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• Bob Dylan archives land in Oklahoma, near Guthrie museum

  02-03-2016 23:56
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — More than 6,000 items of Bob Dylan memorabilia such as handwritten lyrics to "Tangled Up In Blue" and his first contract with a music publisher have found a home in Oklahoma near a museum honoring one of his major influences, folk singer Woody Guthrie.
  
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• Who Am I

  02-03-2016 23:48 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Who Am I
  
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• The Sound

  02-03-2016 23:48 via mtv.co.uk
  
  The Sound
  
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• Rude Boy (Ft. Haile) [Explicit]

  02-03-2016 23:48 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Rude Boy (Ft. Haile)
  
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• Rectifier

  02-03-2016 23:48 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Rectifier
  
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• Are We Alive

  02-03-2016 23:48 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Are We Alive
  
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• Something In The Way You Move

  02-03-2016 23:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Something In The Way You Move
  
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• All Night (Ft. Dornik) [Explicit]

  02-03-2016 23:33 via mtv.co.uk
  
  All Night
  
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• YOUTH

  02-03-2016 23:18 via mtv.co.uk
  
  YOUTH
  
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• Voodoo In My Blood (Ft. Young Fathers) [Explicit]

  02-03-2016 23:18 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Voodoo In My Blood (Ft. Young Fathers)
  
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• Zoe Saldana faces criticism over dark makeup in Nina Simone film trailer

  02-03-2016 22:17
  
  The actor’s casting as the legendary singer is in the spotlight again after the trailer and poster show a darkened skin tone and prosthetic noseThe trailer and poster for Nina – the Nina Simone biopic starring Zoe Saldana – have been released, sparking more controversy about the casting of Saldana, whose physical appearance and political views have been brought up as obstacles to her playing Simone.The biopic has been at the center of debate since the casting of Saldana was ann
  
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• Cheryl Fernandez-Versini teases picture of 'mystery man line-up'

  02-03-2016 21:53
  
  Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and Liam Payne have been keeping their fans guessing about their rumoured romance. It's thought the pair has been enjoying a secret three-month relationship, and the One Direction singer appeared to confirm the rumours on Sunday (28 February) as he posted a selfie of the two of them looking rather cosy. Following her split from husband Jean-Bernard Fernandez Versini, the X Factor judge was rumoured to be dating a mystery man, who was described as either a musician, a spo
  
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• 13 Camila Cabello Tweets That Are 'Worth It'

  02-03-2016 18:32
  
  And by ‘it’, we mean a retweet.
  
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• Foo Fighters Are Making A 'Band Announcement' Tonight & Everyone Thinks They're Splitting Up

  02-03-2016 18:31
  
  Gulp.
  
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• Letter: Maurice White obituary

  02-03-2016 18:27
  
  Joel McIver’s obituary of the American singer and songwriter Maurice White mentions his early work as a session drummer for Chess Records on tracks such as Rescue Me by Fontella Bass. However, perhaps his most remarkable performance during this period was his thunderous drumming on Billy Stewart’s jaw-dropping deconstruction of George Gershwin’s song Summertime, which helped make the track such an astonishing tour de force. Continue reading...
  
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• PREMIERE: Macca Wiles - Just Might [Explicit]

  02-03-2016 18:25
  
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• Ruby Rose Unveiled As The New Face Of Urban Decay In Their Most Badass Campaign Yet

  02-03-2016 17:53
  
  Makeup junkies, assemble.
  
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• Cheryl And Liam Payne Get Cute In Latest Selfie As She Jokes About Her ‘Mystery Man’

  02-03-2016 17:48
  
  Chiam lives.
  
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• Geordie Shore's Scotty T Sets The Record Straight Over Claims Jeremy McConnell Cheated On Stephanie Davis

  02-03-2016 17:12
  
  This is what's REALLY going on.
  
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• Watch The New 'Finding Dory' Trailer Right Now!

  02-03-2016 17:06
  
  Dory's back! And Nemo! And we can't wait!
  
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• Model Lucky Blue Smith Talks Selfie Tips, Making Music And Dealing With Rejection

  02-03-2016 17:05
  
  Yes, but can we marry him now?
  
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• Brit awards chairman on diversity: ‘It was not reflected at this year’s ceremony’

  02-03-2016 17:02
  
  Much like the Oscars, this year’s Brits nominations were criticised for being unrepresentative. Creative industries need to change in order to truly reflect modern British musicThe Brits was a great night for British music. As a Brits veteran of more than 30 years, I thought it was one of the best I have seen. But there was an elephant in the room at last week’s ceremony. As chairman of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the music association that organises the awards, I can te
  
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• The New Geordie Shore Lad Marty McKenna Arrives At The House With A Hoverboard And Fans Are Buzzing About It

  02-03-2016 16:44
  
  What a BELTA.
  
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• Haydn: Symphonies Nos 78, 79, 80 and 81 CD review – Dantone brings a light touch and good taste

  02-03-2016 16:30
  
  Accademia Bizantina/Dantone(Decca)Over the last five decades, the period-instrument movement has steadily colonised more and more of the orchestral repertory. The process has been very fully documented on disc, so that there are now very few significant works from the 17th and 18th centuries not available in historically informed performances. Yet there are still surprising omissions, and even among the Haydn symphonies, there are works that have never been recorded using the instruments the com
  
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• Palestinians teach blind students English via music

  02-03-2016 16:19
  Palestinian students at an elementary school for the blind in the West Bank are learning English through song. "We are dealing with students with special needs, they are blind or visually impaired, so we urge them to depend on their hearing sense more than their sense of touch that they use in braille." But while students said they were delighted with the new curriculum, some parents in the religiously conservative town of Hebron are concerned the use of music in the classroom is not in harmony
  
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• The Best Bomber Jackets To Get The Gigi Hadid, Kendall And Kylie Jenner Look On The High Street

  02-03-2016 16:03
  
  Steal their style for a fraction of the price.
  
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• Bob Dylan archives to be housed in Tulsa, Oklahoma

  02-03-2016 16:00
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan have been acquired by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa and will be permanently housed in a Tulsa arts district.
  
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• Madonna and Guy Ritchie in court over son Rocco

  02-03-2016 15:52
  
  Rocco, 15, left Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour and relocated to London to live with film director fatherLawyers for Madonna and Guy Ritchie will go to court in New York on Wednesday as part of a custody battle over the pair’s 15-year-old son Rocco.The former couple, who divorced in 2008, have been in conflict since December, when Rocco left Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour and relocated to London to live with his film director father. Continue reading...
  
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• Drum Machine (Ft. The New Sins)

  02-03-2016 14:57 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Drum Machine (Ft. The New Sins)
  
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• En Vogue review – high-lustre harmonies and crisp baby-making anthems

  02-03-2016 14:55
  
  Indigo, London
  Their vocals still carry a visceral thrill on hits such as Free Your Mind, My Lovin’ and Whatta Man, and their humour is a breath of fresh airEn Vogue’s fans are touchy about the B-word. They testily remind you that the 90s stars were around “way before Beyoncé”, as if Beyoncé had never acknowledged her debt to the quartet who put precision harmonies and female forthrightness on the modern R&B map. Yet En Vogue’s current UK tour illu
  
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• Missa Cambrensis review – soaring revival of Grace Williams' forgotten magnum opus

  02-03-2016 14:23
  
  St David’s Hall, Cardiff
  It was a bold move to resurrect the mythical classic for St David’s Day but the BBC National Orchestra of Wales deftly captured its serenity and lyricismGrace Williams, pupil of Vaughan Williams and fellow student of Benjamin Britten, is the unsung heroine of 20th-century Welsh music, but what should have been her magnum opus, the 1971 Missa Cambrensis, suffered from an inadequate first performance. Williams was wounded by the experience and it was not perfo
  
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• Nitin Sawhney’s Backstage Pass – soulful show buzzes with life and joy

  02-03-2016 14:10
  
  Ronnie Scott’s, LondonThe musician abandons the sometimes bland exotica of his recorded work in favour of vivid primeval blues, raga reimaginings and rousing revamps of old favourites“I put my heart and soul into this,” says Nitin Sawhney as he introduces Homelands, a track from his Mercury-nominated 1999 album Beyond Skin. He then notes, with some horror, that the song is name-checked on page 48 of EL James’s sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey.For all his impressive TV and f
  
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• David Holmes: 'It was a modern day Wrecking Crew'

  02-03-2016 14:10
  
  Ahead of his appearance with Andrew Weatherall on Guardian Music’s first show on Beats 1 this Saturday, David Holmes explains how new project Unloved was all about finding the right soundsAt the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Virgil Avenue on the edge of east Hollywood, there stood for several years a bar called Little Temple. On Tuesday evenings here, you might stumble across a jam night named The Rotary Room, where you could find Money Mark performing alongside the legendary uprigh
  
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• All Tomorrow's Parties festival thrown into confusion

  02-03-2016 12:48
  
  Event bosses assure that Stewart Lee-curated festival will go ahead after ticket holders are reportedly told by Pontins venue it was cancelledAll Tomorrow’s Parties’s latest festival has been thrown into confusion after the venue said it had been cancelled, reports Billboard.ATP’s 2.0 events are currently booked to take place at Pontins holiday camp in Prestatyn, north Wales, on 15-17 and 22-24 April. However, ATP said a “miscommunication” had occurred between them
  
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• Nina Simone – 10 of the best

  02-03-2016 12:08
  
  From reimaginings of Scottish folk songs to self-penned civil rights anthems, Nina Simone spent a glorious career refusing to be pigeonholedFew artists have thrived so spectacularly while being so disinclined towards the recording industry, but then few have been as talented as Nina Simone. The turning point in her career was a rejection from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1951, which she later came to understand was racially motivated. Nina Simone – born Eunice Kathleen Waymon – w
  
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• Beth Orton – hear Moon, from her forthcoming album Kidsticks

  02-03-2016 11:41
  
  The singer-songwriter decamped to California, and has worked with Fuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung on a new album that once again incorporates electronicaBeth Orton was never just your conventional singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar and a desperate need to share. She made her name in the 90s by incorporating the electronics of dance music producers into her music. On Kidsticks, her sixth album and her first for four years, she has worked with Andrew Hung of Fuck Buttons, combining both her
  
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• Sam Smith quits social media over Oscars acceptance speech

  02-03-2016 11:24
  
  Singer to take a break online after being mocked for claim to be the first openly gay man to receive an Academy AwardSam Smith has announced he’s taking a break from social media, after being widely mocked following his Oscars acceptance speech. Smith faced criticism after he received the award for best song for the James Bond film Spectre, and suggested on stage that he might be the first openly gay man to win an Oscar. “I read an article … by Sir Ian McKellen and he said no
  
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• Kanye West: secret Pirate Bay user?

  02-03-2016 10:37
  
  Did Yeezy download a pirated version of synthesiser Serum? The rapper-slash-designer might have revealed too much on TwitterKanye West uses Pirate Bay.Yes, that’s right: Kanye West (lyrical genius of a generation, launch partner of Jay Z-backed streaming service Tidal, husband to Kim and father to North and Saint) uses Pirate Bay (file sharing site, founders sentenced to jail terms, blocked in the UK and shut down in its native Sweden). Continue reading...
  
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• Elizabeth Rose: Intra – exclusive album stream

  02-03-2016 05:23
  
  Sydney singer-songwriter’s album of slinky electro-pop features injections of analogue charm and a stunning opening track written with producer M-PhazesIn Division, the ninth track from her debut album Intra, Elizabeth Rose sings “why hold onto something that only separates?” Accompanied by a clip that portrays a gay couple’s struggle to find acceptance from family members, the song, she says, is a call to arms to make marriage equality in Australia a reality. Related: Ne
  
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• Shotty Horroh Sends For Chip In Latest Diss Track 'JAB'

  02-03-2016 01:06
  
  See article for more info.
  
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