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• Is it OK to release ‘new’ music after an artist’s death?

  15-08-2015 19:00
  Kurt Cobain and Aaliyah have new posthumous releases due, featuring unheard material. Is this fair to any musician?I love Aaliyah and Kurt Cobain, and one of the reasons I love them is that they were thoughtful, strong-willed artists who were very careful about how they presented their music to the public. They knew that not everything they touched turned to gold. So I’m uneasy about the news that they both have “new” releases coming. Continue reading...
  
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• Naughty Boy Tweets And Deletes Another Zayn Malik Burn

  15-08-2015 18:01
  
  Producer throws shade at former pal but swiftly has second thoughts...
  
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• Music manager Jazz Summers dies from lung cancer

  15-08-2015 17:29
  The 71-year-old, who managed major acts including The Verve, Snow Patrol Scissor Sisters, Wham! and Soul II Soul, passed away ‘peacefully’Jazz Summers, the legendary music manager behind acts including Wham!, the Verve, Snow Patrol, La Roux and London Grammar, has died aged 71 after a two-year bout of lung cancer.
  Summers’ artists have sold more than 60m albums and 72m singles around the world, including more than 100 top 40 hits. A spokesman for Big Life Management, which Summ
  
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• Frankie Bridge Shares Baby Joy On Twitter... Find Out The Name

  15-08-2015 13:15
  
  The Saturdays star has given birth to a bouncing baby boy...
  
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• Zayn Malik 'Flirted With Chloe Goodman On Twitter'

  15-08-2015 12:58
  
  And Selena Gomez has her say as well...
  
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• Sideboob Ahoy! Kylie Jenner Shares Saucy Snap From Mexican Holiday

  15-08-2015 12:06
  
  Reality TV star invites social media followers to 'relax' with her...
  
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• Erm, So Did The Latest Hunger Games Poster Just Drop The C-Bomb?

  15-08-2015 11:06
  
  We really hope that was an accident Lionsgate...
  
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• Paloma Faith And Boy George Join The Voice UK - And Tom Jones Is Not Happy!

  15-08-2015 10:37
  
  Veteran singer miffed at last-minute announcement by the BBC...
  
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• Paloma Faith And Boy George Join The Voice Coaches - And Tom Jones Is Not Happy!

  15-08-2015 10:37
  
  Veteran singer miffed at last-minute announcement by the BBC...
  
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• Foals: ‘Being self-destructive brings out your best art'

  15-08-2015 10:00
  Once indie-dance noiseniks, the rock quintet explore their dark subconscious on their new album What Went Down. We join them in Romania to find out whether they’re pretentious or just passionateBackstage at Summer Well festival in Romania, Foals are not looking good. The band have just spent five days in Australia, before flying to London and on to Bucharest. For the jet lag they’ve accumulated, they may as well have been to the moon. Keyboardist Edwin Congreave has been sweating for
  
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• Cerys Matthews: music for barbecues

  15-08-2015 07:00
  Our musical agony aunt’s alter ego, Dr Crotchety, unwraps some smoking summer tunesDear Doctor, I’d love some tunes to spice up a summer barbecue. Can you help?Continue reading...
  
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• Guy Ritchie: Music is the key to The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

  15-08-2015 01:02
  
  Guy Ritchie is “drawn to that male-to-male dynamic” in his films, but really wants cinemagoers to remember the soundtrack.
  
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• Elton John pursues French media companies over health 'rumours'

  15-08-2015 01:01
  Lawyer claims John and his husband will no longer tolerate ‘exploitation of their renown’, as legal action is taken against Closermag.fr, TeleStar.fr and VSD Elton John’s lawyer has said that he is pursuing three French media outlets for publishing what he called “unfounded rumours” about the British pop singer’s health and that of his husband.“Sir Elton John and David Furnish … have instructed my office to pursue through the justice system the vi
  
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• Obama Handpicked This DIY Artist For His Spotify Playlist

  15-08-2015 00:02
  
  The White House released a pair of Spotify playlists today curated by The President.  Alongside The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, Florence And The Machine and Justin Timberlake, sits a hard-working Philly based band doing it all themselves.
  I first discovered Low Cut Connie at the Echo in East LA last year.  Playing to just over 100 people, they put on an incredible show, left a pint of blood on the stage and got me to buy all their merch.  I’ve been following
  
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