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• Raves Don’t Cause Overdoses. Drugs Do.

  12-08-2015 23:33
  
  Earlier this month, two teenage girls died at HARD Summer Music Festival in drug-related complications.  But does that mean that EDM festivals should be banned?  The...
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• SoulCycle Depends on Musicians, But Pays Absurdly Low Royalty Rates

  12-08-2015 21:56
  
  The following post comes from Andrew Sparkler, Vice President of Business Affairs and Operations at Downtown Music Publishing. Reposted with permission. At this year’s SXSW,...
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• 11 Questions We Still Need Answered After The Pretty Little Liars Summer Finale

  12-08-2015 20:03
  
  So A was revealed, now what?
  
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• Pandora Doubles Its Lavish Park Avenue Office Space…

  12-08-2015 19:59
  
  Pandora may be stiffing artists like Pharrell, Aloe Blacc, and arguably every songwriter and producer, but when it comes to office space, penny rates need not apply.  According to...
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• Watch The First Trailer For Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight - Does Ti Live Up To The Hype?

  12-08-2015 19:19
  
  Our first look at Quentin Tarantino's next movie has finally landed!
  
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• Watch The First Trailer For Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight - Does Iti Live Up To The Hype?

  12-08-2015 19:19
  
  Our first look at Quentin Tarantino's next movie has finally landed!
  
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• Watch The First Trailer For Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' - Does It Live Up To The Hype?

  12-08-2015 19:19
  
  Our first look at Quentin Tarantino's next movie has finally landed!
  
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• 17 Celebrity Exes Who Managed To Become BFFs

  12-08-2015 19:19
  
  Proof that it CAN actually happen...
  
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• 9 Thoughts Everyone Has On Results Day #Help

  12-08-2015 19:00
  NO ONE PANIC IT WILL ALL BE OKAY.
  
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• This Video Of Chris Hemsworth Flirting Will Make You Need To Have A Sit Down

  12-08-2015 18:52
  
  See Chris Hemsworth get sexy in this exclusive look at ‘Vacation’.
  
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• "I Wasn't Ever Aiming For Sexy" - MTV Meets Leo Kalyan

  12-08-2015 18:27
  
  Plus listen to his debut EP 'Silver Linings' in full right here...
  
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• Acts find unique ways to sell music, reach fans on Twitter

  12-08-2015 18:19
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — From Kanye West to Taylor Swift to Rihanna, more and more musicians are debuting audio, photo and video content on Twitter to boost marketing efforts without spending big bucks.
  
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• Steve Martin to be honored at Bluegrass Awards

  12-08-2015 18:06
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Movie star, comedian and Grammy-winning musician Steve Martin will be honored by the International Bluegrass Music Association with a distinguished achievement award.
  
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• Radiohead's Thom Yorke writes moody music for Broadway play

  12-08-2015 17:49
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Radiohead's Thom Yorke has written original music for the upcoming Broadway revival of the play "Old Times" by Harold Pinter, in what its director calls the combination of "a beautiful piece of theater and a true rock star."
  
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• The playlist: hip-hop – Raekwon, Nick Astro, Sean Price tributes and more

  12-08-2015 17:33
  Lil B and Chance the Rapper team up for a freestyle mixtape, Raekwon imagines his superhero alter ego and the New York music scene pays tribute to the late, great MC Sean Price with heartfelt mixesThere are always tribute mixes when hip-hop figureheads die, but the New York scene really went to town to honour Sean Price, who died on 8 August at the age of 43. A mural in honour of the Brownsville MC – who was one half of Heltah Skeltah and used the mic name Ruck – appeared in Brooklyn’s Cro
  
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• Birtwistle: Panic, Antiphonies; Slow Frieze, Crowd CD review – a virtuoso tour de force

  12-08-2015 17:33
  Pianist Nicolas Hodges plays Harrison Birtwistle’s revised Antiphonies with intense drama, and Frieze and Crowd make welcome additionsIt will be 20 years next month since Harrison Birtwistle ambushed the unsuspecting audience for the Last Night of the Proms with the premiere of Panic, his dithyramb for saxophone, percussion and orchestra. The piece that the Daily Mail described afterwards as a “horrible cacophony” now seems to fit naturally into the scheme of Birtwistle’s music in the 80
  
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• Catfish And The Bottlemen Get Tough On Modern Music: "There's No Lyrical Content"

  12-08-2015 17:28
  
  Apparently all you need is a really handsome singer...
  
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• Sasha Banks Reveals WWE Divas Previously 'Weren't Allowed To Punch'

  12-08-2015 17:21
  
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• Tinder Declare War With Vanity Fair In Quite The Epic Showdown

  12-08-2015 17:10
  
  Ooh burn!
  
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• WWE: John Cena WILL face Seth Rollins At SummerSlam After Brutal Nose Break

  12-08-2015 17:10
  
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• The 12 Most Awkward Reality Star Pop Careers Ever

  12-08-2015 16:47
  
  Bet you forgot about most of these...
  
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• WWE 2K16: John Cena, Triple H, Steve Austin, Kane, Eva Marie And More Confirmed For Playable Roster

  12-08-2015 16:29
  
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• TOWIE's Ricky Rayment Has Released His Debut Single 'Stay True' Feat. K.A.D

  12-08-2015 16:07
  
  And you can listen to it right here.
  
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• Thom Yorke composes music for Harold Pinter play on Broadway

  12-08-2015 15:48
  Radiohead frontman writes ‘epic and heartbreaking’ score for Old Times, starring Clive Owen, Kelly Reilly and Eve BestHaving played thousands of pubs, venues, arenas and stadiums as frontman of Radiohead, Thom Yorke is turning to another kind of stage, writing music for a production of Harold Pinter’s play Old Times that will open on Broadway in September.“I’ve enjoyed exploring through music the script’s themes of love and memory as well as Pinter’s rhythms, twists and turns,” Y
  
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• Joanna Newsom: handmaiden of the harp, otherworldly warbler – a classic review from the vaults

  12-08-2015 15:29
  As Newsom announces details of Divers, her first album in five years, Rock’s Backpages this week revisits an early live review from the ICA in London, originally published on Yahoo! Music, in November 2004An interview with Joanna Newsom: ‘Is it time for a glass of wine?’The response in the bar afterwards is split clearly along gender lines. Robert and his male friend are in raptures. What a voice! Such fragile beauty, such mesmeric phrasing, such idiosyncratic delight! (We’re paraphrasin
  
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• Has Marnie Simpson Quit Geordie Shore? Here’s The Truth

  12-08-2015 15:20
  
  Another day, another rumour... *sigh*
  
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• Radiohead's Thom Yorke to write music for Broadway play

  12-08-2015 15:03
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Radiohead's Thom Yorke is going Broadway — he's written original music for the upcoming revival of the play "Old Times" by Harold Pinter.
  
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• Stormzy: Second Sold Out Tour, New Music And BBC 1Xtra Proms

  12-08-2015 14:40
  
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• Ravel double-bill review – inventive, witty ... and unbalanced

  12-08-2015 14:39
  Glyndebourne festival
  Danielle de Niese commands the stage and there are irresistible moments in both one-act operas, but with differing production values, the evening doesn’t gel as a wholeIn Laurent Pelly’s 2012 productions of Ravel’s two one-act operas, the female leads were in different hands. This time, in Glyndebourne’s first revival of Pelly’s performances, Danielle de Niese sings both Concepción in L’Heure Espagnole and the Child in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges.
  
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• Björk on by: why breakup albums are so hard to do

  12-08-2015 14:28
  Björk says she will no longer perform her album, Vulnicura, because it’s too intense, while Sinéad O’Connor refuses to sing Nothing Compares to U as she can no longer connect with it. Should singers move on when things get too personal?Has performing Vulnicura become a bit too much for Björk? After recently announcing the cancellation of all foreseeable live dates due to a “scheduling conflict beyond control”, Björk posted a further message on Facebook revealing that the expe
  
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• The Story of Swing review – once it gets going, the Proms get hopping

  12-08-2015 14:01
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  The pop music of the 30s and 40s is revived in lively style – once the bands are warmed up – with contributions from Elaine Delmar, Jamie Davis and Clare TealThe hit formula of 2014’s Battle of the Bands Prom returned this year with powerful jazz orchestras led by Guy Barker and Winston Rollins, and fronted by vocalist and big band fan Clare Teal, in a breathless race through the chronology of swing, the pop music of the 1930s and 40s.The definition of the art was
  
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• Nick Grimshaw Has Only Gone And Compared One Of His Fellow X Factor Judges To Joey Essex!

  12-08-2015 13:58
  
  Awks...
  
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• 11 Problems All Twenty-Somethings Have That Anna & Elsa Can Deal With In Frozen 2

  12-08-2015 13:57
  
  Frozen 2 will help solve all of our problems...
  
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• X Factor 2015: Rita Ora says she's earned her place on the panel

  12-08-2015 13:37
  
  The Poison singer said she has proven her worth in the music industry alongside the likes of her fellow judges.
  
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• Donaeo Goes Hard In New Track 'Jungle' Featuring Ghetts

  12-08-2015 12:57
  
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• Taylor Swift Had The Best Time At Ex Joe Jonas' Surprise Birthday Party Proving There's Zero Bad Blood

  12-08-2015 12:30
  
  ALL OF THE SQUAD GOALS EVER.
  
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• Don't believe your ears: the best classical music hoaxes

  12-08-2015 12:28
  From the devious aristocrat to the invention of an entire genre, we pick some of classical music’s best hoaxes and hoaxersIt’s not just literature and visual art. Classical music has also been a happy hunting ground for hoaxers over the centuries. In a market that’s less driven by cash than the art world, however, the hoaxers’ motivations are a more complex combination of aesthetic game-playing, private jokes, a bit of good old-fashioned lampoonery and, sometimes, a more shadowy kind of
  
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• There’s A Period Parody Of Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood And It's (Ahem) Bloody Brilliant

  12-08-2015 12:14
  
  This tampon tax protest is GENIUS...
  
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• Locked Away (Ft. Adam Levine)

  12-08-2015 11:13 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Locked Away
  
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• Zayn Malik Has Gone Grey And We're Concerned For Him

  12-08-2015 11:03
  
  Not really but if he doesn't stop dying his hair soon it might fall out.
  
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• Space is the place: watch the new video from Silkie

  12-08-2015 11:00
  Silkie has left dubstep behind to produce synth-heavy 80s boogie with a bizarre sci-fi backstory. Take a look at an exclusive preview of the video belowOne of the year’s more high-concept records is Fractals, the new album from Silkie. The producer has skipped across a few styles already – his dubstep productions sucked jazz, pop and grime elements into a sparkling brew – and on Fractals, he’s channelling a kind of 80s synth boogie.
  Things get really cosmic, though, when it’s paired wi
  
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• Drake becomes first artist to go platinum in the US with 2015 release

  12-08-2015 10:31
  The only other album to sell over one million copies this year is Taylor Swift’s 1989, which was released in 2014Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late has become the first 2015 album to go platinum in the US, selling over 1m copies since its release in February. Taylor Swift is the only other artist to have shifted as many copies of an album this year, although her 1989 was released back in 2014. According to Nielsen Music, which records US chart figures, Drake’s album sold 8,00
  
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• Ed Sheeran Awarded Honorary Doctorate

  12-08-2015 10:08
  
  Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who left school at 16 to become a busker, is to get to complete his education with an honorary doctorate. The 24-year-old is being awarded his prize by University Campus Suffolk (UCS) at a ceremony later this year. The Thinking Out Loud and Don't singer, who was born in Yorkshire but brought up in Framlingham, Suffolk, is said to be delighted at his academic award, which recognises his outstanding contribution to music.
  
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• Patti Smith to turn Just Kids memoir into TV show

  12-08-2015 09:32
  The Horses singer says the TV miniseries will afford her the ‘chance to expand upon the themes of the book’ Patti Smith is to turn her award-winning memoir Just Kids into a TV series. The book, which describes her relationship with the artist and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, was released in 2010. It’s believed Smith started writing a screenplay adaptation for it the following year.Related: Just Kids by Patti Smith | Book reviewContinue reading...
  
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• The Lead Singer Of Alabama Shakes Just Won Instagram

  12-08-2015 05:41
  
  Besides having the best album of the year, performing with Paul McCartney at Lollapalooza and maintaining a non-stop (sold out) tour schedule, Brittany Howard, lead...
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• John Williamson furious over move to strengthen Waltzing Matilda trademark

  12-08-2015 04:34
  Country singer says he would go to jail rather than pay to use the seminal ballad’s title as WM Productions seeks to stop its use in merchandise and promotionsThe Australian country singer John Williamson is outraged at moves to strengthen the trademark ownership of Waltzing Matilda, saying he would rather go to jail than pay to use the bush ballad’s name.The Australian company that partly owns trademark rights to the nation’s unofficial anthem, WM Productions, is seeking to prevent the so
  
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• Want to Save the Music Industry? Then Find the Next CD

  12-08-2015 04:14
  
  Aggregated revenues from the Recording Industry of America (inflation-adjusted).  CD sales have dropped nearly 75 percent over the past 10 years.
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• 23 Times Cara Delevingne Didn’t Give One Single F**k

  12-08-2015 02:20
  
  HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN D!
  
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• Why Can Nobody Get Cara Delevingne’s Name Right?!

  12-08-2015 02:00
  
  It’s Cara’s birthday and we’re campaigning for everyone to learn the correct spelling and pronunciation of ‘Delevingne’.
  
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• Singer Ed Sheeran to get honorary degree from University Campus Suffolk

  12-08-2015 01:02
  
  Singer songwriter Ed Sheeran is to be made a doctor as he is awarded an honorary degree.
  
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