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• How Do You Keep Your Audience Engaged During Live Shows?

  04-05-2015 22:58
  
  Last week I saw Dan Deacon at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix. I was really looking forward to the show. I saw him play the same...
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• TIDAL Says They’re Paying Artists 5 Times As Much as Spotify…

  04-05-2015 21:48
  
  Last week, Digital Music News published a real royalty statement from a really reliable source showing TIDAL’s per-stream royalty payouts, which averaged $0.0144 (or, 1.44...
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• Breaking: Apple Strong-Arming Labels to Cut Spotify’s Free Tier…

  04-05-2015 19:16
  
  If streaming is the future, then it’s a cut-throat future for us all.  According to details now leaking profusely, Apple has been exerting heavy pressure on...
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• Prince William & Kate Middleton Finally Reveal Daughter's Name

  04-05-2015 17:57
  
  Aww...
  
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• New Music: Tinie Tempah Feat. Stormzy & Bugzy Malone - It's Peak

  04-05-2015 17:56
  
  Could Tinie finally be responding to Chip?
  
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• Yungen Drops 'Pepper Riddim'

  04-05-2015 17:13
  
  See the South Londoner jump on Chip's 'Pepper Riddim'...
  
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• David Beckham Gets A Helping Hand From Harper After A Heavy Night!

  04-05-2015 16:17
  
  Awww...
  
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• Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea's 'Pretty Girls' Is Finally Here - Listen Now!

  04-05-2015 13:20
  
  Yep, it's amazing.
  
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• Kanye West Just Can't Make His Mind Up About His New Album Name

  04-05-2015 12:50
  
  We just can't keep up...
  
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• The playlist: indie – Braids, Chastity Belt, Tame Impala and more

  04-05-2015 12:08
  
  Recordings from a deconsecrated church, tackling the subject of slutshaming, and dropping new tracks on Reddit: the wonderful world of indie ...London-based band the Big Moon told the NME recently that the unlikely event of a Fat White Family gig was the impetus behind their first flourish of songwriting. Debut single Sucker has less of the gnarly, self-medicated weirdness of the psyche group but that anarchy is buried in spirit: Sucker has all the ramshackle romance of the Libertines as it swin
  
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• Kim Kardashian Shares Yet More Racy Pics From Her Selfie Book

  04-05-2015 11:57
  
  Will it ever end?!
  
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• Five albums to try this week: Django Django, Andreya Triana and more

  04-05-2015 11:47
  
  From Palma Violets’ indie to My Morning Jacket’s rock, hear new albums out this week and tell us what you’ll be listening toWhy you should listen: The four-piece’s second album shoots for sparkling psychedelia, electropop touches and the odd Kraftwerk-like flourish.Lindstrøm – Rundanns (Smalltown Supersound) Continue reading...
  
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• Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran's Texts To Each Other Prove They Are True BFFs

  04-05-2015 11:33
  
  Can we join in please?
  
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• Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh: album stream

  04-05-2015 11:02
  
  Hear the second solo album from Benjamin John Power of Fuck Buttons and let us know what you thinkWhile Fuck Buttons have been gaining more and more attention – helped by being among the group’s whose music was featured in the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony – the world knows less about Blanck Mass, the solo project of Buttons’ Benjamin John Power. Dumb Flesh is the second Blanck Mass album, and (it says here) is “a comment on the flaws of the human form in its current evolutionary stat
  
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• Liam Payne Thinks He's Found Zayn Malik's Replacement For One Direction… Awks!

  04-05-2015 11:02
  
  Stop joking around LiLi...
  
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• Watch Metz's new video for The Swimmer

  04-05-2015 11:00
  
  As the Toronto punks unveil their second album, II, here’s an unsettling new video to ease you into your bank holidayContinue reading...
  
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• Miley Cyrus and Flaming Lips record an album together

  04-05-2015 10:48
  
  Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne says the music they have made together reminds him of Pink Floyd and PortisheadWayne Coyne and Miley Cyrus can’t get enough of each other. The pop star and Coyne have already worked together on two tracks for the Flaming Lips’ Beatles covers album With a Little Help From My Fwends, and Cyrus appeared in the Lips’ video clip Blonde SuperFreak Steals the Magic Brain. Now Coyne says Cyrus and the Oklahoma psychdelicists have recorded a seven-track album which
  
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• Suicide Squad Suit Up As First Cast Photo Is Unveiled, Cara Delevingne And Everything

  04-05-2015 10:39
  
  This has made us very excited for the movie...
  
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• Groovin the Moo review – Charli XCX and Wolfmother have the crowd spellbound

  04-05-2015 10:36
  
  Bendigo showgrounds, Victoria
  The 22-year-old was the festival stand-out, managing without Rita Ora and Iggy Azalea for Doing It and Fancy and nailing her own first love anthem, Boom ClapContinue reading...
  
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• Little Mix Seriously Annoyed Directioners With THIS Harry Styles Tinder Decision

  04-05-2015 10:07
  
  Uh oh...
  
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• This is a high: Blur enter the album charts at No 1 with The Magic Whip

  04-05-2015 09:50
  
  The quartet score their sixth No 1 album with their comeback after 12 years awayBlur have entered the album charts at No 1 with The Magic Whip, which at times last week was selling more than the rest of the top five combined. It’s their sixth No 1 album, and sees them back on top 12 years on from the release of their last album, Think Tank, which also topped the charts.The rest of the albums top five sees Taylor Swift’s 1989 rise from No 10 to No 2, with James Bay, Josh Groban and Meghan Tra
  
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• Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams demand new trial in Blurred Lines case

  04-05-2015 09:31
  
  Lawyers for the pair argue that the prejudicial evidence was put before the jury, resulting in the win for Marvin Gaye’s familyRobin Thicke and Pharrell Williams aren’t going to let $7.4m just slip out of their hands. The pair’s lawyers are now calling for a new trial in the case that saw them ruled to have taken from Marvin Gaye’s Got to Give It Up to create their global smash hit single.In March, a Los Angeles jury decided in favour of Gaye’s family, deciding that Blurred Lines had b
  
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• Facing the music: Kristjan Järvi

  04-05-2015 08:00
  
  From the exhilaration of Tchaikovksy’s 1812 to the intricate introspection of Sigur Ros’s Jonsi, conductor Kristjan Järvi shares his wide-ranging musical passionsHow do you listen to music most often? Mainly with my iPhone, with or without headphones, and definitely more often via Spotify than iTunes. Vinyl, no - I have no player! Even though the sound is much better than CDs. Continue reading...
  
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• Has streaming stifled the music industry?

  04-05-2015 08:00
  
  The launch of Tidal, backed by the likes of Kanye West, is the latest bid to make the subscription model viable Continue reading...
  
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• Fly Away Peter review – operatic take on David Malouf novel is lost in migration

  04-05-2015 06:44
  
  Carriageworks, Sydney
  Elliott Gyger-Pierce Wilcox opera lacks the musical depth and narrative drive to carry the powerful emotions at the core of its source materialContinue reading...
  
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• Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea debut new track Pretty Girls to Uber riders

  04-05-2015 03:23
  
  Fans booked 30-minute rides in a fleet of Britney-branded SUVs to hear singer’s new duet with Australian rapper after online leak Continue reading...
  
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