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• Executive Shuffles: ASCAP, Pitbull, Inertia Music

  06-04-2015 23:29
  
    Alice Kim has been hired as EVP, Chief Strategy and Development Officer at ASCAP. Most recently, Kim was founder and principal of DigiConsult, a digital media consulting practice. Pitbull has...
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• Music Review: Brian Wilson is back with evocative album

  06-04-2015 21:45
  
  Brian Wilson, "No Pier Pressure" (Capitol)
  
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• Lily Allen: “Tidal Will Make Fans Swarm Back to Piracy…”

  06-04-2015 21:22
  
  What happens when you double the price, and restrict access to the best stuff?
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• U2 leader’s ‘struggle’ out of the Dublin ghetto

  06-04-2015 20:25
  
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• The Golden Age of Online Music Is Over (and Another Is Beginning)

  06-04-2015 18:58
  
  For the past five years, interactive streaming companies like Spotify, Rhapsody, and Rdio made a version of the dream possible, with Spotify staging the greatest push towards cultural ubiquity—it has 60 million active users worldwide, 15 million of whom pay to subscribe. Now, a group of new services want to provide real competition against Spotify and grow the total number of people who pay monthly fees for on-demand music. The latest is Jay Z’s Tidal, announced a week ago with a splashy pre
  
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• Beyoncé and Rihanna Premiere Exclusive Tracks on Tidal; Fans Promptly Put Them on YouTube

  06-04-2015 18:52
  
  Tidal isn’t having the most well-received launch.  As Ari Herstand points out, a lot of fans of the service’s celebrity co-owners are pretty vocal about their...
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• New Orleans Music Box: the shantytown you can play

  06-04-2015 18:30
  
  Part performance, part venue and part art installation, a collection of structures in New Orleans are bringing the avant garde to the city of jazzCelebrated jazzman William Parker plucks his bass in a grove on an abandoned golf course in New Orleans’s City Park. The 11-strong ensemble he leads makes a strange kind of music.Pulled ropes create the sound of whistling wind, while an amplified flute plays through steel sheet speakers. Windows and doors slide and slam, triggering musical samples. T
  
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• Samantha Cameron: ‘I’d happily pay my licence fee for 6 Music’

  06-04-2015 17:50
  
  David Cameron’s wife has revealed that her favourite band is a four-piece from Minneapolis – edgy or what? And what else have we learned about her musical tastes? Continue reading...
  
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• St Luke Passion/MacMillan review – impressive, but not always moving

  06-04-2015 17:45
  
  Barbican, London
  The formidable challenges of James MacMillan’s second passion setting were superbly met in this performance conducted by the composer Continue reading...
  
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• Kylie Jenner Responds To Comments Over Controversial Pics

  06-04-2015 17:17
  
  The 17-year-old has defended her recent photoshoot…
  
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• Priscilla Presley: no Elvis impersonators at Las Vegas themed wedding chapel

  06-04-2015 17:10
  
  The wife of late rock’n’roll legend said couples looking to marry at new Graceland casino exhibition will not find a ‘cheap’ knockoff of the King Continue reading...
  
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• Kelly Clarkson Gets Apology From Fox News Host Over Body-Shaming Comments

  06-04-2015 16:41
  
  Maybe these comments should never have been made in the first place…
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Martin Spotted Heading Off On Holiday Together!

  06-04-2015 16:07
  
  Just when we thought these two might've gone their separate ways…
  
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• Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club review – cracking farewell-tour performance

  06-04-2015 14:36
  
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  Octogenarian singer and dancer Omara Portuondo reminded an enthusiastic audience why these Cuban veterans shook up popular music Continue reading...
  
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• Royal Northern Sinfonia/McGegan review – high-octane, high-methane Beethoven

  06-04-2015 14:03
  
  Sage, Gateshead
  Conductor McGegan brought avuncular drama to Beethoven and Mahler and the RNS triumphed Continue reading...
  
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• Swanhunter review – moments of stratsopheric vocalism and charming animal puppets

  06-04-2015 13:22
  
  Linbury Studio, London
  This family opera based on the Finnish epic Kalevala is easy to follow and listen to, but little of the score sticks in the mind Continue reading...
  
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• So Harry Styles Is Really Good At Getting Those Buttons Undone...

  06-04-2015 12:56
  
  Make of the following video what you will… Ahem...
  
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• The playlist: electronic – Deadboy, Prurient, Walls, Tony Allen and more

  06-04-2015 12:22
  
  Today we have uplifting instrumental grime, Ricardo Villalobos’s remix of Tony Allen’s African Man, acid-house agitation, and Prurient’s guttural noiseHere’s an exclusive first play of a track from Deadboy’s new EP, coming out on Local Action. The producer was one of the first to do the pitched-down-R&B-vocals-on-garage-y-house-tracks thing, but he’s thankfully left it to others to dilute the formula. Instead he’s still innovating, with the White Magick EP to be filed alongside
  
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• Taylor Swift Proves She Is Seriously The Best Friend EVER!

  06-04-2015 12:09
  
  We would have totally fangirled if this had happened to us...
  
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• Kim Kardashian Joined By Entire Family For Easter Church Service

  06-04-2015 10:48
  
  It was a family affair as the entire Kardashian-Jenner clan spent the holiday together…
  
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• Jake Quickenden & Danielle Fogarty Reveal They've Already Moved In Together!

  06-04-2015 09:57
  
  The cute couple aren't hanging around when it comes to their relationship…
  
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• The Prodigy go straight in the albums charts at No 1

  06-04-2015 09:26
  
  The Day Is My Enemy is their sixth UK No 1 albumThe Prodigy have scored their sixth UK No 1 album. The Day Is My Enemy, their first studio album for six years, has entered the album charts at the top, displacing James Bay in the process.The Day Is My Enemy follows Music for the Jilted Generation (1994), The Fat of the Land (1997), Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004), Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005 (2005) and Invaders Must Die (2009) in taking the Essex band to the top of the charts. Con
  
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• Five albums to try this week: Young Fathers, Brian Wilson and more

  06-04-2015 09:06
  
  Here are five new albums to stream, from East India Youth’s impressive pop to Drenge’s muscular post-grunge – what will you be listening to?Why you should listen: William Doyle’s second album as East India Youth slides between icy synths and grand-scale pop in a way that’s refreshingly unpretentious. Continue reading...
  
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• Facing the Music: Alban Gerhardt

  06-04-2015 08:37
  
  From opera and learning to conduct it, to Jonny Greenwood and Jonas Kaufmann, cellist Alban Gerhardt reveals his musical passions, on and off the stageHow do you mostly listen to music?The older I get, the more I prefer live music, and I mainly hear music in concert these days. I do have an iPhone, but I use it only for audio books. But whenever I feel really nostalgic, I take an LP and listen to it in my living room on my ancient stereo with a nice glass of red wine, as this is something you ca
  
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