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• Check Out SoundCloud’s New 40,000 Sq. Ft. Manhattan Office Space…

  01-07-2015 23:05
  
  What massive copyright infringement lawsuits?   Total square footage: 43,600 Lease term: 5 years Exact Address: 50 W. 23rd Street, Flatiron District Floors: 9 &...
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• Stitches

  01-07-2015 22:12 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Stitches
  
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• Rumour Mill (Ft. Anne-Marie & Will Heard)

  01-07-2015 22:12 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Rumour Mill (feat. Anne-Marie & Will Heard)
  
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• Fox News Says Hip Hop Hurts Black People More Than Racism Does

  01-07-2015 21:30
  Fox News discusses Kendrick Lamar’s BET performance…
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• Taking to the sea for a hit of jazz heroes | Letter

  01-07-2015 21:04
  
  Tim Jonze writes about British pop singers who sailed the transatlantic liners to bring rock to this country (The sailors who taught Britain how to rock’n’roll, G2, 1 July), apparently without noticing that this trade had been going on since the 1940s among jazz musicians. It was how people including Ronnie Scott and Johnny (as he then was) Dankworth heard the early bop pioneers like Charlie Parker during their shore leave in New York. The British dance band leader Geraldo frequently worked
  
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• Winehouse, Austen, Kafka and Monet: why does the work of great artists get destroyed?

  01-07-2015 19:44
  
  Amy Winehouse’s label boss has admitted destroying some of the singer’s demos. She’s not the only one whose archive is incompleteAmy Winehouse may be under scrutiny again with the release of Asif Kapadia’s Amy but at least there is one aspect of her short and relentlessly contested life that will for ever remain untouched. Her demos. Those earliest, unpolished, often unlistenable artists’ recordings that are resurrected into the stuff of nightmarish posthumous albums. In the runup
  
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• Kim Kardashian Does Sexy Sailor For Rolling Stone & Talks About, Well, Everything

  01-07-2015 18:49
  
  Err what's with the hat?
  
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• 13 Things People Don't Tell You When You Become A Fully Functioning Adult

  01-07-2015 18:29
  
  Welcome to the real world, suckers.
  
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• Demi Lovato's 'Cool For The Summer' Is Beyond Addictive - Listen Now!

  01-07-2015 17:27
  
  Someone get us some watermelon...
  
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• 9 Hilarious OMFG Quotes From This Week's Judge Geordie

  01-07-2015 17:18
  
  She's solving the nation's problems playing Judge, but our Vicky's got a way with words that makes us crease. Check out the best quotes from Vicky and co. in this week's episode...
  
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• Kylie Jenner's Latest Instagram Snap Is A Bit Of All White As She Shows Off New Plush Pad!

  01-07-2015 16:51
  
  The teen has just moved into a $2.7million mansion...
  
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• St Vincent: 10 of the best

  01-07-2015 16:48
  
  One of the most compelling artists of this generation, Annie Clark writes restless, songs that defy convention – from solo stunners to incredible collaborationsSt Vincent’s debut album Marry Me is dense with ideas, sometimes wonderful, often impregnable. The ornate arrangements of Annie Clark’s early works may have reflected her state of mind and certainly her environment; she is one of eight siblings from a large Catholic family from the suburbs of Dallas, and it was from within this fami
  
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• Club MTV Gives Its Opinion On Galantis' Debut LP 'Pharmacy'

  01-07-2015 16:35
  
  R3wire and Varski take the duo's album for a spin ahead of their slot at Club MTV in Derry-Londonderry...
  
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• Thanks, eh: musicians that made it big when they moved to Canada

  01-07-2015 16:25
  
  Sure, Drake and Justin Bieber went the other way – but on this Canada Day we celebrate the many non-Canadians who hit their stride once they moved northThere’s plenty of home-grown talent that helps make the Canadian music industry a thriving one, but it’s hard to not fixate on how some of our most commercially successful artists like Drake, Nickelback and Justin Bieber only hit it big after leaving the country. However, there are also many non-Canadians who only began hitting their stride
  
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• Glastonbury's rubbish: going against the green ethos ruins it for everyone

  01-07-2015 16:09
  
  Despite the 40,000 bins, Worthy Farm after the festival is an apocalypse of scrap metal, plastic bottles and abandoned tents. It’s enough to stop me going backThere was a moment on Thursday at Glastonbury – my first time at the festival – when it seemed as though everyone was destroying everything. I hadn’t prepared myself for people dropping their rubbish and walking away from it; or peeing on the land, which ruins the river and kills the fish and wildlife; or leaving their mess on the
  
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• Zayn Malik As Bane In This One Direction Vs. Batman Parody Is Really Quite Something

  01-07-2015 16:09
  
  Zayn Bane is totally a thing now...
  
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• Here's Everything You Need To Know About Channing Tatum's Manhood

  01-07-2015 15:58
  
  Yes, really...
  
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• The Seven Stages Of A Heatwave, As Told By North West

  01-07-2015 15:55
  
  The most expressive two-year-old in all the land...
  
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• Why Apple Music Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against Spotify…

  01-07-2015 15:47
  
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• Form A Queue Gents, Jennifer Lawrence Is Back On The Market!

  01-07-2015 15:35
  
  By the sounds of it, not if Nicholas Hoult has anything to do with it...
  
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• Thielemann makes history as first music director for Bayreuth – with free parking

  01-07-2015 15:32
  
  The controversy-torn Wagner festival has appointed Christian Thielemann as its first independent music director. Unusually, this news emerged in the car parkChristian Thielemann has been officially appointed as music director of the Bayreuth festival, according to the German broadcaster Deutschlandradio. His formal duties will be announced when the festival opens with Katharina Wagner’s new production of Tristan und Isolde on 25 July. A car-parking space sign saying “Reserved for music direc
  
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• Erik Satie: a life less ordinary

  01-07-2015 15:28
  
  Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie No 1 might be a pop classic, but there’s much, much more to the fascinating and eccentric French composerFilm-makers have missed a trick with the life of Erik Satie. A biopic would have pretty much everything: the heart-warming story of a talented but strange man whose early failure and obscurity led to late-in-life celebrity; some acrobatic sex (literally – his one-and-only girlfriend had previously run away to the circus); strong language, violence, scandal and l
  
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• Philharmonia/Dohnányi review – lithe, passionate playing

  01-07-2015 14:43
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Christoph von Dohnányi can really energise a score, and brought great vitality to the orchestra’s season-closing programme of Bartók, Mozart and BeethovenReturning to the orchestra whose principal conductor he was for a decade (he is now its honorary conductor for life), Christoph von Dohnányi brought the Philharmonia’s London season to an end with this programme of Bartók, Mozart and Beethoven.
  After the interval came a grand interpretation of Bee
  
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• Bostridge/Wybrew review – special Schumann singing

  01-07-2015 14:41
  
  Mansion House, London
  The singer’s German diction was immaculate, and together with pianist Sebastian Wybrew he vividly illuminated three lesser-known Schumann cycles The programme that Ian Bostridge had devised for his City of London festival recital with pianist Sebastian Wybrew was entirely devoted to Schumann. The three groups of songs in it, and the encores that came after them, were all composed in 1840, the year in which Schumann was finally able to marry Clara Wieck. He celebrated his
  
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• Loz Speyer review – genre-bending trumpeter deserves a bigger stage

  01-07-2015 14:36
  
  Vortex, London
  Speyer’s jazzy improv outfit, Inner Space Music, delivered a consistently intriguing set of Cuban dance, American jazz and European free musicTrumpeter Loz Speyer, a well-kept secret of UK-based world-jazz composing, has been presenting different chapters of what he calls the Loz Speyer Real Book at the Vortex. On Sunday, he presented Inner Space Music, his explicitly jazzy and improv-oriented band, rooted in variations on the tradition running from Duke Ellington to Ornette Col
  
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• The Flying Dutchman review – Opera North's perfect theatrical storm

  01-07-2015 14:32
  
  Town Hall, LeedsOpera North continues to revitalise Wagner, dramatically presenting his voyage into gothic fantasy as a quasi-cinematic digital experienceIn just under five years, Opera North has transformed itself from a company that largely avoided Wagner to establishing a new paradigm for the way his operas might be presented. To describe the company’s concert-hall Ring cycle – for which complete tetralogies are scheduled next year – as “semi-staged” seems a major injustice. Rather
  
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• Iggy Azalea Does Not Want To Be Portrayed As A 'Mean Girl', Okay?!

  01-07-2015 14:01
  
  And she doesn't hate Britney Spears, FYI...
  
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• Bucks Fizz: more than just a Kwik Save Abba

  01-07-2015 13:59
  
  They were put together for the Eurovision song contest, but the UK’s answer to Abba were more successful and daring than people care to remembeThe white heat of the post-punk era created new pop, a term largely unknown to anyone who didn’t live through the early 1980s but beloved by many who did. The phrase was coined by Paul Morley in the NME, and the notion of new pop was to add more colour to the top 40, to bring showbiz back while retaining post-punk’s rejection of cliche. The result w
  
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• Listen to Charlie Fink's single My Heartbeat Lost Its Rhythm

  01-07-2015 13:45
  
  The former Noah and the Whale frontman returns with his debut solo track – and news of his score for the Old Vic’s adaptation of Dr Seuess’s the LoraxWhen Noah and the Whale split back in April, its individual members each set up their own websites, giving a glimmer of hope to those heartbroken fans that soon there might be a collection solo projects to fill the void. First came guitarist Fred Abbott’s one-man venture, then bassist Matt Owens, while violinist Tom Hobden has joined Mumfor
  
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• WWE 2K16: First Look At Finn Balor During Motion Capture For Video Game

  01-07-2015 13:39
  
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• Daniel Bryan Does A Surprisingly Intense Impersonation Of Hulk Hogan

  01-07-2015 13:24
  
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• Chrissy Teigen’s Attempts To #FreeTheNipple On Instagram Just Keep Getting Better

  01-07-2015 13:17
  
  Even her mum is getting involved!
  
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• Selena Gomez Has Provided An Important Taylor Swift & Calvin Harris Update

  01-07-2015 12:54
  
  Well this just changes everything...
  
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• Vicky Pattison Talks Sex & Salacious Celebrity Stories

  01-07-2015 12:52
  
  Want to know Vicky Pattison's saucy celebrity secrets? Read her new novel for a few clues...
  
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• You Won’t Believe Who Is Set To Replace Rita Ora On The Voice

  01-07-2015 12:51
  
  Put it this way, she's a familiar face...
  
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• Hmmm, We Wonder Which Pop Superstar This Could Possibly Be?!

  01-07-2015 12:31
  
  Clue? He'll always be our 'Baby'...
  
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• 6 Reasons Why NXT's Carmella Has All The Moves, And You Can't Teach That

  01-07-2015 12:31
  
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• The 11 Best Quotes From Kim Kardashian’s Powerful Speech At The Commonwealth Club

  01-07-2015 12:22
  
  She talked selfies, insecurities and Caitlyn Jenner
  
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• WWE Tough Enough Catch Up: Roman Reigns And Daniel Bryan Break It Down To Noobs

  01-07-2015 12:21
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Slays In Blue Lace, Rivals Daughters For Style Icon Status

  01-07-2015 12:08
  
  The 65-year-old is KILLING IT!
  
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• Iggy Azalea criticises press for stirring row with Britney Spears

  01-07-2015 11:53
  
  ‘I feel like the media wants women in music to get out and mud-wrestle each other,’ tweets the Aussie rapper Iggy Azalea has blamed the media for creating a “beef” between her and Britney Spears. Following reports on 30 June that the two singers were blaming one another for the failure of their collaborative single Pretty Girls, Azalea posted a series of messages on Twitter to clear up the speculation surrounding their relationship, claiming the obsession with her feuds stem from an inhe
  
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• 9 Magical Moments From The 'Magic Mike XXL' London Premiere

  01-07-2015 11:42
  
  Amber Heard's side-boob literally stole the show...
  
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• Rolling Stones 'do a Bowie'– career-spanning exhibition in London

  01-07-2015 11:00
  
  The Rolling Stones – Exhibitionism will include more than 500 objects from the band’s six-decade historyYou might think rock stars can gain enough affirmation (and cash) from their music. Take the Rolling Stones, with estimated career album sales north of 250m, a catalogue that includes some of rock’n’roll’s best loved albums – Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street among them – and the second, ninth and 10th highest-grossing tours of all time under
  
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• Emilia Clarke Plays 'Would You Rather?': *TERMINATOR EDITION*

  01-07-2015 10:48
  
  Would Emilia rather have a robot upper half or a robot lower half? And which body would she rather date?
  
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• Woah, Woah, Woah! Niall Horan Doesn't Think 1D Are "Cool Enough" For Glasto

  01-07-2015 10:24
  
  Why, Niall? WHYYYYY!
  
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• Kendrick Lamar – watch his new video for Alright

  01-07-2015 10:13
  
  The latest clip for To Pimp a Butterfly shows Lamar and his crew at loggerheads with the policeKendrick Lamar’s new video, for Alright, dropped overnight in Tuesday. The clip continues to explore the themes of Lamar’s album To Pimp a Butterfly, portraying a world in which the police and young black men are at opposite ends of the social spectrum. “These are issues that if you come from that environment it’s inevitable to speak on,” Lamar told the Observer last month. “It’s already
  
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• Ben Affleck And Jennifer Garner Call It Quits, Twitter Goes Into Meltdown!

  01-07-2015 09:59
  
  We are DEVASTATED...
  
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• Guns N' Roses have recorded enough music for 'two or three albums'

  01-07-2015 09:41
  
  However, band members admit they have no idea when it will be releasedGuns N’ Roses have recorded enough material “two or three albums”, according to guitarist Richard Fortus. Whether that means the world is set for a Use Your Illusion-style double release, or condemned to a Chinese Democracy-style wait, however, remains unclear.Speaking to the French online magazine VerdamMnis, Fortus said he had been involved in writing the new material. “There’s so much stuff that was done,” he sa
  
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• Amy Winehouse's demos will never be released – because her label boss destroyed them

  01-07-2015 09:28
  
  Universal CEO David Joseph says the decision to destroy her early recordings was ‘a moral thing’One of the grimmer sights in recent years has been the raiding of the vaults of dead superstars to uncover floods of posthumous albums – using demos and outtakes to create new music.That will not happen with Amy Winehouse, Universal Music UK chairman and CEO David Joseph has said. Speaking to Billboard, Joseph said he had destroyed her demos to ensure they could not be developed into releasable
  
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• Amy Winehouse honoured at premiere of film about her life

  01-07-2015 09:10
  
  The late singer’s friends paid tribute to her at the documentary film’s launch.
  
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