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• Readers recommend: share songs about bread and baking

  12-07-2018 21:00
  Nominate in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 16 JulyWe’re looking for music with lyrics mentioning bread and baking this week. For more on how to interpret the theme, keep and eye on the comments.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 16 July to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor Pairubu will select from your recommendations and produce the playlist, to be published on 19 July.
  
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• 'We grow up breathing music': how Puerto Rico became a pop superpower

  12-07-2018 18:44
  Online streaming and the country’s proximity to the US have led to the likes of Despacito topping the charts – and now the island’s musicians are embracing politicsIt sometimes feels as if there is no getting away from Despacito. At more than 5bn views, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s track is now the most streamed video of all time on YouTube. But there is plenty more where that came from: Puerto Ricans such as the Despacito duo were responsible for 27 of the top 100 most-
  
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• Henry Cavill Apologises For Controversial Comments About The #MeToo Movement

  12-07-2018 18:21
  The actor claimed he was scared to flirt for fear of being called "a rapist or something"
  
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• This Is Apparently How Selena Gomez Really Feels About Justin Bieber’s Engagement

  12-07-2018 17:21
  His engagement to Hailey Baldwin was confirmed earlier this week.
  
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• Fans Are Mistaking Marnie Simpson For Another Geordie Shore Star In This Peachy Shot

  12-07-2018 16:42
  People have spotted that she looks a *lot* like another familiar face.
  
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• Classical album of the week: Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs review – tech god gets an all-American opera

  12-07-2018 16:00
  Pentatone, two CDsMason Bates’s clever fusions of electronic sounds with big-boned orchestral writing have made his concert works very popular in the US. A Bates opera was a natural next step, and a stage work about the life of the Apple founder Steve Jobs made a neat fit for a composer whose use of technology and ability to commute easily across stylistic boundaries has won him so many admirers. With a libretto by Mark Campbell, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs received its premiere at Sant
  
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• Get To Know: B Young

  12-07-2018 15:57
  We're introducing an artist with diverse influence and unique sound in this week's introducing interview...
  
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• This Love Island Star Has Just Quit The Villa Because ‘It’s The Right Thing To Do’

  12-07-2018 15:47
  Fans of the ITV2 show have been left surprised by the shock move
  
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• Techno titan Nina Kraviz: 'People were suspicious of a pretty woman making music'

  12-07-2018 15:30
  The Russian producer became techno’s most divisive figure after filming an interview in the bath. Here, she discusses sexism, her ‘emotional’ DJ sets and raving on the Great Wall of ChinaMusicians are often said to be on top of the world, but rarely are they actually perched on one of its wonders. Way up in the misty hills of Mutianyu, north-east of Beijing, the Siberian DJ and producer Nina Kraviz is soundtracking sunrise at the Great Wall of China. Forty ravers have gathered
  
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• Pop super-manager Scooter Braun: 'I was not going to let Justin Bieber die'

  12-07-2018 13:53
  He helped Bieber find God and Ariana Grande respond to the Manchester Arena attack, while having to keep tabs on Kanye West. Scooter Braun explains why managing pop stars is perfect training for politicsPerfectly on time, Scooter Braun strides into a small, windowless room at Cannes’ Midem convention, the annual gathering of the world’s music business. For someone who has just flown in from the US, he looks remarkably good: suit and shirt perfect, no hint of jet lag. But these are go
  
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• Simon Le Bon accused of sexually assaulting record store worker in 1995

  12-07-2018 13:28
  Duran Duran singer says the claim that he groped Shereen Hariri during a public appearance in Los Angeles is ‘simply untrue’Simon Le Bon has denied sexually assaulting a fan in 1995. Shereen Hariri alleged that the Duran Duran singer groped her while signing autographs at the Los Angeles record store where she worked. She accused Le Bon of grabbing and “massaging” her “right butt cheek” and “making his way down my butt to my genitals”.Le Bon has de
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Does The Most Brutal Thing To Get Over Her Ex Boyfriends

  12-07-2018 13:10
  We're already jotting down notes on how to move on from heartbreak
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: your songs about deserts

  12-07-2018 13:00
  Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Brand New Heavies and Big Country are among the artists making this week’s reader-curated list
  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.Taking a spin in the RR chair is always an educational experience, but last week proved particularly enlightening. As ever, it expanded my musical horizons, but the topi
  
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• Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose review – lovedrunk swoons from hip-pop heroes

  12-07-2018 13:00
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  This polar opposite of Dave Longstreth’s previous break-up howl, this album is impossible to resist Related: Sign up for the Sleeve Notes email: music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras If you’re one of those people who reflexively hates anything hip, Dirty Projectors will profoundly aggravate you. If the Brooklyn-formed group were juice, they would be cold-pressed; if they were an apartment, it would be a converted warehouse full of rare cacti; and if their rather tor
  
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• This Is How Much Money Kim Kardashian Earns From A Single Instagram Post

  12-07-2018 12:15
  The eye-popping sum of money has left Keeping Up With The Kardashians fans stunned
  
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• Marnie Simpson Admits To Piercing THIS Very Delicate Body Part And Talks Casey Johnson's 'Size'

  12-07-2018 12:13
  Plus she reveals whether she would ever return to Geordie Shore.
  
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• Childish Gambino Drops “Summer Pack” Surprise Singles

  12-07-2018 11:28
  Childish Gambino Drops “Summer Pack” Surprise Singles
  
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• People Aren’t Happy About Forbes Describing Kylie Jenner As A ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire

  12-07-2018 11:27
  Even Dictionary.com has waded into the debate and the results aren't pretty.
  
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• 'He was high-brow, low-brow, every-brow!' – the genius of Leonard Bernstein

  12-07-2018 07:00
  Composer, conductor, inspiration, FBI suspect … Leonard Bernstein was born 100 years ago this August, and this summer’s Proms will celebrate his work. Musicians, critics and his own family remember an astounding talentWatch Bernstein’s one-act opera Trouble in TahitiBernstein was impossibly brilliant in so many different areas: a genius conductor, composer, author, pianist, thinker, activist, educator and entertainer. But for me, his genius was in connecting the dots between a
  
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