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• God is a Woman: Ariana Grande taps into a long herstory of a female lord

  13-07-2018 22:21
  The singer’s new music video is far from the first example of the maker being imagined in non-masculine terms On Friday, Ariana Grande released God is a Woman, the third track previewed from her forthcoming album Sweetener. The music video features a feminist reimagining of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, starring Grande as God. There’s also a memorable cameo halfway through the video when Madonna’s disembodied voice appears, like the voice of God, reciting a gender-flip
  
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• Three Lions breaks records to top the UK singles chart for a fourth time

  13-07-2018 19:00
  Campaign to get Green Day’s American Idiot in the charts to mark Donald Trump’s UK visit falls short as single stalls at No 25While the England team prepare for the match that will determine whether they finish third or fourth, the unofficial theme of this year’s World Cup has come out on top: Three Lions is the UK’s No 1 single.It is the fourth time that the Lightning Seeds, Frank Skinner and David Baddiel’s football anthem has topped the singles chart since its or
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Childish Gambino, Ariana Grande, Sigrid

  13-07-2018 18:20
  With more new music from Twenty One Pilots, Brockhampton, The Vamps & MORE!
  
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• From Ariana Grande And Pete Davidson to Hailey Baldwin And Justin Bieber: 8 Celeb Couples Whose Exes Reacted To Their Engagements

  13-07-2018 16:50
  That's gotta sting tho, right?
  
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• Glass Animals' drummer sustains brain damage in cycling accident

  13-07-2018 15:13
  Joe Seaward required two operations following Dublin crash, one to repair a skull fracture that has affected his speechJoe Seaward, the drummer for the Mercury prize-nominated British band Glass Animals, has been hospitalised with brain damage following a cycling accident.The accident happened on Monday in Dublin, according to a post by frontman Dave Bayley on Glass Animals’ Facebook page. “His leg was broken on impact and he became tangled in the truck’s trailer where his skul
  
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• How Mariah Carey’s ‘I don’t know her’ became pop’s shadiest power move

  13-07-2018 14:00
  The superstar pretending her rivals don’t exist has become an iconic putdown – with Lil’ Kim the latest to use the damning techniquePop has had some incredible disses. Rihanna saying Diplo’s music sounds “like a reggae song at an airport”. Beyoncé’s smirk and eye roll when Kelly Rowland claimed to be the “second lead” singer in Destiny’s Child. Drake asking Meek Mill: “Is that a world tour, or your girl’s tour?”
  
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• Marnie Simpson Strips Completely Naked In Cheeky New Snap

  13-07-2018 13:25
  The Geordie Shore lass didn't fancy getting dressed.
  
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• This week’s tracks reviewed: Christine and the Queens, Justin Timberlake, Raye

  13-07-2018 12:00
  Christine puts a thumping bass line on a song about faith, Justin pitches for a car ad, and Raye gives a clarion call to women everywhere Continue reading...
  
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• Selena Gomez Breaks Her Social Media Silence Following Justin Bieber And Hailey Baldwin's Engagement

  13-07-2018 11:52
  Selena looks incredible.
  
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• Luluc: Sculptor review – the hushed sounds of the suburbs

  13-07-2018 11:30
  Sub PopWhat feels like the emotional conclusion of Luluc’s third album comes halfway through, on Cambridge. “I guess we’re living proof / There are other roads open to me and you,” Zoë Randell sings, “And as I took to the stage and that dark room waiting to come alive / I thought of that light in your eyes, fuck yeah, and I held my head up high.” Before and after Cambridge, Sculptor seems like an album of dissatisfaction, of being caught in a life and a p
  
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• Ariana Grande Goes Topless Wearing Nothing But Paint For The Cover Of Her New Song 'God Is A Woman'

  13-07-2018 11:22
  What a grand day.
  
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• Melody's Echo Chamber: ‘My lyrics have this long echo in my reality’

  13-07-2018 11:00
  The French singer’s fantastical album Bon Voyage was delayed after she had a serious accident – one that she seemed to foretell in her own songwritingIt is easy to be cynical when musicians describe their work as a prophecy – as if writing something in a song could make it happen. But sometimes it works out that way. Nick Cave had written most of Skeleton Tree, laced with images of falling bodies and empty echoes, prior to the death of his son. Last spring, Melody Prochet was r
  
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• Body/Head: The Switch review – Kim Gordon's prophecies of doom

  13-07-2018 11:00
  MatadorEven for Kim Gordon, who has made a career from minimalist cool, The Switch – her second record with Bill Nace as Body/Head – is strikingly stripped back. The duo’s 2013 album Coming Apart pitched her iconic vocal desolation against her and Nace’s improvised guitar, the tumultuous effect cracked and operatic. They’ve ripped that overt drama – the instruments’ rich tone and her declamatory expression – out of this five-track collection, which
  
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• Gaz Beadle Shares The Cutest Moment With His Son Chester

  13-07-2018 10:46
  Fatherhood certainly suits the Geordie Shore lad.
  
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• Lotic: Power review – outsider electronics on the dancefloor

  13-07-2018 10:30
  Tri-AngleHouston-born, Berlin-dwelling electronic experimentalist Lotic describes this debut album, which was made sporadically over a period of two years, following a host of mixtapes and EPs since 2011, as “an expansive exploration of the many ways in which power can be expressed and experienced”. And you can feel that power trickle and swell throughout.You can sense the power of physical movement, most vigorously in the title track, which splices drum beats with something halfway
  
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• Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love review – black metal with grey areas

  13-07-2018 10:00
  Anti-Deafheaven’s relationship with black metal has been a difficult one – not metal enough for the metal kids, too metal for the indie crowd, went the logic – but on their new album Ordinary Corrupt Human Love the band have turned that outsider status into a virtue. Their second album, 2013’s Sunbather, saw them become a genre band who operate in their own interesting grey area – in the same way that Death Grips were to hip-hop or Fucked Up were for hardcore punk.
  
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• The 10 best Paul Simon albums – ranked!

  13-07-2018 08:30
  As the singer plays his last ever UK shows this week, we rank his greatest albums, from 1965’s Paul Simon Songbook to 2016’s Stranger to StrangerThis summer, Paul Simon brings his touring career to an end – 54 years after he thought it was over. When Simon and Garfunkel’s 1964 debut sank without a trace, the 24-year-old travelled to England, miserable and dejected, and shrugged out this solo album. Several tracks – including Kathy’s Song and I Am a Rock &ndash
  
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