kissing Ben Simmons Amid Reports The Pair Are Now Living Together

  29-06-2018 10:44
  And none for Anwar Hadid...
  
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• Gwenifer Raymond: You Never Were Much of a Dancer review – fingerpicking good

  29-06-2018 10:30
  (Tompkins Square)The 32-year-old Welsh multi-instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is a perfect advertisement for the benefits of chasing down rabbit holes. As a young Nirvana fan, she heard their cover of Lead Belly’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night and started hunting down American acoustic blues, then sought guitar lessons from a teacher who introduced her to John Fahey, the pioneer of American primitive guitar music. Fahey echoes throughout her mesmerising debut album (there’s even a t
  
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• Jim James: Uniform Distortion review – frazzled rock and lyrical home truths

  29-06-2018 10:00
  (ATO)Jim James is certainly prolific. There have been seven albums of resplendent melodies while fronting My Morning Jacket, his solo albums have careered from acoustic balladry and spacey disco to ghostly 1920s-style crooning, and he also joined Conor Oberst in Monsters of Folk. Throughout, he has not lost his trademark musical wonderment and transcendent, childlike nostalgia. However, here he tears up the plans and turns up the guitars for an unexpectedly playful album which rollicks between b
  
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• Adam Lambert: 'Now there’s an audience for me being exactly who I am'

  29-06-2018 10:00
  The fuss over his sexuality in 2009 highlights how attitudes have moved on in a decade. Ahead of a European tour with Queen, the singer looks back on prejudice and how he helped change popDespite being dressed like the archetypal US rock star – yellow-tinted aviator shades, black leather fingerless gloves, immaculate facial topiary – American Idol alumnus and adopted Queen frontman Adam Lambert is telling possibly the least rock’n’roll story ever. The night before our int
  
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• Jazz album of the month – John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album

  29-06-2018 09:30
  (Impulse!) The spinechillingly emotional saxophonist Albert Ayler said of his 1960s contemporaries John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders: “Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.” That sax triumvirate have many heirs (notably Kamasi Washington), but the spiritually restless Coltrane will always be the master. When the story broke of an unreleased Coltrane studio session, lost since its creation on 6 March 1963 but recovered from his late first wife’s archiv
  
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• Gorillaz: The Now Now review – Damon Albarn and co dial down the maximalism

  29-06-2018 09:30
  (Warner Bros)Hot on the heels of their 2017 record Humanz – a guest-star-strewn collection of gloomy dance music – comes the sixth album from Damon Albarn’s animated outfit. Unlike its predecessor, The Now Now enlists few collaborators: jazz guitarist George Benson supplies opener Humility with a gorgeously funky riff, and Snoop Dogg and house producer Jamie Principle contribute vocals to the spiky strut of Hollywood, but that’s it. Instead, Albarn supplies the bulk of th
  
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• Readers recommend: share your underwater songs

  29-06-2018 00:40
  Nominate in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 2 JulyThis week we’re looking for your tunes with an underwater theme. For more on how to interpret the theme, keep an eye on the comments.You have until 11pm on Monday 2 July to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor George Boyland (who posts as sonofwebcore in the comments) will select from your recommendations and produce our l
  
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