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• Siri Will Soon Power Apple Music on Apple TV

  29-10-2015 23:24
  
  Apple confirms Siri is coming to Apple Music on the new updated Apple TV that launches next year.These days, Siri will blow you off if you aren’t subscribed to Apple Music.  But get a subscription, and things could get interesting: according to details confirmed to Buzzfeed on Thursday, Apple TV will soon integrate Siri into its Apple Music app.  This will give users the ability to search and stream their favorite music from their TV via voice control, rather than
  
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• Steffans book: Ex-music video vixen takes on domestic abuse

  29-10-2015 21:30
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For years, Karrine Steffans was one of the most sought after video vixens in the hip hop industry. In the late '90s and early 2000s she had roles in more than 20 projects by multiplatinum-selling rap artists, appearing alongside the likes of Jay Z, Puff Daddy, Mystikal and R. Kelly.
  
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• Confirmed: YouTube Red Is Paying Virtually Nothing to Content Creators During Its Free Trial

  29-10-2015 20:44
  
  We hate to be the one to tell you this, but, if you’re a content creator on YouTube, you’re probably going to receive very little during the initial free trial phase of YouTube Red.  Ahead of Red’s launch on Wednesday, YouTube told content partners like FullScreen that content creators would receive nothing during its one-month, free trial ramp-up.
  Predictably, Fullscreen told everyone the bad news.
   Then, things got confusing.  After FullScreen launched its&nbs
  
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• WTF Just Happened?! The 16 Most Hilarious Quotes From Geordie Shore In Greece Episode #2

  29-10-2015 19:23
  
  ICYMI...
  
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• We Need To Talk About Male Suicide

  29-10-2015 19:01
  
  This is important.
  
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• Will Podcasts Change Music? Deezer and Google Are Both Betting Yes

  29-10-2015 18:41
  
  The podcasting comeback is just getting started, with music a giant part of the resurgence.  Early mega-players include EDM mainstays like Above & Beyond and the Chainsmokers, with KEXP and KCRW also bringing in serious downloads.  And the increasingly-policed Soundcloud is losing out, especially as DJs migrate to the less-complicated, fast-growing podcast world.
  But everything’s happening on iTunes, right?  Not anymore: just this morning, Deezer announced the
  
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• WWE's Fave Brit William Regal Recovering From Neck Surgery

  29-10-2015 18:16
  
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• 9 Times North West Was So Done With Your Sh*t

  29-10-2015 18:03
  
  Inspired by her perfect response to the paps…
  
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• WWE NXT's Apollo Crews: 'I Fear Failure More Than Anything'

  29-10-2015 18:02
  
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• 16 Struggles All ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’ Addicts Will Know

  29-10-2015 17:54
  
  NOT NOW WILLOW PAPE.
  
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• This Justin Bieber Interview Is So Cringe We Actually Passed Out Watching It

  29-10-2015 17:32
  
  Then we revived ourselves and wrote this article.
  
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• Exclusive! Gaz Beadle Says The Janoskians Are Legit The Inspiration For His YouTube Channel

  29-10-2015 17:23
  
  But the Geordie Shore lad isn't in competition with Charlotte...
  
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• Hopscotch: opera hits the road in Los Angeles

  29-10-2015 16:48
  
  Yuval Sharon, the man who staged an opera in a railway station, is back with an even more ambitious project which sees audience members driven around in cars containing musicians and actorsWith their 2013 production of Invisible Cities, a site-specific performance set in Los Angeles’ landmark Union Station, the Industry, the city’s premier avant garde opera company, redefined what an opera could be. Directed by the company’s artistic director, Yuval Sharon, based on the Italo C
  
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• Kendall Jenner Admits Teenage Acne ‘Ruined Her Self-Esteem’

  29-10-2015 16:09
  
  But look at her now, eh?
  
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• Battles review – joyful, ear-bleedingly loud grooves from sonic scientists

  29-10-2015 16:05
  
  Electric Ballroom, London
  Respectful head-nodding turns into full-blown crowdsurfing as the trio bend their complex, instrumental sounds into weird and complex shapesIn a neat mirroring of their sound, the three members of Battles enter the stage separately.Related: Battles: La Di Da Di review – still powered by playfulnessContinue reading...
  
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• Rod Stewart: Another Country review – where Mumford and Sons meet cod-reggae

  29-10-2015 16:00
  
  Two years ago, Rod Stewart had a crack at songwriting for the first time in decades, and made a rather decent album out of it – but sadly the well of inspiration seems to have run dry againIn 2013, as Elton John released his album The Diving Board, he was presented with a Brit icon award by his friend Rod Stewart. It provided a grand opportunity for the pair to make merry at each other’s expense. “I’m looking forward to hearing your new album,” offered Stewart. &ldq
  
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• Diss means war: Drake, Meek Mill and the grand tradition of hip-hop beefs

  29-10-2015 15:40
  
  The two rappers spent the summer trading insults – the latest in the rich history of rap fallouts, from MC Busy Bee v Kool Moe Dee to Nas v Jay ZSometimes, in rap, being successful in your own right is not enough. Others must also be seen to be in your shadow. In July, Meek Mill accused fellow rapper Drake of employing a ghostwriter, a serious charge in a genre that prides itself on creativity and self-expression. The criticism led to diss songs and insults levied across social media, not
  
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• Catch up on Geordie Shore 11 Episode #2 In 60 Seconds

  29-10-2015 15:39
  
  The Geordies are sent to stay on a farm things get WEIRD between Charlotte and Scotty T!
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Gives A Tour Of Her Handbag, Finds Pregnancy Tests & Underwear In The Process

  29-10-2015 15:37
  
  And Vaseline, for the lips not the penises.
  
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• #WWE: @WWENeville And @TheBoDallas Rip It Up As Rappers, Apparently

  29-10-2015 14:46
  
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• Rihanna cast in Luc Besson sci-fi epic Valerian alongside Cara Delevingne

  29-10-2015 14:17
  
  Luc Besson has announced singer Rihanna will have “a big part” in his upcoming sci-fi epic Valerian.
  
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• This Un-Auto-Tuned Version Of Adele's 'Hello' Changes Everything

  29-10-2015 13:35
  
  Don't shoot the messenger.
  
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• Travis Barker: ‘Being 65% burned … and burying two of my best friends was hard to deal with’

  29-10-2015 13:31
  
  Surviving a plane crash or owning a fish restaurant while being vegan – it’s all part of life’s rich tapestry to the Blink-182 drummerHello Travis. You’ve just written your memoirs. Are you bored of talking about yourself yet?Not really. It’s my life, so I’m not really trippin’! Continue reading...
  
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• Music of the macabre: revisiting goth's evolution – from the vaults

  29-10-2015 13:04
  
  The Birthday Party evoked depravity and nihilism, Joy Division rocked sex and death and Siouxsie became a raven-haired role model. Rock’s Backpages revisits Cathi Unsworth’s 1989 piece in Sounds magazine about the genesis of goth“That man cared for you, that man died for you, that man saw the madness in your area.” So ran Sounds’ near-hysterical tribute to the late Ian Curtis, the tragic singer of Joy Division. It was May 1980, and Curtis’ suicide by hanging w
  
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• Cara Delevingne Reveals She Crawled Around A Hotel Steam Room To Get Into Her Suicide Squad Character

  29-10-2015 12:54
  
  Well, it looks like it worked…
  
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• MTV Presenter Sam Sarpong Dies After Jumping From A Bridge In California

  29-10-2015 12:33
  
  Sam was just 35-years-old.
  
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• What's All This About Louis Tomlinson Being Kicked Out Of A Hotel After Trashing A Room?

  29-10-2015 11:17
  
  HMMM.
  
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• New Black Sabbath album is off, says Ozzy Osbourne

  29-10-2015 10:27
  
  ‘It’s the end of Sabbath, believe me,’ says singer, who had originally promised the band would record a final album this yearIt seems Black Sabbath won’t be making a new album after all. The band have reportedly decided against returning to the studio to follow-up their 2013 comeback album 13. Instead they will concentrate on a lengthy farewell tour called The End. It was only a year ago that Ozzy Osbourne was telling the press that Sabbath would record one final album to
  
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• North West Shouts At The Paparazzi, Makes Our Hearts Burst With Pride

  29-10-2015 10:13
  
  Kimye have taught her well.
  
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• Rihanna to star in sci-fi movie Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets

  29-10-2015 10:09
  
  Director Luc Besson broke the news of the singer’s third major movie role, which will hit cinemas in 2017Rihanna looks set to be back in the movie game. The singer has been cast in a “big role” in time-travel movie Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The film’s director Luc Besson announced the news on Instagram, posting a picture of the singer with the caption: “Rihanna is in Valerian!!!! ... and she has a big part!! I’m Sooo excited!!!”
  
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• Roots Manuva: Bleeds review – gruff intensity

  29-10-2015 08:00
  
  (Big Dada)In the four years since his last album, Roots Manuva, a great curmudgeon of British music who forged his gruff diction in the byways of south London, relocated to genteel Surrey and cultivated an interest in gardening. The move hasn’t altogether softened his temperament: Bleeds opens with a tirade against the free market labels pretty much everybody as bastards. That bitterness resurfaces elsewhere on the album but the urgency, so bracingly misanthropic on Hard Bastards, starts f
  
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• Taylor Swift launches counterclaim against radio DJ accused of groping her

  29-10-2015 06:42
  
  Singer’s lawyers say Swift was surprised and upset at backstage incident in 2013 and dispute David Mueller’s denial of inappropriate contactTaylor Swift filed a counterclaim on Wednesday against a former Denver radio host who sued her after he said he lost his job because of false accusations he inappropriately touched her. David Mueller sued Swift in US district court in Denver in September, saying he was falsely accused by a member of her security of grabbing the singer’s but
  
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• Leaked: Adele Singing ‘Hello’ Without Auto-Tune!

  29-10-2015 03:07
  The leak, blamed on an insider, first surfaced late last night.  Take a listen…The post Leaked: Adele Singing ‘Hello’ Without Auto-Tune! appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• If You Invested $1 Million In Pandora Last Year, You’d Have $451,975 Today

  29-10-2015 02:44
  
  Wall Street has been battering Pandora over the past few days, thanks to massive quarterly losses of $85.9 million, a $90 million royalty hit, and a massive competitive threat from Apple Music and Beats 1.  In the past five days alone, Pandora’s shares have dropped 35.25 percent, and a monstrous 54.8 percent since the start of 2014.
  Which means that if you had invested $1 million in Pandora stock on January 3rd, 2014 (the first open trading day of that year), you’d now have $45
  
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• Strange Talk: Something's Bout to Change – exclusive video premiere

  29-10-2015 01:33
  
  The indietronica outfit return to their dance roots, with member Gerard Sidhu saying of the band’s recent turmoil, ‘The faster you rise, the faster you can fall’ Related: Luka Lesson: Bones – exclusive video premiere How many Australian musical acts have been swept up by trendsetter music blogs, deemed worthy of Triple J’s hallowed playlist by Richard “Kingmaker” Kingsmill and, as they relentlessly toured cooler-than-thou boutique festivals, found they&r
  
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• Spotify Kills Piracy AND Paid Downloads, European Study Finds

  29-10-2015 01:10
  
  Spotify is causing a noticeable drop in music piracy, according to a just-released European Commission study.  But Spotify also dramatically reducing paid downloads from iTunes and Amazon, with the net effect on music industry revenues balancing to zero.In other words, if Spotify and streaming music didn’t exist and piracy continued to rage, the industry wouldn’t be any better off.   “While we find evidence that Spotify displaces piracy, the new revenu
  
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