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• Diplo: “Technology Has Never Benefited the Artist. It’s Always Benefited the Audience.”

  17-08-2015 23:38
  
  …from an interview with Charlie Rose, which also featured Sonny Moore (aka Skrillex).
  Charlie Rose: Let’s look at this clip with [Spotify CEO] Daniel Ek, here it is.
  Daniel Ek clip (from 5/1/2014): What I hope is that we can take this technological shift and move it from just being about listening to music to being about how we create music.  When you think about the internet, the internet is not just audio, it’s audio, it’s visual, and it’s interactive. What
  
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• You Love Me? (Ft. Wretch 32)

  17-08-2015 22:50 via mtv.co.uk
  
  You Love Me?
  
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• I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)

  17-08-2015 22:50 via mtv.co.uk
  
  I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)
  
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• 100 Grandkids [Explicit]

  17-08-2015 22:50 via mtv.co.uk
  
  100 Grandkids
  
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• Little Simz Unveils Cinematic Video For 'Dead Body'

  17-08-2015 21:15
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• 15 People We Think Taylor Swift Should Bring Out On Stage Next

  17-08-2015 20:57
  After watching THAT viral video we got to thinking...
  
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• 'Best Of Gamescom' Awards 2015: 19 New Games You Need To Know About!

  17-08-2015 19:06
  
  The games (and their release dates) that are going to take over your life for the next 12 months.
  
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• Jess Glynne could make chart history with new single

  17-08-2015 19:01
  
  The UK singer looks to be heading for the top of the charts again with Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself.
  
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• Don't Be So Hard On Yourself Jess, you could equal a chart record

  17-08-2015 19:00
  
  UK singer Jess Glynne could make music history if her new single tops the charts again this week.
  
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• Are These Two Keeping Up With The Kardashians Stars Set To Quit The Show?!

  17-08-2015 19:00
  
  Say it ain't so. Pleeeeeeeaaaseee no.
  
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• The 9 Absolute Worst TV Series Finales Ever

  17-08-2015 18:35
  
  What did we ever do to you, eh?
  
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• Fans Aren't Buying This Whole 'Harry Styles Called Perrie Edwards After Zayn Malik Dumped Her' Rumour

  17-08-2015 18:28
  
  And no they aren't dating!
  
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• Sziget: more gap-year spirit than Glastonbury hedonism

  17-08-2015 18:21
  The Hungarian megafestival isn’t a place to seek an alternative way of life, but a fun atmosphere full of well-groomed kids on a safe journey of self-discoveryThere’s anarchy in the air. As the terrorising tremors of Avicii’s turbo-charged EDM shake the main stage, the Argentinian performance group De Le Guarda reduce their crowd to bug-eyed babies, cooing at every trick turned out during their insane aerial extravaganza, FuerzaBruta. There are Stomp-like drums, sprinklers that
  
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• Review: Book calls Kanye West music & pop culture changer

  17-08-2015 18:21
  
  "Kanye West: God & Monster" (The Overlook Press), by Mark Beaumont
  
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• Executive Shuffles: Genius, ole, Syco Music, CueSongs

  17-08-2015 18:10
  
  Mike Whelan is ole‘s new Senior Director of Creative. Whelan was previously at Sony Music Publishing.
  According to Music Week,  Syco Music has promoted Tyler Brown to Executive Head of A&R. Brown was previously Senior A&R Manager.
  Paul Sampson is CueSongs‘ new SVP of Global Business Development, according to Music Week. Sampson was previously VP of European Business Development at Music Dealers.
  Genius has hired Rob Mark
  
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• #MTVFestivalSeason: Ben Howard And Bjork Bring The High-Class Noise To Wilderness

  17-08-2015 17:55
  
  Festival season continues in Oxfordshire…
  
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• Vin Diesel Pays Touching Tribute To Paul Walker In Emotional Teen Choice Awards Speech

  17-08-2015 17:37
  
  Paul's daughter, Meadow, was in the audience.
  
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• WWE 2K16: Neville, Kevin Owens And Sami Zayn On Roster As 19 More Characters Confirmed

  17-08-2015 17:27
  
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• Spoiler Alert! The Ex Drama Continues With More Love Triangle Carnage

  17-08-2015 17:24
  Expect fights, sex, and oh wait, more fights, as Ex On The Beach: The Celebrity Special returns to your screens.
  
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• ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Almost Beats ‘Ant-Man’, $56 Million Opening Weekend

  17-08-2015 17:21
  
  And the opening weekend tally is in!
  In a surprise showing, the mysogynist rapping villain superheroes of N.W.A pulled an impressive $56 million opening weekend, with Straight Outta Compton almost grandstanding the bigger budget, tent-poling Ant-Man.  That puts Straight Outta Compton into the record books, with an all-time opening weekend ranking of #100.
  Ant-Man seriously underachieved in its opening weekend in July with $57.2 million, though international receipts almost equall
  
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• Ibiza Legends & Underground Faves - This Is Mint Festival

  17-08-2015 17:16
  
  R3wire & Varski are playing the festival this summer and tell us why they can't wait to be a part of it...
  
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• 15 Times The Harry Potter Cast Were Their Characters

  17-08-2015 17:14
  
  Harry, Ron and Hermione might be gone from our screens, but they remain in our hearts - and in the actors who played them...
  
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• Kylie Jenner Just Can't Stop Celebrating Her 18th Birthday, This Time In Canada With Actual Alcohol!

  17-08-2015 16:50
  
  Oh so THAT's why she went to Canada.
  
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• More players than punters: what were your best empty gigs?

  17-08-2015 16:45
  Empty concerts can make a lasting impression – if not always for the right reasons. Share your memories of deserted showsNever let it be said that Guardian Music doesn’t honour the very biggest anniversaries, the ones that have changed the face of popular culture as we know it. This time last year, Tim Jonze celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Dave Matthews Band unloading 360kg of excrement on to a boatful of tourists. It’s hard to top a landmark like that, but we may have f
  
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• "Madison Square Garden Would Be My Ultimate Dream Gig, For Sure" - MTV Meets MNEK

  17-08-2015 16:36
  
  We sat down with MNEK at this year's Boardmasters Festival...
  
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• WWE: Undertaker Won't Make Wrestlemania After Brock Lesnar Beatdown, Reckons Paul Heyman

  17-08-2015 15:59
  
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• BBCSSO/Volkov review – Sibelius that didn't shake the soul as it should

  17-08-2015 14:26
  Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe second concert marking this year’s Sibelius anniversary featured a fluent if unremarkable account of his Third and Fourth symphonies, while the Violin Concerto didn’t reach out in the way the Albert Hall needsThe Proms have reached a festival within a festival, with three concerts marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sibelius. This second concert, like the first, was in the hands of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, this time under the directi
  
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• The burdens of 'bro-country', a music critic's term gone wild

  17-08-2015 14:23
  Jody Rosen, then a music critic for New York magazine, didn’t know that he would create a ‘cudgel’ with the term – but it has changed country musicJody Rosen wasn’t trying to start a revolution when he coined the term bro-country in a New York magazine article about Florida Georgia Line that hit the internet two years ago this week. But, as almost any country music fan could tell you, that’s exactly what happened. “Bro-country,” Rosen wrote, &ldquo
  
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• Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko review – forensic precision and high-definition lines

  17-08-2015 14:21
  Usher Hall, EdinburghPetrenko conducted a dauntless account of Sibelius’s First Symphony, but iffy programming wasted this concert’s second half The stony expression on Vasily Petrenko’s face spoke volumes. He had just conducted the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in a dauntless account of Sibelius’s First Symphony, every theme unfolded with steel-clad logic. The Scherzo had been acrid, the Andante haunted and soul-searching. The closing bars were so weighty, so intensely loa
  
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• Zayn Malik’s Twitter Feed Must Need Sunglasses For All The Shade It’s Throwing At Little Mix

  17-08-2015 14:10
  
  Not exactly the most subtle thing ever.
  
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• Listen to Ricky Wilson's new Zig and Zag theme tune

  17-08-2015 14:04
  
  The Kaiser Chiefs lead singer and Voice coach found the time to record a song for the puppet duo’s new TV series.
  
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• This Video Of A Girl Predicting Taylor Swift's Next Guests On Her 1989 Tour Made Us Actually Cry With Laughter

  17-08-2015 14:01
  
  BEST PARODY EVER.
  
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• The wonders of the internet – listen to John Cage and Morton Feldman in conversation

  17-08-2015 13:53
  Spend an afternoon with Cage and Feldman. You’ll see the world through different eyes This is surely what the internet is for: among the most truly wonderful four hours, 13 minutes and 28 seconds there are in the world, is this: apparently unedited conversations between John Cage and Morton Feldman.Continue reading...
  
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• Have Taylor Swift & Calvin Harris Been Offered $10million To Basically Get Naked Together...?

  17-08-2015 13:23
  
  Wowzas.
  
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• The playlist: new bands – PWR BTTM, Liss, Whitecliff and more

  17-08-2015 13:06
  Playful queer punk from a New York-based duo, Steely Dan-indebted languor from a London group and some pounding indie-pop from LiverpoolTake one hip-hop producer, a classical/opera composer, a house DJ and a songwriter for artists as disparate as Drake and Foxes and you get … something you wouldn’t remotely expect: a track as sublimely smooth as late-70s Steely Dan. Cheapest Flight is the debut offering from the London-based Prep, but it sounds really accomplished, with the laidback
  
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• Legendary Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen producer Bob Johnston dies

  17-08-2015 12:55
  The man who produced Blonde on Blonde defined his work modestly: ‘All I did was turn the tapes on’Bob Johnston, the producer of a slew of classic 196os albums – including Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde, Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison and Leonard Cohen’s Songs from a Room – has died, aged 83. Johnston passed away peacefully in a Nashville hospice on Friday.Johnston was a staff producer for Columbia Records in the 6os, which was how he came to be at the cont
  
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• Watch Little Mix Perform Some Black Magic & 5SOS Tear Up The Stage At The Teen Choice Awards!

  17-08-2015 12:47
  
  It was all so exciting!
  
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• 13 John Green Quotes That Speak To Our Soul

  17-08-2015 12:45
  
  The man is a literary magician.
  
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• Super, SMASHING, Great! 15 Amazing Table-Breaking Moments

  17-08-2015 12:36
  
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• Have Marnie Simpson And Ricky Rayment Called Off Their Engagement?

  17-08-2015 12:25
  
  The Geordie lass was spotted partying without her engagement ring…
  
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• WWE: British Bulldog Against Bret Hart Picked As Top SummerSlam Moment Ever

  17-08-2015 12:22
  
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• Hit maker David Foster: Asia looking to dominate world music

  17-08-2015 12:22
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Music hit maker David Foster said Monday he's always on the lookout for fresh talent, and Asia with its huge population seems to have a lot of it.
  
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• Five albums to try this week: Robyn and La Bagatelle Magique, Miles Davis and more

  17-08-2015 12:07
  Stream new albums, from Vintage Trouble’s soul-rock to a joyous cumbia compilation, and let us know what you’ll be playing this weekWhy you should listen: Robyn, keyboardist Markus Jägerstedt and DJ Christian Falk recorded this collection of thumping, pop-house tracks before Falk suddenly died of cancer in 2014, aged 52. The album retains its celebratory spark, even though it’s been released under difficult circumstances. Continue reading...
  
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• One Direction Beat Zayn Malik At Teen Choice Awards As They Take Home Eight Surfboards

  17-08-2015 11:35
  
  They should really take up surfing now...
  
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• Jay Z and Timbaland set to testify in Big Pimpin' lawsuit

  17-08-2015 09:09
  Duo likely to appear in court to respond to accusations that their sample of the Egyptian song Khosara Khosara was illegalFollowing the star appearances in the Blurred Lines case – in which Robin Thicke managed to show the world that he didn’t write the song, but just took the writing credit for it – two more music superstars will be hoping a court appearance doesn’t go horribly wrong.Jay Z and Timbaland are expected to testify in a lawsuit brought by the descendants of a
  
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• Facing the music: Kitty Whately

  17-08-2015 08:00
  From the Swingles to Sondheim, Sir Thomas Allen, Jonathan Dove and Abba, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately shares her musical passionsHow do you listen to music most often?
  More often than not I listen to my daughter’s CDs in the car and in the kitchen. Usually the Frozen soundtrack, which I’d love to destroy! But right now we’re really enjoying the Swingles album, Deep End. We’ve hired them to perform at our wedding in September, and they will be singing one of the tracks from
  
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• Universal Music CEO Says Spotify’s ‘Freemium’ Will Undergo Changes

  17-08-2015 06:55
  
  Earlier this month, sources pointed Digital Music News to significant changes ahead in Spotify’s ad-supported, ‘freemium’ offering, specifically the introduction of a premium-only access tier for certain artists and releases.  Now, on-the-record comments from Universal Music Group chief executive Lucian Grainge lend support to that information.
  In an interview with Hits Magazine, Grainge noted that ad-supported, free access would not be eliminated on Spotify, but tha
  
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• Blur and Oasis do battle for number one spot: from the archive, 17 August 1995

  17-08-2015 06:00
  Twenty years ago Britpop heavyweights Blur and Oasis went head to head in a battle to see whose single would top the chartsBlur or Oasis? Oasis or Blur? Four days after the launch of Britain’s most hyped battle of the bands Manchester’s working class lads appear to be edging ahead of London’s art school trendies in the race for the No. 1 spot.Both groups released their £2.99 singles on Monday, claiming to be bitter enemies, which led some in the music industry to compare
  
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• The 100 Best Selling Albums of All Time

  17-08-2015 05:11
  
  Platinum sales certifications for all albums compiled by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA).
  The post The 100 Best Selling Albums of All Time appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• Royal Headache singer Shogun: I’m done with that tantrum about leaving

  17-08-2015 04:21
  Two months after storming the Opera House, the Sydney band are back with a second album and a frontman conquering his biggest headache – himselfShogun, the frontman of Sydney garage band Royal Headache, lives in Petersham in the city’s inner-west. Barely liveable townhouses sell for A$1m in this once affordable neighbourhood, but at 34, Shogun works in a call centre, lives in a share house, and recently announced his intention to leave the group. The cover art for Royal Headache&rsqu
  
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