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• Animal Expert Ted Nugent Says Lions NEED Humans to Kill Them…

  29-07-2015 22:37
  
  From Ted Nugent’s Facebook page…
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• SummerThing! (Ft. Mike Taylor)

  29-07-2015 22:34 via mtv.co.uk
  
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• All Eyes On You (Ft. Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj) [Explicit]

  29-07-2015 22:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
  All Eyes On You (feat. Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj)
  
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• All Eyes On You (Ft. Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj) [Explicit]

  29-07-2015 22:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
  All Eyes On You (feat. Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj)
  
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• Lollapalooza Expands to Colombia…

  29-07-2015 22:20
  
  Lollapalooza has a presence in the United States, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and now Colombia. The festival will expand to Bogotá in October 2016, taking...
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• Garth Brooks tops country music's rich list, earning $90m in past year

  29-07-2015 21:58
  
  Biggest pay day in a single year ever record by Forbes for a country starToby Keith is No2 with $53m and Jason Aldean third on $43.5mCountry music veteran Garth Brooks on Wednesday topped the annual Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid country acts, raking in an estimated $90m in earnings over the past year.Related: Garth Brooks' raucous return: country's bestseller confronts a new worldContinue reading...
  
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• The Major Labels Conducted a Study to Determine Why Their Artists Make So Little…

  29-07-2015 20:04
  
  The International Federation of Phonographic Industry, or IFPI, is a trade group that represents recording labels, most importantly Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and...
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• Justin Bieber Has Made A Huge Announcement That Will Change Everything In 30 Days

  29-07-2015 18:27
  
  Has it been 30 days yet?
  
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• MTV Gig Highlights Of The Week: MTV Crashes Plymouth, TOMORROWLAND, The Maccabees & more

  29-07-2015 18:04
  
  Check out what we've been up to in the world of live music this week...
  
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• Adams: Absolute Jest; Grand Pianola Music CD review – musically serious but still enormous fun

  29-07-2015 18:03
  
  John Adams’s Grand Pianola Music succeeds in its referencing of Beethoven’s cascading arpeggios, but the Absolute Jest is limited by the shards of scherzosIt was moving out west in the early 1970s, swapping what he saw as the buttoned-up musical culture of Boston and New York for the much more open-minded artistic atmosphere of California, that liberated John Adams as a composer. It meant exchanging academic serialism for the freewheeling approach of John Cage and his followers, and set him
  
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• Disney Gets Gay Couples (Thanks To One Awesome Tumblr User)

  29-07-2015 18:00
  
  Finally!
  
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• Activists chant Kendrick Lamar's Alright during police harassment protest

  29-07-2015 18:00
  
  The song, which was one of the standout tracks on the rapper’s To Pimp a Butterfly album, was used by activists during a protest at Cleveland State University where an officer pepper-sprayed the crowdActivists at Cleveland State University repurposed a Kendrick Lamar track during a protest against police harassment, which saw an officer use pepper spray on a crowd.Footage shows the group chanting the chorus to Lamar’s track Alright, which appeared on his most recent album To Pimp a Butterfly
  
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• L'Tric Send Our Nostalgia Into Overdrive With Their Top 10 Tunes

  29-07-2015 17:45
  
  Ivan Gough and Andy Jaimes each give us five old skool tunes...
  
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• Three Choirs festival: Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie review – scintillating, extreme physicality

  29-07-2015 17:16
  
  Hereford Cathedral
  The Philharmonia’s Turangalîla under Jac van Steen, with Steven Osborne’s piano, had extraordinary impact: a tumult of sounds bouncing off stone pillarsOlivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie is not so obviously imbued with the Christianity of his later compositions, yet the composer saw the human love he celebrated within it as a reflection of divine love. Related: Rufus Wainwright: Why I love composer Olivier MessiaenContinue reading...
  
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• Drake responds to Meek Mill accusations with second diss track

  29-07-2015 17:06
  
  Canadian rapper releases Back to Back Freestyle, a withering assault on the rapper who started the ‘ghostwriting’ feud – and who is yet to respondIn the history of rap beefs there is often one definitive track that ends the dispute because it is too crushing to come back from. A song such as Fuck Wit’ Dre Day, which saw Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg take Easy-E to task; or Jay Z’s salty diss The Takeover, which took Nas apart in 2001. Related: What Drake and Meek Mill's feud over ghostwriting
  
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• FRESH: MAGS - Roots

  29-07-2015 16:39
  
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• You’re Running Out of Excuses For Not Getting A Music Degree

  29-07-2015 16:30
  
    “The Logic class is kicking my butt a little bit… in a good way,” – Stefan Lessard, Bassist, Dave Matthews Band For those of you...
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• Channing Tatum Just QUIT This Huge Superhero Movie

  29-07-2015 16:26
  
  And now 'Gambit' might not even be happening. WTF?
  
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• How To Get The Perfect Glitter Eye, By Ibiza’s Top Body Painters Kiss My Fairy

  29-07-2015 16:15
  
  You’ll be Ocean Beach ready in no time…
  
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• Rudimental Talk Humble Beginnings And How A Record Deal Saved Them From Poverty

  29-07-2015 16:04
  
  Nick Grimshaw catches up with the London four-piece in all new Relentless Ultra Soundchain...
  
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• Kris Jenner Finally Meets Caitlyn Jenner After Being Spotted At Her House

  29-07-2015 16:03
  
  It's been several weeks since Caitlyn's Vanity Fair cover was revealed...
  
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• Prom 14: LSO/Gergiev review – Prokofiev piano concertos score mixed results

  29-07-2015 15:57
  
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan and Alexei Volodin’s treatments of all five works were fine individual achievements that made a less than ideal eveningFollowing immediately on from Leif Ove Andsnes’s remarkable Beethoven cycle, the Proms turned its attention to Prokofiev’s piano concertos, albeit according them very different treatment. Shared between three pianists, and with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, all five were performed in chr
  
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• Bloodstock highlights: Tolkien triptychs, apocalyptic album art and skull guitars – in pictures

  29-07-2015 15:34
  
  Every year, the independent festival Bloodstock hosts the Rock and Metal gallery, a collection of twisted, arcane fantasy artwork professionally mounted in a marquee. Here, co-founder Paul Raymond Gregory – himself the creator of numerous metal sleeves – talks us through some of the pieces in 2015’s display Continue reading...
  
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• We Find Out Why The DJs Of Tomorrowland Can't Get Enough Of It

  29-07-2015 15:31
  
  Legends in the dance music scene sit down with us at one of the most incredible festivals on the planet...
  
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• Janet Jackson: I’ve always wanted to own a king cobra because they’re so dangerous'

  29-07-2015 14:30
  
  As the shy star and snake enthusiast returns after a seven-year break with new single No Sleep, Rock’s Backpages sees Janet Jackson talk animal attraction, marriage and famous families with Smash Hits, originally published on 27 August 1986Sitting in an executive-styled chair in the executive-styled “conference” room of her record company’s Los Angeles headquarters, Janet Jackson’s stomach makes a gurgling sound.
  “Oh, my!!” she squeaks in gross embarrassment, not knowing where to l
  
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• Louis & Liam Get Wet On Stage, Stamp On Naughty Boy's Head During #OTRAKansasCity

  29-07-2015 14:22
  
  Again, we wish we there...
  
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• Cadell Is Back With New Video For 'UK'

  29-07-2015 14:21
  
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• The Soul of the Metallica Lover

  29-07-2015 14:00
  
  In the paper, published recently in the online journal PLoS One, Cambridge psychologist David Greenberg theorized that music tastes are determined in part by peoples’ tendency to fall into one of two rough personality categories: empathizers or systemizers. Greenberg found that people who scored high on empathy tended to prefer music that was mellow (like soft rock and R&B), unpretentious (country and folk), and contemporary (Euro pop and electronica.) What they didn’t like, meanwhile, w
  
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• Du Blonde review – not wild enough for her newfound rock grit

  29-07-2015 13:59
  
  Shacklewell Arms, London
  Beth Jeans Houghton’s raunchy new alter ego should be in her element at this grubby pub gig, but she fails to exude the right charismaWhen tame stars turn wild – Minogue, Cyrus, Bieber – it’s generally a tightly PR’d plot to shed a teen-friendly, butter-wouldn’t-melt image that is showing diminishing returns and to shock their way into more dependable adult wallets. So the recent transformation of Newcastle’s Beth Jeans Houghton, from psych folk cyber-Flore
  
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• There’s A Kylie Jenner Challenge For Your Vagina That Claims To Make Sex Better

  29-07-2015 13:52
  
  Vontouring, ladies.
  
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• Ellie Goulding And A Topless Dougie Poynter Go All Fifty Shades On Us In First Joint Photo Shoot

  29-07-2015 13:42
  
  Just check out that PVC dress...
  
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• Drake Shuts It Down With A New Meek Mill Diss

  29-07-2015 13:11
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Gets Naked & Talks Motherhood For Women’s Health

  29-07-2015 13:03
  
  The model slash cookbook author looks beyond hot on the cover of Women’s Health’s September Naked issue…
  
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• Amber Rose Silences Sl*t Shamer In The Best Way

  29-07-2015 12:47
  
  Model hit back at a troll who suggested she's only famous for her bedroom antics with rappers...
  
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• Taylor Swift Meets Her Godson And Makes Us Weep At The Same Time

  29-07-2015 12:43
  
  It's an emotional day, okay?
  
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• WWE: Miz Replaces Hulk Hogan As Judge on Tough Enough

  29-07-2015 12:27
  
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• Kylie Jenner Is Still Wearing THAT Ring For Outing With Sister Kendall

  29-07-2015 12:11
  
  Is she Mrs. Tyga?
  
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• Gram Parsons – 10 of the best

  29-07-2015 12:00
  
  The country rock pioneer reshaped the Byrds, redirected the Stones and pursued his own, often glorious vision of ‘cosmic American music’Gram Parsons – born Ingram Cecil Connor III, he adopted the Parsons surname when his widowed mother married Robert Parsons – was an unlikely champion of country music. He was a Southerner, but not from a hardscrabble background where the Grand Ole Opry on the radio was the peak of the week’s entertainment. He came from money, and went to Harvard, which
  
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• Katy Perry Slays The Cover Of Vogue Japan’s September Issue

  29-07-2015 11:56
  
  Kris Jenner hair and all…
  
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• Geordie Shore's Holly Hagan Shows Ex-Boyfriend Kyle What He's Missing

  29-07-2015 11:35
  
  The reality TV star shows off her best assets...
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Teases Fans With 'Exciting Times' Tweet And We Need To Know What It Means

  29-07-2015 10:46
  
  Brb just getting our Sherlock on...
  
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• Katie Hopkins Brands Zoella "The S***test Of The Lot"... But Why?!

  29-07-2015 10:43
  
  Ouch! It seems the former Celebrity Big Brother star is NOT a fan of the beauty vlogger...
  
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• Is This The Most Awkward Cara Delevingne Interview In The History Of Time?!

  29-07-2015 10:17
  
  We literally can't cope.
  
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• Slayer's Kerry King says he wouldn't go to the festival he's headlining because the bill's so poor

  29-07-2015 10:10
  
  The thrash titan has been laying into Mayhem festival, which has scrapped two stages and seen attendances fallSlayer are currently approaching the end of a 250-show traverse of the US as headliners of Mayhem festival, the annual touring festival, and guitarist Kerry King isn’t happy about it.In recent weeks, King has repeatedly criticised the event, and in his latest outburst he has blamed poor attendances at the shows on people “passing on the party, because the bill’s so shitty”. Conti
  
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• Demi Lovato's Post About Losing Her Dog Buddy Will Leave You Heartbroken

  29-07-2015 10:07
  
  The 'Cool For The Summer' star is devastated following the death of her pet pooch...
  
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• The playlist: indie – Foals, Dilly Dally, Kurt Vile and more

  29-07-2015 10:00
  
  Mathrock indie boys turn monster rockers, Katie Monks and Liz Ball sigh and growl with Desire, and there’s southern-fried rock on the menu tooThe New York group’s last album (and my absolute favourite record of 2012!) benefited from the masterful mind of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, who ironed out their knotty krautrock and added space and depth to their songs. Here We Go Magic’s fourth, Be Small, is self-produced however, and deliberately less expansive in sound. Inspired by Brian En
  
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• Reykjavik rappin’: how Iceland’s cool kids created a hotbed of hip-hop

  29-07-2015 10:00
  
  All-female crews who lick bloody brains and MCs performing on top of glaciers? Welcome to the world’s most barmy and brilliant rap scene Related: Björk, KUKL and Purrkur Pillnikk – the anarcho-punk roots of Iceland's music scene At Reykjavik’s Secret Solstice, a crowd huddle in the hip-hop tent to catch one of the hyped local acts. We’re watching Geimfarar, a rap crew who spray indecipherable Icelandic lyrics over fractured electro beats, while a flautist unfurls strands of echo-soa
  
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• Pete Townshend: 'Morrissey asked me to produce his albums'

  29-07-2015 09:32
  
  The Who’s guitarist says he would rather have worked with Morrissey’s former bandmate Johnny MarrMorrissey is no stranger to recruiting the heroes of the 1970s to produce his records. His 1992 album Your Arsenal was produced by Mick Ronson, the guitarist in David Bowie’s band the Spiders from Mars, while in 2006 he turned to Bowie’s producer on many of his classic 70s albums, Tony Visconti, to oversee Ringleader of the Tormentors.But neither of them might have made it to the studio had M
  
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• Japanese Wallpaper and Kučka talk bedroom music production - video

  29-07-2015 09:22
  
  Teenage breakthrough act Japanese Wallpaper sits down at Splendour in the Grass with fellow young achiever Kučka to talk about the nerves of a first big festival show, how smartphones and Soundcloud have changed their music making and what it means to be an electronic young gun in 2015• Videos courtesy Zero Through Nine/Midnight Feature/Inertia Continue reading...
  
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• Nobody does it, better: Bond theme betting suspended after punter tries to put £15,000 on Radiohead

  29-07-2015 08:50
  
  Band become the new favourites to have recorded the theme to Spectre, replacing Ellie GouldingThink Radiohead, and what comes to mind? It’s obvious, really: fast cars, gizmos and gadgets, semi-clad women, high-stakes gambling, and brutal violence delivered with a raised eyebrow. In fact, putting Radiohead and a James Bond thing together seems like the most reasonable pairing since Dexys Midnight Runners recorded the theme to Brush Strokes, the 80s sitcom about an unlucky-in-love painter and de
  
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