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• Ella Mai becomes first UK artist to top US R&B chart since 1992

  27-07-2018 14:47
  The one-time X Factor hopeful’s song Boo’d Up comes after Lisa Stansfield’s All Woman, 26 years agoElla Mai has become the first British artist to hit No 1 on the US R&B chart in 26 years. The 23-year-old’s single Boo’d Up, initially released in 2017, knocked Drake’s Don’t Matter to Me off the top spot.She tweeted: “1992, before I was born. First in my lifetime. INSANE.” British artists including Charli XCX, Kyla and Paul McCartney have f
  
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• Björn Ulvaeus: 'Abba was such a European idea'

  27-07-2018 14:17
  Songwriter, 73, talks Mamma Mia! and AI, but becomes most animated on BrexitMore than four decades after they burst to prominence in the 1974 Eurovision song contest, Abba are once again climbing the charts, while the film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is riding high having taken more than £9m in its first week at UK box offices.No one is more surprised about the Swedish group’s success – about 400m records have been sold since that Eurovision moment – than Björn Ulvae
  
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• Here's How The Love Island Contestants Work Out

  27-07-2018 14:04
  Take a look inside the Islanders' fitness routines.
  
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• Hair soon is now: will the indie aesthetic ever disappear?

  27-07-2018 14:00
  Paul Weller may have cut his famed fringe, but the indie bouffant – part mod, part mullet – will never dieAs evidenced by the Harrington jacket-clad masses who have been dutifully showing up at every single Liam Gallagher festival date this summer, indie boys – AKA men who own at least two copies of Quadrophenia on DVD for some reason, still smoke Benson & Hedges and are, in fact, in their late 40s – are here to stay. For the past four decades, they have been roaming
  
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• Who Is Daisy Robins? Get To Know The New Ex On The Beach 9 Gal And Made In Chelsea Star

  27-07-2018 13:46
  Here's what you need to know about this familiar Chelsea face ahead of brand new Ex On The Beach...
  
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• Geordie Shore's Scotty T's Bod Drive Fans ABSolutely Wild In Topless Snap

  27-07-2018 13:40
  The Geordie Shore lad clearly has abs for days.
  
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• Kristen Stewart Is Taking Up The Role Of One Of Charlie’s Angels In The Latest Reboot

  27-07-2018 12:44
  Alongside Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska...
  
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• This Special Edition Of WWE 2K19 Will Make You Go "Wooooo!"

  27-07-2018 12:43
  Flairs are back! Here's everything you need to know about the new special edition that's just been unveiled.
  
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• Marnie Simpson Reveals The Reason She Doesn't See The Geordie Shore Cast Much Anymore

  27-07-2018 12:19
  The Geordie Shore star opened up about plans for an epic reunion with Charlotte Crosby, Chloe Ferry and Sophie Kasaei.
  
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• Who Is Natalee Harris? Get To Know The Valleys Star Entering The Ex On The Beach 9 Villa

  27-07-2018 12:00
  Here's everything you need to know about Ex On The Beach 9 star Natalee Harris.
  
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• This week’s tracks reviewed: Ciara, Chance the Rapper and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

  27-07-2018 12:00
  Ciara’s back with a bone-shaking banger, Chance has got a beef with the local news, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s keeping it fruity Continue reading...
  
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• RL Grime: Nova review – jackhammer EDM/rap bangers for US festivals

  27-07-2018 11:30
  (WeDidIt)Los Angeles native RL Grime came up in US rave circles with the late noughties lo-fi rap deconstructionist crew WeDidIt. Alongside producers and DJs Shlomo and Ryan Hemsworth, he distilled the glittering bombast of the then-burgeoning EDM sound, drawing from creepy percussive trap atmospherics and from Grime’s own love for emo songs and pre-teen horror TV shows. With his 2014 debut album Void, Grime took his edit techniques and crossed over into trap-inspired EDM production, colla
  
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• Underworld & Iggy Pop: Teatime Dub Encounters review – enormo beats taking the world to task

  27-07-2018 11:00
  (Caroline International)When Rick Smith from 90s Born Slippy techno giants Underworld first met up with the 71-year-old Iggy Pop for tea at the Savoy, he realised he had “one chance to convince this gentleman that we should work together”. Thus, Smith turned up with what the former Stooge called “a whole bloody studio set up in a hotel room” – an offer Pop couldn’t refuse. Thus, 22 years after they both appeared on the Trainspotting film soundtrack, this unlik
  
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• All Saints: Testament review – smoothies drowned out by digital clutter

  27-07-2018 10:30
  (AS Recordings)All Saints’ fifth album starts with a spoken-word segment recounting a mother’s prophecy about being torn between two kinds of men: those who will give you the life you want, and those offering the love you desire. But the song itself, Who Do You Love, presents a different kind of crossroads: are All Saints harking back to the infamous spoken-word bit that opened their classic 1997 single Never Ever, or setting the scene for an attempt at a Beyoncé-style Serious
  
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• You Won't Believe What Kylie Jenner Did To Her $625,000 Car Collection JUST FOR SUMMER

  27-07-2018 10:11
  This is what being an (almost) billionaire looks like.
  
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• Gaika: Basic Volume review – gripping new voice of British rap

  27-07-2018 10:00
  (Warp)Quite apart from Gaika’s bracing lyrics, the sound of his voice alone makes the Brixton MC the most arresting British rapper of his generation. Heavily accented with a Caribbean twang, it’s a combination of the Congos’ and Horace Andy’s vibrato-laden dub croon, Future’s psychically troubled rambles, Young Thug’s improvisatory melody, Tricky’s calm snarl, and the fierce focus of drill’s new school. And yet it is entirely his own, with the decl
  
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• Nick Jonas And Priyanka Chopra Are Reportedly Engaged After 2 Months Of Dating

  27-07-2018 09:30
  Did Priyanka's former director just confirm the engagement?
  
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• Daniel Bachman: The Morning Star review – an immersive tangle of guitars, drones and bells

  27-07-2018 09:30
  (Three Lobed Recordings)In the song-filled world of folk reviewing, instrumental records often get lost in the noise. It doesn’t help that calling an instrumental record “folk” is a perilous business, unless it’s stuffed to the gills with jigs, hornpipes and reels. But many ambient albums hold traces of folk in their performance styles and sounds, and hot summers suit tangles of guitars, searing drones, and strange atmospheres.Take The Morning Star, the new album by Danie
  
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• ‘Women are more interested in collaborating than showing off’: jazz trumpeter Yazz Ahmed

  27-07-2018 08:00
  The acclaimed musician and composer mixes jazz with traditional Arabic rhythms and has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, creating a sound that reflects her heritageYazz Ahmed once wrote that the question she was most sick of hearing was: “Are you the singer?” It was the only way many people could make sense of her place as a woman in jazz. These days – following her critically acclaimed 2017 album La Saboteuse, playing flugelhorn for Radiohead and touring with These
  
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• Ocean City Sounds: Bastille Deliver Flawless Set On Plymouth Hoe

  27-07-2018 01:50
  Ella Eyre, Professor Green and R3WIRE & Varski turned up the heat on a scorching day in the South West...
  
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