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• Louis Tomlinson Fights Back Tears To Sing On The X Factor UK

  10-12-2016 23:50
  
  Louis Tomlinson and Steve Aoki performed new single "Just Hold On" for 'The X Factor UK' final just days after Tomlinson's mother died.
  
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• Local music came in all different forms in 2016

  10-12-2016 22:59
  
  This was a year that Williamsburg's favorite pianist took up a new instrument, a "Big Baby" from Hampton came of age on the national stage, and many other local musicians produced outstanding releases in a wide variety of genres. If you're Christmas shopping for a music lover in your life and you're looking for a distinctively local present to stuff in a stocking, here's a look at some of your choices from 2016.
  
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• Bella Hadid Just Shared A Sneak Peek Of Her Next Dior Beauty Look

  10-12-2016 22:55
  
  Bella Hadid is the face of Dior Beauty, and she just shared a sneak peek of a forthcoming shoot for the French fashion house on her Instagram.
  
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• Read Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize in Literature Banquet Speech

  10-12-2016 22:49 via rollingstone.com
  
  When the news came out in early October that Bob Dylan was getting the Nobel Prize in Literature, it seemed like everyone had an opinion on the decision, with the very notable exception of the songwriter himself. Some writers like Gary Shteyngart and Jason Pinter felt the first American to in a Nobel since Toni Morrison in 1993 should have gone to someone else, while Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem and many others hailed it as a brilliant move. For weeks and weeks there was nothing but silenc
  
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• New York City Welcomes Drake's Third OVO Flagship Store

  10-12-2016 22:00
  
  On Saturday (Dec. 10), a typically low-key afternoon in New York City's Bowery neighborhood turned into a tourist's dream...
  
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• Pharrell Surprises NYC Middle Schoolers Kids During Their Performance of His 'Hidden Figures' Songs

  10-12-2016 21:45
  
  A wave of children stormed through the doors of George Washington Educational Campus in New York City on Friday (Dec. 9) to watch artist/...
  
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• Pharrell Surprises NYC Middle Schoolers During Their Performance of His 'Hidden Figures' Songs

  10-12-2016 21:45
  
  A wave of children stormed through the doors of George Washington Educational Campus in New York City on Friday (Dec. 9) to watch artist/...
  
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• Mariah Carey’s Daughter Struck A Pose ‘Just Like Mommy’ At Her Christmas Show

  10-12-2016 21:12
  
  Mariah Carey brought Dem Babies, Moroccan and Monroe Cannon, out for a quick hello at one of her Christmas shows on December 8.
  
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• Chance The Rapper Is Here For A Shia Labeouf Rap Album

  10-12-2016 20:04
  
  Chance The Rapper tweeted that he'd totally pay actual, real dollars for a Shia Labeouf album should he choose to make one.
  
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• Patti Smith Blanks Out During Bob Dylan Performance at Nobel Prize Ceremony

  10-12-2016 20:03
  
  Patti Smith needed two attempts to get through Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on...
  
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• Patti Smith Covers Bob Dylan's 'Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' at Nobel Ceremony

  10-12-2016 20:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Patti Smith delivered an emotional rendition of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden Saturday. Watch the performance starting at the 1:03:00 mark in the video here.Smith sang The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan classic from the Nobel lectern, where she was backed by acoustic guitar, a pedal steel guitar and orchestra.
  Midway through the song, Smith repeated a lyric, forcing her to briefly pause and recompose before resuming with the rendition at the st
  
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• Stevie Wonder Joined by Lionel Richie & More at 20th Annual House Full of Toys Benefit show

  10-12-2016 19:46
  
  Stevie Wonder brought the holiday cheer a bit early this year for his 20th annual House Full of Toys Benefit Concert at the Microsoft Theater in Los...
  
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• Foo Fightersa Taylor Hawkins says a geniusa Eagles Of Death Metal are best band of 2016

  10-12-2016 19:24
  Hawkins recently released his solo mini album 'KOTA' , and is gearing up to return to the Foos with a new album and European tour in 2017. Looking forward to the year ahead, we asked him who he'd nominate for Best International Band at the upcoming VO5 NME Awards 2017 - where he put forward Eagles Of Death Metal; for overcoming the adversity of the Paris terror attacks where their fans were murdered at The Bataclan and for being 'really funny and smart'.
  
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• PartyNextDoor Brings Out Drake, G-Eazy & More at Summer's Over Concert in L.A.

  10-12-2016 18:43
  
  “Since it’s L.A.,” explained PartyNextDoor early in his set on Friday night (Dec. 9), “I had to do the motherf---ing...
  
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• Camila Cabello Couldn’t Sleep Because She Was So Thrilled About The Live Debut Of ‘Bad Things’

  10-12-2016 18:34
  
  Camila Cabello shared her gratitude for her friends, her Fifth Harmony girls, and Machine Gun Kelly in a heartfelt Instagram post after Z100's Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden on December 9.
  
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• Justin Bieber's Biggest Moments of 2016

  10-12-2016 18:30
  
  Since the original Bieber Fever days when one hair flip was all it took to make hoards of girls around the world completely lose it, Justin Bieber...
  
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• Jingle Ball 2016: Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande & More Celebrate the Season, Hailee Steinfeld Gets a Birthday Surprise Backstage

  10-12-2016 18:27
  
  DNCE, Fifth Harmony, Hailee Steinfeld, Charlie Puth, Tinashe, Rita Ora, Jake Miller and Sabrina Carpenter celebrated the true spirit of the...
  
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• Adele's Biggest Moments of 2016

  10-12-2016 18:00
  
  After Adele basically took over the world in 2011 and made a clean sweep at the 2012 Grammys, the "Hello" singer took a four-year...
  
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• Watch Madonna's Emotional Billboard Women in Music 2016 Speech

  10-12-2016 17:53
  
  Madonna gave a heartrending, emotional speech at Billboard Women in Music 2016 that touched on feminism, sexism and much more.
  "I stand...
  
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• Nobel Committee: Bob Dylan 'Changed Our Idea of What Poetry Can Be'

  10-12-2016 17:41 via rollingstone.com
  
  Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden Saturday, where the Swedish Academy's Horace Engdahl explained in the presentation speech why the legendary singer-songwriter was given an award usually reserved for authors, poets and playwrights.In the speech, Engdahl said Dylan "dedicated himself body and soul to 20th century American popular music, the kind played on radio stations and gramophone records for ordinary people, white and black: protest songs
  
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• Taylor Swift's Biggest Moments of 2016

  10-12-2016 17:30
  
  Since Taylor Swift broke onto the music scene in 2009, there hasn't really been a year that couldn't be considered "the year of Taylor...
  
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• Kesha Proves That ‘If You Keep Showing Up For Yourself, You Can Move Mountains’

  10-12-2016 17:25
  
  Kesha delivered an emotional acceptance speech at the 2016 Billboard Women in Music awards and stressed that self-acceptance and love is key to getting through huge hurdles: 'once you take the first steps to help yourself, your life will completely change in the best ways.'
  
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• Prince's Formative Years: His 10 Best Songs Before 1981's 'Controversy'

  10-12-2016 17:00
  
  It still doesn’t feel like Prince is gone. It’s too weird; there’s too much life captured in his music. Someone like Leonard Cohen...
  
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• Sam Patch (Arcade Fire's Tim Kingsbury) - "St. Sebastian"

  10-12-2016 15:35
  
  Tim Kingsbury has been playing guitar, bass, and keyboards in Arcade Fire since 2003. And next year, he'll venture out on his own with a solo album called Yeah You, And I , which he'll release under the name Sam Patch.
  
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• Madonna champions freedom for women in blistering awards speech

  10-12-2016 15:30 via music-news.com
  
  The iconic entertainer made a powerful speech at Billboard’s annual Women in Music event.
  
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• Khloe Kardashian 'will be divorced in one week'

  10-12-2016 15:30 via music-news.com
  
  The reality star's marriage to Lamar Odom came to an end in 2013 when she filed for divorce after it was alleged he had cheated.
  
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• 13 Things to Know About the Billboard Charts This Week: Mariah Brings 'Christmas' Spirit Back to Hot 100

  10-12-2016 15:00
  
  Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles," featuring Gucci Mane, remains atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth week and The Weeknd's Starboy...
  
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• Mariah Carey: ‘I don’t know what reality is’

  10-12-2016 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Mariah Carey’s twins Moroccan and Monroe are taking a keen interest in music and song.
  
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• Kim Kardashian and Kanye West ‘at a crossroads following his hospitalisation’

  10-12-2016 12:00 via music-news.com
  
  Kim Kardashian and Kanye West ‘at a crossroads following his hospitalisation’
  
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• Tom Petty to celebrate 40 years in music at Woodlands

  10-12-2016 11:45
  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at the Toyota Center Sept. 25, in Houston.
  
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• Zendaya: 'Slaughterhouse animal conditions made me give up meat'

  10-12-2016 10:35 via music-news.com
  
  Singer/actress Zendaya was so traumatised by how animals were treated in slaughterhouses, it was enough to make her quit eating meat.
  
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• Music 27 mins ago 10:48 p.m.Madonna nails karaoke on Late Late Show

  10-12-2016 07:56
  The Late Late Show premiered their newest Carpool Karaoke featuring Madonna. She and James Corden drove around New York City singing her hits "Vogue," "B*tch I'm Madonna," "Papa Don't Preach," "Express Yourself," "Ray of Light," and "Music."
  
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• Nick Styne, Film Agent for Justin Bieber & One Direction, Exits CAA

  10-12-2016 07:27
  
  Nick Styne, a veteran CAA film agent who has worked with music clients such as Justin Bieber, One Direction, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, is...
  
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• Kanye West Has Always Found Solace in Music, Even When He's...

  10-12-2016 04:06
  Kanye West has felt some of the greatest highs in his life, as well as experienced some of his greatest frustrations, while creating. Like artists who take their work seriously are wont to do, he relishes giving himself over to his craft, whether it's in the studio or on stage, and he has frequently implied - particularly through his lyrics - that he himself is a work in progress, much like a painting or, quite literally, his The Life of Pablo album, which he famously debuted to much fanfare whi
  
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• Guns N' Roses' 2017 Tour Sells 1 Million Tickets in 24 Hours

  10-12-2016 04:01
  
  Guns N' Roses' U.K., European and Canadian dates for their continued 2017 Not in This Lifetime Tour sold more than 1 million tickets in a...
  
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• Jennifer Hudson, Universal Music Publishing's Jody Gerson Honored by March of Dimes

  10-12-2016 03:41
  
  Grammy Award-winning singer and Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson and Universal Music Publishing Group chairman/CEO Jody Gerson were two...
  
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• Dolly Parton Joining Pentatonix for NBC Holiday Special

  10-12-2016 03:12
  
  Dolly Parton will join NBC's upcoming A Pentatonix Christmas Special airing next week. 
  It's a fitting addition to the show -- which...
  
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• Beyonce's Biggest Moments of 2016

  10-12-2016 02:55
  
  Beyoncé is Billboard's top female R&B/hip-hop act of 2016, and there were a lot of big moments that led her to the top.
  From the surprise...
  
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• Isaac Hayes' Remastered Stax Catalog Digitally Released

  10-12-2016 02:16 via rollingstone.com
  
  Twelve of soul legend Isaac Hayes' most iconic albums, spanning his work with Stax Records from 1969 to 1976, were remastered entirely from the original analog tapes and reissued on iTunes Friday.Among the albums now available in 192/24 and 96/24 high resolution audio formats are Hayes' landmark 1969 LP Hot Buttered Soul, its 1971 follow-up The Issac Hayes Movement, his 1971 epic Black Moses and his legendary Shaft soundtrack.
  The remastering was overseen by engineer Dave Cooley, who attempted t
  
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• Nicole Scherzinger hits back at Simon Cowell over Matt Terry criticism

  10-12-2016 02:15 via music-news.com
  
  Nicole Scherzinger has hit back at “tactical” Simon Cowell, following his less-than complimentary remarks to Matt Terry during last week’s ‘X Factor’ semi final.
  
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• 9 Taylor Swift Duets, Including Zayn Team-Up 'I Don't Want to Live Forever'

  10-12-2016 02:01
  
  With the release of Zayn and Taylor Swift's Fifty Shades Darker duet "I Don't Want to Live Forever" overnight,...
  
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• Spy Kids’s Alexa PenaVega Welcomes A Baby Boy With A Very Nautical Name

  10-12-2016 01:50
  
  Alexa and Carlos Penavega have welcomed their first child together, a baby boy.
  
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• Spy Kids‘ Alexa PenaVega Welcomes A Baby Boy With A Very Nautical Name

  10-12-2016 01:50
  
  Alexa and Carlos Penavega have welcomed their first child together, a baby boy.
  
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• Fifth Harmony’s Meghan Trainor Cover Was Brave, Honest, And Beautiful

  10-12-2016 01:17
  
  Fifth Harmony covered Meghan Trainor's "Like I'm Gonna Lose You" while filling in for her at Billboard's Women in Music ceremony.
  
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• Oakland Warehouse Fire: A Survivor Shares What He Saw & How He Escaped

  10-12-2016 01:15
  
  We were there to see the music of Joel Shanahan. I had met Joel while attending college in Madison, WI, and he was scheduled to perform under his...
  
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• Underground Venues Seek Safety & Survival Following Oakland Warehouse Fire

  10-12-2016 01:11
  
  In the wake of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, underground (and often unlicensed) spaces have come under intense scrutiny. While Oakland Mayor Libby...
  
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