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• Cardi B fans show little sympathy to Offset after 'take me back' plea

  17-12-2018 21:29
  Fans accuse Offset of manipulation after rapper makes unscheduled appearance on stage at Rolling LoudWhen rapper Offset made an unscheduled appearance during Saturday’s Rolling Loud festival to beg his estranged wife Cardi B for forgiveness, fans were stunned. More than 24 hours later, a debate is still unfolding on social media, often pitting celebrities against her fans. Related: Grammy nominations 2019: Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar and Drake lead the packContinue reading...
  
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• Nancy Wilson obituary

  17-12-2018 19:24
  Vocalist who brought a jazz sensibility to all kinds of songs and spent 60 years in the spotlightThe singer Nancy Wilson, who has died aged 81, did not consider herself a jazz vocalist – though many others did, including the Grammy awards judges (she won three), and such jazz-rooted playing partners as the saxophonist Cannonball Adderley and the pianists George Shearing and Hank Jones. Wilson preferred to call herself a “song stylist” – disinclined to mimic the byzantine
  
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• Official UK Christmas Number 1: It’s LadBaby Vs Ava Max Vs Ariana Grande!

  17-12-2018 19:00
  Who will take the Official UK Singles Chart Number 1 this Christmas? Here’s the front-runners…
  
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• 9 Reasons Why Disneyland Paris Is Just as Magical for Adults

  17-12-2018 18:42
  We're all just big kids really...
  
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• Fortnite Just Had To Remove A HUGE New Weapon. Here's Why.

  17-12-2018 16:27
  Not so infinite after all...
  
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• Sam Sweeney review – folk prodigy shuns the showboating for gentle joy

  17-12-2018 16:09
  Kings Place, London
  The Bellowhead fiddler put on an uncharacteristically sedate evening of poignant music about the first world warThe fiddler with the Midas touch, Sam Sweeney has barely put a foot wrong since, dissatisfied with the teaching, he walked out of the folk degree course in Newcastle after a few weeks and straight into the arms of the spectacular big band Bellowhead. The youngest member of the band, he swiftly established himself as a dynamic force of nature, leaping off amp stacks,
  
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• Why the end-of-year Spotify lists are a glimpse into listeners’ souls | Rhik Samadder

  17-12-2018 15:32
  People’s musical choices say so much about what kind of year they have had – because they were decisions made in privateWhat am I listening to? For the past week, mostly people telling me about their Spotify end-of-year playlists; the personalised ranking of what they have been listening to throughout the year.There are a number of ways this happens. Some people reveal their lists confidently, fully aware that Sigrid, Kendrick and Young Thug have the BBC 6 Music stamp of approval; a
  
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• 'This cuts across society': how singeli music went from Tanzania to the world

  17-12-2018 14:30
  With up to 300 beats per minute, singeli could be the world’s most frenetic music. In Dar es Salaam, its creators explain how it helps to create a better lifeOn a neon-lit jetty overlooking the River Nile, a young Tanzanian DJ called Sisso is playing a bracing barrage of blips, bells and breakneck beats that could blast apart a heart-rate monitor. We are at Nyege Nyege, a pan-African festival in Uganda that curates contemporary club music from across the continent, and it’s the first
  
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• Geordie Shore's Chrysten Zenoni Gives Birth And Reveals Baby's Adorable Name

  17-12-2018 13:06
  The Aussie Geordie Shore star has welcomed her little one.
  
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• Vicky Pattison Reveals What It Was Like Filming John Noble Breakup For Reality Show

  17-12-2018 12:39
  The former Geordie Shore lass unintentionally documented her heartbreak.
  
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• 10 Christmas Gifts For Anyone Who Loves Fitness

  17-12-2018 12:33
  Share the joy (and some activewear) this festive season!
  
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• Here Are All The Bonuses You Can Get In Pokemon Go This Christmas

  17-12-2018 12:23
  Is there anything cuter than these Pokemon in a Christmas hats?!
  
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• Chloe Ferry Reveals Heartbreaking Effect Online Bullies Are Having On Her As She Takes Drastic Action

  17-12-2018 11:46
  The Geordie Shore lass opened up about Instagram haters.
  
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• Gerry Cinnamon review – word-of-mouth wonder about to make waves

  17-12-2018 11:28
  O2 Academy, Glasgow
  The Glaswegian has built up a raucous following for his unvarnished acoustic anthems – and his word-perfect reception here hints at big things to comeHe may not yet be a household name but outside one of Gerry Cinnamon’s emphatically sold-out Glasgow gigs, an entrepreneur is selling tatty Santa hats branded with his thumping love song Belter for £4 a throw. Judging by the enthusiastic take-up, it seems as if everyone wants to have themselves a Gerry little C
  
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• Prince Harry Is Reportedly Skipping This Royal Christmas Tradition For Meghan Markle

  17-12-2018 11:11
  Things are changing.
  
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• The 10 best New Year's Eve nights out in the UK

  17-12-2018 11:00
  From disco on rollerskates to ferocious gabber and lo-fi house, here are the best club nights to ring in 2019Shave your head, pick out some obscure sportswear and prepare for total gabber meltdown at this summit of Europe’s most formidable hipsters. Evian Christ and his strobe-rich Trance Party series is joining forces with Swedish collective Year0001, continuing Christ’s mission to champion some of the most garish corners of dance. Here he recruits Waxweazle, the Dutch DJ whose hard
  
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• The Most Iconic Twitter Reactions To Miley Cyrus’s *Very* Revealing SNL Outfit

  17-12-2018 10:44
  How did she manage to avoid a nip slip?
  
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• The 50 best albums of 2018, No 5: Mitski – Be the Cowboy

  17-12-2018 07:00
  The singer-songwriter’s remarkable fifth offering paired an arch humour with an underlying maelstrom of drama, loneliness and psychosexual dysfunctionThe 50 best albums of 2018See our tracks of the yearThe best culture of 2018In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published the seminal feminist short story The Yellow Wallpaper, the semiautobiographical account of a woman confined to a strange, isolated house who becomes increasingly obsessed with her room’s “repellent, almost revolt
  
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