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• Music, digital art intersect in 'Day for Night' festival in Houston

  19-12-2015 23:45
  By Amanda Orr HOUSTON (Reuters) - Sound, image and digital art installations collide in Houston this weekend for the Day for Night Festival, which brings together music giants including Kendrick Lamar and visual artists such as Casey Reas. "What we’re trying to do is create an immersive experience where moving throughout the festival grounds is as engaging as standing and staring at the stage,” said Omar Afra, the Day for Night festival producer. Reas, whose software, prints and inst
  
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• The Beatles Will Be Streaming by Christmas

  19-12-2015 23:07
  
  One December 24th, you might be streaming the Beatles.  That’s according to a report from Billboard, which is pointing to Beatles availability on one or more streaming services by Christmas.  The move would end one of the biggest, high-profile holdouts from streaming music services like Spotify and Apple Music.On the latter, there could be an exclusive in the cards for Apple and its just-launched Apple Music.  Indeed, Apple has a considerable war chest and is looking to capi
  
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• Pusha T Releases ‘Darkest Before Dawn’ Short Film

  19-12-2015 21:52
  
  Pusha T Releases ‘Darkest Before Dawn’ Short Film
  
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• The Wrap Up Presents Underground Heat Featuring Bosco

  19-12-2015 20:38
  
  The Wrap Up Presents Underground Heat Featuring Bosco
  
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• Kurt Masur, great conductor who led New York Philharmonic, dies at 88

  19-12-2015 19:27
  
  German musician worked with orchestras around the worldMasur oversaw New York orchestra’s response to 9/11 attacksKurt Masur, the German conductor who led the New York Philharmonic orchestra for 11 years, died on Saturday. He was 88. Related: Leader: In praise of... Kurt MasurContinue reading...
  
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• Slaves review – banging tunes from beyond the pain barrier

  19-12-2015 19:00
  
  Brixton Academy, London
  Slaves crown a spectacular year with a charming, spirited performance in front of their biggest audience yet“This is the biggest gig we’ve ever fucking done,” announces Isaac Holman, the drumming singer in Slaves, with awe. Even when the band are not playing one of their pell-mell punk effusions, security are kept busy, creaming crowd-surfers off the top of the simmering mosh pit.Wearing white trousers and – at least initially – a black shirt
  
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• Jarell Perry And Deebs Debut “Relapse” Video

  19-12-2015 18:58
  
  Jarell Perry And Deebs Debut “Relapse” Video
  
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• The Brink: Jacob Banks

  19-12-2015 18:40
  
  The Brink: Jacob Banks
  
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• Kim Kardashian Says Her & Kanye West First Connected While Dressed As Star Wars Characters

  19-12-2015 18:37
  
  A long time away, on a TV show far, far away...
  
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• X Factor's Louisa Johnson Enters Chart With Worst Performing Winner's Single Ever

  19-12-2015 17:11
  
  Is it finally time for Simon Cowell and co. to hang up the mics?
  
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• New York Philharmonic says music director emeritus Kurt Masur, from Germany, has died at 88

  19-12-2015 16:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York Philharmonic says music director emeritus Kurt Masur, from Germany, has died at 88.
  
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• One Direction Are Your MTV Stars Of 2015 Winners!

  19-12-2015 16:00
  
  Lady Gaga comes a close second in our BIGGEST SOCIAL VOTE EVER...
  
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• One Direction Named Biggest Earning Entertainers Under 30

  19-12-2015 15:39
  
  It just had to be them, didn't it...
  
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• Olly Murs Says He DIDN'T Actually Kiss Caroline Flack In That Awkward Photo

  19-12-2015 14:49
  
  So did they or didn't they?
  
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• Geordie Shore's Aaron Chalmers Shows Off Epic New Body Tattoo

  19-12-2015 13:57
  
  Maybe it was an early Christmas pressie to himself...
  
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• 50 Cent net worth: 'Bankrupt' rapper promotes new music after cutting price for mansion

  19-12-2015 13:37
  
  It looks like when 50 Cent promised to Get Rich of Die Tryin', he meant every word. The hip-hop star has been busy promoting his new music, despite being forced to lower the asking price for his 21-bed mansion again after filing for bankruptcy this summer. The 40-year-old music mogul, whose real name is Curtis Jackson III, surprised fans when he took to the stage at The Breakfast Club anniversary bash and rather than stick to the hits, the G-Unit boss performed some of his new material.
  
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• Shift K3Y Returns With New Single “Gone Missing”

  19-12-2015 13:19
  
  SHIFT K3Y RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE “GONE MISSING”
  
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• Former Stone Temple Pilot frontman Scott Weiland died of drug overdose

  19-12-2015 12:56
  
  Scott Weiland, the former lead singer of US rock band Stone Temple Pilots, was high on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol just before his death earlier this month, according to an official report from an autopsy carried out by a US medical examiner. Weiland, who was just 48, was found dead on his tour bus outside a hotel in Bloomington Minneapolis on 3 of December leaving the music world in mourning. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office found traces of cocaine and ecstasy in the singer's b
  
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• Rudimental Team Up With Big Sean, Vic Mensa & Ed Sheeran For ‘Lay It All On Me’ Vip Mix

  19-12-2015 12:27
  Rudimental Team Up With Big Sean, Vic Mensa & Ed Sheeran For ‘Lay It All On Me’ Vip Mix
  
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• Ex On The Beach Stars Jordan Davies And Megan McKenna Have Split Up

  19-12-2015 12:23
  
  And Jordan's been super sweet about the whole thing...
  
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• 2015, the year in music: Adele, Drake and Kendrick Lamar

  19-12-2015 10:00
  
  Continued poor album sales meant success this year was measured in downloads, free mixtapes and off-the-cuff singles2015 will mostly be remembered as the year that Adele made an easy-listening album that sold nearly 1.6m copies in the UK in three weeks. In fact, the history books may record that the whole of the year was ruled by the beige brigade: Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, James Bay, all huge. Aside from those album successes, though, record sales were a misery. Even Faithless managed to get a No
  
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• How Heinrich Schütz captured the true spirit of Christmas

  19-12-2015 09:00
  
  Schütz’s nativity music, written in the wake of the thirty years’ war, resonates with a sense of hope for todayWe are in the midst of a season in which stories are retold. The TV schedules are full of films we’ve seen more often than we care to remember, end-of-year shows full of reminders of events we might prefer to forget, and somewhere, buried deep down, like the party guest who is found at the end of the night asleep under a pile of coats, we might just find the story
  
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• Eagles Of Death Metal launch music bid to raise money for Paris attack victims

  19-12-2015 07:45
  US rock band Eagles Of Death Metal have launched a campaign to unite music artists around the world and raise money for charity.
  
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• Carter & Cash

  19-12-2015 04:34 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Carter & Cash
  
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• Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman died from accidental drug overdose

  19-12-2015 03:32
  
  Scott Weiland had cocaine, alcohol and the amphetamine MDA in his system when he died on board a tour bus in Minneapolis, medical examiner rulesFormer Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland died from an accidental drug overdose , according to a medical examiner’s office in Minnesota where he was found dead on his tour bus in early December.The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office said on Friday the 48-year-old Weiland had cocaine, alcohol and the amphetamine MDA – a dr
  
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