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• Music Review: BORNS delivers poised precision on 'Dopamine'

  23-10-2015 23:39
  
  BORNS, "Dopamine" (Interscope)
  
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• RZA Plays Piano In the New Apple Watch Ad…

  23-10-2015 22:09
  Guess Wu-Tang brainchild RZA also plays piano…That’s just one of a few new Apple Watch spots, including one featuring the tunes of Tame Impala.
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• Music Review: Joanna Newsom explores emotions on 'Divers'

  23-10-2015 21:56
  
  Joanna Newsom, "Divers" (Drag City)
  
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• Solange Knowles, Jay Z elevator spat sparked by rumours of rapper's affair with Rihanna

  23-10-2015 21:44
  
  Solange Knowles infamous elevator spat with brother-in-law Jay Z was sparked by rumours of the rapper's alleged affair with Rihanna. The incident at New York's Standard Hotel in which Solange lashed out at the rapper while Beyonce silently looked on, was caught on CCTV camera. While the family issued a statement suggesting it was an everyday disagreement that was quickly resolved, the possible reason for her vitriolic outburst has been revealed in an explosive new book by J Randy Taraborrelli ti
  
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• Music Review: Rod Stewart's voice lifts 'Another Country'

  23-10-2015 21:37
  
  Rod Stewart, "Another Country" (Capitol Records)
  
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• Pandora Shares Collapsing 35% In Friday Trading…

  23-10-2015 20:50
  
  The sell-off follows an abysmal financial disclosure on Thursday by Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews, one that includes losses of $85.9 million in the past three months alone.  It also follows an extremely questionable $450 million acquisition of Ticketfly, not to mention a $90 million royalty hit for pre-1972 oldies recordings.
  Meanwhile, cash and investment reserves certainly remain substantive at roughly $440 million, though analysts are pointing to faster-than-expected burn-down.  Then
  
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• Pandora Shares Collapse 36% In Friday Trading…

  23-10-2015 20:50
  
  The sell-off follows an abysmal financial disclosure on Thursday by Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews, one that includes losses of $85.9 million in the past three months alone.  It also follows an extremely questionable $450 million acquisition of Ticketfly, not to mention a $90 million royalty hit for pre-1972 oldies recordings.
  The oldies decision left a $57.9 million crater in the recent quarter, though cash and investment reserves certainly remain substantive at roughly $440 million.  St
  
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• 9 AM: SoundCloud Removes Jackmaster’s Tracks. 10 AM: WeTransfer Offers Jackmaster’s Tracks.

  23-10-2015 19:33
  
  Friday, October 23rd, approximately 9 am…Friday, October 23rd, approximately 10 am…The post 9 AM: SoundCloud Removes Jackmaster’s Tracks. 10 AM: WeTransfer Offers Jackmaster’s Tracks. appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• 9 AM: SoundCloud Removes a Bunch of Jackmaster Tracks. 10 AM: WeTransfer Has a Bunch of Jackmaster Tracks.

  23-10-2015 19:33
  
  Friday, October 23rd, approximately 9 am…Friday, October 23rd, approximately 10 am…The post 9 AM: SoundCloud Removes a Bunch of Jackmaster Tracks. 10 AM: WeTransfer Has a Bunch of Jackmaster Tracks. appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• A Great Night In Harlem review – ramshackle Keith Richards tops jazz benefit bill

  23-10-2015 18:54
  
  Apollo theater, New York‘I’m all for improvisation, you know me’ offers the Rolling Stone, lending his support to a night in aid of elderly jazz and blues musicians The annual Great Night in Harlem is a fundraising event for the Jazz Foundation of America, dedicated to the support of ageing jazz and blues musicians who are not adequately supported in their retirement, and often not even during their twilight playing years. The JFOA is an outfit much respected during its 26-year
  
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• One Direction’s Transformations: From Fetus To Fine!

  23-10-2015 18:32
  
  Oh how they've changed...
  
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• You Can Actually Visit 'Jurassic World' IRL

  23-10-2015 18:27
  
  We investigate the sets you can walk straight into...
  
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• Power 105 review – Kendrick Lamar lives up to top billing among hip-hop's elite

  23-10-2015 18:21
  
  Barclays Center, BrooklynFetty Wap performed on a throne and Meek Mill crowded stage with cameos, but Lamar was the main man at the annual gig that takes hip-hop’s temperatureAt a smoke-filled Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the biggest names in hip-hop filled the stage during last night’s Powerhouse 2015, an annual gig hosted by New York radio station Power 105, which showcased the odd state of the genre and its many facets.When Big Sean took the stage with an elaborate set that includ
  
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• Jennifer Lopez Talks To MTV About Her Las Vegas Residency, New Music & More

  23-10-2015 18:12
  
  We cannot WAIT.
  
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• New band of the week: GoldLink (No 76)

  23-10-2015 18:03
  
  Virginia-born rapper, with a love of Edgar Allan Poe and Lykke Li, Maya Angelou and Pink Floyd, creates an unalloyed brand of ethereal EDM trap
  Hometown: Washington DC. The lineup: D’Anthony Carlos (vocals). Continue reading...
  
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• 13 Things You Should Really Know About Troye Sivan

  23-10-2015 17:41
  
  Get to know him before his album drops.
  
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• The playlist: metal – Swallow the Sun, Baroness and Purson

  23-10-2015 17:34
  
  Five different takes on heavy music – from the psychedelically inclined to a violent collision of the dark and the unpleasantRosalie Cunningham was clearly born to be a star: she has the keys to psychedelia’s toy cupboard and is hellbent on bringing the true spirit of the genre back to heavy music’s often myopic mindset. Aside from its brilliantly punsome title, Electric Landlady makes a strong case for Purson being both a fabulous pop group and a wonderfully obtuse rock band w
  
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• Foo Fighters to perform in Cesena in response to viral video

  23-10-2015 17:15
  
  Moved to tears by a viral video of 1,000 fans singing a Foo Fighters song in an Italian park to try to get the band to play in their town, band leader Dave Grohl has now said yes. To see so many people put so much time, and effort, and love into making music moved me to tears," Grohl wrote of the video on the band's website. "It is without a doubt one of the most beautiful experiences of my entire life ... Ci vediamo presto, Cesena! (We'll see you soon, Cesena!)" Grohl said.
  
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• There's An Unauthorised Beyoncé Biography With Some Crazy Rumours In It Doing The Rounds

  23-10-2015 17:04
  
  Oh the lols.
  
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• When the shock of the new feels old what can a composer do?

  23-10-2015 16:59
  
  For his third piano sonata, Stephen Hough wondered if he could use the inflexible 12-tone composition technique to ask questions about the very technique itself Art, like life, moves forward by reimagining and sometimes even destroying what went before. As new cells in the body form when old ones die and as it’s natural for children to move away from parents (if only in tastes and ideas), so artists find creative energy both by building upon the past as well as leaving it behind.This movin
  
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• Beyonce biography: Best celebrity tell-all books from Michael Jackson to Princess Diana and Steve Jobs

  23-10-2015 16:22
  
  Beyonce is notoriously one of the most private celebrities in showbiz so when it was announced that a tell-all biography was being published about the singer, her fans could hardly contain their anticipation. J Randy Taraborrelli is the author who has researched the most scandalous rumours surrounding the Grammy-winner and promises to finally deliver answers to all the burning questions that Queen Bey has evaded over the past two decades. From her marriage to Jay Z, the Destiny's Child era and w
  
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• Want To Work For MTV? We’re Hiring Freelance Digital Writers

  23-10-2015 16:14
  
  Do you know your Zalfie from your Ziam? WE NEED YOU!
  
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• Eyez Teams Up With ZDot and Krunchie For New Track 'Anyway'

  23-10-2015 15:34
  
  Grime
  
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• Vortex Comes Back Fighting with ‘Bars’

  23-10-2015 15:24
  
  GRIME
  
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• Richard Hawley review – rampaging emotional power

  23-10-2015 15:24
  
  The Picturedrome, Holmfirth
  The bequiffed, old-school crooner performs a killer, marathon setlist of new songs and his ‘mouldy oldies’The Picturedrome’s ornate ceiling and rolled-up cinema screen makes the perfect venue for Richard Hawley’s quiff, spectacles and timelessly romantic songs. A short drive from his beloved Sheffield, he has spent the whole week here in The Last of the Summer Wine territory preparing for his latest tour, and clearly knows the building intimate
  
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• Harry Potter & The Cursed Child Will Be A Sequel (*Hyperventilates*)

  23-10-2015 15:23
  
  It's official - the forthcoming stage show will focus on an older Harry...
  
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• Forget About Max, Charlotte Crosby Says Mitch Is Still Her Soulmate

  23-10-2015 15:22
  
  And you have GOT to hear what she says about Gaz Beadle...
  
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• Seven songs to say hello – from Adele to Ice Cube

  23-10-2015 15:10
  
  Hello. Is it Lionel you’re looking for? Oasis … The Beloved … Beyoncé? Welcome to the stories of a simple song titleAdele’s Hello isn’t the kind you really want to hear. Certainly not if you’re someone who’s recently dumped a partner. It’s the “Hello” that says: “Yeah, I’m fine. Just wanted a chat. Oh, and who’s that I saw going into your flat on Thursday night? No, I wasn’t outside. My friend saw you. O
  
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• Kylie Jenner And Mum Kris Have Been Twinning In The Same Awesome Slogan T-Shirt

  23-10-2015 14:52
  
  And you can get your hands on it too.
  
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• Ezra Furman review – life-affirming outsider pop from a studious musician

  23-10-2015 14:41
  
  02 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
  Furman veers between disarming, heartfelt performance and plaintive, spine-tingling vocals – and it’s impossible not to love him“This is weird, huh?” says Ezra Furman, genuinely mystified. “What happened here? Two thousand people at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. What the hell happened here?”We’re just two songs into an hour-and-50 minute set from Furman and his band, the Boy-Friends. As they move breathlessly from the itc
  
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• Philharmonia/Collon review – a glistening blend of menace and magic

  23-10-2015 14:35
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Unsuk Chin’s Clarinet Concerto provides a glistening showcase for clarinettist Kari Kriikku’s perfectly tuned multiphonics and transcendental techniqueUnsuk Chin is the latest composer to seize the opportunity to provide a showcase for the phenomenal virtuosity of Finnish clarinettist Kari Kriikku. Kriikku gave the first performance of Chin’s 25-minute Clarinet Concerto in Gothenburg last year, and he has been taking it to orchestras on both sides of
  
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• Bob Dylan review – a leap out of his own songbook

  23-10-2015 14:27
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  Dylan finds a happy groove, reshaping his best-loved songs and applying his still potent lung power to the back-catalogue of American croonLit by cinematic floor lamps glowing a vintage, incandescent yellow, Bob Dylan strikes an attitude at the microphone – wide-legged, his thumbs pointing, Fonz-like, at the tight band behind him, satisfyingly enigmatic under the shadow of his hat brim.When Dylan’s voice eventually emerges from his slight, black-clad frame,
  
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• Hallé/Wigglesworth review – effervescent and deeply personal

  23-10-2015 14:25
  
  Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
  Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and soloist Marc-Andre Hamelin gleefully unpick the form of Stravinsky’s Sonata for Two PianosAs a conductor, instrumentalist and composer of equal note, it’s useful to be reminded that that the Hallé’s recently appointed principal guest conductor, Ryan Wigglesworth, only possesses one pair of hands. Happily, he was able to enlist those of the featured soloist, Marc-Andre Hamelin, for an informal run-through of Str
  
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• twenty one pilots Go Crazy For Boomerang App And So Do We!

  23-10-2015 14:20
  This weekend's EMA performers get to grips with the GIF-tastic app...
  
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• Vince Staples: 'I started gangbanging because I wanted to kill people’

  23-10-2015 14:18
  A member of the Crips in his teenage years, the reformed California rapper now spends his time stripping the glamour from gang culture. He wishes the media would do the same.When you think of Californian hip-hop, you flick through cliches like a Grand Theft Auto programmer: bouncing cars, guns being held sideways, blunts the size of folded umbrellas. Vince Staples, a 22-year-old rapper from Long Beach, is at pains to point out the difference between this cartoon and the flesh and blood of his st
  
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• Príncipe Disco: the new club sensation from the Portuguese projects

  23-10-2015 14:14
  It’s a style that mixes African and European styles and is made by poor kids from a Lisbon ghetto. Now it’s taking over dancefloors worldwideLisbon’s housing projects on the outskirts of the city have long segregated its African diaspora. Transport links are poor, making it difficult for residents such as DJ Marlon Silva to travel to the centre. But these days Silva and many of the DJs who grew up in the high-rises have little need to. Busy playing nightclubs around the world,
  
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• Someone Tried To Basically Electrocute Niall Horan On Stage And Fans Are Not Happy

  23-10-2015 14:07
  
  WHYYYYYY.
  
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• This week’s new tracks: Clean Cut Kid’s Runaway is a proper indie-disco belter

  23-10-2015 14:00
  
  Clean Cut Kid | Flo Rida | The Strypes | Jean-Michel Jarre ft Little Boots | Fleur EastPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• Lorenzo Senni’s favourite tracks

  23-10-2015 14:00
  
  Milan’s art-trance artisan and Presto!? label head empties the contents of his psychic record bag Continue reading...
  
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• Geordie Shore's Kyle And Holly Are Still Together But It's Complicated

  23-10-2015 13:55
  
  Relationship hasn't fizzled out following fireworks in Greece...
  
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• Little Simz delivers master class performance on Jools Holland with ‘Wings’

  23-10-2015 13:44
  
  Jools
  
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• Joe Moss, manager of the Smiths and Johnny Marr, dies age 72

  23-10-2015 13:24
  
  The industry figure, of whom Johnny Marr said, ‘Without him there wouldn’t have been any Smiths’, has died from cancerJoe Moss, manager of Johnny Marr and the Smiths, has died, after a struggle with cancer, at the age of 72.The famous industry figured, who died on 22 October, was described in a statement on Marr’s website as “a patron of the famed Twisted Wheel, and an instigator of the pioneering store Eighth Day”. The site says that Moss was “also invo
  
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• Willard White, classical singer: ‘I wanted to be a pop star’

  23-10-2015 12:54
  The veteran bass-baritone on how a schoolboy Faustian pact set him on a new career path, and why God has a deep voiceWillard White, the Jamaican-born British bass-baritone, has sung in every great opera house in the world, having made his professional debut at New York City Opera in La bohème in 1974. He sings the final recital in the 2015 Temple Song series at Middle Temple Hall, London E4 on Thursday, 7pm.How did you choose the programme for this recital?
  I like to collaborate with my p
  
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• Louis Tomlinson & Liam Payne Are Planning On Working Together During 1D Break, Phew

  23-10-2015 12:29
  
  YAY.
  
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• Adele's Hello, her first new song in three years – video

  23-10-2015 12:23
  
  Grammy-winning singer Adele’s new song Hello, unveiled on Friday, is the first track to be released from her third album, 25, the follow-up to her multi-million-selling 21. This music video was filmed in Montreal and is directed by Xavier Dolan. 25 is released on 20 NovemberStriking, witty and lovelorn – Adele’s new single Hello reviewed by Alexis Petridis
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• Charlotte Church: ‘The Welsh are quite surreal – maybe it’s the magic mushrooms on the hills’

  23-10-2015 11:58
  The Welsh star on her new film role in Under Milk Wood, the courage of Jeremy Corbyn and why she just follows her noseKevin Allen who adapted Under Milk Wood calls it “radically surreal and erotic”. Rather different from the set text we studied at school?
  It’s totally mad. When we were filming I was like “how the fuck is this going to come together?” because lots of the settings are so individually surreal. But when I saw it I was so pleasantly surprised. I never di
  
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• Tom Jones faces backlash after controversial comments about homosexuality

  23-10-2015 11:55
  
  The singer spoke about his homophobic attitude when he first started out in the music industry.
  
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• Chip’s back at it again dropping ‘Duppy Riddim’ for Bugzy Malone

  23-10-2015 11:16
  
  GRIME
  
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• Justin Bieber Releases New Single 'Sorry' Along With A Dance-tastic Music Video

  23-10-2015 11:14
  
  So jazzy.
  
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• 7 People Adele Could Be Singing 'Hello' To

  23-10-2015 10:40
  
  PPI customers? An elderly Nana? Very scientific research ahead...
  
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