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• Day 34: Grooveshark Still Going Strong…

  03-06-2015 22:06
  
  Updated (June 4th am): it now appears that grooveshark.li has been ripped down. April 30th: Grooveshark.com is shut down. May 5th: Grooveshark.io surfaces in its...
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• Somebody Stole $450,000 of Tame Impala’s Royalties…

  03-06-2015 21:17
  
    Tame Impala’s frontman Kevin Parker recently took to Reddit to say: “Up until recently, from all of Tame Impala’s record sales outside of Australia,...
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• Stringray CEO aims to grow music reach via acquisitions

  03-06-2015 20:34
  
  The chief executive of newly listed music channel operator Stingray Digital Group Inc said on Wednesday the company plans to spend some C$50 million ($40.10 million) this year to acquire distribution across the Americas. Eric Boyko, who founded the Montreal-based company in 2007, said Stingray spent that much in five deals last year and plans to keep up the pace, targeting the United States and Latin America, eastern Europe and Asia.
  
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• BandPage and Rhapsody Usher In “…The New Era Of The Music Business”

  03-06-2015 19:58
  
  J Sider, CEO, BandPage Today BandPage and Rhapsody announced a partnership. This isn’t, however, like any other partnership that has existed in the music industry...
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• Have Kim Kardashian & Kanye West Organised North's Second Birthday At Disneyland?!

  03-06-2015 19:45
  
  Well that would be just a little bit magical, wouldn't it...
  
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• Fall lyrics 'hard to hear', admits judge in copyright case

  03-06-2015 19:31
  
  Former band member Julia Adamson and producer Steven Sharples contested ownership of the 1999 album track Touch SensitiveA judge ruling on a copyright dispute about rock band the Fall’s lyrics has admitted that the words were “hard to hear” due to frontman Mark E Smith’s vocal style. Recorder Amanda Michaels made the remark after listening to three versions of one of the Manchester band’s songs, in a court case in which Smith’s publisher Minder Music Ltd, former bandmate Julia Adamso
  
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• 9 Reasons Why You Won’t Pay $9.99 for ‘Apple Music’

  03-06-2015 19:23
  
  1. Free music on YouTube. YouTube has every song ever made, and is the single largest source of music consumption in the world (by a...
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• Jean Ritchie obituary

  03-06-2015 19:16
  
  American folk singer responsible for a revival of Appalachian musicWhen Jean Ritchie, who has died aged 92, emerged on to the embryonic New York folk scene in the 1940s, her repertoire of family songs from the Anglo-American tradition of the southern Appalachian mountains was seized upon by folksong enthusiasts as proof of the veracity of the old music. It was a tradition that had first been exposed to a wider audience by the English folksong collector Cecil Sharp in 1916-18: indeed, Sharp had n
  
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• Everyone's Going Crazy Over The Dog In The Fallout 4 Reveal

  03-06-2015 18:56
  
  Watch the reveal trailer for Fallout 4 and see why the internet is obsessed with the dog in it.
  
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• Janet Jackson back with new album – and record-breaking new deal with BMG

  03-06-2015 18:50
  
  Jackson’s worldwide contract with BMG includes the launch of her own label Rhythm Nation, and makes her the first female African-American recording artist to form her own labelJanet Jackson will release her first album in seven years this autumn through BMG and her own new label Rhythm Nation. Announcing the news on her website, this “worldwide partnership” with BMG will make her the first female African-American recording artist to form her own record label. “At Rhythm Nation, Janet pla
  
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• Montreal's Mutek festival – electronic experiments turn up the heat

  03-06-2015 18:41
  
  Canadian dance music fans came out of hibernation to revel in an exciting mix of dance music and visual artistry from a refreshingly varied lineupThere’s an emancipated feeling that pumps through Montreal’s balmy summer evenings after its coldest winter in decades. Barely a single park or street isn’t preparing, dismantling or in the flow of some kind of al fresco event; and last weekend it was the turn of Mutek, the adventurous electronic festival now in its 16th year.Its free outdoor ele
  
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• Even Facepainted Cats Love NXT's Finn Balor

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• Taylor Swift Went For A Casual Backwards Hike And Her Explanation Is Perfect

  03-06-2015 17:38
  
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• ​Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher – CD review: superbly vivid choral singing

  03-06-2015 17:33
  
  Cotillard/Gallais/Lieder Camera and Madrigal Choirs/Barcelona SO and Catalonia National O/Soustrot (Alpha)First performed in concert in 1938 and fully staged for the first time in Zurich in 1942, Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher is the only one of Arthur Honegger’s large-scale works to have maintained at least a toehold in the repertory. For Honegger, it seems, the dividing line between opera and oratorio was often a very thin one – his 1925 opera Judith later appeared in a version for the con
  
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• Sting Was Due To Battle Steve Austin At Wrestlemania 19

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• Can Natalie La Rose Knock Jason Derulo Off The No.1 Spot This Sunday?

  03-06-2015 17:00
  
  The Dutch babe is heading for her first UK No.1 in today's Official Chart Update...
  
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• What Links Paige, Big Show, Christian, Carlito And Santino Marella?

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• What's All This About The Queen Being Dead Then?

  03-06-2015 16:38
  
  A practice run turned a little too real at the BBC today...
  
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• We Dare You To Watch All Of This Terrifying New Insidious: Chapter 3 Clip

  03-06-2015 16:37
  
  The new Insidious movie might be the most scary yet. Watch this exclusive clip and see why...
  
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• Watch Awesome Kevin Owens Film Following Him Behind The Scenes

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• Led Zeppelin announce final phase of reissues programme

  03-06-2015 16:00
  
  New edition of the posthumous compilation Coda will include two discs of previously unreleased materialThe final trio of Led Zeppelin albums may not be the most anticipated part of the band’s epic reissue programme, but fans will not be disappointed by the extra material that has been unearthed for the newly remastered versions, due on 31 July.Rumours had long been swirling that Jimmy Page had been saving the best unissued material for the new version of Coda, the posthumous compilation issued
  
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• Even Our Exclusive Sinister 2 Poster Is Making Us Terrified

  03-06-2015 16:00
  
  The terrifying sequel to the terrifying movie has an unsurprisingly terrifying poster...
  
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• Jennifer Hudson Calls For Legalised Gay Marriage In 'I Still Love You' Video

  03-06-2015 15:52
  
  EXCLUSIVE! Watch the inspirational video right here first with MTV...
  
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• Nancy Sinatra in 1966: 'No career is as important as a husband and children'

  03-06-2015 15:48
  
  This week, Rock’s Backpages celebrates Nancy Sinatra’s 75th birthday with a piece from February 1966, originally published in the New Musical Express
  Her boots may have been made for walkin’, but Nancy Sinatra’s Boots also jumped, ran and scrambled up the pop charts in both America and Britain, reaching No 1 in the NME Chart in only three weeks!It’s a fantastic instant-success story for a record that came about quite accidentally. As I talked with Nancy on the set of Shivaree, a local
  
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• Nas review – rapper takes nostalgic tour through hip-hop perfection

  03-06-2015 15:32
  
  O2 Academy, GlasgowTracks are more invoked than performed as the rapper revisits his influential album Illmatic, two decades onNas’s 1994 debut album, Illmatic – a gritty document of Queens, New York, in the pits of a crack epidemic, characterised by complex rhymes over a haze of vintage funk, soul, and jazz samples – is hip-hop perfection. Huge sales, critical acclaim, academic books andan Oscar-tipped documentary have elevated it to near-mythical status. The tone is slightly off from the
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Talks Being 'The New Normal' In E! Reality Series 'I Am Cait' Preview

  03-06-2015 15:13
  
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• Why we’re excited about seeing Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie at Isle of Wight

  03-06-2015 15:00
  
  Those heading for the Isle of Wight festival will see something Mac fans feared they would never see again: Christine McVie’s return after a 16-year absenceTo listen to Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie speak, you’d never guess she was a member of one of the world’s most successful – not to mention debauched and dysfunctional – bands of all time. Level-headed and prone to understatement when I interviewed her for the Guardian in 2013, she described the songwriting gift that enabled her
  
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• Jason Alexander prepares to sing 'the music of Larry David'

  03-06-2015 14:53
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — When Larry David was showing his old "Seinfeld" pal Jason Alexander the quirks of his Broadway dressing room, the discussion naturally went to the toilet.
  
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• The playlist: indie - Beach Baby, Gwenno, Everything Everything, Daughn Gibson

  03-06-2015 14:37
  
  From modern cults and Welsh science fiction to dreamy pop and off-kilter US road trips, there’s plenty to brood on here Possibly their most challenging album yet, Get To Heaven (given five stars by Q, dubbed a “masterpiece” by DIY) has already spawned the apocalyptic pop monster Distant Past and now delivers Regret, a 60s-inspired single which grapples with the quartet’s usual macabre themes – technology’s evil grip on humanity, a pained nostalgia for the past, a crippling fear of th
  
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• Perfect Pussy’s Meredith Graves: taking the feminist fight to punk's patriarchy

  03-06-2015 14:30
  
  Through her live gigs, writing and record label, the punk star is confronting the scene’s entrenched sexism, and encouraging others to do the same Related: Perfect Pussy (New band of the day No 1,683) Sometimes it seems as if not much has changed in punk in 2015. Men still rush the stage and grope female band members, there are all-white, all-male acts that give themselves names such as Black Pussy and others – like metalcore band Emmure – sell T-shirts that read “Keep Calm and Ask Your
  
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• Channing Tatum Wore A Disguise And Gave A Woman A Lap Dance In This Hilarious Prank

  03-06-2015 14:26
  
  That's one lucky lady...
  
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• Tough Love & Ginuwine Go Fast & Furious For 'Pony' Video - First Look

  03-06-2015 14:19
  
  Check out some exclusive pics from the shoot of their upcoming music vid here...
  
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• Seven Things You Need To Know About Vicky Pattison's Judge Geordie

  03-06-2015 13:52
  
  Vicky Pattison's back! And there's some carnage in store in her new show, Judge Geordie...
  
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• Slipknot's Corey Taylor: no aliens would interact with a culture this stupid

  03-06-2015 13:35
  
  Corey Taylor is the frontman of Slipknot and Stone Sour – but he is also a writer. His third book, You’re Making Me Hate You, a cantankerous critique of pop culture, is out this month, and we’ve got an excerpt[Warning: includes strong language]Metal bands: ignored but still angry
  Music, TV, movies, internet, books (those are what you download on your Kindle Fires kids), everywhere you look it’s like the entertainment is falling down under the weight of its own trash. I’ll paraphrase Mi
  
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• The Replacements review – a scintillating return

  03-06-2015 13:28
  
  Roundhouse, London
  The reunited band do absolute justice to Paul Westerberg’s bruised, defiant anthems of youth – and also retain their ragged edgesThe challenge facing most reunited bands is simple: play your greatest hits with enough sincerity to convince the audience you’re enjoying it, get out of the venue and collect the money. For the Replacements, making their first visit to Europe in almost a quarter of a century, it’s rather different. Their legend has been built on tales of dru
  
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• Daniel Barenboim review – reveals the essence of Schubert's piano writing

  03-06-2015 13:00
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  In his final two Schubert recitals, there was a sense of spontaneous encounter in everything Barenboim played, with the details never subsumed into a predetermined whole Related: Daniel Barenboim review – interesting rather than revelatory Schubert playing The final two legs of Daniel Barenboim’s four concert, 11-sonata Schubert series culminated, as it must, in the last sonata of them all: the B flat, D960. But the journey towards this inevitable summation began
  
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• Wu-Tang and wordplay: have hip-hop lyrics really lost their edge?

  03-06-2015 13:00
  
  The genre was famed for metaphor-loaded rhymes, but figures such as GZA say it’s reached a nadir. Is it just a case of good old-fashioned New York snobbery?Rapper GZA ruffled feathers with his recent opinion essay The Lost Art of Lyricism, which makes the case that today’s MCs aren’t writing dope lines and verses. “Rappers aren’t grabbing you anymore, it’s not pulling me in,” he wrote, before adding: “It’s irrelevant. It’s not about the art form anymore.” This follows in a
  
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• Little Mix ‘N’ Match! Leigh-Anne, Jesy, Jade & Perrie Are Ladies In Red At Glamour’s Women Of The Year Awards

  03-06-2015 12:46
  
  The ‘Black Magic’ singers went red for Glamour’s annual event…
  
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• Niall Horan 'Splits From Melissa Whitelaw' & Already Has His Eye On Someone Else!

  03-06-2015 12:42
  
  Who knew the One Direction hottie was such a player?!
  
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• Phew… The 1975 HAVEN’T Split But Have Announced A New Album And UK Tour!

  03-06-2015 12:12
  
  The band will be playing 16-dates around the UK this November...
  
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• As If! Maisie Williams Rocks Clueless-Inspired Ensemble To Glamour’s Women Of The Year Awards

  03-06-2015 12:11
  
  The Game Of Thrones star comes over all Cher Horowitz and we LOVE it…
  
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• Janet Jackson: 10 of the best

  03-06-2015 12:00
  
  With Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Janet Jackson has created some of modern R&B’s most enduring music. Here’s the best of itThe story goes that, despite her pop lineage, the young Janet Jackson had no interest in becoming a singer. Instead, brilliantly, she wanted to be a jockey or an entertainment lawyer. However, her father Joseph Jackson coerced her into a recording studio, became her manager and set about securing her a record deal with A&M. Unfortunately her two early, personality-
  
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• 24 Hours In The Life Of Pregnant Kim Kardashian: A Twitter Rant, Due Date Announcement, Crazy Maternity Wear & More

  03-06-2015 11:28
  
  Well, it was never going to be a quiet one, was it?
  
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• Rita Ora Sizzles In 'Poison' Video - Watch!

  03-06-2015 10:57
  
  Take a look at the singer in action with the first taste of her brand new music...
  
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• FKA Twigs Reveals Her True Feelings Towards T-Pain After He Spilled On Her Engagement To R-Pattz

  03-06-2015 10:57
  
  Singer also calls abuse from Pattinson's fans "horrible" in new interview with Complex...
  
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• Calvin Harris Named 'Man Of The Year' At Glamour Awards... And Manages To Dodge Ex-Rita Ora!

  03-06-2015 10:26
  
  Taylor Swift would seriously approve! Check out the full winners list here...
  
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• Jack White’s Third Man Records to open new store in Detroit

  03-06-2015 10:21
  
  The former White Stripes frontman plans to open a new retail and office space in the area he went to school
  Jack White has announced plans to open a new branch of his Third Man Records store in his home town of Detroit. The new retail and office space is the result of a partnership with Shinola, a local watch and high-end goods manufacturer.
  The store, which is set to open on 27 November, also known as “Black Friday”, will be located in the Cass Corridor neighborhood of Detroit, where the Wh
  
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• Don't Ever Say Ellie Goulding Cheated On Ed Sheeran With Niall Horan!

  03-06-2015 10:07
  
  Singer also hints Dougie Poynter could be 'The One' in new interview with ELLE UK...
  
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• Executive Shuffles: Epic Records, Fender, Rightscorp…

  03-06-2015 05:05
  
  Fender has hired Andy Mooney as CEO. Mooney was most recently at Quicksilver. Prior to that, Mooney was at Disney and Nike. Epic Records’ VP of Publicity, Darren Barber, has relocated...
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• Drone injury grounds Enrique Iglesias for longer than expected

  03-06-2015 02:55
  
  The pop singer grabbed at a camera drone during a show, slicing open several fingers and, further examination has revealed, fracturing his handThe pop star Enrique Iglesias will need weeks to recover, after injuries suffered when he grabbed a flying camera drone during a concert turned out to be worse than feared.
  Iglesias, who turned 40 last month, was injured on Saturday while on stage during a concert in Tijuana, Mexico, when he grabbed at a camera-equipped drone. The singer frequently does t
  
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