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• Lollapalooza review – Charli XCX and Gary Clark Jr shine amid the storms

  03-08-2015 23:57
  
  Grant Park, ChicagoIt may feel like a festival struggling to find its identity at times, but Lollapalooza’s mid-market mix still stood out despite the rainWhat is the purpose of Lollapalooza? It is not as fashionable as Coachella or as folksy as Bonnaroo. In an increasingly packed music festival season, does Lollapalooza remain viable? Last year, I questioned its purpose because of the weakness of its lineup with Eminem and Kings of Leon among the headliners. Eminem had just played the festiva
  
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• Jill Scott scores Billboard No. 1; Apple Music joins chart providers

  03-08-2015 23:01
  
  (Reuters) - R&B singer Jill Scott scored her second No. 1 album on the U.S. Billboard 200 with her new entry "Women" topping the chart this week, as streaming data from Apple Music joined the list of providers who make up the chart. "Women," Scott's fifth studio album, sold some 60,000 units in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. The Billboard 200 chart tallies album sales, song sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity (1,500 streams equal one album).
  
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• 18 Musicians Who Made It Later In Life

  03-08-2015 21:58
  
  One of the biggest myths of the music industry is that you have to be young in order to “make it.” Setting aside the fact that...
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• Boston Symphony Orchestra extends music director's contract

  03-08-2015 20:59
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Symphony Orchestra said Monday it was extending the contract of Andris Nelsons, who last year became the orchestra's youngest conductor in a century.
  
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• What an Anti-Piracy Warning Looked Like In 1976

  03-08-2015 20:57
  
  From the pages of Car Magazine in the UK, July 1976 edition…
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• Cilla Black looks set to make a music chart comeback

  03-08-2015 19:04
  
  One of her singles and an album have both entered the mid-week charts.
  
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• Monterverdi's Orfeo: 'a brilliant and compelling fable to the inalienable power of music'

  03-08-2015 18:55
  
  Monteverdi might be surprised to find himself hailed as the inventor of the opera, and he disclaimed the role of revolutionary, but his Orfeo is a radical, innovative and extraordinary work The Orpheus legend is utterly central to how opera emerged at the close of the Italian Renaissance and to the way its first pioneers tried to justify its existence as a revival of ancient Greek sung drama (a slightly spurious claim). Orpheus, its first definitive hero, is present at every intersection in oper
  
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• 9 Times We Wished Barack Obama Was Our Dad

  03-08-2015 18:48
  
  Because who wouldn't want the President of the United States picking them up from school?
  
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• Someone Just Spent Three Months Mashing Up Uptown Funk With Almost 300 Movies

  03-08-2015 18:42
  
  So what have you done with your day?
  
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• How Many Famous Hairstyles Can Harry Styles Pull Off?

  03-08-2015 18:18
  
  Answer: all of them.
  
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• BBCSSO/Runnicles review – sheer and impressive drama

  03-08-2015 17:58
  
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  Donald Runnicles, conducting the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s chorus and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, brought precision and drama to Verdi’s RequiemWhen the conductor Hans von Bülow sneeringly dubbed Verdi’s Requiem “an opera in ecclesiastical costume”, Brahms severely reprimanded him. Bülow would later retract his remark and Verdi apparently forgave him.Yet Bülow had some sort of point. One entire section of the Requiem (the Lacrimosa) began
  
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• Brett Eldredge selected to judge Miss America pageant

  03-08-2015 17:43
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Country singer Brett Eldredge is the first of seven judges to be announced for ABC's live broadcast of the 2016 Miss America competition.
  
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• Simon Cowell Thinks He's Found The Next One Direction In New X Factor Ad

  03-08-2015 17:27
  
  But wait, they're just a tiny bit different...
  
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• Harry Pitch obituary

  03-08-2015 17:19
  
  Musician whose harmonica-playing graced many pop songs in the 1960s and also film and TV music, notably on Last of the Summer Wine’s theme tuneThe harmonica has often been regarded as a novelty instrument, but it became highly prized in British pop music following the success of Frank Ifield’s 1962 recording of I Remember You. The memorable harmonica phrase was performed by Harry Pitch, who has died aged 90. Pitch’s distinctive sound graced numerous pop records of the 1960s, as well as fil
  
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• Boston Symphony Orchestra extends contract of music director

  03-08-2015 17:10
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Symphony Orchestra is extending the contract of its music director, who last year became the orchestra's youngest conductor in a century.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Opens Up About Her Sexuality & Dating

  03-08-2015 16:36
  
  Has she already started looking for love again?
  
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• #MTVFestivalSeason: Lollapalooza’s Sign Language Interpreter Explains Why Every Concert Should Cater For Deaf Fans

  03-08-2015 15:51
  
  Amber Galloway Gallego is the talented lady from THAT viral Kendrick Lamar video...
  
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• #MTVFestivalSeason: 9 People Who Wore Flower Crowns To Lollapalooza & Made Us Wonder Why We Ever Doubted Them

  03-08-2015 15:03
  
  We’ll never diss you again, faithful flowers.
  
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• WWE: Titus O'Neil Is A Champion IRL After Taking Some Homeless People To Lunch

  03-08-2015 14:42
  
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• Bobbi Kristina Brown's Family Gather For Her Funeral Despite Growing Tensions

  03-08-2015 14:15
  
  It was a dramatic service for the late daughter of Whitney Houston...
  
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• Watch Ronda Rousey Dedicate UFC 190 Victory To Roddy Piper

  03-08-2015 14:08
  
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• Liam Payne On Louis Tomlinson Becoming A Dad: “He’s Taking It Very Seriously”

  03-08-2015 14:01
  
  Well that’s good then.
  
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• Cilla Black: See her 9 best online video moments

  03-08-2015 13:55
  
  From finding Mr Bean a blind date to performing as an ageing stripper, Cilla’s career as a singer and TV presenter was long and varied.
  
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• Liam Payne Was A Hungry Caterpillar & Harry Styles Was A Rock God During #OTRAPittsburgh

  03-08-2015 13:25
  
  Again, why weren't we there to witness the beauty of these boys?
  
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• John Cena Back In The Gym After 'Having Op' On His Squished Nose

  03-08-2015 13:20
  
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• Cilla Black: A timeline of the life of the showbiz legend, who has died aged 72

  03-08-2015 13:18
  
  Cilla was born in Liverpool, and went on to huge success first as a pop star and then as a TV presenter.
  
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• Is This Fantastic Four Interview Racist, Sexist Or Just Stupid?

  03-08-2015 13:11
  
  Cringe incoming!
  
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• Can You Spot Cara Delevingne In This Photo? Clue: She’s The One With PINK HAIR!

  03-08-2015 13:05
  
  The Paper Towns star had a colourful makeover at Canada’s Osheaga festival…
  
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• WWE Champ Seth Rollins Slaps Down UFC Boss Dana White Over 'Fake' Jibe

  03-08-2015 12:55
  
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• Kylie Jenner Poses For Yet Another Bikini Selfie – How Much Swimwear Does She Own?!

  03-08-2015 12:35
  
  If you can’t find a black bikini this summer, it’s probably because Kylie bought them all…
  
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• OMG Geordie Shore's Gaz Reckons He's On An Actual 'Sex Ban' And We're In Shock

  03-08-2015 12:23
  
  WHAT IS GOING ON.
  
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• Miley Cyrus Just Outed Herself As A Directioner In The Best Way Ever

  03-08-2015 11:34
  
  Harry Styles with space buns, anyone?
  
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• Liam Payne Says There's 'Too Much History' For There Not To Be Love Between Him & Zayn Malik

  03-08-2015 10:57
  
  Okay he's now officially the nicest guy EVER.
  
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• Emily Ratajkowski Doesn’t Think You’re A Criminal For Looking At Her Hacked Nudes

  03-08-2015 10:56
  
  And her two new GQ covers are HOT. AS. HELL.
  
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• 2 women dead from suspected drug overdoses at music fest

  03-08-2015 09:21
  
  POMONA, Calif. (AP) — Two women died from suspected drug overdoses at a popular weekend music festival, prompting calls for an investigation and concern over the use of narcotics at youth-oriented events.
  
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• Cilla Black: Britain Mourns A Showbiz Icon

  03-08-2015 06:11
  
  Tributes have been paid to the late singer and TV presenter Cilla Black, who has passed away at her holiday home in Spain at the age of 72. The death of the former pop star and TV presenter, who lived in Estepona on the Costa del Sol, was announced on Sunday . In a statement, her publicist Nick Fiveash said: "It is with deep sorrow that I confirm today the passing of singer and TV personality Cilla Black.
  
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