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• The 5 Best New Rom-Coms You Should Watch: Including 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before'

  27-08-2018 19:14
  A rom-com revival is happening and we're totally here for it...
  
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• Creamfields review – inhibitions shed for sensory EDM overload

  27-08-2018 17:30
  Daresbury, Cheshire
  With Eric Prydz, the Chainsmokers and Annie Mac providing beats from breakfast to bedtime, hedonistic energy was needed for the 20th anniversary of the dance festival – and the audience deliveredCelebrating its 20th year, the festival run by the famed Liverpool club night returns to capture the breadth of commercial-leaning dance music, from 90s trance stars to modern EDM giants. Ex-professional football player Hannah Wants delivers pumping house on a Friday afternoon,
  
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• Everything That Happened At The 2018 iHeartRadio MMVAs: Including Shawn Mendes, BTS and 5SOS

  27-08-2018 16:18
  The night belonged to Shawn Mendes, or Marshmello - we're getting confused now...
  
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• Live Nation's grip on music festivals 'stifling competition'

  27-08-2018 15:41
  Independent groups call for CMA to investigate US firm’s ‘anticompetitive behaviour’Independent music festivals have urged the competition watchdog to investigate Live Nation’s dominance of the UK music industry, warning that the summer festival scene is suffering.As thousands of fans returned from this weekend’s Reading and Leeds events – both controlled by Live Nation – the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) said the company was able to “
  
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• Jade Thirlwall Reveals Little Mix Are Dropping Something Big “Very Soon”

  27-08-2018 14:53
  The singer says it's "definitely" her favourite album they've done so far...
  
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• A Drunk Beyoncé and Jay-Z Fan Got Onstage and Their Dancers Fought In The Middle Of The Concert

  27-08-2018 14:40
  and the Solange jokes quickly came in...
  
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• Reading and Leeds festival review – glittery GCSE blowout has most diverse lineup yet

  27-08-2018 14:02
  Bramham Park, Leeds
  From Dua Lipa’s choreographed pop to Kendrick Lamar’s rap blitzkrieg, R&L expanded beyond the indie faithful – but Sex on Fire still got the biggest singalong‘The worst lineup ever” raged social-media users when this year’s twin-site festival was announced in February, while a recent tweet unfavourably comparing the event with that of 2000 (Oasis, Pulp, Primal Scream, et al) went viral. However, the former rock festival had to adapt to
  
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• John Grant: 'I'm sensitive. I spent a lot of time trying to destroy that'

  27-08-2018 14:00
  The rollercoaster-loving, Chris-Morris-worshipping songwriter is back with more mordantly funny and exquisitely painful songs about nationalism, Chelsea Manning and loveThe essential pop of 2018John Grant was born in 1968 in Michigan and raised in Colorado, in a Methodist household that disapproved of his homosexuality. His mother, who died of lung cancer in 1995, called him a “disappointment”. He was a drug addict, the frontman of the Czars and a waiter before releasing three acclai
  
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• Kourtney Kardashian Slams “B**chy and Entitled” Sister Kim Kardashian West As Their Rough Patch Continues

  27-08-2018 12:07
  The sisters have been feuding in the latest season of Keeping Up...
  
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• Marnie Simpson Reveals Dramatic New Look As She Reunited with Chloe Ferry for Bank Holiday Weekend

  27-08-2018 11:56
  The Geordie lass is unrecognisable...
  
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• Mel B to enter rehab for alcohol and sex addiction following PTSD diagnosis

  27-08-2018 11:25
  The former Spice Girl said she used alcohol to ‘numb my pain’ following divorce from husband Stephen BelafonteMel B has said she is entering rehab for alcohol and sex addiction.Speaking to the Sun on Sunday, the one-time Spice Girl, full name Melanie Brown, said the decision came in the wake of an “incredibly difficult” six months in which she worked on an autobiography. “It has been unbelievably traumatic reliving an emotionally abusive relationship and confronting
  
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• Ace of Cups: the 1960s all-female band finally record their first album

  27-08-2018 11:00
  They opened for Jimi Hendrix and were friends with the Grateful Dead but never got the opportunity to release their own music until nowIf you were around in their heyday, the Ace of Cups are already legends. They’re the band that opened for Jimi Hendrix in Golden Gate Park in the summer of 1967, just days after Hendrix burned his name into history at the Monterey Pop Festival. They’re the band that opened for the Band during the latter group’s three-night run at Winterland Ball
  
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• Big noise: the essential pop, jazz and folk music of autumn 2018

  27-08-2018 07:00
  Young talents and old hands hit the road, intriguing festivals mix things up, and there’s the first posthumous release from PrinceMore autumn picks: Classical | Film | TV | Theatre | Art | GamesArctic Monkeys’ sixth studio album, Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, proved to be the most controversial and slowest-selling of their career, which perhaps tells you rather more about their fans than it does about the radical nature of the album’s Serge Gainsbourg and Beach Boys-inspir
  
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