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• Ariana Grande Filmed Saying: 'I Hate America'

  08-07-2015 23:29
  
  Pop star Ariana Grande has apologised after she was caught on camera in a California doughnut shop saying: "I hate America."
  
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• Shadez The Misfit Delivers New Track: 'The Rendition'

  08-07-2015 22:52
  
  Shadez The Misfit
  
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• Alright [Explicit]

  08-07-2015 22:10 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Alright
  
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• Lock All The Doors

  08-07-2015 22:09 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Lock All The Doors
  
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• Ariana Grande apologizes for saying 'I hate America' in donut-licking video

  08-07-2015 21:58
  
  The pop singer defended viral footage of her in a donut shop, saying she was referring to child obesity in the US and is ‘extremely proud to be an American’Ariana Grande has defended herself after a video of her licking a donut and saying “I hate America” went viral.The singer and actor said in a statement to Buzzfeed she should have known better, but seemed to imply that she had been making a point about healthy eating. Continue reading...
  
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• iTunes Song Downloads Are Below 2008 Levels…

  08-07-2015 21:45
  
  2015 is a flat-line projection, based on first-half numbers (531.6 million downloads, down 10.1% from first-half 2014).  And remember, this is all before Apple Music...
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• This Streaming Company In India Just Got $100 Million In Funding…

  08-07-2015 20:05
  
  At the beginning of the year, Indian streaming service Saavn hired Mahesh Narayanan, a former Google India Mobile executive. Saavn is competing for control of...
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• This Indian Streaming Company Just Got $100 Million In Funding…

  08-07-2015 20:05
  
  At the beginning of the year, Indian streaming service Saavn hired Mahesh Narayanan, a former Google India Mobile executive. Saavn is competing for control of...
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• 95% of Music Fans Don’t Pay for Streaming…

  08-07-2015 19:26
  
  …from slide 5 of Nielsen’s US-based data presentation at EDMbiz Conference & Expo in Las Vegas last month.  In the same deck, Nielsen showed that...
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• Shaggy, the Who and Ringo – pop's anti-Isis taskforce beefs up

  08-07-2015 18:18
  
  The reggae star has echoed Pete Townshend and the Beatles drummer in suggesting that Islamic State are up to no good. One Kurdish singer is taking a more proactive approachTackling the threat of Islamic State is one of the most complex political problems of our age. And yet with 650 elected MPs in our House of Commons, not one has taken the obvious step and asked for help from the guy who wrote Boombastic.“Isis can go fuck themselves, that’s some crazy shit what they’re doing,” pop regga
  
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• Are You A Better Judge Than Grimmy? Vote For Your Relentless ‘Here To Be Heard’ Winner

  08-07-2015 17:42
  
  Five finalists have been chosen...now it's up to you...
  
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• Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Nézet-Séguin/Villazón CD review: disappointing

  08-07-2015 17:30
  
  Damrau/Prohaska/Villazón/Schweinester/Selig/Quasthoff/COE/Nézet-Séguin
  (Deutsche Grammophon, two CDs)Deutsche Grammophon’s projected cycle of the mature Mozart operas, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, is central to Rolando Villazón’s efforts to reinvent himself as a Mozart tenor. Villazón and Nézet-Séguin are the two constant factors in the seven recordings, which are to be based on concert performances given e
  
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• BEHIND THE SCENES: Donae’O – Mami No Like

  08-07-2015 17:19
  
  HARD
  
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• Nina Kraviz, Maya Jane Coles and more at Boiler Room's Edinburgh takeover – in pictures

  08-07-2015 17:09
  
  In June, club event platform Boiler Room and Stay True Scotland hosted a house and techno takeover in Edinburgh, with footage of 16 artists playing four venues streamed on Boilerroom.tv. Here’s a series of portraits in the city’s backstreetsContinue reading...
  
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• York Early Music festival review – sublime

  08-07-2015 17:02
  
  Various venues, York
  The Early Opera Company gave a thrilling account of Charpentier’s Actéon, the London Handel Players brought baroque dances to life and the Huelgas Ensemble shone a light on Firminus Caron
  The chief chorister at Amiens cathedral, Firminus Caron, was a mid-15th century one-hit wonder. His most influential chanson, Hélas que pourra devenir, was catchy enough to be copied out in many different manuscripts across Europe; though today his work is known only among the tin
  
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• Guess Which MTV Crashes Plymouth Performer Might Be No.1 This Weekend...

  08-07-2015 17:00
  
  This week's Official Chart Update is a right nail biter!
  
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• Muse: 10 of the best

  08-07-2015 16:57
  
  Conspiracies! Epics! Classical interludes! The Illuminati! It could only be a survey of the never knowingly underblown MuseIt would take three rereleases before Muscle Museum landed in the charts at No 25 in 2000. The slog to Top of the Pops is documented throughout debut album Showbiz, from playing the toilet circuit to the corporate shows mentioned on album opener Sunburn; “I’ll feel a guilty conscience grow,” sang Matt Bellamy, although having disinfected every toilet in a West Country
  
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• Little Mix On People Assuming They Don't Work Hard: "It's So Frustrating"

  08-07-2015 16:18
  
  The girls also lose their cool over the Spice Girls...
  
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• Risque Rolling Stones Exhibitionism poster banned by London Underground

  08-07-2015 16:11
  
  Band ‘dumbfounded’ after Transport for London asked for the lips logo to be shifted from the crotch to the belly button – while the rest of the country will continue to display the originalTransport for London’s primary concern may be its imminent tube strike – but the service has recently been burdened with another problem: Mick’s lips. Artwork advertising the Rolling Stones’ forthcoming gallery show Exhibitionism has been banned on the London underground and at bus stops around t
  
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• Fifth Harmony Reveal Why English Boys Are Their Favourite Kind Of Boys

  08-07-2015 16:05
  
  The 'Worth It' stars have definitely got a soft spot for UK lads.
  
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• Gig refunds: should fans have got their money back after these performances?

  08-07-2015 16:03
  
  Finland’s gift of a half-price payout to disappointed Chuck Berry concert-goers might not prove the windfall it appears. Can you draw a clear line between artistic freedom and commercial duty? Here are some examples to ponderThe news earlier this week that Finnish music fans are legally entitled to seek compensation for sub-par live performances was greeted with envy from concert-goers on both sides of the Atlantic. Many took it as a cue to list off all their worst gig experiences, wrongly jum
  
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• Kendall Jenner Strips Down To A Thong For New Calvin Klein Ad

  08-07-2015 15:14
  
  Somewhere Sisqo is singing quietly to himself.
  
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• Geordie Shore's Charlotte Reveals Life With Boyfriend Mitch 'Isn't Amazing'

  08-07-2015 15:02
  
  The party loving lass is having second thoughts about moving down south, too...
  
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• WWE Star Tyson Kidd Reveals 'Only 5% SURVIVE' Neck Injury He Suffered Last Month

  08-07-2015 14:33
  
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• Zac Efron Has A Brother And Yes, He Might Just Be Even Hotter

  08-07-2015 14:27
  
  Deep breaths everyone...
  
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• 5 Times Isle Of MTV 2015 Made Us Love Life

  08-07-2015 14:21
  
  Martin Garrix, Jason Derulo, OMI, Echosmith and Tori Kelly turned up the heat in Malta...
  
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• Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock review – quicksilver exchange from jazz royalty

  08-07-2015 14:13
  
  Barbican, London
  Corea and Hancock play live as a duo for the first time since 1978 and deliver a rapturously received set ranging from abstract noise to jazzy lyricism, peppered with their own classicsChick Corea and Herbie Hancock, two of the best-loved and most influential jazz pianists and composers of the past half-century, are touring as a duo for the first time since 1978. They behave on stage like a long-separated comedy team on a private reunion – joshing about each other’s attire,
  
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• Falstaff review - 1950s updating feels cosmetic and heartless

  08-07-2015 14:12
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  The revived Robert Carsen production of Verdi’s final opera would be a duller evening without Ambrogio Maestri in the title role
  Since it opened at Covent Garden in 2012, the Robert Carsen production of Verdi’s final opera has been to the Met in New York, where the pictures it paints of British middle-class life in the 1950s probably seemed suitably quaint and amusing. Back in London for its first revival (which has been directed by Christophe Geyral), it once again
  
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• Young People Have Just Been Properly Screwed Over By The 2015 Budget – Here’s What You Need To Know

  08-07-2015 13:52
  
  Seriously, WTF?
  
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• One Direction Launch Action 1D Campaign To Raise Awareness Of Global Issues

  08-07-2015 13:29
  
  The boys are reaching out to their inner Bob Geldof with new campaign...
  
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• We Could Watch Xavier Woods, Heath Slater, Jimmy Uso And Macho Mandow Play Video Games All Day

  08-07-2015 13:28
  
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• OMG Paris Hilton's Watching Geordie Shore & It's SO HOT!

  08-07-2015 13:22
  
  Geordie Shore has found its latest famous fan.
  
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• TLC's T-Boz: 'A lot of people have made money off of us, and we haven’t'

  08-07-2015 13:00
  
  This week in 1995, the R&B trio started a seven-week stint at No 1 on the US singles chart with Waterfalls. Rock’s Backpages digs out a profile on the group for Rolling Stone, originally published on 24 August 1995, where T-Boz, Chilli and Left Eye talk about fires and financial fallouts The women of TLC are sitting on a couch in a tiny New York production facility taping safe-sex commercials to supplement their interview for an ABC special, In a New Light: Sex Unplugged. Network televisio
  
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• Brooklyn's Finest: has the New York borough's hip-hop crown slipped?

  08-07-2015 13:00
  
  The place that produced Jay Z and Biggie Smalls has lost some of its influence to the south and other New York boroughs like Manhattan, but is it a case of the mainstream not being able to keep up?New York City contains some half-dozen rap ecosystems. Each individually can rival most any other US city for hip-hop supremacy. Rappers from Queens, the home of Run-DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas and 50 Cent, have always had a little more style, a little more flair, while Harlem emcees (Diddy, Big L,
  
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• Neil Diamond review – a show so smooth it could be on rails

  08-07-2015 12:48
  
  The Hydro, Glasgow
  The songwriting sparkle may have faded, but as a performer the country-pop heavyweight still steers a set with consummate cheese“It still makes my heart go flippity-flop whenever I hear the girls crying out my name,” oozes our silver-haired and -bearded host, his signature garish shirts these days retired for a more understated all-in-black look. “It makes me feel like I’m 70 again.”Unexpected palpitations aren’t usually a welcome eventuality for a man creeping clo
  
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• NSFW: how well do you know pop culture's controversial music videos?

  08-07-2015 12:21
  
  Rihanna's brutal blockbuster video for BBHMM joins a long line of pop, rock and rap videos out to shock. Let's find out how well you know your controversial clips Continue reading...
  
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• Tyga Accused Of Cheating On Kylie Jenner After Sexts To Transgender Model Are Leaked Online

  08-07-2015 11:51
  
  We’ve got a dick pic situation going on…
  
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• John Legend Does A Justin Bieber In Naked Snap, Thank You Chrissy Teigen!

  08-07-2015 11:46
  
  We can feel a trend coming on...
  
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• TV, music clip sharing startup Whipclip raises $40 mln

  08-07-2015 11:32
  
  Additional participants include existing investors Institutional Venture Partners and Raine Ventures, Whipclip said on Wednesday. The new funds will be used to accelerate Whipclip's product development and further build its operations and content partnerships, it said. Mobile phone users can clip live TV as well as search for specific moments within past TV episodes and share them with friends, Whipclip said.
  
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• Grateful Dead: only three marijuana arrests at Chicago farewell shows

  08-07-2015 11:31
  
  Combination of relaxed possession laws and gun violence elsewhere led police away from band’s Soldier Field gigsAre Grateful Dead fans unmellowing in their old age? The veteran jam band’s three farewell shows at Soldier Field in Chicago this weekend attracted 210,000 fans, yet only three of them were charged with possession of marijuana, despite what the Chicago Sun-Times described as “a pungent fog of marijuana smoke” in the stadium.It turns out, though, that’s not the result of Dead
  
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• TV, music clip sharing startup Whipclip raises $40 million

  08-07-2015 11:12
  
  U.S.-Israeli startup Whipclip, which allows the sharing of TV and video clips, said it raised more than $40 million in a third round of funding led by asset management firm Eminence Capital. Additional participants include existing investors Institutional Venture Partners and Raine Ventures, Whipclip said on Wednesday. The new funds will be used to accelerate Whipclip's product development and further build its operations and content partnerships, it said.
  
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• Shakka: Blackout singer thankful artists like Sam Smith and Drake keeping music scene fresh

  08-07-2015 11:00
  
  Fans have described him as a breath of fresh air but rising soul singer Shakka has praised artists like Sam Smith and Drake for continually injecting new ideas into the charts. Since 2013, the 26-year-old has taken the music industry by storm mostly thanks to his standout collaboration with rapper Wretch 32 on Blackout, which peaked at number six in the charts. With artists such as Smith, James Bay and Hozier rising up the ranks, soul-inspired music is enjoying somewhat of a resurgence.
  
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• How To Get Over Your Ex, Kourtney Kardashian Style

  08-07-2015 10:56
  
  The eldest of the Kardashian Klan gives a lesson in handling break-ups with class…
  
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• Taylor Swift Has Donated $50,000 To A Sick Fan Whose "Fight Song" Is Bad Blood

  08-07-2015 10:24
  
  No you're crying…
  
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• Metal fans are happier than everyone else

  08-07-2015 10:17
  
  Study of 80s metalheads finds that they turn out to be better adjusted than those who listened to other music“Metal health will drive you mad,” insisted Quiet Riot on the title track of the first heavy metal album to top the Billboard charts, back in 1983. It turns out they weren’t just a little wide of the mark, but completely wrong – because a new study has found 80s metalheads “were significantly happier in their youth, and better adjusted currently” than their peers, and current
  
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• Sam Smith makes smooth debut at Montreux jazz festival

  08-07-2015 03:31
  
  By Stephanie Nebehay MONTREUX, Switzerland(Reuters) - British soul singer Sam Smith, freshly recovered from surgery on his vocal cords, delivered a smooth yet punchy concert to jazz fans on Tuesday night in his first appearance on the famed Montreux stage. Smith opened with "I'm not the Only One", followed by other chart-topping hits from his 2014 debut studio album "In the Lonely Hour", including "Leave Your Lover", "Restart" and "Not in that Wa
  
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