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• Weezer and Toto: the inside story of music’s unlikely love-in

  10-08-2018 15:33
  The two bands have released reciprocal covers of each other’s hits, Hash Pipe and Africa. Toto’s guitarist, Steve Porcaro, reveals how it happenedIt is surely the weirdest musical love-in of the year. Geeky emo/power-pop kingpins Weezer covered Toto’s 80s megahit Africa, a love story about the continent, and, in return, the west coast rock veterans have covered Weezer’s 2001 hit Hash Pipe, a song about a transvestite sex worker.This improbable meeting of minds began in Ma
  
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• Kim Kardashian Hid Her Wedding Ring From Kanye West When She Was Married To Kris Humphries

  10-08-2018 15:22
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star kept the diamond sparkler under wraps.
  
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• Chloe Ferry Launches Furious Rant About Her Surgery: 'If You Don't Like What I've Had Done Then F**k Off'

  10-08-2018 14:17
  The Geordie Shore star said she’d never comment negatively on other people’s pictures.
  
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• How Nicki Minaj became the Queen of the chaotic album campaign

  10-08-2018 14:00
  From rap feuds to delays and odd allegiances – the rapper joins the likes of U2, Katy Perry and Rita Ora in the pantheon of buzz-killing album launchesNicki Minaj’s fourth album, Queen, is finally here, but it has been a right old slog getting there. It was first announced in May, got pushed back to June, and the campaign since has been one misstep after another: there was a row with Cardi B over “hurt feelings”. Then Nicki upset LBGQT fans by being on the cover of Russia
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Hints She Wants Scott Disick And Kourtney Kardashian To Get Back Together

  10-08-2018 13:19
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is fully on board the Skourt train.
  
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• Ant-Man Star Evangeline Lilly Wants An All-Female Avengers

  10-08-2018 13:15
  The future is female for the Marvel Universe.
  
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• The meaning of Beyoncé: a dispatch from inside the Beyhive

  10-08-2018 13:00
  How many ways do we love Queen Bey? A superfan explains how Beyoncé gives her followers permission to take controlThrough a fog of food-truck smoke, a sea of Ivy Park and feminist slogan-clad fans move through the London stadium. To my left are groups of black girls in co-ordinated yellow or gold-hued outfits; to my right, yards of bee motifs. This was an experience, like many before it, that we’d all tell our grandchildren about. Now, for one night, and one night only, there was ju
  
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• Greg James webchat – post your questions now

  10-08-2018 12:46
  The Radio 1 DJ is about to take over the breakfast show – and will answer your questions in a live webchat from 12.30pm on Monday 13 August 11.46am BST The breakfast show host on BBC Radio 1 is one of the most talked-about jobs in the country, requiring sparkling banter unfeasibly early in the day. Next in the seat is Greg James, taking over from Nick Grimshaw on 20 August.The 4am alarm clock shouldn’t be too tough given he started at the station doing an even earlier slot, fresh out
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Troye Sivan, Twenty One Pilots & Nicki Minaj

  10-08-2018 12:38
  And even more new music from Sia, J. Cole, Skepta, Gorgon City, Ray BLK & so much more!
  
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• Chloe Ferry Throws Her Support Behind Abbie Holborn As Fake Friend Surfaces From The Past 

  10-08-2018 12:26
  One fan responded: "There’s a word for people like that..... snake."
  
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• Tracks of the week reviewed: Petite Noir, Robyn and Paul Weller

  10-08-2018 12:00
  Petite Noir gets massive, Robyn’s not mad at you but she is very disappointed, and the Modfather channels his inner Ronan Continue reading...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Explains Her ‘Homophobic’ Comment Towards Tyson Beckford: “All My Best Friends Are Gay”

  10-08-2018 12:00
  Kim Kardashian explains herself to Big Boy on Real 92.3.
  
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• Everybody get up! The dance crazes changing the world

  10-08-2018 12:00
  Drake’s In My Feelings is the latest viral sensation to get people moving. And from black culture to queer identity to feminism, the global reach of pop choreography makes it the perfect way to change cultural perceptionsWhen In My Feelings hit No 1 in the US last month, it meant not only that Drake had racked up more weeks at the top of the chart than any male solo artist in 60 years, it also established the latest in a long history of viral dance crazes. The trend was kicked off by Insta
  
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• Nicki Minaj To Perform An Awards Show First At The 2018 VMAs

  10-08-2018 11:42
  The rapper will perform live from an iconic New York location...
  
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• Vicky Pattison Goes Into Heartbreaking Detail About Grief Following The Death Of Her Best Friend

  10-08-2018 11:41
  The former Geordie Shore has opened up about the loss of best friend, Paul Burns.
  
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• Ben Khan: Ben Khan review – singular coiled-lust electropop

  10-08-2018 11:30
  Dirty HitThere’s an appealingly raw, bedroom-recorded quality to this debut album from London producer-singer Ben Khan – if his bedroom had a Narnia-like portal at the back of his wardrobe. Producer Flood (U2, the Killers, PJ Harvey) brings little big-budget gloss, but there’s a singular and rather fantastical vision nonetheless. Sinister John Carpenter synth sounds emerge like neon beams through a hail of dust, but are put to the service of often extremely funky pop. The magni
  
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• Kylie Jenner Turns 21 With Extra AF Pink Party After Sharing Rare Photos With Stormi

  10-08-2018 11:20
  The KUWTK star celebrated in style after posing with her 'most special gift'.
  
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• Are Chloe Moretz And Dylan O’Brien Dating Seven Years After He Admitted To Crushing On Her?

  10-08-2018 11:04
  What an interesting turn of events
  
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• Miles Kane: Coup de Grace review – tepid glam pop breakup tunes

  10-08-2018 11:00
  Virgin EMIMiles Kane has now been a household name in British indie for close to a decade, which tells you something about his tenacity and something else about British indie. After his Little Flames and Rascals outfits burned out, the Birkenhead songwriter subsisted as an Alex Turner accessory, propping up the Arctic Monkeys man’s Last Shadow Puppets project and releasing solo records just often enough to distinguish himself, to the layperson, from other domestic long-hairs such as Jake B
  
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• The Coral: Move Through the Dawn review – vintage songs of sad euphoria

  10-08-2018 10:30
  (Ignition Records) Although the Coral started in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in the 1990s and were Mercury-nominated in 2002, they were so young that, even after two decades, the core members are still only in their 30s. Along the way, they’ve lost two guitarists (the mercurial Bill Ryder-Jones, not once but twice) and a mentor (Deltasonic’s late Alan Wills), gained a Zuton in Paul Molloy, and dabbled in every genre from weird Wirral folk to cosmic funk and songs about maggots. I
  
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• Jake Shears: Jake Shears review – dirty pop with its makeup running

  10-08-2018 10:00
  Freida Jean RecordsIt’s easy to forget how colossally successful the Scissor Sisters were in the mid-00s: the New York band’s 2004 debut was the 10th best-selling album of the decade in the UK, and the 40th of all time. So popular was their bouncy strain of disco-glam that it’s a wonder it has taken frontman Jake Shears this long to resurrect his brand – a whole six years since the group went on hiatus following the release of their fourth album, Magic Hour. Shears has sp
  
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• RAM: August 1791 review – Classy and exuberant Vodou, rock and funk

  10-08-2018 09:30
  WillibelleNamed after lead singer and founder Richard Auguste Morse, RAM are one of the finest exponents of Haitian mizik rasin, a mix of percussive Vodou music, rock and funk. The son of an American academic and the Haitian singer Emerante de Pradines, Morse played in a Princeton punk band before moving to Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, where he managed the historic Hotel Oloffson – the inspiration for Hotel Trianon in Graham Greene’s novel The Comedians. It was here that RAM
  
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