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• Music Review: Campbell steps front and center with wife

  23-06-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, "Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams" (Red House)
  
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• Diddy: I was defending myself

  23-06-2015 23:33 via music-news.com
  
  Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ rep has released a statement regarding the star’s recent arrest.
  
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• DJ giant Steve Aoki sees spiritual in dance music

  23-06-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As thousands of young people swayed and sweat under the sun to his beats, Steve Aoki raised his arms in joy and, to show his love, covered a lucky few with cakes he tossed from stage. Electronic dance music, or EDM, has grown exponentially in recent years and become central to major festivals.
  
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• Jelli Raises $21 Million to Sell Radio Ads…

  23-06-2015 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jelli is an advertising platform for radio. Jelli powers iHeartMedia’s ad buying platform and works with Katz Marketing Group. Jelli says they’ve closed a $21...
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• Lambert: There was no coming out blueprint

  23-06-2015 23:06 via music-news.com
  
  Adam Lambert wishes he had been given “more guidance” before he publicly came out as gay in 2009.
  
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• David Bowie to Release Massive Box Set 'Five Years 1969-1973'

  23-06-2015 22:27 via rollingstone.com
  
  David Bowie has announced the first in a series of box sets to showcase his lengthy, diverse career. Five Years 1969-1973 will come out on September 25th via Parlophone and will be available on CD, vinyl and digitally.Five Years will be a comprehensive look at the singer's early years and...
  
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• Google Play Music Launches Free, Ad-Supported Streaming Service

  23-06-2015 22:06 via rollingstone.com
  
  Google Play Music has launched a free, ad-supported version of its streaming service that allows users to browse a massive library of 30 million songs and listen to curated playlists for many occasions. The service is currently available online and as an app for iOS and Android devices.The playlists...
  
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• TIDAL’s CEO Has Resigned…

  23-06-2015 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Back in April TIDAL fired 25 staff members, including their CEO Andy Chen. Peter Tonstad, former CEO of Aspiro, took over as interim CEO. TIDAL...
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• Nickelback tour cancelled

  23-06-2015 21:00 via music-news.com
  
  Nickelback have cancelled the remainder of their North American tour after revealing Chad Kroeger is set to undergo surgery on his voice box.
  
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• Courtney Love: Miley duet won’t happen

  23-06-2015 21:00 via music-news.com
  
  Courtney Love says that while she liked Miley Cyrus “a lot”, she doesn’t think a collaboration is on the cards.
  
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• Bobbi Kristina: ‘Breathing but unresponsive’

  23-06-2015 21:00 via music-news.com
  
  Bobbi Kristina Brown’s family have reportedly accepted that the 22-year-old’s fate is “in God’s hands”.
  
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• Music mogul Diddy's rep" He was defending himself

  23-06-2015 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean "Diddy" Combs was defending himself in an incident at the University of California, Los Angeles, that led to his arrest, a representative the hip-hop mogul's company said Tuesday.
  
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• Music mogul Diddy's company: He was defending himself

  23-06-2015 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sean "Diddy" Combs' company says the hip-hop mogul was defending himself in an incident at the University of California, Los Angeles, that led to his arrest.
  
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• Google Play Music rolls out free version

  23-06-2015 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google's web-based music service has launched a free service which is supported by advertisments. The free version is launching in the US on the web from June 23rd, with Android and iOS editions to follow later in the week. "We hope you'll enjoy it so much that you'll consider subscribing to Google Play Music to play without ads, take your music offline, create your own playlists, and listen to any of the 30 million songs in our library on any device and as much as you'd
  
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• Breaking: Apple Paying Just $0.002 Per Stream During Its Free Trial Period…

  23-06-2015 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yesterday, Apple reversed course and announced that artists would be paid during the free trial phase of its upcoming streaming service, Apple Music. Just one...
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• Glastonbury alternative stream based line-up

  23-06-2015 20:06 via music-news.com
  
  Spotify has today cast a new light on this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival by releasing an alternative line-up based on UK streams to date in 2015.
  
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• Courtney Love: 'I'm the Last Chick on Alternative Radio'

  23-06-2015 19:40 via rollingstone.com
  
  Courtney Love slammed the lack of women on alternative rock radio, bemoaned the difficulties many rock bands face now and told Girls star Jemima Kirke in an interview for Humanity magazine: "I'm the last chick on alternative radio that they’ll play, and it’s really kind of stupid."While speaking about...
  
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• Take That gross top ‘one night only’ cinema gig

  23-06-2015 19:30 via music-news.com
  
  Take That streamed their spectacular new show live on to 520 screens across the UK & Eire on Friday night (19th June), receiving
  
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• Could Live Music Be Heading to More French Quarter Restaurants?

  23-06-2015 19:15 via nola.eater.com
  
  Nadine Ramsey is hoping to pass zoning amendments that allow for live music at Quarter restaurants and more. The city's new comprehensive zoning ordinance, yes the laws that regulate live music in bars and restaurants (among other things), may get a few tweaks in the near future, Richard Webster reports, as councilwoman Nadine Ramsey rolls out her live music wish list at today's City Planning Commission meeting.
  
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• Eurovision winner to play London

  23-06-2015 19:00 via music-news.com
  
  a, Swedish winner of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, has today announced that he will play a show in London as part of a 17 date European tour.
  
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• Hear Lauryn Hill, Usher Interpret Nina Simone Classics

  23-06-2015 19:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Two more tracks from the upcoming Nina Simone tribute album, Nina Revisited, find Lauryn Hill and Usher putting unique spins on the jazz legend's songs. Hill, who co-produced the compilation, transforms Simone's vocal showstopper "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" from a pensive piano...
  
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• Kacey Musgraves Embraces Throwback Country on 2015 Tour

  23-06-2015 18:25 via rollingstone.com
  
  On the (sparkly cowboy boot) heels of today's release of her long-awaited Pageant Material LP, Kacey Musgraves has announced the upcoming dates for her upcoming tour, the Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue. Kicking off in Atlanta on August 27th, the trek will visit six countries and include...
  
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• Google launches free streaming service ahead of Apple Music debut

  23-06-2015 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc launched a free version of its music streaming service on Tuesday, as it sought to upstage the debut of Apple Inc's rival service next week. Google Play Music has offered a $9.99 per month subscription service for two years but Tuesday's launch is the first free version of the streaming service. It is available online and will be available on Android and iOS by the end of the week, Elias Roman, Google product manager, said.
  
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• Google adds free ad-supported tier to music app in the US

  23-06-2015 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google is adding a free tier to its subscription streaming music service in the U.S., aiming to convert the millions of people who click on the Google Play Music app every month but turn away because they're prompted for payment information.
  
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• Roger Waters Enlists Tom Morello, Billy Corgan for Benefit Concert

  23-06-2015 17:28 via rollingstone.com
  
  Roger Waters will host this year's Music Heals benefit concert at Washington D.C.'s DAR-Constitution Hall on October 16th. The event, an annual one-night-only concert to raise money for the charity MusiCorps, will also feature special guests Billy Corgan, Sheryl Crow and Tom Morello. Tickets for the benefit concert go on...
  
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• Diddy 'accused of terrorist threats'

  23-06-2015 17:17 via music-news.com
  
  Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs allegedly faces one count of "making terrorist threats".
  
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• Britney 'split due to marriage conflict'

  23-06-2015 16:10 via music-news.com
  
  Britney Spears' rumoured ex-boyfriend Charlie Ebersol apparently wasn't ready to settle down.
  
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• Hear Led Zeppelin's Bassy 'Hots on for Nowhere' Reference Mix

  23-06-2015 16:05 via rollingstone.com
  
  Led Zeppelin recorded their seventh studio album, 1976's Presence, over the course of 18 days in Munich. While they were making it, they made reference mixes of some of the songs, five of which will appear on the upcoming companion disc to deluxe editions of the record....
  
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• 'Titanic,' 'Avatar' Composer James Horner Dead at 61

  23-06-2015 15:50 via rollingstone.com
  
  James Horner, the Academy Award-winning film composer responsible for the unforgettable scores from films like Titanic, Braveheart and Avatar, died Monday in a plane crash outside Santa Barbara, California. He was 61. While early reports stated that a single-engine plane owned by the composer had crashed into a remote area, it...
  
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• Rod Stewart announces new album 'Another Country'

  23-06-2015 15:14 via music-news.com
  
  Rod Stewart has finished work on his eagerly anticipated new album, “Another Country,” to be released on October 23rd via Decca Records.
  
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• Music mogul Diddy accused of assault with workout equipment

  23-06-2015 15:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hip-hop music mogul Diddy was released from jail after being accused of assault with a weight-room kettlebell at the athletic facilities of the University of California, Los Angeles, where his son plays football, police said.
  
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• Elton John, Drake, Van Halen Lead Atlanta's Music Midtown Festival

  23-06-2015 14:54 via rollingstone.com
  
  Elton John, Drake, Van Halen and Sam Smith have been recruited to headline this year's Music Midtown Festival, which will invade Atlanta's Piedmont Park on September 18th and 19th. Run the Jewels, Jenny Lewis, Hozier, Lenny Kravitz, Billy Idol, Tove Lo and Icona Pop will also perform at the fest....
  
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• Meghan Trainor new single ft. John Legend

  23-06-2015 14:09 via music-news.com
  
  Meghan Trainor releases her new single, the majestic ballad ‘Like I’m Gonna Lose You’ ft. John Legend, through Epic Records.
  
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• Years & Years share new track 'Foundation'

  23-06-2015 13:13 via music-news.com
  
  Fresh from appearing on the 20th anniversary of the legendary TFI Friday and headlining two sold-out shows at London’s iconic Shepherd’s Bush Empire
  
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• Sarah Hyland: Don''t mess with me

  23-06-2015 12:04 via music-news.com
  
  Sarah Hyland wonders if watching Orange Is the New Black has made her feistier.
  
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• Fifth Harmony: We need more girl power!

  23-06-2015 12:04 via music-news.com
  
  Fifth Harmony want to be role models to the younger generation that looks up to them.
  
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• Rita Ora defends Chris Brown

  23-06-2015 09:34 via music-news.com
  
  Rita Ora is happy to stand up for Chris Brown and is glad she got to work with him.
  
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• Titanic composer killed in plane crash

  23-06-2015 08:34 via music-news.com
  
  James Horner, the composer behind the scores for Titanic, The Lady In Red and Avatar, has died in a plane crash near Santa Barbara, California.
  
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• Jay Z's Tidal Music Service Loses Interim CEO

  23-06-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Interim CEO Peter Tonstad has yet to be replaced, according to Tidal.
  
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• Exclusive: Soundcloud Bracing for Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuits…

  23-06-2015 03:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Grooveshark said it wouldn’t happen to them, either.  But according to multiple executives close to the situation, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and the Recording...
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• Rudimental reveal 'Rumour Mill' video

  23-06-2015 02:02 via music-news.com
  
  Global platinum-selling four piece RUDIMENTAL have unveiled a new track from their upcoming new album, We The Generation.
  
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• New Order new album 'Music Complete'

  23-06-2015 02:01 via music-news.com
  
  New Order have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on 25 September 2015.
  
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• Patsy Cline returns as hologram

  23-06-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Patsy Cline is one of the most beloved country artists of all time and, soon, fans will be able to relive her performances when she is turned into a hologram.
  
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• Janet Jackson reveals new song

  23-06-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Janet Jackson has released her first single in five years, No Sleeep (yes, that’s spelled correctly) from her upcoming album Unbreakable.
  
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• James Taylor: Artists deserve 50% of income

  23-06-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  James Taylor has weighted in on the streaming revenue discussion and he says artists deserve half on the income.
  
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• David Guetta hits 2bn plays and 15m Spotify fans

  23-06-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Spotify can today confirm that David Guetta has smashed the 2 billion plays milestone on Spotify, making him only the third artist* in Spotify history to do so.
  
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• David Bowie: Five Years box set 1969 - 1073

  23-06-2015 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  On this day in 1971, David Bowie performed for the first time at what was then known as the ‘Glastonbury Fair’.
  
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• Selena Gomez: I’m guarded

  23-06-2015 01:32 via music-news.com
  
  Selena Gomez fears everything she says will be “ripped apart” by other people.
  
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• Lianne La Havas 'What You Don't Do' video

  23-06-2015 01:32 via music-news.com
  
  The return of Lianne La Havas gathers pace ahead of the July 31st release of her eagerly anticipated second album ‘Blood’.
  
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• Diddy arrested

  23-06-2015 01:32 via music-news.com
  
  Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was supposedly taken into custody after getting into a fight with his son’s American football coach.
  
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