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• Soundtrap Is a New Cross-Platform Browser Based DAW

  29-06-2015 23:02
  
  Soundtrap is a new browser based digital audio workstation that officially come out of beta today (June 29th, 2015). Soundtrap also allows online collaboration, competing with...
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• Apple Still Paying NOTHING on Comp’d Accounts…

  29-06-2015 22:51
  
  After indie labels flatly refused to play along, Apple finally agreed to pay a paltry $0.002 on every stream during its free trial period.  But Apple,...
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• On The Regular [Explicit]

  29-06-2015 22:46 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Check Out This Cover of Justice Scalia’s Poetic Statements…

  29-06-2015 22:22
  
  Coheed and Cambria Sing Justice Scalia's Dissenting Opinions from Funny Or Die
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• Good For You

  29-06-2015 22:12 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• What You Don't Do

  29-06-2015 22:12 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Oceans

  29-06-2015 22:12 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Solid Sound review – Wilco's intimate art fest brings the masses to MoCA

  29-06-2015 21:38
  
  The band’s carefully curated mix of visual art and music elevated both forms, while the only bad note was Mac DeMarco’s half-hearted slacker shtickIs Solid Sound a music festival that takes place in an art exhibition or an art exhibition that takes place at a music festival?
  The answer is both. The three-day festival, which ended Sunday at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), in North Adams, is helping redefine the outdoor summer music experience by pairing it with visua
  
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• Heads Up: Apple Music Launches Tomorrow…

  29-06-2015 21:19
  
  Apple Music is set to launch tomorrow, June 30th, on Windows, Mac, and iOS. Android and Apple TV will get the service later in the...
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• 10 things we learned from Daft Punk Unchained

  29-06-2015 21:00
  
  On 24 June, French TV screened the long-awaited Daft Punk documentary. Here’s what to look out for when it is screened in BritainMuch is written about Darlin’, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s pre-Daft Punk group, which featured Phoenix’s Laurent Brancowitz on guitar and gave rise to the Daft Punk name, via a scathing review in Melody Maker. But they are rarely seen in action. Continue reading...
  
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• Music Review: Joy Williams goes solo and bares soul

  29-06-2015 20:46
  
  Joy Williams, "Venus" (Sensibility/Columbia)
  
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• Mark Simpson: death in D flat major

  29-06-2015 19:30
  
  He is a visceral and wildly idealistic composer – but even Simpson was surprised by the scale of his new work about the afterlife, premiered at the Manchester international festival on 4 JulyMark Simpson is showing me the score of his new piece, The Immortal. “I felt like I was in a trance when I was writing it,” says the 26-year-old composer, clarinettist, and Liverpudlian musical polymath. “There was a period when I didn’t leave the house for 10 days. When I finished it, after seven
  
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• Chris Squire obituary

  29-06-2015 19:18
  
  Co-founder of the prog rock group Yes whose bass playing moulded their unique soundHaving been a founding member of Yes in 1968, Chris Squire, who has died aged 67 from leukaemia, remained committed to the group for the next 47 years. Squire, the band’s bass player, retained ownership of the Yes name even during a period of instability in the late 1980s, when other members split away to form Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. He was the only member to play on every one of Yes’s 21 studio albums,
  
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• Perrie Edwards Wants Babies With Zayn Malik HOW Soon?!

  29-06-2015 18:28
  
  The Little Mix star isn't ready just yet...
  
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• Looking for love on a dating app? You may find music instead

  29-06-2015 17:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In your quest to find a date, a spouse or a hook-up, you might discover something else when using dating apps: new music.
  
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• The Wolf (Live)

  29-06-2015 17:35 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• The Wolf

  29-06-2015 17:35 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Win A VIP Night Out With Club MTV!

  29-06-2015 17:22
  
  We're partnering with the Piccadilly Institute in London and you could be treated like royalty, on us...
  
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• Cannon & Pattz Celebrate The End Of Their Magical Judge Geordie Shoot

  29-06-2015 17:10
  
  *Sob* Vicky Pattison and Alex Cannon are getting all emosh...
  
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• Borodin Quartet review – they make music flow as naturally as speech

  29-06-2015 16:57
  
  Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Borodins can take Shostakovich’s notes and make them sound more right than almost any other ensembleThere is a story that when the Borodin Quartet was formed, in 1945, its original members signed an oath of allegiance in their own blood. The lineup has undergone many changes in the 70 years since, but the current quartet still plays as if the same stuff is running through all their veins. There is next to no visible communication between players – something that can r
  
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• Britten-Pears Orchestra/Knussen review – brilliant Britten and a poignant tribute to Schuller

  29-06-2015 16:56
  
  Aldeburgh festival
  Oliver Knussen gave a persuasive reading of Britten’s only ballet music This year’s Aldeburgh festival ended on a high, with Oliver Knussen conducting the excellent Britten-Pears Orchestra in a rare concert performance of Benjamin Britten’s only ballet music, The Prince of the Pagodas. It was the only work still unpublished at the time of his death and, as such, is not generally regarded as top-drawer Britten. Knussen has nevertheless always been a strong advocate.This w
  
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• A Flag Of Kim Kardashian's Sex Tape Was Waved During Kanye's Glasto Performance

  29-06-2015 16:30
  
  You won't believe your eyes...
  
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• Hear Rita Ora's Top Tunes Of 2015 On MTV TRAX All This Week

  29-06-2015 16:26
  
  The 'Poison' singer takes over MTV TRAX with some of her favourite tunes...
  
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• MTV Gig Highlights Of The Week: Glastonbury, BST Hyde Park & Loads More

  29-06-2015 16:22
  
  Another big week for gigs...
  
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• You Won't Believe Who Justin Bieber Followed All The Way To Australia...

  29-06-2015 16:13
  
  They travelled on separate flights but the timing is just too good to be true...
  
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• GZA/Tortoise/Lightning Bolt review – an expanding musical universe

  29-06-2015 16:07
  Roundhouse, London
  The acts at Mogwai’s All Tomorrow’s Parties micro-festival take different approaches, but they have intensity, intricacy and nuance in common
  The stage set-ups tell the story of this micro-festival curated by Mogwai, the centrepiece of their All Tomorrow’s Parties season at the Roundhouse. A menacing line of speaker stacks pushes Lightning Bolt right to the edge; the duo have just a slim envelope of space in which to slot themselves, a neat visual metaphor for the delibe
  
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• The Family Stone review – feelgood funketeers do the classics justice

  29-06-2015 16:03
  
  O2 ABC, GlasgowThough they lack the direction of their long-absent leader, the remaining Family Stone are tremendously tightThe Glastonbury mud has barely dried on the Family Stone’s shoes after they performed there on Saturday for about 30,000 people, but they are already back to playing club venues. “I prefer the intimate shows,” claims singer and keys player Alex Davis, whose far-out hat and coat make him look like a funky wizard. It’d be easier to believe him if he didn’t mention G
  
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• The playlist: electronic – Panama Brown, M.E.S.H. and Hilde Marie Holsen

  29-06-2015 16:00
  
  Our latest roundup of the electronic scene offers abstract futurist statements, 1980s testosterone swagger and essential Ibizan poolside selectionsHere’s further proof that the Janus crew in Berlin are making some of the definitive statements in today’s electronic avant-garde. Avoiding stiff-collared conservatoire pieces and milquetoast prettiness, M.E.S.H – like Lotic, Total Freedom and other Janus acolytes, as well as peers like Arca and Holly Herndon – uses the syntax of trap and tech
  
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• Glastonbury 2015: what were your favourite moments?

  29-06-2015 15:45
  
  Kanye, Patti and Lionel have left the farm and Glastonbury 2015 is over. So what were your favourite moments from the festival this year? Read more of our Glastonbury 2015 coverageGuardian writers reveal their personal highlightsAs ever, Glastonbury, it’s been emotional. You’ve rained, made us muddy and even let us have a bit of sunshine. And now we really need some sleep. You can read some of the Guardian writers’ highlights here, from yoga with Jarvis to losing our minds at mysterious te
  
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• Glastonbury 2015: Guardian writers share their highlights

  29-06-2015 14:41
  
  Guardian writers turned up at Glastonbury expecting to review bands … but they ended up doing yoga with Jarvis Cocker, crying with strangers and calling underground Korean restaurants from a mystery phone box Share your own highlights with usRead more of our Glastonbury 2015 coverage
  I am by no means a Pulp aficionado, but I really enjoyed doing yoga in the company of Jarvis Cocker and about 200 other people on Saturday afternoon in the Stonebridge tent. He’s a witty individual, of course, b
  
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• Glastonbury: the cleanup – in pictures

  29-06-2015 13:56
  
  Another year’s festival is over and the last remaining campers are leaving the site. Around 800 litter-pickers will begin the painstaking task of collecting the rubbish before the stages are packed away Continue reading...
  
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• Ex On The Beach Is BACK! And This Time, It's All About Sun, Sea, Sex And… CELEBRITIES!

  29-06-2015 13:43
  
  Get ready for the best series of Ex On The Beach EVER...
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Goes To New York Pride, The Crowd Goes Wild!

  29-06-2015 13:20
  
  Good times all round...
  
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• 22 Reasons Why Sónar Festival Went Beyond Music In 2015

  29-06-2015 12:59
  
  Missed this year's Spanish fest? We recap the best bits...
  
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• WWE: Nikki Bella Calls For Match With NXT's Sasha Banks To Unify Women's Titles

  29-06-2015 12:41
  
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• One to watch: Georgia

  29-06-2015 12:30
  
  A former footballer and drummer for Kate Tempest whose debut LP is inspired by Missy Elliott and post-punkWhen she was 11 years old, Georgia Barnes had a pet hamster. She was named after her favourite pop star at the time, Missy Elliott. “When I heard Get Ur Freak On, I remember I was in a car and I was thinking, ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever heard’,” she tells me over coffee near her north-west London home. “Missy brought a fresh approach to hip-hop and music, which was really a
  
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• Dolph Ziggler Wants To End His Career In A WWE Ring

  29-06-2015 12:20
  
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• Taylor Swift & Calvin Harris Are Ultimate #DoubleDateGoals In London With Joe Jonas & Gigi Hadid

  29-06-2015 12:06
  
  It even involved a boat, people!
  
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• MTV Gig Highlights W/C June 18: BST Hyde Park, Miguel & More

  29-06-2015 12:00
  
  Another big week for gigs...
  
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• Wimbledon's here, anyone for tennis music – from Satie to Shostakovich?

  29-06-2015 12:00
  
  As the grass-court tournament gets underway, here’s a volley of compositions inspired by racket play, including a Milhaud ballet and a Sibelius songWilhelm Peterson-Berger: Lawn Tennis (1896)With the rise in popularity of the sport in the late-19th century, tennis and music soon began to make a match. Johann Strauss II, for example, included a “Lawn-Tennis Chorus” in his penultimate operetta, Waldmeister (1895). If you didn’t know the title of Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger’s
  
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• How R&B got its groove back

  29-06-2015 12:00
  
  In the late 00s, R&B had lost its edge. But in 2015 it reigns supreme again thanks to innovative, introspective artists such as Frank Ocean, Drake and Miguel, all of whom are due to release eagerly awaited albums soon. Just don’t mention the ‘hipster’ tag…Occasionally, a musical genre will be so sonically revolutionary that it will become untethered from the context of its creation. Styles such as hip-hop or country or house are so broad and mutable, it’s difficult to imagine that
  
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• Joni Mitchell is 'speaking well' and will make full recovery, says longtime friend

  29-06-2015 11:58
  
  Leslie Morris says reports that singer is struggling after suffering aneurysm are ‘speculative’ and that a full recovery is expectedJoni Mitchell is on the road to a “full recovery”, according to her conservator, Leslie Morris. Morris released a statement through the singer’s website on 28 June, confirming that Mitchell had suffered an aneurysm in March, but that she was now “speaking well”.“Joni did in fact suffer an aneurysm. However, details that have emerged in the past few d
  
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• Florence + the Machine return to No 1 following Glastonbury set

  29-06-2015 11:30
  
  Friday-night headline performance helps Florence + the Machine pip Wolf Alice to top spot in the album chartsFlorence + the Machine benefitted from the Glastonbury effect, with their Friday-night performance returning How Big How Blue How Beautiful to the No 1 slot in the UK albums charts after a two-week absence. Florence’s rise meant Wolf Alice – who had been No 1 in the midweek charts with their debut album My Love Is Cool – went into the chart at No 2.Related: Florence + the Machine at
  
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• P Diddy Falling Into A Hole & 7 Other Memorable Moments From The BET Awards 2015

  29-06-2015 10:46
  
  Including the moment Rihanna threw some money in someone's face...
  
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• Justin Bieber heads Down Under for Hillsong Church worship

  29-06-2015 10:39
  
  Justin Bieber arrived in Sydney on Monday to attend a week-long gathering at a Hillsong pentecostal church, after the pop star this year vowed to discard his hard-partying image. "Justin is here, like tens of thousands of others, as a delegate who is seeking to build stronger foundations into his life," Hillsong Church said in a statement. Music is central to Hillsong's form of worship but the Canadian singer is unlikely to perform any of Hillsong's faith-based songs, accordi
  
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• LA Priest: ‘I’m not trying to be freaky for the sake of it’

  29-06-2015 10:00
  
  It’s taken eight years but the former Late Of The Pier frontman has morphed into a self-styled “Earth Shaman” with a fantastical debut album. Could he be the next psych-pop genius? Related: The playlist: new bands – Beau NYC, Ji Nilsson, LA Priest, and more The green, green hills of Wales’ Montgomeryshire would seem like the ideal place to disappear. Sheep greatly outnumber humans, and you’re more likely to come across a red kite than a 3G signal. Even the area’s newest resident, S
  
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• Diddy falls through stage during show in Los Angeles – video

  29-06-2015 09:57
  
  Rapper Diddy fell through the stage during a performance at the BET awards in Los Angeles on Sunday that celebrated Bad Boy Records' 20th year anniversary. The hip-hop star briefly dropped out of sight as he walked towards the back of the stage, dropping into a hole that was used by Lil' Kim to make her entrance. He quickly recovers, with fans offering a helping hand, and carries on performing Continue reading...
  
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• Glastonbury 2015 verdict: Florence + the Machine, Kanye West, the Who and more

  29-06-2015 09:00
  
  Florence Welch pulled out all the stops, while Kanye’s set was faltering and relatively restrained. But everyone was talking about the rapper – even Sunday’s closing act the Who, says Alexis PetridisThere are many diverting sights to take in at Glastonbury: everything from Pussy Riot forcing a gun-toting man to wear a rainbow balaclava in the name of politically charged performance art, to the Dalai Lama addressing the stone circle on Sunday morning, traditionally a time when it is largely
  
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• Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce win big at BET Awards

  29-06-2015 06:41
  
  Though she was absent, Beyonce won three BET Awards, including video of the year for "7/11," while Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj also won multiple awards at the all-star show Sunday night.
  
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• Trip Switch

  29-06-2015 04:11 via mtv.co.uk
  
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