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• Flume: 'I don't think I make dance music' – but festivalgoers likely disagree

  05-06-2015 23:09
  
  The Australian electronic star thought he was making strange downtempo tunes – but they’re making people dance the world overIt’s an article of faith that dance music has swept America, but the fact that young Australia also now rocks to synthesizers rather than guitars has been less remarked upon. The leading light of the Australian electronic music scene is Flume, born Harley Streten. The 23-year-old’s 2012 self-titled debut album is lush, downtempo but surging electronica and became t
  
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• XXL's Freshman Class list is way off the mark – again

  05-06-2015 22:33
  
  For eight years, the hip-hop magazine has chosen a clutch of up-and-coming rappers, and caused groans among rap fans across the globeIs the XXL Freshman Class list still relevant? In a hyper-active media world in which new music from across the globe (let alone across the country) is easier to find than ever, we are less reliant on singular outlets to drive the information about the newest and hottest artists. As the XXL Freshman Class list enters its eighth year, looking toward the hip-hop maga
  
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• Apple’s Announcement of the ‘iTunes Music Store’ In 2003…

  05-06-2015 21:53
  
  The post Apple’s Announcement of the ‘iTunes Music Store’ In 2003… appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• Letter: Peter Cropper obituary

  05-06-2015 19:39
  
  Related: Peter Cropper Peter Cropper was no ordinary violinist. He was a thinker, who considered everything he played with the utmost zeal, probing every detail with ardent determination. For this reason, his Lindsay Quartet became the first to champion Michael Tippett’s works for the medium, setting an example to all younger interpreters. He also supported other upcoming composers with equal commitment. A model musician, he will be much missed. Continue reading...
  
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• How to put on a mega-gig – the booking agent

  05-06-2015 18:59
  
  As the season for giant outdoor gigs begins, we talk to the people who take the show from initial idea to 100,000 people holding their phones aloft – starting with booking agent Neil WarnockThe promoter takes the risk of putting on the show: we broker the deal between the promoter and the artist. One of my main rules is not to overprice the artist: then if the promoter loses money it’s their fault, not ours. Once the deal is done, you try and make sure everything runs smoothly. Continue read
  
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• Universal Music Rips Down Its Own Video on Copyright Grounds…

  05-06-2015 18:40
  
  Friday, 9:30 am PT… Maroon 5 is signed to Interscope, a division of Universal Music Group and one of the label’s biggest acts.  Join the...
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• The playlist: metal - Lamb of God, Armored Saint and more

  05-06-2015 18:31
  
  This month’s round up features brutish hardcore from Indonesian group Burgerkill, beauty and horror from black metallers Midnight Odyssey and Haevnen’s schizophrenic solo albumThe opening track from Lamb Of God’s long-awaited seventh album, VII: Sturm und Drang, Still Echoes sees frontman confront the dark secrets and tormented ghosts that lurk in the walls of Pankrác Prison in Prague, where the singer was held on remand during his 2013 trial for manslaughter (Blythe was accused of
  
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• The week in music: drones over Enrique, garage gets gentrified and the 1975's stunt

  05-06-2015 17:17
  
  Our weekly music news roundup, plus Janet Jackson’s new record label, Idris Elba and Skepta’s hook-up, and Wu-Tang’s GZA pulling no punches Enrique probably could have done with a hero of his own on Sunday night when his hand was sliced on stage by the rotor blades of a drone. Showing his technological prowess during recent live shows, the pop star has been incorporating a quadcopter camera drone, lifting the flying device above his head as it films him and the audience. During a Tijuana g
  
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• How Chris Young (not-so) suddenly became one of country's biggest stars

  05-06-2015 17:17
  
  It took a few years and several singles, but Young is now in the process of graduating from mid-pack singer to the official country A-listerNashville Star earned more eye-rolls than accolades during its six-season stint on the USA network from 2003 to 2008, but despite its mediocre ratings, its wildly uncool Prilosec OTC sponsorship and all its unfavorable comparisons to American Idol, the show actually had a knack for spotting talent. Nashville Star’s first winner, Buddy Jewell, scored a pair
  
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• BBC NOW/Søndergård review – architectural sound and bristling silence

  05-06-2015 16:55
  
  St David’s Hall, Cardiff
  Thomas Søndergård brought grandeur and depth to the remarkable vision of Mahler’s Second Symphony – with sublime support from his chorus
  Thomas Søndergård, principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, has, from the beginning of his tenure, embraced Mahler with fervour, yet this performance of the Second Symphony suggested a maturing of his relationship with the composer and with his musicians. There was both a grandeur and a depth to t
  
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• Exaudi/James Weeks review – intricate, subtle and sonically ravishing

  05-06-2015 16:41
  
  Christ Church, Spitalfields, LondonWeeks and his eight-part choir bring extraordinary light and colour to the poetry of the biblical Song of SongsFor centuries, the erotic poetry of the biblical Song of Songs has attracted choral composers. Completed in 2009, James Weeks’s Mala Punica – which takes its title from the Latin text’s references to pomegranates – consists of eight settings for eight-part choir, each utilising canon as a structural device. In this Spitalfields Music Summer fes
  
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• Classical phone rage: in praise of concert scourge David Patrick Stearns

  05-06-2015 16:34
  
  The US journalist confiscated a Vienna concertgoer’s phone at a Philadelphia Orchestra performance. But it’s not just their ringing that can ruin a concert…Kudos to David Patrick Stearns, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s classical music critic, who has done what so many of us have longed to do when an errant mobile phone goes off in the middle of a slow movement – or in this case, the start of Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto. In the Musikverein in Vienna, where the Philadelphia Orche
  
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• Ellie Goulding Played Matchmaker For Taylor Swift & Calvin Harris

  05-06-2015 16:29
  
  Aww, what a perfect story...
  
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• Remember When Daniel Bryan Joined The Wyatt Family?

  05-06-2015 16:09
  
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• WWE: Raging Paige Blasts Brie Bella And Nikki Bella For Holding Back Divas

  05-06-2015 15:49
  
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• Selena Gomez Has 'Been Keeping So Many Secrets', But What Does This Mean?!

  05-06-2015 15:19
  
  Mind. Boggled.
  
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• Fiddler on the Roof review – Bryn Terfel outstanding in focused, vigorous production

  05-06-2015 15:15
  
  Grange Park, Hampshire
  Amid a strong cast, Bryn Terfel shines as Tevye, the Jewish milkman trying to keep his faith in this revival of the 1964 Broadway hit
  While opera companies put on musicals at their own artistic risk, Grange Park has form in this area: productions of Anything Goes and Wonderful Town have gone well at this address, though a more recent attempt at South Pacific was less successful. Continue reading...
  
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• Stereo Kicks Play 20 Questions And Reveal Their Celeb Crushes!

  05-06-2015 14:13
  
  We caught up with the boys to learn, well, everything there is to know about them...
  
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• Wu-Tang Clan review – menace, machismo and telepathic synchronicity

  05-06-2015 14:11
  
  02 Academy Brixton, London
  The hip-hop collective overcome muddy acoustics to deliver their inventive and poetic rap like a pack of riled bearsAs bona fide hip-hop royalty with their pioneering period 20 years behind them and their kung fu Buddhist enigma long faded, Wu-Tang Clan have discovered the value of rarity. Getting them all in a studio to record music together has, historically, been a bit like herding panthers: last year’s tepidly received A Better Tomorrow was three inharmonious yea
  
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• This week’s new tracks: invisible maracas with Tensnake and humdrum’n’bass from DJ Fresh & Adam F

  05-06-2015 14:00
  
  Tensnake | Axwell And Ingrosso | Lonely The Brave | DJ Fresh & Adam F | Deorro x Chris BrownPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• Awesome Tapes From Africa’s favourite tracks

  05-06-2015 14:00
  
  The cassette-collecting New York DJ and label head empties the contents of his psychic record bagThis is from a tape I got in Ghana recently, all bells and group chanting – pretty beautiful. Continue reading...
  
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• Nick Cave: The Sick Bag Song – exclusive video

  05-06-2015 13:57
  
  See a specially made video in which Nick Cave reads from his new book, talking about Los AngelesThe Sick Bag Song is Nick Cave’s exploration of love, inspiration and memory shaped around the events of his 2014 tour of North America. It began life as a series of lyrics, poems, memories, musings, flights of fancy and journal entries scribbled on airline sick bags, and soon grew into a full-length project.Film-makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard – the directors of the acclaimed film 20,000 Day
  
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• Blur, Patti Smith, Field Day: this week’s new live music

  05-06-2015 13:42
  
  Blur | Patti Smith | Field Day | Supersonic | Ivo Neame Quintet | The Corridor & The CureAs good as it was when Blur re-formed to play a series of gigs in 2009, it wasn’t a particularly meaningful way of getting the band back together. True enough, it marked the mending of the friendship of Damon Albarn and guitarist Graham Coxon but, clearly, it was a response to a gap in the market more than any particular creative urge. New record The Magic Whip feels meanwhile – if not like a true ba
  
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• Who Wants To Join The New Ghostbusters Now?

  05-06-2015 13:23
  
  The cast of director Paul Feig's 'Spy' are trying to get a role in his 'Ghostbusters' remake. Here's who has been bugging him for a part in the movie.
  
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• TGIF! Get Excited For The Sunshine With Your Weekly Club MTV Mix

  05-06-2015 13:00
  
  The sun's coming out this weekend! Let R3wire and Varski provide the soundtrack...
  
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• New band of the week: Georgia (No 56)

  05-06-2015 12:58
  
  Meet the former would-be professional soccer star turned purveyor of impressively brittle post-grime pop
  Hometown: North-west London.
  The lineup: Georgia Barnes (vocals, instruments, production).Continue reading...
  
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• Jungle review – more gigs should involve child breakdancers

  05-06-2015 12:47
  
  Brixton Academy, London
  Soulful grooves, ravey euphoria and an eight-year old girl spinning on her head add up to a potent party
  Jungle’s show begins as more gigs should: with a terrifyingly poised eight-year-old breakdancer spinning on her head, effortlessly eclipsing the adult musicians behind her. Having four-foot-tall B-Girl Terra on stage during the opening Platoon – she also appears in its video – means that Jungle risk peaking during the first six minutes of their set, but she’s e
  
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• Harry Styles Says 'Morale Is Good' Since Zayn Malik Left One Direction

  05-06-2015 12:44
  
  Harry Styles interview alert!
  
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• Just *WHAT* Happened In The Hotel Bar? The Cast Of 'Spy' Reveal Their Most Hilarious Behind The Scenes Moments

  05-06-2015 12:31
  
  Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Paul Feig and the cast of Spy reveal their funniest behind the scenes moments.
  
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• WWE: Steve Austin Doesn't Rule Out Paul Heyman's Enquiry About Facing Brock Lesnar

  05-06-2015 12:07
  
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• Geordie Shore's Chloe Etherington Shares Cheeky Behind The Scenes Snap

  05-06-2015 11:46
  
  Is it just us or would they make a great girl band?!
  
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• Justin Bieber Pleads Guilty To Assault & Careless Driving

  05-06-2015 11:15
  
  Oh Biebs...
  
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• Wait, Are One Direction Taking A Break After Their Fifth Album?!

  05-06-2015 10:16
  
  So many rumours this morning regarding the band...
  
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• Suge Knight picks up new lawsuit for assaulting photographer

  05-06-2015 09:53
  
  Leslie Redden says Knight threatened her and his friend forced her to the ground and injured herSuge Knight has got another legal case to add to his long list of lawsuits, which include the murder charge he faces over the death of Terry Carter and the wrongful death suit filed this week by Carter’s widow. Now he is being sued by photographer Leslie Redden, who alleges that on 5 September 2104, Knight and comedian Micah “Katt” Williams threatened and assaulted her. Continue reading...
  
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