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• 9 PJ Sets You'll Live In this Christmas

  23-11-2018 16:45
  We can't wait to wear a pair to work.
  
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• Thank you consequence: did Alanis Morissette invent wellbeing?

  23-11-2018 14:00
  It’s twenty years since her Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie album was released - a record full of Goop theories and other prophetic elementsAsk anyone to name an Alanis Morissette album and, unless they are wearing an Alanis Morissette T-shirt, they’ll say Jagged Little Pill. Why wouldn’t they? That 1995 classic shifted 33m copies globally, won five Grammys, redefined the word “ironic” and paved the way for a glut of copycat angst merchants (Meredith Brooks, wher
  
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• Vessel: Queen of Golden Dogs review – a gloriously weird electro-odyssey

  23-11-2018 12:00
  (TriAngle)The Bristolian musician Sebastian Gainsborough made their name with a strain of dance music that’s not really designed for the dancefloor. Their expansive, ambitious post-club compositions have drawn on everything from dubstep to post-punk in pursuit of an intelligent and often slightly contrarian sound. Their third album takes the template a step further, combining classical instrumentation with the clanging dissonance and glitchy, unnatural tempos of the internet age. The resul
  
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• Tracks of the week reviewed: The Japanese House, Dido, Zayn

  23-11-2018 12:00
  Amber Bain serves up a sorrowful singalong, Dido storms back with a belter, while it’s Zayn’s turn to team up with Nicki Minaj Continue reading...
  
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• Vicky Pattison And John Noble Were Reportedly Filming Wedding Reality Show Just Before Split

  23-11-2018 11:55
  The former Geordie Shore lass is reported to have been filming a show for TLC.
  
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• Inside The Kardashians' Lavish Thanksgiving

  23-11-2018 11:38
  It’s ridiculous.
  
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• Kate Bush – every UK single ranked!

  23-11-2018 11:00
  As her 80s albums are reissued, we look across the 40-year career of the singer-songwriter and actual, no-further-questions geniusFew of Kate Bush’s professed influences – David Bowie, Roy Harper, Pink Floyd – are really audible in the music she makes, but she paid homage to her childhood hero Elton John on this cover, a rare misstep that misses the original’s unease in favour of an oddly twee reggae-ish lilt. Continue reading...
  
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• Just Tattoo Of Us Spoiler: Natalee Harris Reveals Her Mum Could ‘Literally Ruin Her Life’ With Her Tattoo Design

  23-11-2018 11:00
  Just Tattoo Of Us continues Monday at 10pm on MTV UK!
  
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• Justin Bieber Totally Pied Hailey Baldwin In The Face With Her Birthday Cake

  23-11-2018 10:46
  The Biebers had a lot to celebrate over the past couple of days.
  
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• Art Brut: Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out! review – tuneful, zippy guitar pop!

  23-11-2018 10:45
  (Alcopop!)Eddie Argos’s Bournemouth- and now Berlin-based band made a splash in the mid-2000s as exuberant, wordy indie-rock contemporaries of Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand. Now rocking a remodelled lineup and even more exclamation marks, Art Brut’s first album in seven years is trademark zippy, tuneful guitar pop, although there is perhaps more of a nod to new wave and power pop than there once was.The guitars and brass don’t exactly trouble the zeitgeist, but the harmonies a
  
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• Rita Ora And John Legend Speak Out After “Abysmal” Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Lip Sync

  23-11-2018 10:43
  It turns out they had no choice.
  
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• Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: Presence review – hooky grooves and improv charm

  23-11-2018 10:00
  (Smoke Sessions)Sometimes the sheer spirit of a jazz performance drowns out reservations such as whether that improvised solo was nailed tight enough to the groove, or whether the agenda ticks enough identity-confirming boxes. The Captain Black Big Band led by the Philadelphia pianist Orrin Evans (Ethan Iverson’s heir to the Bad Plus piano chair since January) operate with that kind of ragged aplomb. Their nearest relative is the Mingus Big Band, in which Evans also plays, for its explosiv
  
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• Laibach: The Sound of Music review – glorious silly covers are bright as a copper kettle

  23-11-2018 09:15
  (Mute)Following their versions of 14 national anthems, seven takes on Sympathy for the Devil, and cod-fascistic covers of Queen and others, the industrial troupe alight on their kitschiest reinterpretations yet: songs from The Sound of Music, amusingly rendered in stentorian synthpop and the guttural vocals of Milas Fras. This already high concept was sent into the ionosphere by their decision to debut it in North Korea in 2015, making them the first western rock band to play the country. The no
  
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• My Brightest Diamond: A Million and One review – chilly art pop that grasps for greatness

  23-11-2018 09:00
  (Rhyme & Reason Records)The turn towards electronic music that Shara Nova took on the 2014 album This Is My Hand continues on her fifth full-length album as My Brightest Diamond. It is not really an album for the clubs, though, despite the title of the opening track, That’s Me on the Dance Floor. (The presence of chicken-scratch guitar does not a Chic record make.) Instead, Nova once again offers art pop that is best when it’s less concerned with the art than the pop. For instanc
  
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• Clean Bandit: Britain's biggest pop group on Labour, Israel and female masturbation

  23-11-2018 08:00
  The band’s reliance on star vocalists means ‘most people don’t know much about us’. But it turns out they’re more politically vocal than most pop phenomenaSequestered in the corner of an east London restaurant, Clean Bandit are having a hard time describing their fans. “Age-wise, it’s very broad,” says cellist, producer, and de facto front-person Grace Chatto. “It doesn’t feel like it’s any particular type of person – it&rsq
  
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