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• Why XXXTentacion's violent confession matters even after his death

  26-10-2018 20:41
  Fans rushed to defend the troubled star, who denied abusing his former partner, but a secret recording now shows otherwiseThe murder of Jahseh Onfroy, better known as XXXtentacion, ended a number of things. It ended the burgeoning career of a Floridian rapper who had achieved extraordinary popularity by the age of 20. It ended the life of a troubled young man coping publicly with mental health issues, something expressed through his provocative art and social media presence. It also ended any ch
  
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• Lady Gaga Scores Double UK Number 1 As ‘Shallow’ Tops Singles Chart

  26-10-2018 19:01
  Gaga ooh-la-la! Back where she belongs...
  
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• Robert Plant and the Sensational Shape Shifters review – rock god reconnects with Celtic roots

  26-10-2018 18:31
  Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
  The Led Zeppelin frontman tells stories of his time living in Wales but draws sounds from all over the map: Middle Eastern guitars, American blues and techno moodsAs rock-god gigs go, tonight’s show in this postmodern Cardiff theatre is a “down-home” affair for Robert Plant – that’s the term he uses before a crowd just shy of 2,000. Tomorrow he’s in roaring-lion mode at London’s O2 Arena with Van Morrison, but this date i
  
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• You Won't Believe How Much Money Cardi B Turned Down For Pics Of Baby Kulture

  26-10-2018 18:27
  She definitely doesn’t need the money.
  
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• 'How can you know what will offend?' Row continues over Wireless festival swearing ban

  26-10-2018 18:19
  Confusion reigns around licensing conditions of annual hip-hop event after residents’ group takes offence at performers’ languageA row has erupted over the perceived censorship of artists performing at London’s Wireless festival, the annual three-day hip-hop and R&B event that was headlined this year by Stormzy, Drake and J Cole, after new restrictions were imposed on performers using bad language.On 22 October, Haringey council published a review of the premises license al
  
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• Kris Jenner Says She “Can’t Always Control” Kanye West As “He Has A Lot To Say”

  26-10-2018 17:49
  No kidding.
  
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• Cole Sprouse Is Giving Us All The Halloween Inspiration We Need

  26-10-2018 17:04
  The Riverdale star served us some sinister looks just in time for Halloween.
  
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• Johnny Hallyday's posthumous album hits No 1

  26-10-2018 16:54
  Huge CD and vinyl sales propel Mon Pays C’est L’Amour to top of French chartsJohnny Hallyday, the leather-trousered “French Elvis” who died last year, didn’t believe in resurrection. But from beyond the grave, the musician has managed to miraculously restore life to a dying record and CD industry.Almost a year after hundreds of thousands of people watched the star’s white coffin escorted down the Champs Élysées in Paris by 700 bikers at his funer
  
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• Liam Payne, Jonas Blue and Lennon Stella Throw A Central Park Rave In ‘The Making Of’ Polaroid

  26-10-2018 16:20
  Plus, Jonas reveals the amazing story behind how he met Lennon...
  
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• Chloe Ferry Failed Massively While Trying To Prove To Sam Gowland She's 'Marriage Material'

  26-10-2018 15:23
  It's safe to say the Geordie Shore lass is no Gordon Ramsay.
  
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• Everything You Need To Know About Ariana Grande’s Sweetener Tour and AG5

  26-10-2018 15:10
  The pop superstar is hitting the road in 2019 with not one but TWO new albums...
  
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• Cod complex: why Boy George is one of ‘inauthentic’ reggae’s all-time greats

  26-10-2018 14:00
  With a new Culture Club album out, is it time to reappraise music’s most chastised genre?Status update: Boy George has given up being the Ministry of Sound knob-twiddler we last knew him as, reunited Culture Club and turned out his first album in 19 years. The first we knew of his return was a comeback single, Let Somebody Love You, which was not good. Not good in the way his voice has blown a gasket, its narcoleptic tempo, and the depressing sense that George hasn’t taken the title&
  
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• Chloe Ferry Reveals What She'll Have Her Sam Gowland Tattoo Changed To If They Split

  26-10-2018 12:23
  The Geordie Shore lass has a backup plan.
  
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• Chloe Ferry Reveals What She'll Have Her Sam Gowland Tattoo Changed To If They Ever Broke Up

  26-10-2018 12:23
  The Geordie Shore lass and her lad are stronger than ever right now, but Chloe has a backup plan just in case.
  
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• Chloe Ferry Reveals What She'll Have Her Sam Gowland Tattoo Changed To If They Ever Break Up

  26-10-2018 12:23
  The Geordie Shore lass and her lad are stronger than ever right now, but Chloe has a backup plan just in case.
  
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• Shawn Mendes Gets 'Lost In Japan' With 13RW's Alisha Boe In New Video

  26-10-2018 12:21
  The pop superstar flexes his acting in the hilarious new visual...
  
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• The Worst Halloween Costumes of 2018

  26-10-2018 12:19
  It's not looking good, guys.
  
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• Did Justin Bieber Really Eat His Burrito Sideways?

  26-10-2018 11:42
  This is a case for the FBI.
  
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• Kylie Jenner And Travis Scott Just Dropped $13million On A New Home

  26-10-2018 11:39
  Dollar dollar bills y’all.
  
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• Sinéad O'Connor converts to Islam, taking new name Shuhada' Davitt

  26-10-2018 11:23
  The singer says she is ‘very, very, very happy’ and thanks Muslims for welcoming herThe singer formerly known as Sinéad O’Connor has converted to Islam, changing her name to Shuhada’.She made the announcement on Twitter, saying her conversion was “the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant.” Continue reading...
  
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• Queen's 50 UK singles – ranked!

  26-10-2018 11:00
  Following the release of Bryan Singer’s Freddie Mercury biopic, we run the rule over the band’s British releasesQueen sound on autopilot on this late-period minor hit, from the cliched “peace on Earth” lyrics to Brian May’s ghastly twiddly guitar solo. Continue reading...
  
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• Nao: Saturn review – cosmopolitan R&B auteur evades the mainstream

  26-10-2018 11:00
  (RCA Records)
  Although she hasn’t exactly troubled the charts, Nao’s style defined a moment in the evolution of mainstream British R&B. Like many of her peers, she picked up the baton dropped by the elusive Jai Paul (even working with his brother, AK Paul), and did the most sophisticated job of anyone when it came to turning his trademark scrunched funk into classy pop: layering it beneath her impossibly sweet coos on 2014 EP So Good and writing potential anthems in devotional tr
  
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• Ex On The Beach Spoiler: Aaron Gill Admits He Is ‘Catching Feelings’ For Dominika Wrobel During The Pair’s Final Date

  26-10-2018 11:00
  Don't miss the Ex On The Beach series finale, Wednesday at 10pm on MTV UK!
  
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• David Crosby: Here If You Listen review – turbocharged Trump-whacking teamwork

  26-10-2018 11:00
  (BMG)The celebrated Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young co-founder’s seventh album is his fourth in just four years. Touring with much younger musicians – Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis, Michael League and Bill Laurance feature here – seems to have turbo-charged Crosby’s muse. He sounds as comfortable in his musical skin here as ever.The latest in the series retains his trademark unusual tunings and dreamy harmonies but is a thoroughly band effort. Their voices combi
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Robyn, Cardi B, BTS, Ellie Goulding & More!

  26-10-2018 10:42
  Plus we have new tunes from Calvin Harris, Normani, Lauren Jauregui, Becky G and others...
  
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• Thom Yorke: Suspiria review – nape-prickling soundtrack sits in the shadows

  26-10-2018 10:30
  (XL Recordings)
  This is a very different beast from the other high-profile soundtrack recording of the season, A Star Is Born. That film’s songs rarely descend into mere signposting for the plot and work perfectly as a separate album. But without the luxury of diegetic songs, the Radiohead frontman’s music for Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming Suspiria remake is instead much more traditional, belonging in the background to ramp up the emotional cues, and as such is not as satisfyin
  
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• Little Mix Graduate Girlhood In Powerful 'Woman Like Me' Video

  26-10-2018 10:17
  Oh, and Mona Lisa? Move over, Nicki Minaj is in town...
  
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• Julia Holter: Aviary review – sonic beauty and brains in a 90-minute epic

  26-10-2018 10:00
  (Domino)To say that Julia Holter’s fifth album is dense and difficult is an understatement – in an ideal world, Aviary would come with its own dedicated edition of York Notes. Laden with literary references, Latin text and lyrics that strain under the weight of impressionistic meaning, it’s a record that is difficult to parse but easy to admire. On her previous album, 2015’s Have You In My Wilderness, Holter proved she could squish her avant-garde sensibilities into soari
  
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• Myra Melford's Snowy Egret: The Other Side of Air review – kaleidoscopic improv workout

  26-10-2018 09:30
  Firehouse 12When a smart musical original with a Guggenheim award and a raft of international poll-winnings to her credit calls a band something as fanciful as Snowy Egret, you suspect that it wasn’t out of sheer caprice. Considering the Bay Area composer/pianist Myra Melford’s music can turn from beguiling themes and inviting swing to dissonances and jagged anti-grooves in a blink, a snowy egret feels like too graceful and ghostly a creature to fit. But Wikipedia observes that snowy
  
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• Barbra Streisand: ‘Trump is corrupt and indecent and is assaulting our institutions’

  26-10-2018 07:00
  The 76-year-old’s new album is a rebuke to the president – and a startling return to form. Years of misogyny, however, have prepared her for the backlash Of all the reasons there are to love Barbra Streisand – and if you find that proposition contentious, I encourage you to stop reading and do something else – the quickest and easiest can be found in the answer she gives to the first question I ask her. Streisand, speaking on the phone from her home in LA, is about to rel
  
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