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• SoundCloud Plays Have Nearly Doubled In the Past Year

  11-08-2015 23:50
  
  …according to mid-year data shared by Next Big Sound.  SoundCloud is currently facing major label lawsuits and significant funding issues.
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• China Follows North Korea and Bans ‘Inappropriate Music’

  11-08-2015 23:21
  
  It looks like China is feeling inspired by North Korea’s mission to eradicate inappropriate music… China’s Ministry of Culture has banned 120 songs for promoting obscenity, violence,...
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• Sydney Opera House: The Opera – as new as you're going to get in 2016

  11-08-2015 23:19
  Opera Australia’s 60th anniversary season of Bell’s Bizet, Turandot on the harbour and more rabbits may not satisfy all Australian lovers of the art formJulie Andrews to direct My Fair Lady at Sydney Opera House Kate Miller-Heidke, Lally Katz and Iain Grandage’s multiple Helpmann award-winning The Rabbits have bred and spread from Perth to Melbourne and now to Sydney, where their furry hides will be welcomed harbourside this summer.Meanwhile, Bell Shakespeare’s retiring founder, John Bel
  
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• Detox is dead! Long live Compton! Dre's return sees him secure his legacy

  11-08-2015 22:56
  It’s clear Dre made the right decision in choosing to scrap the mythical Detox in favor of Compton – a hastily prepared album that still manages to feel timelessDr Dre’s new album Compton was released in a haste. The details emerged less than two weeks ago, and it wasn’t immediately clear if it would have new songs, or just old tracks featured in the forthcoming NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton. I asked Ice Cube in August if he had any original verses on the album (he said: “No, not a
  
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• Meghan Trainor cancels tour after vocal cord hemorrhage

  11-08-2015 22:09
  
  U.S. singer Meghan Trainor canceled the remainder of her "MTrain Tour" on Tuesday after suffering a hemorrhaged vocal cord. Trainor, 21, who broke out last summer with the body-positive song "All About That Bass," said she will be undergoing surgery. "I have hemorrhaged my vocal cord again.
  
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• Major Labels Sued for Cheating Artists Out of Pension Funds

  11-08-2015 21:59
  
  The major labels have been accused of cheating musicians out of money that should have been put into a pension plan. The American Federation of...
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• Columbia House Mail Order Club Files for Bankruptcy

  11-08-2015 20:49
  
  It was the deal of the century!  That is, last century.  As of this week, Columbia House Music Club is bankrupt, and one step closer...
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• Why musical dogma is so bad for Bach | Letters

  11-08-2015 20:15
  I was intrigued by the argument between András Schiff and the so-called “Devil’s Advocate” over the interpretation of Bach (András Schiff: why my Goldberg Variations do a dance with the devil, 6 August). There are surely two aspects to this. One is that writing music is a gamble: once composers are dead, they can’t control how their works will be treated. A live composer can give guidance and with luck might find sympathetic interpreters. Michael Tippett, with whom I was cl
  
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• OMG Did Gary Beadle Just Break In To The Geordie Shore House?!

  11-08-2015 18:44
  
  This time, the Geordie Shore lad might've taken the jokes too far...
  
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• #SquadGoals is just the latest example of 'whitesplaining' black culture

  11-08-2015 18:32
  The whitewashing of the history of black cultural trends is becoming a weekly occurrence – the privileged and assuming behavior of overdogs like Taylor SwiftIn a year marked by the ongoing violence toward black bodies, the cultural appropriation of “black cool” seems more blatant and egregious than ever. From declaring that the big booty is in, that white girls too can have Afros – the style is in fact a twist-out – baby hair and Timberlands on Paris runways, and morning show hosts gig
  
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• Pretty Little Liars Is About To Reveal Who 'A' Is: Here's Our Suspect Cheat Sheet

  11-08-2015 18:28
  
  IT’S HAPPENING.
  
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• Ed Sheeran's Got A Massive New Tattoo And We Need To Know If It's Cecil The Lion

  11-08-2015 18:20
  
  Like, MASSIVE.
  
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• Ned Stark Is Returning To Game of Thrones!

  11-08-2015 18:09
  
  A flashback scene for Game of Thrones season six has been cast... and it could prove a controversial fan theory.
  
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• Kim Kardashian Just Posted A Naked Selfie Because She’s Done With The Body Shamers

  11-08-2015 17:43
  
  YES KIM.
  
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• #MTVFestivalSeason: 14 Reasons Boardmasters Was Completely Awesome

  11-08-2015 17:36
  
  Sun, surf and great music...
  
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• “I Can’t Take Any More Kardashians!” American News Anchor Flips Out On Live TV

  11-08-2015 17:34
  
  Apparently, the Kardashians are SO 2014...
  
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• Cult heroes: Jack Off Jill's underground following has made them legends

  11-08-2015 17:30
  The riot goths from Fort Lauderdale split acrimoniously in 2000 – now their devoted fanbase of queers, feminists and outcasts have brought them backIt was an incongruous, homemade Jack Off Jill poster pinned to a gas station lavatory wall that reunited Fort Lauderdale’s goth rockers earlier this summer. The group, who’d formed in 1992 and split acrimoniously eight years later with two original but overlooked albums under their belts, had re-established contact through Facebook in recent ye
  
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• The Warehouse Project 'Tropical' Line Up Is Seriously Impressive

  11-08-2015 17:07
  
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• Take The Hardest Geordie Shore Quiz In The World Ever

  11-08-2015 16:31
  
  Can you identify the Geordie from just a body part?
  
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• Rudolf Buchbinder review - big-boned, full-throttle Beethoven

  11-08-2015 16:18
  Playfair Library, EdinburghThree concerts into his Beethoven piano sonata cycle, Buchbinder’s brio was impressive and bracing, but often at the expensive of detail and nuance
  There is never much downtime with Rudolf Buchbinder. The indefatigable 68-year-old Viennese pianist plays Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas across nine concerts at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival: it’s a marathon he has run nearly 50 times before, and by the looks of things he could do it 50 times agai
  
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• Julio Bashmore: ‘People have misconstrued what house music is’

  11-08-2015 16:00
  The ‘French touch’ sound, with its cut-up samples, oodles of soul and garage-house beats, inspired producer Bashmore’s debut album Knockin’ Boots. Here he lists the tracks that most influenced himThere’s a scene in Eden, the critically acclaimed film about the French house scene in the early 90s, in which the camera pans over a euphoric warehouse rave, where everyone is dressed in terrible, baggy clothing, their hands in the air. What’s striking about the scene, and this film in gene
  
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• Women push for equality, and quality, in country music

  11-08-2015 15:54
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Leslie Fram started seeing the problems that women were facing in country music when she came to Nashville four years ago to lead CMT's music strategy division.
  
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• Cashtastic Drops Video For The Uplifting 'Last Minute'

  11-08-2015 15:47
  
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• Kim Kardashian Promises A Sleeping Kanye West They'll Be Together 'Foreva' In Adorable Pic

  11-08-2015 14:36
  
  Aww.
  
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• Why Alicia Keys' blog post on women's self-esteem is incredibly refreshing

  11-08-2015 14:31
  
  The singer has had a recent revelation, and you really need to read it.
  
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• Watch the trailer for Arcade Fire's The Reflektor Tapes

  11-08-2015 14:00
  Documentary shot by Sundance winner Kahlil Joseph chases the origins of their 2013 album, Reflektor from Jamaica to recording in Montreal and a gig in HaitiArcade Fire’s fourth album Reflektor is a sprawling, 75 minute double album featuring James Murphy, Jonathan Ross, voodoo, disco, dub reggae, bobbleheads and disco balls. To debunk, or perhaps further demystify the album released in 2013, the Canadian group have created The Reflektor Tapes, a film that arrives in cinemas in north America on
  
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• 25 years of Ninja Tune: kicking it with the maverick trailblazers

  11-08-2015 13:51
  The independent label is the winner of the innovators award at this year’s AIM awards. To celebrate, label founder Jon More chooses their most definitive releasesThe Cinematic Orchestra are a very important band to the label. Jason Swinscoe, the founding father of TCO, got a job in export sales at Ninja Tune and worked his way up. He had very good experience in the industry even before he came to make records. He’s quite enigmatic and quiet but we always knew he wanted to make music. TCO hav
  
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• Zayn Malik Has Some ‘Truth’ For Us All As He Walks A Red Carpet Solo (Sob)

  11-08-2015 13:36
  
  We’ll NEVER get used to it.
  
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• Sam Smith Has Been Spotted Kissing A Very Famous Celeb, But It's Not Who You'd Expect!

  11-08-2015 13:28
  
  Apparently he's actually made of wax, too.
  
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• Jamie XX - Good Times Remix Features Skepta

  11-08-2015 13:22
  
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• PREMIERE: LUCAS DIPASQUALE – TUFF GONG SESSIONS

  11-08-2015 12:45
  
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• 19 Times We Fell In Love With LiLo All Over Again At Louis Tomlinson's Believe In Magic Charity Ball

  11-08-2015 12:41
  
  Oh it was an emotional evening.
  
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• Aww! Vicky Pattison And Boyf Stephen Bear Post Loved Up Ibiza Holiday Snaps

  11-08-2015 12:31
  
  The Ex On The Beach 3 stars have been cosying up with some serious PDAs poolside...
  
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• Nick Brewer Chats New Single 'Talk To Me' And Working With Bibi Bourelly

  11-08-2015 12:09
  
  Plus, he reveals his new album is in the works...
  
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• WWE Raw Results: Arrow Star Stephen Amell Will Tag Up With Neville At SummerSlam!

  11-08-2015 11:53
  
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• Win An Exclusive MTV Goodie Bag With #MTVHottest

  11-08-2015 11:47
  
  Find out how to win yours here...
  
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• Quiz: Can You Guess The One Direction Video From The Pixelated Screenshot?

  11-08-2015 11:26
  
  Are you a TRUE Directioner?!
  
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• Oh Hot Damn! Perrie Edwards Shows Zayn Malik What He's Missing In Bikini Selfie

  11-08-2015 11:02
  
  Yeah we never look like this by the pool.
  
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• Win A Dream Holiday To The Ex On The Beach Villa In Mexico With Pearl Drops

  11-08-2015 08:25
  
  MTV and Pearl Drops are giving you and 3 mates the chance to win a trip of a lifetime to Mexico, staying at the Ex On The Beach house!
  
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• Spoiler Alert! It's Love Triangle Chaos In Ex On The Beach 3 Premiere

  11-08-2015 08:00
  
  Cheeky Essex lad Kirk Norcross gets into hot water with the ladies in the first episode...
  
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• No, Marvin Gaye’s Son Isn’t Suing ‘Empire’ for Copyright Infringement

  11-08-2015 01:07
  
  Yes, the heirs of Marvin Gaye successfully sued Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke for $7.4 million in one of the most frivolous and ridiculous copyright...
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