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• Tracy Chapman sues Nicki Minaj over unauthorised sample

  23-10-2018 20:37
  Singer has filed a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement over a track sampling 1988 hit Baby Can I Hold YouTracy Chapman is suing Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement.The singer has filed a lawsuit over Sorry, a Nas-featuring song that Minaj had hoped to feature on recent album Queen. Minaj had made repeated public attempts to obtain rights from Chapman for sampling 1988 hit Baby Can I Hold You without success. Continue reading...
  
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• Vicky Pattison Warns John Noble To 'Pull His Finger Out' With Wedding Plans

  23-10-2018 18:43
  The former Geordie Shore star has warned her man if he doesn't sort it out he'll simply be attending her wedding.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Reveals The Real Reason She Shared Shocking Vomit Pic

  23-10-2018 18:23
  The Geordie Shore lass wanted to cause a stir.
  
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• 10 Things That Will Take 90s Kids Waaaaaay Back

  23-10-2018 17:52
  10 Things That Will Take 90s Kids Waaaaaay Back
  
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• Swedish House Mafia Officially Reunited! Trio Confirm New Music & 2019 Show

  23-10-2018 17:16
  Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello have confirmed they've been working on new music and you can see them live next year...
  
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• Snail Mail review – vulnerability and honesty from teen indie rocker

  23-10-2018 17:03
  Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
  Despite some teething problems on her first major tour, Lindsey Jordan delivers emotive anthems with lyrical flairLindsey Jordan AKA Snail Mail already has an acclaimed album, Lush, and is touring the world before she’s even out of her teens. The Maryland-based 19-year-old has found a rich seam of songwriting in the period of upheaval as a teenager confronts adulthood. She sings about trends, friends, disastrous house parties, wild crushes and devastating break
  
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• Def Leppard, Tool and Slipknot to headline Download festival 2019

  23-10-2018 16:50
  Metal band Slipknot and prog-rock group Tool will also headline next year’s event in LeicestershireThe UK’s largest rock and heavy metal festival has announced a trio of headliners for its 15th edition. They include Def Leppard, who will be performing their bestselling fourth album, Hysteria, in full, as well as cult prog-rockers Tool, and the masked metal group Slipknot.Download festival takes place at Donington Park, Leicestershire, on 14-16 June. Tool’s appearance at the wee
  
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• Fans Have Officially Lost It Over Aaron Chalmers And His Fit Brother

  23-10-2018 16:25
  The Geordie Shore lad just stopped a few hearts.
  
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• Marianne Faithfull: the muse who made it on her own terms

  23-10-2018 14:30
  As the singer prepares to release her 21st album, we look back at a singular career marked by creative restlessness, personal troubles and triumphant reinventionsIf you’re looking for a study in contrasts, you could do worse than compare the two albums released this autumn with Marianne Faithfull’s name on the cover. The first is Come and Stay With Me, a collection of her 1960s singles that opens and closes with two Rolling Stones-related tracks: the Mick Jagger and Keith Richards co
  
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• Chloe Ferry Takes Us Inside Her And Sam Gowland's Second Home For The First Time

  23-10-2018 13:45
  The Geordie Shore lass showed us a sneak peak of the work in progress.
  
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• Ariana Grande Gets Custody Of Piggy Smallz After Pete Davidson Split

  23-10-2018 13:19
  Phew.
  
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• How Tori Amos's Boys for Pele rewrote pop by daring to be ugly

  23-10-2018 12:23
  In an extract from her new book in the 33 1/3 series, Amy Gentry explains why its rejection of the ideals of feminine and musical beauty are crucial to an understanding of Amos’s 1996 albumWomen and girls have a particularly complicated relationship with disgust. We learn at an early age to be grossed out by our bodies, with their ungainly fat deposits and nipples guaranteed to be the wrong size and slimy, bleeding, wrinkly holes. Later on, we learn that the things we like are also disgust
  
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• Kanye West donates $73,540 to Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia

  23-10-2018 11:30
  Rapper becomes second high-profile musician to support outsider candidate, after Chance the Rapper ‘co-campaigns’ with EnyiaKanye West has donated $73,540 to Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia, as she launches a campaign to take over from the incumbent, Rahm Emanuel.A spokesperson for Enyia’s campaign thanked West for his “generous action”. Enyia has already used the money to pay off fees and debts owed to the Illinois State Board of Elections, incurred from a pr
  
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• Geordie Shore's Chloe Ferry Breaks Down In Tears Over Cruel Trolls

  23-10-2018 11:27
  It's time to leave the Geordie Shore star alone now.
  
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• Vogue Called Out For Culture Appropriation Over Kendall Jenner Afro Pic

  23-10-2018 11:06
  Cultural appropriation at its finest.
  
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• Drake beats the Beatles' 1964 record for most US Top 10 hits in a year

  23-10-2018 10:24
  Canadian rapper’s guest spot on MIA by Bad Bunny marks his 12th Top 10 hit in 2018Drake has beaten a US chart record that stood for more than 50 years, becoming the artist with the most top 10 hits in a year.The Beatles set the record in 1964 when their 11 hits included the chart-topping Can’t Buy Me Love and A Hard Day’s Night – but Drake has now beaten them with 12 Top 10 hits in 2018. Continue reading...
  
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• Graffiti homages to hip-hop heroes – in pictures

  23-10-2018 09:11
  In homage to the early 80s, when graffiti and rapping were inextricably linked, British photographer Janette Beckman asked some of the world’s most important street artists to reinterpret her archive photographs of hip-hop legends• Janette Beckman: The Mash-Up is at Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, until 24 November Continue reading...
  
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