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• 'So much cooler back then': exhibition recreates Berlin techno club culture

  19-08-2018 19:12
  Visitors are promised a taste of the newly reunited city’s 1990s underground music sceneIf you can remember it, you probably weren’t there, as the old adage goes. What was true of the summer of love generation applies also to Berlin’s 1990s techno scene, the subject of the city’s latest blockbuster exhibition.The brainchild of the team behind Berlin’s nostalgia-drenched DDR Museum, Nineties Berlin promises thrill-seeking tourists a taste of the fabled parties of the
  
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• From Ariana Grande To Taylor Swift: 8 Musicians Who Left Hidden Messages In Their Work

  19-08-2018 16:00
  The clues are all hiding in plain sight
  
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• From Cole Sprouse To Selena Gomez: 9 Celebrities Who Dealt With Hacking Scandals

  19-08-2018 15:08
  The following celebrities had their privacy invaded when hackers stole their personal information.
  
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• Shawn Mendes Reveals What Justin Bieber And Hailey Baldwin's Relationship Is *Really* Like In Private

  19-08-2018 13:19
  The singer is good friends with the pair and has opened up about their special connection
  
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• Selena Gomez Reveals The Real Meaning Behind Matching Tattoos With Best Friends

  19-08-2018 12:49
  The singer recently underwent an inking with some of her closest pals
  
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• Vicky Pattison Reveals When She’ll Start Trying For Her First Baby And It’s Pretty Soon

  19-08-2018 12:04
  The former Geordie Shore lass has plans to marry fiancé John Noble next year.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Goes Off On Explicit Rant And Slams Men Who Can’t Handle Successful Women

  19-08-2018 11:38
  Most of the trolls on her profile are men who can't handle her professional success
  
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• Dev Hynes: ‘Puff Daddy somehow got my number… it was pretty strange’

  19-08-2018 10:30
  The east London musician talks about his album Negro Swan– and why he prefers playing football to being on stageDevonté Hynes – Dev for short – was born in 1985 and raised in Ilford, east London. In the mid-2000s he was part of the clamorous nu-rave trio Test Icicles, and later, under the alias Lightspeed Champion, he took a detour into country-tinged indie-pop. Moving to New York, he began producing for artists such as Sky Ferreira, Carly Rae Jepsen and Solange. Si
  
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• Jackie Oates: The Joy of Living review – moody and affecting

  19-08-2018 09:00
  (ECC)An album so wintry – the seventh from the English singer – makes an odd fit for high summer, but it’s a contradictory affair throughout, mixing songs that mourn Oates’s late father with others celebrating the birth of her daughter. John Lennon’s primal Mother is a brave cover choice, but Oates’s unaffected delivery, set to a sparse drone, lives up to the song’s harrowing demands. Elsewhere, the West Country singer tumbles through Edwardian lullabies
  
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• Bugzy Malone: B Inspired review – beautiful, articulate rages

  19-08-2018 09:00
  (BSomebody) Related: Grime MC Bugzy Malone: 'When you're from outside London, you'd better be special' Manchester’s Bugzy Malone has finally finished his first full-length record, which is big news because Bugzy has the authoritative, articulate presence that haloes only the best grime MCs. “I paint pictures with words,” he rapped last year, and it’s not a boast. Malone’s canvases reveal parallel worlds of poverty, physical and mental hunger, rage turned inwards and
  
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• Animal Collective: Tangerine Reef review – desolate and disjointed

  19-08-2018 08:00
  (Domino)The international year of the reef, 2018 has brought us dire headlines from the deep. Still, art-meets-science duo Coral Morphologic – AKA marine biologist Colin Foord and musician JD McKay – manage to find not just beauty but hope among jewel-bright branches in their hypnotic, closeup films. Sadly, the soundtrack to their first full visual album with collaborators Animal Collective is a tougher listen than the news. In search, perhaps, of something more profound than the Bea
  
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