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• No Jay-Zs Were Harmed In The Making Of The ‘Kill Jay Z’ Video

  21-07-2017 23:57
  
  Jay-Z drops the intense short film for 4:44 track "Kill Jay Z."
  
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• Incubus Addresses Mental Health in Remembrance of Chester Bennington: 'We Need to Try Harder'

  21-07-2017 23:52
  
  Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger joins a number of artists who have paid tribute to late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who...
  
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• Are Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith Swinging Rumors True? 'I Wish!' Jada Jokes

  21-07-2017 23:48
  
  No, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith aren't swingers -- but Jada jokingly wishes they were.
  While promoting the new movie Girls Trip ...
  
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• Original Foreigner members reunite onstage

  21-07-2017 23:45 via music-news.com
  
  The four stars haven't performed together since 1980.
  
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• Meek Mill takes shots at Nicki Minaj on new album

  21-07-2017 23:45 via music-news.com
  
  The MC suggests he dumped Nicki after an unforgivable betrayal.
  
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• Matt Sorum: 'Don't blame Chester Bennington for taking his life'

  21-07-2017 23:45 via music-news.com
  
  The musicians bonded over their shared struggles away from the stage.
  
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• Linkin Park Songs Remixed: Listen to 8 of the Best

  21-07-2017 23:31
  
  The world still reels from the news of Chester Bennington's suicide. The singer's thoughtful angst was the savior of so many young souls from...
  
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• Ex-Owl City Member Pleads Guilty to Lewdness With Child

  21-07-2017 23:31
  
  Daniel Jorgensen, a former touring member of Owl City, has pleaded guilty to lewdness with a child, the Associated Press reports.
  The 32-...
  
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• From The Beatles to JAY-Z & Beyond: Artists With the Most No. 1 Albums on the Billboard 200 Chart

  21-07-2017 23:20
  
  There are The Beatles… and then there’s everybody else. The Fab Four has racked up a record 19 No. 1 albums on the 61-year-old Billboard...
  
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• JAY-Z Drops 'Kill Jay Z' Video on Tidal: Watch

  21-07-2017 23:13
  
  After releasing a couple teaser clips of "Kill Jay Z," JAY Z dropped the full video on Tidal Friday afternoon (July 21).
  The black-and...
  
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• Gotye Apparently Turned Down Millions in YouTube Royalties

  21-07-2017 23:02
  
  Australian musical artist Gotye had an inescapable No. 1 hit song in the early part of this decade, but now he’s just somebody that you used to...
  
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• James Van Der Beek Is Not Out Of Tears Yet

  21-07-2017 22:48
  
  James Van Der Beek talks to MTV News about his meme status at San Diego Comic-Con.
  
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• Music News Lana Del Rey says she felt a stuck in the same spota on her last two albums

  21-07-2017 22:45
  "That was my goal, you know, to get to that place of feeling like in my daily life I had a lot of momentum," she said. "Like a moving-on-ness from wherever that other place was that ' Honeymoon ' and ' Ultraviolence ' came from.
  
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• Joe Nichols Explains His Country Cover of 'Baby Got Back,' Talks Getting Back to His 'Earthy' Sound

  21-07-2017 22:45
  
  Over the course of his two-decade career, Joe Nichols has covered songs originally recorded by such country stalwarts as Waylon Jennings and Gene...
  
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• Fan Starts Petition to Rename Santa Monica's Lincoln Park in Honor of Linkin Park's Chester Bennington

  21-07-2017 22:41
  
  A new online petition aims to rename Santa Monica's Lincoln Park -- after which Linkin Park is named -- in honor of the band's frontman...
  
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• Kesha Overcomes Tears to Deliver Emotional 'Woman' Performance: Watch

  21-07-2017 22:38
  
  Kesha warned fans she hadn't practiced her new song "Woman" before debuting it live with some help from the Creepies at...
  
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• 'Despacito' Gets a Metal Makeover: Watch the Cover

  21-07-2017 22:30
  
  The song title might mean "slowly," but there's nothing slow about this cover. Or quiet, for that matter.
  Norwegian musician and cover...
  
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• Kesha Bursts Into Tears While Performing ‘Woman’ For The First Time

  21-07-2017 22:27
  
  Kesha broke into tears onstage during her first live performance of "Woman."
  
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• Here's What Meek Mill Had to Say About Ex Nicki Minaj on 'Wins & Losses' Album

  21-07-2017 22:09
  
  Meek Mill teased earlier this month that Wins & Losses will “address everything.” Naturally, fans assumed...
  
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• RL Grime Brought Miguel Out at EDC Vegas 2017 in 'Stay For It' Video: Watch

  21-07-2017 22:03
  
  Everyone knows music festivals are about the special guests. When you've got a heavy-hitter on a new single, you wrangle that cameo and leverage...
  
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• Meet the New York Street Artist Who's Turning Vintage 'Playboy' Issues Into Art

  21-07-2017 22:00
  
  Playboy is no stranger to controversy, but street artist Brandon Isralsky is taking the magazine's penchant for taboo to another level...
  
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• Steve Angello Announces New Album Dropping This Year

  21-07-2017 21:57
  
  Steve Angello apologized to fans for being away so long from the social media, but it was all in the name of making more music. He made so much...
  
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• Beach Week: Kardashian Hairstylist Jen Atkin on How to Get Beachy Waves

  21-07-2017 21:55
  
  Summer means salty hair, and what better way to play it up than with beachy waves?
  Getting the right “I woke up like this” style can be...
  
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• Guns N' Roses Rip It Up at the Apollo Theater As 'Appetite for Destruction' Turns 30

  21-07-2017 21:54
  
  When they debuted in 1987 with wild personas and threatening imagery -- backed up by lyrics that touched on everything from hard drinking to heroin...
  
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• Lana Del Rey Brings Her 'Lust for Life' -- Joking With Fans & Skipping Sad Songs -- To Spotify Listening Party

  21-07-2017 21:49
  
  Lana Del Rey is perhaps most well-known as a purveyor of melancholia, singing songs of dysfunctional love and romanticized drug use and...
  
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• What If Ed Sheeran Had an Awesome Death Scene In Sunday's 'Game of Thrones'?

  21-07-2017 21:48
  
  We all knew ahead of last Sunday's Game of Thrones season seven premiere that at some point during this season, Ed Sheeran was going to show up...
  
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• Coroner confirms Chester Bennington's death by hanging

  21-07-2017 21:45 via music-news.com
  
  The Cornell family issued a statement regarding the tragic news on Thursday.
  
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• Beyonce Wax Figure Temporarily Removed From Madame Tussauds Before Receiving Update: Report

  21-07-2017 21:44
  
  The questionable wax figure that was meant to be Beyoncé was temporarily removed from the floor at Madame Tussauds in midtown New York...
  
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• Anthony Scaramucci Is a Little Monster? A Glimpse Into New Trump Communications Director's Musical Tastes

  21-07-2017 21:35
  
  Donald Trump may have just brought a Little Monster into the White House.
  That would be Anthony Scaramucci, the wealthy financier Trump named his new...
  
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• The Alchemist Keeps Prodigy's Legacy Alive With Unreleased Mobb Deep Song 'Try My Hand'

  21-07-2017 21:29
  
  In hopes of paying his respects to late friend and oft-collaborator Prodigy, The Alchemist unearthed an unreleased Mobb Deep song titled "Try My...
  
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• Coming Around Again Podcast: Why Does 'Appetite for Destruction' Tower Over the Rest of Guns N' Roses' Catalog?

  21-07-2017 21:20
  
  Welcome back to the Coming Around Again podcast, part of the Pop Shop family, where host Andrew Unterberger and a variety of guests will be...
  
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• JAY-Z Forgoes Up To $1 Million Weekly As He Keeps '4:44' Off Spotify

  21-07-2017 21:11
  
  What does one of the world’s richest hip-hop artists stand to lose by continuing to withhold his latest release from the world’s dominant...
  
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• Steve Aoki Talks His Hip-Hop Collaboration Album, 'Kolony'

  21-07-2017 21:08 via rollingstone.com
  For his fourth album, Steve Aoki, one of EDM's great showmen, has teamed with some of the biggest names in hip-hop. On Kolony, he abandons the trademark electro-house pulse of his Neon Future albums, instead diving into a booming and colorful trap-centric sound alongside modern stars like Migos, Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Lil Yachty and more. Rolling Stone caught up with Aoki to talk about the Kolony project, working with rap's newest generation and how the worlds of EDM and hip-hop continue to bridg
  
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• Taylor Swift's Expert on Types of Men Who Assault Women Rejected by Judge in Groping Lawsuit

  21-07-2017 21:00
  
  Taylor Swift heads to trial next month against a Colorado radio DJ who she says groped her during a meet-and-greet — and she can't use the...
  
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• Run The Jewels Dedicated Their Kimmel Performance To Chester Bennington

  21-07-2017 21:00
  
  Run the Jewels dedicates their poignant performance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to Linkin Park's Chester Bennington.
  
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• Chester Bennington Honored By Kiiara: 'My Heart Is in a Million Pieces'

  21-07-2017 20:51
  
  Kiiara, who recently collaborated with Linkin Park on "Heavy," just shared her grief over Chester Bennington's passing on Twitter....
  
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• Chester Bennington Died by Hanging, Coroner Confirms

  21-07-2017 20:38
  
  The Los Angeles County coroner confirmed Friday (July 21) that Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington died by hanging.
  Coroner's office...
  
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• Anna Tsuchiya Will Celebrate 15th Anniversary With Concerts in Japan

  21-07-2017 20:32
  
  Anna Tsuchiya will celebrate 15 years as a singer in November with two special shows called Colors at the Blue Note Tokyo and Nagoya in...
  
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• Billy Joel to Guest DJ, Reflect on Every Beatles Album on Sirius XM

  21-07-2017 20:30 via rollingstone.com
  Billy Joel will reflect on every song on every Beatles album as part of the singer's stint as a guest DJ on SiriusXM's new Beatles Channel."Just like you, I love the Beatles," Joel said in a statement. "I still think that they were the best band that ever was. And I'm going to go through their albums and talk about some of the songs that have stayed with me the rest of my life."The first installment of the guest DJ session, which airs July 21st at 5 p.m. on the Beatles Channel, finds Joel going
  
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• Vice Media Lays Off At Least 60 Employees Amid Video Expansion

  21-07-2017 20:29
  
  Vice Media is laying off at least 60 employees as it focuses on expanding its video operations internationally, The Hollywood Reporter has...
  
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• Here’s What The One Direction Guys Have Been Up To This Summer

  21-07-2017 20:26
  
  Catching up with the (former) members of One Direction on a very important day in their professional lives.
  
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• Cornelius Talks 'Mellow Waves,' His First New Album in 11 Years

  21-07-2017 20:11
  
  Cornelius, the solo project by Keigo Oyamada, released his new studio album Mellow Waves on July 21. In recent years, the innovative Japanese...
  
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• Between The Lines of Lana Del Rey's 'Lust For Life' Lyrics

  21-07-2017 20:11
  
  Lana Del Rey's Lust for Life has been called the most Lana album yet. She elaborated on her previous works with musical and...
  
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• Which Lana Del Rey Album is the Best? Vote!

  21-07-2017 20:09
  
  With the release of her fourth major-label studio album Lust For Life today (July 21), Lana Del Rey gifts fans 16 brand new tracks,...
  
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• Zedd and Hardwell to Headline 'Road to Ultra Philippines 2017'

  21-07-2017 20:00
  
  One stage. Two headlining electro-house DJs. Three spectacular supporting acts.
  On its third installment in the Philippines, Road to Ultra returns to...
  
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• Jay Park Signs With Roc Nation: 'This Is a Win for Asian Americans'

  21-07-2017 19:45
  
  Late Thursday night (July 20), Roc Nation announced on Twitter that it added Jay Park, a Korean-American hip-hop artist, to its roster.
  Park is a...
  
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• A-Trak's Fool's Gold Records Signs Global Distribution Deal With Caroline

  21-07-2017 19:40
  
  Brooklyn-based label Fool's Gold, home of one of its co-founders, DJ-producer A-Trak, has entered into a worldwide distribution partnership with...
  
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• Billboard's 'Electric Asia' Compilation 'A Great Honor,' KSUKE Says: Interview

  21-07-2017 19:32
  
  The dance-music compilation album Billboard Presents Electric Asia, Volume One -- which showcases tracks by DJs and producers from various Asian...
  
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• Rock the Look: How to Get Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' Pink Lips

  21-07-2017 19:26
  
  For this week's Rock the Look, we tapped YouTube influencer Jade Simmone to recreate Nicki Minaj's Anaconda look, specifically...
  
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• David Fricke Remembers Linkin Park's Chester Bennington

  21-07-2017 19:25 via rollingstone.com
  There was a lot of memorial at Harlem's Apollo Theater on Thursday, during Guns N' Roses' marathon show there, broadcast live on Sirius XM Radio. Late in the second of the concert's three hours, singer Axl Rose shuffled off stage, leaving the spotlight to guitarists Slash and Richard Fortus and their instrumental duet through Pink Floyd's title song of missing from 1975's Wish You Were Here. When Rose reappeared, he took a seat at his piano and led the band into the wordless-elegy half of "Layla
  
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