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• Kanye West set for MTV Video Music Awards lifetime achievement honour

  25-08-2015 19:52
  
  Controversial rapper Kanye West is to receive the lifetime achievement award at the MTV Video Music Awards.
  
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• SoundCloud Is Now ‘Days Away’ from a Universal Music Agreement

  25-08-2015 19:51
  
  Universal Music Group and SoundCloud are now ‘days away’ from finalizing a momentous agreement, with sources close to the negotiations pointing to a pact potentially by the end of this week.  The deal follows a massively-protracted, multi-year and cantankerous tug-of-war over licensing costs and a range of other issues, with critical financiers and a stable of lawyers hovering on the sidelines.
  According to key sources with knowledge of the negotiations, the deal with Universal
  
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• Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson to captain jumbo jet for band's 2016 world tour

  25-08-2015 19:40
  
  Iron Maiden are to soar to new heights for their 2016 world tour, when singer Bruce Dickinson flies the group around in a Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet.
  
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• Jamelia joins Strictly Come Dancing line-up

  25-08-2015 19:10
  
  The Superstar singer will be showing off her moves on the dancefloor for the BBC One show.
  
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• Jamelia to join Strictly Come Dancing line-up

  25-08-2015 19:07
  
  The Strictly Come Dancing conga line just got longer as singer Jamelia is confirmed as the twelfth celebrity on the show.
  
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• Selena Gomez Talks Falling In Love With Justin Bieber & Taking Off Her Purity Ring

  25-08-2015 18:49
  
  Why can't everyone just stay together forever.
  
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• Once you realise that everyone in this year’s X Factor 2015 promo pics are posing at brilliantly jaunty angles, it’s hard not to notice

  25-08-2015 18:25
  
  The brand spanking new X Factor promo pictures land with Rita Ora, Cheryl-Fernandez Versini, Olly Murs, Nick Grimshaw, Simon Cowell, Caroline Flack, Rochelle Humes and Melvin Odom are all together for the first time.
  
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• Praise Yeezus! Kanye West To Be Awarded The VMA Vanguard Award

  25-08-2015 18:00
  
  Yeezy's getting this year's big accolade...
  
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• This is why Humans is the best sci-fi on TV right now

  25-08-2015 17:49
  
  Pure. Awesome.
  
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• Nick Jonas Reveals All About His Gay Sex Scenes In 'Kingdom'

  25-08-2015 16:59
  
  Oh wow.
  
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• Louis Walsh Reckons We'll Be One Directionless For Five Years & We're Not Convinced

  25-08-2015 16:49
  
  How does he know?!
  
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• One Direction split left you feeling directionless? Take our boyband quiz

  25-08-2015 16:46
  
  There’s more to boybands than One Direction. But do you know how many members Menudo had? Or in which paper Lou Pearlman advertised for the members of Backstreet Boys?1 Which boyband – with a current combined age of 360 – had a hit in Sweden with a song called Two Dirty Little Hands?The Monkees Continue reading...
  
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• we've come up with a list of far better things One Direction could have confirmed instead of their impending hiatus

  25-08-2015 15:44
  
  One Direction confirmed that they were in fact going on a break, but there are many confirmations we'd preferred they announce.
  
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• Tyga Has Dropped A Song Called 'Stimulated' & The Lyrics May Or May Not Be About Having Sex With Kylie Jenner

  25-08-2015 15:22
  
  Erm, what?
  
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• Sound science: watch Ash Koosha's video for Guud

  25-08-2015 14:54
  The Iranian musician’s career has taken a fresh twist – concentrating on scale, nanotechnology and the quantum realmIf it’s love songs you’re after, Tehran-born and London-based Ash Koosha may be more fruitful for the scientifically minded music fan rather than the sentimental. The composer’s latest work, Guud, is a project in which he “deals with scientific and psychological questions”, and is inspired by an obsession with scale, nanotechnology and quan
  
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• X Factor Give The Audience More Power Than Ever, Oh And Nick Grimshaw's Hair Looks Like The Poo Emoji

  25-08-2015 14:03
  
  Awkward!
  
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• Watch the video premiere for Django Django's Pause Repeat

  25-08-2015 14:00
  This blend of mobile-phone footage and stop-frame animation aims to make the mundane mesmerising. Take a look and tell us what you thinkAside from the release of second album Born Under Saturn, Django Django have spent the past 12 months embracing extracurricular creative collaborations: drummer/producer Dave Maclean embarked on a journey to Mali with Damon Albarn’s Africa Express, before he and synth player Tommy Grace worked on the score for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s producti
  
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• Now Poor Snooki's Been Dragged Into The Ashley Madison Scandal

  25-08-2015 13:01
  
  These rumours are NOT GOOD...
  
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• We Couldn't Be Less Impressed With This Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costume

  25-08-2015 12:45
  
  Not. A. Costume.
  
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• DJ Fresh Talks Festival Headliners, X Factor, And Zayn Malik Stealing His Hair Do

  25-08-2015 12:42
  
  No-one does a silver 'do better than DJ Fresh...
  
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• Sigma Have Dropped Their New Single And Now We Can't Stop Dancing In Our Seats

  25-08-2015 12:38
  
  Listen to 'Redemption' Ft. Jacob Banks right now...
  
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• Letter: Gunther Schuller obituary

  25-08-2015 12:37
  Early Jazz, by Gunther Schuller, was the first – and only – serious book on that realm of classic jazz that thrived from 1900 to around 1928, and was revived in 1942, becoming the dominant music in Britain for many years until the advent of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.Schuller’s importance to early jazz is that he treated it seriously and applied his considerable musical learning and status to the analysis of the performances of the pioneers of jazz. Continue reading...
  
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• David Beckham Is Officially A DILF Of Disneyland

  25-08-2015 11:34
  
  And mates with Frozen’s Anna and Elsa, too!
  
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• Soz Beyoncé, A Certain Kardashian Is The New Queen Of Instagram

  25-08-2015 11:26
  
  We're sure she'll be devastated.
  
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• One Direction: Three members insist their break won't be permanent

  25-08-2015 10:22
  Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne take to Twitter to say the group will be taking time off but still have ‘lots we want to achieve’Three members of One Direction have broken their silence about the band’s reported split, and admitted they will be taking a hiatus next year – but they insist they will return.One Direction’s publicists refused to comment on the reports on Monday, but Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson took to Twitter to clarify their positions.
  
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• Everyone Calm Down, One Direction Have Broken Their Silence Over All These Split Rumours

  25-08-2015 10:11
  
  Aaaaand breathe.
  
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• Women assaulted by Dr Dre respond to his apology

  25-08-2015 09:14
  Dee Barnes says the apology is what mattered, not what motivated it, but ex-fiancée Miche’le says the producer was just making a PR playTwo women assaulted by Dr Dre in the early days of NWA have responded to his apology “to the women I’ve hurt”. As the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton hit cinemas, the journalist Dee Barnes and singer Miche’le came forward to talk about incidents in which Dre had assaulted them. Dre last week issued a statement to the New Yo
  
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• Sean Lennon: 'People only see me as the spoiled slacker son of John and Yoko'

  25-08-2015 09:00
  But that’s far from true – his long list of projects includes co-producing Fat White Family’s forthcoming album and collaborating on one with his motherIf he was an ordinary musician without the famous last name, the assortment of music projects keeping Sean Lennon busy right now (producer, band member, solo artist, environmental activist) might cry out creative restlessness or workaholic.He’s co-produced the forthcoming album by Fat White Family, and he’s also work
  
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• Spoiler Alert! Tears, Tantrums And Cracking On In Ex On The Beach Episode 3

  25-08-2015 08:00
  
  Here are some teasers for tonight's episode...
  
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• Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 30-Sept. 5

  25-08-2015 07:00
  
  Aug. 30: Actor Bill Daily ("I Dream of Jeannie," ''The Bob Newhart Show") is 88. Actress Elizabeth Ashley is 76. Actor-turned-politician Ben Jones ("The Dukes of Hazzard") is 74. Actress Peggy Lipton ("The Mod Squad") is 69. Comedian Lewis Black ("The Daily Show") is 67. Actor Michael Chiklis ("The Fantastic Four," ''The Shield") is 52. Actress Michael Michele ("ER," ''Homicide: Life On The Street") is 49. Country singer Sherrie Austin is 44. Guitarist Lars Frederiksen of Rancid is 44. Actress C
  
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• How To Get Music In Podcasts (And Make Money From It… Legally)

  25-08-2015 04:40
  
  There’s a lot of legal mumbo jumbo that goes along with obtaining the rights to get music in a podcast. Dealing with mechanical licenses, public performance licenses, direct licenses, on and on. Oh and if you overlay the music with talking, it’s a SEPARATE license!
  Way too confusing. That’s the music industry for you.
  I’m a big fan of podcasts. Been rocking Gimlet’s Startup and Marc Maron’s WTF as of late. In Startup, the hosts always credit the music us
  
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• Pandora’s Summer Surge Starts Melting on Wall Street; ‘Buy’ Ratings Prevail

  25-08-2015 02:05
  
  Pandora (P) is now witnessing a modest summer run-up go poof, thanks to a broader Wall Street meltdown that has music and entertainment stocks under pressure.  In Monday trading, shares of Pandora slipped another 4.03 percent to $17.13, with sub-$15 valuations likely in the near-term.
  Earlier this month, Pandora pushed towards the $20-mark before getting brushed back at $19.38 on August 12th.  Since that point, Pandora has slipped a noticeable 11.38 percent, with the slide now he
  
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