Rica Shay

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Rica Shay and Merle G. get freaky on their new single All Up On Me. Get it.

Larry D

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Here's British Ghanian Larry D's hallucinogenic and wonderful Hit It Right. He talked to i-D about it.

He'll bend if he has to, and I guess he has to

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TOtto Preminger brings and all-star cast to Washington to shoot Alan Drury’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Advise & Consent (1962).

Set against the political atmosphere of the Kennedy Years, the cast includes Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, George Grizzard, Paul Ford , Gene Tierney in her first role after a five year bought with mental illness and Charles Laughton in his final screen appearance. The plot focuses on a controversial political appointment whose ramifications include accusations of Communism, blacklisting, blackmail, homosexuality and all sorts of political intrigue. It’s a fascinating look at politics during what seemed to be a magical era and interesting to contemplate what was relevant then and what is relevant now. Steve Hayes

I must be gone and live, or stay and die

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Le Grind

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Le Grind send us hurtling back to the '90s dance scene with the joyous Bricks. Lead vocalist Reyna Lauren is here to take us to heaven. Get it.

Toro Y Moi

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Toro Y Moi has released the synth-drenched You and I as the second single for his upcoming album, Boo Boo (out 7th July). Get it.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain

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Childhood

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London's Childhood have released gorgeous, dreamy, '70s throwback Cameo. Their debut album, Universal High, is out 21st July. Get it.

They do not love, that do not show their love

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Moses Sumney

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“Am I vital if my heart is idle?/Am I doomed?” Moses Sumney asks in the haunting video for the utterly beautiful Doomed.

His album Aromanticism is out 22nd September.

Roy Woods

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Instinct is the second single from Roy Woods' Nocturnal EP, following April's Love You. Get it.

The Bilinda Butchers

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San Fransisco trio The Bilinda Butchers' new single Lotus Eaters is a searing '80s throwback, like something from the soundtrack to The Long Good Friday. Get it.

Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone

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European Athletics Team Championships

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IF IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WINS OR LOSES, THEN WHY DO THEY KEEP SCORE?

The European Athletics Team Championships took place in Lille over the weekend, with KAOS favourite Harry Aikines-Aryeetey winning the individual 100m and 4x100m titles.

As it happened.

Here's the full results. Watch now:

I do feel it gone, But know not how it went

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When I saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you knew

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting

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Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds

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Cakes Da Killa

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Free To Be is the new queer anthem from Cakes Da Killa. Get it.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was

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Noah Slee

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Ease into Noah Slee's latest, the very sensual and lovely Lips. Get it.

The fault is not in our stars But in ourselves

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Toulouse

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Immerse yourself in the gorgeous sounds of the mysterious Nigeria born, New York based Toulouse. Read an interview with him here. This one's special. Get it.

TaetheDoug

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Cakes Da Killa

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Cakes Da Killa wants to Take Ova on the new track from Shitfee. "Take Ova is an ode to the 90s rap era while also being a pretty cocky love letter to myself," Cakes says. Get it.

Clone Identity

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Something a little different today. It's a throwback to 30-year-old twins Clone Identity, covering Adele's Someone Like You. It's intense. Get it.

It all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a spirit of adventure

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Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway

It's time for the weekly KAOS Doctor Who (1963-89) throwback, with clips from the BBC's official Doctor Who YouTube channel.

This week, a disturbed Tegan pays a visit to a fortune teller. Who's that in the crystal ball, now?

Men should be what they seem

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Love me!... Why?

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Clairmont The Second

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Canada's Clairmont The Second has dropped
this cool and intimate visual for The Road. Get it.

Stockholm IAAF Diamond League

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IF IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WINS OR LOSES, THEN WHY DO THEY KEEP SCORE?

Andre De Grasse annihilates the competition as the IAAF Diamond League continues in Stockholm.

Full results here. Watch now:

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say "This is the worst"

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Mathias Vef

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind

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Oslo IAAF Diamond League

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IF IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WINS OR LOSES, THEN WHY DO THEY KEEP SCORE?

IAAF Diamond League Oslo: Look out for CJ Ujah (nice photo spread on the Team GB boy here), the unstoppable Andre De Grasse, Mutaz Essa Barshim (always a joy to watch), and a floundering Kerron Clement.

Full results here. Watch now:

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say

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The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love

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Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much

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My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar

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Cazwell

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Cazwell is back with the deliriously catchy Loose Wrists. And it's all part of his gay agenda: "We have a president that wants to take us off the census and a Vice President that believes shock therapy will cure gayness," Cazwell says. "At the end of last year, I vowed to be as gay as possible with my music and videos. We have to be more visible than ever and I hope I inspire that." Get it.

If I be waspish, best beware my sting

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LIT The Series

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EVERY GREAT FILM SHOULD SEEM NEW EVERY TIME YOU SEE IT

It Boy of the moment Rico Pruitt can do no wrong - that is, unless you're one of the pearl-clutching queens trying to tear him down. But as he says, "Ya'all bitches is miserable, and misery loves company." As well as being one of the sexiest boys on the planet, he's infinitely quotable - but then he could read out a restaurant menu and I'd happily listen to that voice. (Yup, KAOS is definitely #TeamRicoPruitt.)

A veteran of webseries About Him (where he stole every scene he appeared in) and About Justin, the tide of public opinion turned against him when he made his porn debut. That says more about gay men than it does about Rico. As he says, "this community is full of faggots, I swear. Not homosexual gay mens. Faggots. Bitch ass niggas that's gonna hate on your every move." Indeed. We love nothing more than to put someone up on a pedestal and then knock them right off it.

The first episode of LIT is a showcase for Pruitt, who's looking cuter than ever (who'd have thought that was possible?) There's a strong narrative at work, with domestic violence at its core, and the cast is strong (and, it goes without saying, devastatingly sexy). Is it perfect? No. The sound could always be better (dialogue that's hard to hear, music that's too loud), but that's true of most web series. But those things cost money (and take time) and these shows are short of both. They're a labour of love, and thus have more heart and soul than their mainstream counterparts. What matters is the cast, and the script, and LIT scores big on both scores.

Rico Pruitt's going to be smiling for a long time to come.

Follow LIT on Instagram and Facebook, and

get new and uncensored episodes at Vimeo.

Daniel Marin Medina

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn

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Karnage

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Karnage is back with a new video for his deliciously filthy Hoe Diaries. "Whether you wanna pop your pussy to it, have sex to it or add it to your wank bank! Hoe Diaries is the anthem of the summer!" Karnage tells me. "My gift to my fellow Hoes and Dick chasers."

And boy, what a gift it is. Stuffed full of tales of dicksploitation, he's clearly the kind of bad bitch who leaves devastation in his wake. Karnage storytime goes like this:

"Dylan got a dick bigger than my ambition
Nobody was home so I fucked him in the kitchen
Love to suck on my toes
DL but no snitching
Had to fuck his Dad when that nigga went missing"

It's real, and it's spectacular. Get it.

Rome IAAF Diamond League 2017

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IF IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WINS OR LOSES, THEN WHY DO THEY KEEP SCORE?

Rome was the setting for the latest IAAF Diamond League this week: KAOS favourite David Oliver continued to struggle, but there were victories for the UK's CJ Ujah and Aries Merritt, back on form after a kidney transplant in 2015. As it happened.

Full results here. Watch now:

Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners

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He jests at scars that never felt a wound

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Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

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