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• Russian Government Considers Funding Patriotic Pop Stars…

  27-07-2015 23:57
  
  The Russian government is obviously very sensible and rational when it comes to regulating music. That’s why they wanted to launch an investigation against Apple...
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• Why the Music Industry Is Starting to Hate YouTube…

  27-07-2015 23:03
  
   
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• Michael Jackson's white glove to be auctioned for $20,000

  27-07-2015 23:01
  
  Sale of Jackson memorabilia will also include a prototype of the black leather jacket the singer wore on the cover of his album BadA rare white sequined glove once owned by Michael Jackson could be yours to own. Auction house Nate D Sanders is selling the piece of memorabilia on 30 July, with bidding for the item beginning at $20,000. While this is not exactly a steal, it is considerably cheaper than Jackson gloves which have been auctioned before. The one he wore while debuting the Moonwalk wen
  
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• Queen Of Peace / Long & Lost [Explicit]

  27-07-2015 22:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Queen of Peace & Long and Lost (The Odyssey – Chapters 4 & 5)
  
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• Good Times

  27-07-2015 22:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Around The World (Ft. Fetty Wap)

  27-07-2015 22:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Around The World

  27-07-2015 22:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• Queen Of Peace / Long & Lost [Explicit]

  27-07-2015 22:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Queen of Peace & Long and Lost (The Odyssey – Chapters 4 & 5)
  
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• Kanye West’s not got Dylan’s thesaurus blues | Letters

  27-07-2015 20:48
  
  Your front-page article on the range of language used by various songwriters was interesting but showed little understanding of Bob Dylan’s greatness as a lyricist (Report, 24 July). One of Dylan’s major accomplishments is being able to pare down language to a minimum while at the same time achieving a richness of meaning comparable to that achieved by the metaphysical poets. The beauty of songs such as the superficially simple If Dogs Run Free in part derives from the contrast bet
  
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• Breaking: Joe Jackson Hospitalized After Having a Stroke

  27-07-2015 20:00
  
  The following is a breaking story, please check back for ongoing updates.  Last updated: 10:30 am PT. Joe Jackson, talent manager and father of Michael,...
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• Nick Southall obituary

  27-07-2015 19:17
  My friend Nick “Ringo” Southall, who has died aged 44 of lung cancer, left a large legacy across the worlds he moved in – as a rock drummer, band manager and public relations entrepreneur. He lived his life both fearlessly and with tireless enthusiasm.Nick was born in Wordsley, West Midlands, the son of Ted, who ran a pattern-making business, and Maureen (nee Nolan), who worked with Ted. Nick went to Summerhill school in Kingswinford, where his talent for music was immediately ev
  
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• 7 Struggles Only Call Of Duty Players Will Understand, With Ali-A

  27-07-2015 19:15
  
  Youtuber and Call of Duty superfan Ali-A reveals the struggles all COD players will relate to.
  
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• The Victoria’s Secret Angels Make It Snow In Rome!

  27-07-2015 19:09
  
  Alessandra Ambrosio, Elsa Hosk, Stella Maxwell, Romee Strijd and Martha Hunt get hot for the holidays…
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Justifies Kylie Jenner & Tyga's Relationship: "Kylie Is Not A Normal 17-Year-Old"

  27-07-2015 19:06
  
  She also talks about those lips...
  
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• Sigma And Little Mix Battle It Out For The Top Spot In This Week's Singles Chart Update

  27-07-2015 19:00
  
  The battle for No.1 is well and truly on, with Sigma and Little Mix in the ring...
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Glamour's Guide To Surefire Romance Is Total Balls

  27-07-2015 18:52
  
  Twitter's currently blowing up about this rather antiquated view to romancing your other half. Here's our response...
  
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• C Duncan review – pastoral dream-pop dizzyingly close to perfection

  27-07-2015 18:36
  
  CCA, Glasgow
  Airy strums, lush a cappella, sweeping psych rock – fans hold their breath to hear every note of Christopher Duncan’s magical, exquisitely crafted musicIf you were already concerned about what’s happened to the spirit of hellraising rock’n’roll, then you would probably have a hernia being among this crowd. Sitting in neat rows in hushed quiet, they’re here to watch a band of classically trained, collegiate-looking chaps in smart sweaters play tidily complex pastoral drea
  
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• Happy Birthday Triple H! Watch Him Wrestle Vince McMahon Covered In Cake!

  27-07-2015 18:27
  
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• 39 Times Zalfie Were Our Ultimate #RelationshipGoals

  27-07-2015 18:22
  
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• Womad festival 2015 - in pictures

  27-07-2015 18:10
  
  This year’s Womad festival was at Charlton Park in Wiltshire 24-26 July, with highlights including performances from Ghostpoet, Tinariwen and De La SoulRead our review Continue reading...
  
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• The 100 Most Important Songs of This Decade (So Far)…

  27-07-2015 18:00
  
  As ranked by Slacker Radio’s EQ (Engagement Quotient) data analysis, which gives each song a score based on millions of hearting, skipping, banning, and song sharing...
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• 'I'm going to pidgin this up' - performer brings voice of Africa's pidgin to new opera

  27-07-2015 17:58
  
  Inspired by Wagner, Nigerian Helen Parker-Jayne Isisbor’s quest to champion her often-derided west African vernacular has spawned the first pidgin opera Mami Wata , Africa’s answer to the mermaids and sirens sprinkled throughout folklore the world over, rises from the waters and sways to the beat of hand drums. “Dey use dem bad medicine to scare, to bring you down,” she sings, her voice punctuated by stringed instruments, an electric guitar and a steel pan that gives the sound a haunting
  
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• Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson in Brazil hospital after stroke, facility says

  27-07-2015 17:54
  
  Patriarch of the musical Jackson family placed in São Paulo intensive care unit with irregular heartbeat during visit to countryA Brazilian hospital says Joe Jackson – the father of the late Michael Jackson and the patriarch of the musical family – has suffered a stroke while visiting the South American nation.An emailed statement early Monday from the Albert Einstein hospital in São Paulo says only that Jackson was admitted to the hospital Sunday afternoon. He is in the intensive ca
  
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• BCMG/Ollu review – consummate expertise with teeming, tangled Boulez

  27-07-2015 17:32
  
  Cadogan Hall, London
  The French composer’s most substantial recent piece and a clutch of premieres provided colourful scoringThe four Saturday afternoon Proms at Cadogan Hall this year divide between baroque and new music, with the contemporary strand woven around a 90th-birthday tribute to Pierre Boulez. The first, given with consummate expertise by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and conductor Franck Ollu, ended with the teeming, furiously tangled ensemble writing of Boulez’s most subs
  
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• Schubert's Unfinished symphony: should we resist closure?

  27-07-2015 16:55
  
  Nikolaus Harnoncourt believes that Schubert failed to finish his 8th symphony because ‘there is simply nothing else to say’. And yet the puzzle of this intriguing half work remainsAs the hot-headed debate surrounding the publication of Harper Lee’s novel Go Set a Watchman amply demonstrates, having material that might apparently add historical depth and perspective to the knowledge pool in which a beloved work of art floats doesn’t necessarily mean it should be released. Publish and be d
  
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• One To Watch: Tiggs Da Author - Georgia

  27-07-2015 16:55
  
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• Time To Get Physical With Khloe Kardashian As She Bares Her Butt For Complex Magazine!

  27-07-2015 16:55
  
  Could KoKo BE any hotter? We doubt it...
  
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• Kanye West at the Pan Am Games review – sound cuts out on unpredictable artist

  27-07-2015 16:49
  
  Pan Am Games, Toronto
  West’s appearance at the closing ceremony of the Pan Am Games inspired the usual protests, but his show was a triumph – until his backing track went silentMidway through Kanye West’s performance of Good Life at the Closing Ceremony of the Pan Am Games in Toronto, his mic and backing track went dead. Gamely, he continued to rap for a minute or so, as if trying to reach the 40,000 spectators (and 6,000 athletes from 41 countries) in the Rogers Centre by willpower alone.
  
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• Young O - Problems Remix ft. Mega Man, Paigey Cakey & Dot Rotten

  27-07-2015 16:37
  
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• These Disney Princesses As Clueless Characters Are Blowing Our Minds

  27-07-2015 16:20
  
  Jasmine as Dionne and Cinderella as Cher - WHY IS NONE OF THIS REAL?!
  
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• Did Taylor Swift Take A Swipe At Katy Perry On Stage?

  27-07-2015 16:20
  
  T-Swizzle was filmed giggling on stage as a 'left' shark appears behind her…
  
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• WWE 2K16: Watch Dean Ambrose Blow Smoke Into The Face Of Arnold Schwarzenegger!

  27-07-2015 16:16
  
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• Frozen's Kristen Bell's Voicemail To A Little Girl With Cancer Will Make You Feel All The Feels

  27-07-2015 16:16
  
  This message from Princess Anna is the cutest thing you'll see all day.
  
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• How to put on a mega-gig: the production manager's story

  27-07-2015 16:10
  
  More touring means more productions and a lot more work – especially now the pop acts put on shows as lavish as the monsters of rockThe most amazing tour I’ve been involved with was Take That’s Progress tour, which had three stages and a 62-feet-high robot, which we called Om. Technically, that was an incredibly challenging production. We had a 14-metre-high waterfall, off which Robbie took a dive and the band ran through, and 30 dancers running back and forwards. We had a couple of proble
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Ripped Liam Payne's Shirt Open At #OTRAMinneapolis And The Crowd Went Wild

  27-07-2015 15:39
  
  It was an eventful show as usual...
  
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• Gigi Hadid Is No Longer The Only One Of Her Crew Without A Topshop Campaign

  27-07-2015 15:31
  
  First Cara, then Hailey, Kendall and Kylie, and now Gigi’s bagged her own season as the face of Topshop…
  
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• Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Andsnes – music-making of exceptional quality

  27-07-2015 15:25
  
  Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Norwegian pianist brought his Beethoven project to a triumphant close with flawless, sensitive performances of the second and fifth piano concertosThough published later than his official First Piano Concerto, Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto was written before it, while his Fifth – the so-called Emperor Concerto – turned out to be his last. In this Prom, which concluded their world tour of all of Beethoven’s major works for piano and orchestra, the Norwegia
  
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• David Beckham Just Got The Cutest Tattoo For Daughter Harper

  27-07-2015 14:45
  
  Isn't he just the best dad EVER?!
  
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• Tom Fletcher's Duet With Son Buzz Is The Cutest Thing We've Ever Seen

  27-07-2015 14:40
  
  The pair sing 'Easy Like A Sunday Morning' and we can't cope with the cuteness…
  
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• WWE’s Kevin Owens Exclusive: ‘I’d Love To Put An End To Brock Lesnar’

  27-07-2015 14:39
  
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• The Doors and Neil Young cleared to be played on BBC radio

  27-07-2015 14:17
  
  The corporation has settled the licensing disagreement that forced them to ban DJs from playing the artists’ musicThe Doors and Neil Young are back! In news that is unlikely to trouble the DJs at Radio 1 very much, but which may cheer their counterparts at Radio 2 and 6Music, the BBC has reached an agreement with their publisher which will enable them to return to the BBC airwaves.Earlier this month, the Guardian reported that the BBC had told DJs and programme makers to stop using music by fo
  
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• Savages review – a sound that doesn't quite match the performance

  27-07-2015 14:03
  
  Barbican, London
  Savages singer Jehnny Beth has high aspirations for what rock’n’roll can achieve, and this collaboration with A Dead Forest Index and a choreographer occasionally achieved itSavages singer Jehnny Beth recently joined a TV debate on rock’n’roll, sharing her desire for something “pure, authentic and ephemeral”. Coincidentally, on the night it airs, the band are busy trying to make good on her ambition in the rarefied confines of an art gallery.For tonight’s show, the
  
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• Womad festival review – remarkable septuagenarians and damp umbrellas

  27-07-2015 13:55
  
  Charlton Park, Malmesbury Two days of rain couldn’t take the shine off an impressively eclectic lineup in which African voices dominated, with standout performances from Cheikh Lô and Dona OneteIn pictures: Womad 20152015’s Womad festival will not only be remembered for the impressively eclectic lineup, but also for the weather – rain on Friday and Sunday, but a gloriously hot Saturday.Related: Dona Onete: Feitiço Caboclo review – an unlikely success storyContinue reading...
  
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• Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston, dies at the age of 22

  27-07-2015 13:23
  
  The late singer’s daughter had been in an induced coma since being found unresponsive in her bathtub in January Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston, has died six months after going into a coma. She was 22. Related: The ballad of Bobbi Kristina Brown: born of pop royalty and plagued by tragedyContinue reading...
  
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• The playlist: electronic – Alice Glass, Helena Hauff, PLO Man and more

  27-07-2015 13:22
  
  This month there’s exclusive debuts from Hamburg clubland stalwart Helena Hauff and moody duo Black Rain and Shapednoise, and a return to form for a post Crystal Castles Alice GlassDebuting exclusively here is this enormous track from Helena Hauff’s first album Discreet Desires. Known for her residency at Hamburg’s Golden Pudel club, she resurrected the liberated spirit of no-wave by blending harsh techno with synthpop, post-punk and coldwave; Hauff’s set would sound moody and even a lit
  
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• Kanye West Has Stormed Off Stage Again, This Time After Just 13 Minutes

  27-07-2015 12:54
  
  Is that a new world record?
  
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• Bobbi Kristina Brown dies aged 22 – video report

  27-07-2015 12:38
  
  Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobbi Brown, has died aged 22 in a hospice in Georgia. Brown had been in a medically-induced coma since January, when she was discovered unresponsive in a bathtub in Atlanta. The incident that led to her death held grim echoes of her mother's death – Houston was discovered dead in her bath in February 2012 Continue reading...
  
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• A Brand New Jenner Has Arrived And Her Name Doesn't Begin With A 'K'

  27-07-2015 12:23
  
  Brandon and Leah Jenner have welcomed a baby girl...
  
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• Rita Ora Shaves Head And Teases New Track 'Body On Me' With Chris Brown

  27-07-2015 12:12
  
  While ex-boyfriend Ricky Hil had this to say about the star in new rap...
  
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• Five albums to try this week: Omar Souleyman, Sleaford Mods and more

  27-07-2015 11:48
  
  Stream new music from The Soil’s a cappella pop to Lamb of God’s blistering metal, and let us know what you’ll be listening toWhy you should listen: The prolific Syrian wedding singer with more than 500 albums to his name releases a second studio album, filled with his brand of frenetic dabke (Syrian and Iraqi folk) fizzing over Four Tet and Modeselektor-produced electronic beats. Continue reading...
  
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