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• Sun Goes Down (Ft. MAGIC! & Sonny Wilson)

  28-09-2015 23:27 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Sun Goes Down (feat. MAGIC! & Sonny Wilson)
  
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• My House

  28-09-2015 23:27 via mtv.co.uk
  
  My House
  
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• YouTube’s Premium Tier Is Coming Very, Very Soon

  28-09-2015 21:51
  
  We’re not sure exactly how this fits into YouTube’s planned Music Key expansion, but an ad-free version of the video service is definitely on its way.  Over the weekend, YouTube started sending letters to holdout content owners requiring agreement to updated terms and conditions that would enable the premium upgrade.
  Content owners have until October 22nd to update the agreement, or their videos will be removed.
  The email, leaked to Re/Code, notes that ’95 perce
  
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• T.I. Calls Piracy “Bulls–t,” Then Blatantly Rips Off a Photographer

  28-09-2015 21:49
  
  August, 2008.
  Rapper T.I., discussing the leak of ‘Swagga Like Us’ to MTV News.  
  “That’s some bullshit. I’m beating down the internet as we speak.”
  “Don’t ruin the event.  Wait till the cake comes out the kitchen before you eat it.  That’s like a kid who sees his toys before Christmas; it takes away from me and I think it takes away from the fans as well.  When it’s time, I’mma give it to you.  They
  
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• Half of Deezer’s ‘Subscribers’ Haven’t Played a Single Song In the Last Month

  28-09-2015 21:41
  
  Spotify rival Deezer is now planning a major IPO in France, yet the process of going public is exposing some very unflattering details.  The biggest is that roughly half of Deezer’s ‘subscribers’ are actually bundled into mobile plans are entirely inactive, if they even know they’re subscribed.
  Specifically, 3.34 million of 6.34 million total are classified as ‘monthly inactive bundle users,’ who are technically generating some revenu
  
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• Country singer Bonnie Brown says she has lung cancer

  28-09-2015 19:03
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Bonnie Brown of the sibling group The Browns, who are to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year, says she has lung cancer.
  
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• Could Sam Smith Be The First Act To Take A James Bond Theme To No.1?

  28-09-2015 19:00
  
  He's on track to steal the top spot from Justin Bieber in this week's Official Chart Update...
  
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• Brian Eno’s John Peel lecture: what we learned

  28-09-2015 18:54
  
  Brian Eno delivered this year’s John Peel lecture and used it to deliver a moving and thought-provoking examination of why human beings make art. Here are the highlights …Much of Eno’s speech was dedicated to the age-old question: what is art? His answer was nothing if not concise: art is everything that you don’t have to do. To explain this, Eno pointed out that we need to eat, but we don’t need to create a baked alaska. We need to move, but we don’t have to
  
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• MTV Review: Mumford And Sons Leave Us In Awe At Apple Music Festival

  28-09-2015 18:34
  
  Also, JACK GARRATT 4 LYF.
  
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• Apparently The World Needed Pop-Up Porn Picture Books, Because Those Are A Thing Now

  28-09-2015 18:33
  
  Well, they’re all part of some super arty project…
  
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• In One Weekend, iPhone 6s Sales Surpass 13 Million

  28-09-2015 18:28
  
  The iPhone has been getting outsold by Android for years, but that’s only one way to look at the situation.  Indeed, Apple is still making tons of cash on its higher-end devices, thanks to solid sales numbers but more importantly, amazingly-big margins.  Put it all together, and Apple is making even more billions: according to disclosures this morning, Apple shifted more than 13 million iPhone 6s an 6s Plus phones over the weekend, a record for the company.
  The iPhone 6 was init
  
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• Grace Jones 'annoyed' by naked Kim Kardashian Paper magazine cover photographed by ex-boyfriend

  28-09-2015 18:22
  
  After taking aim at a host of pop stars like Beyonce and Katy Perry, singer Grace Jones has found a new target in Kim Kardashian. In her new autobiography, the singer claims that her photographer ex-boyfriend took part in the reality star's controversial photo shoot for Paper magazine simply to "annoy" her. In November 2014, Kardashian, 34, "broke the Internet" when she was pictured completely naked in a spread for the magazine.
  
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• Well Done WWE - #justkeepdancing Was Magnificent

  28-09-2015 18:15
  
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• Years & Years Release Moody New Video For 'Eyes Shut' - Watch

  28-09-2015 18:00
  
  It will be their sixth single from 'Communion'…
  
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• Sofia Carson Wants A High School Musical + Frozen + Descendants Crossover

  28-09-2015 17:57
  
  And we are SO on board...
  
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• Little Mix Cover One Direction’s Drag Me Down & Dish Out Tinder Advice All In A Weekend’s Work

  28-09-2015 17:44
  
  Oh they’re a busy bunch.
  
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• Japan's Miyavi says Nashville infuses his latest CD

  28-09-2015 17:42
  By Edward Baran LONDON (Reuters) - Japanese pop star Miyavi, who appeared in Angelina Jolie's prison-camp drama "Unbroken", says that much of his latest album was recorded in Nashville, and the country music capital's spirit has permeated his work. "I feel the vibes -- to me that's a spiritual spot," Miyavi, whose birth name is Takamasa Ishihara, told Reuters before going on stage at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on Sunday night for a concert promoting the release of his new CD, "The Others".
  
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• Justin Bieber Chats About His Upcoming Album Battle With One Direction And Wishes Zayn Malik All The Best

  28-09-2015 17:19
  
  AWW.
  
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• Beirut review – back to brass to tingle spines

  28-09-2015 16:58
  
  St John at Hackney Church, London
  Balkan mariachi days behind him, musical nomad Zach Condon brings horns and happiness to his band’s new pop directionAlone in the spotlight, Zach Condon softly plays his ukulele, his quivering croon flying towards the damp-splattered ceiling of a London church while his five-strong band, Beirut, look on. It’s a spine-tingling moment, not just because of the added resonance the venue adds to Condon’s plaintive voice, but because he looks so rela
  
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• Vicky Pattison Is Raging With Marnie Simpson Over Paparazzi Stunt

  28-09-2015 16:55
  
  Volcano Vicky claims the Geordie Shore star wanted to get snapped with her boyf...
  
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• How Is Shawn Michaels' Betrayal Of Marty Jannetty Not The Top Pick Of WWE Treachery?

  28-09-2015 16:44
  
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• WWE: Big Show Heading To Suplex City, Reckons Paul Heyman

  28-09-2015 16:31
  
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• Is Big E's Big Splash The Most Effective In WWE?

  28-09-2015 16:19
  
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• Sain Zahoor/Faiz Ali Faiz review – Islamic ecstasy from Sufi stars

  28-09-2015 16:05
  
  Barbican, London
  Zahoor’s soulful voice built up to a foot-stomping climax, while Faiz sang full-tilt in a technically impressive if sometimes brash performance Islamist hardliners have made singing a dangerous profession in many parts of Pakistan, but the country’s mystical Sufis continue to present a very different view of Islam, in which music is encouraged. This packed-out Barbican show featured two very different Sufi singers, both greeted as if they were pop stars. The opening
  
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• James Bay forced to cancel performance at Apple Music Festival

  28-09-2015 16:02
  
  The singer has apologised to fans for having to cancel two gigs.
  
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• Has Kenny Rogers picked a fine time to leave us?

  28-09-2015 16:01
  
  The country-music legend is retiring and taking his love back to town. But can he tell us what ‘I set out to get you with a finetooth comb’ actually means before he goes?Name: Kenny Rogers.Age: 77. Continue reading...
  
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• Steve Treatment obituary

  28-09-2015 15:57
  
  My friend Steve Treatment, who has died aged 57 of pneumonia, was a glam-rock DIY post-punk songwriter and musician, inspired by Marc Bolan and T Rex, who never saw commercial success in his lifetime but whose work was undergoing something of a revival at the point of his death.Steve was a talented songwriter and flamboyant dresser. When I first met him in 1976, he had blond curly hair and wore a white boilersuit and masses of makeup. The punk scene was in full bloom. Steve was writing songs pro
  
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• 28 Celebrity Break Ups That Prove 2015 Is The Year That Love Died

  28-09-2015 15:57
  
  Love it's dead. It is gone.
  
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• Liam Payne Wants To Write Some Songs For Little Mix And It's All Very Exciting

  28-09-2015 15:47
  
  WE CAN'T EVEN.
  
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• Ride of passage: my shoegaze years

  28-09-2015 15:42
  
  With Lush on the comeback trail, one writer recalls how shoegaze perfectly expressed his teenage life in psychedelic chunks of noise, aided by snakebite-and-blackIn 1989 I had it all. A fringe past my nose. A matelot top. A gothy girlfriend who wore hooped tights and Dr Martens. A taste for snakebite-and-black and baggy joints made mostly of Old Holborn. An almost unfeasible degree of social awkwardness. I was 15 and I lived in a south Oxfordshire country town on the fringes of the Thames Valley
  
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• The playlist – new bands: Girli, Tabanca, Snøskred and more

  28-09-2015 15:41
  
  Dreamy indie-sounds from Snøskred, bad-girl budget electro from Girli, and Parlour Tricks release their distinctive vintage pop for the futureSnøskred are a band from Trondheim, Norway (their name means avalanche in Norwegian), but given their drowsy, dreamy indiepop, they could be from Bellshill, North Lanarkshire (Teenage Fanclub’s home town) or wherever purveyors of bleary, slacker guitar melodies barely get out of bed. Puzzle, their new single, is, they say, an “hon
  
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• Spoiler! Bear Feels The Wrath Of Volcano Vicky After Antics With Ali in New Ex On The Beach

  28-09-2015 15:25
  
  The Geordie lass is not at all impressed with Bear's wandering hands...
  
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• Hey Colossus – Radio Static High: exclusive album stream

  28-09-2015 15:22
  
  Listen to the noisenik six piece’s new album ahead of release and let us know your thoughts Some bands like to challenge themselves by becoming increasingly experimental. But Hey Colossus, a six piece from London/Somerset who’ve long specialised in concocting an unholy racket, have found it more stimulating to head the other way. As guitarist Jonathan Richards puts it: “After 12 years functioning in a noiserock/doom/kraut/whatever scene of sorts and being aware of unwanted repe
  
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• Gigi Hadid Responds To Fat Shamers With Amazing Body-Positive Instagram Post

  28-09-2015 15:11
  
  Yeah, we can’t believe anyone would call Gigi fat either, but haters gonna hate…
  
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• YouTube Superstar Trisha Paytas Talks 'Fat Chicks', Mean Girls & Celebrity Big Brother

  28-09-2015 14:40
  
  Need some blonde ambition in your life? Look no further than Trisha Paytas...
  
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• Nakedness Alert! What’s PATD's Brendon Urie Doing In His Pants?

  28-09-2015 14:17
  
  Urie takes a fizzy shower...
  
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• Skepta review – gladiatorial fierceness from the king of grime

  28-09-2015 14:11
  
  O2 ABC, Glasgow
  Joseph Junior Adenuga struggles to keep the crowd in check during a thrilling set that sees him return to a more authentic, uncompromising soundJoseph Junior Adenuga, AKA Skepta, often refers to himself as the “King of Grime” – a title he’s earned after spending more than a decade on its frontlines. It’s an ambassadorial role he doesn’t take lightly. As the genre’s new wave of artists penetrate deeper and further into the mainstream, ther
  
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• Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift planning marriage? Scottish DJ may seek approval from singer's father

  28-09-2015 14:07
  
  Scottish singer/DJ Calvin Harris is getting serious about his relationship with American singer/songwriter Taylor Swift. "Calvin found it 'adorable.' Now he wants to do it all properly, he's even going to ask her dad for his approval," the insider added. The couple made their relationship public when Swift kissed Harris during the Billboard Music Awards 2015, held at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on 17 May. In June, Swift and Harris were announced as Forbes magazine's highest-paid celebrity c
  
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• Lush to reunite for gig in 2016

  28-09-2015 14:01
  
  Acclaimed indie ‘shoegaze’ band confirm they are to re-form for first gig in 19 years at London’s Roundhouse in May next yearLush are to reunite for their first show since September 1996. The group are to play London’s Roundhouse on Friday 6 May 2016. “The opportunities and practicalities of reforming Lush meant that for 20 years it was an impossible undertaking,” said Miki Berenyi, the band’s frontwoman. “But we all loved what we did, and the time
  
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• Orlando review – WNO's musically restorative evening

  28-09-2015 13:58
  
  Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
  Making Orlando a traumatised second-world-war RAF pilot treated by a magician/psychiatrist brings clarity to Handel’s 1733 opera, enlivened by a stellar cast and characterful playingFollowing the success of I Puritani, Welsh National Opera’s Madness season continues with Handel’s 1733 masterpiece. In a staging first seen at Scottish Opera in 2011, the narrative is transposed from mythological glades and pastures to the wing of a London hospital
  
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• Turning opera inside out: how I got Lost in Thought

  28-09-2015 13:52
  
  Shoeless and armed only with a swizzle stick, Stuart Jeffries attempts to banish distracting thoughts and be part of the world’s first mindfulness operaIt’s 6pm at the basement cafe of St Luke’s church in London and the audience is being advised how to behave during the world premiere of Lost in Thought: A Mindfulness Opera. “We ask that you observe silence for four hours,” says our mindfulness guide. “Bring a sense of curiosity and playfulness. Hand in phones
  
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• Farrah Abraham Claims She Was Assaulted Twice By Aisleyne Horgan Wallace And Has Already Pressed Charges Against Her

  28-09-2015 13:34
  
  The Teen Mom star has given her side of the story following the CBBBOTS brawl.
  
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• Beyoncé & Ed Sheeran Sang Drunk In Love Together And We're Obsessed

  28-09-2015 13:33
  
  Drunk in loooovvvveeeeee. Sorry.
  
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• So Zayn Malik’s Mystery Blonde Isn’t Who We Thought She Was...

  28-09-2015 12:37
  
  A case of mistaken identity if ever we saw one!
  
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• Marnie Simpson Shows Ricky Rayment What He's Missing As She Tashes On With Chloe Ferry

  28-09-2015 11:45
  
  The Geordie Shore lasses get intimate on the street...
  
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• Justin Bieber Wants 'Respect' When You Take A Selfie With Him, Okay?

  28-09-2015 11:02
  
  Biebs spoke frankly with fans on Snapchat.
  
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• Enough Already! Holly Hagan Is Sick Of People Criticising Her New Book

  28-09-2015 10:55
  
  The Geordie Shore star takes to Twitter after attacks about her weight loss bible...
  
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• Win A Trip To LA For A One Week Training Programme On Virtual Reality In Film With MTV Breaks and Sony Pictures’ The Walk

  28-09-2015 10:47
  
  You could be heading to LA for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
  
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• Chris Brown representatives still hopeful singer will be let into Australia

  28-09-2015 10:38
  
  Immigration minister Peter Dutton says Brown, convicted of a 2009 assault on then girlfriend Rihanna, has to prove he should be allowed into countryRepresentatives for Chris Brown remain hopeful the R&B singer will be allowed to tour Australia, despite the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, saying the government intended to deny him a visa. Related: Chris Brown denied visa to tour Australia on character groundsContinue reading...
  
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• One Direction and Little Mix collaboration: Liam Payne to write songs for girl group's next album

  28-09-2015 10:32
  
  It is the collaboration fans of both One Direction and Little Mix have been waiting for and it appears the day will finally come. Much to the delight of Directioners and Mixers, girl group singer Jade Thirlwall has confirmed that 1D star Liam Payne is writing songs for the band. The two pop acts shared the stage on the same night at the Apple Music Festival on 22 September and it will not be much longer before they are sharing the mic with their collaboration expected to appear on Little Mix's n
  
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