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• Kendall Jenner steals Balmain as Rihanna arrives in Paris

  01-10-2015 22:48
  
  PARIS (AP) — Celebrity is in the air at Paris Fashion Week as Rihanna — in a baggy black hoody, shades and sandals — arrived low-key at Charles de Gaulle airport but triggered a paparazzi scrum nonetheless. Meanwhile, Kendall Jenner stole the show at Balmain with actress Jada Pinkett Smith and singer Joe Jonas looking on.
  
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• Kelly Brook Stars In ‘Taking Stock’ - Exclusive Trailer

  01-10-2015 19:12
  
  Kelly Brook's new comedy movie could be an award winner.
  
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• The Owls Are Not What They Seem: 9 Reasons To Visit The Twin Peaks Dining Experience

  01-10-2015 18:50
  
  Visit now or forever miss your cherry pie.
  
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• Zayn Malik to play first solo gig at the 2015 Mobo awards?

  01-10-2015 18:35
  
  The co-founder of the Music of Black Origin (Mobo) awards has sparked speculation that former One Direction star Zayn Malik may take to the stage at this year's ceremony. Speaking to Heat World at the nomination launch on 30 September, Kanya King refused to confirm or deny rumours that 22-year-old singer was preparing to for his debut solo performance. The 2015 Mobo Awards is set to takes place at First Direct Arena, Leeds, on 4 November, and will be broadcast live on ITV2.
  
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• Sam Smith Trying To Find A McDonalds In Rio Is The Funniest Thing We've Seen All Day

  01-10-2015 18:27
  
  Mmm nuggets.
  
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• Attention Music Industry: You Have Less Than 9 Days to Prepare for Aurous

  01-10-2015 18:12
  
   
  It could have a bigger impact on the music industry than Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, and Grooveshark combined.
  It will be about 10,000 times harder to shut down.
  It will look and feel like Spotify, and will be easier-to-use than Apple Music.
  It will use the DMCA as a safe harbor against massive copyright infringement liability, just like Google, YouTube, and Soundcloud.
  It cannot be shutdown, terminated, or sued out of existence.
  So far, none of the major recording labels, including the RI
  
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• Patreon Hacked; Credit Card Information Appears Safe

  01-10-2015 17:29
  
  The following is a breaking story. Please check back for ongoing updates.
  Patreon is one of the hottest platforms for direct-to-fan artists, and a potential game-changer in the crowdfunding music space.  But its rising popularity makes it a bigger target for hackers, especially given the large number of recurring transactions.
  Late last (Wednesday) night, Patreon revealed that it was hacked.  As of this morning, the situation has been stabilized; Patreon founder Jack Conte has issued
  
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• Breaking: Patreon Hacked; Credit Card Information Appears Safe

  01-10-2015 17:29
  
  The following is a breaking story. Please check back for ongoing updates.
  Patreon is one of the hottest platforms for direct-to-fan artists, and a potential game-changer in the crowdfunding music space.  But its rising popularity makes it a bigger target for hackers, especially given the large number of recurring transactions.
  Late last (Wednesday) night, Patreon revealed that it was hacked.  As of this morning, the situation has been stabilized; Patreon founder Jack Conte has issued
  
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• The New Poster For The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Is Basically On Fire

  01-10-2015 17:27
  
  And totally, totally badass.
  
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• Naughty Boy: Music producer insists Zayn Malik friendship was genuine despite fallout

  01-10-2015 17:24
  
  After months of maintaining a wall of silence, music producer Naughty Boy has finally opened up about his fallout with singer Zayn Malik. The La La La hitmaker claims that "external influences" from the music industry were to blame for his feud with the former One Direction star. The pair had been inseparable after Malik, 22, quit the boy band in March 2015 prompting Naughty Boy, real name Shahid Khan, to help the singer work on recording solo material.
  
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• You Will NEVER Guess Where Chloe Etherington Got Her Head Stuck

  01-10-2015 17:23
  
  Geordie lass owns up to reet daft stunt...
  
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• You Have Less Than 24 Hours to De-Activate Your Apple Music Account

  01-10-2015 17:02
  
  Your Apple Music free trial may have already turned into a paid account, depending on when you signed up.  If that hasn’t happened yet and you don’t want to subscribe, here’s a succinct guide to changing your settings to avoid automatic billing of your credit card.
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• Video Premiere: DVBBS Make Us Long For The Summer In Their 'Never Leave' Vid

  01-10-2015 17:00
  
  Get your first look at the Belgian brothers' brand new video first with MTV...
  
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• Ed Sheeran and Ruby Rose to host 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards

  01-10-2015 16:51
  
  Ed Sheeran has marked another career milestone after being confirmed as the host of this year's MTV Europe Music Awards. The Thinking Out Loud hit maker is set to take the helm for this year's ceremony with model and actress Ruby Rose.
  
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• Ex On The Beach's Jordan Says Engagement To Megan M Is On The Cards

  01-10-2015 16:38
  
  They're just TOO cute...
  
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• Julie Andrews is 80 years old: Here's 5 reasons she's an icon

  01-10-2015 16:03
  
  Dame Julie is a legend of showbiz. We look back on her amazing career as a singer and actress.
  
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• Kylie Jenner Gives Her First Kiss A Call And It's All Kinds Of Awkward

  01-10-2015 15:54
  ALL THE CRINGE.
  
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• David Gilmour: behind the scenes with a guitar legend – in pictures

  01-10-2015 14:59
  
  When Gilmour performed solo material and Pink Floyd classics in London recently, Sarah Lee was given access to all areas. Sarah will also be talking to Guardian members about her exhibition, Bafta Reportage, at a private view on 14 October - buy tickets Continue reading...
  
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• Listen to John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure: exclusive album stream

  01-10-2015 14:24
  
  Preview the singer’s third solo album proper, and let us know what you thinkIn the gruesome album trailer for John Grant’s latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, the 47-year-old grins maniacally, face caked in blood, mallet in hand, then gazes ominously into space. The images give a taste of the savage and satirical tone of his latest album; but, as with all Grant’s creations, great beauty comes with the brutality and morbidity.Related: How Iceland saved John Grant: 'I fee
  
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• Thomas Rhett brings retro soul to country radio

  01-10-2015 14:12
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The initial market testing on a handful of new songs from country singer Thomas Rhett, including his first single, "Crash and Burn," wasn't promising.
  
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• How Nathaniel Rateliff grew up believing in God and wound up believing in soul

  01-10-2015 14:01
  
  The small-town singer has moved from gentle folk to Sam & Dave-inspired anthems. He talks about the shift and how a Led Zeppelin tape changed his life“When I was a kid, we weren’t really supposed to listen to secular music,” says Nathaniel Rateliff, sitting in the cool of his dining room, away from the glare of the Denver heat. “But one day, I found a Led Zeppelin IV cassette tape in the garage and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I’d heard
  
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• Bands Vs Bands: Oli Sykes Chats Fall Out Boy, Jono Yates Disses Set It Off

  01-10-2015 13:55
  Can't we all just get along?
  
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• Bronagh Gallagher to get Sound of Belfast music festival under way

  01-10-2015 13:15
  
  Londonderry singer Bronagh Gallagher will kick off the Sound of Belfast music festival next month.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Avoids Manslaughter Charges Over Fatal Car Crash

  01-10-2015 13:01
  
  Prosecutors have said they won't be charging her over the tragic accident.
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about being a man or woman - results

  01-10-2015 13:00
  
  Doing right with Aretha Franklin to feeling wrong with John Callaghan, RR’s BlackCombe picks some emotional songs about gender from last week’s topic
  Let’s go girls! Shania Twain makes her intentions perfectly clear in Man I Feel Like a Woman – an exuberant celebration of female independence. She lets her hair down, eschews political correctness and does it with raunchy intelligence and the self-confidence that comes in bucketloads when you’re young.There is a braze
  
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• Salome review – staging hinders a top-quality cast

  01-10-2015 12:57
  
  Lighthouse, Poole
  Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra placed and paced each section with admirable care, but problems of balance with the voices were not resolved in this concert staging of Strauss’s operaKirill Karabits first attracted attention in the UK when he conducted a revival of Eugene Onegin at Glyndebourne in 2008. Opera has remained an important element in his career – next year, he takes over as music director of the Weimar Opera – but so far, at
  
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• OMG! Stephen Bear Just Said He Wants To Marry Vicky Pattison

  01-10-2015 12:43
  And he's also spilled the beans on their intense sex life...
  
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• VIDEO: Charlotte Crosby Prances Around Completely Naked As She Confesses Her Sins In Greece

  01-10-2015 12:30
  
  Charlotte enlightens us with her Greek philosophy...
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Prances Around Completely Naked As She Confesses Her Sins - Watch

  01-10-2015 12:30
  
  Charlotte enlightens us with her Greek philosophy...
  
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• WHITE Are Bringing "A Hurtling Juggernaut Of Pink Noise" To Your Eardrums

  01-10-2015 12:28
  
  The Glasgow five-piece catch up with MTV on the summer past and 'Future Pleasures'...
  
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• Ed Sheeran to host 2015 MTV EMAs

  01-10-2015 12:11
  
  The Thinking Out Loud singer will lead the ceremony in Milan, alongside Australian actress Ruby Rose.
  
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• 'The Forest' Trailer Is The Creepiest Thing You'll See All Day - Exclusive

  01-10-2015 12:09
  
  A spine-tingling first look at supernatural thriller, 'The Forest'.
  
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• 29 Things Vegetarians Are Completely Done With Hearing

  01-10-2015 12:08
  
  We're 100% done.
  
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• Liam Payne Sings About Harry Styles Liking Older Women, Harry Replies With Death Stare

  01-10-2015 12:05
  
  HILAR.
  
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• Sexwitch review – hypnotic psych intensity from Natasha Khan

  01-10-2015 12:00
  
  The Bat for Lashes singer has put together a new band whose shamanic grooves cast a spell over the audience Wild abandon really suits Natasha Khan. SEXWITCH, her new project with producer Dan Carey and Brighton psych band Toy, has seen her tap into more raw veins than she’s ever hit as Bat for Lashes, channelling those hippy tendencies into something gutsier and lustier. Tonight is their first proper gig after making their debut at Green Man festival, and as they open with Ghoroobaa Ghasha
  
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• Kim Kardashian Actually Wouldn’t Mind Calling Her Second Child Easton. Easton West.

  01-10-2015 11:48
  
  But South is out of the question.
  
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• #RelationshipGoals…The Current Hottest Couples In Rock Music

  01-10-2015 11:46
  
  Naww.
  
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• Kendall Jenner Gets Cheeky In Paris, Frees Pretty Much Everything

  01-10-2015 11:30
  
  Why be shy when you’ve got one of the best bodies in the biz?
  
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• Tom Daley Announces He's Engaged To Dustin Lance Black In The Cutest Way Possible!

  01-10-2015 11:17
  
  Aww...
  
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• 29 Celebrity Break Ups That Prove 2015 Is The Year That Love Died

  01-10-2015 11:17
  
  Love it's dead. It is gone.
  
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• Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris: Bad Blood singer responds to marriage reports

  01-10-2015 09:59
  
  American singer/songwriter Taylor Swift has rubbished rumours that she and Scottish singer/DJ Calvin Harris are getting married anytime soon. It was previously reported that Rita Ora's former boyfriend is considering to approach the Red hitmaker's father to seek approval for their marriage. Responding to the reports, Swift tweeted: "What the press says I'm doing: Buying a Bev Hills mansion, getting married in an English castle.
  
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• The Jesus and Mary Chain have 'started recording' first album since 1998

  01-10-2015 09:25
  
  Singer Jim Reid promises a ‘more mature’ sound for the group who became famous for feedback-drenched popThe Jesus and Mary Chain, once the most combustible of bands, have settled into relatively comfortable middle age as a touring attraction, offering audiences the thrill of revisiting their debut album Psychocandy from a safe distance, but now they have decided the time is right to return to making records for the first time in 17 years. Related: The Jesus and Mary Chain on Psychoca
  
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• Antony Hegarty attacks pope for 'shameful and pathetic' meeting with Kim Davis

  01-10-2015 09:02
  
  Artist says Pope Francis is ‘causing harm and burning witches in the name of Christ’ for meeting the woman who was jailed after refusing to perform same-sex marriagesAntony Hegarty has accused Pope Francis of “working behind the scenes to undermine gay rights in America”. During his visit to the US, the pope met Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky who was jailed for five days for disobeying a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Davis&rsqu
  
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• Vote For The Greatest Rock Anthem Of The 21st Century This Rocktober

  01-10-2015 07:00
  
  Which anthem will rise above them all? You decide...
  
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• Executive Shuffles: Rumblefish, 7digital, IMPALA, ABC, Minaj, Global Entertainment, MTV…

  01-10-2015 04:45
  
  Rumblefish is bidding farewell to its founder and CEO, Paul Anthony Troiano, who is stepping aside while remaining in an advisory role.  Rumblefish, a micro-licensing  and online video monetization platform, was acquired by SESAC in 2013.  Incidentally, SESAC also recently acquired Harry Fox Agency, where substantial cutbacks are happening amidst a broader, post-acquisition re-org.
  7digital has just named Paul Langworthy as Chief Operations Officer, a bump from VP of Op
  
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• Coachella: Coming to New York?

  01-10-2015 01:06
  
  Coachella hit the Music Scene in 1999, and has since established itself as the world’s leading music festival.  The annual event is held in April at the Empire Polo Club in the sunny State of California.  Now, chatter is surfacing that Coachella promoters AEG Live — the organizers behind the world-renowned, two-weekend festival — have their sights set on Flushing Meadows Corona Park (Queens, NY) for an east coast edition of the festival.
  Provisionally, this will be t
  
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