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• Drake Bell Is No Longer Bummed About Missing Out On Josh Peck’s Wedding

  08-07-2017 23:41
  
  Drake Bell says there are 'no hard feelings' between him and Josh Peck after the 'Drake & Josh' star didn't invite his onscreen step-bro to his wedding.
  
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• Frank Ocean's 10 Best Songs: Critic's Picks

  08-07-2017 23:40
  
  In five years, Frank Ocean has gone from releasing his proper debut album to proving the flimsy absurdity of the words “proper debut album...
  
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• Nelsan Ellis, 'True Blood' Star, Dies at 39

  08-07-2017 23:37
  
  Nelsan Ellis, the actor who starred in HBO's True Blood as Lafayette Reynolds, has died, his manager Emily Gerson Saines,...
  
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• Selena Gomez Has A Smoky New ‘Fetish’ Coming

  08-07-2017 22:26
  
  Selena Gomez is teasing details for her new single, 'Fetish,' which features a smoky visual and a collaboration with Gucci Mane.
  
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• Christopher Nolan Didn't Know How Famous Harry Styles Was

  08-07-2017 22:19
  
  Director Christopher Nolan and actor Mark Rylance didn't know quite how famous Harry Styles was before Dunkirk. The young people in their lives...
  
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• Acrobat Falls to Death Before Green Day's Set at Mad Cool Festival

  08-07-2017 21:34
  
  An acrobat plunged to his death just before Green Day’s set at the Mad Cool Festival Friday night (July 7). A fan-shot video shows Pedro Aunión...
  
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• Zac Efron Wants To Show You How Much He Loves Chance The Rapper With This Painting

  08-07-2017 21:33
  
  Zac Efron posed with a giant, technicolor portrait of Chance The Rapper, so here's hoping he's the proud owner of this work of fine art as it'd probably make his life to hang it on his wall.
  
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• Shia LaBeouf Arrested on Suspicion of Disorderly Conduct, Public Drunkenness

  08-07-2017 20:59
  
  Shia LaBeouf has been arrested in Georgia on suspicion of disorderly conduct, among other charges, according to Chatham County Sheriff's...
  
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• Mandy Moore Has A Sweet Birthday Message For Her ‘This Is Us’ Hubby

  08-07-2017 20:31
  
  Mandy Moore wished her onscreen hubby and 'This Is Us' co-star Milo Ventimiglia a happy birthday with a sweet Tweet.
  
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• Migos Rapper Booted Off Delta Flight for Disobeying Instructions

  08-07-2017 19:19
  
  Migos rapper Takeoff was reportedly taken off of a Delta flight before the plane could take off for disobeying takeoff instructions.
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• Publishing Veteran Jay Morgenstern Dies at 87

  08-07-2017 19:00
  
  Longtime music publisher and former ASCAP board vice chairman Jay Morgenstern died on July 4 in Los Angeles. The 87-year-old passed away peacefully...
  
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• Spider-Man: Homecoming Is Set To Be One Of 2017’s Strongest Box Office Debuts

  08-07-2017 18:33
  
  'Spider-Man: Homecoming' is set to bring in $120-125 million for its first weekend in theaters, which will make it the third-best debut of a movie at the box office in 2017.
  
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• Seattle Repertory Theatre Developing Grunge Musical

  08-07-2017 18:14
  
  Although the grunge era involved a good deal of screaming, it did not exactly scream “Broadway musical!”
  Yet Variety reports that Seattle...
  
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• See Eric B & Rakim Reunite for 'Paid in Full' Anniversary Concert

  08-07-2017 18:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Legendary rap duo Eric B & Rakim reunited Friday night at Harlem's Apollo Theater to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their landmark LP Paid in Full. The concert marked the first time in 20 years that the rapper and the DJ performed together onstage.The pair delivered Paid in Full in its entirety for the performance, including "I Ain't No Joke," "My Melody" and "I Know You Got Soul."In addition to the duo's reunion, the concert featured artists like EPMD, Main Source, Flavor Flav, Ma$e, Ice
  
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• Lorde Still ‘Rides’ For Taylor Swift And Defends Their Friendship

  08-07-2017 17:15
  
  Lorde took to Twitter to defend her friendship with Taylor Swift and explain a comment she made about being a member of her 'squad.'
  
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• 9 Times Taylor Swift's Squad Talked About the Squad

  08-07-2017 16:00
  
  The first rule of Taylor Swift's squad: You do not talk about Taylor Swift's squad. Or, you know, go for it -- just expect a lot of headlines...
  
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• Marilyn Manson pays tribute to late dad

  08-07-2017 15:45 via music-news.com
  
  Marilyn Manson says dad taught him to "be a man" in emotional Instagram post dedicated to his late father.
  
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• JAY-Z releases 4:44 video with unseen footage of Blue Ivy

  08-07-2017 15:45 via music-news.com
  
  JAY-Z has released an eight-minute video with unseen footage of Blue Ivy, exclusively for Tidal subscribers.
  
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• Acrobat Dies Before Green Day's Set at Music Festival in Spain

  08-07-2017 15:37 via rollingstone.com
  
  An acrobat died after plunging over 100 feet while performing a feat prior to Green Day's Friday night headlining set at Madrid, Spain's Mad Cool Festival. The acrobat, Pedro Aunión Monroy, was performing an aerial stunt from inside a box that was suspended from a crane at the time of the accident, the Independent reports. Although it appeared that Monroy was wearing a harness, he plunged to the ground in front of thousands of stunned festivalgoers.Paramedics rushed to the scene, but Monr
  
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• Sadiq Khan responds to call to a take over and movea Notting Hill...

  08-07-2017 15:35
  London Mayor Sadiq Khan has rejected claims that Notting Hill Carnival should be moved to a new location in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Last month saw a blaze rip through Grenfell Tower in West London - killing at least 79 residents, injuring scores more, and with the death toll unpredictable but expected to rise.
  
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• Rihanna ‘kept new romance out of public eye for five months’

  08-07-2017 12:15 via music-news.com
  
  Rihanna has “fallen hard” for Naomi Campbell’s ex Hassan Jameel.
  
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• A Brilliant New Compilation Captures The Beach Boys' Most Pivotal Year

  08-07-2017 11:41
  Like baseball in autumn, like Alex Chilton in his Southern winter, The Beach Boys were built to elate you and to break your heart. They reached greater artistic and commercial heights than nearly any other pop band, yet their 56 years have been filled with the most utterly human suffering, and as much mediocrity as majesty.
  
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• Ed Sheeran stadium tickets go on sale now here!

  08-07-2017 10:55 via music-news.com
  
  Ed Sheeran tickets for his nationwide 2018 UK stadium tour, go on sale at NOW - 10am Saturday morning
  
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• Here's the Lineup for the Gold Rush Music Festival

  08-07-2017 08:03
  Local fans of both hip-hop and electronic dance music will want to keep both Saturday, November 18, and Sunday, November 19, free on their schedules. That's because a new festival aimed at both crowds will be making its debut at Rawhide Western Town in Chandler that particular weekend and it's going to feature a big lineup of performers.
  
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• Photographer Sues Kylie, Kendall Jenner Over Tupac T-Shirt Image

  08-07-2017 04:45 via rollingstone.com
  
  The photographer who shot the Tupac Shakur portraits that Kendall and Kylie Jenner used for their controversial "vintage" T-shirt line has sued the reality TV stars for copyright infringement.In photographer Michael Miller's complaint, he said the Jenners "misappropriated and wrongfully exploited at least two original photographs of late hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur, slapping the iconic photographs on garments and overlaying them with dubious imagery and text," Billboard reports.
  The shirts were
  
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• The Slow Death of the Electric Guitar May Be Exaggerated

  08-07-2017 04:23
  The Washington Post called it the "slow death of the electric guitar" in its June 22 doomsday article, "Why My Guitar Gently Weeps." The story opened with one of Eric Clapton's old guitar dealers from Nashville, George Gruhn, who indicated that guitar makers were oversaturating a stagnant market before providing an age-old argument repeated by a lot of old-timers: Kids today just aren't interested in guitar-driven music.
  
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• Spotify on Non-Existent Artist Allegations: 'We Do Not and Have Never Created Fake Artists'

  08-07-2017 03:32
  
  A report earlier this week on Vulture headlined “The Streaming Problem: How Spammers, Superstars, and Tech Giants Gamed the Music Industry...
  
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• Grunge Era Musical in Development at Seattle Theater

  08-07-2017 03:22 via rollingstone.com
  
  A Seattle theater is currently developing a grunge musical that could feature songs from some of the genre's greatest artists, including Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains.The Seattle Repertory Theatre has commissioned the project, which will pepper the Nineties tracks into an original story about "a brilliant grunge musician and the rival who may have killed him," Variety reports. The jukebox musical takes place in Seattle in the early Nineties.While the musical is still in the early stag
  
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• Freddie Mercury biopic all set as Brian May gives Rami Malek the OK to play rock legend

  08-07-2017 02:56 via music-news.com
  
  Rocker Brian May has stepped back from the upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic because he's convinced he's found the right guy to play the late Queen leader.
  
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• Marilyn Manson Posts Tribute to Late Father: 'He Taught Me How to Be a Man'

  08-07-2017 02:19
  
  Marilyn Manson's dad, Hugh Warner, died on Friday (July 7), according to a heartfelt Instagram post from the rocker.
  "Today I lost my father...
  
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• Jay-Z Turns '4:44' Title Track Into Eight-Minute Video Collage

  08-07-2017 02:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  On the same day Jay-Z's 4:44 expanded to major streaming services, the rapper dropped another Tidal exclusive Friday: His new video for the album's title track.The collage-like video is packed with disparate images: The video opens with cellphone-shot footage of a young boy singing Nina Simone's then cuts to a clip of All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story, where the singer talks about love.Fleeting images of subway and street dancers, riots, a Jean-Michel Basquiat interview and seemingly unrelate
  
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• Lorde stunned by edited TV chat suggesting she and Taylor Swift are no longer pals

  08-07-2017 02:15 via music-news.com
  
  The Royals singer can't believe she has to explain herself after fans go crazy about 'squad' reveal.
  
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• Billboard on Broadway Podcast: Alex Lacamoire on Shaping the Sound of 'Hamilton,' 'Dear Evan Hansen' & More

  08-07-2017 01:08
  
  Alex Lacamoire might be best known as one of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s closest collaborators, but he’s a musical jack-of-all-trades who’...
  
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• Debby & Pat Boone to Perform Their Chart Hits at Aging Conference

  08-07-2017 01:00
  
  Forty years ago this summer, Debby Boone set a record by topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 10 straight weeks with the title track of her first...
  
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• Photographer Sues Kylie & Kendall Jenner Over T-Shirts Using His Tupac Photos

  08-07-2017 00:42
  
  Los Angeles-based photographer Michael Miller has filed a lawsuit against Kylie and Kendall Jenner for copyright infringement over the use...
  
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• Most popular sheet music by state for 2017: "Amazing Grace'' to "Rude''

  08-07-2017 00:39
  Are you a musician? If so -- and if you don't exclusively play by ear -- what sheet music have you been looking for lately? Musicnotes.com , which sells professionally licensed digital sheet music and guitar tabs, recently released an analysis of the most popular sheet music by state for 2017. The most popular sheet music by far is "Hallelujah,'' by Leonard Cohen, a tune that didn't get a lot of attention when it was released in 1984 but boomed in popularity after being included in the "Shrek''
  
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• Foo Fighters Tie for Second-Most Alternative Songs Top 10s With 'Run'

  08-07-2017 00:26
  
  Foo Fighters' "Run" sprints into the top 10 of Billboard's Alternative Songs airplay chart (dated July 15), pushing the band one...
  
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• Ringo Starr's New Album Has a Little Help From His Friends, Including Paul McCartney

  08-07-2017 00:21
  
  Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will be reunited again on Starr's forthcoming album, Give More Love, coming Sept. 15 on CD and...
  
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• Sevyn Streeter on 'Girl Disrupted' Album, 'Sweet & Street' Style, Colorism & State of Today's R&B: Exclusive

  08-07-2017 00:15
  
  It's almost surreal that Sevyn Streeter is finally releasing her debut studio album Girl Disrupted after two decades of songwriting and...
  
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• JAY-Z Shares Old Footage of Beyonce & Blue Ivy for New '4:44' Video

  08-07-2017 00:08
  
  At 4:44 p.m. ET on Friday (July 7), JAY-Z unveiled the visuals for his poignant track "4:44" on TIDAL. Instead of delivering a traditional...
  
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