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• Spotify Is Being Sued For $150 Million Over Unpaid Royalties…

  29-12-2015 23:44
  
  Spotify is facing a massive class action lawsuit, with serious allegations of unpaid royalties.  The suit was filed December 28th by musician David Lowery, frontman of bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker.  Lowery, who carries a long history of advocating for fair pay for artists, claims that Spotify is distributing copyrighted content while skipping key royalties.  As a result, Lowery is seeking at least $150 million in damages for the illegal distribution of so
  
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• The Beatles Streaming Success on Spotify…

  29-12-2015 22:13
  
  Since the Beatles catalog debuted on streaming services last week, Brandwatch has been analyzing social media data.  The results were published by the Daily Mail. 
  The analysis found that Spotify was the service mentioned most in connection with the Beatles, with Apple Music coming in second place.  Both were miles ahead of other competing streaming services like Google Play, Tidal, Amazon Prime, and Microsoft Groove.
  Now, Spotify is revealing just how successful this launch
  
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• Guru Josh, rave star, dies aged 51

  29-12-2015 21:11
  
  Agent confirms death of Jersey-born musician, who had pan-European hit with Infinity, as rave culture increasingly invaded the charts in 1990The musician Guru Josh, who had his biggest hit with Infinity in 1990 as rave culture swept Britain, has died aged 51. His agent, Sharron Elkabas, confirmed to the Guardian that Guru Josh, whose real name was Paul Walden, had died in Ibiza on Monday. The cause of death is unclear.Continue reading...
  
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• Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister: 1945-2015…

  29-12-2015 19:58
  
  Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister: 1945-2015…
  Ian Fraser ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, the hard-charging, hard-living frontman of Motörhead, passed away on Monday, December 28th.  Lemmy succumbed to an aggressive form of cancer that was recognized the day after Christmas.
  Lemmy was 70.  “There is no easy way to say this…our mighty, noble friend Kilmister passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer,” the Facebook post infor
  
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• Lemmy, Motörhead frontman, dies at 70

  29-12-2015 19:32
  
  Band pays tribute to ‘noble friend’ Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, who died after learning of cancer diagnosis on Boxing DayLemmy obituaryLemmy – a life in picturesLemmy – his best quotesIan “Lemmy” Kilmister, founding member and singer in the British heavy metal band Motörhead, has died at the age of 70 shortly after learning he had been diagnosed with cancer. Related: Lemmy Kilmister obituaryContinue reading...
  
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• 15 People Who Got Worse Christmas Presents Than You

  29-12-2015 18:44
  
  They must have been awful people this year
  
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• The 8 Golden Rules Of Dressing Like A Celeb For New Year's Eve

  29-12-2015 17:32
  
  Inspired by the biggest celeb trends of the year
  
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• The 8 Golden Rules Of Dressing For A New Year's Eve Party

  29-12-2015 17:32
  
  Inspired by the biggest celeb trends of the year
  
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• Your New Year’s Eve Experience As Told By Pretty Little Liars GIFs

  29-12-2015 17:19
  
  Spookily accurate.
  
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• Lemmy: the contrarian hell-raiser who rejected adoration

  29-12-2015 17:03
  
  Motörhead’s inimitable frontman, who disowned his genre and disregarded his band’s totemic status, will remain loved for his articulate grit and realismThere is a famous moment of intra-band discord in the Comic Strip’s spoof 1983 rockumentary Bad News Tour. The band’s frontman Vim, played by Adrian Edmondson, has just airily explained to an interviewer that Bad News are “not, basically, a heavy metal band”. “We’re more subtle than that,&rdquo
  
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• John Bradbury of the Specials dies aged 62

  29-12-2015 16:50
  
  Bradbury, the multi-instrumentalist and key component of the 2 Tone sound, was drumming ‘powerhouse’ who played with the Specials for more than four decadesJohn “Brad” Bradbury, the drummer with 2 Tone group the Specials, has died aged 62. The band announced the news of his death on 29 December via Twitter.A statement released by the Coventry band’s spokesperson praised the musician’s influence on the 2 Tone scene. “Brad’s drumming was the powerhou
  
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• The Best Rose Gold Makeup And Beauty Products To Shop Right Now

  29-12-2015 16:10
  
  Have yourself a luxe NYE
  
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• 11 Times Tanya Burr And Jim Chapman Were Relationship Goals

  29-12-2015 16:02
  
  Basically any time they've ever existed, tbh.
  
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• When rap raged against racism – 2015 and the black protest anthem

  29-12-2015 16:00
  
  Incensed by police brutality in the US, Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monáe, Prince and A$AP Rocky focused the anger, pain and politics of the Black Lives Matter movement, and made the world hear it Read the first of our musical talking points of 2015, on gender fluidity in pop
  The sound of Kendrick Lamar’s Alright rang out like a clarion call this year, from clubs, cars and house parties to police harassment protests. With prevalent, uncompromising lyrics like “Nigga, and we hate p
  
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• Kylie Jenner Had Over One Billion Likes On Instagram In 2015, & We Can’t Imagine Why

  29-12-2015 15:26
  
  Yes, ONE BILLION.
  
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• Lemmy: a life in quotes

  29-12-2015 14:13
  
  From acoustically enhanced pizza to his adoration of hotels and disdain for celibacy, here’s the late metal star’s life in quotes, courtesy of Rock’s BackpagesRelated: Lemmy, Motörhead frontman, dies at 70 The School for the Dancing Arts and Education Tring, Hertfordshire, mmmmm! Wonderful. Wonderful. All ballet dancers come down to get a bit of rough. Beautiful women, voluptuous, long legs – beautiful naked women pirouetting round the room, with shawls hanging off t
  
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• Lemmy Was 'Last True Rock Star Left'

  29-12-2015 14:06
  
  Motorhead's manager has told Sky News Lemmy was the "last true rock star left" as tributes are paid to the musician who died just two days after learning he had cancer. The band confirmed that the 70-year-old, whose full name is Ian Kilmister, died at his home while "sitting in front of his favourite video game with his family". In a statement, Motorhead said Lemmy had only learned of the "extremely aggressive" cancer diagnosis on 26 December.
  
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• Iggy Azalea Sparks Surgery Rumours With Latest Instagram Post

  29-12-2015 13:52
  
  We miss her pink hair.
  
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• HOWAY! Geordie Shore's Gaz Beadle Channels Kim Kardashian And Posts Racy Belfie

  29-12-2015 13:46
  
  He's a proper worldie.
  
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• Little Mix Named New Faces Of USA Pro Just In Time To Be Your New Year Fitspo

  29-12-2015 13:32
  
  If anything is going to help you get in the gym, it's a load of fit new sportswear
  
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• Lemmy obituary: Motorhead's hard-living frontman was a hero to heavy metallers and punks alike

  29-12-2015 13:27
  
  In a Facebook post announcing the musician's death aged 70, the official Motorhead fan page asked devoted followers to "play Lemmy's music LOUD". For while Lemmy's musical career famously kicked off after he heard The Beatles, it wasn't the band's squeaky-clean pop star image that had him enthralled. The son of a Royal Air Force chaplain who left the family home aged three, Lemmy's first band was The Rockin' Vickers, who released three singles and became the first British band to visit Yugoslavi
  
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• Red Carpet Wins Of 2015

  29-12-2015 13:02
  
  Meanwhile we're wearing leggings for the fourth day in a row.
  
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• From the Guardian archive: Peter Grimes opera review, in 1945

  29-12-2015 13:00
  
  9 June 1945: The Guardian reviews the first production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, at London’s Sadler’s Wells Britten’s introduction to Peter Grimes
  After five years of wandering, the Sadler’s Wells Opera Company has at last returned to its old home – the first real sign in the London musical world that peace is upon us. Whatever opera was put on for yesterday’s opening night, the theatre was bound to fill itself. It was therefore something of a
  
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• Kim Kardashian Reveals Her Top 6 Red Carpet Looks Of 2015

  29-12-2015 12:57
  
  But do you agree with Kim's faves?
  
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• New Pretty Little Liars Promo Clip Proves Aria Is In Serious Trouble (& Owns A Selfie Stick)

  29-12-2015 12:23
  
  Really, Aria? A selfie stick?
  
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• Canny Wait Pet! Vicky Pattison CONFIRMED To Be Joining Loose Women

  29-12-2015 12:17
  
  The Geordie Shore bird becomes a loose lass...
  
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• Getting drunk and getting laid: LA rock fans raise a glass to Lemmy

  29-12-2015 12:09
  
  Motörhead fans paid tribute to the hard-drinking frontman in the way he would have wanted – with a night of debauchery at the Rainbow Bar and GrillIf you’re a recovering miscreant or just generally put off by bad behaviour, the Rainbow Bar and Grill on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip is probably not for you.The soggy scent of hard drink mixed with the aggressive stench of every manner of cigarette should be enough of a warning to stay away, but it was especially boisterous on Mo
  
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• 7 memorable quotes from Motorhead frontman Lemmy

  29-12-2015 12:04
  
  The Motorhead singer and bassist might have been known for his distinctive look but he came out with some corkers.
  
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• The playlist: the best hip-hop of 2015 – with Drake, Young Thug and Kendrick Lamar

  29-12-2015 12:00
  
  It was a banner year for hip-hop, with pop smashes and an era-defining album. Here’s the pick of the year’s musicAlthough it was released during the first week of January, the seeds for SremmLife’s success were sewn the previous March when Rae Sremmurd were introduced to the music world by MikeWillMadeIt at SXSW. The album is packed with unapologetic bangers that take the trappings of trap and put them in a pop context. Like Juicy J’s Bandz a Make Her Dance there’s
  
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• Adele, Justin Bieber and the 18 other hottest US tours of 2016

  29-12-2015 12:00
  
  Dixie Chicks are back on the road for the first time since the controversy that derailed their career, while Adele had 10 million people trying to buy tickets for her shows – but there’s more to the American touring circuit than that Continue reading...
  
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• Miley Cyrus Has Grown Her Hair Into A Bob And It's All Very Hannah Montana

  29-12-2015 11:47
  
  Throwback vibes
  
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• Rolling Stone magazine pays tribute to Motörhead's Lemmy – video

  29-12-2015 11:34
  
  ‘Lemmy to a lot of people really embodies rock ’n’ roll’, says Rolling Stone magazine’s editorial director Brandon Geist, on hearing the news of Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister’s death. The Motörhead lead singer died in Los Angeles on Monday after a brief battle with an aggressive form of cancer. He learned of the diagnosis just two days earlier, according to a statement from the band. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/RedfernsRead: Lemmy, lead singer of Mot&ou
  
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• Kylie Jenner’s Stalker Is Arrested After Attempting To Break Into Her $2.7 Million Mansion

  29-12-2015 11:29
  
  Well, this is pretty terrifying.
  
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• Wildest Dreams

  29-12-2015 04:07 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Wildest Dreams
  
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• Joy

  29-12-2015 04:07 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Joy
  
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• Breathe (Ft. Shannon Saunders)

  29-12-2015 04:07 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Breathe
  
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