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• Country singer Jake Owen announces divorce from wife, Lacey

  07-08-2015 22:56
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Jake Owen and his model wife, Lacey Buchanan, are divorcing.
  
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• Prince to release Hitnrun album exclusively via Tidal

  07-08-2015 22:01
  ‘Tidal have honoured us with a non-restrictive arrangement that once again allows us to continue making art in the fashion we’ve grown accustomed to,’ says the artist Prince has announced that his new album - Hitnrun - will be released exclusively via Tidal.Out on 7 September, it takes the same name as his extensive series of guerrilla gigs last year, and follows his Art Official Age and PlectrumElectrum albums in 2014 Continue reading...
  
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• Beatport Somehow Didn’t Experience an Issue Paying the Major Labels

  07-08-2015 22:00
  
  On Wednesday, DMN posted a letter Beatport sent to artists.  The letter said Beatport needed to hold off on artist payments because of decisions made by...
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• Former Owl City Member Charged With Sexually Preying on Underaged Girl

  07-08-2015 21:16
  
    Daniel Jorgensen, a former touring member of Owl City, has been charged with sexual contact with a minor and child luring. Jorgensen is charged...
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• Jerry Lee Lewis: a life in pictures

  07-08-2015 21:00
  We look back at the life and times of Jerry Lee Lewis, on the eve of his final tourJerry Lee Lewis: ‘I worry about whether I’m going to heaven or hell’ Continue reading...
  
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• Breaking: Prince’s New Album Is a TIDAL Exclusive

  07-08-2015 20:00
  
  Last week, Prince premiered an exclusive song on Spotify. The streaming service was feeling pretty good about themselves, featuring the song on the app. The move was...
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• One Direction top UK charts and break streaming records with Drag Me Down

  07-08-2015 19:01
  The boyband’s first single as a quartet shoots straight to the top, while Cilla’s greatest hits return to the top 20 and the Maccabees score their first No 1 with Marks to Prove ItThe spotlight may have shifted from One Direction to former-member Zayn Malik in recent weeks, but that hasn’t stopped fans of the pop megaband from sending their surprise new single to the top of the UK single charts. Drag Me Down, One Direction’s first single as a quartet, debuts at the top of this week’s c
  
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• The week in music: Dr Dre's Compton, saving the bassoon and more

  07-08-2015 17:48
  Our weekly news roundup, featuring Dre’s long-awaited new album, Florence + the Machine disrupting the tennis and a campaign to save the bassoonFlorence Welch and her band may have made a few enemies in the world of tennis this week – and no, that doesn’t sound particularly threatening to me, either. Davis Cup supporters hoping to watch Andy Murray play the semi-final in Manchester will have to suck it up and venture elsewhere, after Welch’s agent said “no thanks” to relocating one o
  
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• 3D and the Art of Massive Attack – in pictures

  07-08-2015 17:47
  This month, the Vinyl Factory publishes 3D and the Art of Massive Attack – a book that documents the visual history of the Bristol band. Here, Robert del Naja, aka 3D, explains the story behind some of the books best images Continue reading...
  
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• Hey World, Stop Talking About Jared Leto's Massive Penis Yeah?

  07-08-2015 16:43
  
  I said stop talking about it!
  
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• #TGIF! Get Involved With The Latest Club MTV Mixtape

  07-08-2015 16:42
  
  R3wire and Varski present another banging mix just in time for the weekend...
  
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• Dope Is About To Become Your New Favourite Movie & Here's The World Exclusive Trailer To Prove It

  07-08-2015 15:38
  
  The crime teen comedy drama is getting rave reviews - and this is why...
  
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• OMG Perrie Edwards Has Officially Declared War On Zayn Malik

  07-08-2015 15:33
  
  SH*T JUST GOT REAL.
  
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• Jamie Bell Reveals The Connection Between The Thing & Spider-Man

  07-08-2015 15:29
  
  The Fantastic Four cast talked to us about the bizarre connection - oh, and dancing...
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Aaron Chalmers Has Gone And Got His Head Tattooed, Just FYI

  07-08-2015 15:07
  
  He must be running out of space now.
  
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• Win Guest Tickets To Reading & Leeds Festival!

  07-08-2015 14:43
  
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• Katie Hopkins Thinks Zayn Malik Is In 'Freefall' And Will Soon Be Running Around The M25 Naked

  07-08-2015 14:40
  
  BECAUSE THAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE.
  
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• NOOO! Holly Hagan Reveals She’s Thought About Quitting Geordie Shore

  07-08-2015 14:35
  
  Don’t scare us like that, Hols.
  
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• WWE: Why Ronda Rousey Could Be Matched Up With Charlotte Flair

  07-08-2015 14:30
  
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• This New Harry Potter Theory About Dumbledore Is Making Fans Absolutely Lose It

  07-08-2015 13:58
  
  SAY WHAAA?
  
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• One Direction Have Shot Their 'Drag Me Down' Music Video & They've Managed To Get Actual NASA Involved

  07-08-2015 13:31
  
  Space Styles.
  
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• WWE: Rosa Mendes Reveals She's Pregnant!

  07-08-2015 13:24
  
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• A Disney Animator Paid Tribute To Cecil The Lion And Now We're Feeling Emotional

  07-08-2015 13:08
  
  *wipes tear*
  
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• Marnie Simpson Goes Under The Knife To Correct Botched Boob Job

  07-08-2015 11:57
  
  The Geordie Shore star has revealed her nerves over the procedure.
  
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• The Apprentice’s Stuart Baggs’ Cause Of Death Has Been Revealed

  07-08-2015 11:21
  
  The 27-year-old reality star passed away in July.
  
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• Naughty Boy Just Can't Help But Taunt Zayn Malik On Twitter Again

  07-08-2015 11:12
  
  Come on now, boys.
  
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• Get Some Summer Lovin' With Arches' Top 10 Tunes

  07-08-2015 11:06
  The Belgian duo drop 'New Love' soon, so they've picked us some loved up tunes...
  
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• Spice Girls Are 'Reuniting For An Anniversary Tour' But Which Member Won't Be Joining Them?

  07-08-2015 10:25
  
  ZIG-A-ZIG-AH
  
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• The Apartments: album's birth so traumatic 'it's a miracle it exists at all'

  07-08-2015 09:10
  
  Peter Milton Walsh had no intention of releasing the songs he wrote after tragedy struck. After 18 years he is ready to share them at lastRobert Forster, co-founder of the Go-Betweens, writes that in the small, but febrile late 1970s Brisbane music scene everyone knew each other. But even then, he and the late Grant McLennan knew of Peter Milton Walsh before they met him; he was a man with “whispers and claims on his trail”.Walsh is the near-myth behind the Apartments, the group he named aft
  
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• Dr Dre to donate royalties from new album to charity

  07-08-2015 09:01
  
  The rapper and mogul committed to donating royalties to a performing arts facility for young people in Compton, during Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio showPerhaps for Dr Dre, premiering a highly anticipated album on a shiny new music service didn’t feel quite special enough. As well as streaming new album Compton on Apple Music on Thursday, the rapper and entrepreneur outlined his plans to donate royalties gained from the release to help fund a performing arts facility in the California city.“I
  
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• Spice Girls plan reunion tour without Victoria Beckham

  07-08-2015 08:51
  
  Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Mel C and Mel B re-form for international tour next year to mark 20th anniversary of debut single WannabeThe Spice Girls – the most successful girl group in history – are set to reunite without Victoria Beckham, it has been reported.Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Mel C and Mel B will re-form for an international tour next year, according to the Sun. Continue reading...
  
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• Totally Mild: Down Time review – empowered bedroom sulk music

  07-08-2015 06:03
  
  The overlooked gem from the Melbourne band, filled with doomed teen romance and surf guitars, is about as good as it gets. Just don’t call it dolewave The salacious cover image, when taken in conjunction with the band’s name (a 1970s slogan for Rothmans cigarettes perhaps), might suggest slinky nightclub music somewhere near the twin sister swoon of Swedish-Australian duo Say Lou Lou. Wrong. Dreamy this music may well be (somnambulist, even) but it has little to do with euphoria and artifici
  
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