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• “Spotify’s CEO Would Rather Fold the Company Than Give Up Free…”

  19-06-2015 23:47
  
  Just how expensive is free?  According to a pair of sources with close knowledge of Spotify’s ongoing major label renewal, preserving an unlimited free tier...
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• Apple Responds: “We’re Not Forcibly Removing Anyone from iTunes…”

  19-06-2015 23:14
  
  Someone’s lying, and Apple says it isn’t them. “It will not be taken off,” an Apple spokesman told Rolling Stone this morning. The “it” refers...
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• French, German Indies: “Apple Didn’t Even Contact Us…”

  19-06-2015 22:43
  
  Apple just keeps digging themselves into a bigger and bigger hole.  Independents like Beggars Group and others have already spoken out against Apple, but now more...
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• Fun (Ft. Chris Brown)

  19-06-2015 22:43 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• exclusive: hannah v - version 2.0 live

  19-06-2015 22:07
  
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• Attention SoundCloud Apps: Your Plays Are Now Being Limited…

  19-06-2015 19:36
  
  Sony recently started pulling their artists’ music off of SoundCloud, even though artists like Madeon disagreed with the decision. Now SoundCloud is now making changes...
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• The week in music: Dave Grohl's broken leg, Apple Music backlash and more

  19-06-2015 19:05
  
  Our weekly news roundup, featuring Florence + the Machine’s surprise Glasto headline slot, Madonna’s cameo-filled video and Neil Young’s brief tiff with Donald TrumpThe Foo Fighters’ frontman wouldn’t let a pesky shattered bone get in the way of pleasing his fans. Grohl slipped off the front of the stage during a gig in Sweden on 12 June, and proceeded to talk his fans through his concern that he might have broken his leg. I assume the adrenaline coursing through his body kept him from
  
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• Guess which US singing star will be Iggy Azalea's bridesmaid?

  19-06-2015 18:50
  
  The Black Widow singer, who got engaged to fiance Nick Young earlier this month, joined James Corden for a Carpool Karaoke skit where she teased details of the wedding.
  
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• WWE: Sami Zayn 'Out Of Action Until 2016 With Shoulder Injury'

  19-06-2015 18:48
  
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• Justin Bieber Wants To Perform With Taylor Swift Again And We Can't Even

  19-06-2015 18:45
  
  This one's for all the Beliebers and Swifties...
  
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• WWE Champ Seth Rollins Boasts He Can 'Knock Brock Lesnar's Teeth Down His Throat'

  19-06-2015 18:36
  
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• The Cast Of Entourage Play Would You Rather: Hollywood Edition

  19-06-2015 18:18
  
  Would they rather be the most famous person in the world for a year, or the richest?
  
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• Cara Delevingne Opens Up About Girlfriend St. Vincent: 'Being In Love Is Why I'm So Happy'

  19-06-2015 18:04
  
  The Brit star has given her first candid interview about her love life...
  
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• WWE: Is Rusev Stalking Lana? This Is Getting Creepy

  19-06-2015 17:50
  
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• New band of the week: Alina Baraz & Galimatias (No 58)

  19-06-2015 17:44
  
  R&B/electronic duo from Denmark and LA create a deceptively pretty soundtrack of the summer
  Hometown: Los Angeles, Copenhagen.
  The lineup: Alina Baraz (vocals), Matias Saabye Køedt (music).Continue reading...
  
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• Kylie Jenner Says She's 'Been Bullied By The Whole World' Since She Was 9

  19-06-2015 17:38
  
  It was a late night confession from the star...
  
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• Is Florence Welch really the first British woman to headline Glastonbury this century?

  19-06-2015 17:28
  
  It’s been a busy week in the battle for equality as Florence and the Machine kick Glastonbury in the balls, Helen Mirren slams James Bond and the heroic Harriet Tubman looks set to be the first woman to be printed on US dollarsCondolences to Dave Grohl, who, owing to a fall on stage in Sweden, is in a wheelchair and unable to perform at Glastonbury. And congratulations Florence Welch! Who, along with her trusty Machine, will be replacing Grohl’s band, the Foo Fighters, as the Friday headline
  
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• Introducing the band: Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite interviews Wu-Tang's GZA

  19-06-2015 17:13
  
  In the final instalment of Mogwai’s ATP interviews, Stuart speaks with the Wu Tang Clan member about early starts, science and the absence of thought-provoking rapStuart Braithwaite interviews Doug McCombs of TortoiseGeoff Barrow and Billy FullerThe Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim ReidStuart Braithwaite: I hear science is a big influence on your new album [Dark Matter]. Is it something you’ve always studied? GZA: I was inspired by it, but it’s not that I have always been interested in science
  
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• The playlist: pop – Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique, Foxes, Kiiara and more

  19-06-2015 17:08
  
  Flashes of a 90s throwback rave, zipping synths and minimal pin-drop beats from an Illinois newcomer, in this month’s pop selectionIt’s only been a year since Robyn last released a collaborative EP/mini-album in the form of the Röyksopp-produced Do It Again, but here she returns with another one, this time under the guise La Bagatelle Magique alongside touring keyboardist Markus Jägerstedt and late producer Christian Falk. While it’s not the full Robyn album most discerning pop f
  
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• The Strokes review: few expect fireworks – but they blow the park up

  19-06-2015 17:05
  
  Hyde Park, London
  The Strokes are swept on stage on a tide of hero worship and deliver speedball riffs and urgent bursts of amphetamine rock’n’rollYou have to admire the cojones of the man who booked Beck to support the Strokes, at the first of 2015’s British Summer Time Hyde Park shows. Surely such a showman, who can throw Michael Jackson disco-spins through rump-shakers like Sexx Laws, will expose the New York indie legends’ notorious shortcomings? Continue reading...
  
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• Wait A Minute, Is Kris Jenner Engaged To Boyfriend Corey Gamble?!

  19-06-2015 17:02
  
  Another day, another Kardashian romance rumour...
  
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• Glastonbury by numbers: Tallying up 45 years of music festival history

  19-06-2015 16:45
  
  Did you know that seven headline acts have dropped out in the 45-year-long history of Glastonbury, or that ticket prices have jumped from £1 to £225?
  
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• You Won't Believe How Much Justin Bieber & Usher Are Being Sued For Over Copyright

  19-06-2015 16:04
  
  The duo are in a bit of a sticky situation...
  
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• Songwriters Hall of Fame honors Van Morrison, Lady Gaga

  19-06-2015 15:28
  
  Veteran soul and bluesman Van Morrison and pop star Lady Gaga have added fresh accolades to their list of honors, winning awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Northern Irish singer-songwriter Morrison took the prestigious "Johnny Mercer Award" reserved for Hall inductees - just a week after he was knighted for services to music in the Birthday Honours list of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Lady Gaga was handed the first "Contemporary Icon Award" to honor "a songwri
  
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• Tyra Banks Shares An Actual No Make Up Selfie

  19-06-2015 14:55
  
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• This week’s new tracks: Duke Dumont’s back with his latest UV-ray banger

  19-06-2015 14:00
  
  Duke Dumont | Carnage ft ILoveMakonnen | Flo Rida ft Robin Thicke & Verdine White | Nero | Stereo KicksPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• Function’s favourite tracks

  19-06-2015 14:00
  
  The New York-born, Berghain-based techno master empties the contents of his psychic record bagA remix I just did for two friends which comes out this month on their label, Dynamic Reflection; I’ve been starting a lot of sets with it recently. Deep, dreamy Detroit-inspired techno with a proper Berghain kick that keeps it tough. Continue reading...
  
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• The show must go on: how to recover from an onstage injury

  19-06-2015 13:57
  
  What’s the most rock’n’roll way to recover from a severed arm or a broken leg? Unfortunately for Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, performing at this year’s Glastonbury is out, but there’s a host of other artists who soldiered on How have last-minute Glastonbury headliners fared?Life often stands in the way of art. From cultural boycotts to vocal haemorrhages, gigs get cancelled, fans are disappointed, live agents weep into empty wallets. This week, it was the Foo Fighters’s turn, when
  
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• Leftfield review – dance music nirvana

  19-06-2015 13:45
  
  Albert Hall, Manchester
  As loud and as distinctive as ever, the 90s techno act has not so much moved forward as waited for the rest of the world to catch upThese are good times for the 90s dance music behemoths. Underworld and the Chemical Brothers are touring again, while the Prodigy recently scored another No 1 album. Only Neil Barnes remains from the Leftfield duo that made the mainstream-invading Leftism in 1995. However, with a lineup including long-term studio engineer Adam Wren and a live
  
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• North West Clearly Found Being Minnie Mouse Exhausting In This Cute Pic

  19-06-2015 13:11
  
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• Miguel review – intimate electro-funk with a sincerity that connects

  19-06-2015 13:10
  
  XOYO, LondonMiguel’s psychedelic soul stretches out to fill the stage as he and his band take off on hazy jams and libidinous lyrical detoursDuring Sure Thing, he croonily elongates a list of inventive sex-analogies for about 10 minutes.Miguel’s promo team has been at work outside XOYO, spray-painting the pavement with the title of his new album, Wildheart, and bringing in a van dispensing free coffee. By sheer coincidence, Miguel’s current single is called Coffee, and a few dozen people h
  
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• Amy Schumer Announces She Will Be Opening For Madonna’s ‘Rebel Heart Tour’, Bring On The Lols

  19-06-2015 13:06
  
  Check out her adorable 'audition'...
  
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• How to put on a mega-gig: the band manager

  19-06-2015 13:02
  
  In the third part of our series about running giant outdoor shows, the manager of the Stone Roses and the Courteeners explains his roleAs a band manager, I don’t have that much to do with the organisation of the really big gigs, but I am involved. It’s slightly different for us because I also work for SJM Concerts, who are based upstairs. The Courteeners have a booking agent, but usually the promoters come to us and suggest a gig at Manchester Arena, along with some other shows around the UK
  
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• These 6 Real Life Prom Stories Will Blow Your Mind (& Make You Feel A Bit Boring)

  19-06-2015 12:46
  
  Reckon you could top any of these insane prom adventures?
  
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• Iggy Azalea Talks Wedding Day Boobs With James Corden In Carpool Karaoke

  19-06-2015 12:17
  
  This is one of our faves yet!
  
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• Taylor Swift, Natalie Prass, Glastonbury Festival: this week’s new live music

  19-06-2015 12:09
  
  Taylor Swift | Natalie Prass | Glastonbury Festival | Lydia Lunch Retrovirus | Scottish National Jazz Orchestra & Eddi Reader | Seven Gates: The Music Of Poland ExploredAs enormous as her popularity is, Taylor Swift remains as relatable as ever. Not for her songs about the isolation of celebrity, disaffection in the Skybar and so forth. Instead, Swift mints her music as she ever has, from the immediately recognisable ingredients of romantic disappointment, misunderstanding and frustration; i
  
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• Watch out, musicians! The seagulls are coming

  19-06-2015 11:59
  
  Does pianist Paul Lewis’s seagull-based injury augur something more sinister?Paul Lewis’s seagull-based accident this week - the pianist injured his hand after tripping thanks to a nesting seagull attacking him in Liverpool - should of course give us pause to consider what to do with those aerial vermin. It’s not enough that they nick our sandwiches and fish and chips on the prom, but apparently seagulls are now ganging up on virtuoso pianists in a concerted attempt to stop that infernal r
  
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• Ruby Rose Did What To Prepare For That 'OITNB' Naked Shower Scene?!

  19-06-2015 11:39
  
  Everyone's girl crush also reveals how she reacted to THAT Justin Bieber diss...
  
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• MTV Gig Highlights W/C June 10: Isle Of Wight Festival, The Black Keys & More

  19-06-2015 10:48
  
  Were you lucky enough to be at any of these concerts?
  
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• Take Note Journos, This Is Why You Should Never Mess With Rita Ora...

  19-06-2015 10:43
  
  The singer teared into The Mirror's Polly Hudson on Twitter after she slammed her X Factor hiring...
  
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• Lady Gaga Wore Her Underwear To 'Hall Of Fame' Event Because Why The Hell Not!

  19-06-2015 10:07
  
  The star (and her impressive bod) were honoured at last night's ceremony in NYC...
  
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• Warped Tour at 20: the punk circus rolls on (with a little corporate help)

  19-06-2015 10:00
  
  No one knew if an annual punk festival would survive the first 12 months, but 20 years later Warped has become a fixture. Tony Rettman finds out how they did it and why everyone from Apple to Trojan Condoms wants a pieceWhen Howie Abrams heard the premise for the first ever Warped Tour in 1995 – a traveling festival rooted in punk music and extreme sports – he had mixed feelings. “I thought it was an incredible idea,” said Abrams, who was an A&R representative for Roadrunner Records
  
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• Wolf Alice: ‘We’ve got to a nice, boring middle ground’

  19-06-2015 10:00
  
  The Camden band are all the rage, especially with their teen fanbase, thanks to a blend of big guitars and folk stylings. They talk about their quest for heaviness Related: New band of the day (Wolf Alice No 1,510) I’m in the Hawley Arms in Camden Town with an up-and-coming guitar band and we’re discussing the merits of MySpace. Not because we’ve fallen through a crack in the space-time continuum, but because the infamous pub – a byword for the latter-day excesses of the mid-00s indie sc
  
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• Bieber And Usher Sued For $10m Over Copyright

  19-06-2015 09:30
  
  Justin Bieber and Usher are being sued for $10m (£6m) by two songwriters who claim they illegally copied parts of a song they composed. R&B singer De Rico, real name Devin Copeland, and his songwriting partner Mareio Overton claim that three versions of Somebody To Love recorded by Bieber, Usher or both share the beat pattern, time signature and similar chords and lyrics with their song with the same name. On Thursday the US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, revived a May 2013
  
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• Breaking: Apple Will Remove Any Artist from iTunes Who Refuses to License Streaming…

  19-06-2015 08:11
  
  Anton Newcombe is from The Brian Jonestown Massacre…    
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• We've Worked Our 'Black Magic' And Little Mix Are Coming To MTV Crashes Plymouth!

  19-06-2015 01:01
  
  The X Factor girlband will also be joined by Kodaline and Tinie Tempah, while Steve Aoki will headline Club MTV on Day Two! Get ticket info here...
  
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• Club MTV's Plymouth Takeover Is Officially MASSIVE Now Steve Aoki Is On Board!

  19-06-2015 01:01
  
  Chris Brown's pal Deorro also joins the line-up! Tickets are still available for the event on Thursday, July 23...
  
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• Are Drugs an EDM Problem, or a Society Problem?

  19-06-2015 00:13
  
    Drugs are obviously a big concern at music festivals. EDM festivals have a worse reputation than most other genres, but is this justified? An...
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