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• Former TV dance partner comes to Nick Carter's defence after rape accusations

  04-12-2017 23:45 via music-news.com
  
  Sharna Burgess insists the singer was one of the most respectful men she has ever met.
  
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• Chief Keef Sits Down With Snoop Dogg to Talk New Music, Kanye West & Chicago

  04-12-2017 23:41
  
  On the heels of his Dedication mixtape release, Chief Keef sat down for a rare interview with Snoop Dogg on his GGN News Network. The conversation...
  
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• Hundred Waters observes Ghost Ship fire anniversary during SF

  04-12-2017 23:37
  As many in the Bay Area reflected on the anniversary of the Ghost Ship fire over the weekend, Nicole Miglis, Trayer Tryon and Zach Tetreault of Hundred Waters took the time to honor the more than 30 artists and musicians who died last year. On Saturday, Dec. 2 - a year to the date after the tragedy - the Florida indie rock trio took a moment of silence in the middle of their set at the Independent in San Francisco to remember those who died in the Oakland warehouse inferno.
  
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• WMA Digital Agency Launches US Publicity Division

  04-12-2017 23:30
  
  WMA has launched a new U.S. publicity division, the British-born music and entertainment digital agency announced on Monday (Dec. 4). 
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• 'We Are Modeselektor' Documentary Released for Free: Watch

  04-12-2017 23:21
  
  Back in 2013, Modeselektor's Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary invited cameras into their lives for an up-close-and-personal look into the...
  
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• Bryan Singer Fired From Directing Queen Biopic After On-Set Chaos

  04-12-2017 23:04
  
  Bryan Singer has been fired from the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, Twentieth Century Fox has told The Hollywood Reporter.
  The decision reflected a...
  
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• Get to Know Irish Newcomer EDEN

  04-12-2017 22:59
  
  Irish singer-producer EDEN stopped by Billboard to share some quick facts about himself for the “You Should Know” video series, including...
  
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• Grace VanderWaal Tells Us How Scrolling Instagram Led To Her Song ‘So Much More Than This’

  04-12-2017 22:51
  
  Grace VanderWaal, MTV's Push: Artist to Watch for December, tells us about the frustrations that led her to write 'So Much More Than This.'
  
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• TWICE to return With 'Merry & Happy' Album, 'Heart Shaker' Single

  04-12-2017 22:49
  
  Just a few weeks after releasing “Likey,” their third single of the year, Korean girl group TWICE is going to make hearts shake with...
  
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• How YouTube Is Leveling the Playing Field for Indie Artists: Guest Post

  04-12-2017 22:44
  
  The last few months I've been on the road in Nashville, Barcelona, Mumbai and Rio, meeting with artists and I've noticed something is brewing...
  
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• BTS' 'Butterfly' Explores the Fear of Losing Someone: See the Translated Lyrics

  04-12-2017 22:41
  
  BTS is no stranger to mining emotional depth in their lyrics, and “Butterfly” is a key representation of the lyrical complexity that sets...
  
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• deadmau5 to Host Podcast in 2018

  04-12-2017 22:36
  
  Dance music's biggest mouth gets an even bigger mouthpiece in 2018. Canadian producer deadmau5 has promised to launch a podcast in the new...
  
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• Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line Are 'Meant to Be' Atop Hot Country Songs Chart

  04-12-2017 22:32
  
  For only the third time since Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart transitioned to a hybrid data list, blending airplay, streaming and sales, on...
  
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• Solange Shares Limited-Edition Celestial-Themed Merchandise Collection

  04-12-2017 22:27
  
  Solange returns with new merchandise for fans just in time for the holiday season. The “Cranes in the Sky” artist released a pair of...
  
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• Review: Neil Young Channels More Cranky Rage, Ageless Idealism With Promise of the Real

  04-12-2017 22:24 via rollingstone.com
  Neil Young's latest LP with heartland-rock band Promise of the Real opens with "Already Great," where the guitars cut like rusty plows and anti-Trump invective becomes bitter tribute: "You're the promise land/The helping hand/No wall. No hate. No fascist U.S.A." That sense of cranky rage and ageless idealism are all over The Visitor. On the somber folk shuffle "Almost Always," he complains about "livin' with a game show host," while the forcefully hard-grooving "Fly By Night Deal" is sung (partl
  
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• London's Fabric Nightclub Discovers Its Chinese Knock-Off

  04-12-2017 22:07
  
  It's been a tough couple of years for Fabric. The London nightclub has played a historic role in the city's DJ scene, but it spent the better...
  
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• UK Regulators Side With AEG Over Live Nation, Azoff on Staples Center & O2 Arena Block Booking: Exclusive

  04-12-2017 22:02
  
  AEG has prevailed in the latest round of its venue battle with Live Nation and Azoff MSG Entertainment after British regulators told company...
  
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• Meek Mill denied bail again

  04-12-2017 21:45 via music-news.com
  
  The star's lawyers are determined to keep appealing for bail.
  
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• Moby Donates $250,000 to Animal Rights

  04-12-2017 21:41
  
  Parties and politics have always gone hand in hand for Moby. His seminal album Play featured five essays of a philosophical nature, ranging...
  
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• Life Is A Beach In Niia’s “Day & Night” Video

  04-12-2017 21:33
  
  Watch the music video for Niia's single "Day & Night."
  
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• Music News Camila Cabelloa s a Havanaa is the longest-running female number one since Adele

  04-12-2017 21:25
  'Havana' topped the singles chart for the fifth successive week on Friday, tying it with Adele's run for 'Someone Like You' back in 2011. The collaboration with Young Thug kept Rita Ora at number two with 'Anywhere', with the Official Charts Company putting Ora just 1,000 sales behind Cabello.
  
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• Dead & Company Provided Grateful Dead Fans a Time Machine Friday Night

  04-12-2017 21:25
  As John Mayer introduced his song "If I Ever Get Around to Living" at a show in San Antonio last August, he told the crowd that the album it's on, Born and Raised, hadn't sold very well. "I've played the songs you wanted to hear tonight," Mayer said, referring to songs such as his early 2000s hit "Your Body Is a Wonderland."
  
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• Dave Matthews to headline Radio City hurricane benefit concert

  04-12-2017 21:25
  Pop-rockers Dave Matthews and the Trey Anastasio Band, R&B/soul singer Aaron Neville and folk-blues/Americana band Hurray for the Riff Raff will perform at a benefit concert for hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. Concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment said Monday that "A Concert for Island Relief" will take place Saturday, Jan. 6, at Radio City Music Hall.
  
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• Statik Selektah Recruits Curren$y & Cousin Stizz for Soulful Track 'Slept to Death'

  04-12-2017 21:23
  
  With the release date for his forthcoming album 8 looming, Statik Selektah liberates his soulful track "Slept to Death" featuring...
  
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• Rolling Stone Taps Brothers Macklovitch for 'Unframed' Set in Miami

  04-12-2017 21:22 via rollingstone.com
  The Brothers Macklovitch (A-Trak and Chromeo's Dave-1) will perform back-to-back DJ sets as part of Rolling Stone's 50 anniversary party, the high point of UNFRAMED, a three-day mixed media exposition set in Miami's Wynwood Art District. Rolling Stone Live Miami, presented by Effen Vodka as part of the city's Basel House Mural Festival, will take place Saturday December 9th at the RC Cola Plant and surrounding neighborhood. OVO Sound's Majid Jordan, TrqpiTeca, Bead Doe and Ezikel will also perfo
  
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• Zion. T Rings In the Winter Season With Sentimental 'Snow' Music Video

  04-12-2017 21:19
  
  Zion. T released non-album single “Snow” with legendary singer Lee Moon Sae on Monday (Dec. 4), adding an air of sentimentality to the...
  
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• Nick Carter's 'DWTS' Partner Sharna Burgess Supports Him Amid Rape Allegations: 'The Truth Always Shines Through'

  04-12-2017 21:16
  
  Nick Carter's Dancing With the Stars partner Sharna Burgess took to Twitter to "share a little bit of love and positivity" for the...
  
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• St. Vincent Is Joyous & Jarring Playing for Her 'Adopted Homeland' New York City

  04-12-2017 21:10
  
  On a chilly Sunday (Dec. 3) evening deep in Brooklyn at Kings Theater, St. Vincent brought her Fear the Future Tour to "the place where all the...
  
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• Taylor Swift’s First Magazine Cover Of The Reputation Era Is Here

  04-12-2017 20:56
  
  Taylor Swift has landed her first magazine cover of the 'Reputation' era — and it's for British 'Vogue,' no less.
  
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• See Linkin Park's Poignant 'Crawling' From Chester Bennington Posthumous LP

  04-12-2017 20:51 via rollingstone.com
  Linkin Park revealed the poignant video for the live album One More Light Live's rendition of "Crawling."
  The black-and-white video features late singer Chester Bennington's vocal prowess on display as he intensely sings the track to an arena full of fans. For the piano-only rendition of the Hybrid Theory hit, Bennington is stationed in front of the pit to better connect with the audience, who reach out and take selfies with the singer.One More Light Live, due out December 15th, documents B
  
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• Wisin Releases New Solo Album 'Victory'

  04-12-2017 20:45
  
  In the Latin music realm, solo life after being part of a reggaeton duo is a very rare thing. 
  Yet Wisin and Yandel have each managed to survive...
  
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• Alan Walker, Noah Cyrus & Juliander Perform 'All Falls Down' Live on YouTube: Watch

  04-12-2017 20:44
  
  Did a bunch of Alan Walker fans just hack the YouTube main frame? Not really, but that's kind of the premise of this cute intro the "Faded...
  
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• Tiesto Is Engaged, Posts Super-Romantic Pic of Fiance

  04-12-2017 20:13
  
  After 48 years of Grade-A bachelor life, Tiesto is getting hitched. 
  The man Mixmag readers once named "The Greatest DJ of All...
  
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• Stone Temple Pilots Set First Tour With New Singer Jeff Gutt

  04-12-2017 20:03 via rollingstone.com
  Stone Temple Pilots will embark on their first tour with new singer Jeff Gutt this spring."We are thrilled to see all of you and share in the music that belongs to all of us," Stone Temple Pilots' Dean DeLeo said in a statement. After revealing Gutt as the band's vocalist – filling the voids left by the deaths of Scott Weiland and Chester Bennington – the Stone Temple Pilots' new lineup hit western half of the U.S. in March 2018.The tour starts with a March 2nd show in Santa Clarita,
  
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• Ed Sheeran Details How Beyonce Made Their Acoustic Duet 'Perfect'

  04-12-2017 19:52
  
  Ed Sheeran is a hitmaker in his own right, but once he enlisted Queen B for his latest Billboard Hot 100 hit "Perfect," it became as...
  
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• Moogfest 2018 Celebrates Female, Non-Binary & Trans Musicians With 50-Artist Livestream: Watch

  04-12-2017 19:32
  
  Festivals like to talk diversity, but statistics show change is slow. In 2015, lineups at the largest dance music festivals in the country featured...
  
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• Portugal. The Man: Rock's Surprise Heroes

  04-12-2017 19:28 via rollingstone.com
  The first cold night of November in Portland, Oregon, found John Gourley and Zach Carothers of Portugal. The Man in a familiar position: in a maroon Ford E350 van, Carothers driving, Gourley in the back. Nine years ago, after the van they'd been touring in shot its transmission for the fifth time, they bought this one used and have logged 217,000 miles since, enough to crisscross the country better than 77 times.During that time, PTM built themselves up from alt-rockers with a debt to Bowie and
  
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• BTS Earns Highest-Charting & First Top 40 Hot 100 Hit for a K-Pop Group With 'MIC Drop'

  04-12-2017 19:23
  
  BTS breaks its own record for the highest-charting entry on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a K-pop group, as "MIC Drop," featuring...
  
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• Music News Meek Mill denied bail hearing as judge labels him a a oedanger to the communitya

  04-12-2017 19:16
  Meek Mill has been denied a bail hearing, as controversial Judge Genece Brinkley describes the rapper as "a danger to the community" and a "flight risk". The Philadelphia-born rapper, real name Robert Rihmeek Williams, 30, was sentenced to two-to-four years in prison in November after Brinkley ruled that he violated his probation Mill has been arrested twice this year - for misdemeanour assault charges in March and reckless driving and reckless endangerment in August - and while the charges for
  
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• Live music is coming to Mortimer's soon - real soon

  04-12-2017 19:16
  We've written a lot of stories about music venues shutting down this year. This is not one of them.
  
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• ODESZA Adds 14 Dates to A Moment Apart Tour Following Grammy Noms

  04-12-2017 19:15
  
  ODESZA is on a winning streak. The dreamy duo has a hit on its hands with third album A Moment Apart. It was just nominated for Best Dance/Electronic...
  
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• YBN Nahmir Premieres New Song 'Popped Up,' Talks Surprise 'Rubbin Off the Paint' Success

  04-12-2017 19:07
  
  “I'm going to reach that No. 1 on Billboard,” YBN Nahmir confidently claims over the phone when asked of his music goals going...
  
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• Watch Sharon Jones & Dap-Kings' Rousing 'Sail On!' Video

  04-12-2017 19:05 via rollingstone.com
  Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings unveiled the new video for "Sail On!," a standout track off the late singer's final LP Soul of a Woman.Like the band's intimate "Call on God" video, the brassy "Sail On!" relies on archival footage of Jones recording the song with her band at Brooklyn's Daptone Studios in the months before her November 2016 death.In November, the Dap-Kings congregated on The Tonight Show to perform a tribute medley to Jones, with the band playing "Sail On!" and "Searching for
  
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• Romeo Santos Adds New Madison Square Garden Date After Initial 24-Hour Sellout

  04-12-2017 19:01
  
  Romeo Santos fans have a new chance to score a “Golden” ticket to see the urban bachata star at Madison Square Garden. A new Feb. 17 show...
  
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• Ed Sheeran’s Perfect duet with Beyoncé is heading for Number 1

  04-12-2017 19:00 via music-news.com
  
  Ed Sheeran is set to claim his fourth Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart as his latest single Perfect leads the way on the Official Chart Update.
  
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• Watch Franz Ferdinand's Vivid 'Always Ascending' Video

  04-12-2017 18:59 via rollingstone.com
  Franz Ferdinand released a dreamlike video for their latest single, "Always Ascending." The band members float around in slow-motion and perform the winding dance-rock single against a series of shifting, abstract backdrops. When not playing guitar, singer Alex Kapranosmugs for the camera and wildly gesticulates near an array of microphones as a waterfall gushes behind him. The Scottish quintet filmed the clip in Paris with French directors AB/CD/CD (Lilly Allen, Sparks, Panda Bear). "We're
  
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• U2’s Songs of Experience set to be their 11th Number 1 album

  04-12-2017 18:59 via music-news.com
  
  U2 could be heading for an 11th Number 1 record on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
  
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• Neil Young Returns to Tiny Hometown for Intimate Acoustic Benefit Concert

  04-12-2017 18:54
  
  The population of Omemee (approx. 1,300) likely doubled on Friday night (Dec. 1) when Neil Young came “home” to perform a live-...
  
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• British 'Vogue' Reveals Taylor Swift as January 2018 Cover Star

  04-12-2017 18:48
  
  British Vogue has revealed its first cover of the new year, featuring none other than Taylor Swift.
  The singer will be featured in a twelve page...
  
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• Meet the Indie Management Label Behind the Success of Post Malone's 'Rockstar' & Camila Cabello's 'Havana'

  04-12-2017 18:37
  
  Indie management label Electric Feel -- comprised of founder Austin Rosen, manager James Canton, and head of strategy and marketing Justin Stirling...
  
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