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• Gucci Mane Holds Court & Performs Mini-Set at Miami Nightclub During Art Basel

  02-12-2016 23:53
  
  As part of the Art Basel festivities, club Rockwell hosted a pop-up of the famed NYC club 1OAK. Gucci Mane was the main attraction of the night, as...
  
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• KSHMR & Splice Premiere Video Tutorial Series: Exclusive

  02-12-2016 23:33
  
  Those aspiring to one day become producers can rejoice as KSHMR and Splice have teamed up to create a new video series offering short tutorials in...
  
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• Marilyn Manson Thriller 'Let Me Make You a Martyr' Nabbed by FilmRise

  02-12-2016 23:31
  
  FilmRise has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the Marilyn Manson-starring revenge thriller Let Me Make You a Martyr, and will release...
  
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• Leah Remini: 'Jennifer Lopez's kiss with Marc Anthony was innocent'

  02-12-2016 23:30 via music-news.com
  
  The actress believes Jennifer and Marc's lip-lock was "an innocent kiss between two parents and two friends".
  
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• John Legend envies Ryan Gosling's musical skills

  02-12-2016 23:30 via music-news.com
  
  The singer only had to learn the basics of a guitar for his part as a musician.
  
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• Blake Shelton: 'It's so good to be with hot girlfriend Gwen Stefani'

  02-12-2016 23:30 via music-news.com
  
  The country singer still can't believe he landed such a "good human being" after the end of his second marriage.
  
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• Shots Fired, But at Who? J. Cole's 'False Prophets' Has People Guessing

  02-12-2016 23:17
  
  A track off J. Cole's forthcoming album has some people playing the guessing game on who he's taking shots at.
  Cole doesn't mention...
  
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• The Austin & Ally Squad Still Can’t Do It Without Each Other, 5 Years Later

  02-12-2016 23:16
  
  Disney's 'Austin & Ally' premiered 5 years ago, and Laura Marano celebrates the anniversary.
  
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• 'Saturday Night Live' Reveals Final Musical Guests for 2016

  02-12-2016 23:15
  
  Saturday Night Live is closing out 2016 with a bang.
  The final three hosts and musical guests of the year were revealed on the show's official...
  
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• Get a First Look at Insomniac & C3 Presents' Medieval-Themed Festival Middlelands

  02-12-2016 23:03
  
  Details have finally emerged concerning Insomniac and C3 Presents' joint music festival Middlelands, and it's unlike any music festival we...
  
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• Ice Cube Inks Overall Deal With 20th Century Fox TV & Fox 21

  02-12-2016 22:58
  
  Ice Cube is setting up shop at Fox.
  The rapper, actor, director and producer has signed a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV and Fox 21...
  
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• Delete Your Account: Don’t Make Casey Affleck’s Shit About Nate Parker

  02-12-2016 22:50
  
  Delete Your Account is a weekly column that takes the hot air out of celebrities, the media, and their social media shenanigans. Every Friday, I will decide whether each perpetrator should delete their accounts and never grace the internet again. This week, the reporting on Casey Affleck’s sexual-assault allegations needs to do less, Arianna Huffington...Read more »
  
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• Public School Debuts Radio Art Installation for Art Basel

  02-12-2016 22:45
  
  Fashion has had a profound influence on Art Basel Miami Beach since the fair first opened in 2002, and this year is no different, as brands like Dior...
  
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• Lady Gaga Is Looking For Fans To Join Her At The Super Bowl Halftime Show

  02-12-2016 22:41
  
  Lady Gaga gushes about her fans in a new promo for her Super Bowl Halftime Show performance, which also launches a contest for fans to join her at the show.
  
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• Desert Hearts Festival Announces City Hearts International Tour

  02-12-2016 22:39
  
  One of the things that makes West Coast house and techno festival Desert Hearts so unique is its decision to cap attendance at 3,500. It allows the...
  
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• BMI Launches 14th Annual Peermusic Latin Scholarship Competition With Prince Royce

  02-12-2016 22:31
  
  The BMI Foundation announced the launch of the 14th edition of its peermusic Latin scholarship competition, which offers songwriters and...
  
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• Fidel Castro: A First-Person Account of the Day the Music Stopped in Cuba

  02-12-2016 22:24
  
  Musician, Billboard contributor and acclaimed author Ned Sublette (Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo) has been in Cuba this...
  
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• More than cookie sellers, Girl Scouts enter music industry

  02-12-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Girl Scouts of the USA are used to making you smile with sweet cookies, but now they're hoping to soothe your ears with sweet music.
  
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• 8 Can't-Miss Performances From the Mnet Asian Music Awards

  02-12-2016 22:08
  
  End of the year means awards ceremonies, and the Mnet Asian Music Awards on Friday (Dec. 2) aimed to be the ceremony to end all year-end Asia-based...
  
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• The Slow Yet Undeniable Evolution Of Drake Into Taylor Swift

  02-12-2016 22:07
  
  The similarities are too numerous to ignore any longer
  
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• 2NE1's 7 Best Deep Cuts

  02-12-2016 22:06
  
  The wildly popular girl group 2NE1 left a gap in the Korean pop scene following their official breakup last week. Throughout their career, the...
  
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• 5 'Hamilton Mixtape' Collaborators on Lin-Manuel Miranda's Genius & Remixing History

  02-12-2016 21:52
  
  After a long buildup, the highly anticipated next chapter in Lin-Manuel Miranda's record-breaking Hamilton run has finally...
  
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• Billie Joe Armstrong, Sia, Vic Mensa & 100 Other Artists Sign Letter to Obama Protesting Dakota Pipeline

  02-12-2016 21:41
  
  With a government-imposed deadline looming next week to abandon their large encampment on the North Dakota grasslands, the hundreds of...
  
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• Sia’s ‘Angel By The Wings’ Will Give You Actual Wings

  02-12-2016 21:39
  
  Sia delivers yet another motivational anthem with "Angel By The Wings" from the documentary "The Eagle Huntress."
  
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• Every Question I Still Have About Lizzie McGuire’s Iconic Aaron Carter Episode

  02-12-2016 21:36
  
  ’Tis the season to revisit Aaron Carter and Hilary Duff’s Christmas special on Disney Channel’s ‘Lizzie McGuire’
  
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• Mykki Blanco Calls YouTube’s Removal Of Her New Video ‘Homophobic’

  02-12-2016 21:34
  
  Mykki Blanco called out YouTube for removing her new 'Loner' video even though it doesn't contain nudity.
  
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• Mariah Carey plays coy over new romance

  02-12-2016 21:30 via music-news.com
  
  The singer went public with her new toyboy by kissing him on a beach in Hawaii.
  
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• John Legend, Childish Gambino & More Are Spotify Editors' Picks for New Music Friday

  02-12-2016 21:24
  
  Every week, Spotify updates their "New Music Friday" playlist, featuring 50 of the freshest new tracks hitting the service that week.
  On...
  
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• Amy Schumer in Talks to Star in 'Barbie' Movie

  02-12-2016 21:23
  
  Amy Schumer will star in Sony’s live-action Barbie movie.
  Mattel and producers Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, and Amy Pascal...
  
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• Billboard's Holiday 100 Chart Returns, Led Again by Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'

  02-12-2016 21:21
  
  The Holiday 100 makes its annual dash back to Billboard's charts menu, ranking the top seasonal songs via the same formula used for the Billboard...
  
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• Hunger Games Star Sam Claflin Has A Message For The Person Who Photoshopped His Body

  02-12-2016 21:02
  
  Sam Clafin from ‘The Hunger Games’ shouts out the people who photoshopped his body
  
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• Kane Brown on His Self-Titled Debut: 'It's Pretty Much My Childhood on That Record'

  02-12-2016 21:00
  
  After gathering a following by covering other artists' songs online and mixing in a smattering of his own material, hot country upstart Kane...
  
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• Is J. Cole taking shots at Kanye West on his new track?

  02-12-2016 20:58
  
  Rapper J. Cole on Thursday night released a new documentary about the making of his upcoming fourth album, and 12 hours later the Internet is convinced that one of the album's songs is a shot at Kanye West , who spent a portion of last month in the hospital following what's been described as a nervous breakdown . In the documentary, titled "Eyez" and available to view on the streaming service Tidal, Cole performs a song called "False Prophets" in which he skewers a rapper "who's falling apart bu
  
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• Eric Prydz to Perform in Los Angeles in Fan's Honor, Every Dollar of Ticket Sales Supports Cancer Research

  02-12-2016 20:32
  
  When James Lillo reached out to Eric Prydz, he had Stage 4 terminal cancer. All he wanted was to see his favorite DJ perform one last time, and the...
  
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• Alison Wonderland and M-Phazes' 'Messiah' Has That Fire You Need: Listen

  02-12-2016 20:24
  
  When you're at the end of your rope, when you don't know how you're going to get over that next hurdle, that's when you need that one...
  
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• Faith No More Keyboardist Chronicles AIDS Bike Ride in New Opera

  02-12-2016 20:16 via rollingstone.com
  
  Faith No More's keyboardist Roddy Bottum composed a mini-opera called The Ride, for the Experiments in Opera (EiO) "Story Binge" series, which premieres December 15th at New York City's Merkin Concert Hall. The opera is about two gay men from different generations who bicycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles for an AIDS charity. "The older generation of gay men who dealt with AIDS as a life threatening disease and were in the trenches for the first generation of the disease helped the
  
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• Watch Gucci Mane Bring Christmas to Atlanta in His 'St. Brick Intro' Video

  02-12-2016 20:11
  
  This year, Gucci Mane has undoubtedly done a masterful job of maintaining his work ethic. Earlier this week, he released his Travis Scott-...
  
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• Duran Duran Loses Case, Brought In Britain, Over American Copyrights

  02-12-2016 20:09
  
  A decision from the UK High Court of Justice today has ruled against Duran Duran over the band's attempt to reclaim, stateside, the publishing...
  
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• At Standing Rock

  02-12-2016 20:05
  
  Writer Marcus Ellsworth and producer Kasia Mychajlowycz travel to the site of the #nodapl protests in North Dakota
  
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• Jack White, Bon Iver, Yoko Ono Give Rare Bundles for Charity

  02-12-2016 20:03 via rollingstone.com
  
  Jack White and Third Man Records, Bon Iver, Yoko Ono and Sub Pop are among the artists and labels contributing exclusive bundles to an auction for Studios for Schools, a nonprofit organization that builds music and film studios in low-income schools.The Third Man bundle includes White's Acoustic Recordings alongside the Elvis Presley seven-inch Third Man released on Record Store Day, a translucent green seven-inch of Jack White and the Electric Mayhem, a Dead Weather flexi-disc and other al
  
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• Banda MS Gets Into the Holiday Spirit With New Christmas Song 'Santa Claus Llego a la Ciudad': Listen

  02-12-2016 19:44
  
  The classic Christmas carol "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," or "Santa Claus llegó a la ciudad" in Spanish, has a new banda...
  
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• Review: Childish Gambino Explores Hip-Hop's Limits on 'Awaken, My Love!'

  02-12-2016 19:37 via rollingstone.com
  
  You could argue that Childish Gambino became a great hip-hop artist when he stopped rapping, but that would be unfair. Over the course of two albums and a handful of mixtapes, the artist also known as actor and screenwriter Donald Glover has proven himself a decent lyricist. However, his best moments on his 2011 debut Camp arrived when he threw out the humblebrag playbook and exploded our stereotypes of black youth by addressing bullying and growing up in a two-parent household. His 2013 follow-
  
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• Tyler Oakley's 'Holiday Jams' Album Rings in Season With The Raveonettes, Alex Newell, Josh Rouse & More

  02-12-2016 19:30
  
  It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and it’s even more festive, now that Tyler Oakley’s new Holiday Jams compilation album...
  
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• Alandon and Dougie F Turn Up on the Beach in 'Movie' Video: Premiere

  02-12-2016 19:22
  
  Some might have first heard of Jamaican-born, Hartford, Conn.-based dancehall artist Alandon from his remix of Rihanna and Drake's hit "Work...
  
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• Grace VanderWaal Unveils Debut EP: 'We Wanted to Keep the Momentum Going'

  02-12-2016 19:03
  
  Less than three months after winning America’s Got Talent, Grace VanderWaal has released her first musical project: the five-song Perfectly...
  
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• Op-Ed: MC5's Wayne Kramer Says Trump Is Using 'Meaningless' Flag Burning Rhetoric to Manipulate the Media

  02-12-2016 18:59
  
  For a teenaged greaser raised by a divorced working mom in the 1950s (imagine that) in inner-city Detroit, all I thought I had was my sister and my...
  
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• Kings of Leon Crown Rock Airplay Chart for First Time With 'Waste a Moment'

  02-12-2016 18:57
  
  Another week, another Billboard airplay chart No. 1 for Kings of Leon.
  The rock quartet's "Waste a Moment" rises 2-1 on the all-rock-...
  
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• Review: 'The Hamilton Mixtape' Reimagines Musical with Sia, Miguel, Nas

  02-12-2016 18:51 via rollingstone.com
  
  Mike Pence is right about one thing: The Hamilton experience is "what freedom sounds like." The instant-classic musical is a miracle of living history and artistic ingenuity, reaffirming our sense of America's renegade ambition and inclusive against-the-odds promise. As a musical triumph, it is just as amazing. Creator-composer-star Lin-Manuel Miranda's songs tap hip-hop's nearly lost traditions of sing-song storytelling and giddy battle-rap brio. More astonishingly, Hamilton is full of show tun
  
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• The Artists Visualizing Dallas Music Open Up About Their Ephemeral Craft

  02-12-2016 18:46
  Brian Tomerlin, a regular participant in Dallas Ambient Music Nights, got into visuals after taking an audio-visual hacking class at Oil and Cotton. Flickering lines jump and crawl across the faces of a trio of darkwave musicians at RBC as Evan Henry is on deck with his analog video electronics.
  
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• The American Horror Story Vampire Kids Reunited And Didn’t Kill Anyone

  02-12-2016 18:36
  
  Three of the vampire kids from ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ reunited
  
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