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• New Orleans Legend Dr. John Looks Back on 60 Years in Music, From Professor Longhair to Johnny Cash

  05-12-2016 23:49
  
  “I remember …”
  That’s a phrase Dr. John, the growly toned, six-time Grammy-winning singer-pianist from New Orleans, often...
  
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• At Jingle Ball 2016, Users Coded Their Own Emoji Thanks to Google: Exclusive

  05-12-2016 23:35
  
  Before Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Britney Spears hit the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2016 stage at L.A. Staples Center on Friday night, guests lined...
  
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• Rare Footage Of 10-Year-Old Beyoncé Proves She Was Destined For Stardom

  05-12-2016 23:33
  
  Previously unreleased footage of a young Beyonce is going up for sale for $3.8 million.
  
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• Sophie Turner introduces Joe Jonas to family in London

  05-12-2016 23:30 via music-news.com
  
  The stars have been spending a lot of time together in recent weeks on both sides of the Atlantic.
  
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• Kelly Clarkson tears up performing Hamilton song

  05-12-2016 23:30 via music-news.com
  
  The singer struggles to contain her emotions now she's a mum.
  
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• Bryan Tanaka: 'I've always had a thing for Mariah Carey'

  05-12-2016 23:30 via music-news.com
  
  The singer is staying coy about her new relationship.
  
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• Maluma's 10 Best Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy Moments on Instagram

  05-12-2016 23:29
  
  We can thank Maluma's pretty boy, dirty boy alter ego for some of the singer's best Instagram moments.
  From showing off his inked arms and...
  
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• Ab-Soul Lands a Release Date for 'DWTW' & Drops New Track 'Threatening Nature'

  05-12-2016 23:27
  
  TDE will be rolling out their fifth project of the year with Ab-Soul's DWTW this week. In addition to sharing the project's Dec. 9...
  
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• Jordan Smith Shares Favorite Christmas Memories & Reflects on Life-Changing Year

  05-12-2016 23:21
  
  At this time last year, Jordan Smith was preparing for what was, at the time, the biggest performance of his life: the semifinals of season...
  
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• U.S. Digital Ad Growth to Slow in 2017 After Olympics and Elections, Zenith Sees Political 'Uncertainty'

  05-12-2016 23:09
  
  U.S. advertising spending will grow 3.8 percent in 2017 to $198.1 billion after a 4.5 percent gain this year to $190.8 billion in major media, helped...
  
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers Release New Animated Video for 'Sick Love': Watch

  05-12-2016 23:08
  
  Hollywood may look like a glamorous town filled with beautiful celebrities, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers unmask the City of Angels in their new...
  
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• Madonna on Donald Trump's Election Win: 'We're F--ked'

  05-12-2016 23:02 via rollingstone.com
  
  Madonna has a message for America after Donald Trump's presidential win. "We're fucked," she told actress Elizabeth Banks in a revealing Billboard interview. "[The election] felt like someone died," Madonna says. "[It] felt like a combination of the heartbreak and betrayal you feel when someone you love more than anything leaves you, and also a death. I feel that way every morning; I wake up and say, 'Oh, wait, Donald Trump is still the president,' and it wasn’t a bad dream that
  
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• Remy Ma Gives an Update on Fat Joe Joint Album 'Platas o Plomo' & Shares Favorite Holiday Tunes

  05-12-2016 23:00
  
  In addition to soundtracking the summer with her Fat Joe collaboration "All the Way Up" (which landed a remix from Jay Z), Remy Ma has...
  
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• Bad Royale & Major Lazer Team With Dubset to Release 'My Number:' Listen

  05-12-2016 22:56
  
  Bad Royale has waited its whole career for a moment to work with Major Lazer, so when the Caribbean bass foursome recently nabbed the opportunity to...
  
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• Ranking All The Revelations Of The Westworld Season Finale

  05-12-2016 22:47
  
  They really crammed a lot of stuff into those final 98 minutes
  
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• Ranking All The Relevations Of The Westworld Season Finale

  05-12-2016 22:47
  
  They really crammed a lot of stuff into those final 98 minutes
  
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• Two bands will perform Jewish music at Reconstructionista 2 hours, 55 minutes | Music

  05-12-2016 22:31
  Two bands will perform Jewish music at Reconstructionist synagogue in Montclair Montclair, N.J., Bnai Keshet, live music, Check out this story on northjersey.com: http://northjersy.news/2h6R0WX Thread of Blue: Talya Smilowitz, Marty Fogel, Mitchell Schechter, Aaron Alexander and Brian Glassman will perform in Montclair on Dec. 17 Montclair - A concert of Jewish music by two bands that combine a cross-cultural blend of expressions and influences including R&B, jazz, soul and funk, will take p
  
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• Watch Teyana Taylor Sing an Alluring Rendition of 'Santa Baby' in 'VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night' Preview

  05-12-2016 22:25
  
  It's December, and the holidays are already in full swing. Christmas music is being played nonstop and holiday specials are taking over...
  
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• Oakland Warehouse Owner Speaks Out About Deadly Fire: 'My Heart Is Broken'

  05-12-2016 22:13
  
  Derick Almena, the proprietor of the Oakland warehouse commonly known as the "Ghost Ship" where more than 35 people lost their lives in a...
  
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• Kari Faux Talks Working on Childish Gambino's 'Awaken, My Love!' & Writing Music for Issa Rae's HBO Hit 'Insecure'

  05-12-2016 22:06
  
  Hip-hop has gotten a makeover with fresh faces from new places. Enter Little Rock, Arkansas, native Kari Faux, who emerged on the scene with the...
  
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• 'Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death By Audio' Is a Memorial for DIY in NYC & Rallying Cry for the Future

  05-12-2016 22:00
  
  Scientists recently confirmed that Americans who spend their youth as part of a movement or creative community are at double the risk of coming down...
  
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• The Story Behind Yandel's Beautiful Benefit Christmas Card: Check Out the Pictures

  05-12-2016 21:45
  
  Yandel has joined a campaign to raise funds to benefit Puerto Rico's Psychopedagogical Institute by creating his own Christmas card, titled...
  
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• The Weeknd: 'My rambling early songs were all written when I was high'

  05-12-2016 21:30 via music-news.com
  
  The Hills star spent much of his late teens consuming large amounts of heavy drugs.
  
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• Lady Gaga battling post-traumatic stress disorder

  05-12-2016 21:30 via music-news.com
  
  The singer feels a special connection with troubled youths after sharing her darkest secret with them during a recent visit to a New York homeless shelter.
  
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• Wiz Khalifa Celebrates O.N.I.F.C. Anniversary With Three New Songs

  05-12-2016 21:29
  
  Wiz Khalifa celebrated the fourth anniversary of his O.N.I.F.C. album by dropping three previously unreleased tracks intended for the project.
  
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• Pussy Riot's Nadya on Surviving President Trump

  05-12-2016 21:20
  
  Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot warns Americans to avoid complacency during the coming years, especially if you fear the looming presidency of...
  
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• 'La La Land' Songwriters on Emma Stone's 'Cool and Quirky' Singing Style & Their New Broadway Show

  05-12-2016 21:00
  
  By this time next year, 31-year-old composer-lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul could be more than halfway to an EGOT. Dear Evan Hansen, the new...
  
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• Joell Ortiz, Nitty Scott & Bodega Bamz on No Panty Supergroup: 'We're Continuing the Narrative of Latinos in Hip-Hop'

  05-12-2016 20:38
  
  Superproducer Salaam Remi brought the bodega feels to hip-hop by merging three New York-based, Latino rappers -- Bodega Bamz (who's...
  
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• Casper Skulls’ DIY ‘Devotion’

  05-12-2016 20:38
  
  Toronto band Casper Skulls discuss their debut EP, ‘Lips & Skull,’ with MTV News
  
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• The Oakland fire could've happened here

  05-12-2016 20:25
  Two people hug in the wake of a warehouse fire tragedy in Oakland, California, on Dec. 4, 2016. The fire claimed the lives of over 30 people attending a concert.
  
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• Oakland Warehouse Landlord: 'My Heart Is Broken' After Fire

  05-12-2016 20:25 via rollingstone.com
  
  The landlord of the Oakland warehouse where a fire Friday night claimed the lives of at least 36 people issued his first statement Monday.In the hours after the Oakland blaze, Derick Ion Almena, the proprietor of the warehouse dubbed the "Ghost Ship," took to Facebook to confirm that a fire had destroyed his belongings, but offered no condolences to those killed. The Facebook post garnered thousands of angry responses before it was deleted Sunday.
  "In my previous Facebook post, I had no idea the
  
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• Electric Guitarist Steven Mackey Part Of HSO's Merry Mozart

  05-12-2016 20:25
  
  Electric guitarist Steven Mackey will perform "Four Iconoclastic Episodes," a double concerto for violin and electric guitar. In the early 1990s, Princeton composer Steven Mackey started to explore the sonic relationship between the electric guitar - his chosen instrument - and the violin.
  
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• Canadian cop apologizes to Nickelback for threatening drunk drivers with band's music

  05-12-2016 20:25
  Nickelback, a band with global record sales north of 50 million and the creator of early-2000s radio staples like "How You Remind Me," does not have a Grammy. But the post-grunge rockers were the recent recipients of something more heartfelt - an apology from a Canadian police officer in Kensington, Prince Edward Island.
  
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• The Weeknd Charts Entire 'Starboy' Album on Hot 100

  05-12-2016 20:23
  
  As his new album Starboy shoots in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Dec. 17), The Weeknd charts all 18 songs on the set on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
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• Rae Sremmurd's 'Black Beatles' Tops Hot 100 for Fab Fourth Week

  05-12-2016 20:20
  
  Rae Sremmurd rules the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Dec. 17) for a fourth week with "Black Beatles," featuring Gucci Mane.
  As we do every...
  
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• Human Rights Campaign Grades Companies on LGBT Issues: How Do Apple, Google, Pandora Size Up?

  05-12-2016 20:19
  
  Apple and Google are just two of the companies with heavy music interests that earned a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign’s...
  
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• A Look at the Music Accompanying Massive South Korean Rallies

  05-12-2016 19:57
  
  Any good South Korean protest needs a soundtrack, and the music that accompanies the massive rallies on the verge of bringing down President Park...
  
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• A-Trak, Promnite and starRo Turn Black Atlass' 'Holding On' Interlude Into a Full-On House Jam: Exclusive

  05-12-2016 19:36
  
  True artistic vision is the ability to see things not simply as they are, but what they could be.
  “The first time (Black Atlass) sent me...
  
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• A Glee Star Got Married And The New Directions Cheered Her On

  05-12-2016 19:34
  
  'Glee' stars Lea Michele, Jane Lynch, Jenna Ushkowitz, and Kevin McHale reunited for Becca Tobin's wedding.
  
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• Friends Remember Victims of Oakland Warehouse Fire, Details Emerge on Building's Owners

  05-12-2016 19:30
  
  The death toll in the Oakland warehouse fire has grown to 36 and authorities say they expect the number to rise when they resume work later Monday (...
  
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• Gucci Mane Sets His Wedding Date With Keyshia Ka'Oir

  05-12-2016 19:19
  
  Besides lighting up Atlanta with jingle bells for his forthcoming album The Return of East Atlanta Santa, Gucci Mane is preparing...
  
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• Russia Considers a Chinese Approach to Digital Content

  05-12-2016 19:12
  
  A recent report that Russia has been collaborating with China on a new system of internet filtering, prefaced last week with the blocking of...
  
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• PIKOTARO Talks Becoming a Viral Sensation With 'PPAP' and Creating His New (Super Short) Album

  05-12-2016 19:12
  
  At the end of August 2016, PIKOTARO uploaded a video called "PPAP (Pen-Pinapple-Apple-Pen)" on YouTube, which instantly went viral thanks...
  
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• Shailene Woodley, Solange, And More Praise For Everyone Who Stood With Standing Rock

  05-12-2016 19:08
  
  Shailene Woodley, Solange, and Chance the Rapper react to Standing Rock's major victory against the DAPL.
  
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• Shailene Woodley, Solange, And More Praise Everyone Who Stood With Standing Rock

  05-12-2016 19:08
  
  Shailene Woodley, Solange, and Chance the Rapper react to Standing Rock's major victory against the DAPL.
  
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• Jason Bonham Signs With UTA, Talks Honoring His Father's Led Zeppelin Legacy

  05-12-2016 19:03
  
  After being asked constantly about another Led Zeppelin reunion, Jason Bonham has a ready answer -- just don't think about it, and maybe it will...
  
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• Canadian Cop Who Trolled Nickelback Apologizes, Promises New Anti-DUI Campaign

  05-12-2016 18:55
  
  The Canadian police officer who made headlines last week when he threatened to force DUI offenders to listen to Nickelback as punishment for...
  
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• Lady Gaga Opens Up About Her PTSD Struggle

  05-12-2016 18:52
  
  During a recent visit to an LGBTQ center, Lady Gaga opened up about the mental illness she struggles with 'every day.'
  
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• Meghan Trainor And Daryl Sabara Continue To Be Disgustingly Cute

  05-12-2016 18:42
  
  Check out these precious pics of Meghan Trainor and Daryl Sabara and try not to explode from cuteness.
  
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• Mogwai Plot 2017 North American 'Atomic' Tour

  05-12-2016 18:41 via rollingstone.com
  
  Mogwai are taking new album Atomic to stages across North America in a stretch of January concerts. The Scottish post-rock band will kick off the trek January 18th in Los Angeles and conclude January 31st in Montreal.Atomic, released in April, is Mogwai's instrumental soundtrack to Mark Cousins' BBC documentary Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise. The band, alongside Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, also contributed music to Leonardo DiCaprio's climate change documentary Before the Flood
  
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