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• Universal Music Stole Streaming Royalties from Lady Gaga, Ex-Manager Says

  25-09-2015 23:37
  
  “We’ve always gotten screwed from record royalties, anyway…”Last year, Digital Music News published a leaked portion of Lady Gaga’s contract with Universal Music Group sub-division Interscope Records.  The source of the leak wanted to show how artists like Lady Gaga were being systematically underpaid, or not paid at all, on streaming through misleading and deceptive contract language.Now, Lady Gaga’s ex-manager, Troy Carter, has confirmed that
  
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• FAKE ID [Explicit]

  25-09-2015 23:27 via mtv.co.uk
  
  FAKE ID
  
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• Executive Shuffles: Grooveshark, Shazam, VEVO, Turner, Saavn, Vodafone, Allphones, Collect, PPL…

  25-09-2015 20:54
  
  Grooveshark might offer a case study on what not to do PR-wise, with infuriated labels and angry artists ultimately burying the site and shaming its founders.  But hey, maybe it wasn’t all the press guy’s fault.  Accordingly, Shazam has hired former Grooveshark Corporate Communications EVP James Pearson as its new Vice President of Global Communications.
  Speaking of bad PR, Collect Records has now ‘fired’ hedge funder Martin Shkreli, a warm
  
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• Music Review: Jim Lauderdale gets rootsy on double album

  25-09-2015 18:51
  
  Jim Lauderdale, "Soul Searching: Vol. 1 Memphis/Vol. 2. Nashville" (Sky Crunch)
  
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• Watch New Order live, discussing their new album, Music Complete

  25-09-2015 18:30
  
  The Mancunian legends will be doing a Q&A session in Germany at 6pm GMT – you can follow it hereNew Order have a new album out – “the freshest thing they’ve done in ages,” reckons Tim Jonze in his four-star review of Music Complete – and you can hear them talking about it. From 6pm GMT on Friday, they are participating in a Q&A event at the Reeperbahn festival in Hamburg, Germany, where they will discuss the album’s launch.Follow the event here,
  
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• She Shreds: guitar magazine empowers women to rip up stereotypes

  25-09-2015 18:14
  
  With articles on guitar goddesses such as St Vincent written by and for women, the magazine dispels myth that learning to shred was ever a male-only pursuitShe Shreds is working to change the idea that technical guitar playing is somehow the preserve of a certain type of man. The three-year-old magazine focused on, and dedicated to, women guitarists, just launched a new website, online music tutorials by women and articles on everything from women in mariachi music to St Vincent’s guitar d
  
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• White – 'More chocolate guitars and chopsticks in the hair!'

  25-09-2015 17:45
  
  The new Glaswegian band are causing a stir with their Associates-flavoured take on ‘new pop’. Time to party like it’s 1981 …Either we’ve travelled back in time, or someone is playing tricks on us. The DJ in Broadcast, a bar and nightclub on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, bears an uncanny resemblance to Alan Rankine, the multi-instrumentalist with the matinee-idol looks who, along with outrageously gifted (and tragically unsung) vocalist Billy Mackenzie, formed one
  
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• The Drunk Driver Who Mauled a Crowd at SXSW Pleads Not Guilty

  25-09-2015 17:45
  
  (Scene following the tragic mauling of more than 20 SXSW attendees; March 13th, 2014)
  It was the lowest point ever of SXSW: on a crowded, hot, festive night of March 13th, 2014, a police chase veered into a blocked-off street, killing four and injuring more than 20.  Behind the wheel was a drunken Rashad Charjuan Owens, speeding to avoid the cops but ultimately creating a massacre.
  Now, Owens has pled ‘not guilty’ in a filing with the Travis County District Court, whil
  
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• Harry Styles Won’t Let Any Of His One Direction Bandmates Date His Sister, & More Things We Learnt From Their Latest Interview

  25-09-2015 17:20
  
  You know, fair enough.
  
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• Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and the muddle surrounding Shostakovich's opera

  25-09-2015 17:19
  
  Shostakovich has been as misunderstood as his great opera was. It’s time to stop viewing both the man and his works through the lens of StalinismDmitri Shostakovich probably had a bad feeling already, when he picked up his copy of Pravda at Arkhangelsk station on 28 January 1936. Two evenings beforehand, in Moscow, the composer had endured a shock.The commissar himself, Joseph Stalin, had come to hear Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which had been touring successfully f
  
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• Little Mix's Perrie Edwards Is 'Loving' The Single Life With Her BFFs

  25-09-2015 16:46
  
  No, really!
  
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• The playlist – metal: Iron Maiden, Tesseract, Iniquitous Savagery and more

  25-09-2015 16:26
  
  Iron Maiden retains the title of greatest heavy metal band of all time, and Iniquitous Savagery fly the flag for Scotland’s death-metal sceneAs standard bearers for a ferociously modern progressive metal scene that has been enjoying a sustained resurgence, Tesseract sound more inventive and unique than ever before on their third full-length album, Polaris. With former vocalist Daniel Tompkins now back in the fold, the polyrhythmic Brits have renewed momentum and have veered skilfully away
  
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• Selfies Of The Week (19-25 Sept 2015)

  25-09-2015 16:26
  
  The BEST selfies from the week that was!
  
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• The Blair Waldorf & Seth Cohen Baby Has Arrived!

  25-09-2015 15:51
  
  And it’s a…
  
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• Disclosure review – megastars go old-school with mixed results

  25-09-2015 15:41
  
  Troxy, London
  A fussy focus on guitars and drum pads makes for a variable night, but all is forgiven when the brothers unleash the Berlin-grade techno of Bang ThatHaving cemented house music in the centre of UK pop’s firmament, the duo return on the eve of the release of their second album, Caracal. They’ve been scathing about the “press play” performances of their fellow dance megastars, and so have set up an array of very tangible kit: dinky cymbals, drum pads, guitars
  
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• Chemical Brothers review – kicking like an electronic mule

  25-09-2015 15:41
  
  Roundhouse, London
  Voodoo priests made of lights, scary clowns and giant robots soundtracked by war zone indie-rave … the Chemicals live up to their reputation As TV viewers of their Glastonbury set will attest, concentrated Chemical Brothers kicks like an electronic mule. Which makes them ideal for Apple’s annual Roundhouse stint, an urban festival specialising in cramming huge shows into Camden’s esteemed barrel. Cue a night of bone and brain-quaking rave intensity, the visu
  
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• Talking Tatts With Roman Reigns

  25-09-2015 15:17
  
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• WWE's Becky Lynch Getting Fruity As She Brings The Punny Funny

  25-09-2015 14:55
  
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• The New Quiet: what's the point of classical music made to sleep to?

  25-09-2015 14:53
  
  London hosts two premieres designed to encourage music and mind to interact in different states of consciousnessClassical concerts usually make few demands on their audiences. All you have to do is turn up, shut up and stay awake long enough to clap at the right bits. Two premieres by British composers this weekend – one a four-hour opera to encourage meditation and mindfulness, the other an eight-hour lullaby to be performed while listeners sleep – confound this orthodoxy.Lost in Th
  
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• Watch Paul McCartney talking about his duets with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder

  25-09-2015 14:51
  
  In this mini-documentary, the former Beatle talks about the collaborations that featured on his Tug of War and Pipes of Peace albumsPaul McCartney’s got a new deluxe reissues of Tug of War and Pipes of Peace coming out next Friday, featuring the usual array of bonus tracks. Tug of War, his first album after Wings split, was only McCartney’s third solo album, and featured his collaboration with Stevie Wonder on Ebony and Ivory, while its successor featured the duet with Michael Jackso
  
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• Kiss Me Kate Opera North review - bringing joy and skill to frothy Cole Porter

  25-09-2015 14:41
  
  Grand Theatre, Leeds
  Great performances and superb orchestral playing make Jo Davies’s sparkling production so hot it’s practically a fire-riskDirector Jo Davies has had a remarkable run of success at Opera North, proving equally adept at operetta (Ruddigore), musicals (Carousel) and Mozart (the Marriage of Figaro). Little wonder that the company should have invited her back to brush up its Shakespeare. Opera North’s Broadway excursions have encompassed heavyweights such as Ker
  
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• Farrah Abraham Slammed By Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace For 'Wasting NHS Services' As She's Pictured In Wheelchair Following Brawl

  25-09-2015 14:39
  
  What's going on, Farrah?!
  
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• Così Fan Tutte review – pocket-sized Mozart ducks the moral murk

  25-09-2015 14:38
  
  MacRobert Centre, StirlingScottish Opera’s production is certainly chipper – but shouldn’t a modern version of Così be about more than wedding-obsessed women and swaggering blokes?Scottish Opera’s new pocket-sized Così Fan Tutte is a sweet, unadventurous period piece set in 1950s Naples. Directed by Lissa Lorenzo, the staging is handsome – vintage dress fans, beware – and easy to follow in Martin Fitzpatrick’s chipper English translation. O
  
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• WWE: Undertaker And Kane To Reform As Brothers Of Destruction Tag Team!

  25-09-2015 14:12
  
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• This week’s new tracks: Disclosure’s Jaded is life-changing house music

  25-09-2015 14:00
  
  Disclosure | Ellie Goulding | Demi Lovato | Fetty Wap | Naughty Boy ft Beyoncé and Arrow BenjaminPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• The Dark Outside: the guerilla music festival where you don't have to turn up

  25-09-2015 14:00
  
  It began as a pop-up radio station playing obscure new music in a remote forest and now musicians are falling over themselves to perform there. And all you need to do is tune in… Related: The playlist: experimental – Maggie Nicols, Tētēma, David Sylvian and more Sitting somewhere between an episode of Father Ted, pirate radio gone rural and a silent disco, The Dark Outside FM is an eccentric radio station where 24 hours of tailor-made music that’s never been heard be
  
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• Kiwi’s favourite tracks

  25-09-2015 14:00
  
  The juicy-fresh Duke Dumont affiliate empties the contents of his psychic record bag Continue reading...
  
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• Leona Lewis aims to inspire with 'I Am'

  25-09-2015 13:45
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "I Am" is Leona Lewis' first post-Simon Cowell offering, but the aftermath of their professional split resonates throughout her fifth studio album.
  
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• Roman Reigns Is All About The Cheeses, Apparently

  25-09-2015 13:42
  
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• Everything That Went Down At One Direction's London OTRA Show

  25-09-2015 12:57
  
  It was eventful.
  
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• Kendall Jenner Admits She Put Off Meeting Caitlyn Because It Meant 'Letting Go' Of Bruce

  25-09-2015 12:54
  
  It’s definitely understandable.
  
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• Kylie Jenner Posts Video And Is The First Person Ever To Make Socks And Sandals Sexy

  25-09-2015 12:42
  
  We're already channelling the trend...
  
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• Gaz Says Girlfriend Lillie Gets On "Absolutely Fine" With Geordie Shore Lasses

  25-09-2015 12:11
  
  Exclusive! The Geordie lad also gives us his verdict on Charlotte and Mitch...
  
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• Sam Smith Releases New Bond Theme But Twitter Reckons He's No Shirley Bassey

  25-09-2015 12:07
  
  Poor Sam!
  
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• Kim Kardashian Admits Kylie Jenner Has 'Dethroned' Her… For Now

  25-09-2015 11:26
  
  Oh and she isn't engaged after all.
  
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• Listen To Disclosure's 'Caracal' Album Right Now On MTV TRAX

  25-09-2015 11:00
  
  Wrap your ears around this...
  
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• Briana Jungwirth Was At One Direction's O2 Gig Last Night Supporting Louis Tomlinson, Aww

  25-09-2015 10:10
  
  She flew all the way from LA for the occasion.
  
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• Vinyl Generates More Revenue Than YouTube Music, VEVO, SoundCloud, and Free Spotify COMBINED

  25-09-2015 03:18
  
   
  Vinyl sales have been surging for years.  But now, the oldest format on the market is generating more revenues than all ad-supported on-demand streaming music services, combined.  According to data released this week by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA), vinyl sales reached $221.8 million on 9.2 million units at the half-point of this year in the US, a 52.1 percent year-over-year surge.That’s more than all music royalties generated by YouTube Mu
  
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• Here For You (Ft. Ella Henderson)

  25-09-2015 01:42 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Here for You
  
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• Imagine If ISPs Were Responsible for All That Copyright Infringement

  25-09-2015 01:14
  
   One of the most important cases in the history of music copyright and content protection is happening right now, with a decision expected in months.  Yet very few are even aware of its existence.
  The case involves Cox Communications, the third-largest ISP in the United States, and, depending on who you talk to, one of the largest facilitators of piracy in the world.  That’s the accusation of litigating rights owners BMG Rights Management and Round Hill Music,
  
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