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• CD Baby’s Publishing Division Quadruples But Still Trails TuneCore

  27-02-2015 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Up until a few years ago there weren’t many options for independent songwriters to collect mechanical royalties. Performance royalties were (relatively) easy to get. Simply...
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• Another Universal Music Digital Executive Is Out…

  27-02-2015 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Ring, EVP of Global Digital Business, is out at Universal Music Group. This comes just days after his boss Rob Wells, President of Global...
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• Maika Monroe On The Horror Of It Follows

  27-02-2015 19:05
  
  The It Follows star talks about the scariest scene from shooting and more...
  
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• The Backstreet Boys Have Some Advice For One Direction

  27-02-2015 18:50
  
  Harry and the boys had better be paying attention...
  
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• Be A Part Of MTV's Brand New Series!

  27-02-2015 18:38
  
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• After 10 Years, YouTube Still Isn’t Profitable…

  27-02-2015 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
    Last year, YouTube made a massive $4 billion in revenues.  The only problem is that their costs were also about $4 billion.  “Google nurtured YouTube into a...
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• Pete Wentz: ‘We felt underappreciated by some of the fans’

  27-02-2015 17:58
  
  The notorious bassist of reformed US punk poppers Fall Out Boy on split-ups, dick pic humiliation, and childhood nightmaresHi Pete! The reformed Fall Out Boy have just announced two shows at Wembley Arena in October – is this the age-old trick of pretending to split up for three years until people start caring again? The truth is, when the break happened (1) – I can only speak for myself personally – but I didn’t want to go on a break. I was not interested. It was really hard for me and
  
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• The playlist: pop – Tori Kelly, Py, Vanbot and more

  27-02-2015 17:54
  
  Py gets sinister with her synths, Vanbot starts from scratch, and Katelyn Tarver takes a candy-coated shot at the American dreamBack in the halcyon days of December 2012, London-based singer-songwriter Py released a mixtape, Tripping on Wisdom, featuring collaborations with a host of producers including Breton, Lapalux, George Fitzgerald, Raffertie and Greenwood Sharps. As with most mixtapes, it was a bit all over the place. Since then she’s been awarded PRS Momentum funding (alongside Lapsley
  
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• Seth Rollins AMBUSHES Daily Show Nemesis Jon Stewart On Air!

  27-02-2015 17:06
  
  It looks as if this WWE superstar vs chat show host feud MUST CONTINUE...
  
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• Did Made In Chelsea's Louise Thompson Really Just Post Her BF's Erect Penis On Instagram?

  27-02-2015 17:03
  
  Reality TV star appears to have made an - ahem - unfortunate cock-up...
  
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• Kobalt Raises $60 Million from Google Ventures and Michael Dell

  27-02-2015 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kobalt has announced the closing of a $60 million Series C funding round. The round was lead by Google Ventures. Michael Dell’s MSD Capital and...
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• Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin's Kashmir: 'You need time to catch your breath after'

  27-02-2015 16:33
  
  The Zeppelin mastermind talks us through the making of one of the band’s greatest tracks, from their newly reissued album Physical Graffiti“No, no, no, no!” Jimmy Page insists, reacting with a certain irritation to something that had been presented a compliment. It’s not that he’s modestly rejecting the praise, more, I suspect, that he feels there might be an implicit criticism of Led Zeppelin’s musical borrowings.The compliment was the observation that it was a testament to Zeppelin
  
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• So, Catwoman Just Came Out As Bisexual Then

  27-02-2015 16:13
  
  Iconic DC Comics character kisses woman in latest issue...
  
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• Anyone For A #BieberRoast? Check Out Justin’s Latest Comedy Central Campaign Photos!

  27-02-2015 15:56
  
  Showing off some *impressive* face fuzz there, Biebs…
  
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• The Indian Queen review – Lucy Crowe’s singing brings Purcell into focus

  27-02-2015 15:36
  
  Coliseum, London
  Stylised violence, stylish conducting and extended ballets combine in this adaptation of an unfinished work by Purcell, resulting in a fragmentary but sometimes glorious night at the ENO Continue reading...
  
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• Pablo López, del metro a Sony Music como Jahvel Johnson

  27-02-2015 15:18
  
  MEXICO (AP) — Para Pablo López, conocido entre sus admiradores como Jahvel Johnson, las oportunidades se deben tomar bien y a la primera.
  
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• The week in music: Scarlett Johansson's band, the woeful Brits and more

  27-02-2015 15:09
  
  Ten things in music this week, including Madonna’s big fall at the Brits, Kanye West crying on BBC Radio 1 and other titbitsDespite the fact that viewing figures were up a massive 1m on last year, the Brit awards were no more exciting than previous ceremonies - what with the many industry celebrating speeches, a well behaved Ant and Dec and a lot of Ed Sheeran airtime. Take a quick trip to the comments section below our Brits 2015 live blog to see the negativity in action.The Brits now = vapid
  
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• Watch Dean Ambrose And Seth Rollins Gang Up On Roman Reigns Star

  27-02-2015 14:53
  
  What goes on in FCW doesn't stay in FCW...
  
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• New Lady Gaga Song Til It Happens To You Leaks Online

  27-02-2015 14:16
  
  Hear pop star's sensitive contribution to rape documentary...
  
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• #TGIF! Kickstart Your Weekend With R3wire & Varski's Friday Mixtape

  27-02-2015 14:00
  
  Going out or staying in tonight? Either way, get that Friday feeling with this mix full of the biggest club tunes around...
  
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• Du Blonde, Usher, Alex Adair: this week’s new tracks rated and slated

  27-02-2015 14:00
  
  In the Guide single reviews, no one is safe, especially the annoying Alex Adair Continue reading...
  
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• Yoko Ono and Madonna both fight ageism – in radically different ways

  27-02-2015 13:59
  
  Ono and Madonna have both felt the sharp edge of the ageism stick recently. Is it too much to hope that an artist can be loved for who she is?
  Yoko Ono turned 82 on 18 February, and noted the occasion with an open letter titled Don’t Stop Me!, addressed to critics who think it unseemly that she’s still making music at her age. Ono doesn’t often respond to criticism, but whatever has been flung at her lately has evidently flustered her. “I don’t want to be old and sick like many others
  
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• Ageing French rockers criticised for jobless jibe at young

  27-02-2015 13:53
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - (Note language that some readers might find offensive) A music video by a group of mostly middle-aged French stars telling the young they can succeed only if they "do something" triggered a bitter generational row on Friday, with critics accusing the rich singers of hypocrisy. The row underlined the anger felt by France's young, facing unemployment rates upwards of 25 percent and increasingly shut out of a jobs market where permanent contracts are coveted and fiercely protected
  
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• Fifty Shades Of No Way! Woman Vomits And Soils Herself During Screening

  27-02-2015 13:52
  
  Filmgoers forced to flee from the stench at Milton Keynes cinema...
  
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• Kim Kardashian & Rita Ora Wear Near-Identical Latex Dresses To The Same Event

  27-02-2015 13:51
  
  AWKWARD!
  
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• Super Furry Animals return for first shows in six years

  27-02-2015 13:34
  
  As well as a handful of May tour dates, the group fronted by Gruff Rhys will reissue out-of-print Welsh-language album Mwng to mark anniversary yearTo mark the 20th anniversary of their debut gigs, the Super Furry Animals will perform their first shows in six years this May. Beginning with two dates at Cardiff University Great Hall, before shows in Glasgow, Manchester and London, these gigs will be their first since December 2009, which signalled the start of a hiatus for the band. Related: Sup
  
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• Marc Almond: The Velvet Trail - video

  27-02-2015 13:23
  
  Marc Almond releases his new album on 9 March, and we've got an exclusive premiere of his video for the title track here. Almond says the song is "personal, melancholy, reflective and evocative", and it's about memories, nostalgia, childhood and death. Though Almond had hinted that the 2010 album Varieté would be his last to feature original material, he was revitalised after Chris Braide sent him a trio of instrumental tracks written with him in mind – they developed a partnership that has r
  
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• What Colour You See #TheDress Actually Says A Lot About You - Or Does It?

  27-02-2015 13:09
  
  Black and blue or white and gold?
  
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• Get A Sneak Peek At Holly Hagan's Latest Sexy Zoo Shoot

  27-02-2015 13:01
  
  PHWOAR... that is all...
  
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• New band of the week: Evvol (No 44)

  27-02-2015 12:49
  
  Australian-French-Irish trio based in Berlin who specialise in haunting, atmospheric trance-pop
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• Oops! Charlotte Crosby Admits She Regrets Her Mitch Tattoo

  27-02-2015 12:44
  There's a lesson here, kids - think before you ink...
  
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• Skrillex & Diplo Presents Jack Ü spreads itself too thin to work as an album – first listen review

  27-02-2015 12:41
  
  On Thursday night, the dance superstars dropped a brand new collaborative album – but too much if it relies on a glaringly obvious formulaMidway through their 24 hour DJ set last night – which from the livestream looked like the sort of club scene recreated in Hollyoaks – full-time aural activists and current dance music overlords Skrillex and Diplo announced they would be dropping their debut album as Jack Ü on iTunes with immediate effect. After forming Jack Ü as a DJing outlet
  
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• You'll Never Guess Which Oscar Winning Actor This Is!

  27-02-2015 12:25
  
  Check out the star as you've never seen him before right here...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Stopped Kanye West Getting A Face Tattoo

  27-02-2015 11:53
  
  Instead, the rapper has paid tribute to his late mother Donda and daughter North with some wrist tattoos...
  
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• Kanye West Says Sorry To Beck And Bruno Mars

  27-02-2015 11:32
  
  Rapper takes to Twitter to apologise for his comments...
  
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• Royal Blood get biggest Brit awards sales boost, One Direction get the smallest

  27-02-2015 11:30
  
  Two days on from the Brits and the trends are clear: perform and see interest swell, win but stay away and the fans won’t go shopping for youThere is a reason why the Brits happen in February: it is to jumpstart a sluggish recorded music market, at a time when buyers are staying away from music after the retail gluttony in the weeks running up to Christmas, when 20% of albums in the UK are sold. Just the sight of all those stars is meant to be enough to start shifiting their music all over aga
  
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• Ouch! Madonna's BRITs Fall Gave Her Whiplash

  27-02-2015 10:19
  
  The Living For Love singer has branded the whole incident "a nightmare" during an interview with Jonathan Ross...
  
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• Lupita Nyong'o's Oscars Dress Has Been Stolen!

  27-02-2015 10:11
  
  Pearl-adorned gown worth £100k was half-inched from hotel room...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Treats Fans To Sexy Selfie After Hitting 27 Million Followers

  27-02-2015 09:51
  
  The star is back to her selfie talking best by posting this lingerie snap on Instagram to mark the milestone...
  
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• Courtney Love loses legal claim because she's not as famous as Marlon Brando

  27-02-2015 09:40
  
  Singer fails in an attempt to get libel suit dismissed after claiming her fame meant her remarks about fashion designer were in the public interest Continue reading...
  
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• Madonna suffered whiplash after falling off the Brits stage

  27-02-2015 09:37
  
  Star says Armani cape was tied too tight because choreographers did not want it to fall off, and denies it was a publicity stunt Continue reading...
  
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• Paul McCartney's childhood home sells for £150,000

  27-02-2015 09:00
  
  Terraced house in Liverpool sold at auction for £50,000 more than its guide price Continue reading...
  
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• Why Songhoy Blues's Music in Exile is the one album you should hear this week – video review

  27-02-2015 08:00
  
  The debut album by Songhoy Blues, Music in Exile, arrives with a gripping backstory attached, involving a hasty flight from Islamist fundamentalists who'd banned music entirely in their hometown. But it's the music, not the circumstances in which it was made that makes it worth hearing, says Alexis Petridis Continue reading...
  
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• New faces: meet James Bay

  27-02-2015 07:38
  
  He’s picking up Brit Awards – and criticism – back home, but the man in the hat is becoming an Australian favourite after sell-out gigs in Sydney and Melbourne Continue reading...
  
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• B2M: (2213) Home review – boyband balladry meets Tiwi Island culture

  27-02-2015 02:53
  
  The all-male singing group draw from the culture of Tiwi Islands to make old-school R&B that is unashamedly sentimental and often inspirational Continue reading...
  
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• Kimberley calling: Dan Sultan on his family's stolen generation past - video

  27-02-2015 01:37
  
  Singer-songwriter Dan Sultan's song Kimberley Calling was inspired by a search for his mother's mother. Nominated for APRA song of the year, the track tells the story of Sultan finding the grave of his maternal grandmother in Western Australia's Kimberley region, a woman he never knew after his own mother was taken from her parents as a child Continue reading...
  
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• SK!TZ Beatz teams up with Footsie & Johnny Dollar for brand new vid ‘Warrior’

  27-02-2015 01:02
  
  SK!TZ Beatz drops the visually charged video for ‘Warrior’…
  
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