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• 18 Of The Twitter Memes That Made 2018

  12-12-2018 23:04
  Is this a pigeon?
  
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• YG review – turned up anthems and Donald Trump takedowns

  12-12-2018 18:19
  O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
  By moving on from soul-searching existentialism, the LA rapper is playing it safe – but he can still rev up a crowd?Where has YG the existentialist gone? 2016’s Still Brazy – the Los Angeles rapper’s second album, recorded in the wake of an attempt on his life – was a dazzling G-funk trip that hinted at a street soldier who’d caught his reflection in the chrome rims of his ride and begun to wonder what it was all for. Beneath the
  
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• GRiZ: the EDM artist using his star power to make a difference

  12-12-2018 17:16
  The 28-year-old DJ and producer has been helping to transform parts of Detroit through charity work while standing up as a rare LGBT voice in a mostly heterosexual music sceneThe electronic music crowd isn’t famous for getting up early, yet here we are at 11am on a Sunday, rolling our yoga mats on to the marble floor of the most opulent building in downtown Detroit. A hundred people sink into chair pose as deep house, played by the DJ at the front of the room, reverberates off the soaring
  
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• Stephen Bear Reveals Plans To Adopt Triplets

  12-12-2018 16:40
  Unless he can get a babysitter.
  
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• Neil Young claims victory in protest against Barclaycard

  12-12-2018 16:33
  The singer’s Hyde Park concert will now not be sponsored by ‘fossil fuel funding entity’Neil Young has claimed victory in his protest against Barclaycard, which was due to sponsor his Hyde Park concert with Bob Dylan in London next summer.He said on Tuesday that the show, on 12 July 2019, would proceed without the sponsor. “We are so overjoyed, so happy to be playing the show!” Young wrote in a new post on his website, Neil Young Archives (NYA), titled: “Spons
  
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• Neil Young claims victory in fight against concert sponsor Barclaycard

  12-12-2018 16:33
  The singer who will co-headline with Bob Dylan in Hyde Park next July had criticised promoter British Summer Time for working with what he called a ‘fossil fuel funding entity’Neil Young has claimed victory in his protest against Barclaycard, which was due to sponsor his Hyde Park concert with Bob Dylan in London next summer.He said on Tuesday that the show, on 12 July 2019, would proceed without the sponsor. “We are so overjoyed, so happy to be playing the show!” Young w
  
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• These Are The Most Googled Celebs Of 2018

  12-12-2018 16:05
  Well, in the UK anyway.
  
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• Vicky Pattison Sends Out Desperate Appeal To Find Her Ass

  12-12-2018 15:59
  The former Geordie Shore lass last saw her ass around a month ago.
  
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• I predict a Riley: Kaiser Chiefs find new employment as art curators

  12-12-2018 15:40
  The band have rocked up to York Art Gallery to mount an exhibition that contrasts paintings they admire with sound art and songs. They explain how it came about‘Playing guitar in front of 10,000 people is something I stopped being nervous about a long time ago,” says Simon Rix, the bassist in long-running Leeds indie band Kaiser Chiefs. “But this is different.”He’s talking about the band’s first ever art show, which opens this week at York Art Gallery. He cura
  
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• Pistol Annies: the country 'girl group' confronting divorce and darkness

  12-12-2018 13:30
  Trio Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley sing about life’s ‘harsher things’ – and are topping the country charts despite a male-dominated sceneAs Ariana Grande’s single Thank U, Next, topped the US singles chart, supergroup Pistol Annies reached No 1 on the US country chart with their third album, Interstate Gospel. It’s Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley’s highest chart position yet, and shares DNA with Grande’s
  
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• Did Geordie Shore's Chantelle Connelly Hint At TV Show With Her Unborn Baby?

  12-12-2018 13:04
  Did the pregnant lass just drop a major hint?
  
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• Did Geordie Shore's Chantelle Connelly Hint At Having A TV Show With Her Unborn Baby?

  12-12-2018 13:04
  Did the pregnant lass just drop a major hint?
  
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• Get To Know: Another Sky

  12-12-2018 12:51
  Be prepared for Another Sky and their brave new sound to blow you away...
  
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• ‘Even a half-finished show is a victory’: Russian bands fight new crackdown

  12-12-2018 12:31
  For electronic duo Ic3peak and their fans, secret tour dates are no guarantee against shows shut down mid-setSix hours before they are due to play an underground concert at a secret location, Anastasia Kreslina and Nikolay Kostylev are stashed in an Airbnb in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.There’s good cause for the secrecy: as soon as the name of the venue is made public, there is a fair chance that police or local thugs could storm the club mid-set. This way, at least they will g
  
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• Noah Centineo Agrees That Dumplin’s Luke Benward Is The Internet’s New Boyfriend

  12-12-2018 11:36
  We can have two Netflix love interests, right?
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Reveals She Had Suicidal Thoughts As She Opens Up About Relationship Insecurities

  12-12-2018 11:20
  The Geordie Shore lass discussed suffering depression a few years ago, how her ex Joel Cory was there for her when she felt she had lost everything, and baby plans with her new boyfriend, Jay.
  
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• 'A beacon in the dark of winter': the Christmas songs that shaped us

  12-12-2018 11:00
  From singing Mariah Carey with drag queens in the desert to being driven mad by the Asda playlist, Guardian writers share their most poignant festive music memoriesChristmas songs are about the expansion of feelings, loud and bright, against the winter’s darkness. Sometimes they catch you unawares, turning a full beam on to a memory, or a person no longer here to share the light.The Flying Pickets’ a capella Christmas version of Yazoo’s Only You beguiled me as a young child. Vi
  
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• Netflix’s Description For Gossip Girl Is Both Brutal And Shockingly Accurate

  12-12-2018 10:58
  That pretty much sums it up tbh
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Chloe Ferry Brands Sophie Kasaei’s Aussie Lad Alex Macpherson ‘A Waste Of Time’ After His Abbie Holborn Flanter

  12-12-2018 10:00
  Geordie Shore continues Tuesdays at 10pm on MTV UK!
  
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• The 50 best albums of 2018, No 8: Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour

  12-12-2018 07:00
  The country artist’s acid-enhanced fourth album sparkled with magical melodies that felt like they had been around for yearsBest albums of 2018Best culture of 2018
  LSD and music are old bedfellows. You can hear the drug’s perspective-expanding effects on rock bands ranging from the Beatles to Tame Impala, while the word acid got added to house to help describe the psychedelic weirdness of the squiggling basslines made by the Roland TR-303. It is even a favourite descriptive shortcut
  
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• Curious (MTV Laid Bare Exclusive Commentary)

  12-12-2018 01:00 via mtv.co.uk
  Hayley Kiyoko gives us an exclusive commentary of her incredible music video for 'Curious'...
  
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