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• The Notable Cameos in Beyonce's 'Lemonade' Visual Album

  25-04-2016 23:45
  
  Beyonce surprised and delighted her fans this weekend by dropping her powerful Lemonade visual album this weekend. The album features brand-new music...
  
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• Prince didn't leave a will - report

  25-04-2016 23:45 via music-news.com
  
  The singer's siblings could all score equal shares of his multi-million dollar fortune.
  
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• Ezra Koenig Explains Writing Credit on Beyonce's 'Lemonade'

  25-04-2016 23:34 via rollingstone.com
  
  Ezra Koenig gave details on his surprising writing credit on Beyoncé's Lemonade track "Hold Up" alongside Diplo, Father John Misty and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Vampire Weekend singer hinted at a long road to the song's construction when he responded to a lyric of the song he tweeted out in 2011.Beyonce Brings Fury, Forgiveness on Bracing 'Lemonade'
  Koenig offered the "short version" of the story by writing out a timeline of events that led to his credit. It begins with the release of the
  
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• Demi Lovato & Nick Jonas Cancel North Carolina Tour Stops Over Anti-LGBTQ Law

  25-04-2016 23:31
  
  Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato have canceled their upcoming tour dates in North Carolina in protest of North Carolina's controversial...
  
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• Facebook Reportedly Developing Standalone Camera App

  25-04-2016 23:30
  
  Facebook is developing a standalone camera app in an effort to beef up photo and video sharing by its 1.2 billion active users, according to the Wall...
  
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• Lemonade: A Beyoncé Reaction Roundtable

  25-04-2016 23:29
  
  We could be anywhere in the world, but we're all here. Witness the power of Beyoncé. Let's talk about what we just saw.
  
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• Young Thug Can’t Stop Recording, Joins Nipsey Hussle On ‘Thug Life (I Remember)’

  25-04-2016 23:28
  
  Nipsey Hussle and Young Thug link up on 'Thug Life (I Remember).'
  
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• Dave Chappelle's Prince Skit Viewed Nearly 600,000 Times Since Singer's Death

  25-04-2016 23:13
  
  Prince and Dave Chappelle fans have been frequenting the Comedy Central website in the past few days to get a chuckle in an otherwise sad time....
  
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• 19 Mystery Books That Kept You Up At Night In Elementary School

  25-04-2016 22:54
  
  Check out these spooky mystery books everyone read in elementary school.
  
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• Testing Out Tinashe And Halsey’s New MAC Makeup Collections

  25-04-2016 22:49
  
  There aren’t enough music-makeup crossover collections in the world, and if anybody ever tells otherwise, they are liars you need to cut out of your life.
  
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• Meet The All-Star Team Behind Beyoncé’s Lemonade

  25-04-2016 22:34
  
  Queen Bey is a creative director to be reckoned with. Meet the star-studded team behind her latest opus.
  
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• Behind The Scenes Of The Unprecedented And Absurd Cruz-Kasich Collaboration

  25-04-2016 22:33
  
  This is totally gonna work.
  
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• Are You In The New Twin Peaks? A Quiz

  25-04-2016 22:23
  
  The premiere of the new season of Twin Peaks is almost a year away, but its showrunner — the reigning master of surreal suspense, David Lynch — is already teasing the madness yet to come. Today, a list of the show’s cast was leaked to the press. Like Beyoncé, David Lynch knows the value of...Read more »
  
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• Wolverine Claws His Way Into X-Men: Apocalypse

  25-04-2016 22:04
  
  Here's the final trailer for 'X-Men: Apocalypse,' featuring Wolverine.
  
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• Prince's 'Purple Rain' Is the Week's Top-Selling Song, as 6 of His Classics Re-Enter Hot 100

  25-04-2016 22:04
  
  Following Prince's death on April 21, fans have celebrated the pop and R&B star's catalog. As a result, several of his beloved hits re-...
  
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• Prince, the Secret Philanthropist: 'His Cause Was Humanity'

  25-04-2016 21:56 via rollingstone.com
  
  It began with an anonymous check about 10 years ago. Environmental and human rights activist Van Jones was working on George W. Bush's Green Jobs Act when he received a $50,000 donation and no name attached to it. "I promptly returned it," he recalls. "I'm not taking anonymous checks for $50,000. It could be from anybody." But then someone sent it back, and he returned it again.25 Essential Prince Songs
  Eventually Jones received a call from a rep for the donor: "I cannot tell you who the money i
  
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• Desiigner's 'Panda' Claws to No. 1 on Hot 100, Bringing Americans Back to the Top

  25-04-2016 21:56
  
  Desiigner's debut hit "Panda" pounces to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated May 7). The Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York rapper halts...
  
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• Read Conan O'Brien's Rejected Prince Episode for 'Simpsons'

  25-04-2016 21:52 via rollingstone.com
  
  Following Prince's sudden death last week, The Simpsons' showrunner Al Jean has shared screencaps from an episode of the animated show with a part written for Prince that the singer rejected. Conan O'Brien helped work on the script for "The Prince Episode," which would have run during the series' fifth season.Watch Prince's All-Star 'SNL 40' After Party Performance
  Unearthing the script began when an Australian music site titled TheMusic.com.au wrote about the fabled Prince episode of The Simpso
  
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• Introducing ‘Skillset,’ An MTV Podcast About The Experts Who Make Your Favorite Movies

  25-04-2016 21:49
  
  Now hear this: This month, MTV News is unveiling the MTV Podcast Network, a constellation of new shows about music, pop culture, and politics. Today, we’re proud to present the first episode of our chief film critic’s new show, “Skillset with Amy Nicholson.” On “Skillset,” every guest is an expert. And in every episode, these...Read more »
  
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• Kraftwerk Announces Fall 2016 North American Tour

  25-04-2016 21:45
  
  Legendary electronic music outfit Kraftwerk today (April 25) announced a new run of 3D concerts in the United States for this fall....
  
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• William Morris Endeavor Music Co-Head Sara Newkirk Simon on Guiding Selena Gomez, Making Crossover Deals and the Scoop on Justin Timberlake's New Album

  25-04-2016 21:35
  
  Sara Newkirk Simon's ascent to partner at William Morris Endeavor, where she co-heads the music department (with Kirk ...
  
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• Lemaitre's 'Closer' Music Video, Feat. Jennie A.: Exclusive Premiere

  25-04-2016 21:31
  
  Norway natives Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund -- better known as Lemaitre -- have dropped the new music video for "Closer," featuring...
  
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• Eddie Vedder, Trent Reznor, Laura Dern Join 'Twin Peaks' Revival Cast

  25-04-2016 21:29 via rollingstone.com
  
  With filming completed on the upcoming revival of Twin Peaks, the show's full 200-plus person cast list has been revealed, and there are dozens are fascinating names joining the cult David Lynch and Mark Frost series: Trent Reznor, Eddie Vedder, Sky Ferreira, Sharon Van Etten are among the musicians who will appear on the Showtime series in some capacity.The 30 Best 'Twin Peaks' Characters, Ranked
  Reznor's Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck and wife/How to Destroy Angels bandmate Ma
  
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• Sturgill Simpson Tops Country Chart

  25-04-2016 21:13 via rollingstone.com
  
  Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide to Earth is the Number One country album in America this week, with 55,000 copies sold during its first seven days out.Country's 20 Highest Drug Odes
  Released on Atlantic Records and boosted by live performances on programs like The Daily Show and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Sailor's Guide racked up ten times as many sales as Simpson's last release, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, during its own release week. That's enough to make it the
  
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• The Apocalyptic Visions of Susanna’s Triangle

  25-04-2016 21:06
  
  The Norwegian musician makes a fantastically unsettling concept album about humanity in the face of impending doom.
  
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• Delete Your Account: Becky With The Thirsty Instagram

  25-04-2016 21:06
  
  I know what you came here for. Yes, we are going to talk about Becky with the good hair, the mystery side chick called out on Beyoncé’s Lemonade. But first — the only constant in the wake of tragedy is that people will, inevitably, insert themselves into other people’s grief. So bear with me as...Read more »
  
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• Rehabbing Axl Rose: Guns 'N Roses Reload With a Dependable (and Nice?) Frontman

  25-04-2016 21:01
  
  The past is done and the future is unknown, but in the world of Guns 'N Roses, it is safe to say that the band has now answered enough questions...
  
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• Selena Gomez announces Revival Tour 2016

  25-04-2016 20:54 via music-news.com
  
  Multi-platinum singer and actress Selena Gomez announced today she will be heading to Europe as part of her worldwide “Revival Tour” in 2016.
  
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• Spotify Denies Security Breach After Report of Stolen Passwords, Addresses

  25-04-2016 20:45
  
  An article is claiming hundreds of Spotify users' information were recently compromised, digging up questions about security and privacy in the...
  
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• Questlove Remembers Prince: In This Life, You're on Your Own

  25-04-2016 20:45 via rollingstone.com
  
  When I first got Prince's 1999 album, it was 1982. I was 11, newly in charge of my own record-buying habits. And I couldn't resist the cover, with its purple field of stars, Prince's name, the numbers, and all the hidden-meaning illustrations (is that a football or a smile? How phallic was that "1," anyway?). My parents didn't agree. They were born-again Christians at that point, and Prince — with his overt sexuality and profanity — was a bridge too far.  Plus, when you tur
  
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• Prince's 'Family' Tree: See the Purple One's Musical Universe

  25-04-2016 20:29
  
  Prince's recording career is among the most prolific in music history, with 39 studio albums spread across the 38 years since his 1978 debut, For...
  
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• A Rap Legend Is Putting His Stamp On Netflix’s Upcoming Series The Get Down

  25-04-2016 20:26
  
  Nas has been a "huge creative force" behind the upcoming Netflix show The Get Down.
  
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• Fred Armisen on Directing Music Videos, Why He Loves Red Hot Chili Peppers

  25-04-2016 20:23 via rollingstone.com
  
  As a drummer, comedian and ace musical satirist, Fred Armisen is a natural fit for directing music videos. But the new clip he helmed for Swedish indie-pop artist El Perro del Mar, which accompanies her dreamy cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik favorite "Breaking the Girl," is more sweet than silly. The video, premiering below, starts out as a straightforward document of the mundane lives of L.A. parking attendants, then takes a turn for the bizarre when Armisen himself s
  
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• Watch Billy Corgan's Intimate Acoustic Cover of Prince's 'The Cross'

  25-04-2016 20:13 via rollingstone.com
  
  Billy Corgan and Liz Phair joined the ever-expanding list of musicians paying tribute to Prince onstage. On Friday, Corgan recruited Smashing Pumpkins touring bandmate Sierra Swan for a low-key acoustic cover of the Purple One's "The Cross," while Phair performed the iconic "Nothing Compares 2 U" during a New Orleans concert, Spin reports. 12 Wildest Prince Moments
  Corgan and Swan's performance found the singers trading vocals on "The Cross," from 1987's Sign o' the Times. The Sma
  
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• See Luke Bryan and Little Big Town's Seductive Live Mash-Up

  25-04-2016 20:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  Tequila shots and harmonies are the order of business for Luke Bryan and his Kill the Lights tourmates Little Big Town.See Luke Bryan's Picturesque 'Huntin', Fishin'' Video
  The Georgia native and the quartet have been teaming during the shows for a tuneful mash-up of Ed Sheeran’s forever love smash “Thinking Out Loud” and Marvin Gaye’s steamy classic “Let’s Get It On.”In the clip above, Bryan and his friends in the LBT crew trade lines, playfully shimmy
  
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• Rihanna’s $80 Fur Slides Are Going For $1,000 On eBay

  25-04-2016 20:07
  
  Rihanna's Puma fur slides quickly sold out last week and went for $1,000 on eBay.
  
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• After Beyonce, Tidal's Exclusive Strategy Remains Its Best (Perhaps Only) Weapon

  25-04-2016 20:00
  
  The release of Beyonce’s album Lemonade reopens the debate about exclusive releases in digital music. Do they help one service over another?...
  
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• Watch Florence + the Machine's Last Album Come to Life in Stunning New Film 'The Odyssey'

  25-04-2016 19:43
  
  Once you’ve finished digesting Beyoncé’s album-film Lemonade, we’ve got a new cinematic LP on deck for you. 
  This one comes...
  
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• Sheila E. Talks Prince's 'Very Somber' Memorial Service

  25-04-2016 19:41 via rollingstone.com
  
  Prince's longtime collaborator Sheila E. was among the small group of friends, family and musicians to attend a private memorial for the artist Saturday at his Paisley Park compound outside Minneapolis. Following the service, Sheila E. spoke to E! News about the memorial and how Prince would want fans to celebrate his legacy and not mourn his death.15 Great Prince Songs That Were Hits for Other Artists
  "It was very somber, quiet. We were playing his songs, his music at a low volume and it w
  
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• Jennifer Hudson, Harvey Fierstein to Star in NBC's 'Hairspray Live!'

  25-04-2016 19:32
  
  Hairspray Live! has found its stars.
  Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein have joined NBC's live musical event. Hudson will play...
  
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• Watch Chris Stapleton's Poignant Salute to Merle Haggard

  25-04-2016 18:59 via rollingstone.com
  
  Over the weekend, Chris Stapleton fearlessly tackled a classic Prince tune at one of his solo headlining shows. Days earlier, he was offering a tribute to another recently departed giant when he performed Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again." Jamey Johnson on Merle Haggard: 'He Was a Mentor to Me'
  "Probably the greatest singer and songwriter that ever lived — we're gonna try to play a song for the Hag tonight," Stapleton tells the crowd at his April 14th show in Mesa, Ar
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Pees In Bidets And Amy Schumer Has Seen It Go Down

  25-04-2016 18:52
  
  Amy Schumer confirms she's seen Jennifer Lawrence pee in a bidet. IDK.
  
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• See Kenny Chesney Surprise Fraternity House With 'American Kids'

  25-04-2016 18:50 via rollingstone.com
  
  Kenny Chesney brought his Spread the Love Tour to Auburn, Alabama, this Saturday, performing the first-ever concert at Auburn University's Jordan-Hare Stadium. A day before the show, however, the "Noise" singer surprised members of a fraternity with an impromptu set at the Lamda Chi Alpha house, singing fan favorites like "Keg in the Closet" and his superb "American Kids." (Watch the video above).Kenny Chesney Talks Life Post-'Revival'
  Chesney's performance at Auburn marked the start of his summ
  
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• Troian Bellisario’s Phone Went On An Epic Coachella Snapchat Adventure — Without Troian Bellisario

  25-04-2016 18:40
  
  After finding Troian Bellisario's phone, Jack Wagner decided to snapchat his way through Coachella with it.
  
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• Mumford & Sons, Baaba Maal share video for 'There Will Be Time'

  25-04-2016 18:40 via music-news.com
  
  Having announced details of ‘Johannesburg’ last week - a mini-album made in South Africa with Baaba Maal, Beatenberg and The Very Best
  
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• 'Simpsons' Showrunner Shares Pages From Lost Prince Episode

  25-04-2016 18:37
  
  There are unending reasons to mourn the death of Prince. One of the geekiest, though, is the news that emerged over the weekend that we were...
  
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• Kelly Clarkson Shares First Pictures of Son Remington

  25-04-2016 18:37
  
  Kelly Clarkson shared the first pictures of her adorable newborn son, Remington, over the weekend.
  Clarkson, 34 and her husband Brandon Blackstock...
  
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• Monica Lewinsky Reacts To Beyonce's 'Lemonade': 'Let Me Know If It's Safe For Me To Listen'

  25-04-2016 18:26
  
  As Beyonce's Lemonade spilled all over timelines following Saturday's (April 23) HBO presentation and the consecutive release of...
  
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• Kris Kristofferson Readies New 'Cedar Creek Sessions' Double Album

  25-04-2016 18:23 via rollingstone.com
  
  Iconic songwriter Kris Kristofferson will celebrate his 80th birthday in June with the release of a 25-track collection of songs recorded over three days in the summer of 2014. The Cedar Creek Sessions, recorded in Austin, Texas, marks the legendary songwriter's first LP since Feeling Mortal in January 2013.See Photos From Kris Kristofferson Tribute Show
  The two-disc set features some of Kristofferson's most revered tunes, including "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," which was first cut by Ray Steven
  
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• Can You Remember Taking Back Sunday’s ‘MakeDamnSure’ Lyrics 10 Years Later?

  25-04-2016 18:17
  
  Taking Back Sunday's 'Louder Now' album came out on April 25, 2006.
  
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