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• How Much of a Difference Does a ‘Festival Survival Pack’ Make?

  07-07-2015 23:51
  
  Last month I went to EDC for the first time.  The week beforehand, I was at Governors Ball, two weeks beforehand I was at FORM...
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• Rejjie Snow Releases Music Video For 'All Around The World'

  07-07-2015 22:31
  
  Rejjie Snow releases new music video with Lily Depp for 'All Around The World'
  
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• I’m An Independent Artist And Apple Music Screwed Up My Entire Discography

  07-07-2015 21:37
  
  Let me start off by saying that I’m a full-time, independent artist and have been making the majority of my living off of music for the...
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• Frank Ocean v Miguel: music's latest rivalry is another press-driven distraction

  07-07-2015 21:00
  
  Miguel has made headlines for calling his own work ‘better all the way around’ – but such flaps in the media ignore what really matters: the musicIn an interview with The Sunday Times, singer and songwriter Miguel rekindled rumors about a burgeoning rivalry between himself and Frank Ocean. The two artists were instantly compared to each other when they reached mainstream success in 2012. They are both black men. They are both in their twenties and are creators of more experimental forms of
  
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• Def Leppard Says Spotify Is Actually Worse Than Napster…

  07-07-2015 20:49
  
  From an interview with Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen CTNow… CTNow: I’ve noticed that much of the Def Leppard catalogue is not on Spotify or other...
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• Neon Jungle Split Up

  07-07-2015 20:35
  
  Neon Jungle break up
  
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• Total Divas exclusive: WWE's Brie Bella Has 'Baby Fever' And Is 'Ready' To Be A Mom

  07-07-2015 19:20
  
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• SESAC Is Acquiring the Harry Fox Agency…

  07-07-2015 19:19
  
  News surfaced over a year ago that SESAC was bidding to buy the Harry Fox Agency for around $40 million.  Now, SESAC has officially announced that...
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• #MTVFestivalSeason: We Asked A Bunch Of Celebs If They'd Rather Share A Tent With Drake, Nicki Minaj Or Kendrick Lamar...

  07-07-2015 19:00
  
  Ciara, Conor Maynard and Krept & Konan were amongst the stars answering the trickiest question of Wireless Festival...
  
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• Amy Winehouse, my sister and addiction

  07-07-2015 18:44
  
  Amy being alive meant there was hope for my heroin-addicted younger sister. When the singer died, my world caved in. What chance did we have now?
  I remember where I was the day that Amy Winehouse died. I had run into a shop in Soho to buy a birthday present, when I heard an exchange between the girl at the till and her customer. “She died of an overdose. It was just on the radio,” the cashier said in a “sad news” voice while counting out the change. Both shook their heads
  
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• Brody Jenner Has Weighed In On Stepsister Kourtney Kardashian’s Break-Up

  07-07-2015 18:30
  
  The “sex enthusiast” stopped talking about his new show to talk about Scott Disick…
  
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• This girl's selfie earned her an invitation to star in Rihanna's music video

  07-07-2015 18:14
  
  Yes, these things actually happen.
  
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• Arnold Schwarzenegger Doesn't Understand How The Pyramids Were Built, Wants To Time Travel To Find Out

  07-07-2015 17:55
  
  Plus! Three more ancient civilisations
  
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• Shaggy Thinks His Music Could Help Defeat ISIS

  07-07-2015 17:26
  
  Yep, that's the headline...
  
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• "I'm So Fat!" Chloe Etherington Jumps On The Geordie Shore Diet Bandwagon

  07-07-2015 17:25
  
  Chloe's following in Charlotte, Holly & Vicky's footsteps...
  
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• Records from a rented room: homesick blues and dreams of escape

  07-07-2015 17:12
  
  As Anita Sethi visits her hometown of Manchester, she considers how singers have explored the tug to both leave home and return, what makes a house a home, and how music can capture the longing to belong I’m on the midday train to Manchester, where I plan to embark on a musical adventure, rummaging for riches in record stores (more on that next week). “I’m going back home, where I was born,” sings Nina Simone into my ears, as I travel back to the city of my birth. Throughout the journey,
  
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• MTV Gig Highlights Of The Week: Wireless Festival, New Gen Live & More

  07-07-2015 17:06
  
  It’s been a big week…
  
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• Ariana Grande Licks Some Doughnuts And Kisses Her New Boyfriend, In That Order

  07-07-2015 16:41
  
  Mmm baked goods...
  
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• The playlist: world and folk music – Caetano Veloso, Moriarty, Shirley Collins, Ebo Taylor and more

  07-07-2015 16:39
  
  A Brazilian legend, Greek composer Ahetas Jimi’s timely Chaos album, Shirley Collins, Duckworth Lewis Method and newcomer Daymé ArocenaThe great Brazilian singer-songwriter performed this charming and poignant English-language song from the early 1970s as an encore during his historic reunion show at Hammersmith with old friend Gilberto Gil. It was written during his years in exile in London, after he and Gil had been arrested and then deported by the Brazilian military authorities, who regar
  
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• New Order enlist Iggy Pop, Elly Jackson and Brandon Flowers for new album

  07-07-2015 16:36
  
  The group announce more details of their 10th studio album, as well as a series of Music Complete tour dates Music Complete may be New Orders’ first record without Peter Hook, but the band have enlisted an impressive lineup of guest stars ahead of its release. Iggy Pop, Elly Jackson of La Roux and the Killers’ Brandon Flowers will appear on the new record, scheduled to come out on 25 September.Although each artist represents a different musical strand – punk, pop and stadium rock – they
  
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• Arrested Development review – return of the cheery hip-hop idealists

  07-07-2015 16:25
  
  Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
  Their smash-hit days may be long past, but the Atlanta group are greeted here as heroes, delivering strong and relevant messages as well as infectious tunes
  Not to be confused with the TV series, Arrested Development are the band that rap forgot. Their 1992 debut 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of … sold 4m copies as fans and critics swooned over their earnest but impassioned political idealism and sunny pop choruses. However, the follow-up album bombed
  
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• Kendrick Lamar: US rapper gives ex-JLS star Oritse Williams 'beautiful' advice on solo career

  07-07-2015 16:12
  
  As a former member of one of the UK's most successful boy bands, Oritse Williams knows a great deal about the music industry but he still values advice from US hip hop star Kendrick Lamar. The former JLS singer is now launching a solo career under the name OWS, two years after the X Factor contestants announced their shocking split. Opting not to go into music management, Williams, 28, has been busy working on new material and had the pleasure of playing a teaser for Swimming Pools hitmaker
  
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• Entanglement/That Man Stephen Ward review – notorious deaths retold

  07-07-2015 16:11
  
  Parabola Arts Centre, CheltenhamNova Music Opera’s double bill dealing with real-life crime and punishment made for a challenging, thoughtful and well-sung eveningEach opera in Nova Music Opera’s double bill, directed by Richard Williams and part of the Cheltenham festival, dealt with a notorious legal case, both of which had grim outcomes. No easy evening, then. In Entanglement, receiving its premiere, composer Charlotte Bray and librettist Amy Rosenthal conjure Ruth Ellis, who murdered her
  
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• Oops! We Advise You Don’t Try To Reenact Disney’s Up Anytime Soon

  07-07-2015 16:09
  
  It won't have the same happy ending as the movie...
  
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• Orquesta Filarmónica de México UNAM/Latham-Koenig review – lacking in substance

  07-07-2015 15:44
  
  Corn Exchange, CambridgeA programme of showpieces, designed to include plenty of local colour, felt insubstantial with not enough flair or rhythmic precisionFounded in 1936, relaunched in the 1970s and based at the National University of Mexico, the Orquesta Filarmónica de México UNAM, is the longest established orchestra in Mexico City. Jan Latham-Koenig has been its artistic director since 2011, and he is conducting the orchestra on its first visit to the UK.The touring programme
  
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• Across the Distance review – serene and persuasive

  07-07-2015 15:30
  
  Cambo Garden, FifeJohn Luther Adams’ new work for 32 horn-players, which closed the East Neuk festival, made us hear the environment as much as the notes themselves“Can music resonate with the world around us, and yet still create a world of its own?” This is a typical question posed by the composer John Luther Adams, and his own music resolutely answers it: yes. JLA’s outdoor works make us hear our environment as much as the notes themselves. He calls the process “ecological listening
  
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• We Can’t Even Cope With These #SunburnTattoos

  07-07-2015 15:26
  
  There is nothing ‘thug’ about cancer, guys.
  
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• Wireless Festival 2015: Conor Maynard feels pressure to win fans back with second album

  07-07-2015 15:01
  
  Speaking to the IBTimes UK backstage at London's Wireless Festival 2015 at Finsbury Park, Maynard explained: "There's always pressure, it's always quite scary because you can't just rely on, 'Oh, my first album did really well'. "It always takes time to record the second album and fans are fickle, they move between different artists and when something's new they jump on to that. The Turn Around singer's second album appears to be coming along nic
  
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• Geordie Shore's Charlotte Talks Crying Her Eyes Out Before Weight Loss

  07-07-2015 15:00
  
  "I was too embarrassed to go to the gym."
  
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• Cult heroes: Lou Christie has been a trucker, a roughneck, a carnie – and a maker of sublime pop

  07-07-2015 14:16
  
  His musical career has spanned everything from girl group classics to state-of-America concept albums, so why isn’t Lou Christie better known?In the early 90s, I used BBC Radio 2 as a Horlicks substitute. One winter night I was just nodding off to sleep when, coming out of the midnight news bulletin, I heard something that sounded like a clanging firebell with an insistent one-note melody over the top. “MAAAAYBE!” screamed the radio. “Maybemaybemaybe I love you.” What the hell was it?
  
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• Disney Performer Dies After Lighting A Firework Off Of His Head

  07-07-2015 14:05
  
  The 22-year-old had been celebrating Independence Day with his friends.
  
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• Kendall Jenner Is This Season’s Chanel Couture Bride – But She’s Not Wearing A Wedding Dress

  07-07-2015 13:54
  
  Karl Lagerfeld reflects modern bridal trends in this season’s couture extravaganza…
  
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• Joan of Arc: striking the right note for a silent film classic

  07-07-2015 13:38
  
  Film director Carl Theodor Dreyer never settled on a score to accompany his 1928 silent masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc. Will the Orlando Consort’s a cappella version – using medieval songs composed in the saint’s lifetime – prove a more fitting soundtrack?Tonight, in St Margaret’s church in York, and the following day in Tewkesbury Abbey, the Orlando Consort, a vocal ensemble that specialises in medieval music, will take to the stage and sing a chanson by Guillaume Dufay with l
  
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• Noel Gallagher dominates vinyl sales in the UK in 2015

  07-07-2015 13:36
  
  Gallagher’s High Flying Birds top sales of both albums and singles on vinyl during the first half of the yearLet no one say the vinyl market is dominated by the dinosaurs of rock or their fans. Actually, scratch that – because it is. The Official Charts Company has released its lists of the bestselling vinyl albums and singles this year, and both are dominated by Men of Rock of a certain age.Chasing Yesterday by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is the bestselling vinyl album of the year,
  
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• One hell of a way to make a Royal Opera debut

  07-07-2015 13:22
  
  Russian soprano Ekaterina Bakanova stepped in to sing Violetta at Covent Garden with only hours’ notice, and gave the performance of her lifeThere are always advantages to seeing a show at the end of its run rather than the opening night: the cast are on top of their vocal performances and their dramatic relationships, and with first-night anxieties out of the way, the musical co-ordination between orchestra pit and stage has had time to refine and relax.Which is what we in the audience might
  
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• The Rape of Lucretia review – Fiona Shaw's production is clear-sighted and non-sensational

  07-07-2015 12:58
  
  Glyndebourne, SussexA strong cast, including Christine Rice’s noble Lucretia and Duncan Rock’s forthright Tarquinius, bring Britten’s tragic chamber opera vividly to life A week after a graphic rape scene not envisaged by the original creators of William Tell provoked furious protests at the Royal Opera House, a work whose central dramatic event is a rape that is invariably presented visually opens at Glyndebourne.Benjamin Britten’s first chamber opera, which had its world premiere at th
  
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• That Awkward Moment When Caitlyn Jenner Has The Same Dress As Kris Jenner

  07-07-2015 12:52
  
  A girl's worst nightmare...
  
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• Here’s What You Can Expect From Kylie Jenner’s Make-Up Tutorials

  07-07-2015 12:38
  
  The 17-year-old gives a sneak peek at one of her beauty looks…
  
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• Teen Mom Star 2 Jenelle Evans Defends Letting Her Dog Playing With A Live Firework

  07-07-2015 12:29
  
  The reality TV star has spoken out about the 4th July incident...
  
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• Michael Bublé's Baby Announcement Is Beyond Cute

  07-07-2015 12:25
  
  Bublé and his wife have baby number two on the way...
  
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• This Is How London Is Remembering The 7/7 Bombings

  07-07-2015 11:56
  
  Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the attacks in London.
  
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• You Literally Will Not Believe What Steve Brookstein Has Tweeted About The 7/7 Bombings

  07-07-2015 11:26
  
  Seriously?
  
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• WWE Raw results: Cesaro And John Cena Steal The Show With An Absolute Barnburner

  07-07-2015 11:15
  
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• Jill Scott admits she was wrong to lend support to Bill Cosby

  07-07-2015 11:14
  
  Soul singer tweets that newly emerged court documents offer the proof she needed and that she is ‘completely disgusted’The soul singer Jill Scott has said she was wrong to lend her support to Bill Cosby last year, after he was accused of multiple sexual assaults against women. In November, when Scott was asked to sign a petition to call on Temple University in Philadelphia to end its relationship with Cosby, who had been a donor to the institution, she replied: “So they’ve proven the all
  
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• Zoella Just Broke Her Own Record With New Beauty Range

  07-07-2015 11:06
  
  Everything’s coming up Tutti Fruity for the beauty vlogger…
  
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• And The Award For 'World's Hottest Woman' Goes To...

  07-07-2015 10:35
  
  Well, according to Zoo readers anyway…
  
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• Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over Justin Bieber's Naked Bum

  07-07-2015 10:12
  
  Well it's understandable, really...
  
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• Music as stress reliever? Fine, but I like music that makes me stressed!

  07-07-2015 08:00
  
  New research from the Royal College of Music definitively proves that performing and listening to music relieves stress, but experiencing stress and intensity is a vital part of much classical musicMost of us have known this for years, but it seems that research by the Royal College of Music’s Centre for Performance Science finally proves that “listening to and performing music has been shown to have a positive, biological effect on mood and stress levels”. Evidence came from a survey of s
  
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• Pink Floyd at Knebworth - review: from the archive, 7 July 1975

  07-07-2015 06:30
  
  It looked like a glorious festival from the 1960s but audiences now demand slickness and professionalism rather than experimentKnebworth looked, initially, like a repeat of one of those glorious festivals that marked the zenith of progressive rock development in the late sixties. The vast audience was sprawled across the English countryside, banners waving like a medieval battlefield, while the homely droning of Mr John Peel announced an impressive cast of musicians who used to be leaders of the
  
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• Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett 'cheek-to-cheek' at Montreux jazz fest

  07-07-2015 03:28
  
  By Stephanie Nebehay MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Pop star Lady Gaga and crooner Tony Bennett brought a mix of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra and even Edith Piaf to a sell-out crowd spanning generations at the Montreux Jazz Festival on Monday night. Legendary producer Quincy Jones introduced the odd American couple, praising Gaga as a singer who had "blown his mind." He also recalled working on the musical arrangement for Bennett's 1966 hit "Girl Talk."
  
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