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• Tony Bennett honored by DC university for commitment to arts

  31-07-2015 23:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — George Washington University is honoring singer Tony Bennett and his wife with the university president's medal for their commitment to the arts.
  
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• Love Will Set You Free

  31-07-2015 23:10 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Love Will Set You Free
  
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• Powerful (Ft. Ellie Goulding & Tarrus Riley)

  31-07-2015 22:32 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Powerful (feat. Ellie Goulding & Tarrus Riley)
  
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• Peanut Butter Jelly

  31-07-2015 22:32 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Peanut Butter Jelly
  
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• Powerful (Ft. Ellie Goulding & Tarrus Riley)

  31-07-2015 22:32 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Powerful (feat. Ellie Goulding & Tarrus Riley)
  
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• Lynn Anderson, singer of Rose Garden, dies aged 67

  31-07-2015 22:01
  
  The country singer, whose song (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden was an international hit, dies in Nashville, Tennessee Lynn Anderson, whose mellifluous and husky voice carried her to the top of the charts with (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden, has died. She was 67. A statement from the family said she died at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday. Her publicist said the cause of death was cardiac arrest.Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Shuffles: SoundCloud, BASCA, Rolling Stone, PopShack…

  31-07-2015 21:24
  
  PopShack has appointed Michael Tobin as Non-Executive Director, reports Music Week. Tobin was CEO of Telecity Group from 2003 to 2014. Stephen McNeff is the new Chair...
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• Country music star Lynn Anderson dies

  31-07-2015 21:15
  
  Country music star Lynn Anderson, whose strong, husky voice carried her to the top of the charts with "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden," has died. She was 67.
  
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• Universal Music Responds: “We’re Not Firing Our CEO”

  31-07-2015 21:12
  
  Universal Music Group and its corporate parent, Vivendi, are now publicly denying rumors that Universal CEO Lucian Grainge’s job is in serious danger.  In a...
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• Could opera improve the tenor of political debate? | Letters

  31-07-2015 19:32
  
  There must be many reasons why individual politicians fight shy of declaring a love of the arts (Why you won’t catch a British politician at the opera, 31 July) but in a country like ours, bursting at the seams with talented, creative people, it is both their loss and ours. Theirs, because the arts, of whatever discipline, via an emotional transfusion to the heart, endeavour to speak the truth. In one shot both knowledge and insight for free, what could be more nourishing and wonderful than th
  
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• Letter: John Taylor gave many musicians a helping hand

  31-07-2015 19:17
  
  In 1983, I telephoned John Taylor to ask whether he might consider being part of my ensemble for a BBC broadcast. He didn’t know me and he’d certainly never heard my music, but he said yes. We stayed in touch. Then John called asking if I would produce his 1987 Arts Council tour of the quartet Foil, happy for me to make mistakes as I basically learned on the job.We continued to work together: Kenny Wheeler, Peter Erskine, Charlie Mariano, Julian and Steve Argüelles, the Creative Jazz Or
  
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• WWE: Becky Lynch Explains Why She's Teaming Up With Paige

  31-07-2015 19:07
  
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• The Joy of Angst

  31-07-2015 18:47
  
  Why, exactly, did Titus Andronicus make a 90-minute, 29-song double album about mental illness? The New York Times’s Joe Coscarelli recently put the question to the singer Patrick Stickles: “Did you specifically make this record for people suffering from manic depression?”“Mostly just for one person that does,” Stickles replied. Related Story
  
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• New band of the week: Natasha Kmeto (No 64)

  31-07-2015 18:45
  
  The electronicist – and producer, crucially – explores the “queer agenda” on an album of icy post-dubstep soul
  Hometown: Portland, Oregon. The lineup: Natasha Kmeto (vocals, synth, keyboard, computer).Continue reading...
  
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• Best of Beats 1: how to take a bite out of Apple Music

  31-07-2015 18:34
  
  Eclectic dance music from Julie Adenuga, hip-hop from veteran presenter Ebro Darden and 80s American punk from Josh Homme – a roundup of the best shows on Apple MusicWhether it was Drake unleashing his Meek Mill diss track via his radio show OVO Sound, Taylor Swift penning open letters to the company on Tumblr, Dr Dre using his show as a launch pad for his new album (potentially), or industry-heavy analysis on why the world’s biggest company wants to get its hands dirty in the streaming mark
  
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• The week in music: rap beefs, the Irish Beatles and happy birthdays

  31-07-2015 18:08
  
  Our weekly music roundup, from Drake and Meek Mill’s beef to Radiohead James Bond theme rumours – and Bono claiming the Beatles as IrishWho among us hasn’t fantasised about Thom Yorke curling his falsetto around an icy electronic beat while Daniel Craig somersaults over bullets in slow-motion, wearing a suit? Oh, was that just me? Apparently not, according to bookies William Hill – they decided on Tuesday to suspend betting on the singer of the next James Bond theme song, after some abso
  
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• Watching Eva Marie Skipping In Slow Motion Is Making Us Feel All Funny

  31-07-2015 17:58
  
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• How to put on a mega-gig: the caterer's story

  31-07-2015 17:38
  
  What does Elton John like for dinner? Is Robbie Williams a fan of fish and chips? Are Depeche Mode on a gluten-free diet?If you’ve seen This is Spinal Tap, you’ll know the funny things bands ask for. Iggy Pop’s rider is famous: “We like tasty food that isn’t full of mad cow disease”, “We need all this food but God forbid you give us something that’s organic”, “Nurse shark with a nurse provided, in case one of us gets bitten.” He takes the mickey out of himself. My company,
  
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• Hey, Bono, the Beatles were not Irish – they were American to the core

  31-07-2015 17:16
  
  When the robber baron of pop declared ‘let’s claim all the Beatles … as Irish,’ he was absolutely wrong. Here’s whyAt first it looked like Bono, the robber baron of pop, had struck again. Not content with trying to turn the world’s mobile phones into a global brainwashing droid army by secretly implanting U2’s new album into their otherwise immaculate iTunes libraries, now he’s trying to steal the Beatles. “John Lennon was an immigrant,” he said on Ellis Island on Wednesday,
  
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• Classical cover art: the good, the bad and the ugly

  31-07-2015 17:07
  
  Matching music with images is a tricky art in any genre. Classical has some remarkable examples, for better and worse, of how fine the balance can be.When classical music covers go wrong they really go wrong. There are some corkers out there, from the unfortunate Derek Bell Plays With Himself to Red Priest’s hair metal-style Handel in the Wind, with Julian Lloyd Webber’s Travels With My Cello and much else in between … so it’s gratifying to come across the rare instances when genuine cre
  
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• Mac DeMarco - Another One: Exclusive album stream

  31-07-2015 16:39
  
  Have a listen to Mac DeMarco’s excellent new mini-LP ahead of release and let us know your thoughts Mac DeMarco might have a slacker reputation, but there’s nothing slack about his output. It was only last year that he wowed fans – and the Guardian’s music critics – with Salad Days, and already he’s back with another selection of laidback indie rock. Just as he hides his workrate behind a scruffy exterior, so the woozy vibe of his songs help camouflage what is a fierce melodic nous.
  
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• WWE: Ryback Return 'Approaching' Says Crocked Intercontinental Champ

  31-07-2015 16:13
  
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• Watch live and on demand the closing concert of the 2015 Verbier Festival

  31-07-2015 15:55
  
  The final concert in this year’s Verbier festival features the works of two great Hungarian composers: Lizst and Bartók. You can watch the concert live, for free, here on Sunday 2 August at 1800 (GMT) or on demand until 30 October. The 2015 Verbier Festival ends with a concert featuring Khatia Buniatishvili (pictured, below), who will perform Lizst’s Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A major, and Bartók’s only opera, Bluebeard’s Castle, with Hungarian mezzo Ildikó
  
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• Meek Mill was too late to hurt Drake with his diss track

  31-07-2015 15:41
  
  By the time Meek Mill released Wanna Know, his comeback to diss tracks from Drake, he was already the punchline of too many internet memesWhat a rough week it’s been for Meek Mill. Before you scroll down to type out “who?” in the comment box, let me explain. He’s a Philadelphia rapper who’s recently been known first for dating Nicki Minaj and then for starting a Twitter beef with Drake – and it didn’t end well for Meek.In fact, you could say the whole thing blew up spectacularly in
  
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• Man dies following suspected substance abuse at Cumbria music festival

  31-07-2015 15:31
  
  A 29-year-old woman is also in a critical condition and three men are described as being in a serious but stable condition after attending Kendal CallingA man has died and four others are in hospital following suspected substance abuse at the Kendal Calling music festival in Cumbria.Police were called by staff at Cumberland infirmary just before 7am on Friday after the man was admitted in a critical condition. He was later pronounced dead. Continue reading...
  
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• Pete Waterman: A Life in Song review - hit songs, with no stars to sing them

  31-07-2015 15:19
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  A retrospective full of amusing, if lengthy, anecdotes from the Stock, Aitken and Waterman hitmaker, but lacking recognisable singers for the live performancesTime heals, as Pete Waterman knows. In his 80s pomp, when he oversaw hit after tinny Hi-NRG hit with Mike Stock and Matt Aitken – a total of 100 Top 40 singles before they disbanded in 1993 – he embodied Thatcherite pile-’em-high, sell-’em-cheap crassness. Three decades later, he’s at the Royal Festiva
  
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• Hallé/Elder review – impressive revival of Vaughan Williams neglected oratorio

  31-07-2015 15:01
  
  Mark Elder and his Hallé orchestra were perfect advocates for Vaughan Williams’s large and little-known Sancta CivitasVaughan Williams’s millennarian oratorio Sancta Civitas is the kind of large and neglected piece that the Proms exist for. Premiered in Oxford in 1926 to texts drawn from the Book of Revelation, it might have been written for the Albert Hall. The work calls for huge vocal forces, an organ and a distant boys choir, tenor and trumpet, here performing high in the gallery under
  
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• Three Choirs festival: Philharmonia/Nardone review – shimmering washes of sound

  31-07-2015 14:57
  
  Hereford Cathedral
  Mathias’s ambitious Lux Aeterna gets a deserved revival but Nielsen’s Hymnus Amoris felt rather doggedThe Three Choirs festival regularly includes the staples of the choral repertory, but it also makes a point of exploring its more neglected corners, too, especially works it brought into existence in the first place. William Mathias’s Lux Aeterna was commissioned for the 1982 festival in Hereford; and performed there again in 1994 in memory of Mathias, who had died in 19
  
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• John Green Defends That Totally Awks Cara Delevingne Interview And We Love What He Has To Say

  31-07-2015 14:41
  
  The Paper Towns author explains why he admires her after THAT awful interview.
  
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• Micachu & The Shapes review – car parks don't make for great venues

  31-07-2015 14:40
  
  Bold Tendencies, London
  A disused car park seems the perfect venue for art-pop maverick Mica Levi, but unforgiving acoustics end up swamping her playful soundIf any artist might find a spiritual home in a disused urban car park turned experimental art space, it’s Mica Levi. Since dazzling audiences and critics alike with her 2009 debut, Jewellery, Levi has consistently rewritten the rules of pop with Micachu & The Shapes’ off-kilter melodies, unpredictable rhythms, deliberate distortion
  
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• Zoella Reveals The Title Of Her New Book As Well As The Cover, Yay!

  31-07-2015 14:15
  
  We're beyond excited!
  
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• Juiceboxxx: the 'world's worst rapper' whose struggle became a book

  31-07-2015 14:11
  
  Juiceboxxx was probably best known for having been labelled ‘the world’s worst rapper’. Now he is the subject of a book that casts him in a very different lightThe problem with being barely known – barely known for years, not as a beginner – is that you have no control over how and when you come to get noticed. That’s something Juiceboxxx has experienced twice. Last year, he briefly became an internet meme when, after a disastrous appearance on a local news station in his hometown of
  
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• Zayn Malik And Perrie Edwards Crowned Sexiest Male & Female In Pop 2015

  31-07-2015 13:51
  
  You'll never guess who they beat! Check out the full list here...
  
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• What The Lyrics Of One Direction's 'Drag Me Down' Really Mean

  31-07-2015 13:45
  
  At least according to us, anyway.
  
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• Tom Cruise Plays 'F*ck, Marry, Kill?' With His Own Characters And Everything Gets Weird

  31-07-2015 13:32
  
  Watch things get weird with Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation's Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson.
  
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• Leona Lewis: Why I decided to quit Simon Cowell's label

  31-07-2015 13:16
  
  The Bleeding Love singer left Simon’s label Syco last year after making four albums with them.
  
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• The Rock Says He Is 'Disappointed' In Hulk Hogan

  31-07-2015 13:16
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence & Amy Schumer Have Created A Squad To Rival All Others

  31-07-2015 12:35
  
  Soz T-Swift.
  
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• Kylie Jenner HAS Made Her Boobs Bigger… But Not Through Surgery

  31-07-2015 12:33
  
  Baby J has also been enhancing her butt…
  
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• A Man Got A Tattoo Of Caitlyn Jenner's Vogue Cover And His Reasons Are Pretty Brilliant

  31-07-2015 12:28
  
  You've got to see Jason Hatfield's new tribute ink to Cait...
  
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• Cheryl And Rita Ora Cosy Up In X Factor Boot Camp Snap And Yes, They Are Getting On!

  31-07-2015 11:47
  
  No rivalry here as Chez and Reets achieve the ultimate #FriendshipGoals...
  
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• David Beckham & Jason Statham Enjoy Guy Ritchie's Star Studded Wedding

  31-07-2015 11:40
  
  EVERYONE WAS THERE. Except for us.
  
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• 16 Real World Facts We Learned From Friends

  31-07-2015 11:33
  
  Unagi, how to treat a jellyfish sting and so many more...
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Explains Complex Magazine Shoot Fear: “I Don’t Wear Bikinis”

  31-07-2015 11:24
  
  Well, we really think you should, KoKo.
  
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• Katie Hopkins Slams Kim Kardashian And Caitlyn Jenner, Urges Them To "Say Something"

  31-07-2015 11:01
  
  The former Celebrity Big Brother star is fed up of the pair being posers...
  
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• Watch John Legend Try To Eat Chicken From Wife Chrissy Teigen’s Butt

  31-07-2015 10:56
  
  #RelationshipGoals does not feel like a strong enough hashtag for these two.
  
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• 3 Grime Clashes That Shook the Scene

  31-07-2015 10:39
  
  #MERKY
  
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• Vicky Pattison: 'People claim they don't know who I am all the time'

  31-07-2015 10:32
  
  Ex On The Beach stars Vicky and Cami give us the low down on what it's really like to date a celeb...
  
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• So, Kanye West Pretty Much Has The Best Birthday Present Planned For Kylie Jenner's 18th

  31-07-2015 10:14
  
  Yeezy is DEFINITELY going to win points for being the best bro-in-law for this one...
  
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• One Direction Send Fans Into A Frenzy With Surprise New Single 'Drag Me Down'

  31-07-2015 10:12
  
  IT'S LIKE CHRISTMAS AND OUR BIRTHDAY ALL AT ONCE.
  
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