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• Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman Just Want to Use 'Your Love' for Their Musical

  27-05-2015 23:47
  
  Caitlin Puckett and Calvin Cole are sitting on stage, recounting the details of their romance. The stage is set for Your Love, Our Musical at Peoples Improv Theater on a warm May night, with hosts Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman inviting an unassuming couple up on the stage, interviewing them about how they met, fell for each other, etc., then improvising a half-hour musical about that very love story.
  
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• Taylor Swift ‘asks Calvin to move in’

  27-05-2015 23:09 via music-news.com
  
  Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris are reportedly taking their romance to the next level.
  
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• Neil Diamond Sexes Up Toyota Center

  27-05-2015 22:50
  
  I've been keenly aware of my own advancing mortality in recent years. And aside from the graying hair, aching joints, and intolerance for young people, the clearest indicator of my looming decrepitude has been the aging of our beloved musicians.
  
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• Free outdoor concert series returns to Toronto Music Garden this summer

  27-05-2015 22:50
  
  One of Toronto's most serene settings for live music is also one of the city's cheapest. Harbourfront has just announced that its free outdoor concert series will return to the Toronto Music Garden for the 16th year.
  
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• FPSF On Track Despite Flooding, Afra Says

  27-05-2015 21:49
  
  With Free Press Summer Fest now just ten days away, the grounds for Houston's annual two-day music festival remain underwater after Monday's massive overnight flooding.
  
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• Transvestite Phoenicians: Get Ready For the Phoenix Music Version of Rocky Horror Picture Show

  27-05-2015 21:49
  
  Rocky Horror at the Firehouse. The name of the event says a lot, when you think about it.
  
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• Dennis Sheehan dead; U2's longtime tour manager dies at hotel

  27-05-2015 21:49
  
  Bono performs during U2's Innocence + Experience Tour at The Forum in Inglewood, California, on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Photo Credit: AP / Rich Fury Dennis Sheehan, U2's longtime tour manager, has died at a Southern California hotel, a day after the band kicked off a five-night stint in the Los Angeles area.
  
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• Gee, I Wonder Why People Aren’t Paying for Streaming Music Services…

  27-05-2015 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why doesn’t Spotify have more paying subscribers?  The reasons are simple: (1) people are already subscribing to way too many other things, and (2) those other ‘things’...
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• Why the Term ‘Indie’ Is Usually Bullshit…

  27-05-2015 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What does “Indie” mean to you? Does it mean quirky or artsy?  Or does it just refer to the style of a person?  Or does...
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• U2 mourn death of tour manager

  27-05-2015 21:01 via music-news.com
  
  U2’s long serving tour manager Dennis Sheehan died in a Los Angeles hotel room on Wednesday.
  
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• Turns Out Wall Street Isn’t Into MDMA After All…

  27-05-2015 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A few months ago Robert F.X. Sillerman, SFX Entertainment’s Founder, CEO, and Executive Chairman of the Board, announced that he wanted to take the company...
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• Miranda Lambert, Hank Williams Jr. Headline New Country-Rock Fest

  27-05-2015 20:49 via rollingstone.com
  
  With 264 residents spread over six square miles, Sparta — a former railroad stop that sits 45 minutes south of Cincinnati — is one Kentucky's smallest cities. Come August 28th, though, the local population will swell to more than 30,000, thanks to a new three-day music festival co-headlined by Miranda...
  
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• U2 tour manager found dead in West Hollywood hotel room

  27-05-2015 20:47
  
  The sheriff's department would confirm only that a death investigation was being conducted at 1200 Alta Loma Road, which is the address of the hotel. According to TMZ.com, Dennis Sheehan, who was in his late 60s, was found unconscious in his room.
  
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• Frank Black: “I Don’t Have F*_*ing Time to Worry About Spotify Royalties”

  27-05-2015 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spotify royalties suck.  But are you wasting your time worrying about it? ______________________________________________________ The Daily Beast: What do you think about streaming services from a financial...
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• Tierney's Tavern in Montclair holds second music festival

  27-05-2015 19:48
  
  Greg Kherlopian, left, Caleb Estey, Steven Donahue and Sevag Styles Vramshabouh make up The Big Drops, which will play at Tierney's on Saturday, May 30. Last year's all-day music festival at Tierney's Tavern, 136-138 Valley Road, has led to a second festival, which will take place on Saturday, May 30. Three stages will present 13 different bands, from 2 p.m. until the end of the final set, which begins at 11 p.m. Alan Smith of The Porchistas said in an email, "Last year's 80th anniversary at Tie
  
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• B.B. King’s Lawyer Says Murder Accusations Are “Baseless and Unfounded”

  27-05-2015 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two of B.B. King’s daughters are accusing his associates of murder, but King’s lawyer says the claims are ridiculous. Attorney Brent Bryson says any claims...
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• RZA Directing Common, Azealia Banks in New Rap Film 'Coco'

  27-05-2015 19:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA and rapper Azealia Banks are teaming for the upcoming musical drama Coco. RZA will direct the Lionsgate/Codeblack Films feature, which stars Banks as a "twentysomething female rapper named Coco." The Brooklyn-set film – which co-stars Common, Jill Scott and Lorraine Toussaint – has already begun shooting in New...
  
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• Azealia Banks Starring in RZA-Directed Rap Drama 'Coco'

  27-05-2015 19:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA and rapper Azealia Banks are teaming for the upcoming musical drama Coco. RZA will direct the Lionsgate/Codeblack Films feature, which stars Banks as a "twentysomething female rapper named Coco." The Brooklyn-set film – which co-stars Common, Jill Scott and Lorraine Toussaint – has already begun shooting in New...
  
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• Ornette Coleman Files Lawsuit Over Alleged Unauthorized Album

  27-05-2015 18:49 via rollingstone.com
  
  It had been nearly 20 years since jazz legend Ornette Coleman released a studio album when a new LP donning the saxophonist's name titled New Vocabulary arrived quietly in 2014. A year later, Coleman has filed a federal lawsuit against Antibalas' Jordan McLean and drummer Amir Ziv for releasing...
  
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• See Laura Bell Bundy's 'Sound of Music' Inspired New Video

  27-05-2015 18:44 via rollingstone.com
  
  In the five years since Broadway veteran Laura Bell Bundy broke into country music's Top Five with her album Achin' and Shakin', fans of the Kentucky native have seen her in various acting roles, from Anger Management to How I Met Your Mother, but hadn't heard much about her music....
  
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• Mark Patterson Records the Musicians of the 16th Street Mall

  27-05-2015 17:51
  
  One summer evening in 2012, the 16th Street Mall was filled with tourists and shoppers dining on outdoor patios and reveling in the agreeable weather. Mark Patterson had a different mission.
  
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• Blink-182 Inch Toward 'Friendly Divorce' From Tom DeLonge

  27-05-2015 17:12 via rollingstone.com
  
  Blink-182's public and acrimonious split from Tom DeLonge appears to be inching toward an amicable resolution as bassist-vocalist Mark Hoppus revealed in a new interview that the band have almost legally cut ties with the soon-to-be-ex-guitarist. "We are right now going through what so far has been a friendly divorce with...
  
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• Stevie Nicks: Bands need women

  27-05-2015 16:04 via music-news.com
  
  Stevie Nicks says Fleetwood Mac were "very grown up" while recording their album Rumours.
  
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• JLaw ''moves in with Chris Martin''

  27-05-2015 16:04 via music-news.com
  
  Jennifer Lawrence has allegedly moved into Chris Martin''s beach home for three months.
  
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• Kasey Chambers Ends Four Year Drought With New Album

  27-05-2015 15:26 via rollingstone.com
  
  Fifteen years after the U.S. release of her award-winning solo debut, The Captain, Australian singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers will issue Bittersweet, her tenth studio album and first solo record since 2010's Little Bird. Produced by Nick DiDia, known for his work with Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen and the Wallflowers, Chambers' LP...
  
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• B.B. King's Estate on Poisoning Allegations: 'Baseless and Unfounded'

  27-05-2015 15:25 via rollingstone.com
  
  As Memphis' Beale Street prepares to remember B.B. King's legacy at a memorial procession Wednesday, the bluesman's estate has hit back at allegations that King's business manager LaVerne Toney poisoned him in the months leading up to his May 14th death. In a statement, a lawyer for the estate...
  
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• Abbey Road, Stankonia Open Up Studios for New Artists

  27-05-2015 14:47 via rollingstone.com
  
  The world's most famous studios will be opening their doors to new and emerging artists later this year. Twelve studios — including London's Abbey Road and Atlanta's Stankonia — will host a total of 84 recording sessions in September.Converse Rubber Tracks, which will open the Boston affiliate to its Brooklyn...
  
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• MTV Africa Music Awards to mark Nelson Mandela's birthday

  27-05-2015 14:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 2015 awards show will be broadcast live from Durban, South Africa on July 18, the day the former president and Nobel laureate was born.
  
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• Disclosure Get Soaring, Soulful on New Single 'Holding On'

  27-05-2015 14:29 via rollingstone.com
  
  British duo Disclosure continue their streak of spaced-out, soulful dance pop odes with "Holding On," the first single from their follow-up to 2013's Settle, which premiered on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show, Stereogum reports.Though initially written as a ballad, Disclosure's Guy and Howard Lawrence said they...
  
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• Grateful Dead logo creator looks back on a long, strange trip

  27-05-2015 13:44
  
  The artist Stanley "Mouse" Miller hung out with Janis Joplin, came of age around R. Crumb and somehow found himself in a snapshot of John and Yoko during the famous bed-in. But we're here because this is the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, when products even loosely related to the band are springing up faster than salmon headed for Redfish Lake.
  
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• Kendrick Lamar: Vulnerability is tough

  27-05-2015 12:02 via music-news.com
  
  Kendrick Lamar wanted to connect with people through his new record To Pimp a Butterfly.
  
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• Neil Young slams corporate control

  27-05-2015 09:55 via music-news.com
  
  Neil Young has set his targets on American corporations with the Monsanto and Starbucks copping the wrath of Young in the upcoming ‘The Monsanto Years’ album.
  
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• Hailee Steinfeld: I want to live Bad Blood

  27-05-2015 09:52 via music-news.com
  
  Hailee Steinfeld would like to see an extended version of Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood video.
  
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• Newport festival to mark 50th year since Dylan went electric

  27-05-2015 09:33
  
  This year's Newport Folk Festival plans to pay tribute to the moment when Bob Dylan made rock history by going electric 50 years ago.
  
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• Ricky Martin: I don’t need an Adonis

  27-05-2015 09:30 via music-news.com
  
  Ricky Martin has realised he can't bring men home now he is a father.
  
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• Shania Twain: I thought I’d never sing again

  27-05-2015 09:03 via music-news.com
  
  Shania Twain has spoken about her forthcoming concert tour, which will likely be the star’s last time on the road ever.
  
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• Khloé: Lord Disick’s a headache!

  27-05-2015 09:03 via music-news.com
  
  Khloé Kardashian posted a birthday message to her future brother-in-law Scott Disick, calling him a “blessing and a headache”.
  
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• John Legend talks family dreams

  27-05-2015 09:03 via music-news.com
  
  John Legend thinks he will be a good ‘girl daddy’ if he was to have daughters with Chrissy Teigen.
  
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• Imbruglia: Motherhood is members’ club

  27-05-2015 09:03 via music-news.com
  
  Natalie Imbruglia thinks ageism in Hollywood is “disgusting”.
  
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• 50 Cent’s boxing company files for bankruptcy

  27-05-2015 09:03 via music-news.com
  
  50 Cent’s SMS Promotions has vowed to stay in business despite declaring itself bankrupt.
  
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• Judge Certifies Class Action Against SiriusXM Over Pre-1972 Music

  27-05-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The satellite radio giant is facing a nightmare lawsuit over its performance of older songs.
  
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• Out Musician Mika Shares Video for 'Good Guys,' a Bittersweet Homage to Gay Men

  27-05-2015 03:21
  
  British musician Mika has shared a video for "Good Guys," a provocative new single from his fourth album, No Place in Heaven, available June 16. The song is a bittersweet homage to "heroes dressed up in gold," the men, many of them gay, who inspired the singer growing up. Throughout the tune, Mika name-checks pop star David Bowie, songwriter Cole Porter, poet Walt Whitman, French writer Jean Cocteau, actor James Dean, and others.
  
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• Kylie Minogue new song in Absolutely Anything trailer

  27-05-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Kylie Minogue has slipped out a new song in the movie trailer for Terry Jones’ ‘Absolutely Anything’.
  
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• Khloé: Lord Disick’s a headache!

  27-05-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Khloé Kardashian posted a birthday message to her future brother-in-law Scott Disick, calling him a “blessing and a headache”.
  
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• Avicii presents 'Feeling Good'

  27-05-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Following the release of the excellent ‘The Days, The Nights’ - an EP that already boasts well over 200 million streams via Spotify
  
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• Asia vocalist has major cancer surgery

  27-05-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Asia vocalist and bass player John Wetton has undergone major cancer surgery.
  
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• If You Don’t Apply to the EDMbiz Startup Contest, You’ve Already Lost…

  27-05-2015 01:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EDM is not only the fastest-growing music genre, it’s also a surging focus for startup development and growth.  With that in mind, EDMbiz Conference &...
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• Adam Lambert unveils two new album tracks

  27-05-2015 01:15 via music-news.com
  
  Adam Lambert has premiered two stunning new tracks from his forthcoming album, The Original High.
  
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• One Direction reveal new sound

  27-05-2015 01:00 via music-news.com
  
  One Direction’s upcoming album is “a lot different” to their previous records.
  
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• Roots Band Della Mae Brings Harmony, Musicianship To Bluegrass Fest

  27-05-2015 00:11
  
  A self-titled third album, recorded with a highly decorated producer. A black-and-white cover photo showing only half the band smiling.
  
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