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• Josh Groban's 'I'll be Home for Christmas' named top holiday song of all time

  16-12-2014 23:56
  
  The multiplatinum vocalist has bested all competition in our holiday song tournament. According to voters, Groban's "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is the greatest holiday recording of all time.
  
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• Apple Wins iPod Music Antitrust Suit

  16-12-2014 23:08 via rollingstone.com
  
  A federal jury has ended a 10-year battle between Apple and consumers by deciding that the tech company did not block songs sold by competing stores from playing on iPods purchased from 2006 and 2009. The lawsuit alleged that the company had done so in order to monopolize the digital music market....
  
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• Joey Fatone: Justin and Jessica are expecting!

  16-12-2014 23:00 via music-news.com
  Joey Fatone has confirmed his former NSYNC bandmate Justin Timberlake and wife Jessica Biel are having a baby.
  
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• A Rational Solution to the Streaming Royalty Crisis…

  16-12-2014 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Ross is a respected analyst in country music and author of The Digital Solution: A Plan for Collecting and Distributing Streaming Music Royalties (get it on Amazon...
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• Scott Stapp's Downward Spiral Captured on Police Recordings

  16-12-2014 22:01 via rollingstone.com
  
  New audio revealing the distraught mental state of Creed's Scott Stapp have surfaced, with TMZ posting four clips taken from various phone calls the singer made last month.
  
  Two of the clips were taken from a 911 call Stapp made from the side of a Florida highway after abandoning his car. Stapp...
  
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• Watch the Band Perry Put a Modern Spin on Glen Campbell's 'Gentle on My Mind'

  16-12-2014 22:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  If you've ever seen the Band Perry perform Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls," you know the sibling trio have a knack for putting a modern — yet respectful — spin on songs that came before their time. They do the same, albeit with a much tamer delivery, with a Glen Campbell classic...
  
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• Kylie & Tyga give back

  16-12-2014 21:00 via music-news.com
  Kylie Jenner and rumored boyfriend Tyga visited a Children’s Hospital Monday.
  
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• JLo: Enough with cougar label!

  16-12-2014 21:00 via music-news.com
  Jennifer Lopez thinks the hype surrounding women who date younger men needs to die.
  
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• Apple Wins iPod Antitrust Case

  16-12-2014 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The iPod Classic may be dead, but iPods from the mid-2000s are still a hot issue. Apple has just prevailed in Oakland federal court. Jurors unanimously...
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• The 10 Most Searched Music Festivals of the Year

  16-12-2014 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Google has compiled their top charts for 2014, listing the top overall and the top-trending searches in a number of categories. Here’s their most-searched music...
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• Music Picks for 2014

  16-12-2014 20:08 via huffingtonpost.com
  
  For the last 11 years, I've released an annual list of my favorite albums, intended primarily for those who want to hear new music but have a hard time sorting through the hundreds of new titles that are released each year. I added often pithy descriptions of the music, probably inspired by too many nights reading lengthy Rolling Stone album...
  
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• Apple wins digital music U.S. antitrust trial

  16-12-2014 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dan Levine OAKLAND (Reuters) - Apple Inc won an antitrust trial on Tuesday when a U.S. jury decided the company did not act improperly when it restricted music purchases for iPod users to Apple's iTunes digital store. The verdict was read in an Oakland, California federal court. Patrick Coughlin, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said "the jury called it like they saw it." An Apple lawyer referred questions to the company, which did not have an immediate comment. ...
  
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• The Roots, Perry Farrell Set for David Byrne, Talking Heads Tribute

  16-12-2014 19:11 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Roots, Perry Farrell, Rufus Wainwright and Sleigh Bells frontwoman Alexis Krauss will lead an all-star tribute to David Byrne and Talking Heads at Carnegie Hall on March 23rd.
  
  The initial lineup for the show also boasts ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Beth Orton, O.A.R., Steve Earle, Todd Snider, Forro in the Dark and Bebel...
  
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• Blend Market Lets Musicians Sell Digital Project Files

  16-12-2014 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Blend has launched Blend Market, a new portal where creators can sell stems and digital audio projects to other users. The storefront is currently in beta. Any...
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• Modest Mouse Unveil Frantic, Stomping 'Lampshades on Fire'

  16-12-2014 18:18 via rollingstone.com
  
  Modest Mouse have released the frantic, bounding "Lampshades on Fire," the first taste of their upcoming new album, Strangers to Ourselves. The band enlisted numerous fans to help announce the album, sending them a double-A side 7-inch of the LP's first single, one of which spins on a turntable in the video accompanying the song's...
  
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• Beatport Is Launching a Free Streaming Service

  16-12-2014 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Wall Street Journal reports that SFX Entertainment will relaunch Beatport in 2015, adding a streaming service to the electronic music store. Users will be able...
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• 'Nashville' Stars Sam Palladio and Clare Bowen Do Broadway in ABC Special

  16-12-2014 18:04 via rollingstone.com
  
  Nashville stars Clare Bowen (Scarlett) and Sam Palladio (Gunnar) are leaving Music City for the bright lights of Broadway — temporarily. The pair will sing the title song from the Disney film-turned Broadway hit Beauty and the Beast during an ABC behind-the-scenes special about the eight musicals Disney has taken to the Great...
  
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• Buku 2015 music fest lineup released

  16-12-2014 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Urban radio hit-maker A$AP Rocky and national electronic music stars Passion Pit, Bassnectar and Porter Robinson are scheduled to take the stage in New Orleans for the fourth annual Buku music festival in March.
  
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• Will SoundCloud’s Subscription Service Flop? Yes, It Will. And Here’s Why.

  16-12-2014 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to the Wall Street Journal, SoundCloud “is in discussions to raise about $150 million in new financing at a valuation that is expected to top $1.2 billion.” Soundcloud...
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• Girls Guns and Glory Drink Their Way Through Christmas in New Video

  16-12-2014 16:11 via rollingstone.com
  
  It's hard to watch Girls Guns and Glory's new Christmas video "Holiday Heartache" and not think of Hall & Oates' equally goofy clip for "Jingle Bell Rock." But the twang-heavy country-rock group's singer and founder Ward Hayden says he's never seen Daryl and John's surreal video. "The intro to the song...
  
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• Mel B discusses husband

  16-12-2014 16:00 via music-news.com
  Mel B takes immediate action if she's not happy and says she's only human.
  
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• Kanye's 'bling gift to North'

  16-12-2014 16:00 via music-news.com
  Kanye West has reportedly splashed out at least $94,000 on presents for his daughter North West.
  
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• Green Day lead 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  16-12-2014 16:00 via music-news.com
  Green Day, Lou Reed and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are the latest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  
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• Green Day (left to right) bass player Mike Dirnt,

  16-12-2014 15:32
  
  Lou Reed, Green Day, Bill Withers, Paul Butterfield Band, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble lead the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees for 2015. Green Day, Lou Reed among Rock Hall inductees Lou Reed, Green Day, Bill Withers, Paul Butterfield Band, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble lead the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees for 2015.
  
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• Songwriter Van Etten digs herself out of the dark with music

  16-12-2014 13:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Even when things don't go her way -- from on-stage technical glitches to complicated relationships -- American singer Sharon Van Etten remains cheerful. You might not guess that by listening to "I Love You But I'm Lost", "Your Love Is Killing Me" or "Afraid Of Nothing" -- three of the 11 songs from her fourth CD, the mid-tempo confessional opus "Are We There". It is the 33-year-old's emotive, strong and deep voice -- for which back-up singer Heather Woods Brode
  
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• Ensemble introduces young composers in Jamaica Plain

  16-12-2014 13:27
  
  'I feel like you lose the magic a little bit when I tell you what it all is," the composer Robert Honstein confessed, laughing, on Saturday afternoon at St. John's Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain. Seated beside a string quartet representing the Boston Young Composers Ensemble, Honstein had been asked to explain how sounds and gestures in his 2013 piece "Arctic" corresponded to his impressions of the photographer Chris McCaw's elaborate "Sunburn" series of Arctic Circle images.
  
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• Ben Haenow to play Camden's Shaka Zulu @Bhaenow #Bhaenow @ShakaZuluLondon

  16-12-2014 13:11 via music-news.com
  Ben Haenow was the stand-out performer on the 2014 X-factor series and a deserved winner of the final nail-biting climax.
  
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• Ben Haenow to play Camden's Shaka Zulu

  16-12-2014 13:11 via music-news.com
  Ben Haenow was the stand-out performer on the 2014 X-factor series and a deserved winner of the final nail-biting climax.
  
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• Take That joke tops cracker poll

  16-12-2014 12:35 via music-news.com
  A pun about Take That missing the 'Orange' from their stocking this year has topped a list of the funniest modern festive jokes
  
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• Bose is planning a move into music streaming

  16-12-2014 11:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new job posting by premium headphone and speaker company Bose is leading to speculation that it is building a service to challenge the likes of Beats Music.
  
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• China's Tencent, Sony Music in Exclusive Distribution Partnership

  16-12-2014 10:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tencent's QQ Music service will also promote artists such as One Direction, Daft Punk, A-Lin, Lang Lang and many more in China
  
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• Tencent, Sony strike China music distribution deal

  16-12-2014 10:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd has struck the latest in a string of music distribution deals, this time with Sony Music Entertainment, as it teams up with labels to try to develop China's paid-for music market and curb piracy. The partnership, announced on Tuesday, will give Tencent the right to distribute Sony Corp's music catalog online in China, including artists like Daft Punk, Bob Dylan and Yo-Yo Ma. Tencent, which operates China�
  
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• Damon Albarn Sydney show postponed by gunman

  16-12-2014 09:37 via music-news.com
  Damon Albarn had to postpone his appearance at the Sydney Opera House after gunmen took a number of patrons hostage at the cities Lindt Cafe.
  
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• Sting keeps 'The Last Ship' afloat @Sting #Sting @OfficialSting #OfficialSting

  16-12-2014 09:31 via music-news.com
  Sting's floundering Broadway musical, The Last Ship, may not be totally sinking after all.
  
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• Sting keeps 'The Last Ship' afloat

  16-12-2014 09:31 via music-news.com
  Sting's floundering Broadway musical, The Last Ship, may not be totally sinking after all.
  
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• Gia Guidice, 3KT release 'Season of Joy' music video

  16-12-2014 09:22
  
  Unlike the girl group's first music video that was criticized as too risque, their new release is filled with holiday cheer. The teen reality star, along with the girl group she's a part of, released " Season of Joy " just in time for Christmas.
  
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• Green Day, Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Ringo Starr Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2015 Class

  16-12-2014 07:55 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year's inductees: Lou Reed, Green Day, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Bill Withers and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band will all join the class of 2015. Ringo Starr will be given the Award For Musical Excellence...
  
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• Green Day, Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Ringo Starr Lead 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  16-12-2014 07:55 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year's inductees: Lou Reed, Green Day, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Bill Withers and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band will all join the class of 2015. Ringo Starr will be given the Award For Musical Excellence...
  
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• Ringo Starr on Hall of Fame Induction: 'Finally, the Four of Us Are In'

  16-12-2014 07:51 via rollingstone.com
  
  Ringo Starr first learned he was receiving the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Award for Musical Excellence when Paul McCartney called him up about two weeks ago. "He said, 'Would you accept the award?'" Starr says. "I said, 'Sure, man.' He said he'd been talking to Dave Grohl and other people and...
  
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• Joan Jett on Hall of Fame Induction: 'I'm Flabbergasted'

  16-12-2014 07:50 via rollingstone.com
  
  At last year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Joan Jett took on the seemingly impossible task of filling Kurt Cobain's shoes as the lead singer of Nirvana, and she absolutely destroyed the place with her rendition of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." This year she'll be able to sing one...
  
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• The 20 Most Played Christmas Songs on Radio

  16-12-2014 05:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FiveThirtyEight‘s Walt Hickey has compiled a list of the most-played christmas songs on traditional radio.  To do this, Hickey looked at the most recently-played songs on iHeartMedia...
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• Chris Brown ‘buys Karrueche ring’

  16-12-2014 05:30 via music-news.com
  Chris Brown is supposedly doing everything in his power to win estranged girlfriend Karrueche Tran back.
  
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• Aretha: I’m a fan of Taylor Swift

  16-12-2014 05:30 via music-news.com
  Aretha Franklin thinks Taylor Swift is a great musician.
  
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• Janis Martin, operatic mezzo turned soprano, is dead at 75

  16-12-2014 05:08
  
  Janis Martin, the Sacramento-born opera singer who began her career at the San Francisco Opera as a precocious, hard-working mezzo-soprano before attaining international prominence as a soprano in the 1970s and '80s, was found dead on Sunday at her home in San Antonio, Texas. She was 75. To most opera lovers worldwide, Ms.
  
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• Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line Lead 2014 American Country Countdown Awards Winners

  16-12-2014 05:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Its nominees were unexpected, but its winners were told in advance. Audience members were encouraged to drink and tweet from the on-set "Twitter bar." And the hosts didn't crack any Taylor Swift jokes.... In a musical genre of awards show after yet another awards show, the inaugural American Country Countdown Awards...
  
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• Mel B’s marriage ‘at breaking point’

  16-12-2014 03:30 via music-news.com
  Mel B and her husband Stephen Belafonte are said to be experiencing an extremely rough patch in their marriage.
  
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• Taylor Swift adds second Bay Area date

  16-12-2014 03:03
  
  Promoters have added a second Taylor Swift show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The date is Aug. 14. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 23, www.ticketmaster.com .
  
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• Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Live, an all-star Grammy salute @itzStevieWonder

  16-12-2014 01:44 via music-news.com
  Last year, the Recording Academy found out the drawing power of a special salute to one of the great artists of popular music with The Beatles
  
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• Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Live, an all-star Grammy salute

  16-12-2014 01:44 via music-news.com
  Last year, the Recording Academy found out the drawing power of a special salute to one of the great artists of popular music with The Beatles
  
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• Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Live - a Grammy salute

  16-12-2014 01:44 via music-news.com
  Last year, the Recording Academy found out the drawing power of a special salute to one of the great artists of popular music with The Beatles
  
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