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• Legal Campaign Against Spotify Intensifies Ahead of Company's Plan to Go Public

  13-09-2017 23:59
  
  At a critical moment for Spotify, a legal battle is escalating manifold against the the digital music service that has led the charge on the...
  
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• Maggie Gyllenhaal finally understands Taylor Swift scarf question

  13-09-2017 23:45 via music-news.com
  
  The singer dated Jake Gyllenhaal for a few months before calling it quits in 2011.
  
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• Mark Ronson Sued Over 'Uptown Funk' Similarities to Zapp's 'More Bounce to the Ounce'

  13-09-2017 23:42
  
  Mark Ronson is facing another lawsuit over his smash hit "Uptown Funk," this time from the Lastrada Entertainment Company, Ltd.,...
  
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• The Smiths' 20 Best Songs: Critic's Picks

  13-09-2017 23:33
  
  There aren't many casual fans of The Smiths. The ostentatiously literate, willfully morose British outfit from the '80s tends to elicit...
  
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• Thomas Rhett Dives Into 'Life Changes' & Tells Stories Behind the Songs at iHeartRadio Album Release Party

  13-09-2017 23:31
  
  Thomas Rhett held nothing back on his latest LP Life Changes -- as indicated by the set's weighty title. And while it's hardly the first time...
  
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• BTS & EXO Nos. 1 & 2 on Social 50, First Time K-Pop Rules Top Two

  13-09-2017 23:06
  
  K-pop holds the top two spots on Billboard’s Social 50 chart for the first time in its nearly seven-year existence as BTS and EXO reign at Nos...
  
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• The Business of Fandom: How Teenage Girls Predict the Future of Culture

  13-09-2017 23:04
  
  The success of Harry Styles’s breakthrough performance in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is no surprise, according to Dr. Francesca...
  
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• U2 Lands No. 1 on Top Facebook Live Videos Chart with New Album Tease

  13-09-2017 23:01
  
  As U2 gears up for a brand new album later this year, the band reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Facebook Live Videos chart for August 2017...
  
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• Can Nelson Survive Without His Challenge Alliance?

  13-09-2017 23:00
  
  The Three Musketeers of The Challenge have been reduced to a lone representative, and now, Nelson will have a long fight ahead if he intends to survive the game. Can he swing it? On this week’s episode, Nelson’s and Hunter’s backs were pressed even more aggressively to the wall. Having just lost Cory to the...Read more »
  
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• James Woods Responds to Armie Hammer, Amber Tamblyn Following Twitter Dustup

  13-09-2017 22:56
  
  Luca Guadagnino's festival hit Call Me by Your Name — a gay romantic drama starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet in the story of a...
  
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• Farruko, Bad Bunny & Rvssian's 'Krippy Kush' Hits Top Five on Hot Latin Songs Chart

  13-09-2017 22:44
  
  Farruko, Bad Bunny and Rvssian’s “Krippy Kush” leaps 9-5 on the Hot Latin Songs chart (dated Sept. 23...
  
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• Dua Lipa 'Rules' Emerging Artists Chart

  13-09-2017 22:30
  
  Dua Lipa is the top emerging act in the U.S., as the singer climbs 2-1 on Billboard's Emerging Artists chart (dated Sept. 23). The move...
  
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• Pusha T, Steven Victor Kick Off Universal Music Group's Masterclass Series at NYU

  13-09-2017 22:24
  
  Universal Music Group has announced the launch of the Masterclass, a six-part college speaking series which will feature both artists and music...
  
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• Gucci Mane’s New Song With The Weeknd Is Hypnotic As Hell

  13-09-2017 22:18
  
  Gucci Mane drops "Curve," his new song with The Weeknd.
  
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• Madonna Collaborator Patrick Leonard Makes Fan-Friendly New York Debut

  13-09-2017 22:17
  
  Madonna was not on hand for onetime collaborator Patrick Leonard’s solo debut Tuesday night (Sep. 12), but Joe’s Pub in New York vibrated...
  
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• Marilyn Manson on Getting Inked With Johnny Depp, Beef With Justin Bieber & His Fiery New Album

  13-09-2017 21:56
  
  Marilyn Manson is in physical pain.
  This isn’t the admission of vulnerability that one would expect from the self-proclaimed “Antichrist...
  
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• Watch the Killers' Rousing Cover of David Bowie's 'Fame'

  13-09-2017 21:32 via rollingstone.com
  The Killers visited BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge Wednesday to perform their Wonderful Wonderful single "The Man," with a twist: Brandon Flowers and company segued immediately into a faithful rendition of David Bowie's "Fame."As per tradition, artists occupying the Live Lounge deliver an exclusive cover – recently, Coldplay's Chris Martin performed Paul Simon's "Graceland" – and the Killers used the opportunity to debut their take on the Young Americans classic."Fame" isn't the first Bow
  
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• The 6 Best Cardi B 'Bodak Yellow' Remixes

  13-09-2017 21:31
  
  Cardi B’s debut single with Atlantic Records, “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves),” has put the reality-star-turned-rap-star on an...
  
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• Zayn Malik Admits He 'Never Really Spoke' to Harry Styles While in One Direction

  13-09-2017 21:29
  
  Since Zayn Malik left One Direction in 2015, he hasn't held back his thoughts on his former group, whether it be in interviews or on social...
  
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• The Killers Cover David Bowie's 'Fame' in BBC's Live Lounge

  13-09-2017 21:19
  
  The Killers visited BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on Wednesday (Sept. 13) to play a brisk, three-song set that included a cover of David Bowie’...
  
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• YFN Lucci Plays '1 Has to Go' With Comedians, Fast Food, & Hip-Hop Acts

  13-09-2017 21:17
  
  In the latest installment of Billboard's "1 Has 2 Go" series, YFN Lucci takes on the grandest game of shenanigans -- forcing...
  
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• Music News Polish metal band Decapitated accused of gang raping fan

  13-09-2017 21:13
  The incident allegedly took place after their show at the Pin in Spokane, Washington on August 31. An unnamed woman claims she was held against her will on the band's tour bus before being gang raped by all four members of the band. According to court documents , Decapitated members Michal Lysejko, Waclaw Kieltyka, Rafal Piotrowski and Hubert Wiecek invited the woman and a friend on their tour bus after the show.
  
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• Dustin Lynch's Top 10 Songs: Critic's Picks

  13-09-2017 21:09
  
  Over the past five years, Dustin Lynch has steadily built one of the most consistent recording careers in modern country music. He's...
  
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• LCD Soundsystem & Cardi B Hit Top 10 on Billboard Artist 100 Chart

  13-09-2017 21:07
  
  LCD Soundsystem debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Sept. 23), as the act's latest studio album, ...
  
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• The History of the Music Industry's First-Ever Digital Single, 20 Years After Its Release

  13-09-2017 21:05
  
  Twenty years ago this month, in September of 1997, Capitol Records became the first major label to sell and digitally distribute a single from a well...
  
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• 6 Moments Kelly Clarkson Showed Love to The LGBTQ Community

  13-09-2017 21:05
  
  Kelly Clarkson’s new single may be called “Love So Soft,” but over the course of her career, she has loved so hard on her LGBTQ...
  
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• What Ariana Grande Does 60 Seconds Before She Steps Onstage

  13-09-2017 21:04
  
  Ariana Grande shares videos of the backstage 'Dangerous Woman' tour shenanigans.
  
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• Kamaiyah on Making Feel-Good Hip-Hop, Becoming a West Coast Icon

  13-09-2017 21:04 via rollingstone.com
  "If I've [made a hit] once, I can do it again," asserts Oakland rapper Kamaiyah. "Visually, creatively – anything that I do won't ever stop."There's plenty of reason to believe her. The past year alone has seen her flip blog buzz into a spot among XXL's 2017 Freshman Class; a critically acclaimed mixtape, 2016's A Good Night in the Ghetto; and collaborations with YG. The most notable of them – the Drake-assisted "Why You Always Hatin?" – features the MC settled in the lap
  
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• Keke Palmer Is About To Scream

  13-09-2017 21:00
  
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• Disney/Pixar's Mexican, Music-Themed 'Coco' Looks Like 'Footloose'-Meets-Day of the Dead in New Trailer

  13-09-2017 20:57
  
  Think of the new Disney/Pixar movie Coco as Footloose meets Day of the Dead: All music is prohibited in the home of Miguel, who has to...
  
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• Watch Maggie Gyllenhaal Address Rumored Taylor Swift Song Mention

  13-09-2017 20:37 via rollingstone.com
  Maggie Gyllenhaal stopped by Andy Cohen's clubhouse to address a longstanding rumor and song reference started in Taylor Swift's Red album cut "All Too Well." The pop star dated the Golden Globe-winning actress' brother Jake Gyllenhaal in late 2010.On "All Too Well," Swift indicates that she had left her scarf at Maggie Gyllenhaal's home. "And you still got it in your drawer, even now," she sings on the lengthy ballad. A viewer of Cohen's Watch What Happens Live inquired if Gyllenhaal still had
  
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• Dylan O’Brien And Tyler Posey Just Had A Mini Teen Wolf Reunion

  13-09-2017 20:28
  
  Dylan O'Brien and Tyler Posey just had a mini 'Teen Wolf' reunion -- see photos!
  
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• Lana Del Rey’s ‘White Mustang’ Video Is A Romantic, Futuristic Car Chase

  13-09-2017 20:21
  
  Lana Del Rey is licensed to thrill with her new, futuristic, romantic ride of a music video for 'White Mustang.'
  
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• Listen to Gucci Mane & The Weeknd Kill Every Groupie's Dream on 'Curve'

  13-09-2017 20:13
  
  With the release date for Mr. Davis quickly approaching, Gucci Mane is back on the saddle with The Weeknd-assisted single "Curve."...
  
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• Siesta Key Reunion: What Was It Like For Madisson To See Grant Again?

  13-09-2017 20:00
  
  'Siesta Key' cast member Madisson is opening up about her former beau Grant.
  
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• Phish Launch Hurricane Relief Fund for Caribbean Island Tortola

  13-09-2017 19:45 via rollingstone.com
  Phish responded to the destruction of Hurricane Irma by establishing the Tortola Relief Fund, which benefits the British Virgin Island in the Caribbean, a favorite destination and "second home" for guitarist Trey Anastasio and his family. The jam band will match donations to the fund, launched via the WaterWheel Foundation, in order to aid Tortola's rebuilding efforts after the hurricane "devastated" their land. "I love Tortola," Anastasio said in a statement on the Phish website. "I've written
  
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• Is Jake Gyllenhaal Open To Playing Adult Eddie In The It Sequel?

  13-09-2017 19:44
  
  Jake Gyllenhaal is Jack Dylan Grazer's pick to play adult Eddie in the 'It' sequel, but what does Gyllenhaal think about Grazer's fan-casting? We asked the actor at TIFF.
  
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• Demi Lovato’s Album Tracklist Has Some Pretty Scandalous Song Titles

  13-09-2017 19:39
  
  Demi Lovato reveals her 'Tell Me You Love Me' album track list through fan accounts, and some of the song titles are pretty juicy.
  
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• For $50,000 Gene Simmons Will Come To Your House With 10 CDs

  13-09-2017 19:14
  
  KISS member Gene Simmons has announced that he’ll release a box set of previously unreleased solo material this year known as The Vault...
  
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• iPhone X Puts Exclamation Point on Apple's Pricing Strategy

  13-09-2017 19:12
  
  Apple has made a luxury iPhone that punctuates its technological swagger with a high-priced exclamation point. And that exclamation point appears to...
  
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• There's a New Vending Machine That Could Eliminate Bodegas and People Aren't Here For It

  13-09-2017 19:06
  
  Today, Fast Company shared a profile written about two former Google employees who want to replace bodegas with vending machine pantries called...
  
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• Watch Lana Del Rey's Futuristic, Gloomy 'White Mustang' Video

  13-09-2017 19:03 via rollingstone.com
  Lana Del Rey ponders a precarious romance in her "White Mustang" video, set in a futuristic L.A. The clip opens by zooming in on the singer's CGI mansion, where she gazes longingly at her distant, preoccupied musician boyfriend (Icelandic actor Eðvarð Egilsson). The piece climaxes with a blank-faced Del Rey driving around in the titular vehicle, soundtracked by a mariachi trumpet solo.The singer details this ill-fated relationship in the lyrics. "Slippin' on my dress in soft filters/ Eve
  
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