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• “New Artist” Sells Old Jessica Simpson Songs on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and TIDAL

  17-07-2015 23:48
  
  Last year we saw a band upload a silent album to Spotify so they could get paid… and it worked. But what happens if you...
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• Top Of My Charts

  17-07-2015 22:31 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Pretend

  17-07-2015 22:31 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Cash Money Allegedly Holds Lil Wayne’s Music Hostage, Doesn’t Pay Him, Tries to Kill Him, Then Sues Him

  17-07-2015 22:22
  
  Lil Wayne has been very vocal about wanting to leave label Cash Money Records. Wayne has his own label Young Money Entertainment, an imprint of...
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• Kris Jenner Hails Caitlyn Jenner's ESPYs Speech 'Amazing'

  17-07-2015 19:31
  
  The Kardashian matriarch though she 'looked beautiful'...
  
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• Sheila Whiteley obituary

  17-07-2015 18:50
  
  Our mother, Sheila Whiteley, who has died aged 74, was nationally and internationally renowned as a feminist musicologist, writer and lecturer.Sheila was an emeritus professor at Salford University and held Britain’s first chair of popular music, a position she was awarded at Salford in 1999 in recognition of her work in gender, sexuality and culture. Continue reading...
  
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• Nick Grimshaw Declares 'Hate' For Cheryl Over THAT Throwback Pic

  17-07-2015 18:13
  
  Grimmy jokes that he isn't best pleased with Chezza for posting the hilarious snap...
  
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• Wilco: Star Wars first listen review – an absolute blast

  17-07-2015 18:12
  
  The Chicago band’s ninth album successfully blends Bowie space-glam, Beatles psychedelic singsong and Captain Beefheart weirdnessWilco’s surprise release of their ninth album – available as a free download from their website – comes four years after 2011’s universally acclaimed The Whole Love. That set of songs saw critics the world over showering superlatives on an album that most agreed was the work of a classic American band at the peak of their powers. “With The Whole Love, they�
  
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• Calvin Harris Reveals He's 'Insanely Happy' With Taylor Swift, Aww

  17-07-2015 17:57
  
  We can't cope...
  
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• You Won't Believe What Songs The X Factor Judges Would Audition With!

  17-07-2015 17:43
  
  Rita, Cheryl and the rest of the gang reveal what tunes they'd audition with...
  
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• New band of the week: Peluché (No 62)

  17-07-2015 17:42
  
  This London trio mix up dub, funk and pop in idiosyncratic but infectious waysHometown: South London. The lineup: Rhapsody Gonzalez (vocals, guitar, synth), Amy Maskell (vocals, guitar, synth) and Sophie Lowe (vocals, drums, synth).Continue reading...
  
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• Cara Delevingne Beatboxing Proves She Can Literally Do Anything

  17-07-2015 17:17
  
  WE LOVE HER...
  
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• Annie Nightingale: Radio 1's first female DJ – and Caner of the Year 2001

  17-07-2015 17:14
  
  Nightingale has chalked up more than 40 years at the BBC station, dedicating herself to dance music in particular after acid house caught her ear in the 1980s Of Annie Nightingale’s various accolades, which include an honorary doctorate in journalism and an MBE for services to radio broadcasting, the DJ is most pleased with her gong for Caner of the Year, awarded to her in 2001 by the dance magazine Muzik. Nightingale asked what she had done to deserve it and was told: “Everywhere we’ve be
  
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• Play Our Video Game Quiz & Test Your Gamer Skillz!

  17-07-2015 16:28
  
  Play our special Pixels-themed game and see if you can beat your friends...
  
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• #TGIF! R3wire & Varksi Are Spoiling Us Rotten With This Week's Mix

  17-07-2015 16:17
  
  Hear brand new club cuts from Calvin Harris, MK, DJ S.K.T and more here...
  
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• How Afrobeats made African Brits proud of our heritage

  17-07-2015 15:50
  
  Positive images of Africa were hard to find when I was growing up, but that has all changed thanks to the latest wave of African pop
  For fans of Afrobeats, grime and hip-hop, the surprise release of a remix to Wizkid’s Ojuelegba featuring Skepta and Drake was the stuff of musical fan fiction. The collaboration between three undisputed genre giants was always likely to be an event. But for some it was a throwaway line in Skepta’s verse that really struck a chord.“When I was in school, being
  
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• King Arthur review – Purcell's Stuart propaganda beautifully done

  17-07-2015 15:46
  
  St John’s Smith Square, London
  Paul McCreesh’s semi-staging of this politically inclined opera was played with sensuousness and majesty and sung with consistent finesse and elanRelated: Tories make £15m profit from sale of old Smith Square HQ Hearing King Arthur at St John’s Smith Square – round the corner from the Houses of Parliament and overlooking what was once Conservative Central Office – is to be reminded, if nothing else, of its status as establishment propaganda. Purc
  
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• Cara Delevingne: “My Sexuality Is Not A Phase”

  17-07-2015 15:39
  
  The Brit babe spoke to the New York Times about love, life and everything in between…
  
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• Dunedin Consort review – evanescent, visceral, thrilling Monteverdi

  17-07-2015 15:24
  
  Durham Cathedral
  Backed by His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Butt’s consort made intrepid use of the cathedral’s vast space for this compelling VespersIt’s debatable whether Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 stands on a direct evolutionary line with the Floral Dance, but since the Durham brass festival has diversified into the classical field, anything with a sagbutt (or sackbut) is permissible. Even Monteverdi’s cornetts, which are made out of wood but require a brass-style playing
  
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• This Make Up Artist Can Transform Herself Into Basically Any Celebrity, And It’s Freaking Us Out

  17-07-2015 15:11
  
  This girl is legit.
  
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• Is This The Best Photo Of Simon Cowell Ever Taken?

  17-07-2015 14:31
  
  Yes, yes it is…
  
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• The playlist: pop – Hurts, Mabel, Erik Hassle and more

  17-07-2015 14:00
  
  Our latest round of the best new pop features Neneh Cherry’s daughter, some gloriously OTT posturing and this year’s best song so farLet’s just get some family history business out of the way first. Mabel is Neneh Cherry and producer Cameron McVey’s 19-year-old daughter. That means she had a fairly exciting childhood growing up in the mountains of Malaga, before spending 10 years in Sweden, where she studied music production. She now lives in London. But don’t assume she’s used her p
  
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• This week’s new tracks: Aisha Devi's EP is weird and uncompromising

  17-07-2015 14:00
  
  Aisha Devi | Aston Merrygold | The Vaccines | SlingerPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• Flight Facilities’ favourite tracks

  17-07-2015 14:00
  
  Hugo from the Australian electro duo empties the contents of his psychic record bagWe’ve opened numerous sets with this. It’s the perfect intro, and it’s slow enough that you can build into some house or hip-hop after it. Continue reading...
  
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• WWE: Could Reign Of Cesaro Be On The Way After Victory Against Rusev?

  17-07-2015 13:57
  
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• The week in music: Outkast for Stone Mountain, bankrupt 50 Cent and more

  17-07-2015 13:57
  
  This week’s music news roundup includes a controversial hip-hop petition and a curious T in the Park tweetIf the signatories of a recent petition end up having their way, Atlanta natives Big Boi and André 3000 will be immortalised in stone, riding in a Cadillac alongside the Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson, Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis. Creators of the petition want to see Outkast etched on to the face of Stone Mountain, and are looking for 7,500 signatures before taking the i
  
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• Rudimental - Love Ain't Just A Word (Featuring Anne-Marie and Dizzee Rascal)

  17-07-2015 13:48
  
  Rudimental - Love Ain't Just A Word (Featuring Anne-Marie and Dizzee Rascal) Released
  
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• Avishai Cohen's New York Division review – thrilling jazz from a born entertainer

  17-07-2015 13:42
  
  Barbican, London
  The Israeli bassist’s expanded band kept the audience on the edge of their seats with a set of folk-jazz and freebop delivered with intuition and real gusto It not just what Avishai Cohen does, it’s the way that he does it. The Israeli master bassist and composer’s recent music – taking in bustling bebop or salsa sprees, marriages of string sections and improvising oboists or oud players, Sephardic folk songs and maybe the odd Red Army theme – might just look like stan
  
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• Geordie Shore's Chloe Ferry Is Looking Rather Like Kylie Jenner After Her Lip Enhancement

  17-07-2015 13:42
  
  You'll hardly recognise her…
  
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• A Midsummer Night's Dream – orchestral manoeuvres in the park

  17-07-2015 13:25
  
  Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Stokenchurch
  This production of Shakespeare’s play, complete with a live backing of Mendelssohn’s score, is as brilliant as it is rare In the 19th century, well-appointed theatres could commission incidental music on a grand scale. When King Frederick William IV of Prussia asked Felix Mendelssohn to supply music for a production of Shakespeare’s comedy at Potsdam in 1842, a substantial orchestral score, with a female chorus and a couple of small solo parts, wa
  
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• WWE: Watch New Day Rock - Or Get Rocked In - The Elimination Chamber

  17-07-2015 13:06
  
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• 5 Seconds Of Summer Unveil 'She's Kinda Hot' And We're Already Obsessed

  17-07-2015 13:06
  
  We're alright though, we're alright though...
  
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• Brotherhood Ft. Maxsta - Own Advice

  17-07-2015 13:00
  
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• How to put on a megagig: the security guard's story

  17-07-2015 13:00
  
  He’s been stabbed with a drumstick and stricken with salmonella … in the latest in our series on what goes into putting on a megagig, a head of security on the hazards of the jobs and how he keeps the stars safeOther than broken bones, I’ve been shot at a few times. I’ve been stabbed with a drumstick. I guess if you hang out in a barbershop long enough, eventually you’ll get your hair cut. The kid picks up the stick and stabs me. Up under the chin, right into my cheek Continue reading.
  
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• Taylor Swift Gave The Best Reaction To Miley Cyrus' Weird Bieber FaceSwap Pic

  17-07-2015 12:55
  
  Does Tay have 'Bad Blood' with Mi-Cy?
  
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• 50 Things You Probably Should Know About 50 Cent

  17-07-2015 12:50
  
  Get to know Fiddy that little bit better...
  
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• WWE: Jushin Liger Announced For NXT Brooklyn Show!

  17-07-2015 12:33
  
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• Calvin Harris And Disciples Reveal New Single 'How Deep Is Your Love'

  17-07-2015 12:31
  
  This is guaranteed to be your new summer anthem…
  
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• Kim Kardashian’s Naked Throwback Photo Is All Kinds Of Messy

  17-07-2015 12:14
  
  Silver. Paint. Everywhere.
  
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• Here's What Happened When This Singer's Sanitary Towel Fell Out On Live TV...

  17-07-2015 12:13
  
  We feel embarrassed for you, Patricia Navidad!
  
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• Louis Tomlinson And Briana Jungwirth Drama Round Up: Their Families Speak Out

  17-07-2015 12:11
  
  No chill zone.
  
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• MTV Review: James Bay Makes Our Hearts Melt At Somerset House

  17-07-2015 11:54
  
  We felt all the feels...
  
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• No Going Back For Scott Disick As Kourtney Kardashian Is Done!

  17-07-2015 11:27
  
  Reports claim this time, their split is permanent...
  
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• If you're short, what do you see at a gig? The top of Brian May's hair

  17-07-2015 11:00
  
  And that’s if you’re lucky – the shorter than average gig-goer is likely to see more armpits than bandsI’ve never thought of myself as particularly vertically challenged. I can kiss a boy without standing on a phone book. I can see comfortably over the chip shop counter. And I can reach the top of the Christmas tree if I stand on tippy-toes. But there’s nothing like a live music experience to explode the truth bomb that, yes, I am actually quite short and no, I will never be able to fu
  
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• Cheryl Hits Back At Weight Critics And Her Response Is Just Perfect

  17-07-2015 10:11
  
  Gorgeous Geordie also reveals some big plans to shake up this year's X Factor...
  
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• Wait, Is Simon Cowell Planning To Drop Zayn Malik From His Record Label?

  17-07-2015 09:34
  
  Say it ain't so, SiCo...
  
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• Maroon 5 Dalai Lama tweet may have led to cancelled China concerts

  17-07-2015 09:09
  
  Sudden scrapping of concerts in Beijing and Shanghai are being blamed on Happy Birthday tweet to Tibetan leader sent by Jesse CarmichaelLos Angeles band Maroon 5 may have become the latest international musicians to be barred from China, with online speculation blaming one band member’s support for the Dalai Lama. The group had been scheduled to perform in Beijing and Shanghai in September as part of an Asian tour but those shows were scrapped earlier this week.Continue reading...
  
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• Cash Money sues Tidal for $50m over Lil Wayne album

  17-07-2015 09:08
  
  Lawsuit emerges the day after Cash Money’s boss is named as one of the orchestrators of the shooting of Lil Wayne’s tour busCash Money records and its head, Bryan “Birdman” Williams, are not ones for conducting their business quietly and conventionally. On Wednesday Williams and his latest protege, Young Thug, were named in an indictment as the “orchestrators” of the shooting of Lil Wayne’s tour bus in April. And now Cash Money is suing Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service for $50m (&
  
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• New Device Lets Drummers Control Electronic Instruments With Their Acoustic Kits

  17-07-2015 07:34
  
  An increasing number of drummers are incorporating electronics into their live  setup. Braids and Wye Oak are two bands that do this well. Not only are their drummers...
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• If You Think Piracy Is Decreasing, You Haven’t Looked at the Data…

  17-07-2015 07:01
  
  In speaking with people both inside and outside the entertainment industry over the last few years, I’ve been fascinated with what appears to be a...
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