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• Drake Is Being Sued Over a Tweet…

  19-03-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We’ve seen plenty of artists getting sued for copyright infringement of late: Pharrell, Jay Z, Mac Miller… Now Drake is facing a different kind of...
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• At SXSW, folk-roots mother-son duo build buzz

  19-03-2015 22:26
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Even though Madisen Ward is in a band with his mother, when the duo performs onstage he sees her as something else: a musician.
  
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• Mac Miller Sued for Blatant Copyright Infringement

  19-03-2015 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s lawsuit season! This lawsuit against Mac Miller is very similar to one Jay Z recently faced. In both instances the rappers blatantly used songs...
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• Warner Music Group Kills Online Record Store Insound

  19-03-2015 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Warner Music Group is closing Insound to save money. Back when I was a WMG college marketing rep we worked on a campaign to promote...
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• Spotify’s Free Access Model Closing In 3… 2… 1…

  19-03-2015 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Related articles: (1) March 12, 2015: Sony Music CEO: “Free Music Is Causing the Death of the Music Industry” (2) March 8, 2015: Universal Music...
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• Buena Vista Social Club: Lost and Found review – improbably unreleased gems

  19-03-2015 20:00
  
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• Bradley Cooper And Suki Waterhouse 'Split After Two Years Together'

  19-03-2015 19:52
  
  It looks as though everyone's favourite couple have called time on their relationship…
  
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• I would hide 4 U: what’s in Prince’s secret vault?

  19-03-2015 19:49
  
  The stash in the basement of Paisley Park contains a lengendary collection of unreleased songs – reputedly enough material for Prince to keep releasing albums long after his death Continue reading...
  
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• Caldara: Morte e Sepoltura di Christo CD review – stylish if dutiful

  19-03-2015 19:30
  
  Stavanger SO/Fabio Biondi
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• Mahler: Symphony No 9 CD review – moments of magnificence but it never quite coheres

  19-03-2015 19:20
  
  Hallé/Elder
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• Streaming Revenue Is Catching Up to Digital Download Revenue…

  19-03-2015 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to new data from the RIAA, streaming revenue is catching up to digital download revenue in the US. In 2014 streaming revenue was at...
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• Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 4 and 8 CD review – precision playing

  19-03-2015 19:09
  
  LPO/Wigglesworth/Jurowski
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• Schumann: Violin Concerto; Piano Trio No 3 Op 110 CD review – lyrical beauties in challenging works

  19-03-2015 19:00
  
  Faust/Queyras/Melnikov/Freiburger Barockorchester/Heras-Casado
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• Catfish and the Bottlemen: ‘If you’re going to throw a party, throw the biggest one on the street’

  19-03-2015 18:53
  
  With human pyramids, beach balls and even flares, gigs by these Llandudno rabble-rousers are turning seriously celebratory. No wonder they don’t want their eight years’ hard work undone by sloppy sexism at the merch stand Continue reading...
  
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• Music institute opens in Beatles' Abbey Road Studios

  19-03-2015 18:53
  
  Students around the world can learn music production and sound engineering in the footsteps of the Fab Four Continue reading...
  
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• Is This The End Of One Direction?

  19-03-2015 18:50
  
  Following the news that Zayn has quit the band's On The Road Again tour, we take a look at a few other moments that have sparked rift rumours...
  
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• One Direction's Zayn Malik 'signed off' world tour to recover from stress

  19-03-2015 17:32
  
  Harry, Louis, Liam and Niall will perform as a quartet at the forthcoming performances in Manila and Jakarta this week The pressures of boyband notoriety and endless media hounding appear to have conquered One Direction’s Zayn Malik, who has been signed off the band’s current world tour with stress. Related: One Direction members ordered to pay $5,000 drug bond in Philippines I'm 22 years old... I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there's a lot of jealous fucks in this world I'm sorry f
  
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• The Charlatans: watch a live performance of Talking in Tones

  19-03-2015 17:30
  
  See the band perform the lead single from this year’s acclaimed album Modern NatureHere’s the third track in our series of live performances by the Charlatans, in association with Muzu.tv. Talking in Tones was the first track to be released from the band’s acclaimed single Modern Nature. The title came to singer Tim Burgess outside a branch of Barclays bank in London, and the song is about telepathy in relationships. Burgess says: “Talking in Tones is the opening track on the album. I qu
  
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• American music historian Samuel Charters dies at 85

  19-03-2015 17:02
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Samuel Charters, a novelist and historian of the American blues, folk and jazz, has died. He was 85.
  
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• Zayn Malik QUITS The One Direction Tour 'Due To Stress'

  19-03-2015 16:48
  
  After taking to Twitter to clear up rumours regarding his love life, the singer is heading home a few days early…
  
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• Nash Inventions review – serious chamber music and exuberant party pieces

  19-03-2015 16:43
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  A lyrical but profound new string quintet by Peter Maxwell Davies was the centrepiece of the Nash Ensemble’s 50th anniversary celebration
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• Seth Rollins Has Moves, But Will He Be Able To Avoid The RKO?

  19-03-2015 16:31
  
  Money in the Bank star was pretty evasive back at TLC...
  
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• Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly review – challenging but gripping

  19-03-2015 16:30
  
  Sly and the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield – the greats of 70s protest soul ghost through Kendrick Lamar’s restless dissection of modern America. But he’s angrier than them allIn the days since Kendrick Lamar’s third album was released online – so unexpectedly that it appeared to take even his record label by surprise – its creator has been mentioned in the same breath as some very lofty names indeed. Reviewers have invoked Parliament-Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Sto
  
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• Pharrell Williams Speaks Out Over Blurred Lines Lawsuit

  19-03-2015 16:28
  The music mogul has broken his silence over the recent controversy, expressing his worry that it will damage future creativity...
  
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• Game Of Thrones Red Carpet Killing Game

  19-03-2015 16:04
  
  Who would stars like to kill if they were script-writers?
  
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• Signed, sealed, delivered: quiz your knowledge of music petitions

  19-03-2015 15:35
  
  Moral outrage runs rife among an internet generation, so it's no surprise that a petition against Kanye West's headline performance at Glastonbury has been signed by more than 50,000 angry rock fans. Test your knowledge about other music campaigns with our quiz Continue reading...
  
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• Watch Cara Delevingne Play An American High School Hottie In First Paper Towns Trailer

  19-03-2015 15:28
  
  The supermodel plays Margo Roth Spiegelman in John Green’s latest movie…
  
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• Curtis Axel May Be WWE's Best Rapper As Well As WWE's Finest Royal Rumble Competitor

  19-03-2015 15:25
  
  With his mind on the Andre the Giant Trophy and the Andre the Giant trophy on his mind...
  
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• Jessie J Warns She May Never Sing Live Again

  19-03-2015 15:13
  
  The former Voice UK coach may have to result to lip-synching due to health problems…
  
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• Marvin Gaye's family takes Blurred Lines fight back to court

  19-03-2015 15:10
  
  The soul singer’s children want to stop any copying, distributing and performing of the hit song.
  
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• Liam Hemsworth & Emma Stone Join Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Line Up

  19-03-2015 14:36
  
  We really hope there's slime involved during Liam's appearance...
  
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• Natalia Kills Has Been Replaced On The X Factor NZ... But By Who?

  19-03-2015 14:21
  
  Producers have wasted no time in filling gap left by bullying scandal judge...
  
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• WWE: Paige Fancies Rumbling In The Ring With Steve Austin, Dean Ambrose And Bray Wyatt!

  19-03-2015 14:19
  
  We asked WWE's British Diva the questions you asked us to ask her...
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about cooking – results

  19-03-2015 14:18
  
  With Tunng and Pete Townshend, Streetband and Small Faces, RR regular swawilg prepares a tasty menu from last week’s topic
  There is a big difference between preparing food and cooking. The first only calls for ingredients, tools and perhaps some knowledge; the latter also takes time, gusto and, above all, love.There is a theory we started making soup at the dawn of culinary history around 20,000BC. That’s still in the Stone Age, so it should come as no surprise that there is also a stone dan
  
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• Meghan Trainor, Reba McEntire headline state fair slate

  19-03-2015 14:03
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — "All About that Bass" singer Meghan Trainor, country star Reba McEntire and Christian music artist Chris Tomlin are among the concert acts scheduled to perform during the Ohio State Fair this summer.
  
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• CBSO/Nelsons review – a dazzling five-star Dvořák

  19-03-2015 13:55
  
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  Andris Nelsons handled the vast canvas of the Piano Concerto magnificently, while Stephen Hough made light work of the challenging central part Continue reading...
  
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• Can You Tell What Iggy Azalea Is Rapping In This Vine?

  19-03-2015 13:46
  
  Once you press play you just won't be able to stop…
  
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• Selena Gomez 'Sent Flirty Texts To Owen Wilson Over Zoolander 2 Role'

  19-03-2015 13:46
  
  Pop star and actress reportedly fishing for a cameo in comedy sequel...
  
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• Adele's '21' Is The Biggest-Selling Album Of The MILLENNIUM

  19-03-2015 13:20
  
  Granted, there's been only 15 years of it so far but that's BIG...
  
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• Who Do Game Of Thrones Stars Want To Get Boozy With?

  19-03-2015 12:54
  
  One of them even suggested a night of jager bombs and drugs...
  
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• Did Jessie J Just Throw Shade At Rita Ora Over The Voice?

  19-03-2015 12:36
  
  Former judge compliments replacement, but has some criticism...
  
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• Tina Fey’s Husband Confirms Mean Girls Musical Is “60% Written” – That Is SO Fetch!

  19-03-2015 12:35
  
  Four for you Jeff Richmond, you go Jeff Richmond…
  
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• Vicky Pattison Shows Off Extreme Sideboob On Instagram

  19-03-2015 12:34
  
  The brunette beauty gave followers a mid-week treat as she showed off her best assets…
  
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• Maroon 5's Adam Levine Almost Killed This Fan With A Mircophone!

  19-03-2015 12:09
  
  The Voice USA coach threw his mic at the ground in anger... with it unfortunately striking Stephanie Green in the face!
  
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• Maroon 5's Adam Levine Almost Killed This Fan With A Microphone!

  19-03-2015 12:09
  
  The Voice USA coach threw his mic at the ground in anger... with it unfortunately striking Stephanie Green in the face!
  
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• Ed Sheeran Has Sold HOW MANY Copies Of 'X'?

  19-03-2015 12:09
  
  The 'Thinking Out Loud' star has had a VERY good nine months...
  
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• Watch An Exclusive New Trailer For Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck

  19-03-2015 12:03
  
  It's the music documentary that's blowing up around the world...
  
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• One Direction members ordered to pay $5,000 drug bond in Philippines

  19-03-2015 11:58
  
  Sum will be forfeited if Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson are caught using or promoting illegal drugs while in Manila for their forthcoming concerts Continue reading...
  
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• Robin Thicke And Paula Patton's Divorce 'Finalised'

  19-03-2015 11:49
  
  Blurred Lines singer and actress reportedly granted divorce this week...
  
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• Lily Aldridge Speaks Out In Support Of Gigi Hadid Following Drug Use Claims

  19-03-2015 11:37
  
  Victoria’s Secret girls gotta stick together…
  
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