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• Dr. Dre announces new radio show on Apple Music service

  03-07-2015 23:15
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Dre will be busting through your speakers with a new radio show on Apple Music.
  
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• Red Roses [Explicit]

  03-07-2015 22:45 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Red Roses
  
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• Bitch Better Have My Money [Explicit]

  03-07-2015 22:13 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Bitch Better Have My Money (Explicit)
  
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• How to Turn off Apple Music Automatic Renewal on Desktop and iOS…

  03-07-2015 21:55
  
  iTunes: iOS:
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• The Foo Fighters’ Photo Contract Is Just as Bad as Taylor Swift’s…

  03-07-2015 21:19
  
  First Taylor Swift’s photo contract went viral, and now the Foo Fighters’ contract has. Washington City Paper posted the band’s contract for freelance photographers. The...
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• Premiere | MK Drops Brand New Banger 'Bring Me To Life'

  03-07-2015 21:15
  
  The house master is back with a brand new single. Take a listen here...
  
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• Tell the DMN Community: What Are You Working On?

  03-07-2015 21:15
  
  If the music industry has problems, what are you doing to solve them? If you’re writing something incredible, when will the world hear you? If...
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• Plug Yourself: What Are You Working On, And Why Should We Care?

  03-07-2015 21:15
  
  If the music industry has problems, what are you doing to solve them? If you’re writing something incredible, when will the world hear you? If...
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• Facebook Is Negotiating Music Video Licensing With Major Labels…

  03-07-2015 19:47
  
  Facebook just launched a video monetization program for creators. Just like YouTube, 55 percent of revenue from video ads will go to creators and 45...
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• Guillaume Tell opera rape outcry is over offence to music, not women

  03-07-2015 19:45
  
  The main complaint about the rape scene is that it doesn’t sit well with a jaunty Rossini piece. But why, then, are graphic operatic murders acceptable?
  The opera world is not very porous. When, on the first night of Guillaume Tell at the Royal Opera House earlier this week, people booed at the rape scene, at one point drowning out the music, and critics busted it from a four-star down to a one-star, and people bemoaned a huge range of things about modern life, from the sensibilities of its ma
  
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• NXT TakeOver Special In Brooklyn Confirmed For Night Before SummerSlam

  03-07-2015 19:04
  
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• New band of the week: Daye Jack (No 60)

  03-07-2015 18:43
  
  Meet the new teen space cadet of dreamy pop rap’n’soul
  Hometown: Atlanta. The lineup: Daye Jack (mellow vibes).Continue reading...
  
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• The Playlist: metal – Fear Factory, Baby in Vain and more

  03-07-2015 18:36
  
  Your latest dose of heavy metal medicine features bowel-shredding breakcore, an untamed trio of teens and the sound of one of the genre’s greatest bandsDespite their current status as resurgent underdogs, Fear Factory are one of the most important and influential metal bands of all time. Their pioneering hybrid of extreme metal, electronics and dark sci-fi has been plundered repeatedly over the last 25 years, but no one has ever come close to matching the robotic precision of Dino Cazares’s
  
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• Rihanna Basically Kidnapped 80 People For Her BBHMM Video Premiere

  03-07-2015 18:32
  
  Is this, like, a thing now?
  
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• Arctic Monkeys, Duran Duran honored at Silver Clef Awards

  03-07-2015 18:29
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - From heavy metal rockers Iron Maiden to classical singers Il Divo, musicians of all kind were honored at the O2 Silver Clef Awards on Friday, gathering for the annual luncheon that raises money for a British musical therapy charity. British rock band Arctic Monkeys scooped the "Best Live Act" award, winning the sole public vote of the event, which was held in London. Soul songstress Gladys Knight, pop star Rita Ora, rock group Duran Duran, heavy metal band Iron Maide
  
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• Monstrous fun: the community opera with a cast of hundreds

  03-07-2015 18:02
  
  Jonathan Dove’s Monster in the Maze involves a huge cast of professionals and amateurs, adults and children, and it’s being performed in three countries, in three languages. Can the Simons (Rattle conducting, and Halsey choral directing) tame the beast?There are 350 singers on stage in the Philharmonie, Berlin. There are children, teenagers and adults. They are singing and acting their hearts out for Simon Rattle. The orchestra is made up partly of the Berlin Philharmonic and partly of stude
  
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• Marc-André Hamelin; Erik Satie: Memoirs of a Pear-Shaped Life reviews

  03-07-2015 18:01
  
  Cheltenham music festival
  Marc-André Hamelin brought extreme virtuousity and vibrant resonance to his morning recital; Meurig Bowen’s celebration of Satie neatly encapsulated the surreal life of the troubled eccentricCanadian Marc-André Hamelin has effectively defined himself by espousing the repertory of pianist/composers such as Liszt and Alkan and making the extreme virtuosity they demand look simple. In this Cheltenham music festival morning recital, it was this ease of technique t
  
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• Duran Duran: Music streaming is the future

  03-07-2015 17:52
  
  The rockers spoke out in favour of streaming services such as Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music.
  
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• LSO/Rattle review – Zimerman and Rattle have forged a very special musical partnership

  03-07-2015 17:41
  
  Barbican, London
  Krystian Zimerman’s account of Brahms’s D minor Piano Concerto combined technical perfection with astonishing energy; Rattle and the orchestra brought off the Dvorak that followed with tremendous panacheThe London Symphony Orchestra could not have come up with a much better indication of what the future might hold in the Simon Rattle era than securing Krystian Zimerman as the soloist for the music director’s first concert since his appointment. Any performance by Zimerman
  
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• Just What Is Going On With Scott Disick And Kourtney Kardashian?!

  03-07-2015 17:28
  
  They're too good together to break up, right?
  
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• Jacob Collier review – jazz's new messiah

  03-07-2015 17:24
  
  Ronnie Scott’s, London20-year-old Collier gave a staggering, unique performance. Sharing the bill, pianist Justin Kauflin’s obvious talent also impressedWhen His Holiness Quincy Jones comes to the sacred temple that is Ronnie Scott’s to introduce two artists that he’s been mentoring, you’d expect a kind of papal blessing. What followed was more like the arrival of jazz music’s new messiah.
  North Londoner Jacob Collier has just turned 20. He looks like a shy boyband member, can sing l
  
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• How to put on a mega-gig: the lighting and show designer

  03-07-2015 16:55
  
  Getting roasted by Goldfrapp after a stage disaster ... and other potential perils of creating a pop tour’s visualsThere’s a saying in showbiz: never work with children or animals. I have a new rule: never work with inflatables. I had something go badly wrong on tour with Goldfrapp in 2010. Alison and Will had made an album called Head First, and the concept was that the band would wear silver and be beamed through this portal from another planet. It was all very ironic. We built this inflat
  
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• Harry Styles Talks Incredible Fans & Liam Payne Not Holding Back On Zayn Malik's Solos

  03-07-2015 16:30
  
  Yay for a Harry interview!
  
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• 22 Ways To Look Busy At Work While Doing Absolutely Nothing

  03-07-2015 15:30
  
  OK listen, because this is important.
  
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• 3 Ways To Get More Minions In Your Life

  03-07-2015 15:30
  
  We've had a play with some despicably adorable toys...
  
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• The week in music: Rihanna's BBHMM video, Prince on Tidal and more

  03-07-2015 15:12
  
  Rihanna and Iggy Azalea are both causing a stir this week, while the Dalai Lama – fresh from Glastonbury – makes a rare appearance in our music news roundup After deciding to temporarily leave Twitter in February, because “the internet is the ugliest reflection of man kind [sic] there is,” Azalea returned on Sunday 30 June. She addressed a few fan questions, namely about Britney Spears collaboration Pretty Girls and its lack of commercial success. One tweet in particular was blown out of
  
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• Rihanna’s bookkeeper beef and five of the best revenge songs of all time

  03-07-2015 14:50
  
  From Nile Rodgers getting back at a Studio 54 bouncer to Kendrick Lamar taking down … well, everybody, here’s five of the best revenge songsOf the many bizarre things about Rihanna’s latest video-de-force, Bitch Better Have My Money,the strangest might actually be the inspiration behind the song itself. Sure, there’s a nude, blood-soaked Rihanna lying in a chest of dollar bills, triumphantly smoking a blunt. And a toy dog propping up a comatose and otherwise seemingly innocent woman. Yet
  
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• Find Out What Liam Hemsworth Thinks Of Miley Cyrus' New GF Stella Maxwell

  03-07-2015 14:49
  
  The exes parted ways back in 2013...
  
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• Teen Mom Star Mackenzie McKee Reveals She Has A Sex Tape

  03-07-2015 14:16
  
  But is seriously hoping no one ever sees it.
  
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• Demi Lovato's Daring Swimsuit Will Have You Hot For The Summer

  03-07-2015 14:00
  
  How does she not have a wedgie?!
  
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• This week’s new tracks: Slim Twig is reclaiming rock’n’roll for the underdog

  03-07-2015 14:00
  
  Slim Twig | Janet Jackson | Once A Tree | Ill Blu ft James Morrison | AviciiPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• Pretty punk rock: how Ezra Furman found freedom in gender fluidity

  03-07-2015 14:00
  
  The Chicago musician is following the tradition of sexually subversive rockers, often performing in dresses and makeup. Here, he explains how his ambiguous approach to genre and gender helps shape his performance Related: Ezra Furman: Perpetual Motion People review – oddball rock from a genuine original | Alexis Petridis' album of the week It’s 2001, maybe 02. I’m a teenager, in love with punk rock and, like most teenagers, feeling the flimsiness of the boundaries that have been holding me
  
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• Cyril Hahn’s favourite tracks

  03-07-2015 14:00
  
  The Swiss peddler of pitch-shifted mixes empties the contents of his psychic record bagThis track gives me shivers each time I listen to it. I’ve been a fan of Nils Frahm’s music for a while now but this may be my favourite of his to date. Continue reading...
  
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• MTV Review | Years & Years 'Communion'

  03-07-2015 13:58
  
  Years & Years finally release their debut album and it's worth the wait...
  
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• This Dad & Daughter Beatbox Battle Is So Insane We Think We Need A Lie Down

  03-07-2015 12:59
  
  WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?
  
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• Wrap Up Sessions: Scrufizzer x Faith SFX

  03-07-2015 12:57
  
  GRIME
  
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• Rob Kardashian Is 'Furious' With Sister Kim After Those 'Weed' Comments

  03-07-2015 12:51
  
  Err Kim, you want to stay quiet when asked about your brother next time...
  
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• Rob Kardashian Is 'Furious' With Sister Kim After Those Rolling Stone Comments

  03-07-2015 12:51
  
  Err Kim, you want to stay quiet when asked about your brother next time...
  
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• Hip Hop Generation [2/6]

  03-07-2015 12:45
  
  London360
  
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• 15 Reasons Fresh Island Festival Deserves Your Consideration

  03-07-2015 12:20
  
  Find out more about this lesser-known urban festival held on the beautiful Zrće beach, Croatia...
  
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• Someone Tried To Body Shame Cheryl On Instagram... And She Had This To Say!

  03-07-2015 12:13
  
  The X Factor judge reveals the heartbreaking reason behind her recent weight loss...
  
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• #TGIF! Get That Friday Feeling With Club MTV's Weekend Mix

  03-07-2015 12:10
  
  There's BIG tunes in this week's mix from R3wire and Varski...
  
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• Is There No End To Taylor Swift’s Talents As Boyfriend Calvin Harris Shares Cute Cooking Pic

  03-07-2015 11:42
  
  Talvin just get cuter and cuter...
  
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• It’s #100DaysSinceZaynLeft One Direction, And The Fandom Are Taking It Hard

  03-07-2015 11:32
  
  Does it ever drive you crazy, just how fast the night changes?
  
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• Guess Who's Been Added To The Isle Of MTV Line Up...

  03-07-2015 11:17
  
  We've just added a final performer to next week's bash in Malta...
  
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• Why Trembling Bells' The Sovereign Self is the one album you should hear this week – video

  03-07-2015 11:15
  
  Alexis Petridis recommends Glasgow psych-folk band the Trembling Bells' dark new album The Sovereign Self. He describes his delight at stumbling across them at Glastonbury. Known for their admiration of the Incredible String Band, they have added a krautrock dimension to their sound. Its cover features portraits painted by singer Lavinia Blackwall Continue reading...
  
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• Sam Smith Isn't Singing The James Bond Theme Song... But He Knows Who Might Be!

  03-07-2015 11:09
  
  The singer says that while it would be dream to follow in Adele's footsteps, he's not the chosen one...
  
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• Kerry Andrew, Mira Calix and Bella Hardy set for Chinese music project

  03-07-2015 10:58
  
  The three UK-based artists will head to China this autumn to collaborate with local musicians as part of the British Council’s Musicians in Residence programmeUK musicians are getting set for another musical adventure in China. Kerry Andrew, Mira Calix and Bella Hardy are set to spend six weeks in east Asia, collaborating with local musicians as part of the British Council and PRS for Music’s Musicians in Residence programme.The announcement comes after a successful project in 2014 which saw
  
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• Miley's Rumoured Girlfriend Stella Maxwell: I Love My Significant Other “Sometimes”

  03-07-2015 10:55
  
  The Victoria’s Secret Angel opens up to V Magazine…
  
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• 1D's Liam Payne Goofs Around With GF Sophia Smith At Disney World And We Wish It Was Us!

  03-07-2015 10:31
  
  #relationshipgoals
  
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