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• ShowBallot voting platform launches @showballot

  30-01-2015 23:29 via music-news.com
  
  ShowBallot is a unique voting platform that gives concertgoers the ability to request the songs they want to hear at live shows.
  
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• LISTEN: Big Sean, Drake And Kanye West's 'Blessings'

  30-01-2015 23:15
  
  Big Sean 's new song "Blessings" debuted late Thursday. The track, from his upcoming album Dark Sky Paradise , features Drake and Kanye West .
  
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• Is There Room for Spotify Among Record Collectors?

  30-01-2015 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spotify keeps on growing, but can listeners who are passionate about supporting artists justify using it? The following is an excerpt of a post written...
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• Rihanna ‘unimpressed with Leo’s flab’

  30-01-2015 23:00 via music-news.com
  
  Rihanna is supposedly encouraging her rumoured boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio to get in shape.
  
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• ShowBallot voting platform launches

  30-01-2015 22:00 via music-news.com
  
  ShowBallot is a unique voting platform that gives concertgoers the ability to request the songs they want to hear at live shows.
  
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• Watch A Thousand Horses Go 'Girls, Girls, Girls' in New Video

  30-01-2015 21:58 via rollingstone.com
  
  With their debut single "Smoke" lighting a fire at radio, country-rock outfit A Thousand Horses have released a video for the woozy ballad. And it takes a page right out of Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls," with a stripper working it in a way you don't often see in country...
  
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• Grammy Awards Fast Facts

  30-01-2015 21:16
  
  Album of the Year: "Morning Phase" - Beck "Beyonce" - Beyonce "X" - Ed Sheeran "In The Lonely Hour" - Sam Smith "Girl" - Pharrell Williams Song of the Year: "All About That Bass" - Kevin Kadish & Meghan Trainor, songwriters "Chandelier" - Sia Furler & Jesse Shatkin, songwriters "Shake It Off" - Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters "Stay With Me " - James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters "Take Me To Church" - Andrew Hozier-Byrne, songwriter Record of
  
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• Warner Music Group Settles Lawsuit Over Unpaid Interns

  30-01-2015 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A deal to end litigation is expected to cover thousands who formerly worked at the music company.
  
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• T.I.: Iggy should be silent

  30-01-2015 21:00 via music-news.com
  
  T.I. has shared his thoughts on whether it’s in his colleague Iggy Azalea’s best interests to keep speaking publicly on controversial subjects.
  
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• 15 Reasons Why You Should Never, Ever Buy a Streaming Service…

  30-01-2015 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jay-Z is about to buy Aspiro AB, a company that owns the relatively unknown WiMP and TIDAL streaming services, for $56 million. Here’s why that’s the...
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• Music Industry Execs Sees Vinyl Rise as More 'Fad' Than 'Explosion'

  30-01-2015 19:49 via rollingstone.com
  
  Last year's 52 percent jump in vinyl sales has been fantastic for record stores — "and growing more important by the day," Carl Mello, senior buyer for New England music chain Newbury Comics tells Rolling Stone — but the record industry isn't quite so enthusiastic. The vinyl explosion has been so pronounced...
  
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• Kanye West Goes Into Full Dad Mode, Smiles in New Music Video with North West

  30-01-2015 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There are a lot of things off-putting about the new footage from Kanye West's "Only One" video. The first and foremost being the fact that the Spike Jonze-directed clip begins with rare footage of the rapper smiling. It's like staring at an eclipse: You know this is something you shouldn't be seeing, ... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Kanye West
  
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• Jay-Z Is Buying HiFi Streaming Services Tidal and WiMP

  30-01-2015 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hi-fi streaming service Tidal recently expanded to the Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The service was already available in the U.K., U.S., and Canada....
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• Miranda Lambert leads ACM Awards with 8 nominations

  30-01-2015 19:06
  
  " Miranda Lambert is continuing her reign as contemporary country queen with eight nominations at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards. The ACMs announced Friday that Lambert is the top contender, including a nomination for entertainer of the year, pitting her against top-billing male stars Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line.
  
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• How the Music Industry Learned to Love Leaks

  30-01-2015 18:25 via rollingstone.com
  
  In 2004, when U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb leaked online two weeks earlier than planned, the band's label scrambled to contain the damage by hastily streaming it on MTV's website. Those weeks are an eternity compared with how Björk and Madonna handled their music's premature arrivals over the past...
  
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• Watch Carrie Underwood's 'Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight' Video

  30-01-2015 18:11 via rollingstone.com
  
  Two days before the Big Game, the NFL has released Carrie Underwood's "Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight," Super Bowl XLIX's official theme song.
  
  Stacked high with synthesizers, power chords and banjo, "Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight" is a reworked version of NBC's Sunday Night Football...
  
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• Hear Carrie Underwood's 'Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight'

  30-01-2015 18:11 via rollingstone.com
  
  Two days before the Big Game, the NFL has released Carrie Underwood's "Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight," Super Bowl XLIX's official theme song.
  
  Stacked high with synthesizers, power chords and banjo, "Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight" is a reworked version of NBC's Sunday Night Football...
  
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• Missy Elliott Will Join Katy Perry for Super Bowl Halftime Performance

  30-01-2015 17:04 via rollingstone.com
  
  Missy Elliott will make a "surprise appearance" during Katy Perry's Super Bowl XLIX halftime show performance, according to The Associated Press, citing an anonymous "person familiar with the plans." (Consider the surprise ruined.) The rapper made a cameo on a remix of Perry's 2011 single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)," though it's...
  
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• Life, death and the music between: A chat with Jon Mueller of Death Blues

  30-01-2015 17:01
  
  Locally based drummer, percussionist and composer Jon Mueller's career has been filled with fascinating music, from Pele to Collections of Colonies of Bees to Volcano Choir and more. However, his most recent project Death Blues might be his most interesting and ambitious.
  
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• Jay Z Enters High-Quality Music Streaming Industry

  30-01-2015 16:54 via rollingstone.com
  
  After tackling the world of music, nightclubs, basketball team ownership and athlete representation, Jay Z has now set his sights on entering the gauntlet of high-quality streaming music. The New York Times reports that Jay Z has put in a $56 million offer for Aspiro, a Swedish company that controls high-quality streaming...
  
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• Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley Lead ACM Awards Nominations

  30-01-2015 16:02 via rollingstone.com
  
  With eight total nominations, including one for top prize Entertainer of the Year, Miranda Lambert leads all nominees at this year's 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The nominations where announced this morning via Twitter.
  
  Dierks Bentley, whose album Riser was both a commercial and critical success, follows his former...
  
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• Suge Knight arrested for murder

  30-01-2015 16:00 via music-news.com
  
  Suge Knight is being held on $2million bail after being arrested for murder following a hit-and-run.
  
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• Miranda Lambert leads ACM noms

  30-01-2015 16:00 via music-news.com
  
  Miranda Lambert has scored seven nods at the American Country Music Awards.
  
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• Lorde: You can't talk down to me

  30-01-2015 16:00 via music-news.com
  
  Lorde thinks all teenagers are "hyper-aware" of how they're being viewed.
  
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• JLo 'has ex concerns'

  30-01-2015 16:00 via music-news.com
  
  Jennifer Lopez is apparently making Casper Smart realise he has to work hard to win her back.
  
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• Bryan Ferry new single 'Driving Me Wild'

  30-01-2015 15:30 via music-news.com
  
  Taken from the critically acclaimed new album 'Avonmore', Bryan Ferry's new single 'Driving Me Wild' will be released March 16th.
  
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• Katy Perry says halftime performance will make you 'Roar'

  30-01-2015 15:02
  
  Perry, 30, said she feels blessed to perform on the Super Bowl stage "at such a young age." She said she enjoyed past Super Bowl performances from Beyonce and Madonna, and what she adds "is some lightheartedness."
  
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• The Cat Empire to headline Eden @TheEdenFestival @thecatempire

  30-01-2015 15:00 via music-news.com
  
  Eden Festival 2015 brings the biggest line up to date. Experience over 250 acts performing across 9 stages, set in the stunning Raehill Meadows of Dumfries.
  
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• The Cat Empire to headline Eden

  30-01-2015 15:00 via music-news.com
  
  Eden Festival 2015 brings the biggest line up to date. Experience over 250 acts performing across 9 stages, set in the stunning Raehill Meadows of Dumfries.
  
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• Jay Z to acquire Wimp music service

  30-01-2015 14:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US rap star Jay Z will make a $56-million foray into the music streaming business by taking over the Norwegian service Wimp, its shareholders confirmed Friday. The platinum-selling artist and record producer Jay Z used his controlling stake in Project Panther Bidco to launch the 464-million-kronor ($56-million, 49-million-euro) bid for Aspiro, the Swedish-listed company behind Wimp. "I think they will be a better owner to lift Aspiro and its advanced music streaming service to a new level,&
  
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• Bjork Likens Making Emotional 'Vulnicura' to 'Open-Heart Surgery'

  30-01-2015 14:15 via rollingstone.com
  
  Björk's latest album, Vulnicura, was such a personal experience that she compared it to opening herself up — literally — in a new interview with The New York Times. "You feel like you're having open-heart surgery, with knives sticking in, so that everything is out, and you have this urgency...
  
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• Suge Knight Arrested for Murder After Hit-and-Run

  30-01-2015 14:14 via rollingstone.com
  
  Marion "Suge" Knight was charged with murder and held on $2 million bail after the controversial founder of Death Row Records was involved in a fatal hit-and-run Thursday afternoon, according to CBS Los Angeles.
  
  Knight surrendered to authorities early Friday morning and was interviewed by police for three hours, according to the Los Angeles Times....
  
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• Katzenjammer announce UK dates @Katzenjammers #Katzenjammer

  30-01-2015 12:49 via music-news.com
  
  Norwegian alt-folk-country-rock mavericks Katzenjammer announce a four date tour in support of their new album ‘Rockland’ (released March 2nd).
  
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• Katzenjammer announce UK dates

  30-01-2015 12:49 via music-news.com
  
  Norwegian alt-folk-country-rock mavericks Katzenjammer announce a four date tour in support of their new album ‘Rockland’ (released March 2nd).
  
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• Xtina: My baby’s such a gem

  30-01-2015 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Christina Aguilera is proud of how "endearing and sweet" her son Max is with his baby sister Summer Rain.
  
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• Nick Jonas: Don't fear rejection

  30-01-2015 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Nick Jonas prefers confident women who aren’t afraid to ask a boy out.
  
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• Backstreet Boys: How we found balance

  30-01-2015 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Backstreet Boys singer Howie D has spoken about the group's new documentary, Show 'Em What You're Made Of.
  
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• Taking a song where it needs to go

  30-01-2015 10:57
  
  "I have five granddaughters, and for me, that's the song that I sing when I'm thinking of my girls," she says. "It's not about a man and a woman, it's about thinking how those girls can have their grandma wrapped around their fingers."
  
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• Imagine Dragons to play ten UK arena tour

  30-01-2015 10:51 via music-news.com
  
  With their highly anticipated new album ‘Smoke + Mirrors’ out imminently, US chart phenomenon Imagine Dragons play ten UK arena
  
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• Imagine Dragons to play ten date UK arena tour

  30-01-2015 10:51 via music-news.com
  
  With their highly anticipated new album 'Smoke + Mirrors' out imminently, US chart phenomenon Imagine Dragons play ten UK arena
  
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• Shakira welcomes son

  30-01-2015 09:30 via music-news.com
  
  Shakira and Gerard Piqué have welcomed their second child.
  
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• Ringo Starr pays tribute to Rory Storm @ringostarrmusic

  30-01-2015 09:25 via music-news.com
  
  Ringo Starr has a song about his first band Rory and the Hurricanes on his next album ‘Postcards From Paradise’.
  
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• Ringo Starr pays tribute to Rory Storm

  30-01-2015 09:25 via music-news.com
  
  Ringo Starr has a song about his first band Rory and the Hurricanes on his next album ‘Postcards From Paradise’.
  
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• Paul McCartney reschedules Japanese tour @PaulMcCartney

  30-01-2015 08:35 via music-news.com
  
  Paul McCartney will return to Japan in April to make up for the shows he had had cancel due to illness in 2014.
  
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• Paul McCartney reschedules Japanese tour

  30-01-2015 08:35 via music-news.com
  
  Paul McCartney will return to Japan in April to make up for the shows he had had cancel due to illness in 2014.
  
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• Rod McKuen dead at 81: Poet, songwriter was 'King of Kitsch'

  30-01-2015 06:47
  
  Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced "King of Kitsch" whose music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and '70s won him an Oscar nomination and made him one of the best-selling poets in history, has died. He was 81. McKuen died Thursday morning at a rehabilitation center in Beverly Hills, Calif., where he had been treated for pneumonia and had been ill for several weeks and was unable to digest food, said his half-brother, Edward McKuen Habib.
  
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• Suge Knight ‘turning himself in for hit-and-run’

  30-01-2015 05:45 via music-news.com
  
  Suge Knight’s lawyer has confirmed the Death Row Records founder was involved in a car incident that fatally killed a man.
  
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• Styles ‘infatuated with model’

  30-01-2015 05:45 via music-news.com
  
  One Direction’s Harry Styles is supposedly planning on spending his forthcoming birthday with rumoured new girlfriend, Nadine Leopold.
  
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• Katy Perry’s Super Bowl ‘female-fun’

  30-01-2015 05:45 via music-news.com
  
  Katy Perry has alluded to who she will be performing with this Sunday at Super Bowl XLIX.
  
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• Katy Perry to play Super Bowl?

  30-01-2015 05:45 via music-news.com
  
  Katy Perry has alluded to who she will be performing with this Sunday at Super Bowl XLIX.
  
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