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• Minaj: I demand a climax

  29-05-2015 23:01 via music-news.com
  
  Nicki Minaj thinks it has to be “50/50” in the bedroom.
  
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• Iggy Azalea cancels tour

  29-05-2015 23:01 via music-news.com
  
  Iggy Azalea has called off her The Great Escape Tour, which was meant to commence this fall.
  
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• Weekend Rock Question: What's the Best Neil Young Deep Cut?

  29-05-2015 22:42 via rollingstone.com
  
  Neil Young played a surprise show at Charley's Restaurant and Saloon in Maui with his new backing band Promise of the Real earlier this week. The set focused on their upcoming album The Monsanto Years, but it also featured lesser-known Young tunes like "Country Home," "Goin' Back," "Walk On"...
  
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• What Is the Secret to Best Appreciating Classical Music?

  29-05-2015 22:37 via huffingtonpost.com
  
  Is there a secret (a how to) to listen to classical music?: originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn from experts and access insider knowledge. You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.Answer by David Leigh, I'm an opera singerCourtesy of Derek GleesonThere are a...
  
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• Grateful Dead Offer Up Chicago VIP Passes in Airbnb Contest

  29-05-2015 22:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  The only thing that sold out faster than tickets to the Grateful Dead's three farewell shows in Chicago were the city's available hotel rooms for the July 4th weekend. Thankfully, Airbnb has helped alleviate the lack of lodging for Deadheads by teaming with Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann for a...
  
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• Sources: Sony Could Face Class-Action Litigation Over Spotify Advances…

  29-05-2015 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The following is a developing story.  Please check back for ongoing updates. Sony Music Entertainment, as well as Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group, could face...
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• Even Astronauts Could Witness Jimmy Buffett's Awesomeness Last Night

  29-05-2015 21:25
  
  So, I learned last night that DayQuil, humidity and Jimmy Buffett don't mix all that well.
  
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• Jaime King: Women can be strong together

  29-05-2015 21:02 via music-news.com
  
  Jaime King has recalled how hard it was for her to fit in when she was at High School.
  
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• Adam Lambert: I wouldn’t run from love

  29-05-2015 21:02 via music-news.com
  
  Adam Lambert has joked that his latest album is his “lover”.
  
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• Creepy Avatar App ‘My Idol’ Is Now Being Used in Music Videos…

  29-05-2015 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Burhenn is set to release her third album as The Mynabirds this fall via Saddle Creek. Burhenn has done something pretty interested and unexpected...
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• Read Bruce Springsteen's Funny, Moving Tribute to Pete Townshend

  29-05-2015 19:36 via rollingstone.com
  
  Pete Townshend was honored Thursday night during the 11th annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert in New York, where he received the Stevie Ray Vaughan award from fellow rock legend Bruce Springsteen. The evening was filled with musical tributes to the Who, including appearances from Joan Jett, Billy Idol and Willie Nile. Springsteen joined...
  
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• Hunter Hayes Gets Morale Boost From Elton John

  29-05-2015 19:13 via rollingstone.com
  
  Hunter Hayes will be the first to tell you that he has been lucky enough to get to meet and play with some of his musical influences, including Stevie Wonder and Garth Brooks. Now he can add Elton John to the list. Hayes, who covered the title track of John’s classic album...
  
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• Chance the Rapper's Social Experiment Drops Free 'Surf' Album

  29-05-2015 19:04 via rollingstone.com
  
  Chance the Rapper's side project, Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, released their debut album Surf Thursday evening via SoundCloud below and as a free download on iTunes.The album features numerous guest appearances, though the iTunes track list does not name any features. According to...
  
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• Robbie Williams announces charity auction

  29-05-2015 19:00 via music-news.com
  
  Robbie Williams - in conjunction with Bonhams – is spearheading a charity auction titled “Doing it for the Kids” on July 15 at 3pm.
  
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• Sony Music Artists Can’t Get Paid. Sony Music CEO Makes $20 Million…

  29-05-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yesterday, a former Grooveshark employee accused top major label executives of being focused one one thing, and one thing only: their obscenely bloated salaries.  Now, we’re...
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• Barbuto Chef de Cuisine Travis McShane Trades the Big Apple for Music City

  29-05-2015 18:19 via nashville.eater.com
  
  McShane made the move here last month to oversee Jonathan Waxman's Adele's. Jonathan Waxman appears to be taking quality control at his Nashville restaurant Adele's quite seriously, as Travis McShane, the chef de cuisine and over five year veteran of Waxman's flagship New York City restaurant Barbuto, has moved to town to oversee the day-to-day operations.
  
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• Kick Off Summer with Music, Mushrooms, and More This Weekend May 29-31

  29-05-2015 18:00 via minneapolis.eater.com
  
  Join the Surly crew as they release summer seasonal Bitter Brewer at St. Paul’s new lakeside restaurant, Como Dockside from 5-10 p.m. Eat New Orleans-inspired items like beignet dogs and listen to live music from Lazerbeak of Doomtree. Join top local chefs Thomas Boemer, Jim Christiansen, Gavin Kaysen, Todd MacDonald, and Nick O'Leary as they compete for best dish utilizing wild morels.
  
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• Erin Andrews, Brittany Snow to Co-Host 2015 CMT Music Awards

  29-05-2015 17:21 via rollingstone.com
  
  While the CMA, ACM and ACC Awards try various country stars' hands at TV hosting duties, the CMT Music Awards tend to have Hollywood going country for a night. Following in the stilettoed footsteps of actresses including Kristen Bell, Kathy Najimi and Pamela Anderson will this year be Dancing With...
  
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• Timescape is a New Music Festival That's Really an Art Installation

  29-05-2015 16:13
  
  How do you make a music festival stick out from the crowd in 2015? Organizers have tried all sorts of ideas, from putting them in arenas to spreading them among clubs and even, uh, having them in the suburbs. A new music festival announced earlier this week, Timescape Music and Arts Festival , came up with a more unconventional solution to the problem: turning their festival into an art installation.
  
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• Detroit's Death Revive Themselves with a N.E.W. Lease on Life

  29-05-2015 16:13
  
  "Every day is a good day for Death," Bobby Hackney firmly states. And Death, forty years after its inception, is finally having its day in the sun.
  
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• Jason Derulo: MC Hammer was my idol

  29-05-2015 16:07 via music-news.com
  
  Jason Derulo has revealed the surprising star who inspired him to make music.
  
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• Jack Antonoff's clothes confusion

  29-05-2015 16:07 via music-news.com
  
  Jack Antonoff thinks people are smarter than they get credit for.
  
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• Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch Lists for $100 Million

  29-05-2015 15:39 via rollingstone.com
  
  Michael Jackson's opulent Santa Barbara County, California estate Neverland Ranch has been put on the market for $100 million. Named after the fictional world in Peter Pan where children never grow up, the King of Pop resided on the estate, which contained its own amusement park and petting zoo to entertain visiting...
  
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• There's a Solid Chance You've Already Heard (and Loved) Rachel Platten's Music - Here's Why

  29-05-2015 13:17
  
  New York City-based musician Rachel Platten's career took off full-force after the instant success of her song "1,000 Ships," and since then she hasn't stopped working toward her dream for a second. Her music has been featured in episodes of everything from Pretty Little Liars to One Tree Hill and Finding Carter , and after just one listen you'll hear why.
  
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• Andrea Bocelli announces new album

  29-05-2015 13:09 via music-news.com
  
  Ahead of his performance on the Live Final of Britain’s Got Talent, internationally-renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli reveals a new album will be released later this year.
  
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• Trip Tips: Music, beaches and 'fromagers' in Senegal's Casamance

  29-05-2015 13:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Carolyn Cohn ZIGUNICHOR, Senegal (Reuters) - A mix of locals and music fans were watching silently or dancing, framed by the branches of the giant "fromager" tree that marks the center of the Senegalese village of Diembering, as hip-hop band Tirailleurs started to sing about me. Or at least apparently they did - if only I could understand their Wolof language. Tirailleurs were performing at the four-day Festival des Rizieres, an annual celebration of hip-hop and reggae in the southe
  
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• Azealia Banks: I'm no second-rate Rihanna

  29-05-2015 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Azealia Banks had to replace her two dogs when her sister wouldn't give them back.
  
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• Gifts for the music-loving dad

  29-05-2015 10:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Father's Day is around the corner, and the gift brainstorming must begin. Below, a few recent releases likely to appeal to music-loving dads, whatever their preferred style.
  
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• Bono reflects on death

  29-05-2015 09:33 via music-news.com
  
  Bono says U2 is much more than just a group, as it encompasses their whole team.
  
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• Suge Knight returns to court to try to dismiss murder case

  29-05-2015 09:10
  
  A lawyer for Marion "Suge" Knight argues that a murder case against the former rap music mogul should be dismissed.
  
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• Josh Pyke announces fifth album

  29-05-2015 08:51 via music-news.com
  
  After months of teasing fans with snippets of new material, Josh Pyke today announced the release of his fifth studio album,
  
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• Terence Blanchard wrote music for Spike Lee's film "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts."

  29-05-2015 08:07
  
  The Big Easy pays a three-day visit to Detroit DSO celebrates kindred ties that bind New Orleans and Detroit with 3-day concert Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1HzESDm The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will explore the cities' kinship in a three-day event June 2-4 at The Max called "A Musical Tale of Two Cities: Motown Meets the Big Easy." It kicks off with a Bourbon Street Party featuring Big Sam's Funky Nation and continues with a master class and performances by youth gr
  
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• TV Academy Allows Music Supervisors Membership

  29-05-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Supervisors will be permitted to join the Music Peer Group if they apply by June 12.
  
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• New Movies, TV on iTunes in June: 'Home,' 'While We're Young,' 'Complications' and More

  29-05-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'McFarland USA,' 'Danny Collins' and 'Ex Machina' will also be available for download this month as new seasons of TV series 'Halt and Catch Fire,' 'Pretty Little Liars,' 'Tyrant' and 'Teen Wolf' hit Apple's digital store.
  
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• CMT Music Awards: Erin Andrews and Brittany Snow to Co-Host

  29-05-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney are among performers set to take the stage at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
  
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• Phoenix Musicians Pay Tribute to the Beastie Boys Tonight at Monarch

  29-05-2015 05:58
  
  Its a warm night in downtown Phoenix and the members of local hip-hop group Drunken Immortals are making things even warmer inside the Pueblo practice space near the Crescent Ballroom as they rehearse a few Beastie Boys covers. A tiny A/C unit in the wall and a ramshackle swamp cooler overhead are working overtime but have little effect as seven musicians fill this particular room, each of whom are busy at the moment performing their respective parts of the hit Beastie Boys track, "Sure Shot."
  
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• 50 Cent: Chris Brown helped me end feud

  29-05-2015 05:06 via music-news.com
  
  50 Cent has credited singer Chris Brown with helping to put an end to the bad blood between himself and boxer Floyd Mayweather.
  
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• Universal Hires Tanya Greig Perara as Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, Film Music

  29-05-2015 02:48
  
  Tanya Greig Perara has joined Universal Pictures as SVP, business affairs, film music, and will report to Mike Knobloch , president of film music and publishing. According to the studio, Perara will lead and manage the business affairs function for all of film music, including oversight of talent deals, the music licensing team's negotiations of licenses with publishers, labels, artists and other rights owners, and oversight over current and legacy soundtrack projects, partnering with record lab
  
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• Pandora musicologist wants to prescribe music to ease cancer symtoms

  29-05-2015 02:48
  
  Pandora musicologist Nolan Gasser wants to use his music knowhow to create "data-driven music therapy" for cancer patients. The pianist/composer was the architect for the streaming music service's extensive Music Genome Project, which broke music down into its essential elements - like "prevalent use of groove" for example.
  
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• Sony Music Bullies The Verge. Sony Music Doesn’t Even Contact Digital Music News…

  29-05-2015 02:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If lawyers are good at anything, it’s bullying and intimidating people without any legal basis whatsoever.  And the reason is simple: the other side is...
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• The Rolling Stones play HP party for $2M

  29-05-2015 01:46 via music-news.com
  
  The Rolling Stones played a private show on Wednesday night in Solana Beach, California for the former chairman of HP.
  
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• Before You Sample That Track, Please Read This…

  29-05-2015 01:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wallace Collins is an entertainment and intellectual property lawyer based in New York. He has been in the business for over 30 years. Prior to this he was an...
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• Chris Brown: I hated myself

  29-05-2015 01:33 via music-news.com
  
  Chris Brown shared a touching open letter with fans via social media on Thursday, in which he detailed some of his darkest moments.
  
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• Walter Trout thanks fans and calls for donors

  29-05-2015 01:26 via music-news.com
  
  Two days ago (May 26) was the one year anniversary of Walter Trout's life saving liver transplant and, to thank his fans, has posted a new video message.
  
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• Frank Sinatra 100th birthday book release

  29-05-2015 01:04 via music-news.com
  
  The celebration of the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s birth continues with the new hardcover book Sinatra 100.
  
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