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• Drake’s Done A Justin Bieber As ‘In My Feelings’ Gives Drizzy His 3rd No.1 This Year

  20-07-2018 19:00
  It’s the first time since 2015 that an artist has had three chart-toppers in a single year…
  
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• Cliff Richard and freedom of the press | Letters

  20-07-2018 18:27
  Readers respond after Cliff Richard wins £210,000 in damages over BBC privacy caseMedia commentators are already declaiming Justice Mann’s judgment in favour of Cliff Richard over the BBC as a “dark day for press freedom”. Rubbish. These arguments are specious. The public interest and public prurience should not be conflated. The public interest must not be determined by the media alone. The Human Rights Act (which Theresa May despises) has something to say on the matter.
  
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• Taylor Swift to star in Tom Hooper's Cats movie

  20-07-2018 15:34
  Singer-songwriter to take first major acting role, alongside Ian McKellen, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson, in Hooper’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicalTaylor Swift is to take her first lead acting role in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, directed by Tom Hooper.Swift, 28, has one significant screen credit to her name: she voiced the environmentalist Audrey in the 2012 animation The Lorax. She is expected to actually appear on screen – albeit wear
  
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• XXXTentacion: four men charged with rapper's murder

  20-07-2018 14:52
  Controversial Florida rapper was shot dead, aged 20, while leaving a motorcycle shop last monthFour men have been charged with the murder of the rapper XXXTentacion, real name Jahseh Onfroy, who was shot dead in Florida last month. They were named as Dedrick Williams, Michael Boatwright, Trayvon Newsome and Robert Allen by the Broward county sheriff.The men are charged with first-degree murder with a firearm and armed robbery. Williams was arrested two days after the 20-year-old’s death. B
  
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• Thom Yorke addresses stage collapse that killed Radiohead's drum technician

  20-07-2018 14:41
  ‘People are still not being held accountable’ says Yorke, who is performing in Toronto for the first time since the 2012 incidentRadiohead’s Thom Yorke has addressed the stage collapse that killed the band’s drum technician Scott Johnson in Toronto in 2012. Performing in the Canadian city for the first time since the incident, Yorke told the crowd at the Scotiabank Arena: “People are still not being held accountable in your city. The silence is deafening.”On 1
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Zayn Malik, Chance The Rapper, Troye Sivan

  20-07-2018 14:28
  And more releases from The Internet, Steve Aoki, BROCKHAMPTON & MORE!
  
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• Kourtney Kardashian’s Boyfriend Is Trolling Himself Over *That* Rude Comment On Instagram

  20-07-2018 14:22
  Younes Bendjima faced the wrath of Keeping Up With The Kardashians fans worldwide
  
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• Ministry of Sound’s Love Island compilation

  20-07-2018 14:00
  As we ponder the difference between a compilation and a playlist, can MoS’s latest offering mug off the threat of streaming?Have you heard Love Island: The Pool Party yet? You really shouldn’t. The compilation album features Little Mix and Cheat Codes’ Only You, and various other bangers in that modern vernacular where “summer” is a PC plugin, and DJ Khaled is only ever seconds away from shouting his own name. True to the tag, this is an album you’d love if yo
  
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• G-Eazy Responds To Rumours That He And Demi Lovato Are Dating

  20-07-2018 12:57
  He's opened about how tough it is to have a private life in the music industry.
  
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• Love Island’s Georgia Weighs In On Kissing Controversy For The First Time Since Leaving The Villa

  20-07-2018 12:12
  Was that smooch with Jack Fowler really filmed twice?
  
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• This week’s tracks reviewed: Childish Gambino, Gaika, the Lemon Twigs

  20-07-2018 12:00
  Gambino brings a vapid summer vibe, Gaika mixes Afrobeat with hip-hop, while the Lemon Twigs have gone full oddballContinue reading...
  
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• 'I’m always gonna be a nightmare’:​ ​how​ ​Bhad Bhabie​ ​went from meme to megastar MC

  20-07-2018 12:00
  Danielle Bregoli was a car-thieving TV tearaway at 13. Two years later, she is a major-label rapper. She talks about the friends she lost along the way – and her fight for credibilityIn September 2016, Danielle Bregoli – then 13 years old – flicked her straightened hair over her shoulder and pursed her lips while someone referred to her as the antichrist. Dr Phil, on whose family-counselling TV show she was appearing, was insisting she was not the antichrist her exasperated mot
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Dee Nguyen Speaks Shag Pad Dramz With New Lad Adam Guthrie: “What The F**k Kind Of Game Are You Playing At?” - Exclusive

  20-07-2018 11:53
  Geordie Shore continues on Tuesday at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Do You Agree With Holly Hagan’s Brutal Assessment Of This Love Island Contestant?

  20-07-2018 11:16
  The Geordie Shore lass isn't holding back about her true feelings...
  
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• You Won’t Believe How Much Money Kim Kardashian Makes Per Minute From Perfume Sales

  20-07-2018 10:35
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is raking in the cold hard cash.
  
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• Ty Segall and White Fence: Joy review – kindred spirits on a white knuckle ride

  20-07-2018 10:30
  (Drag City)Californian cult garage rocker Ty Segall is a textbook example of how to succeed in the modern music industry on one’s own terms. Over the past decade, the 31-year old singer-guitarist-drummer has released a solo album a year on a myriad of independent labels, while also playing in a baffling array of bands (Fuzz, GØGGS, Sic Alps, the Traditional Fools and Epsilons among them) or collaborations, across genres ranging from hard rock to cosmic disco. This creative monsoon h
  
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• Miley Cyrus And Liam Hemsworth Just Put Those Split Rumours To Rest, Again

  20-07-2018 10:04
  Okay we can relax now.
  
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• Techno star Helena Hauff: 'Every woman who DJs and is visible helps to make a change'

  20-07-2018 10:00
  The German musician’s only ambition was to play her local bar, but the noisy, neo-gothic sound of her new album, Qualm, has put her on the cusp of clubland’s big league‘When I wear a lot of black, it’s probably not a conscious decision: it’s more that you can’t see the tomato sauce stains.” This is a perfect moment of German deadpanning from Helena Hauff, a musician and DJ not inclined to take things seriously, even as she is treated with reverence by th
  
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• Ebony Bones: Nephilim review – jittery post-punk seething at racist violence

  20-07-2018 10:00
  (1984 Records)This album of jittery post-punk and sweeping trip-hop is so ambitious, it’s little wonder one-time soap actor Ebony Bones has only made three of them in 10 years. Not only does she write and produce all of the tracks, there is orchestral input from the Beijing Philharmonic and a searing lyric sheet that addresses injustice against black people across the diaspora. It starts ponderously – the four-note theme of the two opening tracks is reminiscent of a Bernard Herrmann
  
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• Lori McKenna: The Tree review – country favourite with terrific eye for detail

  20-07-2018 09:30
  (CN/Thirty Tigers)Lori McKenna is the model of a slow-burning success: her 10th album, The Bird and the Rifle, picked up a slew of Grammy nominations in 2017, and she won country song of the year for Humble and Kind, a hit for Tim McGraw – which also won the Country Music Association’s song of the year award (which she’d won the previous year, too). The Tree is another fabulous, understated record: 10 songs about families and domesticity, and the tensions of everyday life, and
  
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• The Internet: Hive Mind review – slippery group dynamics

  20-07-2018 09:00
  (Columbia)The Internet’s name alludes to the tight yet far-reaching connection between the five-piece LA band, but it’s the individual members’ solo projects that have distinguished them recently. Lead singer Syd released her debut, Fin, last year – a nocturnal collection of intimate R&B – while keyboardist Matt Martians and guitarist Steve Lacy also put out groove-heavy efforts in 2017; the latter came on the heels of the 20-year-old’s production for Prid
  
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• Contemporary album of the month: Walton: Black Lotus

  20-07-2018 08:15
  The electronic minimalist composer takes apart the sonic signatures of grime music and reassembles them with clockwork precisionThe writer Albert Goldman once observed that every dance craze – from ragtime to rumba to rave – tends to go through a similar life cycle. Each starts as slightly scandalous underground scene that is painted as a symptom of decadence and criminality. It then goes overground, reaching out beyond its core demographic. It then fades from the mainstream and star
  
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• Matt Healy of the 1975: ‘I’m not scared of myself any more’

  20-07-2018 07:00
  The 1975’s singer used to hide behind irony and hard drugs – but dismayed with social media and modern relationships, he says he’s ready to bare his soulAt a rural Northamptonshire studio, a young collie named Blue sticks her face over the stable door. A similarly puppyish vision appears on the staircase: Matt Healy peers down, peroxide job growing out, greys catching the light. In a shredded T-shirt, floral jeans and hotel slippers, he offers a tour of the 1975’s home fo
  
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• Definitely, maybe: Liam Gallagher urges Noel to consider Oasis reunion

  20-07-2018 04:29
  Liam Gallagher tells older brother Noel: ‘I forgive you now let’s get the BIG O back together’Liam Gallagher has said he forgives his older brother Noel for their longstanding estrangement and has urged him to reform their band Oasis.In a tweet the younger sibling wrote: “Earth to noel ... I forgive you now let’s get the BIG O back together.” Continue reading...
  
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• The Walking Dead VR Game Revealed & It Sounds Scary AF

  20-07-2018 02:46
  Are you a saint or sinner?
  
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• Millie Bobby Brown Faces The Monsters In First Comic Con Teaser For Godzilla 2

  20-07-2018 02:28
  Watch the first teaser trailer for Godzilla: King Of The Monsters now.
  
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• A Discovery Of Witches: 13 Things You Need To Know About Your New Fave Show

  20-07-2018 01:43
  Supernatural, sexy and surprising: here's everything you need to know about the huge new show, direct from San Diego Comic-Con 2018.
  
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