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• Spider-Man Dances to Daft Punk in 'Homecoming' Set Video: Watch

  11-09-2016 23:22
  
  Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts is upping the ante.
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• On the Charts: Travis Scott Earns First Number One With 'Birds'

  11-09-2016 23:16 via rollingstone.com
  
  Travis Scott scored his first Number One album on the Billboard 200 as the rapper's Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight sold 88,000 total copies in its debut week to claim the top spot. The rapper's previous LP, 2015's Rodeo, peaked at Number Three.As Billboard notes, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight is the fifth Apple Music/iTunes exclusive to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 in 2016, following Drake's Views, Future's Evol, DJ Khaled's Major Key and, most recently, Frank Ocean's Blonde.
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• Anne Hathaway Is Stoked To Reunite With Rihanna On The ‘Ocean’s 8’ Set

  11-09-2016 23:12
  
  Anne Hathaway took a break from promoting 'Colossal' at TIFF to say she's thrilled to be working with Rihanna again on 'Ocean's 8.'
  
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• Amos Lee Brings 'Eclectic' Set to Radio City Music Hall

  11-09-2016 22:18
  
  “It’s eclectic,” said Amos Lee about three-fourths into his set at New York’s Radio City Music Hall Saturday...
  
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• Drake Really Can’t Say No To Any Opportunity To Gush About Rihanna

  11-09-2016 21:30
  
  Drake stopped his Summer Sixteen tour set in Los Angeles to surrender the spotlight to Rihanna and gush about how she "holds him down."
  
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• Music Stars Remember 15th anniversary of 9/11 on Social Media

  11-09-2016 21:13
  
  As seen in past years, the #NeverForget hashtag was a trending topic on Twitter and Instagram as the world remembers the 15th anniversary of the...
  
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• Travis Scott Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight'

  11-09-2016 21:00
  
  Travis Scott claims his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his new effort, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, debuts straight in at No. 1...
  
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• Watch Drake Bring Out Rihanna at His Los Angeles Concert

  11-09-2016 20:40
  
  Romance was in the air at Drake’s concert in Los Angeles on Saturday (Sept. 10), the last of his three-night stand at the Staples Center.
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• Tupac Shakur Pop-Up Restaurant Opening on 20th Anniversary of Rapper's Death

  11-09-2016 20:16
  Prior to his death in 1996, Shakur came up with an idea for a music-themed eatery called "The Powamekka Cafe." The rapper sketched out a logo and drafted a menu for the business idea, but he never got the chance to open it.
  
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• Nate Parker Doesn’t Want His Controversy To ‘Hijack’ Talk At TIFF

  11-09-2016 20:08
  
  While promoting 'The Birth of a Nation' at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, Nate Parker avoided questions about his rape allegations because he didn't want his personal life to "hijack" talk of the film.
  
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• Nate Parker Doesn’t Want His Controversy To ‘Hijack’ Talk About ‘The Birth Of A Nation’

  11-09-2016 20:08
  
  While promoting 'The Birth of a Nation' at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, Nate Parker avoided questions about his rape allegations because he didn't want his personal life to "hijack" talk of the film.
  
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• Kanye West's Top 10 NSFW Lyrics

  11-09-2016 19:45
  
  Kanye West has been dropping jaws since his 2004 debut, The College Dropout, and the number of NSFW bars per album has increased exponentially....
  
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• Katy Perry Says She Will Collaborate With Taylor Swift If She Apologizes

  11-09-2016 18:35
  
  Katy Perry and Taylor Swift together on the same track? The mega-collaboration could happen, but only on one condition from Perry: that the 1989...
  
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• Kim Gordon on 9/11: 'You Could Feel Everything Around You'

  11-09-2016 18:23 via rollingstone.com
  
  Fifteen years ago, Kim Gordon was in the passenger's seat of her friend's car, northbound to her home in Northampton, Massachusetts. New York City was engulfed in smoke after the worst terrorist attack in modern American history. "It felt like jumping a sinking ship," Gordon tells Rolling Stone. "It was just so sad, so surreal." "I remember when I got up to Northampton, I heard that Neil Young song about Ohio playing on the radio," she said. "I really felt the meaning of it in a certai
  
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• Jack White Thinks Beyoncé Is A Soul Singer on Aretha’s Level

  11-09-2016 18:21
  
  Jack White opens up about his collaboration with Beyoncé, "Don't Hurt Yourself," and compares her to Aretha Franklin and Betty Davis.
  
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• 5 Rising Rappers Who Are Busting Up Hip-Hop's Boys' Club

  11-09-2016 18:20
  
  For the past decade, rap radio has been a boys’ club (barring, of course, Nicki and Iggy) — but thanks to the creativity and swagger of...
  
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• Diane Warren Wins Emmy for Lady Gaga's 'Hunting Ground' Anthem 'Til It Happens to You'

  11-09-2016 18:00
  
  Prolific songwriter Diane Warren won the Emmy for best original music and lyrics for "Til It Happens to You" at the Creative Arts Emmy...
  
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• Designer Christian Siriano Talks Dressing Lady Gaga, Who He'd Like to Work With & More

  11-09-2016 17:45
  
  On the fourth day of New York Fashion Week (Sept. 10), guests at designer Christian Siriano’s show were transported from ArtBeam Studio in...
  
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• Rory Feek Says He's 'Retired' From Music After Wife Joey Feek's Death

  11-09-2016 17:17 via abcnews.go.com
  
  "I don't have any plans to play or sing," he said.
  
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• Gigi Hadid Reveals That Taylor Swift Is Working On New Music

  11-09-2016 17:11
  
  Gigi Hadid gushed about Taylor Swift's friendship at NYFW 2016 and spilled that Taylor's been working in the studio on new music, too.
  
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• Skizzy Mars Performs Vibrant 'Next Up' Showcase at W Minneapolis

  11-09-2016 17:00
  
  Skizzy Mars looks real comfortable waiting in a hotel lobby. Most of Skizzy’s songs are about the kinds of things that happen much later in the...
  
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• Next Up: Skizzy Mars Peforms Vibrant Set at W Minneapolis

  11-09-2016 17:00
  
  Skizzy Mars looks real comfortable waiting in a hotel lobby. Most of Skizzy’s songs are about the kinds of things that happen much later in the...
  
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• Watch Jennifer Nettles' Stunning National Anthem Performance at Bristol Motor Speedway

  11-09-2016 16:49
  
  Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles gave a stunning performance of the National Anthem before a matchup between the University of Tennessee and...
  
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• Dungeon Family and Outkast Reunite in Atlanta for Family Affair to Remember

  11-09-2016 16:44 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Dungeon Family, the game-changing Atlanta hip-hop collective including OutKast, Goodie Mob, Killer Mike and more, gathered last night at Aarons Amphitheater in Lakewood, Georgia to headline this year's sold-out One MusicFest. The Dungeon Family met not even five miles east of the venue, inside an unfinished basement with dirt floors where production trio Organized Noize hosted songwriting sessions as teens in the early Nineties. This first-ever reunion show was as good a reminder as any that
  
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• Lehigh Valley fall arts: Classical music highlights

  11-09-2016 16:36
  
  World-renowned clarinetist David Krakauer joins the Grammy-nominated, Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry in an eclectic program exploring music as a connection between man and the divine at the Williams Center in Easton Nov. 16. World-renowned clarinetist David Krakauer joins the Grammy-nominated, Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry in an eclectic program exploring music as a connection between man and the divine at the Williams Center in Easton Nov. 16. Same-old, same-old certainly d
  
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• How Bob Dylan Made a Pre-Rock Masterpiece With 'Love and Theft'

  11-09-2016 16:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  At the dawn of the 21st century, Bob Dylan seemed to be back on a creative roll. His last LP, 1997's Time Out of Mind, had recently taken home a Grammy for Album of the Year, and in 2000, he won the Best Original Song Oscar for "Things Have Changed," from the movie Wonder Boys. Another artist might've been content with all that, especially an artist about to turn 60. But the greatest late-career re-emergence in rock history was just getting started. When work began on Love and Theft in May 2001,
  
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• Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui apologises after on-stage breakdown

  11-09-2016 15:30 via music-news.com
  
  Lauren's troubles come just days after bandmate Camila Cabello left a concert due to anxiety.
  
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• 11 Inspiring 9/11 Anthems From Ryan Adams, Neil Young & Others

  11-09-2016 15:00
  
  On this 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, we look back at the songs that have given us strength, comfort and some measure...
  
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• Barbra Streisand takes aim at Donald Trump (again)

  11-09-2016 13:08 via music-news.com
  
  Barbra Streisand has performed a hilarious sketch on Donald Trump at a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in the USA.
  
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• Lady Gaga and Diane Warren win Emmy Award

  11-09-2016 12:50 via music-news.com
  
  Lady Gaga has added an Emmy to her list of awards after picking up the award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
  
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• Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra makes flawless landing in Hollywood Bowl debut

  11-09-2016 12:38
  
  Given the breathtaking melodies and arrangements propelling Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, it's a wonder that the venue's stage and shell didn't blast off into the cosmos as the concert was ending. Performing the first of three consecutive nights in a long-overdue appearance at the Bowl, the singer, songwriter, producer and pop-polisher Lynne and a dynamic backing band teamed with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to play songs from another symphony, the
  
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• Lionel Richie ‘demands talk with daughter Sofia’s beau Justin Bieber’

  11-09-2016 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Hello singer Lionel Richie is reportedly concerned about his youngest daughter’s budding romance with Sorry hitmaker Justin Bieber.
  
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• Lady Gaga goes wicked for American Horror Story

  11-09-2016 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Lady Gaga doesn’t feel the need to be as creatively controlling when acting compared to singing.
  
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• Hip-hop collective Dungeon Family reunites at festival

  11-09-2016 08:54
  In this Oct. 14, 2013 file photo, Musician CeeLo Green poses for a portrait in New York.
  
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• Prince Buster: Jamaica's True Voice of the People

  11-09-2016 07:37 via rollingstone.com
  
  Lester Sterling, the celebrated saxophonist trained at Kingston's famous Alpha Boys School and member of the legendary Skatalites, didn't realize Jamaican music pioneer Prince Buster was so multitalented when he first met him. None of the big producers in the 1950s and Sixties, after all, were also musicians, singers or performers. 
  "Everything he was doing at the time was good," Sterling tells Rolling Stone. "He excited the dance world and the crowd! People would start shuffling
  
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• The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has created a community string ensemble for adult amateur musicians.

  11-09-2016 05:05
  DSO launching adult amateur ensemble The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has created a community string ensemble for adult amateur musicians. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2cfwTn7 Officials say the Detroit Symphony Community Orchestra is the first of its kind for the professional orchestral organization founded in the late 19th century.
  
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• Gigi Hadid: Taylor Swift Is 'Back to Work in the Studio Again'

  11-09-2016 03:54
  
  News about Taylor Swift’s next album has been scarce, but one of her good friends gave a hopeful update at New York Fashion Week.
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• Katy Perry: 'I'll forgive Taylor Swift if she says sorry'

  11-09-2016 02:30 via music-news.com
  
  The Rise singer has held out an olive branch to her longtime pop star foe.
  
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• Guy Ritchie working with son Rocco on new movies

  11-09-2016 02:30 via music-news.com
  
  The teenager is "developing his creativity" with the help of his filmmaker father.
  
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• Cara Delevingne splits from girlfriend St. Vincent - report

  11-09-2016 02:30 via music-news.com
  
  Their long-distance romance is said to have fizzled out.
  
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• Gun Charges Dropped After Desiigner's Arrest: Report

  11-09-2016 02:09
  
  A felony weapon charge against Desiigner has been dropped by a New York City district attorney, TMZ reports. No weapons were found in the vehicle...
  
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• Lil Wayne Releases New Song 'Grateful': Listen

  11-09-2016 01:12
  
  A new Lil Wayne song titled “Grateful” is now available on Tidal. The track, featuring Gudda Gudda and produced by StreetRunner and Rugah...
  
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• Is Kanye West Having The Most Productive (And Provocative) Fashion Week Ever?

  11-09-2016 00:06
  
  Between fashion shows, controversies, and selling out his own performances, Kanye West is damn busy at New York Fashion Week 2016.
  
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