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• Ross, Simpson: Our child will be spoiled

  26-06-2015 23:18 via music-news.com
  
  Evan Ross has revealed he and wife Ashlee Simpson have chosen a “unique” name for their unborn daughter.
  
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• Kelly O on Melissa’s new Police role

  26-06-2015 23:18 via music-news.com
  
  Kelly Osbourne feels Melissa Rivers’ appointment as the new co-host of Fashion Police is richly deserved.
  
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• Musicians carry on Cincinnati jazz tradition

  26-06-2015 23:10
  
  Musicians carry on Cincinnati jazz tradition Musicians carry on Cincinnati jazz tradition Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/1NjSNBx Dan Karlsberg is a jazz teacher. He's on staff at the University of Cincinnati in the jazz department at College-Conservatory of Music.
  
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• David Crosby: Joni Mitchell Had Aneurysm, Cannot Speak

  26-06-2015 22:28 via rollingstone.com
  
  David Crosby has revealed that Joni Mitchell suffered from an aneurysm when she was hospitalized in late May. "Nobody found her for a while," he told the Huffington Post. "She took a terrible hit. To my knowledge she is not speaking yet...She's going to have to struggle...
  
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• Thurston Moore Explains Nixed Tel Aviv Gig, Israel Boycott

  26-06-2015 22:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  Two months after Thurston Moore canceled a Tel Aviv, Israel performance without explanation, the guitarist has opened up about the "conscientious decision process" behind the nixed gig. In Moore's letter, published within The Quietus' larger story about musicians boycotting Israel over the treatment of Palestinians, the Sonic Youth rocker...
  
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• For white Southern music, a time of soul searching over Confederate flag

  26-06-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Country singer Cody McCarver for years wore T-shirts featuring the Confederate battle flag - the "rebel flag" as he calls it -when he toured in the U.S. South as a member of the Confederate Railroad band. It took last week's controversy over the Confederate flag following the murder of nine worshipers at an African-American church in Charleston to fully drive home to him how divisive the symbol can be. "I think that if, and this is a huge if, taking the rebel flag out of our
  
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• Kim Dotcom-Founded Music Platform Partners With Fuel TV…

  26-06-2015 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the end of 2013 Kim Dotcom announced his new music service called Baboom. Dotcom said he had spent four years working on the service....
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• Joy Division launches Official website

  26-06-2015 20:36 via music-news.com
  
  Joy Division has today launched a new website, the first time that the band hass had an official site.
  
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• Spotify: “Taylor Swift’s Departure Had Zero Impact on Us”

  26-06-2015 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  …from an interview with billionaire Sean Parker, investor, board member, and key executive at Spotify. CNN/Money: So what has Taylor Swift taught us about this...
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• SiriusXM Is Going to Pay $210 Million for Pre-1972 Recordings…

  26-06-2015 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SiriusXM has settled with the major labels and ABKCO, a label that controls early recordings by The Rolling Stones, The Animals, and others. Sirius will...
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• Beverley Knight celebrates 750,000 Tickets For Troops

  26-06-2015 19:41 via music-news.com
  
  Tickets For Troops celebrate their 750,000th donated ticket with Beverley Knight and Tickets For Troops members ahead of Memphis the Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
  
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• Lisa Stansfield to release of live album

  26-06-2015 19:03 via music-news.com
  
  2014 was clearly the year of Lisa Stansfield. After a long absence from the world of recorded music, the Grammy nominated
  
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• The New Timescape Music and Arts Festival Appears to Be Dead on Arrival

  26-06-2015 19:00
  
  From the moment the Timescape Music and Arts Festival was announced, there was a touch of the dream world about it. The festival, slated to take place at Globe Life Park in Arlington on July 18, was supposed to function as a sort of art installation, divided into three distinct "experiences:" one incorporating nature and pinwheels, one that would shower fans with florescent powder and one with the festival stage itself.
  
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• Glen Campbell's Daughter Ashley Details Dad's Declining Health

  26-06-2015 18:18 via rollingstone.com
  
  The influence that Glen Campbell has had on artists of every genre is undeniable. But with the decision of his family to go public with the legendary entertainer's 2011 Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, his extraordinary legacy has become even more significant and farther-reaching.On Sunday, June 28th at 9:00 p.m. ET,...
  
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• SiriusXM to Pay Labels $210 Million Over Copyright Battle

  26-06-2015 17:40 via rollingstone.com
  
  SiriusXM has agreed to pay independent and major record labels $210 million after the satellite radio company broadcasted pre-1972 recordings for years without compensating the labels or the artists. The agreement comes after an October 2014 court decision in which a judge ruled that while copyright law didn't protect songs...
  
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• Kellie Pickler: 'The Goal Is to Cash Out and Help the World'

  26-06-2015 17:38 via rollingstone.com
  
  "I don't care about what you're wearing or what I'm wearing. I don't give a shit about clothes," Kellie Pickler tells Rolling Stone Country, seated backstage at the CMT Music Awards earlier this month with her husband Kyle Jacobs. In a dress of turquoise sparkles and jeweled heels, she can...
  
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• Phil Anselmo on Superjoint Ritual's Return: 'Everything's 100 Times Better'

  26-06-2015 17:05 via rollingstone.com
  
  For Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo, recording and touring in the early 2000s with his hardcore metal side project Superjoint Ritual was neither enjoyable, enlightening nor politically prudent. He was battling a crippling back injury caused by years of jumping from monitors and stages, struggling with the pain through...
  
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• Record Giants Win $210M Settlement from SiriusXM Over Pre-1972 Music

  26-06-2015 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A deal announced by the RIAA on Friday provides resolution to one of the key battles in a legally contentious area.
  
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd, Brantley Gilbert Talk Country Attitude, Perform ‘Name'

  26-06-2015 16:18 via rollingstone.com
  
  More than four decades since their formation in 1969, Lynyrd Skynyrd — despite numerous personnel changes and tragedies, including a 1977 plane crash that killed three of its members — still look like a band you don't want to mess with.Bassist Johnny Colt, a onetime member of the Black Crowes who...
  
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• Michael Bublé's son doing well after scalding

  26-06-2015 16:04 via music-news.com
  
  Michael Bublé and Luisana Lopilato's son Noah is doing better after suffering burns from scalding water.
  
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• Bobby Brown 'in a bad place'

  26-06-2015 16:04 via music-news.com
  
  Bobby Brown's New Edition bandmate Johnny Gill wouldn't wish what he's going through on his worst enemy.
  
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• Growing Older With Madonna

  26-06-2015 14:44
  
  Madonna performs "Living for Love" at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Photo: Lucy Nicholson In the video for Bitch I'm Madonna , a party anthem released last week, the pop star of the title, in a clingy Moschino leopard-print dress, hot-pink coif and gold teeth grills, romps through the corridors of the Standard hotel along New York City's High Line.
  
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• Rita Ora: You have to take it on the chin

  26-06-2015 12:31 via music-news.com
  
  Rita Ora would rather her split with Calvin Harris had been private, but takes it on the chin.
  
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• Rita Ora takes love-life lies on the chin

  26-06-2015 12:07 via music-news.com
  
  Rita Ora would rather her split with Calvin Harris had been private, but takes it on the chin.
  
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• Dr. Dre, Elton John and Drake to host radio shows on Apple Music

  26-06-2015 11:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest news coming from the launch of the hotly anticipated Apple Music, is that Dr. Dre, Elton John, Drake and Pharrell Williams will be among a gaggle of celebrities to host their own radio shows.
  
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• All-star festival weekend brings many musical genres to NYC

  26-06-2015 10:34
  
  All-star festival weekend brings country's Brad Paisley, pop star Ariana Grande, jazz master Robert Glasper and more to New York Top concerts crowd every summer weekend. But no three-day stretch of this season will present a wider array of genres, with greater authority, than this one.
  
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• Nick Jonas breaks silence on split

  26-06-2015 09:49 via music-news.com
  
  Nick Jonas has opened up about his split from Olivia Culpo.
  
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• Bobbi Kristina family gather at hospice

  26-06-2015 08:37 via music-news.com
  
  Bobbi Kristina Brown’s long, sad story may be coming to an end.
  
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• Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones play NYC

  26-06-2015 08:37 via music-news.com
  
  Two years ago, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong took a sharp turn away from his band’s sound to record the album Foreverly with Norah Jones.
  
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• Video: Southland Mission makes a stunning debut onstage

  26-06-2015 06:24
  
  Phil Cook's Southland Revue: Introducing Southland Mission Duk e Gardens, Durham Wednesday, June 24 The program for the packed final night of Phil Cook's Southland Revue was straightforward and self-explanatory: With the show titled Introducing Southland Mission , the band tore through Cook's nine-song LP due out via Thirty Tigers in September. After beginning with "Ain't it Sweet," the band followed with Charlie Parr's "1922" and Cook's "Great Tide" .
  
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• Record Giants Win $210 Million Settlement With SiriusXM Over Pre-1972 Music

  26-06-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A deal announced by the RIAA on Friday provides resolution to one of the key battles in a legally contentious area.
  
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• Record Giants Win $210 Million Settlement from SiriusXM Over Pre-1972 Music

  26-06-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A deal announced by the RIAA on Friday provides resolution to one of the key battles in a legally contentious area.
  
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• Why 'Back to the Future's' Composer Is Writing New Music for the Film

  26-06-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A concert tour is coming to the Hollywood Bowl.
  
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• Ice Cube: N.W.A. changed society

  26-06-2015 05:13 via music-news.com
  
  Ice Cube has spoken about what it will be like reuniting with his seminal hip hop group N.W.A. at the BET Awards this weekend, 15 years after their last concert performance.
  
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• Horner’s death ruled an accident

  26-06-2015 05:13 via music-news.com
  
  A coroner has classified composer James Horner’s demise as accidental.
  
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• White People Are the Least Likely to Own a Smartphone…

  26-06-2015 03:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From Nielsen’s just-released ‘Total Audience Report’… Page 17 of the report…  
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• Apple Music Is the First Streaming Service to Get ‘1989’…

  26-06-2015 02:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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• Taylor Swift tweets ensure 1989 will be available on Apple Music

  26-06-2015 02:19
  
  Earlier this week, Taylor Swift published a Tumblr post explaining her decision to withhold her hit album 1989 from the forthcoming Apple Music streaming service. However, thanks to some quick PR work and a change of course by Apple, it appears 1989 will indeed be making its way to the anticipated new platform after all.
  
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• Florence: Broken limbs lead to Glasto

  26-06-2015 01:36 via music-news.com
  
  Florence Welch is planning to hold a ceremony in the Glastonbury healing fields to help Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl recover from his broken leg.
  
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• Leon Bridges intimate London date

  26-06-2015 01:07 via music-news.com
  
  Amazon.co.uk has announced Texan soul singer Leon Bridges as the latest artist to perform in Amazon’s Front Row Live series.
  
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• Donald Trump: “If We Shake Hands I Should Be Able to Use Your Music Without Permission”

  26-06-2015 00:56 via feedproxy.google.com
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• Dutch Uncles, Lonely The Brave and Palma Violets for #SFSTOUR15

  26-06-2015 00:11 via music-news.com
  
  As a brand intrinsically linked to music, Dr. Martens remains one of the most culturally relevant and iconic British brands of all time.
  
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