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• Rihanna, Travis Scott ‘could become exclusive’

  10-09-2015 23:48 via music-news.com
  
  Rihanna’s alleged romance with rapper Travis Scott is said to be heating up rapidly.
  
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• Minnie Driver: I could have been as big as JLo!

  10-09-2015 23:48 via music-news.com
  
  Minnie Driver says her music is “part of me” in a big way.
  
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• Flashback: Ray Charles, Travis Tritt Duet on Buddy Guy Classic

  10-09-2015 22:05 via rollingstone.com
  
  Forty years after the recording of his hugely influential and career-changing Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music LP in 1962, Ray Charles revisited country music via the popular CMT Crossroads series. The special, taped in Nashville on September 10th, 2002, paired Charles with another Georgia native, soulful country singer Travis Tritt. It's fitting that Charles would appear on the show during its first season, since his classic album was the first of its kind, showcasing a performer be
  
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• Hear Big Boi, Phantogram Team Up for Spacey 'Fell in the Sun'

  10-09-2015 21:57 via rollingstone.com
  
  Outkast's Big Boi raps about how he's extraterrestrial and extraordinary over big, spacey, cinematic synth soundscapes on "Fell in the Sun," the first track to come off Big Grams, the self-titled debut EP by his upcoming collaboration with indie-pop duo Phantogram. The tune features upbeat horns, fuzzy keyboard, clattering drums and a dancey rap break by the latter group's Sarah Barthel, who shouts out Atlanta and New York – where Big Boi and Phantogram come from respectively. The seven-tr
  
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• Teigen: I trust John… but you never know

  10-09-2015 21:06 via music-news.com
  
  Chrissy Teigen has vowed not to get a “hot nanny” when she has children, just in case husband John Legend gets too tempted.
  
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• Hear the Legendary Shack Shakers' Rambunctious 'One That Got Away'

  10-09-2015 20:23 via rollingstone.com
  
  Taking in one of the Legendary Shack Shakers' thrilling, sometimes terrifying, live performances is akin to witnessing a gospel revival or even a snake-handling ceremony. And for good reason: the Kentucky band's magnetic leader, vocalist and harmonica maven J.D. Wilkes spent his formative years at a charismatic religious school, where he became obsessed with the rituals he encountered, from speaking in tongues to laying of hands.Fall Country Music Preview 2015: 25 Essential Albums, Events
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• 95 Percent of Streaming Music Catalogs Are ‘Irrelevant’ to Consumers, Study Finds

  10-09-2015 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  Spotify has 20 million paying subscribers, but only a percentage are paying $9.99.  And, 55 million are paying $0 a month.  “Organic subscription growth… is not growing fast enough,” declared MiDIA analyst Mark Mulligan asserted in a recent research note, while pointing to Spotify’s cut-rate pricing surge as an exception.
  So why aren’t those numbers better?
  Mulligan feels that a big part of the problem is that the average consumer s
  
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• Executive Shuffles: Live Nation, Capitol Music, Billboard

  10-09-2015 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carrie Davis, Live Nation Entertainment Chief Communications Officer
  Carrie Davis has been named Chief Communications Officer at Live Nation. Davis was previously VP of Communications at Disney Interactive.
  Capitol Music Group has named Gary Gorman SVP of Alternative Promotion. Gorman was previously VP of Alternative Promotion at Atlantic Records.
  Billboard reports that their former Senior Correspondent Andrew Hampp is now Vice President/Bra
  
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• Hear Dave Gahan and Soulsavers' Darkly Cinematic New Song

  10-09-2015 19:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  While enjoying a short break from Depeche Mode, singer Dave Gahan reunited with production crew Soulsavers for a second collaboration album, Angels & Ghosts, due out this fall. "All of This and Nothing," the first track to be released from the record, finds them dwelling in cinematic strings and gospel organ and tambourine while Gahan croons about a ghost outside his window haunting him. The nine-track album will come out on October 23rd.Depeche Mode Look Back on 'Violator' 25 Years Lat
  
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• R.E.M. Offers Suggestions to Donald Trump on Where to Stuff Something

  10-09-2015 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  What, R.E.M. doesn’t support the goals and aims of Donald Trump?  After Trump used “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” as intro music during a speech at the Tea Party-hosted ‘Stop the Iran Deal’ rally in Washington, DC, Michael Stipe shared these supportive thoughts to Daily Beast. 
  Mills also channeled Michael Stipe, who expanded the feedback to include Ted Cruz.Later, R.E.M. offered a measured statement on
  
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• Hear Steve Earle Denounce Confederate Flag in 'Mississippi, It's Time'

  10-09-2015 18:06 via rollingstone.com
  
  Seven months after the release of Terraplane, Steve Earle is already working on new music, funneling his frustration with America's ongoing Confederate flag debate — an issue that continues to divide the Bible Belt, with Mississippi refusing to remove the Confederate emblem from its own state flag — into a newly-released protest song called "Mississippi, It's Time." Fall Country Music Preview 2015: 25 Essential Albums, Events
  Arriving at the tail end of a summer that saw th
  
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• British Labels to BBC: ‘Just Pay for the Damn Streaming Service, Okay?’

  10-09-2015 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  Earlier this week, the BBC unveiled plans to expand their Playlister service into an on-demand streaming services.  “We have developed a digital music proposal with the music industry, which builds on BBC Music’s Playlister,” the strategy document described.  “It would make the 50,000 tracks the BBC broadcasts every month available to listen online, for a limited period. Audiences would be able to access this music via playlists curated by the BBC, and t
  
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• Playboy Sues MediaTakeOut Over Nude Azealia Banks Photos

  10-09-2015 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Upon information and belief, defendant knowingly altered and/or falsified copyright management information to conceal defendant’s infringement of plaintiff’s registered and unregistered copyright works.”Text from Playboy Enterprises’ lawsuit against MediaTakeOut, filed this week.
  This music theft is out of control?  Try photos.  But this time, the photographer in question was shooting for one of the most iconic brands in naked ladyshots.  E
  
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• Chris Young Tackles Breakups, Bigger Responsibilities With New Album

  10-09-2015 14:24 via rollingstone.com
  
  Four albums and six chart-topping singles into his career, Chris Young is no longer "that guy from the Nashville Star talent show." He's grown into a real Nashville star, occupying a reliable niche as the romantically in-tune good guy, crooning smooth come-ons like "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)," "Tomorrow" and "Who I Am With You."Go Backstage With Chris Young at the Opry
  His fifth studio album, I'm Comin' Over, is set for release November 13th, and Young says fans can expect mor
  
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• Simpson: More kids would freak me out!

  10-09-2015 13:00 via music-news.com
  
  Jessica Simpson''s three-year-old daughter already wants to be a mother.
  
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• Bey and Jay Z 'getting kicked out of home'

  10-09-2015 13:00 via music-news.com
  
  Beyoncé Knowles and Jay Z reportedly need to vacate their rented property within 60 days, after a buyer pays $35.5 million for the house.
  
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• Lana Del Rey unveils 'Music To Watch Boys To'

  10-09-2015 11:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Singer Lana Del Rey has released a new track from her upcoming album "Honeymoon" called "Music To Watch Boys To."
  
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• Keith Richards: Under the Influence trailer

  10-09-2015 10:12 via music-news.com
  
  Check out the new trailer and key art for Netflix Original Documentary Keith Richards: Under the Influence premiering on Friday
  
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• Diddy 'unlikely to be charged for bust up'

  10-09-2015 10:12 via music-news.com
  
  Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will unlikely be charged for an altercation back in June.
  
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• Britney: Two more years in Vegas!

  10-09-2015 10:12 via music-news.com
  
  Britney Spears told fans she'd be staying in Vegas for another two years at her Wednesday night show.
  
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• U.K. Music Industry: BBC Must Pay Royalties for Planned Music Streaming Service

  10-09-2015 06:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Without proper license deals, the offer, which is in its early planning stages, wouldn't be viable, says a trade group.
  
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• Grace Jones calls out celeb copycats

  10-09-2015 06:00 via music-news.com
  
  Grace Jones believes the “status quo” for musicians needs to be reinvented once again, as generic entertainment reigns.
  
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• R.E.M. to Trump, Other Pols: 'Go F--k Yourselves' for Using Our Music

  10-09-2015 02:59 via rollingstone.com
  
  Hours after Survivor co-founder Frankie Sullivan chastised Mike Huckabee for an unauthorized use of the band's "Eye of the Tiger" at a campaign rally, R.E.M. issued a public rebuke against politicians who use their music without permission.Trump Seriously: On the Trail With the GOP's Tough Guy
  "Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you — you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men," R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe said (via bassist Mike Mills' Twitter page). "Do not use our
  
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• Mel B’s anniversary devotion

  10-09-2015 01:45 via music-news.com
  
  Mel B feels “so blessed” to have met husband Stephen Belafonte, penning a touching message to him on their eighth wedding anniversary.
  
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• The Libertines to launch album at hmv

  10-09-2015 00:24 via music-news.com
  
  The Libertines visit hmv to celebrate the release of their new album 'Anthems For Doomed Youth'.
  
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• Ariana Grande: I totally crushed on Jim Carrey!

  10-09-2015 00:00 via music-news.com
  
  Scream Queens co-stars Ariana Grande and Emma Roberts have revealed they held torches for some unlikely candidates in their youths.
  
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