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• Everything You Ever Wanted To Ask About Menstrual Cups

  18-01-2019 18:15
  You asked, we answered.
  
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• Why It's Time To Start Caring About Self-Care

  18-01-2019 17:40
  2019 is all about looking out for no.1.
  
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• New Music Round-up: Ariana Grande, James Blake, Mabel And More

  18-01-2019 16:32
  These artists brought the fire this week.
  
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• French rap star MHD arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter

  18-01-2019 15:23
  French media report arrest following the death of a 23-year-old man in July 2018, which involved a dozen individualsMHD, one of the most successful rappers in France, has been arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter alongside three other men in connection with a death in Paris.A 23-year-old named as Loïc K was killed in July 2018 in the north-east of the city, in an act described as “purely gratuitous” by French police – he was kicked, beaten and stabbed during th
  
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• Grimes and Azealia Banks subpoenaed in Elon Musk lawsuit

  18-01-2019 14:46
  Musicians ordered to preserve evidence related to a tweet by Musk that shareholder plaintiffs claim caused financial losses to TeslaThe US district court of northern California has granted a motion to subpoena the musicians Grimes (AKA Claire Boucher) and Azealia Banks in the ongoing lawsuit against Tesla founder Elon Musk brought by a group of the company’s shareholders.Additional subpoenas will be served against the publications Business Insider, the New York Times and tech website Gizmo
  
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• Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson Is Reportedly Dating Love Island’s Chris Hughes

  18-01-2019 13:38
  Filing this one under most unlikely hook-ups.
  
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• Mahan Esfahani review – fresh and provocative

  18-01-2019 13:32
  Milton Court, London
  Inspired by John Cage, the harpsichordist experimented with indeterminacy, played pulsating duets with prerecorded versions of himself, and consulted a computerised version of the I ChingOver the last two years, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani has been reading his way through the writings of John Cage. From them he developed the idea for this fresh and provocative recital: three new works, all composed for Esfahani, alongside 20th-century classics for the harpsichord by Berio
  
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• Dan + Shay review – valiant pop princes' off-kilter hoedown

  18-01-2019 13:21
  The Garage, Glasgow
  The pop-country duo charm a lustful crowd with an evangelical hour of skywritten love songs and falsetto floor-fillersOn the launch night of Celtic Connections, Glasgow’s remarkable annual festival of roots music, a rival hoedown has completely sold out a local nightclub. Valiant pop-country princes Dan + Shay – AKA young songwriting duo Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney – may not yet be familiar names in the UK, but their strident, soaring take on the modern Nashv
  
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• Vicky Pattison Is On A Countryside Mini-Break With Towie Star Ercan Ramadan

  18-01-2019 13:10
  The Former Geordie Shore star is enjoying the holiday of dreams with pals.
  
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• Holly Hagan Calls Out Double Standards Following This Viral Tweet About Rimming

  18-01-2019 12:19
  #GirlPower
  
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• Ariana Grande Drops Her 7 Rings Music Video And Proves She’s Officially The Baddest B*tch

  18-01-2019 12:15
  Can Ariana Grande be our dad, pls?
  
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• Dermot Kennedy Talks His Inspirations, Staying Humble & His First Westlife Gig!

  18-01-2019 11:43
  “I’ll just listen to Bon Iver all day and then some days I’ll just listen to Drake all day…”
  
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• Sam Fender Talks Inspiration Behind His Single ‘Dead Boys’ & How He Was Discovered

  18-01-2019 11:40
  We get personal with Sam Fender about his music and his inspirations...
  
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• The Twilight Sad: It Won't Be Like This All the Time review – epic, impassioned post-punk

  18-01-2019 11:30
  (Rock Action)The Cure’s Robert Smith has repeatedly sung the praises of the Twilight Sad, saying: “If the world was a better place they would be playing to more people, and I think they can.” Perhaps the North Lanarkshire band’s fifth album will make more people take notice. With a new lineup and on the label of fellow superfans Mogwai, it brings epic grandeur to post-punk. There’s certainly nothing new about their sound and fury and throbbing basslines – they
  
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• Sophie Turner Wasn’t Allowed To Do This One Thing While Filming Game Of Thrones

  18-01-2019 11:22
  This takes some serious commitment
  
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• Selena Gomez Is Reportedly ‘Leaning On Taylor Swift’ After Completing Treatment

  18-01-2019 11:00
  That's what friends are for.
  
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• Maggie Rogers: Heard It in a Past Life review – Alaska hitmaker's debut lacks edge

  18-01-2019 10:30
  (Capitol Records)Maggie Rogers’ career has been buoyed by one song: Alaska, released in October 2016 after a clip of Pharrell Williams being bowled over by it went viral. Since then, Rogers has amassed three million monthly listeners on Spotify, done well-received live shows, and performed on Saturday Night Live, all with only an EP (and Bandcamp juvenilia) to her name. Now her debut album is here. Has it done justice to that evident promise? Unfortunately, what made Rogers stand out &ndas
  
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• Loski Talks Drake Being A Fan & The Inspiration Behind Mixtape ‘Call Me Loose’

  18-01-2019 10:30
  This rapper's flow comes naturally, which is why we've got our eyes on him in 2019.
  
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• Toro Y Moi: Outer Peace review – chillwave maven finds focused future funk

  18-01-2019 10:00
  (Carpark Records)It’s 10 years since the dawn of chillwave, the music scene that looked at synthpop, soft rock, reggae and more through a rose-tinted kaleidoscope while contemplating the day’s first craft IPA. Was its supremely unbothered demeanour the product of a time of relative harmony, or the only reasonable reaction to a banking crisis and recession: a music that turned from a future on fire to the softer warmth of the past? Anyway, the Brooklyn hipster culture that birthed it
  
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• Juliana Hatfield: Weird review – wry alt-rock storyteller shines anew

  18-01-2019 09:40
  (American Laundromat)Older bands’ careers are more readily sustained by a hiatus/reunion cycle than consistency. So news of Juliana Hatfield’s 17th solo album – 25th if you include her albums with other groups – didn’t generate the headlines received by the returning Sleater-Kinney or Bikini Kill, her peers in 90s feminist rock. Her catalogue is inconsistent, but 32 years after she debuted with the brilliant indie-pop band Blake Babies, Hatfield has never grown comp
  
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• Mark Lockheart: Days on Earth review – brightest recording from a glittering career

  18-01-2019 09:30
  (Edition)
  Lockheart hitches a jazz group to a classical orchestra for this fine, ambitious recordingFor a musician to have been in at the birth of one of the most vivaciously untrammelled big jazz ensembles ever formed in the UK could have been happenstance. That he did so again with a small group that stretched jazz’s comfort zones enough to be nominated for a Mobo award once and a Mercury prize twice, was hard evidence that the saxophonist/composer Mark Lockheart – a co-founder of
  
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• AJ Lambert: how Frank Sinatra's granddaughter does it her way

  18-01-2019 07:00
  The only Sinatra descendent to sing Frank’s songs, Lambert is releasing her debut album at the age of 44, after being delayed by drink, drugs – and the shadow of her legendary family
  In a cramped rehearsal room on a side street in Brooklyn, AJ Lambert and her band are quibbling over the order of their set, trying to make sure it contains contrast and dynamism. It includes a handful of covers of songs by Shame, Spoon, TV on the Radio, Robert Wyatt and Chris Bell, all radically repurpo
  
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