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• 9 Times Celebs Were Just As Thirsty As You

  11-01-2019 18:50
  We’re all human.
  
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• New Music Round-up: Sam Smith, Normani, The Weeknd And More

  11-01-2019 16:06
  Plus Calvin Harris, Rag 'n' Bone Man and Lauren Jauregui!
  
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• Celebs You Never Knew Started Out On Reality TV

  11-01-2019 13:17
  Even Beyoncé started off on a singing competition. WHAT.
  
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• Kevin Fret, gay Latin trap rapper, shot dead in Puerto Rico

  11-01-2019 12:00
  The rising star was killed while riding a motorbike in San Juan, aged 24Kevin Fret, a Puerto Rican musician who was one of the island’s only openly gay rappers, has been shot dead in the capital, San Juan, aged 24.Fret was shot at eight times as he rode a motorbike, and declared dead after being taken to a nearby hospital. His death means there have been an average of more than two murders a day in Puerto Rico so far this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Martin Scorsese to direct film about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue

  11-01-2019 11:33
  Netflix documentary will feature new interviews with the legendary songwriter about his celebrated mid-70s tourNetflix has announced that Martin Scorsese will direct a documentary about Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story will feature new on-camera interviews with the legendary songwriter.The streaming platform says the film “captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that y
  
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• Cara Delevingne Reveals She Lost 50,000 Followers After Speaking Out Against R Kelly

  11-01-2019 11:26
  Here's why she's totally fine with coming across as "confrontational."
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Faith Mullen Talks Body Positivity: “I Love That I’m Fat”

  11-01-2019 11:24
  Yas queen.
  
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• Marnie Simpson's Fresh Out Of Bed Underwear Pic Is Driving Everyone Wild

  11-01-2019 11:14
  The former Geordie Shore lass just DID THAT.
  
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• Gnash: We review – catchy pop-rap with angst that's sweet, not downbeat

  11-01-2019 11:00
  (Atlantic)‘You broke my heart and all I got was this T-shirt,” sings the 25-year-old California singer/rapper on recent single T-shirt. Affairs of the heart are often dealt with in the context of the everyday on this, his debut album. Imagine If rewrites the history of a disastrous, internet-era relationship, imagining if “everybody stayed in love, stayed offline …” The darker Nobody’s Home finds him alone with “a whiskey and a phone”. It’s
  
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• Fans Think Khloe Kardashian Is The Spitting Image Of Kylie Jenner In This Photo

  11-01-2019 10:59
  Who are we even looking at here?
  
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• Richard Youngs: Memory Ain't No Decay review – into the edgelands with a musical gem

  11-01-2019 10:30
  (Wayside & Woodland)As many musicians fret, vacillate and self-medicate their way out of actually writing their next record, Richard Youngs just gets on with it. The Scotland-based singer-songwriter, operating since the early 90s, has released 17 albums in the last two years alone (not including collaborations such as the brilliant Scottish disco supergroup Amor) and has three more out this month, with Memory Ain’t No Decay joined soon by Onder/Stroom, a collaboration with Dutch electr
  
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• Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow review – assured, gorgeous electro-tinged progression

  11-01-2019 10:00
  (Jagjaguwar)Like all of Sharon Van Etten’s previous albums, 2014’s Are We There was preoccupied by a prior toxic relationship – co-dependency couched in a sour combination of abuse and affection. Its follow-up opens with a track that references that period of disquieting soul-baring in the form of a meta-confessional: I Told You Everything has Van Etten divulging the details of her traumatic past to a sympathetic new partner, but not the listener. It’s a move that acknowl
  
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• The birth of Asian underground: ‘This music was for us and by us, and that was very powerful’

  11-01-2019 09:00
  Twenty years ago a new movement blending eastern sounds with electro and drum’n’bass arrived to give a generation of young British Asians a vibrant new voice. Why did it fade away so quickly?When most Brits think of Asian music – if they do at all – they might conjure a twanging sitar and the high-pitched vocals of a Bollywood dance sequence blaring in an Indian restaurant, or the meditative chimes and chanting of a yoga session. In reality, of course, Asian music is a va
  
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• The 1975 review – pop glitz and tech trickery in a millennial arena

  11-01-2019 09:00
  SSE Arena, Belfast
  Blurred genres, digital anxieties and giant iPhones… the 1975 strive for the zeitgeist as they open their new UK tourSinger Matt Healy is standing on a hydraulic lift at the back of the arena stage, rubbing his slicked-back, natural-coloured dark hair. Dressed down in athleisure and a V-neck top, he turns his back to the crowd and regards the massive screen behind his band, the 1975, with curiosity.The visuals on this first night of the band’s latest tour have bee
  
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• Rapper Octavian wins BBC Sound of 2019 poll

  11-01-2019 01:10
  The rapper, born in France and raised in the UK, said ‘it’s going to be a very loud year for me’ as he earns honour previously won by Adele and Sam SmithThe BBC Sound of 2019 poll has been topped by the Anglo-French rapper Octavian.The 23-year-old joins previous winners including Adele, Sam Smith and Ellie Goulding in the industry poll that has traditionally anointed the next big thing in music. Continue reading...
  
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