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• Ticketfly Raises Another $50 Million…

  15-07-2015 23:30
  
  Ticketfly has raised $50 million in Series D funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $85 million. The round is led by Riverwood Capital. RBC Capital...
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• Mass Destruction

  15-07-2015 22:56 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Mass Destruction
  
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• Music Review: Alan Jackson delivers on 'Angels and Alcohol'

  15-07-2015 22:15
  
  Alan Jackson, "Angels and Alcohol" (ACR/EMI Nashville)
  
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• 20-50% of Royalties Never Reach the Artist, Study Finds…

  15-07-2015 21:53
  
  Artists aren’t sometimes getting screwed in the digital era.  According to the latest research, they are systematically and routinely missing as much as half of their...
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• Judge Says Marvin Gaye’s Estate Is Entitled to 50% of “Blurred Lines” Royalties

  15-07-2015 21:13
  
  Back in March Robin Thicke and Pharrell were ordered to pay $7.3 million to Marvin Gaye’s family over “Blurred Lines”. Their lawyer Howard King said he...
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• Giuseppe Verdi letters bought by retirement home he founded

  15-07-2015 19:03
  
  Facility he created for retired musicians snaps up missives for knock-down price after authorities rule buyer must live in ItalyA home for retired musicians created by the composer Giuseppe Verdi has secured a cache of his joking and sometimes off-colour correspondence with an Italian count for €120,000 (£84,000).The 82 letters, which were sold on Wednesday, failed to go under the hammer at an auction last year – despite international interest – because of a ruling by Italy’s cultu
  
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• Sounds of the solar system: probing Pluto's predicted score

  15-07-2015 18:52
  
  As a Nasa spacecraft arrives at the unexplored planet, we revisit the musicians who have composed their own interpretations of the darkest reaches of the solar systemWe are starting to discover what it looks like, as the data from the New Horizons mission is beamed back to Earth - but what might Pluto sound like? The question isn’t quite as idiotic as it seems. Nasa has previously released sonic predictions of the electromagnetic vibrations of the planets – like these astonishing “recordin
  
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• Riches to rags: a brief history of bankruptcy in pop

  15-07-2015 18:24
  
  50 Cent should take heart: bankruptcy is a music biz tradition. Here are some of the most spectacular ways stars have blown or failed to make their fortunesLong before 50 Cent filed his “strategic business” bankruptcy this week, high-profile funk, soul and pop acts had applied to manage their debt by declaring they lacked the cash to pay it off. In 1976, Marvin Gaye filed for bankruptcy after the costs of his cocaine habit and mounting alimony payments had dwarfed his profits. Tom Petty, on
  
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• Marvel Comics via hip-hop covers – in pictures

  15-07-2015 18:21
  
  Marvel comics have paid homage to some of hip-hop’s most famous albums and their artwork, casting Dr Strange as Dr Dre, Ant-Man as the Notorious BIG and Ms Marvel fronting the Miseducation of Lauryn HillContinue reading...
  
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• Judge cuts $7.4 million 'Blurred Lines' copyright award to Gaye family

  15-07-2015 18:14
  
  By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday cut a copyright infringement verdict by more than $2 million against recording stars Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over their 2013 smash hit "Blurred Lines," but offered Marvin Gaye's heirs a 50 percent royalty on future earnings from the song. A federal jury in Los Angeles had sided with Gaye's estate in March, finding that parts of his 1977 hit "Got to Give it Up" were copied by Thicke and Williams
  
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• Behind Byrdmania – an archive piece from 1965

  15-07-2015 18:08
  
  In this week’s Rock’s Backpages, to mark 50 years since the Byrds released Mr Tambourine Man, here’s a feature by the late, great Derek Taylor, originally published in Melody Maker on 17 July 1965The Byrds happened. Suddenly, with little enough warning for any of us. For me, it started a couple of days after I arrived in Hollywood in February, when a cameraman I had met on the Beatles’ tour sauntered into my then uncluttered office and dropped a couple of pictures casually on my desk. �
  
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• Kim Kardashian cover leads Sinead O'Connor to declare music dead in x-rated rant

  15-07-2015 16:50
  
  Singer Sinead O'Connor has declared music " dead" after seeing reality TV star Kim Kardashian on the cover of Rolling Stone.
  
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• Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Act 3 CD review – implacable intensity, startling singing

  15-07-2015 16:10
  
  Nilsson/Windgassen/Frick/Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra/Solti
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  Two years ago, the BBC Proms marked the Wagner bicentenary with concert performances of seven of his operas, including a complete Ring cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Fifty years earlier, the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death had been marked more modestly at the Albert Hall with a single concert given by the Royal Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti. The programme had begun with Siegfried
  
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• Watch Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats' new video for SOB

  15-07-2015 16:00
  
  Rateliff fronts seven-piece band the Night Sweats, in this vintage take on a prison performance. Watch the video and let us know your thoughtsThere’s change in the air for Nathaniel Rateliff. The Denver-born singer-songwriter first made an impression on critics and fans in 2010 with his folky solo debut, In Memory of Loss – and the Bon Iver and Mumford & Sons comparisons flowed in thick and fast. Now, after releasing follow-up Falling Faster than You Can Run, he’s pivoting from melanch
  
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• Watch the video for Fall In by 4AD's latest signing, Pixx

  15-07-2015 15:30
  
  Meet 19-year-old Brit school graduate and enigmatic new voice of the legendary label, PixxIf you’re reading, June Brown: be very concerned. Until now, EastEnder’s Dot Cotton may have been the most significant cultural export to come out of Chipstead, but 4AD’s latest singing Pixx could potentially wrestle her way to the top of Wikipedia’s notable persons list.Related: 4AD records - a label that's still made with loveContinue reading...
  
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• Chris Brown's home ransacked by armed men who locked music star's relative in a closet

  15-07-2015 15:18
  
  The RnB star was not at home when robbers struck at his Los Angeles residence.
  
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• Readers' assignment: share your musical instrument photos

  15-07-2015 14:30
  
  You’ve sent in some great assignment ideas for GuardianWitness so we’ve started a series based on your best suggestionsFor this week’s assignment we’re interested in seeing photos and videos of your favourite musical instruments after stantom sent in the picture below. Continue reading...
  
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• Joy Division: 10 of the Best

  15-07-2015 14:26
  
  The gloomy quartet from Manchester had a short run but made a big impact with their songs of miserable beauty – here are the standoutsTony Wilson, speaking in 2007, said it best of all. “Punk enabled you to say ‘fuck you’, but it couldn’t go any further. It was a single, venomous, two-syllable phrase of anger. Sooner or later, someone was going to say more; someone was going to want to say ‘I’m fucked.’” That someone was Joy Division. A gang of surly ruffians from Manchester, l
  
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• Country music doesn't have a cocaine habit – it has a puppy problem

  15-07-2015 14:00
  
  Luke Bryan’s claim that ‘outlaw country’ was made by ‘strung out’ drug fiends upset traditionalists – and betrayed defensiveness among country’s new breedLuke Bryan doesn’t have to work especially hard to offend traditional country music fans. He’s become the figurehead of the much-maligned bro-country movement in recent years, and even if bro-country is dying, he’s still seen as public enemy No1 when it comes to country music’s diminished perception to the outside world.Bu
  
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• Ambrose Akinmusire review – dramatically gripping, heartfelt jazz

  15-07-2015 12:49
  
  Pizza Express Jazz Club, London
  The Californian trumpeter leads his quartet in a fierce elegy for African Americans killed by police in an electrifyingly expressive set Next time somebody asks you to describe your feelings, maybe playing them the most apposite clip of an Ambrose Akinmusire trumpet solo might cut to the chase if you’re struggling for words. Akinmusire, the prizewinning 33-year-old musician from California and one of the most expressive and articulate trumpeters in any kind of c
  
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• Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe review – drone rock with added disconnect

  15-07-2015 12:47
  
  King Tut’s, Glasgow
  This hypnotic collaboration between the young Toronto singer-songwriter and the former Brian Jonestown Massacre man is intriguing but difficult to read“I hope you guys are having … fun,” says Tess Parks after around an hour, phrasing the last word as if it’s a foreign concept. Admittedly, fun isn’t the first word most people are likely to associate with the moodily hypnotic music this young Toronto singer-songwriter makes. She is presently in partnership with Anto
  
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• Sinead O'Connor calls for boycott of Rolling Stone after Kim Kardashian cover

  15-07-2015 12:11
  
  The Irish singer launched an expletives-filled rant when she found out Kim Kardashian was on the cover of music magazine Rolling Stone.
  
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• Musicalize: doing it for the fan and sticking it to the man

  15-07-2015 10:00
  How did a grassroots gig night end up putting on shows with the US’s top hip-hop stars? Well, a little naivety helps…Next Friday, 50 Cent – boxing promoter, soft-drink tycoon and, incidentally, one of the biggest hip-hop artists of all time – comes to the 02 for his first UK show in nearly half a decade. On the surface, it’s nothing remarkable, but the gig isn’t being bankrolled by an events behemoth like Live Nation; it’s being put on by an indie promotions company created by two
  
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• You give hair a bad name! Guess the hair metal band from their hair – quiz

  15-07-2015 09:38
  
  We’ve pixellated the faces of 12 poodle-permed and backcombed metal bands from the 80s. All you have to do is guess who they are Continue reading...
  
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• DMX jailed after failing to pay $400,000 in child support

  15-07-2015 09:24
  
  Rapper will spend his latest incarceration in upstate New York after being arrested before a showThe rapper DMX has been sentenced to six months in prison after failing to pay $400,000 (£255,000) of child support. The 44-year-old rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was placed in the Erie County holding center in Buffalo, New York, on 14 July, according to the Erie County sheriff’s office.DMX was arrested on 26 June, before a performance at Radio City Music Hall, to answer several �
  
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• Pharrell Williams wins back $2m in Blurred Lines case

  15-07-2015 08:51
  
  Judge cuts the award against the songwriter, but says Universal must be held liable for distributing the songA judge on 14 July trimmed more than $2m (£1.3m) from the damages awarded against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over their hit Blurred Lines, but Marvin Gaye’s family will also get a significant share of future earnings from the 2013 hit song.US district judge John A Kronstadt ruled that the copyright infringement verdict a jury reached in March should be cut from nearly $7.4
  
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• BB King was not poisoned, autopsy finds

  15-07-2015 08:22
  
  Blues legend died of natural causes, despite the claims of two of his childrenMedical examiners found no evidence to prove the allegation that blues legend BB King was poisoned before he died of natural causes in May, according to autopsy findings made public on Monday in Las Vegas. Tests, conducted after two of the musical icon’s 11 adult children said their father had been murdered, showed the cause of death was Alzheimer’s disease, plus physical conditions including coronary disease, hear
  
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• Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

  15-07-2015 04:30 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
  
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• Give A Little Love

  15-07-2015 03:31 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Give a Little Love
  
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• 8 Reasons Why Singer/Songwriter Shows Are Boring

  15-07-2015 00:46
  
  I just played a new songwriter series billed as #songwritersundays at The Fox and Hounds in Studio City, CA. They have built up quite a...
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• Kendrick Lamar Sued for Copyright Infringement…

  15-07-2015 00:25
  
  Photographer Giordano Cipriani has sued Kendrick Lamar, Top Dawg Entertainment, Interscope, and Aftermath records for copyright infringement. Cipriani says his photograph “Twins” is being used...
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