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• Bomba Estereo Announces U.S. Tour Dates

  07-08-2016 23:51
  
  Bomba Estereo, the Colombian band whose serpentine tropical dance fusion has maintained an international cult following for the last decade, have...
  
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• Taylor Swift & Nelly Duet to 'Dilemma' at Karlie Kloss' Birthday Party: Watch

  07-08-2016 23:05
  
  Taylor Swift and Nelly can check another duet off their list: the pop and hip-hop pair performed a playful rendition of the rapper’s 2002...
  
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• On the Charts: DJ Khaled Grabs First Number One With 'Major Key'

  07-08-2016 22:44 via rollingstone.com
  
  DJ Khaled momentarily interrupted Drake's attempt to spend the entire summer atop the Billboard 200 as Major Key snuck past Views to debut in the Number One spot. Khaled has released nine albums in the past decade, but Major Key represents the Miami rapper's first chart-topping LP.In its first week of release, Major Key sold 95,000 total copies – a mix of album sales, streaming totals and bulk downloads – with 59,000 of that total coming from traditional album sal
  
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• A New Rogue One Trailer Will Blast Off During The Olympics Broadcast

  07-08-2016 22:31
  
  A deeper look and new details for the forthcoming 'Star Wars' prequel will be revealed during the broadcast of the Summer Olympics in Rio.
  
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• Jai Wolf Dishes On SoundCloud Success, Announces New Tour Dates: Exclusive

  07-08-2016 22:19
  
  Production in electronic music can sometimes feel like an arms race — in a crowded marketplace, producers often try to stand out by unleashing...
  
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• Brad Paisley's Donation Making Major Difference in West Virginia

  07-08-2016 21:51
  
  Country music star Brad Paisley is helping a home rebuilding project in flood-ravaged West Virginia get off to a solid start.
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• Ricci Martin, son of Dean Martin, dead at 62

  07-08-2016 21:17
  The entertainer's sudden passing was also announced to the public by his sister Deana Martin, who honored her brother with a heartfelt tribute on Twitter. "My heart breaks to announce the untimely death of my beloved brother, Ricci Martin," she wrote Saturday night.
  
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• DJ Khaled Earns His First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Major Key'

  07-08-2016 21:00
  
  DJ Khaled scores his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as his latest release, Major Key, debuts in the top slot. The set earned 95,000...
  
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• Drake Just Hit Back At Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex With Serious Fighting Words

  07-08-2016 20:57
  
  Funkmaster Flex pushed Drake's buttons on air, but the rapper opted to respond onstage at his after-party following his Madison Square Garden performance.
  
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• Leonard Cohen Writes Touching Goodbye Letter to 'So Long, Marianne' Muse Days Before Her Death

  07-08-2016 20:16
  
  Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen wrote a touching letter to his former muse Marianne Ihlen, who inspired such songs as "So Long,...
  
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• Watch Lauryn Hill's Career-Spanning 'Austin City Limits' Performance

  07-08-2016 19:23
  
  Ahead of its 42nd season this fall, Austin City Limits premiered a rare television performance by Lauryn Hill on Saturday (Aug. 6).
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• 24 Treated After Eating Drug-Laced Candy at Ohio Rap Festival

  07-08-2016 18:55
  
  Two dozen concertgoers in northeast Ohio suffered medical symptoms Saturday (Aug. 6) after they ate candy laced with a drug found in marijuana.
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• Kim Kardashian Just Posted The Most Squee-Worthy Video Of Saint West

  07-08-2016 18:50
  
  This clip of Baby West is the cutest one the proud mom has posted yet.
  
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• Watch President Obama Get Pumped for DNC Speech With Eminem's 'Lose Yourself'

  07-08-2016 18:02
  
  Prior to delivering his powerful speech at July’s Democratic National Convention, President Obama got pumped up for the big moment by listening...
  
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• Watch Lauryn Hill's Compelling 'Austin City Limits' Episode

  07-08-2016 17:43 via rollingstone.com
  
  Austin City Limits returns for its 42nd season this October, but the long-running series provided viewers with a teaser to satiate their live music fix by premiering an hour-long episode dedicated to Lauryn Hill Saturday night. Watch the rare television performance from Hill, filmed live from Austin's Moody Theater in November 2015, above.The career-spanning set features songs from the Fugees' The Score ("Ready or Not," "Fu-Gee-La," "Killing Me Softly," "How Many Mics"), her Miseducation of Laur
  
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• Give Leslie Jones All The Gold Medals For Her Olympics Live-Tweeting

  07-08-2016 17:23
  
  Leslie Jones is fast becoming the most passionate 2016 Rio Olympics commentator thanks to her extensive (and hilarious) Twitter coverage.
  
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• Crown the Empire, Walk the Moon & Beyond: Are These 'Verb the Noun' Rock Bands Real or Fake?

  07-08-2016 17:00
  
  Earlier this week, the Texas rock band Crown the Empire topped Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart with its new album Retrograde. You might say...
  
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• Prince Estate Denies Plan to Sell Paisley Park

  07-08-2016 16:57
  
  The administrator of Prince's estate says it is not planning to sell Paisley Park, one day after asking a judge for permission to offer several...
  
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• Tyga splurges $189,000 on Kylie Jenner's birthday gift

  07-08-2016 15:30 via music-news.com
  
  Tyga has dropped a staggering $189,000 (£144,600) on a car for Kylie Jenner's 19th birthday.
  
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• Beyonce, Jay Z and Stevie Wonder celebrate with President Obama

  07-08-2016 15:30 via music-news.com
  
  Beyonce, Jay Z and Stevie Wonder were among the guests at President Obama's birthday party on Friday night (05Aug16).
  
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• Leonard Cohen Penned Letter to 'So Long, Marianne' Muse Before Her Death

  07-08-2016 15:07 via rollingstone.com
  
  Leonard Cohen penned an emotional final letter to Marianne Ihlen, the woman who inspired his "So Long, Marianne" and "Bird on the Wire," just days before her July 29th death, Ihlen's friend Jan Christian Mollestad revealed to the CBC.According to Mollestad, after he informed Cohen of Ihlen's looming death from leukemia, the legendary singer-songwriter-poet responded two hours later with a "beautiful" letter, which Mollestad then read to Ihlen.
  "It said, 'Well Marianne it's come to this time when
  
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• Happy Birthday, Carlos Vives! Check Out His Top 5 Best Career Moments

  07-08-2016 15:00
  
  Colombian vallenato music became popular thanks to the successful career of one of its greatest ambassadors of all time: Carlos Vives.
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• Missing Outside Lands? Stream these bands on your favorite music service

  07-08-2016 13:13
  Couldn't make it to the 2016 Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Well, just because you're missing the festival doesn't mean you have to miss out on all the good tunes.
  
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• Joe Jonas left behind by tour bus after drunken night

  07-08-2016 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Joe Jonas and his bandmate Cole Whittle were left stranded in Canada when they failed to return to their tour bus after partying.
  
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• Prince estate administrator denies plan to sell Paisley Park

  07-08-2016 09:25
  The administrator of Prince's estate says it is not planning to sell Paisley Park, one day after asking a judge for permission to offer several Prince properties for sale.
  
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• Ronnie James Dio Hologram Debuts at German Metal Festival Wacken Open Air

  07-08-2016 09:15
  
  A hologram of the late Ronnie James Dio made its debut at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany on Saturday night (Aug. 6). Created by ...
  
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• Adam Lambert The X Factor Australia trailer revealed

  07-08-2016 07:08 via music-news.com
  
  The X Factor Australia have released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming season, featuring Adam Lambert as a judge.
  
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• Flea slams Clint Eastwood after racist rant

  07-08-2016 06:55 via music-news.com
  
  Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bass player Flea has had a verbal bash at veteran actor Clint Eastwood who mouthed a racist rant this week.
  
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• Gregg Allman seriously ill

  07-08-2016 06:52 via music-news.com
  
  Sometimes vagueness in a press release can be an annoyance. An artist will have “special guests” on their album, but who? Tickets go on sale “soon” but when?
  
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• New Orleans jazz clarinet great Pete Fountain dies at 86

  07-08-2016 05:39
  New Orleans jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, shown during a 2002 performance that Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, died Saturday at age 86. New Orleans jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, shown during a 2002 performance that Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, died Saturday at age 86. Pete Fountain, the goateed clarinetist who became a global ambassador of New Orleans jazz with his flawlessly slippery technique and joyful sound, died Saturday of heart failure while in hospice car
  
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• Ryan Adams Triumphs in 'Hometown' Show at L.A.'s Greek Theatre

  07-08-2016 05:24
  
  From the opening moments of his concert at Los Angeles' Greek Theater on Friday night, as the clanging, drama-laden chords of "Trouble...
  
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• 'American Idol' Contestants React to Mariah Carey Calling Show 'Abusive'

  07-08-2016 03:53
  
  Former American Idol judge Mariah Carey recently commented that her time on the show was “abusive," which has raised some...
  
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• Funkmaster Flex Calls Out Drake: 'Yes, He Writes, But There's a Couple Key Things He Didn't'

  07-08-2016 03:05
  
  After Drake said Hot 97 was “tellin’ lies” about him and called for the New York hip-hop radio station to “fire Funk Flex...
  
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• Ronnie James Dio Hologram Debuts at German Metal Festival

  07-08-2016 02:55 via rollingstone.com
  
  The fervent Ronnie James Dio fans who gathered to watch a group of the late singer's former bandmates close out Germany's mega-sized heavy-metal festival Wacken Open Air Saturday night got a big surprise: a theatrical performance by Dio in hologram form. It bellowed "We Rock," the singer's gritty 1984 anthem and go-to encore song, and raised its hands in the singer's trademark devil horns. But the company that created it hopes it will be the first of many shows.The Dio hologram has been over a y
  
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• Michael Jackson's 'entire aura reeked of sex,' tell-all reveals

  07-08-2016 01:35
  A 45-year-old actress claims in a new tell-all book that in the summer of 1996 she had a passionate affair with Michael Jackson. In the memoir, "Michael and Me: The Untold Story of Michael Jackson's Secret Romance," Mangatal delves into the details of the King of Pop's moves between the sheets.
  
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• Adele Excels as Both Tragedienne and Comedienne in Stunning Staples Opener

  07-08-2016 01:05
  
  On top of best record, album, song, new artist, and all the other Grammys Adele has already swept, her return Friday night to the scene of the...
  
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• Watch Maceo Plex Play 10 Ibiza Venues in 24 Hours

  07-08-2016 00:52
  
  He said he would and so he did. In July, Maceo Plex announced his ambitious plan to play a total of 10 different Ibiza venues in only 24 hours. On...
  
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