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• Music Review: Wainwright Sisters keep it in the family

  12-11-2015 23:17
  
  The Wainwright Sisters, "Songs in the Dark" (PIAS)
  
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• Lay It All On Me (Ft. Ed Sheeran)

  12-11-2015 21:53 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Lay It All On Me (feat. Ed Sheeran)
  
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• The Band That Invented the ‘Amen Break’ Finally Gets Paid

  12-11-2015 21:09
  
  The Winstons’ Richard Spencer received a cheque for £24,000 ($36,554)  following fans’ crowdfunding efforts.Although you may not have heard of the ‘Amen Break’ before, you’ve probably heard it in dozens, if not hundreds, of songs.  Artists ranging from Amy Winehouse, N.W.A, to David Bowie, Oasis and Slipknot have all sampled the six-second drum solo.  Beyond that, the ‘Amen Break’ loop has been an ‘instrumental’ componen
  
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• A Documentary About One of the Worst Nightclub Fires In US History Is Being Filmed

  12-11-2015 20:16
  
  It started with an illegal pyrotechnics display that torched some highly-flammable insulation.  The resulting inferno at The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island killed more than 100 fans, many of whom died from smoke inhalation and trampling while desperately trying to escape the club.
  Now, Jack Russell, the lead singer of the band they all came to see, Great White, is planning to film a documentary about the tragic evening.“I never got the chance to say I’m sorry.”Acco
  
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• G.O.O.D. Music: Pusha T appointment as president will give new life to Kanye West record label

  12-11-2015 19:17
  
  Kanye West injected some excitement into the hip hop world when it was announced he has promoted his G.O.O.D. Music artist Pusha T to president of the record label. It was an unexpected move but one that surprisingly makes sense – after all, West needs someone to hold the fort while he focuses on his fashion career and that ever-so elusive seventh studio album, Swish. While many rap fans would have assumed that West, 38, had neglected his beloved record label, it seems the All Day hitmaker
  
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• Rolling Stone Magazine Slapped With $25 Million Defamation Lawsuit

  12-11-2015 19:08
  
  It was a gripping, gutsy story about the gang rape of a defenseless and drugged freshman at the University of Virginia.  The only problem is that it was totally false.
  Now, Rolling Stone Magazine is facing another lawsuit related to that article, which was formally retracted after evidence clearly outed the story as fabricated.   University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi has now filed for $25 million in defamation and other damages related to the story.  “The rep
  
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• Premiere: 99 Souls Remix Snakehips' 'All My Friends' And It's What Our Dreams Sound Like

  12-11-2015 19:04
  
  Get a first listen of the rejigged single featuring Tinashe and Chance The Rapper here...
  
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• One Direction Bring Back All Of The Memories Performing 'Torn' In Radio 1's Live Lounge

  12-11-2015 18:43
  
  Still crying.
  
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• The New Pretty Little Liars Promo Has Pretty Much Confirmed Those Spencer And Caleb Romance Rumours

  12-11-2015 18:03
  
  There is SO MUCH going on.
  
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• YouTube bolsters new music app by adding video catalog

  12-11-2015 18:01
  
  By Deborah M. Todd SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - YouTube's new music-streaming service aims to use the site's massive video collection to bury the competition with content. Alphabet Inc launched the YouTube Music Mobile App on Wednesday, less than a month after rolling out YouTube Red, a $9.99 per month service that provides ads-free access to all YouTube services. The move pits the digital video library against established streaming services in a battle YouTube executives say they are in position t
  
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• Judge borrows Taylor Swift lyrics when shaking off plagiarism suit

  12-11-2015 18:01
  California judge throws out Jesse Graham’s $42m lawsuit that alleged the pop star stole his lyrics in a judgment that liberally quotes Swift’s songsA California judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift in a cheekily worded ruling that quotes lyrics from the pop star’s songs.
  Earlier this month, R&B artist Jessie Braham, who records as Jesse Graham, issued a $42m lawsuit against Swift, accusing the singer of lifting his lyrics for her hit Shake It Off. Braha
  
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• Singer Sandi Thom posts tearful, expletive-filled video after Radio 2 rejects her new single

  12-11-2015 17:50
  
  The I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker singer had a breakdown on video when her song didn’t get airtime.
  
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• Music Review: Chris Isaak consistent, too casual on 'Night'

  12-11-2015 16:57
  
  Chris Isaak, "First Comes the Night" (Vanguard)
  
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• Making History & MOBO Mania - This Is Krept & Konan's Brand New Success Story

  12-11-2015 16:55
  
  We take a look at Krept & Konan's journey since winning MTV Brand New For 2015...
  
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• Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, The Home Recordings review – truly slim pickings, even for superfans

  12-11-2015 15:58
  
  Inferior takes of known songs at best, hugely unfunny joke songs and honest-to-goodness fart noises at worst … the Cobain barrel-scraping must now be completePerhaps buoyed by the critical acclaim heaped on his documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Brett Morgen has been talking up its accompanying soundtrack in no uncertain terms. Assembled by the director from cassettes the Nirvana frontman recorded between 1987 and his death in 1994, Montage of Heck – The Home Recordings is, M
  
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• One Direction Reveal They've Been Busy Having Sex On Planes And Who's Actually Single

  12-11-2015 15:54
  
  SCANDALOUS.
  
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• Nikki And Brie @BellaTwins' Bloody Wonderful European Vacation Is Nothing Like Interrailing

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• Nikki And Brie Bella's Bloody Wonderful European Vacation Is Nothing Like Interrailing

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• Justin Bieber says he is only 'human' and complains about the price of fame

  12-11-2015 15:45
  
  The Canadian pop singer said he has been held to a “different standard” after growing up in the public eye.
  
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• That's Gotta Hurt! #WWE's @WWESheamus Leaves BOOT PRINT On @wwebalor's Bonce

  12-11-2015 15:25
  
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• That's Gotta Hurt! WWE's Sheamus Leaves BOOT PRINT On Finn Balor's Bonce

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• Watch WWE Legend The Undertaker Give A Turkey A Piledriver On Jimmy Fallon, Just Because

  12-11-2015 14:55
  
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• New Jeff Buckley album compiles lost recordings

  12-11-2015 14:53
  
  You & I features Buckley’s first recording sessions for Columbia, from February 1993, and features him covering the Smiths and Sly and the Family StoneJeff Buckley’s first recording sessions for Columbia Records have been unearthed, and are to be released as an album.You & I, which will come out 16 March 2016, features Buckley performing nine covers and two originals – Grace, which became the title track of his debut album, and the previously unheard song Dream of You a
  
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• Unapologetic Elle King turns heartbreak into hit single

  12-11-2015 14:52
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Though breakthrough singer Elle King has a huge hit with "Ex's and Oh's," the feel-good, carefree 26-year-old remembers performing tirelessly anywhere she could — without a cellphone.
  
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• One Direction rack up £45.4m profit – and pay more tax than Facebook

  12-11-2015 14:19
  
  Albums, gig tickets and merchandise helped sales soar to £73.7m as company made up of boyband’s original five members paid £8.24m in UK tax One Direction paid more UK tax than Facebook last year after sales of albums, gig tickets and merchandise soared.The five members – including Zayn Malik, who left the band in March – racked up a pre-tax profit of £45.4m, 10 times the previous year’s figure of £4.8m.Continue reading...
  
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• WWE: Seth Rollins Wants To 'Rebuild His Entire Person, Mentally And Physically'

  12-11-2015 13:52
  
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• Adele in talks for cameo in Xavier Dolan film opposite Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington

  12-11-2015 13:37
  
  Rumour has it! Adele is in early talks to appear in Canadian writer/director Xavier Dolan's new film, The Death And Life Of John F Donovan. The 27-year-old singer previously worked with Dolan on her record-breaking, latest music video, Hello, and is now discussing the possibility of a cameo appearance in an unspecified role in the drama. Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington will star as the titular character and will be joined on screen by big acting names including Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates and
  
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• L'Ospedale review – an operatic Carry On Matron, only darker

  12-11-2015 13:33
  
  Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonThe first modern performance of this rediscovered curio – composer unknown – satirises the failings of mental health care with admirable imagination There’s much about the 17th-century Italian comic opera The Hospital that we don’t know, including the name of its composer and where and when it was first performed; but the libretto seems to be the work of satirist Antonio Abati, who took as his subject a group of people all suffering from s
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about glamour and style - results

  12-11-2015 13:00
  
  Suede to Shorty Long, Roxy Music to Madonna, RR regular llamalpaca dons a suave, stylish outfit to compile a swaggering playlist from last week’s topicWe’re loth to admit it, but from an early age most of us hanker after a bit of glamour and style. Fancy dress, makeup deftly applied by your mum or that moustache you tried to grow? Still, best not try all three simultaneously. Ossified Blu-Tack stuck on your bedroom wall where those Bay City Roller posters once hung, rudely supplanted
  
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• YouTuber Jamie Curry Has Some Wise Words About The One Direction & Justin Bieber Album Battle

  12-11-2015 12:47
  
  The New Zealand star is a fangirl just like us…
  
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• Opera company to move into Bamber Gascoigne's crumbling stately home

  12-11-2015 12:46
  
  Former University Challenge host allows Grange Park Opera to take up residence on derelict 400-acre Surrey estate he inherited from great auntThe new site of a summer opera festival that rivals those of Glyndebourne and Garsington is to be hosted at the derelict stately home inherited by Bamber Gascoigne, the former University Challenge host has revealed. Grange Park Opera will take up residence in its new home, nestled in woodland on the TV presenter’s 400-acre estate at West Horsley Plac
  
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• Justin Bieber Wants Everyone To Know He's Still Human And Struggles To Get Through The Days

  12-11-2015 12:44
  
  And reckons him and Kanye West are on the same wave-length…
  
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• Jamie Woon review – triumphant reinvention as a transfixing soul man

  12-11-2015 12:44
  
  Scala, LondonJamie Woon erases any thoughts of past career false starts with an exquisite set of precise and soulful R&BJamie Woon may be set for a second coming. Initially pinned as a post-dubstep take on Jeff Buckley when he first appeared in 2011, the London singer-songwriter abruptly vanished off the radar when his somewhat underwhelming debut album, Mirrorwriting, fell short of this ambitious advance critical billing.Four years down the line, Woon is returning with a vastly superior fol
  
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• Selena Gomez Has Had Enough With The Rumours, Insists She's Still A Single Pringle

  12-11-2015 12:20
  
  Mmm, Pringles.
  
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• John Lewis Christmas advert: Ex-Oasis manager slams 'rubbish' Aurora cover of Half The World Away

  12-11-2015 12:05
  
  Noel Gallagher is yet to comment on the 2015 John Lewis Christmas advert but the former manager of his band Oasis has made his thoughts very clear. Alan McGee is far from impressed with little known Norwegian singer Aurora covering the rock band's famous song Half The World Away. With the likes of Ellie Goulding and Lily Allen singing the soundtrack in previous years, many were surprised that the British department store chose the up-and-coming 19-year-old singer to do the honours for their late
  
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• Thoughts You Have On A Daily Basis If Liam Payne Is Your One And Only

  12-11-2015 11:45
  
  Liam + Dog = asdfghjkl
  
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• Ed Sheeran's Massive Lion Tattoo Has A Special Meaning Behind It After All

  12-11-2015 11:38
  
  We thought he just loved going on safari, or something like that.
  
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• Things You Will Only Know If You're A Die Hard Belieber

  12-11-2015 11:34
  
  Bieber's been through a lot but we've stuck by him all the way...
  
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• Why The Drink's Capital is the one album you should hear this week – video

  12-11-2015 10:33
  
  Less than a year after their first album, London, The Drink returns, offering off-kilter guitars, folky vocals, songs that twist and turn and a hint of both disco and prog: an idiosyncratic sound with ringing vocals, unexpected time signatures and key changes that’s entirely their own.Continue reading...
  
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• It’s Headshot Season in Raleigh Ritchie’s Bloodsport 2015 video

  12-11-2015 10:05
  
  PART 2
  
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• Charlie Sloth Recruits Ace Hood, Bugzy Malone & Silvastone for ‘Pressure’

  12-11-2015 09:57
  
  UK Rap
  
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• So Solid’s Megaman Freestyles Over ‘Pulse X’ alongside Shakka

  12-11-2015 09:50
  
  GRIME
  
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• AC/DC fans face alcohol ban at stadium gig

  12-11-2015 09:33
  
  Fans hoping to toast the band when they visit Auckland won’t be able to do so anywhere near the gig venueAbout an hour and a half into AC/DC’s current Rock or Bust show, the 15th song in, singer Brian Johnson issues an invitation to the crowd: Have a Drink on Me. When the band play Western Springs Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, on 15 December, he’ll doubtless make the same offer – but the crowd won’t be able to lift plastic glasses of beer in response. Related: A
  
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• Alfred Hill: String Quartets Vol 6 – finely crafted works

  12-11-2015 09:30
  
  Dominion String Quartet
  (Naxos)The works of Alfred Hill make interesting listening for those who have always suspected there was more to Australasian music of this period than Percy Grainger. Born in Australia in 1869, Hill was raised in New Zealand and trained in Leipzig. He became a prolific composer, and this is the last instalment of the Dominion Quartet’s series encompassing all 17 of his string quartets. The final three, all apparently receiving their first recording, date from the l
  
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• Leaning power: Spotify names its most streamed track of all time

  12-11-2015 09:05
  
  Step aside, Stairway to Heaven – the song the world has yearned to hear was a summer hit released only eight months agoWhat might you think would be Spotify’s most popular track ever? Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, often claimed to be the greatest rock song of all time, and one of the most played on the radio? Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the title track of the biggest-selling album ever? Or Bing Crosby’s White Christmas, the most popular single of all time?Answer: no
  
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• Apple Is Now Hiring an Expert in ‘Music Publisher Relations’

  12-11-2015 02:00
  
  Position: Music Publisher Relations Apple Inc., Cupertino, Ca
  Posted 1 Day Ago
  Telecommuting not available
  Travel not required
  Job Description
  Changing the world is all in a day’s work at Apple. If you love innovation, here’s your chance to make a career of it. You’ll work hard. But the job comes with more than a few perks.
  This role in Apple Music and in iTunes is working with music publishers. Music publishers supply the songs that we all enjoy listening to in Apple Music. Y
  
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• Bake Off's Mel Giedroyc set for role in Sound Of Music TV adaptation

  12-11-2015 01:02
  
  The Great British Bake Off presenter Mel Giedroyc has joined ITV's live adaptation of The Sound Of Music.
  
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• Beatles 'Love Me Do' drummer dies at 85: report

  12-11-2015 00:56
  
  (Reuters) - Andy White, the Scottish drummer who famously replaced the newly hired Ringo Starr on the Beatles' song "Love Me Do" has died at age 85, the BBC reported on Wednesday, citing his family. White, a session musician who had played swing, jazz and Scottish pipe and drum music before turning to rock and roll, died Monday after suffering a stroke, the news agency said. The musician later said he was paid 5 British pounds for three hours of work in 1962 with the Beatles, then a relatively n
  
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• Early Beatles drummer Andy White dies at 85

  12-11-2015 00:30
  
  White, from Glasgow, performed on US version of Love Me Do, which featured Ringo Starr on tambourineAndy White, a session musician who played drums on the first Beatles hit but spent his life on the edges of fame, has died aged 85, colleagues have said.White, from Glasgow, who had lived for years in the US where he taught Scottish-style pipes and drums, died in his adopted home of New Jersey, said the New York Metro Pipe Band. Continue reading...
  
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