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• After nearly 50 years, James Taylor scores a chart-topping album

  24-06-2015 22:28
  
  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran singer-songwriter James Taylor raced ahead of pop singers Adam Lambert and Hilary Duff to score his first No. 1 album on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday. Taylor, 67, had to wait nearly half a century since his self-titled debut album came out in 1968 to notch the top spot on the chart with his 17th studio album. The singer made waves over the weekend by writing an open letter to Apple Inc, criticizing its policy of not paying art
  
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• The Sundance NEXT FEST Lineup Is Here…

  24-06-2015 21:47
  
  Sundance has released the lineup for NEXT FEST, a festival that pairs movie screenings with performances by musicians. The festival takes place August 7th –...
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• Indie music body endorses Apple's new music streaming service

  24-06-2015 20:36
  
  (Reuters) - Apple Inc's new music streaming service has been endorsed by the Worldwide Independent Network, an association for independent musicians, two days after the company reversed its decision of not paying musicians during a three-month trial. The endorsement follows a Billboard magazine report that independent music rights holders Beggars Group and Merlin Network signed royalty deals with Apple. The iPhone maker flipped its decision on Monday following pop star Taylor Swift's m
  
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• Independents line up behind Apple Music

  24-06-2015 20:31
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Several independent music label groups, including those representing Adele, Arcade Fire and Radiohead, say they can now support Apple Music after Apple reversed a decision not to pay royalties during the 90-day free trial period and adjusted other terms.
  
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• Google Play Music Rolls Out Free, Ad-Supported Playlists…

  24-06-2015 19:32
  
  Between Spotify, TIDAL, Apple Music, and SoundCloud, it’s getting hard to keep track of all the streaming services. Google Play Music has been silent for...
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• One Direction Have Just Announced A New Fragrance And The Advert Is Absolutely Ridiculous

  24-06-2015 18:54
  
  YES, ANOTHER FRAGRANCE.
  
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• WWE's Paige Dismisses 'New Boobs On Tough Enough' Speculation

  24-06-2015 18:51
  
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• Win Tickets To Isle Of MTV Malta With MTV Trax!

  24-06-2015 18:34
  
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• Glastonbury 2015: Music fans descend on Worthy Farm as Met Office forecasts mostly dry festival

  24-06-2015 18:21
  
  Glastonbury Festival is swarming with music fans after more than thousands of revellers descended on Worthy Farm, where headliners Florence + the Machine, Kanye West and The Who will perform. In all, 175,000 festival-goers will arrive at the 900-acre site, where other acts set to grace the 100ft high Pyramid Stage include Pharrell Williams, Mary J Blige and Lionel Richie. As well as the renowned artists who grace its stages, Glastonbury is also known for one other element: the weather.
  
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• Indie Labels Accept Apple’s Extremely Crappy Terms…

  24-06-2015 18:16
  
  Indie labels are accepting Apple’s terms, and liking it. Yesterday, we learned that Apple will pay a paltry $.002 per stream during the free trial...
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• A-List Insider: Taylor Swift takes on Apple, Zayn Malik teams up with Krept & Konan

  24-06-2015 17:58
  
  Taylor Swift takes on Apple, Kim Kardashian reveals the sex of her second child and Zayn Malik teams up with Krept and Konan. When Taylor Swift is not busy making hits, she is changing the music game one Tumblr post at a time. The pop star recently called out Apple over its refusal to pay artists during free trials of its new Music streaming service and, guess what, they listened.
  
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• Channing Tatum Has Explained That Time He Had A Shocking Penis Accident

  24-06-2015 16:50
  
  Say it isn't so...
  
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• Eight Hints That Your Relationship Might Be Over

  24-06-2015 15:56
  
  Drunk in love? Meh… not so much.
  
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• Music Review: Richard Thompson eases up, 'Still' delivers

  24-06-2015 15:52
  
  Richard Thompson, "Still" (Fantasy Records)
  
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• WWE: Randy Orton Is Obviously Having A Very Awesome Holiday

  24-06-2015 14:46
  
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• Stewart Lee announced as ATP 2016 curator

  24-06-2015 14:00
  
  ‘Bring a bucket, spade, swimwear and an open mind,’ says Lee, who will handpick a lineup for ATP 2.0 at Pontins in Wales next year Stand-up comic and part-time music hack Stewart Lee will curate an ATP event in 2016. The second of the ATP 2.0 festivals will take place at Pontins camp in Prestatyn, north Wales, from 15-17 April, featuring a lineup handpicked by the revered comedian.The bill has not been announced yet, but the following statement from Lee should provide some hints as to his mu
  
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• Test your knowledge of bands in fiction – quiz

  24-06-2015 13:39
  
  For those of us avoiding Glastonbury mud in favour of reading in a nice dry room, there are still plenty of rock thrills available in the library. Find out if you're a headline act or bottom of the billWhat’s the name of the group with Beatles haircuts who sing in fake British accents in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49?The ParanoidsThe MonkeesThe AndroidsThe MerseymenWhich of these bands did NOT take their name from A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess?Heaven 17MolokoLevel 42C
  
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• 'Triple H Is Doing Things Right With NXT,' Says Hulk Hogan

  24-06-2015 13:36
  
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• Glastonbury 2015: Wednesday liveblog – the weather and first arrivals

  24-06-2015 13:20
  
  The gates are opening at Worthy Farm with thousands of festival goers in a race to find that perfect camping spot chez Eavis – with Kanye West, Florence + the Machine plus a spot of rain to follow 12.19pm BST What you perhaps didn’t know about this year’s festival is that if the running order had been decided by popularity on Spotify, you’d be in for a whole lot of headliners clutching acoustic guitars …The new line-up is how Glastonbury would have looked if it had been programmed acco
  
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• The Kanye West talk white people couldn't handle

  24-06-2015 13:00
  
  The audience had sat through a symposium on the rapper – but when I asked whether white people deserved the rapper, they headed for the exitsWhen you’re black, you experience random acts so extremely ignorant or blatantly racist that you simply have to laugh; for instance, when people assume you ordered chicken, call you the N-word at the supermarket or ask if they can touch your hair. When you’re black in America, such stale and corny interactions are par for the course. Yes, racism is qu
  
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• Kim Kardashian Filmed A Drunk Naked Woman Trying To Bang Down Her Hotel Room Door

  24-06-2015 12:55
  
  Yeah, so this happened...
  
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• WHEY-AYE! 1D's Niall Horan Reckons Geordie Shore is The Best TV Show EVER (Sort Of)

  24-06-2015 12:48
  
  OI-OI! Who fancies a One Direction / Geordie Shore mash-up, then?
  
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• WWE Tough Enough: How WWE Stars Reacted To First Episode

  24-06-2015 12:39
  
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• Missy Elliott Is Ready To Work It At Bestival And We Can't Wait

  24-06-2015 12:26
  
  Now where are those gold hoop earrings we used to wear...
  
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• Some Genius Teenagers Have Created A Condom That Changes Colour If You Have An STD

  24-06-2015 12:25
  
  So it's probably time to go get tested lads…
  
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• The Trailer For The Final Paranormal Activity Is Here And It's Full Of Really Creepy Little Kids

  24-06-2015 12:25
  
  The trailer for Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is terrifying. Watch and see why.
  
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• So This Is Why The Directioners Think Larry Is Coming Back

  24-06-2015 11:53
  
  What a morning for fans of 1D...
  
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• I'm a Glastonbury virgin. What should I do there?

  24-06-2015 11:49
  
  I’ve managed to go 30 years without going to Glastonbury, but in 2015 I’m finally taking the plunge. Suggest your essential rites of passage at the festival, and I’ll tick them off – within reasonThanks to a combination of being a cheapskate, a fairweather camper and generally feckless, I’ve managed to reach the age of 30 without ever going to Glastonbury. Coachella: yes. Benicassim: yes. Various events in Butlin’s holiday camps wandering around the amusement arcades in a fugue state
  
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• Giggs drops fresh single, ‘Who’s Dat’

  24-06-2015 11:03
  
  Who's Dat
  
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• Every Bikini Kylie Jenner Has Ever Worn On Instagram Since Time Began

  24-06-2015 10:57
  
  Because summer...
  
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• Naughty Boy Presents Section Boyz Collab in ‘140 Man At Ya Door’

  24-06-2015 10:38
  
  HARD
  
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• Scrufizzer teams up with OnJobPros on BegFriend

  24-06-2015 10:24
  
  HARD
  
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• Glastonbury weather forecast: regular spells of rain, with the odd moment of sun

  24-06-2015 10:14
  
  It’s not going to be a total washout, but there will be intermittent rain from Friday 12pm onwards, with Saturday mostly dry and the odd sunny spell throughoutIf the forecast on Tuesday cast a grey cloud across your weekend, then perhaps it’s time to face up to the reality of Glastonbury: you will definitely need wellies and most certainly waterproofs. Of course, there will be intermittent moments of dryness – mostly on Saturday – and the next two days at least are clear at Worthy Farm,
  
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• HMoney takes on Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen in ‘Bando’

  24-06-2015 10:14
  
  Hard
  
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• Did Taylor Swift Just Tell Calvin Harris She Loves Him On Stage In Glasgow?!

  24-06-2015 10:09
  
  Or do our ears deceive us?
  
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• Are you at Glastonbury? Share your best pics

  24-06-2015 10:08
  
  Gates have officially opened at Glastonbury 2015. Share your photos, videos and stories with us
  Are you already here? Are you on your way? Share your best photos, video and stories with us and we’ll publish a selection of photos on theguardian.com/music in the week after the festival – and the very best will appear on our Glastonbury liveblog.Please make sure you ask permission of anyone whose photo you want to take and abide by our other guidelines, and respect the farm! Continue reading...
  
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• Queen launch their own lager

  24-06-2015 09:18
  
  Band release Queen Bohemian Lager to mark the 40th anniversary of Bohemian RhapsodyWhen one thinks of Queen, one surely thinks of Freddie Mercury down the pub, sipping his lager and then placing it on top of the fruit machine. And if only Freddie had lived, he would finally be able to celebrate with his own brand of beer.Queen are releasing Bohemian Lager to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Bohemian Rhapsody, joining the ranks of bands with their own beers. It is, apparently, “golden” and �
  
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• 'I hate heavy metal,' says Mastodon frontman

  24-06-2015 08:50
  
  Brent Hinds says he only started playing heavy music because he thought it was rebellious, and he’s always trying to get Mastodon to drop the metalWhile it is traditional for bands closely associated with a genre to insist “there’s always been a dance element to our music” or to protest that they are too versatile to be pigeonholed, it’s less common for them to be as forthright as Brent Hinds of metal heroes Mastodon. “I fucking hate heavy metal and I don’t want to be in a heavy me
  
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• If iTunes Is a Headache, Wondershare TunesGo Is Your Aspirin…

  24-06-2015 00:38
  
  The following comes from DMN strategic partner WonderShare, a company dedicated to solving iTunes headaches with its companion plug-in, TunesGo. iTunes has always been one of...
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