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• Mountain At My Gates

  04-08-2015 22:31 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Mountain At My Gates
  
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• #WTF: Instagram Bans the “EDM” Hashtag…

  04-08-2015 22:28
  
  Just yesterday, Los Angeles Supervisor Hilda Solis said that banning electronic music festivals is the proper response to two fatalities at HARD Summer. To add...
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• Singers Zayn Malik, Perrie Edwards call off engagement

  04-08-2015 20:08
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former One Direction member Zayn Malik and singer Perrie Edwards have called off their engagement.
  
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• Taylor Swift Calls Spotify a “Start-Up With No Cash Flow That Reacts to Criticism Like a Corporate Machine”

  04-08-2015 19:28
  
  …from the upcoming, September issue of Vanity Fair, which features Taylor Swift on the cover. “After receiving criticism for a Wall Street Journal op-ed Swift...
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• Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery discusses music and Lady Mary

  04-08-2015 18:57
  
  Viewers of the next series of Downton will be in for a sartorial treat too, she revealed.
  
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• WWE 2K16: First Look At Game Footage Featuring Seth Rollins And Finn Balor

  04-08-2015 18:57
  
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• So Zayn Malik And Perrie Edwards Might Have Called Off Their Engagement

  04-08-2015 18:50
  
  Um, how about no?
  
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• Iggy Azalea Has Had A Nose Job – And She’s Not Ashamed To Admit It

  04-08-2015 18:39
  
  The Aussie rapper speaks out on the “emotional journey” of plastic surgery…
  
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• Get Ready To Rave V Fest, Club MTV Is Coming Back!

  04-08-2015 18:31
  
  We're taking over the Sure Arena on Friday 21st August...
  
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• Ricky Rayment & Marnie Simpson Want To 'Start Trying For A Baby' On Their Honeymoon!

  04-08-2015 18:29
  
  Things are moving really fast in the land of Micky...
  
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• Teen Mom Star Maci Bookout’s Autobiography ‘Bulletproof’ Becomes A New York Times Best Seller

  04-08-2015 18:29
  
  Well this is a pretty huge deal…
  
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• Taylor Swift: 'I wasn't ready to be friends with Kanye West until he respected me'

  04-08-2015 18:08
  
  In an interview with Vanity Fair, the pop star discusses the role Jay Z played in reconciling Swift with West after his stage invasion at the 2009 VMA awards Related: Taylor Swift still has bad blood with Spotify over streaming music dispute Taylor Swift has spoken about how Jay Z helped mend the rift between her and Kanye West after the rapper interrupted her winner’s speech at the MTV VMAs in 2009. Continue reading...
  
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• Musical activism: Greenpeace is not the first

  04-08-2015 17:58
  
  Greenpeace is using music and a string quartet to protest against Arctic drilling. Plenty of other composers have written works that make meaningful connection between soundscape and landscape. Here are six of the bestGreenpeace this week began what they’re calling “a month-long run of Titanic-themed orchestral protests against Arctic drilling”. “Orchestral” might be overstating and also underselling it, since this isn’t really about full orchestras playing for Greenpeace, and althou
  
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• The playlist: metal – Clutch, Grave Pleasures, Powerwolf and more

  04-08-2015 17:56
  
  Clutch turn blues-fuelled hard rock infectious, My Dying Bride perforate your musical boundaries with your eardrums, while there’s dance-friendly post-punk from Grave PleasuresAdored by discerning fans across the entire rock and metal spectrum, Clutch have spent the last two decades defying trends and revelling in the subtle evolution of their own idiosyncratic take on blues-fuelled hard rock. The Maryland quartet have been on exquisite form of late, their most recent album Earth Rocker garner
  
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• So Tom Cruise Just Casually Announced The Weeknd Is Performing At The 2015 VMAs

  04-08-2015 17:43
  
  The Mission: Impossible star just announced the news on Twitter...
  
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• Liam Payne Talks Life After One Direction & How Louis Tomlinson Is 'Embracing' Fatherhood

  04-08-2015 17:23
  
  Liam aka King of Interviews.
  
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• A 40-Foot Minion Balloon Escaped Captivity And Attacked Dublin Motorists

  04-08-2015 17:08
  
  When will these things be stopped?
  
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• 50 Cent's expenses include $5,000 per month on gardening

  04-08-2015 16:52
  
  The rapper revealed his monthly expenses at a hearing in Connecticut, after filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a ‘strategic business move’The rapper 50 Cent (real name Curtis James Jackson III) gave fans an insight into his lifestyle when detailing his outgoing monthly expenses, which include $5,000 per month on gardening. Related: The $5m question: does 50 Cent enjoy trolling more than money?Continue reading...
  
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• Gigi Hadid Practises Hairography In ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ Music Video

  04-08-2015 16:44
  
  The Calvin Harris and Disciples track provides a perfect soundtrack for much hair flipping…
  
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• Shooting near Drake afterparty in Toronto leaves two dead

  04-08-2015 16:40
  
  Three also wounded as violence breaks out around nightclub where Drake hosted afterparty for his Ovo Fest music festivalA man and a woman have been killed and three other people left with life-threatening injuries after shots were fired near Muzik, a Toronto nightclub where Drake was hosting an afterparty following his Ovo Fest music festival.Toronto news network CP24 reports that the incident took place at 3.30am on Tuesday morning, with police sealing off a large section of the Exhibition grou
  
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• WWE: Paige Tells Steve Austin She'd Like Divas Title To Be Rebranded As Women's Championship

  04-08-2015 16:39
  
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• Eminem became addicted to exercise following drug rehabilitation

  04-08-2015 16:35
  
  ‘I got an addict’s brain, and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away,’ says the rapper Elton John may have been crucial to Eminem’s recovery from drug addiction, but according to a recent piece written by the rapper, excessive jogging played a large role in his sobriety. “I got an addict’s brain,” Eminem told Men’s Journal, “and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away.”In an article about his physical health, Eminem explains that fol
  
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• Taylor Swift Is Fine With Her Friends Dating Her Exes And Her Reason Why Is Everything

  04-08-2015 16:24
  
  There's literally no bad blood in her #GirlSquad...
  
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• Sun Kil Moon review – instinctive, in-the-moment art from Mark Kozelek

  04-08-2015 16:03
  
  St George’s Church, Brighton
  Kozelek wanders and gestures as if delivering an off-the-cuff talk in an enthralling performance that mirrors his writingBack, then, to the old question of whether, and how, one separates the artist from the art. Mark Kozelek’s music has been justly treasured since Red House Painters’ debut LP Down Colorful Hill in 1992. His current work as Sun Kil Moon is extraordinary. But when his shtick recently veered from amusing broadsides at rising indie rockists the Wa
  
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• L’enfant et les sortilèges review – bright ideas and remarkable singing from the Samling Academy

  04-08-2015 15:57
  
  Sage, Gateshead
  Ravel’s 45-minute opera parable works perfectly for the young singers of the Samling AcademyFor nearly 20 years, a Samling scholarship has been a significant point of departure for young singers at the start of their professional careers. The Samling Academy is a more recent development – a form of operatic S Club Juniors whose intake is even younger, ranging from 14-21 years of age.It’s a fine initiative, though it must be a nightmare finding something for them all to do,
  
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• Check Out This Exclusive Clip From 'Diary Of A Teenage Girl', Starring Alexander Skarsgard And Kristen Wiig

  04-08-2015 15:41
  
  We're already obsessed.
  
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• Pitched Up Line-Up Includes: Lady Leshurr, Akelle Charles, Kiko Bun And More

  04-08-2015 15:20
  
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• Two shot dead in Toronto after Drake music festival party

  04-08-2015 15:05
  
  Two people died and three others were hospitalized early Tuesday morning in Toronto in shootings that started at a party affiliated with rapper Drake's annual music festival, Toronto police said. Police said on Twitter a man and a woman were killed at around 3:30 a.m. local time (0730 GMT) at and near the Muzik club, which hosted the official after-party for Drake's three-day OVO Fest. A police spokesman said there were three crime scenes.
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Finally Confirms He Is Becoming A Dad And We Are In Shock

  04-08-2015 14:51
  
  We told you it was true!
  
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• BBCSSO/Runnicles review – MacMillan premiere and the raw power of Mahler

  04-08-2015 14:30
  
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  James MacMillan’s dense and complex Fourth Symphony was conducted with affection and dignity; Mahler’s Fifth felt like being locked into someone else’s nervous breakdown
  Donald Runnicles’s second Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra opened with the world premiere of James MacMillan’s Fourth Symphony, written to celebrate Runnicles’s 60th birthday, which fell late last year. MacMillan describes the symphony as “essentially abstract” rather than p
  
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• Cee-Lo Green apologises for Twitter rape remarks

  04-08-2015 13:39
  
  ‘I do realise I’m an artist, that I’m flawed – and sometimes, you know, you don’t think,’ says the singer Cee-Lo Green has admitted that a series of controversial tweets he sent amid accusations that the singer had spiked a woman’s drink were “highly irresponsible”.Green, whose tweets included, “People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!” and, “When someone brakes on a home there is broken glass where is your plausible proof that anyone was raped,” said his online re
  
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• LOLs! Americans Watch Geordie Shore For The First Time And It's Reet Funny

  04-08-2015 13:16
  
  Check out their hilarious reactions to the Geordies getting mortal and tashing on...
  
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• Drake Trolls Meek Mill With Hilarious Memes During His Performance At OVO Fest

  04-08-2015 13:04
  
  The burns keep on coming.
  
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• Phwoar! Little Mix's Perrie & Leigh-Anne Show Off Their Bikini Bods In LA

  04-08-2015 12:49
  
  Us? Jealous? Never.
  
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• Congratulations Directioners On Helping One Direction Break Another Record!

  04-08-2015 12:28
  
  This fandom deserves an award!
  
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• 23 GIFs You Need To See From 5 Seconds Of Summer's 'She's Kinda Hot' Music Video

  04-08-2015 12:21
  
  This is important.
  
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• Watch Emotional Roddy Piper Video Tribute As WWE Stars Pay Respects To Wrestling Legend

  04-08-2015 12:14
  
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• Cult heroes: E-40, the stalwart working an open-cast mine of futurist rap

  04-08-2015 12:00
  
  A barrage of 16 albums in the last five years is a reminder of the work-rate and inventiveness of the underappreciated Bay Area OG, as well as the forgotten hyphy sound he has championedThere are plenty of people in the annals of rap who’ve talked a good game but never quite managed to live up to the self-made hype – but Earl Stevens, AKA E-40, isn’t one of them. The Vallejo, California native started making records as part of the Click in 1990: a quarter of a century later, he remains cri
  
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• Will Smith Has Finally Addressed All Those Divorce Rumours In Epic Statement

  04-08-2015 11:38
  
  Are they? Aren't they?
  
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• Cara Delevingne Has Quit Runway, But Will Continue To Model *Breathes Sigh Of Relief*

  04-08-2015 11:23
  
  Queen D's face is still going to be EVERYWHERE...
  
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• Cambridge folk festival: a visual tour of the city's musical show

  04-08-2015 10:40
  
  Guardian photojournalist Sarah Lee travelled to Cambridge to attend the city’s folk festival, one of the country’s most enduring musical gatherings, which this year featured a line up that boasted Joan Baez, Peggy Seeger, Wilko Johnson and Frank Turner, amongst others. As usual, thousands of fans turned up too.Guardian photojournalist Sarah Lee travelled to Cambridge to attend the city’s folk festival, one of the country’s most enduring musical gatherings Continue reading...
  
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• Rihanna’s Latest Carnival Outfit = #LifeGoals

  04-08-2015 10:29
  
  The Bajan babe hit Crop Over festival in rhinestones, feathers and not much else…
  
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• VIdeo: Watch The First Part Of Brand New Ex On The Beach!

  04-08-2015 10:22
  
  Exclusive! We've got a peek at the first episode from the brand new series of Ex On The Beach...
  
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• Watch 5 Seconds Of Summer's Killer New 'She's Kinda Hot' Music Video Right Here!

  04-08-2015 10:22
  
  We're already obsessed and it's only been a few hours...
  
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• Vic Mensa: 'The Gallagher brothers are ultimate dickheads’

  04-08-2015 10:00
  
  Kanye’s punk protege is signed to Roc Nation but he rejects the fake side of fame and the ‘weird shit’ that goes with it. Meet the Chicago rapper with a rock attitudeThe queue starts to form five hours before show time. The word is out, tumbling through a network of tweets, Snapchats and Instagram comments: Vic Mensa, the alt-rapper who’s just been signed to Jay Z’s Roc Nation label, is going to play a free gig in his home town of Chicago. Within hours, 10,000 people have RSVP’d for
  
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• Police have received a number of reported DJ Derek sightings

  04-08-2015 09:46
  
  The missing 73-year-old from Bristol was possibly seen at Yate bus station less than three weeks ago, police have revealedAs the search for missing music scene legend DJ Derek continues, police have reported that the Bristolian was spotted at Yate bus station less than three weeks ago. Avon and Somerset Police said the 73-year-old DJ was seen by friends at about midday on either 16 or 17 July. “As a result of this new information, we’re refocusing our search efforts in the Yate area,” a sp
  
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• Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale file for divorce

  04-08-2015 09:02
  
  ‘While the two of us have come to the mutual decision that we will no longer be partners in marriage, we remain partners in parenthood,’ the former couple sayAfter almost 13 years of marriage, Gwen Stefani has filed for divorce from Gavin Rossdale. The No Doubt musician cited irreconcilable differences for their split, according to TMZ. Stefani filed her petition for divorce on Monday 2 August, Los Angeles Superior Court spokeswoman Mary Hearn said. Continue reading...
  
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• Dick Dale, 78, Currently Tours Despite Having Rectal Cancer, Renal Failure, and Massive Vertebrae Damage

  04-08-2015 08:55
  
  Dick Dale is one of the greatest surf rock guitarists of all time, and a pioneer of the genre alongside the Beach Boys.  These days, he’s...
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• Native Instruments’ “New” Audio Format Goes on Sale…

  04-08-2015 06:09
  
  In March, Native Instruments announced Stems, a new audio format. A stem is an individual part of a song, such as drums or bass. Native...
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• Opera in Aix-en-Provence: from the archive, 4 August 1958

  04-08-2015 06:00
  
  A few days at Aix, which has the densest and most varied programme, may be followed by a few at Avignon, from which Orange makes an easy day excursionAix-en-Provence, August 3
  “Le touriste qui, venant du Nord, pénètre dans les lumineuses plaines Provençales, subit une véritable exaltation devant ce pays que Mistral a défini comme l’Empire du soleil.”The author of the Introduction au Voyage in the Michelin Guide to Provence was envisaging a tourist travell
  
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