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• South Korea's Biggest Music Subscription Service Acquired by Mobile Messaging Company

  11-01-2016 23:45
  
  The maker of a popular South Korean messaging app has invested in company behind South Korea's most popular music streaming service. Kakao has...
  
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• Zendaya Magically Transformed Her Golden Globes Gown Into A Shorter Party Dress

  11-01-2016 23:43
  
  Zendaya shortens her Golden Globes gown for the after parties.
  
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• Courtney Barnett’s New Song Exposes Her ‘Three Packs A Day’ Addiction… To Ramen Noodles

  11-01-2016 23:42
  
  Courtney Barnett's new song "Three Packs a Day" exposes her deep, dark addiction to ramen noodles.
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence’s Next Movie Might Be Her Bleakest Yet

  11-01-2016 23:40
  
  Jennifer Lawrence may star in Darren Aronofsky's next film, which means she's about to have her "Black Swan" moment.
  
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• Photographer Mick Rock Talks 'The Rise Of David Bowie,' How He Changed Culture Forever

  11-01-2016 23:34
  
  This story originally appeared on Billboard.com in September 2015.
  When photographer Mick Rock was first approached by TASCHEN Books in 2012 about...
  
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• Miguel engaged to longtime girlfriend

  11-01-2016 23:30 via music-news.com
  
  Miguel is to tie the knot with longterm girlfriend Nazanin Mandi.
  
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• Police Can Now Use Software To Scan Social Media And Calculate Your Threat ‘Score’

  11-01-2016 23:25
  
  “We’re seeing police experimenting with social media monitoring software all around the country,” the ACLU's Jay Stanley told MTV News, “which we definitely don’t think they should be doing.”
  
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• D.C. to Re-Examine Safe Harbor and Two Royalty Rates

  11-01-2016 23:24
  
  The music industry has barely caught its breath from its latest episode in Washington D.C and two new issues, both of great importance, have already...
  
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• David Bowie Remembered by Paul Smith: A Lasting Friendship & Final Collaboration

  11-01-2016 23:13
  
  I first met David in 1979 in my shop in London. My studio used to be above the store and I’d often receive calls from staffers who’d...
  
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• ‘Arrow': John Barrowman Reveals Malcolm Merlyn’s Secrets In His New Comic

  11-01-2016 23:03
  
  John Barrowman and his sister Carole have written a digital comic series all about his character on "Arrow," Malcolm Merlyn.
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Let Her Hair Down — Literally — After The Golden Globes

  11-01-2016 23:01
  
  Jennifer Lawrence trades in Dior for Versace at the Golden Globes after party.
  
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• Smokey Robinson leads memorial tributes to Natalie Cole

  11-01-2016 23:00 via music-news.com
  
  Stars including Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson have led mourners at Natalie Cole's memorial.
  
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• Why Lady Gaga’s Tattoos Were Nowhere To Be Found At The Golden Globes

  11-01-2016 22:57
  
  Lady Gaga had a huge night last night. She won her first Golden Globe (the first she’s been nominated for, at that) and looked like a glamorous Hollywood starlet on the red carpet. But something seemed a little…off. Oh right, her tattoos disappeared! Well, for the night at least. Gaga, who usually flaunts her almost-all-over...Read more »
  
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• Pemberton Music Festival Launches Grant Program for Local Arts Organizations

  11-01-2016 22:38
  
  By raising money from ticket sales from British Columbia’s Pemberton Music Festival, more than $70,000 (CAD $100,000) will be granted to 17...
  
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• Are Miguel & Longtime Girlfriend Nazanin Mandi Engaged?

  11-01-2016 22:33
  
  Wedding bells could be in Miguel's near future as reports are surfacing that he and his longtime girlfriend Nazanin Mandi are engaged...
  
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• Robert Plant Plans 'Southern Journey' U.S. Tour

  11-01-2016 22:21 via rollingstone.com
  
  Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters will hit the road this March for an 11-date trek that will focus on the southern half of the United States. Dubbed Blues...Roots and Hollers (A Southern Journey), the tour comes as Plant and company work on the follow-up to 2014's Lullaby and . . . The Ceaseless Roar. "Having just begun work on our new album, we thought we'd take time out to raise a little sand and welcome springtime with one more adventure, another celebration of life and son
  
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• Bowie on Bowie: The Rock Icon on the Music Business, Being a Late Bloomer and His Daughter Making Him More Optimistic

  11-01-2016 22:08
  
  David Bowie was never the easiest interview to get. He gave them sparingly -- that is, before he stopped altogether during the mid-'00s and...
  
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• Glam Rock Cult Hero Brett Smiley Dies at Age 60

  11-01-2016 22:00
  
  Brett Smiley, who appeared on Broadway in the original musical Oliver! in 1965 and went on to become a glam rocker and achieve cult fame, has died....
  
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• Jess Glynne announces new single

  11-01-2016 21:59 via music-news.com
  
  Jess Glynne, the biggest breakthrough artist of 2015, this week celebrates her debut album going double platinum making it the biggest selling
  
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• NASA’s Newest Office Is Straight Out Of A Science Fiction Movie

  11-01-2016 21:56
  
  NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office sounds like something out of a "War of The Worlds" reboot, but it actually supplies the framework for some real world solutions.
  
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• Watch David Bowie Call MTV Out For Not Playing Black Artists In 1983

  11-01-2016 21:53
  
  In a 1983 MTV News interview, David Bowie took the station to task for not playing any major black artists.
  
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• 12 Reasons Daggett And Norbert Actually Had To Be Pissed Off On ‘The Angry Beavers’

  11-01-2016 21:50
  
  Here's why the brothers on "The Angry Beavers" were always so mad.
  
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• ‘American Horror Story’ Needs More Lady Gaga After ‘Hotel’

  11-01-2016 21:43
  
  Why the Golden Globes proved once and for all that Lady Gaga needs to return to "American Horror Story" after "Hotel."
  
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• David Bowie Guitarist Carlos Alomar: 'He Was So Damn Curious'

  11-01-2016 21:42 via rollingstone.com
  
  Carlos Alomar has been playing guitar professionally since he was 16, backing the likes of James Brown, Chuck Berry and Luther Vandross at various points of his formative years. In the mid-Seventies, he met David Bowie, who recruited Alomar to play on his funk- and soul-influenced 1975 album Young Americans. It would serve as the foundation for one of Bowie's most consistent musical relationships, spanning his Berlin trilogy through albums in the early 2000s. David Bowie: 30 Essential
  
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• Peter Frampton Pays Tribute to 'Dear Friend and Mentor' David Bowie: 'I Can Never, Ever Thank Him Enough'

  11-01-2016 21:39
  
  Peter Frampton was succinct but in reacting to news of David Bowie's death when it was reported early Monday, issuing a statement that "I am...
  
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• Guy Holding ‘Trump Likes Nickelback’ Sign Kicked Out of Donald Trump Rally

  11-01-2016 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Donald Trump has been accused of race-baiting, targeting Muslims, attacking women, and plunging the Republican Party into disarray while handing the race to Hillary Clinton.  But at a recent rally in South Carolina, the presidential hopeful faced a fresh attack.
  It’s unclear how Trump’s musical preferences were discovered, though the sign was quickly confiscated.  Shortly thereafter, the ‘heckler’ was removed from the event by Trump campaign officials acco
  
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• On the Charts: Adele's '25' Number One Again, But Lead Shrinking

  11-01-2016 21:29 via rollingstone.com
  
  Adele's 25 continued its charts dominance, compiling its seventh straight week atop the Billboard 200. While the singer's new album might not be enjoying the same platinum-selling weeks she was accumulating in 2015, 25 conjured up another 194,000 in total album sales to make Adele the first female singer since Whitney Houston's Whitney in 1987 to claim the Number One spot for its first seven weeks on the charts, Billboard reports.How Adele Owned 2015 in Just Two Months
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• Charles Kelley Enlists Miranda Lambert, Stevie Nicks for Solo LP

  11-01-2016 21:26 via rollingstone.com
  
  Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley has set February 5th as the release date for his solo debut The Driver and has enlisted rock goddess Stevie Nicks and country superstar Miranda Lambert to ride along with him.25 Best Country Songs of 2015
  While the latter joins the Augusta, Georgia native on "I Wish You Were Here," penned by Jedd Hughes, Kelley and Nicks take on a cover of the moody "Southern Accents," the title track of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1985 album. The lead single from The Driver
  
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• Remembering Lemmy: Fans, Rockers Toast Metal Legend at L.A. Tributes

  11-01-2016 21:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  The mourners gathered for the funeral of Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister of Motörhead were greeted at a Hollywood hilltop chapel in a style close to the late rocker's heart: with a shot of Jack Daniel's at the door. The full house in his honor was a sad but often celebratory crowd of family and comrades, of devoted road crew and platinum-selling rockers who called him a friend, a "pirate" and a personal hero.Inside Lemmy's Last Days
  There were guest books to sign and fistfuls of commemorati
  
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• What Apple Music and Spotify's Updated Subscriber Count Really Means

  11-01-2016 21:15
  
  The music subscription market is looking like a two-horse race; Spotify and Apple Music are putting significant distance between themselves and...
  
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• David Bowie Predicted The Rise Of Music Streaming Services Before Anyone Else

  11-01-2016 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bowie prognosticated many things in his career, but his prediction of streaming music services was well before his time.
  
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• Watch David Bowie’s ‘80s-As-Hell Performance At The First VMAs

  11-01-2016 20:51
  
  David Bowie performing "Blue Jean" at the 1984 MTV VMAs -- the first ones -- is as charming as you'd expect.
  
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• Remix Roundup: Listen to 5 Must-Hear David Bowie Remixes

  11-01-2016 20:50
  
  It's no easy task to remix an icon like David Bowie.
  David Bowie Dies at Age 69 After Battling Cancer
  Regardless, the shape-shifting artist...
  
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• David Bowie's Death Sparks Top Two Takeover on Billboard + Twitter Trending 140

  11-01-2016 20:42
  
  David Bowie has locked up the Nos. 1 and 2 spots on the real-time Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart the morning following news of his death on...
  
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• Bobby Shmurda's Lawyer Questions Detectives' Credibility In Court Hearing

  11-01-2016 20:40
  
  Bobby Shmurda's trial is inching nearer to its Feb. 22 start date, but a hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court today (Jan. 11) may have wide-...
  
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• Loretta Lynn to Be Focus of PBS 'American Masters'

  11-01-2016 20:39 via rollingstone.com
  
  On the same day American music icon Loretta Lynn releases Full Circle, her first new album in a decade, the Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, native will be the subject of a PBS documentary: American Masters — Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl.35 Most Anticipated Country Albums of 2016
  Premiering Friday, March 4th, at 9 p.m. ET on PBS, the in-depth film includes interviews from family members as well as longtime fans and friends like Jack White, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Trisha Y
  
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• David Bowie: Rebel, Rock God And Shape-Shifter Sent To Us From Outer Space

  11-01-2016 20:39
  
  An appreciation of the legendary rock icon David Bowie, who died on Sunday at age 69.
  
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• Nate Albert Named EVP of A&R at Capitol Music Group

  11-01-2016 20:37
  
  Capitol Music Group has hired Nate Albert, co-founder of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and a longtime executive at Republic Records, as its new...
  
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• Everything We Know About Lady Gaga’s Next Album

  11-01-2016 20:36
  
  Lady Gaga's fifth album is on the way. Here's what we know!
  
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• Spotify Is About to Announce 100 Million Total Active Users

  11-01-2016 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Apple Music has just crossed 10 million paying subscribers, a game-changing number that comes just six months after launch.  But catching up to Spotify may be harder than it looks.According to stats now being leaked to Digital Music News, Spotify has just crossed 100 million total users, a monstrous number that also includes more than 25 million paying subscribers.  Actually, that paying number could be more than 30 million, though DMN couldn’t confirm anything by Monday morning
  
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• 23 Celebrities With Gorgeous Non-Celeb Relatives

  11-01-2016 20:26
  
  Jacob Tremblay isn't the only celebrity with a hot, non-famous family member.
  
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• ‘Star Wars': Young Han Solo Will Be Revealed Sooner Than You Think

  11-01-2016 20:15
  
  The search for Disney and Lucasfilm's young Han Solo heats up, as a potential cameo in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Film" looms.
  
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• Why I'll Probably Never Release Another Album

  11-01-2016 20:08
  
  These days I'm mostly known writing articles that piss off the world's more meatier meatheads, but I actually got started as a writer because I was a popular rock musician.
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio Explains His Strange Reaction to Lady Gaga at Golden Globes

  11-01-2016 20:08
  
  If you watched the Golden Globes Sunday night (Jan. 10), you likely saw Leonardo DiCaprio's instantly Gif-able super-sized ...
  
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• David Bowie's Final Album 'Blackstar' & 'Lazarus' Video Were Goodbye Notes

  11-01-2016 20:00
  
  David Bowie shared his mystifying new album Blackstar on Friday, Jan. 8. By Sunday, he was gone.
  Yesterday (Jan. 10), Bowie succumbed to an 18-month...
  
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• Hollow Coves' 'The Woods' Tops THR's Top TV Songs Chart, Powered by Shazam

  11-01-2016 19:56
  
  Canada's Hollow Coves rank atop THR's Top TV Songs, powered by Shazam, for December after CBS drama series Scorpion featured a remix of one of the...
  
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• Twitter's #RIPDavidBowie Graphic Tracks Massive Number of Bowie Tribute Tweets In Real Time

  11-01-2016 19:45
  
  So far, over 4.3 million Tweets worldwide have been centered on the iconic David Bowie, who passed away following an 18-month battle with cancer....
  
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• Watch Kendrick Lamar’s Funky And Soulful Hour-Long Special Concert

  11-01-2016 19:43
  
  Kendrick Lamar's Austin City Limits performance is available online.
  
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• David Bowie's Digital Albums Scooped Up By Fans on iTunes, Amazon

  11-01-2016 19:25
  
  Fans are paying tribute to David Bowie with their wallets, sending the late icon’s new album to the top of the iTunes albums chart and near...
  
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