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• Music Review: Campbell steps front and center with wife

  23-06-2015 23:43
  
  Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, "Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams" (Red House)
  
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• Jelli Raises $21 Million to Sell Radio Ads…

  23-06-2015 23:10
  
  Jelli is an advertising platform for radio. Jelli powers iHeartMedia’s ad buying platform and works with Katz Marketing Group. Jelli says they’ve closed a $21...
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• Diddy was protecting himself before UCLA arrest, says spokeswoman

  23-06-2015 22:01
  
  Producer allegedly attacked one of son’s coachesFree on bail after posting $50,000 bail
  Sean Combs – the rapper, fashion designer and impresario better known as Diddy – was arrested on Monday for allegedly attacking a UCLA football coach with a kettlebell – but his representatives on Tuesday insisted Combs was acting in self-defence.“The various accounts of the event and charges that are being reported are wholly inaccurate,” Nathalie Moar, a spokeswoman for Combs Enterprises, said i
  
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• TIDAL’s CEO Has Resigned…

  23-06-2015 21:40
  
  Back in April TIDAL fired 25 staff members, including their CEO Andy Chen. Peter Tonstad, former CEO of Aspiro, took over as interim CEO. TIDAL...
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• Music mogul Diddy's rep" He was defending himself

  23-06-2015 20:44
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean "Diddy" Combs was defending himself in an incident at the University of California, Los Angeles, that led to his arrest, a representative the hip-hop mogul's company said Tuesday.
  
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• Music mogul Diddy's company: He was defending himself

  23-06-2015 20:29
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sean "Diddy" Combs' company says the hip-hop mogul was defending himself in an incident at the University of California, Los Angeles, that led to his arrest.
  
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• Breaking: Apple Paying Just $0.002 Per Stream During Its Free Trial Period…

  23-06-2015 20:06
  
  Yesterday, Apple reversed course and announced that artists would be paid during the free trial phase of its upcoming streaming service, Apple Music. Just one...
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• Gigi & Bella Hadid Give V Magazine Double Trouble On Racy Cover

  23-06-2015 19:36
  
  So, er, where can we get a pair of their legs?
  
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• Raging in the free world: the many furies of Neil Young

  23-06-2015 19:33
  
  The rocker’s latest album – The Monsanto Years – rails against the GM food giant and Starbucks. But what else has he been angry about in his long career? Related: Neil Young + Promise of the Real – The Monsanto Years: album streamContinue reading...
  
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• Glastonbury band Wolf Alice release highly-anticipated debut album

  23-06-2015 19:29
  
  Among the musicians performing at this year's Glastonbury Festival, one emerging British rock band is garnering as much excitement as the headline acts. Wolf Alice, a north London rock band, has won over music fans and critics alike with songs such as "Giant Peach" and "Bros". The band originally formed in 2010 with lead singer Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Joff Oddie.
  
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• Google launches free streaming service ahead of Apple Music debut

  23-06-2015 19:12
  
  By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc launched a free version of its music streaming service on Tuesday, as it sought to upstage the debut of Apple Inc's rival service next week. Google Play Music has offered a $9.99 per month subscription service for two years but Tuesday's launch is the first free version of the streaming service. It is available online and will be available on Android and iOS by the end of the week, Elias Roman, Google product manager, said.
  
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• The ultimate Glastonbury style guide: from denim cut-offs to disco sequins

  23-06-2015 19:12
  
  Never mind the weather. When creating your festival fashion statement, it’s all about where you choose to hang out. Here’s our stage-by-stage breakdownWhat to wear at Glastonbury this year? The weather is only one factor, because much depends on where exactly you will be hanging out. You wouldn’t pack the same holiday wardrobe for a cultured city break in Madrid as you would for a party weekend in Mykonos, would you? Continue reading...
  
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• Is country music ready to dissociate from the Confederate flag?

  23-06-2015 18:58
  
  For decades, country stars have embraced the ‘rebel’ flag as a symbol of southern heritage and pride. But after Charleston, that seems destined to changeIn response to the horrific Charleston shooting that left nine members of a historic black church dead, our rattled nation has engaged yet again in a discussion about whether the Confederate flag, particularly the one flying outside the Columbia state capitol, still has any place in modern society. This time, though, change actually seems im
  
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• Letter: BB King was moved by the warmth of the public embrace at the Albert Hall

  23-06-2015 18:50
  
  The first album by BB King (obituary, 16 May) that I acquired, BB King – Live at the Regal (1964), still raises the hairs on the back of my neck, and I saw his first British performance, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1969. At that point BB was still performing to a predominantly black audience at home, overshadowed among white blues fans either by Chicago bluesmen such as Muddy Waters or “rediscovered” acoustic country blues artists such as his cousin Booker White. BB seemed uncerta
  
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• Marvel Have Revealed Who Will Play Their New Spider-Man, Drum Roll Please…

  23-06-2015 18:33
  
  Get ready to see this face everywhere you go very soon...
  
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• Tidal music streaming service loses second CEO in less than three months

  23-06-2015 18:07
  
  Interim CEO Peter Tonstad, who had replaced axed Andy Chen at Jay Z’s music streaming service in April, is ‘no longer with the company’Jay Z’s music streaming service Tidal has lost its second chief executive in less than three months.
  Tidal announced on Tuesday that interim CEO Peter Tonstad was “no longer with the company”. Tonstad only took the helm in April after Tidal axed previous boss Andy Chen just weeks after Jay Z bought Aspiro, the Swedish company behind the technology, an
  
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• Relax, Pets - Vicky's Still Single! Judge Geordie Shuts Down New Boyfriend Rumours

  23-06-2015 18:04
  
  Vicky Pattison has denied rumours that she's been enjoying a new romance...
  
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• Can't stand Kanye West? Glastonbury offers an abundance of alternatives

  23-06-2015 18:03
  
  The hip-hop star promises enticing unpredictability, but despite recent problems, the festival still brings an unparallelled range of music talent for all tastes
  Thus far, the 33rd Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts has had rather a turbulent time of it.There have been hasty, last-minute rearrangements. At the time of writing, a gap still exists on the Friday night main stage bill: the slot vacated by Florence and the Machine when they stepped in to replace headliners the Foo F
  
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• Google adds free ad-supported tier to music app in the US

  23-06-2015 18:01
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google is adding a free tier to its subscription streaming music service in the U.S., aiming to convert the millions of people who click on the Google Play Music app every month but turn away because they're prompted for payment information.
  
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• Records from a rented room: 'The tragedy of Billie Holiday's life gives her songs pathos'

  23-06-2015 17:32
  
  In the latest in a series about the vinyl collection she found abandoned in her flat, Anita Sethi explores the great jazz singer’s back catalogue “Southern trees bear strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,” sings Billie Holiday on the harrowing protest song Strange Fruit. A song that began, in 1937, as a poem by New York schoolteacher Abel Meeropol, it portrays a lynching and the horrors of racism, and became an anthem of the early civil rights movement. Although previo
  
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• Selena Gomez's Impression Of Taylor Swift Is So Spot On We Practically Applauded

  23-06-2015 17:26
  
  No really...
  
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• Techno pioneer Moritz von Oswald's latest mixes Afrobeat and 'emptiness'

  23-06-2015 16:44
  
  On his new album, the German producer explores his lifelong fascination with ‘the sounds into the emptiness’ with the help of Fela Kuti’s drummer, Tony AllenFrom the flourishing drum’n’bass scene to stadium EDM, today’s dance music is waxing maximal, as tracks are stuffed with information until they’re juddering heaps of noise. Even in the underground, techno and house tracks have their empty spaces filled with pillowy analogue hiss. In this environment, Moritz von Oswald, the Germ
  
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• The Tallest Man on Earth: 'It feels like such a freedom to be loud'

  23-06-2015 16:34
  
  Kristian Matsson sings of grief and personal revelation, but when he takes to the stage, his mission is to preach to the unconvertedThere is a moment, two-thirds of the way into the title track of the Tallest Man on Earth’s new album, Dark Bird Is Home, when Kristian Matsson’s voice seems to give way completely. “I thought that this would last for a million years, but now I need to go,” he sings, before a pause and a cry of tearful exasperation: “… Ah, fuck.”Dark Bird Is Home is Ma
  
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• WWE: Tyson Kidd 'Facing Lengthy Injury Lay Off'

  23-06-2015 16:29
  
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• Zayn Malik future: Krept & Konan say former One Direction star has 'plenty of ammunition'

  23-06-2015 16:29
  
  The Freak Of The Week hitmakers teamed up with Malik, 22, in 2014 before the former boyband singer dramatically quit One Direction in March 2015. Speaking to the IBTimes UK's A-List in London, Konan, 25, revealed that their collaboration with Malik was simply a "muck around". "After that we heard the news about [Malik quitting One Direction].
  
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• Kim Kardashian Shows Off Her Boobs, Bum & Bump!

  23-06-2015 16:22
  
  The reality TV star really does know her pregnancy style...
  
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• Alban Gerhardt and friends review – music-making at its most invigorating

  23-06-2015 15:55
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  The German cellist was joined by violinists Baiba Skride and Gergana Gergova, and violists Nils Mönkemeyer and Brett Dean, in this absorbing chamber concertLateness, of various kinds, was the theme running through this absorbing chamber concert, which began with Mozart’s final string quintet and concluded with Brahms’. Mozart had little idea the piece would be his last chamber work, while Brahms fully intended his to stand as his final musical essay, until a clarinettis
  
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• WWE: Jamie Noble Broke Three Ribs Brawling With Brock Lesnar

  23-06-2015 15:55
  
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• LSO/Haitink review – Beethoven with humane warmth and depth of feeling

  23-06-2015 15:52
  
  Barbican, London
  A Beethoven rarity alongside his Leonore No 2 overture and a glorious performance of the Ninth Symphony made for a magnificent eveningFor the second of his current concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink turned to Beethoven, prefacing the Ninth Symphony with the Leonore No 2 overture and a rather remarkable rarity. Written in 1815, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is a choral cantata, setting a pair of linked poems by Goethe, better known as the inspiration fo
  
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• Music mogul Diddy accused of assault with workout equipment

  23-06-2015 15:09
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hip-hop music mogul Diddy was released from jail after being accused of assault with a weight-room kettlebell at the athletic facilities of the University of California, Los Angeles, where his son plays football, police said.
  
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• Titanic Composer James Horner Dies In Plane Crash

  23-06-2015 14:29
  
  Sad news in Hollywood this morning...
  
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• Selena Gomez reveals why she no longer trusts anyone

  23-06-2015 14:12
  
  The 22-year-old actress and singer has grown up in the spotlight.
  
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• Julian Siegel review – tenor-sax twisters and smouldering melodies

  23-06-2015 13:48
  
  Vortex Jazz Club, LondonBacked by a traditional quartet, the fusion jazz composer brought forensic aplomb to exciting new compositions Julian Siegel, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist who in the 00s blossomed into one of Europe’s leading jazz player-composers, plays most reed instruments and sometimes double-bass – but he approaches the tenor saxophone with a special forensic aplomb, as if pursuing something at once meticulously detailed and effortlessly natural. Siegel is often
  
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• Soz One Direction, But Skinny Jeans Might Actually Be Bad For Your Health

  23-06-2015 13:12
  
  This goes to any other boyband member out there...
  
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• Ricky Rayment's Seriously Missing Marnie Simpson & It's Totally Adorable

  23-06-2015 13:09
  
  Ricky and Marnie sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G... etc, etc, pet.
  
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• 6 Reasons Why Killing Off Piper In Orange Is The New Black Wouldn’t Have Been The Worst Thing

  23-06-2015 12:53
  
  What would have happened if Chapman had been bumped off? We investigate...
  
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• Wait, Why Is Jessie J Lying In A Hospital Bed?

  23-06-2015 12:44
  
  The singer has uploaded a worrying vid...
  
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• WWE Raw Results: Brock Lesnar Apologises, Then Gets His Ass Kicked

  23-06-2015 12:16
  
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• So, Does This Pic Of Justin Bieber Mean He's Ready To Settle Down?

  23-06-2015 11:56
  
  Star posts snap of himself at an alter, but is ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez his future bride?
  
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• Buddy Landel RIP: Former WWE Wrestler Dies Aged 53

  23-06-2015 11:03
  
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• Apple's change of heart may offer new model for music industry

  23-06-2015 11:01
  
  Taylor Swift's latest big victory may have been watching Apple blink after the pop star called out the tech giant for its initial policy of refusing to pay artists during free trials of its new Apple Music streaming service. Apple's change of heart came after the 25-year-old singer posted on Tumblr that she'd hold back her latest hit album 1989 from the service. Its decision to now pay artists during its three-month trial period may offer up hope of finding a new model for the rec
  
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• Rita Ora Defends Chris Brown, Says "No One Cares" About His Past

  23-06-2015 10:52
  
  The X Factor judge has supported Breezy after working with him on a song for her new LP...
  
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• The Latest Issue Of Vogue Japan Is One For The Kardashian Jenner Family Album

  23-06-2015 10:41
  
  Yeezy and Kendall team up for Vogue Japan’s ‘Fashion Gang’ cover…
  
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• P Diddy Arrested After Fight With Son's Football Coach

  23-06-2015 10:28
  
  The 'Bad Boy For Life' star has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon...
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner's Family Father's Day Snap Will Leave You All Warm Inside

  23-06-2015 09:59
  
  Even Yeezy managed to crack a smile for the pic...
  
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• Deadmau5 and Walt Disney settle mouse ears legal dispute

  23-06-2015 03:22
  Canadian DJ Joel Zimmerman has settled a dispute with Disney over the similarities between his stage headgear and Mickey MouseBurn not your house to fright the mouse away. Deadmau5 and the Walt Disney Corporation have settled a legal dispute that has lasted almost a year over the “trademark” mouse head that Deadmau5 wears on stage.Related: Deadmau5 v Disney: mouse ear logo sparks legal disputeContinue reading...
  
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• Exclusive: Soundcloud Bracing for Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuits…

  23-06-2015 03:21
  
  Grooveshark said it wouldn’t happen to them, either.  But according to multiple executives close to the situation, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and the Recording...
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• Apple's about-face reveals cracks in music industry

  23-06-2015 02:11
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Apple's abrupt about-face on paying royalties for songs during a three-month free-trial period for its new music service was a symbolic victory for superstar Taylor Swift and other artists, and a shrewd business move by Apple, at a time when the streaming phenomenon is causing major changes in the music industry.
  
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• 10 Artists We Love to Hate

  23-06-2015 01:24
  
  Provided by Decluttr, the simplest way to make room and make money by selling your unwanted CDs, DVDs, Games and Blu-Rays.     We all...
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• Apple's about face reveals cracks in music industry

  23-06-2015 00:51
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Apple's abrupt about-face on paying royalties for songs during a three-month free-trial period for its new music service was a symbolic victory for superstar Taylor Swift and other artists, and a shrewd business move by Apple, at a time when the streaming phenomenon is causing major changes in the music industry.
  
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