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• Foo Fighters pull out of Glastonbury after Dave Grohl breaks leg

  16-06-2015 23:42
  
  Band cancel five tour dates, including Wembley stadium, in addition to two already announced after frontman’s recent fall from stage during Sweden gigPlans by Foo Fighters to appear at Glastonbury festival, Wembley stadium and Edinburgh have been cancelled after the band’s singer and guitarist, Dave Grohl, broke his leg during a concert.The band announced on Saturday that their frontman’s injuries were so severe they would not be able to play two forthcoming European shows. Continue readin
  
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• Music Tourism Generated $4.85 Billion in the UK Last Year…

  16-06-2015 23:20
  
  Last year music tourism generated £3.1 billion ($4.85 billion) in the UK, both directly and indirectly. Music tourism generated £1.9 billion ($2.97 billion) directly. Generally, music...
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• When Words Sold Music

  16-06-2015 23:18
  
  “You can’t miss Tobias Jesso Jr.,” the text said. Get in the mood with Tobias before he get’s in the mood with you. The fragments, the vague promises of genius, the period as favored punctuation mark—even setting aside the yellowed background color and cruddy ink-on-paper picture quality, the ad was a clear callback to printed music ads of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
  
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• Something Like Happiness

  16-06-2015 22:12 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Something Like Happiness
  
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• Put Your Love On Me (Ft. Sasha Keable & Stylo G)

  16-06-2015 22:12 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• For Every Paying Subscriber, Spotify Adds 3 Free Accounts…

  16-06-2015 21:10
  
  Is Spotify’s ‘freemium funnel’ really working as well as they think? Spotify says definitely yes, though very serious questions on sustainability are emerging.  According to...
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• Executive Shuffles: 7digital, Crush Music, Streamsound, Nashville Entrepreneur Center

  16-06-2015 20:03
  
  7digital has promoted James Priestley to GM of North of America and Head of their San Francisco office. Priestley was previously VP of Business Development in London. Prior to 7digital,...
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• The scene that 'never stopped': Archive highlights DC's punk past and present

  16-06-2015 19:45
  
  A year after its launch, the DC Punk Archive is documenting an important piece of musical history and providing a new platform for the next generation of bandsThe DC Punk Archive officially launched in the nation’s capital a little over a year ago to some international notice and local fanfare. The archive’s home, the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, has hosted shows featuring DC-based bands since October of 2014. Last week, on a balmy early summer Thursday, The Maneuvers, Puff Pieces
  
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• Breaking: Apple Will Allow ANY Song to be Uploaded Into Apple Music…

  16-06-2015 19:39
  
  That’s funny, I thought you said you wanted to withhold your music from Apple’s new streaming service… According to FAQ details just leaked to Digital...
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• 11 Totally Crazy And Cute New Games Revealed By Nintendo At E3

  16-06-2015 19:33
  
  These new Nintendo games will be taking over your life... or making you say WTF.
  
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• WWE 2K16 Roster Reveal: Finn Balor Makes WWE Video Games Debut

  16-06-2015 19:14
  
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• Who Is Alicia Cargile? 5 Things You Need To Know About Kristen Stewart’s ‘Girlfriend’

  16-06-2015 18:59
  
  Here's what you need to know about K-Stew's apparent new girlfriend.
  
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• Verdi's La traviata: Falling for the fallen women

  16-06-2015 18:51
  
  Europe was already convulsed by questions of moral duplicity when La traviata’s Violetta took to the stage. Ahead of a new documentary about Verdi’s masterpiece, Tom Service examines why the tragic heroine caused such a stir“A whore must always be a whore,” wrote Giuseppe Verdi, a furious response to the censors in Rome who had demanded changes to his opera La traviata to make the story of the courtesan Violetta more palatable to a conservative public, and a startling statement of his ra
  
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• Introducing the band: Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite interviews Geoff Barrow and Billy Fuller

  16-06-2015 18:48
  
  This week, the Mogwai frontman interviews some of the artists who will appear on their ATP lineup. Here, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Fuzz Against Junk’s Billy Fuller talk about Bristol, the modern music industry and their side project Beak>• Stuart Braithwaite interviews the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim ReidStuart Braithwaite: Tell me the story of Beak>, and why you decided to get together …Billy Fuller: I first met Geoff in 2004 [when I was] with my first band, Fuzz Against Junk
  
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• Vicky Pattison's First Ever Novel Is Nearly Here, Yay!

  16-06-2015 18:47
  
  We could not be more excited...!
  
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• Miley Cyrus: "F**king Is Easy, Finding Someone To Talk To Is Hard"

  16-06-2015 18:22
  
  The singer has spoken candidly about her life so far...
  
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• Relive Tomorrowland Brasil 2015 On MTV

  16-06-2015 18:02
  
  Watch the first of two one-hour specials this Friday night from midnight on MTV Music...
  
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• ‘Songs that feel complete reflect life’s incompletion’

  16-06-2015 17:49
  
  In the second of Anita Sethi’s series exploring a vinyl collection discovered in her flat, Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy leads to a happy ending for Schubert – and help with packing to move homeRead the first instalment: ‘It’s like discovering new friends and soulmates’A sense of incompletion reigns this week as I sit surrounded by suitcases: I’m in the midst of seemingly never-ending packing, imminently moving out of one rental and into another. Yet sometimes the most perfe
  
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• The Magic Mike XXL Cast Have No Boundaries When It Comes To Nudity

  16-06-2015 17:44
  
  The cast of Magic Mike XXL reveal they're totally comfortable around each other when naked...
  
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• This Cat With Giant Alien Eyes Is Actually Real And We Are In Love With It

  16-06-2015 17:38
  
  Those eyes are BARING INTO OUR SOUL.
  
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• Killer Mike leads the pack of rappers-turned-politicians running for office

  16-06-2015 17:33
  
  Waka Flocka Flame, 2 Chainz and Michael Render (better known as one half of Run the Jewels) all plan to run for office. For Killer Mike, it makes a lot of senseJeb Bush’s announcement that he will run for president might have stolen the headlines yesterday, but as Jeb! spoke in Spanish, asked his mum for help and turned up the anti-Hillary rhetoric, there was another political candidate who threw his hat (or should that be mic?) into the ring. Michael Render, better known to the world as Kille
  
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• Quiz: What Should You Do Now That Your Exams Are Over?

  16-06-2015 17:25
  
  Not sure what to do next? Take our quiz to get some guidance...
  
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• The playlist: jazz – Geri Allen, John Zorn and Van Morrison

  16-06-2015 17:18
  
  June’s playlist is a tribute to the timeless music of Ornette Coleman
  Ornette Coleman: Lonely Woman
  Plenty of eloquence has greeted the death of the musical visionary Ornette Colemanbut six words from New Yorker writer Alex Ross – “no better definition has been devised”, in response to Coleman’s contention that “composing is a way of not repeating” – get close to the heart of the matter. Coleman was a hero to improvisers from many genres and cultures, and an extraordinary spontan
  
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• Cult heroes: Jackie Leven found musical beauty in his wounds

  16-06-2015 17:10
  
  Jackie Leven knew few boundaries, and could be so terrifying he intimidated Hawkwind, but his music was weighed down with a deep sorrowAs an antidote to the ceaseless bray and babble of Edinburgh at festival time, Jackie Leven playing his humane, mordant and bleakly beautiful songs to a handful of punters in a subterranean vault was hard to beat. I remember it well, which is good, because Leven’s gig at Cabaret Voltaire on 11 August 2011, turned out to be a swan song. Three months later one of
  
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• 11 Things Spencer Matthews Said On #MIC100 That Made Us Never Want To Date Him

  16-06-2015 17:08
  
  Spencer’s really doing nothing to dispel that whole “once a cheat, always a cheat” thing…
  
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• Ric Flair Remembers Dusty Rhodes: 'Guys Like You And Me, We Live On A Lightning Bolt, Kid'

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• Ric Flair Remember Dusty Rhodes: 'Guys like you and me, we live on a lightning bolt, kid'

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• Kanye West Doesn't Want Kim Kardashian To Show Her What On TV?!

  16-06-2015 16:23
  
  Yeezy is apparently laying down the law when it comes to his pregnant wifey...
  
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• Madonna Has Gone All 'Bad Blood' With Her Star Studded New Music Video

  16-06-2015 16:23
  
  Band aids don't fix axe wounds?
  
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• Bergenfest: hot acts brave hypothermia to make Norway's coolest toes tap

  16-06-2015 16:15
  
  The Norwegian pop festival packs big names like Patti Smith into a Viking castle with Scandi stars for an eclectic weekend of nostalgia, dance and waterproofsBergen is a funny place. One the one hand the Norwegian city feels like a ode to a nordic Wes Anderson; all cobbled streets, custard-yellow wooden houses and cinnamon buns. More than once I was tempted to make the frankly stupid purchase of a pastel-coloured typewriter from one of the many antique shops – held back only by the impractical
  
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• Ricky Rayment Reveals He Wants To Start A FAMILY With Geordie Shore Star Marnie Simpson

  16-06-2015 16:15
  
  Ricky seems to have some plans for his Geordie missus…
  
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• Club MTV Hits The Road For An Ultimate Summer Tour

  16-06-2015 16:02
  
  Find out where you can catch Club MTV over the next few months...
  
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• Mahler CO/Benjamin review – artfully interconnected themes

  16-06-2015 15:55
  
  Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
  Soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard was dazzling in Ravel, while two vocal works at the concert’s core were luminous, poised and eloquentThe thematic threads that run through the 2015 Aldeburgh festival are artfully interconnected. This year’s artist-in-residence is George Benjamin, who is featured as both composer and conductor, and the ensemble-in-residence is the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom Benjamin works regularly. Their concert together also introduced anothe
  
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• RLPO/Petrenko review – Dream of Gerontius is an absolute triumph

  16-06-2015 15:49
  
  Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
  The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s closed their 175th season with a sublime and bold performance of Elgar’s oratorioIs there some instinctive, gravitational pull that draws Russian conductors towards Elgar? Rozhdestvensky, Svetlanov and Ashkenazy ended up floating in the Edwardian’s orbit.Vasily Petrenko’s assimilation of Elgar, meanwhile, seems to have become a condition of his adoption of England as his second home.Elgar’s first and second symphonies have
  
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• WWE: Kevin Owens APOLOGISES For Powerbomb Attack On Machine Gun Kelly

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• Kylie Jenner Isn't Working On A Music Career After All, Sob

  16-06-2015 15:43
  
  The youngest Kardashian won't be taking to the recording studio...
  
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• Quiz: Which 'Orange Is The New Black' Character Is Your Prison Wife?

  16-06-2015 15:43
  
  Would Big Boo be your er, boo? Or is Piper more for you? Find out by taking our quiz now!
  
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• Cross-border online music licensing venture wins EU approval

  16-06-2015 15:12
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Three of Europe's biggest groups collecting royalties for songwriters and performers secured EU regulatory approval on Tuesday to set up a cross-border online music licensing venture after agreeing to concessions allowing rivals to compete. ...
  
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• Kristen Stewart’s Mum Denies Confirming That Her Daughter Is Dating Alicia Cargile

  16-06-2015 14:14
  
  And now the journalist is threatening to release the interview audio…
  
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• LSO/Haitink/Ibragimova review – he cast an instant spell

  16-06-2015 14:00
  
  Barbican, London
  When Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra get together, the high-level musical organisation is profound in a way few can rivalWhen Bernard Haitink gave his downbeat to the London Symphony Orchestra, it was as though he had cast an instant spell. There was no visible demand for the subtle dynamics and impeccably modulated tempi that flowed from the LSO players for the next two hours in music by Mozart and Mahler. But when this conductor and this orchestra get togethe
  
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• The playlist: Americana – Sharon Van Etten, David Kauffman, Reichenbach Falls and more

  16-06-2015 13:57
  
  Fuzzy bedroom lo-fi, a melancholy take on the California dream and Karen Dalton’s sorrow re-imagined by Van Etten in our latest roundupOne of my favourite albums of the year is Songs from Suicide Bridge, a re-release on Light in the Attic, named after a photograph of songwriters Eric Caboor and David Kauffman, taken on the Colorado Street Bridge that connects Pasadena to Los Angeles. The pair met playing the coffee shops of LA and teamed up – not as a duo exactly, but as “two loners who ha
  
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• Sony Reveals Game That Breaks Kickstarter, Makes Everyone Freak Out

  16-06-2015 13:39
  
  Shenmue 3 has been revealed. Watch the trailer now.
  
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• Sony Reveal Game That Breaks Kickstarter, Makes Everyone Freak Out

  16-06-2015 13:39
  
  Shenmue 3 has been revealed. Watch the trailer now.
  
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• Lauren Goodger Hits Out AGAIN At Ex Mark Wright And His ‘Embarrassing’ Twitter Rant

  16-06-2015 13:19
  
  The feud between Mark and Lauren shows no sign of ending anytime soon...
  
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• Rita Ora Opens Up About Ex Calvin Harris: “I Thought He Had My Back”

  16-06-2015 13:09
  
  The new X Factor judge reveals all about their break up…
  
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• You Won't Believe Who's Tried To Audition For One Direction Now!

  16-06-2015 13:02
  
  And no, it's not Zayn trying to get his old place back...
  
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• L7 review – grunge-rockers resurrect their headbanger heaviness

  16-06-2015 12:40
  
  Garage, GlasgowThe Los Angeles four-piece deliver a stormy assault that shows there was more to the band than just infamyL7’s moreish 1992 hit Pretend We’re Dead, an insouciant blast of grunge-rock, was unexpectedly prophetic. Even before the Los Angeles-based four-piece called it a day in 2001, mainstream culture had moved on. Until this year, L7’s legacy seemed like a lopsided one, as much about notoriety as music. Their place in rock’s hall of infamy was secured the moment singer/guit
  
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• Chris Pratt Getting Terrified By This Dino Prank Is The Best Thing You'll See All Day

  16-06-2015 12:28
  
  Watch Chris Pratt get scared by dinosaurs and call everyone a mother*cker.
  
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• Yay! TOWIE's Dan Osborne Engaged To Jacqueline Jossa

  16-06-2015 11:57
  
  It's literally a match made in TV heaven...
  
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• Niall Horan And Ariana Grande Party Together In Barcelona For Mutual Friend’s Birthday

  16-06-2015 11:45
  
  Oh you fancy, huh?
  
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