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• Farrah Abraham, Tila Tequila & Stevi Ritchie Kick Off Celebrity Big Brother 2015

  27-08-2015 23:48
  
  Oh and Fatman Scoop.
  
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• Taylor Swift has a little help from her Friend Lisa Kudrow

  27-08-2015 23:13
  
  Never thought I'd say this but "Smelly Cat" was on my set list last night. Taylor Swift famously described herself as being "obsessed with her friends." Living up to her reputation as the ultimate celebrity BFF, the singer has been inviting her besties to join her on stage during her 1989 sell-out world tour. The 52-year-old actress, who played struggling musician Phoebe Buffay in the sitcom for a decade joined Swift, 25, for a rendition of her character's famed comedy song Smelly Cat.
  
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• Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry condemns online trolls

  27-08-2015 22:37
  
  The lead singer of Chvrches has hit back at online trolls who launched a stream of sexist abuse over the band's latest music video.
  
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• SFX Entertainment Is Trading Below $1, Suffering Multiple Downgrades, In Debt, and Running Out of Cash

  27-08-2015 22:24
  
  Billboard Cover, September, 2012.  “I know nothing about EDM,” Robert F.X. Sillerman explained.
  The monstrous implosion of SFX Entertainment continues this week, with shares of SFXE struggling below $1 and multiple advisory firms downgrading the stock.  The latest pummeling comes from Moody’s Investor Service, which pilloried the EDM-focused company with multiple, near-ruinous downgrades.
  That includes a shift into seriously-negative ‘Caa3,’ a d
  
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• Country music provocateurs Maddie & Tae come out swinging

  27-08-2015 19:41
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The country duo Maddie & Tae took on gender stereotypes in their first platinum single, "Girl in a Country Song," and now they are targeting another overused effect in today's country music: electronic drum machines.
  
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• PREMIERE: Gabi'el - PU$$Y ft. Monique Lawrence and Ms Banks

  27-08-2015 19:00
  
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• Get Your Questions In For Rita Ora!

  27-08-2015 18:39
  
  We're shooting a special episode of 'MTV Asks...' with the 'Body On Me' babe soon and we need YOUR questions...
  
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• Beyonce snubbing joint album with husband Jay Z to record new solo record?

  27-08-2015 18:16
  
  Reports claimed that Beyonce, 33, and Jay Z, 45, were planning on releasing their first collaborative record exclusively on the hip hop mogul's music streaming service Tidal, but that plan has allegedly been put on hold. The 7/11 songstress released her fifth self-titled studio album in December 2013 in the midst of her Mrs Carter World Tour. According to the source, Beyonce's record label Columbia is keen to repeat the success with her next offering.
  
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• It’s Your Copyright. Don’t Apologize for Defending It.

  27-08-2015 18:14
  
  The following guest post comes from Peter Csathy, a venture capitalist, media/tech executive, journalist, and CEO at Manatt Digital Media.
  We live in a world where many share the belief that content is ‘free,’ while rampant piracy has been significantly curtailed by new legitimate services and business models (like subscription streaming).  But, it just ain’t so.
  One of the biggest and pervasive myths is that piracy is actually decreasing.  That couldn&rsqu
  
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• 39 Simple And Subtle Disney Tattoos That Will Make Any Disney Fan Want To Get Inked

  27-08-2015 18:12
  
  You'll be wishing upon a star that you had one of these beautiful Disney tattoos.
  
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• Quiz: Can You Spot The Real Liam Payne?

  27-08-2015 17:45
  
  Would the real Liam Payne please stand up...
  
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• PRS for Music Files Legal Paperwork Against SoundCloud

  27-08-2015 17:15
  
  Earlier this month, Digital Music News pointed to major label legal threats against SoundCloud, with filings possible by Thanksgiving.  What we forgot to mention that publishers – and publishing societies – were also threatening, and might beat that date.
  Like, right now.  Early this morning, UK-based collection society PRS for Music confirmed that it had filed legal action against SoundCloud for refusal to pay performance royalties.“After careful considera
  
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• Demi Lovato Reveals Album Details With Help From Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez & Nick Jonas

  27-08-2015 16:17
  
  We're counting down the days.
  
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• DMA's review – Britpop revivalists evoke 90s euphoria

  27-08-2015 15:26
  
  100 Club, London
  The Aussie band’s much-touted Oasis influence dominates their British-style bolshiness onstage as the crowd pogo to the dizzying melodic peaks So much for globalisation. Listen to DMA’s and you’d have to assume that it’s taken 20 years for word of Britpop to reach Sydney. Strutting on stage seemingly styled by the Twang at Primark – they must be the only lads loitering around Bondi beach in baseball caps, sports tops and ratty mullets – they b
  
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• Taylor Swift and Lisa Kudrow sing 'Phoebe's' Smelly Cat – video

  27-08-2015 15:14
  
  Lisa Kudrow joins Taylor Swift on stage for a rendition of Smelly Cat, the song made famous by Kudrow’s character Phoebe in NBC hit TV show Friends. Swift was performing for a fifth night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles as part of her 1989 tour. Selena Gomez and Justin Timberlake also made cameo appearances on Wednesday nightRead: Taylor Swift – ‘Sexy? Not on my radar’ Continue reading...
  
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• Jodie Marsh has secretly got married and she's taken wedding dress inspiration from a certain harem pants loving disney princess

  27-08-2015 14:56
  
  Jodie Marsh has revealed she's secretly got married and much like the bride, the wedding dress is aptly untraditional.
  
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• The Lyrics Of 5SOS' 'Jet Black Heart' Mean More To The Fans Than You Might Realise

  27-08-2015 14:24
  
  Someone hold us, please.
  
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• Directioners Your Power Knows No Bounds. One Direction Are MTV's Hottest Summer Superstar For A Third Year!

  27-08-2015 14:06
  
  You did it! To say thanks, the foursome have recorded a special thank you message...
  
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• Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez: Taylor Swift finding it hard to set up ex-Disney star with 'someone special'

  27-08-2015 13:55
  
  American country music singer Taylor Swift is helping best friend Selena Gomez find a boyfriend. The 25-year-old Red singer wants Gomez to move on from Justin Bieber and find "someone special". Taylor and other close friends always ask her about guys and were very happy when Zedd was a thing, but it's hard to set up someone with Selena.
  
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• Morrissey's debut novel: design your own front cover

  27-08-2015 13:48
  
  American athlete Earl Young takes pride of place on the cover of Morrissey’s upcoming debut novel List of the Lost. We’d like to see what your alternative cover designs would look likeCan you judge a book by its cover? If so, and you’re of a particularly literal mindset, then Morrissey is about to drop a debut novel about relay racing. That’s the sole image on the sleeve of his debut novel, which is out 24 September through Penguin.The runner in question is Earl Young, an
  
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• George Walker: the great American composer you've never heard of

  27-08-2015 13:35
  
  The first African American to win the Pulitzer for music is celebrated for overcoming cultural prejudice, but his work is so good this should only be a sideshow to the main event of his compositionsThere is a lot to catch up on: a 93 year-old composer with one of the most remarkable lives in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, and I’ve only just discovered his music properly. George Walker was the first African American to win a Pulitzer prize for music (in 1996, for his Walt Whitman
  
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• Justin Bieber Lookalike Toby Sheldon Found Dead After Spending £65,000 On Plastic Surgery

  27-08-2015 13:27
  
  He had been missing for over a week.
  
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• Berlin orchestra's planned Tehran concert angers Israel

  27-08-2015 13:21
  
  Israeli-Argentinian conductor Daniel Barenboim in talks to take Berlin State Opera to Iran, but Israel wants Angela Merkel to block performanceThe Israeli-Argentinian conductor Daniel Barenboim has been in talks to take one of Germany’s top orchestras to Iran to perform a concert, drawing angry protests from Israel.
  Berlin State Opera said Barenboim, 72, its general music director, was in discussions with Iran about a possible concert in Tehran. Continue reading...
  
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• Shania Twain 50th birthday: Facts about the 'Feel Like A Woman' singer you didn't know

  27-08-2015 13:12
  
  With her youthful looks and incredibly successful career, it may be hard to believe that country singer Shania Twain is celebrating her 50th birthday on 28 August. Over the course of her music career, which has spanned more than two decades, the Any Man Of Mine singer has earned herself five Grammy awards, stars on both the Canada and Hollywood Walks of Fame and has sold more than 85 million records worldwide making her one of the best-selling artists of all time. Fans may know Twain's back cata
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about mood-changing music – results

  27-08-2015 13:00
  
  Sinatra to Marley, Spalding to Spearmint, RR regular Fuel picks the highs and lows of songs that show how they’re affected by other music from last week’s topic
  Cole Porter wrote Begin the Beguine to describe how a beguine (a dance) first raises good memories then summons others he would rather not face. Frank Sinatra does the rest. I wonder if the tune is ever number A-11 on a jukebox? Play A-11 and Johnny Paycheck says there will be tears. Meanwhile, Paleface has been listening to
  
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• The Wanton Sublime/The Medium review – rebelliousness and lyricism

  27-08-2015 12:58
  
  Arcola theatre, London
  Tarik O’Regan’s opera reflects a divine conflict as sung by Hai-Ting Chinn, who is unfortunately drowned out by the fine Orpheus Sinfonia in the small settingGiven its European premiere at this year’s Grimeborn festival, Tarik O’Regan’s monodrama The Wanton Sublime is essentially a religious work, albeit an unconventional one, that meditates on the annunciation and the psychology of revelation. Using a text by American poet Anna Rabinowitz, it
  
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• Winner takes it all: Abba's Dancing Queen piano up for auction

  27-08-2015 12:31
  
  Piano on which 1976 disco hit’s famous opening glissando was played is expected to sell for up to £800,000The piano on which the glissando that kicks off Abba’s disco hit Dancing Queen was played will be one of the star attractions at a rock and pop auction at Sotheby’s next month where it is expected to sell for up to £800,000. The instrument comes with a certificate of authentication from the band’s co-founder Benny Andersson, who describes it as “one
  
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• Pretty Little Liars’ Troian Bellisario has given us life with this very revealing season six behind the scenes selfie

  27-08-2015 12:06
  
  Just WHAT does this Pretty Little Liars behind the scenes selfie tell us about season six? (A LOT, PEOPLE).
  
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• Simon Cowell Knows What One Direction Are Getting Up To Next & Sony Deny Any Solo Deals

  27-08-2015 11:44
  
  Tell us Simon, pleeeeeaaaase!
  
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• Morrissey: Obama is doing nothing for US black community

  27-08-2015 10:51
  
  Singer tells The Daily Beast that Obama ‘doesn’t look overly African black’, and offers equal ire at Republican presidential candidatesMorrissey has attacked Barack Obama for his lack of support for black communities in the US. The singer, whose own record on racial politics is often viewed with some scepticism, told The Daily Beast in an email interview: “I can’t see him doing anything at all for the black community except warning them that they must respect the se
  
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• Taylor Swift Performed 'Smelly Cat' With Lisa Kudrow Aka Phoebe Buffay And We're Losing Our Minds

  27-08-2015 10:47
  
  It's not your faaauuuulllt....
  
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• Ricky Martin attacks 'racist, absurd and incoherent' Donald Trump

  27-08-2015 10:17
  
  Latin superstar lays into presidential candidate after journalist from Spanish language TV station is thrown out of press conferenceRicky Martin has issued a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump, whose views he has called “racist, absurd, and above all incoherent and ignorant”. The Latin superstar took Trump to task in a piece written for the website of the US Spanish language TV station Univision, after one of its senior journalists, Jorge Ramos, was thrown out of a Trump press conferenc
  
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• Cold Chisel: how I learned to love Oz rock’s last great survivors

  27-08-2015 10:10
  
  As the rock giants take their new album – and Grinspoon – around Australia, Andrew Stafford reveals how he shook off his aversion to all that masculine camaraderie and opened his earsI used to hate Cold Chisel. As a teenager in the 1980s, it was hard to avoid them. FM radio couldn’t get enough of them, and Khe Sanh was especially ubiquitous, pumped out of every muscle-car stereo at the beach like an extra pipeline of exhaust fumes. Despite growing up in the outer eastern suburb
  
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• #WhatDoYouMean Justin Bieber Is Performing At The 2015 MTV VMA?!?!

  27-08-2015 09:57
  
  Biebs is BACK this weekend only on MTV…
  
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• Tyler, the Creator: I've been banned from entering the UK

  27-08-2015 09:02
  
  Rapper says he has been banned from Britain, which has led to cancellation of Reading and Leeds shows, because his old lyrics were offensiveThe US rapper Tyler, the Creator says he has been banned from the UK because of the nature of his lyrics. The Odd Future co-founder recently cancelled four dates in the UK and Ireland, including an appearance at Reading/Leeds and tweeted that it was because the authorities were unhappy with his subject matter.BASED ON LYRICS FROM 2009 I AM NOT ALLOWED IN THE
  
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• Justin Bieber to perform at MTV Video Music Awards

  27-08-2015 04:50
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Bieber will be back on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards.
  
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• The 100 Most Popular YouTube Videos of All Time

  27-08-2015 04:40
  
  YouTube Statistics
  All view counts taken from YouTube and/or VEVO.
  The post The 100 Most Popular YouTube Videos of All Time appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• The 10 Richest DJs of 2015

  27-08-2015 00:15
  
  The 10 highest earning DJs of the year…
   
  Ranking of the top-earning, richest DJs of 2015 compiled by Forbes, using a variety of different income sources that include live shows, brand sponsorships, residencies, recording sales, TV deals, investments, and various entrepreneurial endeavors.  Earnings totals are global, with DJs frequently touring dozens of countries in a given year.
  The post The 10 Richest DJs of 2015 appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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