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• Spotify Apologizes for Spying on Its Users; Plans Total Overhaul to Privacy Policy

  21-08-2015 22:46
  
  On Wednesday, Spotify quietly updated its terms and conditions to grant itself sweeping abilities to track every location, movement, and online activity of its users, even when those users weren’t using Spotify.  That data, including information pulled from friends’ profiles, would then be transmitted to advertising partners.
  This morning, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek back-pedaled on those terms and promised an entirely new set of terms of conditions, to be updated next week
  
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• Executive Shuffles: ASCAP, Atlantic, AGI, Lionsgate

  21-08-2015 22:20
  
   
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  DeDe Burns is now Vice President of ASCAP‘s new Global Customer Services department. Burns’ previous title was Vice President of Membership & Strategic Services.
  Steve Robertson, Atlantic‘s Senior Vice President of A&R, has relocated to Nashville from Orlando. Atlantic says they are expanding their A&R presence.
  Amy Dunning has been named Head of Music for Lionsgate‘s Motion Picture Group. Dunning was previo
  
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• WWE's Big Show Reveals He'd Love A Role In Game Of Thrones

  21-08-2015 20:39
  
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• Dr Dre apologizes for assaulting Michel'le and Dee Barnes in the 90s

  21-08-2015 20:36
  ‘It has forever impacted all our lives,’ Dre said regarding his physical abuse of women, which was not addressed in the NWA biopic Straight Outta ComptonDr Dre has apologized to R&B singer Michel’le and journalist Dee Barnes, whose past accusations of abuse against the rapper were notably absent from the newly released NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton.Related: Straight Outta Compton ignores Dr Dre's abuse of women, say two former victimsContinue reading...
  
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• Dr. Dre and Apple Apologize for All Those Beat Up Women

  21-08-2015 20:12
  
  Both Dr. Dre and Apple have now apologized for numerous incidents in which Dr. Dre brutally beat up women.  In at least two cases, those women still suffer serious injuries more than two decades later, with subsequent bullying by Dre limiting career growth and options.
  Those incidents, though numerous, were entirely omitted from the recently-released film, Straight Outta Compton.  Apple had previously refused to respond to the matter, despite numerous requests for comment.
  The fo
  
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• Cilla Black tops UK albums chart for first time following her funeral

  21-08-2015 20:10
  Late singer’s family say it is ‘absolutely perfect’ to see her compilation The Very Best Of reach the top spot a day after she is laid to restCilla Black’s compilation album The Very Best Of has reached the top of the UK charts the day after her funeral.The late singer’s family said in a statement on Friday: “We have all been touched by the public’s outpouring of love for our mother this week, and now to give her a number one album is absolutely perfect.
  
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• Positive Force: the film that remembers when punk took on the White House

  21-08-2015 18:35
  When Operation Desert Storm was announced in 1991, punk groups took their protest within shouting distance of the Oval Office. Now a new documentary remembers the collective that gave George HW Bush nightmaresOf the hundreds of raucous punk protest concerts organized by Positive Force, the enduring Washington DC youth activist collective, only one gave President George HW Bush insomnia and Fugazi near-frostbite.Called the Punk Percussion Protest and War On Poverty Not In the Middle East, the now
  
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• Afropunk: the festival that takes black punk pride worldwide

  21-08-2015 17:41
  Having started out as a free, small-scale music festival, Afropunk has grown into a conduit for black activism and community action. On the eve of this year’s event (with acts such as Kelis and Grace Jones) its organizers explain its appealIt’s a sunny, still-quiet Tuesday morning in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, when Matthew Morgan, founder of the Afropunk festival, arrives to the café Urban Vintage, wearing aviator shades and a very on-brand T-shirt: “Fuck sid … jimi
  
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• New band of the week: Autobahn (No 67)

  21-08-2015 17:37
  Leeds band in love with the postpunk sound of, well, Leeds at its most northern and industrial, gothic and gloomyHometown: Leeds.
  The lineup: Craig Johnson (vocals), Gavin Cobb (guitar), Michael Pedel (guitar), Daniel Sleight (bass), Liam Hilton (drums). Continue reading...
  
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• 7 Things To Expect From Zoella’s Girl Online Sequel, Judging By The First Two Chapters

  21-08-2015 17:29
  
  OOOH, it’s going to be good.
  
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• How to put on a mega-gig: the head of wardrobe’s story

  21-08-2015 17:06
  Being head of wardrobe isn’t all gold hot pants, bejewelled headdresses and hanging out with Kylie – there’s mini city breaks and great catering, tooWe all know about the most famous wardrobe malfunctions, such as PJ Proby splitting his trousers [in front of the Danish royal family], but obviously in wardrobe, these are the last things that you want to happen. The prime recent example is Madonna at the Brits – when her cape got caught up in the dancers and she went tumbli
  
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• The week in music: David Bowie dress-up, Nicki Minaj's wax disaster and more

  21-08-2015 16:34
  Our weekly music news roundup includes one man’s quest to live like David Bowie for a year, Coldplay’s role in indie band Interpol’s lineup change and Morrissey opening up to Larry KingTame Impala’s Kevin Parker has been having a pretty good time of late. The band released a critically lauded album in July, and one track was covered by eternally trendy sibling trio Haim not long after. But Samm Culley of 70s funk band Skull Snaps isn’t impressed: he is considering t
  
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• Kirk Lightsey review – his talents burn as brightly as ever

  21-08-2015 16:15
  This was a straightahead jazz gig that took off – particularly whenever the ageless Lightsey ignitesKirk Lightsey, the lean, hawk-faced, giant-handed pianist from Detroit via Paris is now 78, but his talent for energising the players around him burns as brightly as ever, and his improvisations (which have paid respect over the years to inspirations from Nat King Cole and Thelonious Monk to Chopin) retain their cogency, colour and impatient elegance. Lightsey has been co-leading a European
  
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• The playlist: reggae, dancehall and soca – Vybz Kartel, Destra and more

  21-08-2015 15:34
  An homage to the culture of dancehall, a reggae-dub mashup from Hackney and a political rabòday track about “farters”OMI’s Cheerleader might have competition for the international pop song of the summer, in the form of Vybz Kartel’s Dancehall. Released earlier this year, this intense song praises all things dancehall, “forever and ever”. The accompanying video celebrates all aspects of the culture, from jerk chicken to the admittedly dangerous homemade
  
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• Organ failure: the Nazis condemned it; at last we can make our own minds up about Jón Leifs' Organ Concerto

  21-08-2015 14:46
  Many of the Icelandic composer’s works have established a place in the repertoire, but why is his notorious organ concerto still so rarely performed? Jón Leifs spent more 13 years working on his Organ Concerto. The composer/conductor was born in Iceland but moved to Leipzig to study piano at the conservatory at the age of 17. It was one of the first works he began after his arrival in Germany. He eventually completed it in 1930, but its first performance was not until 1941, with the
  
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• Harry Styles Falls Over Again As Louis Tomlinson And Liam Payne Fight With Fire Extinguishers During #OTRAToronto

  21-08-2015 14:11
  
  Just another day at the #OTRA tour…
  
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• Zac Efron is an EDM superstar and he owes it all to me

  21-08-2015 14:00
  The actor channels his inner Calvin Harris for We Are Your Friends, a new film set in LA’s club scene. DJ Them Jeans reveals how he taught Efron the ropes Related: Everybody dance now: how Hollywood finally got its rave on I got involved with We Are Your Friends through IAMSOUND, a record label run by Niki Robertson and Paul Tao. They were brought on board by the movie’s music supervisor [regular Wes Anderson collaborator] Randall Poster, and when they needed someone to teach Zac Efr
  
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• 'Your sneakers can go anywhere in this world': DMC on sneaker culture

  21-08-2015 14:00
  RUN DMC’s 1986 single My Adidas is considered as a turning point in the rise of sneaker culture and birth of modern hip-hop fashion. At the Brooklyn Museum, DMC explains how the ‘three stripes’ embodied an entire lifestyle Continue reading...
  
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• This week’s new tracks: Disclosure and Sam Smith bring the sexy back

  21-08-2015 14:00
  Disclosure ft Sam Smith | Demi Lovato | Destiny | Big Narstie Continue reading...
  
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• Slimzee’s favourite tracks

  21-08-2015 14:00
  The grime DJ and Skepta collaborator, empties the contents of his psychic record bagContinue reading...
  
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• Peter Andre reveals his perfect Strictly partner is Ola Jordan

  21-08-2015 13:08
  
  The singer and TV star knows exactly who he wants as his ballroom teacher.
  
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• #TGIF! Club MTV Start Your V Festival With This Kick-Ass Mix

  21-08-2015 12:43
  
  We'll be getting the party officially started tonight at V Festival in the Sure Arena with these tunes and more...
  
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• Peter Andre reveals he wants to be paired with Ola Jordan for Strictly

  21-08-2015 12:36
  
  Singer Peter Andre has said he'd like to be paired with Ola Jordan on Strictly Come Dancing.
  
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• Kylie Jenner Channels Nicki Minaj In Her Hottest Bikini Yet

  21-08-2015 12:15
  
  Ky’s anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hon.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Could Be Facing A Manslaughter Charge Following Fatal Car Crash

  21-08-2015 12:15
  
  A fatal crash earlier this year could have serious consequences for the reality star...
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Could Face Manslaughter Charges For Role In Fatal Car Crash

  21-08-2015 12:05
  
  Scary news for the reality star.
  
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• Taylor Swift gets Shake It Off mashup invitation to address Oxford Union

  21-08-2015 12:03
  Video features words from speeches by figures including Stephen Fry, Sir Ian McKellen and Morgan Freeman edited to recreate the lyrics to global hit
  “Haters gonna hate and fakers gonna fake,” celebrities including Sir Ian McKellen, Diane Kruger and Morgan Freeman appear to say in a mashup YouTube video created by the Oxford Union in an attempt to entice Taylor Swift to give a talk.The video is sprinkled with public figures ranging from human rights activist Malala Yousafzai to Psy, t
  
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• Kendall Jenner Turns Barbie With New Blonde Hair

  21-08-2015 11:29
  
  Ken-doll.
  
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• The EMA 2015 Needs You!

  21-08-2015 10:48
  
  Be a part of the 2015 EMA in Milan
  
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• 15 very important moments from One Direction's new music video for Drag Me Down

  21-08-2015 10:41
  
  Harry’s hair. Liam sweating. Niall’s boots. Louis smirking.
  
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• Jonas Kaufmann: ‘I feel like an ambassador’

  21-08-2015 10:30
  With his smouldering looks and extraordinary voice, Jonas Kaufmann is hailed as the greatest living tenor. Ahead of his performance at the Last Night of the Proms, Stephen Moss meets one of opera’s most serious and sought-after superstarsJonas Kaufmann, though now a 46-year-old with a greying beard, is absurdly handsome. Not quite as gorgeous in the flesh as he is in the moody cover shots that accompany his new Puccini CD, but unquestionably a bit of a looker, with taut frame and perfect c
  
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• Patti Smith records tribute to cartoon characters made out of fast food

  21-08-2015 09:27
  Smith marks the finale of Aqua Teen Hunger Force with a specially recorded ballad about the showPatti Smith has marked the approaching end of the cartoon series Aqua Teen Hunger Force with a special song, paying tribute to the show.In her heartfelt ballad Aqua Teen Dream, posted online, Smith sings plaintively: “I’d never dreamed I’d be in Aqua Teen / 13 seasons, what did it mean?” “A Master Shake, Meatwad, a floating head / And now you’re dead and it’s
  
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• Tame Impala's Kevin Parker dismisses claims drum sound was uncleared sample

  21-08-2015 09:05
  Samm Culley of Skull Snaps says the drum sound on Eventually was sampled from his song, It’s a New Day. Not so, responds Kevin ParkerTame Impala’s Kevin Parker has dismissed claims that he used an unlicensed sample on the group’s new album, Currents, after being threatened with a lawsuit.Parker was emailed by Samm Culley of the 70s funk group Skull Snaps. Culley accused Parker of sampling his band’s 1973 song It’s a New Day on the Tame Impala song Eventually. It&rsq
  
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• The 31 Best Moments From One Direction's 'Drag Me Down' Music Video

  21-08-2015 08:47
  
  Every second is VERY special.
  
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• Why Chelsea Wolfe's Abyss is the one album you should hear this week – video

  21-08-2015 08:30
  Abyss, the fifth album from industrial pop singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, sounds more indebted to metal than any of her previous, folksy work. And Wolfe’s exploration of sleep paralysis is as delightfully intimate over distorted viola and droning keyboards as lightly strummed acoustic guitar, says Tshepo Mokoena Continue reading...
  
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• Royal Headache: High review – rough, emotive rock with a sense of import

  21-08-2015 04:26
  High, the Sydney band’s second album, is anxious, crestfallen and incapable of peace. It’s also just what an Australian rock record should sound like in 2015When Royal Headache started playing shows in Sydney around 2009, they made rock music in the city feel vital again. It’s rare for Sydney’s underground scene to birth bands as widely palatable as Royal Headache, and it’s even rarer for those bands to transcend the small pubs and warehouses they play in. Royal Hea
  
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