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• Chris Brown arrested after Florida show

  06-07-2018 18:02
  R&B singer, who has a history of violent conduct, on bail over charge of felony battery The R&B star Chris Brown has been arrested in Florida on a charge of felony battery.On Thursday the singer and rapper performed a concert on his Heartbreak on a Full Moon tour in West Palm Beach, Florida, and was arrested shortly afterwards. He was taken to the nearby Palm Beach county jail, and was released on bail of $2,000 (£1,500). It is not yet clear who has accused him, and no more details
  
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• Swede dreams: what to expect from Solange’s collaboration with Ikea

  06-07-2018 13:59
  The interior design brand has enlisted the soul star to work on a new line. What new spin will she put on the BILLY bookcase? Her big sister Beyoncé might have missed a trick in not teaming up with R Whites to launch 2016’s Lemonade album – just imagine the most fabulous secret lemonade drinker adverts that could have been! – but Solange is evidently a far more savvy businesswoman, with news of her Ikea collaboration recently sweeping the interior design/R&B crossove
  
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• Ariana Grande Addresses Pete Davidson's Joke About The Manchester Attack

  06-07-2018 13:33
  The 'No Tears Left To Cry' Singer says she didn't find it funny.
  
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• Elvis Costello reveals cancer diagnosis as he cancels tour dates

  06-07-2018 13:08
  ‘Small but very aggressive’ cancer has been operated on, but recovery forces songwriter to pull out of tourElvis Costello has revealed he was recently diagnosed with “a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy” and has cancelled tour dates while he recovers from the subsequent treatment.Writing on his website, the singer-songwriter said: “Six weeks ago my specialist called me and said, ‘You should start playing the Lotto.’ He had rarely, if ever, s
  
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• Did Khloe Kardashian Accidentally Confirm Kendall Jenner And Ben Simmon's Romance?

  06-07-2018 12:40
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star may not have noticed this.
  
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• Cardi B countersues former manager Klenord ‘Shaft’ Raphael for $15m

  06-07-2018 12:19
  Lawsuit claims Raphael wanted ‘complete control’ of rapper’s earnings and comes after he had sued over breach of contractThe rapper Cardi B is countersuing her ex-manager for $15m (£11.3m), following a $10m lawsuit he filed against her in April.In April, Klenord “Shaft” Raphael accused Cardi B (whose real name is Almanzar Belcalis) of breach of contract and defamation after she left his management company for a new deal with the company Solid Foundation. Rapha
  
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• ‘What a star he would be today’: the extraordinary musical legacy of Sylvester

  06-07-2018 12:00
  Thirty years after his death, the creator of the classic Pride anthem You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the subject of academic symposia. Not bad for a drag queen who was ‘just trying to get on to the radio’On a sunny Thursday afternoon, the theatre at the University of Sussex is playing host to a two-hour interdisciplinary academic conference. Its subject is disco, and today, more specifically, the singer Sylvester. There are papers delivered on his image, his exclusi
  
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• From YMCA to Bloom: charting the evolution of the gay anthem

  06-07-2018 12:00
  As Pride celebrations kick off around the UK, we track how pop has reflected four decades of social changeThree iconic gay anthems turn 40 this year: Sylvester’s You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive and the Village People’s YMCA. Although these songs are ancient in pop terms, their tropes continue to play out in 2018. The 2009 book Queer by Simon Gage, Lisa Richards and Howard Wilmot lists 10 thematic criteria for gay anthems: “a big-voiced diva&
  
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• Marnie Simpson Gets FIVE New Piercings And Says She's 'Addicted'

  06-07-2018 11:38
  The Geordie Shore lass has gone piercing mad.
  
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• We’ve Found All The Love Islanders’ Outfits On The High Street Just For You

  06-07-2018 11:32
  Apologies to your credit card in advance!
  
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• RP Boo: I'll Tell You What! review – footwork original steps it up

  06-07-2018 11:30
  Planet MuChicago footwork pioneer RP Boo bought his first Roland R70 drum machine in the late-90s from the window of a budget equipment store. With no instruction manual, he didn’t know how to stretch out the bars, so worked exclusively in a one-bar pattern – formulating his frantic, multi-layered sound, crushing hyped-up dance floor commands into percussive rhythms and rumbling low end. Years later, after playing on a different R70, he didn’t recognise the sounds and had a rev
  
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• 77:78: Jellies review – sunburned and delirious English psychedelia

  06-07-2018 11:00
  HeavenlyIf Aaron Fletcher and Tim Parkin had control of the weather, they couldn’t have timed the release of their first album as 77:78 any better: it’s a heatwave of a record, sunburned and slightly delirious. Any similarity to the Bees is not coincidental – Fletcher and Butler were among the Isle of Wight group’s multi-instrumentalists, and Butler one of its main songwriter. Jellies has that same sense of a group in thrall to beat-y 60s pop, but also pulling at the loos
  
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• Big Narstie: BDL Bipolar review – baggy comedy/grime mashup

  06-07-2018 10:30
  Dice Recording MusicBig Narstie first found fame as a grime MC in the mid-00s, but in recent years the south Londoner, born Tyrone Lindo, has garnered more attention for his comical online antics – presenting short films for Vice, a stint as permanently disgusted YouTube agony aunt Uncle Pain – than his music. Last Friday saw these high-jinx promoted to terrestrial TV in his own Channel 4 chat show, yet Narstie is clearly determined not to let his music career fall by the wayside. Th
  
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• Bodega: Endless Scroll review – funny, jabby potshots at online life

  06-07-2018 10:00
  (What’s Your Rupture?)Brooklyn’s Bodega were hailed as “New York’s most exciting band” (by the NME) following a much talked-about appearance at this year’s SXSW. Although singer/guitarist Ben Hozie and pals had something of a false start as the short-lived agit-pranksters Bodega Bay, the revamped band have certainly blazed out from the traps. Debut single How Did This Happen?!, which kickstarts this debut album, is a jerkily propulsive mission statement on &ld
  
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• Olivia Chaney: Shelter review – gleaming vocal treats

  06-07-2018 09:30
  (Nonesuch)Folk artists stepping into singer-songwriter territory are often treated with suspicion, as if their egos must be propelling them beyond the small stories of smaller people. But often, these musicians adore traditional music at the same time as they enjoy playing and writing in other genres. Olivia Chaney collaborated on two folk song projects last year: Nonesuch’s impressive Folk Songs compilation, featuring Natalie Merchant and Sam Amidon, and the stunning Offa Rex project with
  
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• George Ezra: ‘I’m trying to figure out who I am and what I stand for’

  06-07-2018 07:00
  The singer is at No 1 with sound-of-the-summer Shotgun, but last year his career came close to unravelling – and he says it was the best thing that ever happened to himPop stars walk among us more than we might realise, thanks to caps and sunglasses. But George Ezra’s spin on the classic disguise is more practical – a floppy-brimmed, khaki sunhat from an outdoor-supplies company paired with camouflage-rimmed sunglasses he got at a petrol station – but stylish it is not. I
  
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