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• Factory Floor share "Ya" single/video from forthcoming '25 25′ LP

  14-07-2016 23:54
  
  "Ya" is arguably the Manchester group's most inviting single yet.
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• Life of Agony announce dates, including NJ Rock Carnival; Sal broke his collarbone

  14-07-2016 23:34
  
  There's also a show in upstate, NY, a new album coming, and a broken collarbone.
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• 'Game of Thrones' tops Emmy nods, but streaming makes gains

  14-07-2016 23:18
  
  The Emmy Awards nominations are telling us what is already evident _ the power and reputation of streaming services Netflix and Amazon are on the rise, and broadcast networks and even premium cable star HBO are paying the price
  
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• Blood Orange, Beach House, Wolf Parade and more playing FYF After Dark shows

  14-07-2016 22:59
  
  FYF After Dark includes shows from Beach House, Wolf Parade, Blood Orange, Julien Baker, Sheer Mag, one with DIIV/Wild Nothing/Alex G, one with Saves the Day/Hop Along, and more...
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• Review: Aaron Neville shakes a funk feather on 'Apache'

  14-07-2016 22:53
  
  Aaron Neville picks up the pace and delves into songwriting on "Apache," a lively album meshing New Orleans R&B with Brooklyn funk
  
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• Police: Tejano singer Emilio Navaira died of natural causes

  14-07-2016 22:48
  
  Authorities say their investigation into the death of Grammy-winning Tejano star Emilio Navaira (nah-VY'-rah) shows he died of natural causes due to cardiovascular disease
  
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• Dog Party releasing 'Til You're Mine,' touring (dates, new video)

  14-07-2016 22:40
  
  Going by the new single "Enough," it's catchy fuzzy stuff in the tradition of the Ramones to The Muffs to Colleen Green. We've got the premiere of the video for that song...
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• The Latest: Defense wants District Attorney off Smith case

  14-07-2016 22:37
  
  Defense attorneys for the man charged in the killing of former Saints star Will Smith say the New Orleans district attorney has shown "personal animosity" toward them
  
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• Hinds made a video for "Warts," returning to tour North America this fall

  14-07-2016 22:36
  
  Hinds have a new video for "Warts," what they're saying will be the final single released off their debut album,Leave Me Alone. Directed by Pedro Martin-Calero, it is an exceedingly stylish video for a song called "Warts"...
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• Verizon to end mass delivery of business phone books in NY

  14-07-2016 22:20
  
  In a sign of the times, Verizon is ending the mass distribution of business phone books in New York state
  
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• The Latest: Sterling K. Brown reacts to 1st Emmy nomination

  14-07-2016 22:19
  
  The Latest: Actor Sterling K. Brown say he's trying to remain as calm as possible about his first Emmy nomination after 15 years in the business
  
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• World's Fair's Nasty Nigel releasing solo EP, celebrating w/ Cities Aviv & Sick Feeling (who also play Rockaway Beach)

  14-07-2016 22:15
  
  Nasty Nigel of Queens rap collective World's Fair is about to put out his first solo project, the El Utimo Playboy: La Vida Y Los Tiempos De Nigel Rubirosa EP. The rapper, who's also featured on Wiki's standout single "Livin' With My Moms," has released two songs off the EP so far...
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• Jagwar Ma announce 2nd LP, share first single/video, touring

  14-07-2016 21:56
  
  Australia's Jagwar Ma will return with their second album Every Now & Then, which will be out this fall via Mom + Pop. First single "OB1" continues the band's blend of dance music and guitar pop and you can watch its video...
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• Harry Belafonte launches social justice music festival

  14-07-2016 21:52
  
  Harry Belafonte will launch a racial and social justice festival in October and the inaugural event will include appearances and performances from actors Chris Rock and Jesse Williams and musicians John Legend and Common
  
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• Make Way for McCarey: A Great Director Gets His Due

  14-07-2016 21:50 via bkmag.com
  
  Seriously Funny: The Films of Leo McCareyJuly 15th-31st at MoMA
  Although his name might not be as celebrated today, the film director Leo McCarey was every bit the equal of better-known auteurs such as Frank Borzage, Jean Renoir, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Like Borzage, he was a born romantic who sought to understand how people (sometimes misguidedly) used love and intimacy to try to protect each other from the dangers of their surrounding world. Like Renoir, he observed them with affection as th
  
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• Bumbershoot fest: 2016 lineup & tickets

  14-07-2016 21:45
  
  The 2016 edition of Seattle's Bumbershoot festival happens September 2-4 at the Seattle Center.
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• The Latest: Consultant's lawyer says he will fight charge

  14-07-2016 21:38
  
  United Airlines has agreed to pay a $2.25 million penalty for its role in a bribery scheme involving a public official who used his post to get the airline to provide direct service to his South Carolina vacation home
  
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• Ty Dolla $ign, Danny Brown, Kamaiyah, Wiki & more playing Mass Appeal BBQ in Central Park

  14-07-2016 21:19
  
  The 2016 Central Park Summerstage shows are underway, and a very cool ticketed rap show is happening this month. It's presented by Mass Appeal, and hosted by Nas (who founded Mass Appeal Records), and it goes down July 25 with a stacked lineup...
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• The Latest: Paulson learns of 2nd Emmy nom from Amanda Peet

  14-07-2016 21:19
  
  The Latest: Sarah Paulson reacts to receiving 2 Emmy nominations
  
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• No kind goodbye for 'Good Wife,' 'Idol'

  14-07-2016 21:15
  
  'The Good Wife,' in its final year, and star Julianna Margulies were denied a fond farewell by the Emmys
  
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• Emmys nominations odds, ends, facts and figures

  14-07-2016 21:10
  
  Here's a look at Emmys nomination facts and figures
  
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• On Bastille Day, storming fans spark chaos at Tour de France

  14-07-2016 21:03
  
  It was mayhem on Bastille Day at the Tour de France
  
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• Breanna Barbara releasing 'Mirage Dreams,' playing shows (one with Deer Tick & Margo Price)

  14-07-2016 20:59
  
  Brooklyn's Breanna Barbara has a couple albums on Bandcamp, and now she's set to release her proper debut, Mirage Dreams, on July 22 via No Roads. Four songs from the album are out now, and all of them make this album seem pretty promising. It's swaggering, smoky blues rock, with fuzzed-out riffs, organs, and Breanna's attitude-fueled voice...
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• The Latest: United to pay $2.25M fine in flight plot case

  14-07-2016 20:55
  
  United Airlines has agreed to pay a $2.25 million penalty for its role in a bribery scheme involving a public official who used his post to get the airline to provide direct service to his South Carolina vacation home
  
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• Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy dies at 66

  14-07-2016 20:47
  
  Peter Esterhazy, one of Hungary's most renowned contemporary authors, has died
  
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• Beyonce, Adele earn Emmy nominations for music specials

  14-07-2016 20:42
  
  Beyonce and Adele's new music are sure to earn multiple Grammy nominations, but before that they are celebrating with Emmy nominations
  
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• Stars react to nominations for the 68th Emmy Awards

  14-07-2016 20:36
  
  Stars like Ellie Kemper and Bill Murray react to their nominations for the 68th Emmy Awards
  
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• Sundance moves screenings, events out of Ogden, Utah

  14-07-2016 20:28
  
  Ogden, Utah, will no longer host events for the Sundance Film Festival
  
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• M.I.A. Threatens To Leak New Album A.I.M And Announces Collab With Skrillex

  14-07-2016 19:51 via bkmag.com
  
  It’s been a week full of new information regarding artist M.I.A.’s upcoming work. A few days ago on July 11, she released the cover of her upcoming album A.I.M. on Twitter, an orange modern day coat-of-arms that reads “MIA – UNITING PEOPLE SINCE 2003.”
  pic.twitter.com/aFjTeMYrMm
  — M.I.A (@MIAuniverse) July 11, 2016Aside from this Twitter update she also tweeted that she was on the verge of leaking the album on account of the way people were treating her in reg
  
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• Fox's Sean Hannity pays Newt Gingrich's way to interview

  14-07-2016 19:47
  
  Fox's Sean Hannity arranged for a private plane to take Newt Gingrich to meet Donald Trump about potentially being a running mate
  
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• Defense wants District Attorney's office off Will Smith case

  14-07-2016 19:00
  
  Defense attorneys are trying to get the New Orleans District Attorney's Office removed from the case of Cardell Hayes, the man charged in the April 9 shooting death of former Saints star Will Smith
  
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• George Takei heading off-Broadway in 'Pacific Overtures'

  14-07-2016 18:53
  
  "Star Trek" star George Takei is going from Broadway to off-Broadway, next starring in a spring revival of "Pacific Overtures" by the in Classic Stage Company
  
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• Best of Bucharest: Eclectic architecture, Palace of Spring

  14-07-2016 18:53
  
  Bucharest was once known as "Little Paris of the East," but English, not French, is the preferred foreign language here
  
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• Longing for Peace: Sadly, Oslo, the play, mirrors reality

  14-07-2016 18:45 via bkmag.com
  
  In the aftermath of the Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which were signed on September 13, 1993, in the White House Rose Garden, there was hope that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might finally start moving toward a solution and ceasefire; this was reflected in the famous photograph of President Bill Clinton standing between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and head of the PLO, Yasser Arafat, as they shook hands. The road leading up to that
  
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• “Shrill” is anything but

  14-07-2016 18:40
  
  Upon reading anything West writes, however, it is immediately obvious that she is not only not humorless but affirmatively funny as hell, that she has a smart, confident, original voice that rises above the garbage pile of what passes for discourse about feminism on the internet, and that she is refreshingly unafraid and unapologetic.
  The first time I ever heard of Lindy West was when she caused an Internet firestorm in 2012 by writing a post for Jezebel entitled “How to Make a Rape Joke.&
  
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• 5 answers to Emmy questions (not including Who will win?)

  14-07-2016 18:22
  
  With nominations for the Emmy Awards announced on Thursday, the looming question becomes: Who will win
  
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• Froome says he keeps yellow jersey after wild Tour stage

  14-07-2016 18:20
  
  Chris Froome says he can keep the yellow jersey after the Tour de France race jury ruled that he lost his bike in unfair circumstances during the wild conclusion to the 12th stage on Thursday
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' earns a leading 23 Emmy Award nominations

  14-07-2016 18:18
  
  Power-and-blood fantasy saga "Game of Thrones" ruled the Emmy nominations Thursday with a leading 23 bids, including best drama, while a real-life epic of murder and celebrity, "The People v. O.J. Simpson," was close behind with 22 nods
  
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• The Latest: Top comedy actor Emmy nominations announced

  14-07-2016 18:15
  
  The Latest: The Emmy Award nominations for the funniest men and women on television have been announced
  
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• Partial list of Primetime Emmy Award nominations

  14-07-2016 18:09
  
  Partial list of Primetime Emmy Award nominations
  
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• John Gotti biopic starring Travolta to be shot in Cincinnati

  14-07-2016 18:06
  
  A biopic on the life of New York mob boss John Gotti is set to be filmed in Cincinnati, with actor John Travolta starring as Gotti
  
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• Sony: No decision made yet on 'Ghostbusters' in China

  14-07-2016 18:05
  
  Sony says no decision has been made yet on whether "Ghostbusters" will be allowed to be released in China
  
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• Watch Chance The Rapper Perform An Emotional Tribute For Muhammad Ali At The ESPYs

  14-07-2016 18:04 via bkmag.com
  
  Last night the ESPYs–or for those of us who have never intentionally spent time on a playing field, the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards–took place in Los Angeles. Muhammad Ali is indisputably a legendary athlete, so it comes as no surprise that the ceremony would include a tribute to him, who passed ten days before the ceremony. At the very end of the ceremony, Chance the Rapper”>Chance The Rapper, who released Coloring Book a couple months ago, performed a ne
  
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• Why I Once Loved the French and, Really, Still Do

  14-07-2016 18:02 via bkmag.com
  
  When I was 14, I went with my family to Paris. The French! They had a particular way of doing everything, definite opinions about it all. (The funnier version of this sentiment comes from a Steve Martin stand up routine: “It’s like, those French have a different word for everything.”)
  Are you eating a bag of potato chips on the sidewalk because you are very hungry and will otherwise pass out? Wrong decision. Are you fixing your hair in a restaurant in a way that
  
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• The Latest: Driver in deadly Georgia crash pleads guilty

  14-07-2016 17:59
  
  A Louisiana truck driver involved in a fiery interstate crash last year in Georgia that killed five nursing students has pleaded guilty to nine criminal charges, including five counts of first-degree vehicular homicide
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' earns a leading 23 Emmy Award nominations, including for best drama series

  14-07-2016 17:41
  
  'Game of Thrones' earns a leading 23 Emmy Award nominations, including for best drama series
  
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• Israel blocks Palestinian peace activist from film festival

  14-07-2016 17:39
  
  Israel says it has banned a Palestinian militant turned peace activist from attending the Jerusalem premier of a documentary in which she appears
  
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• Film director Hector Babenco dies in Brazil

  14-07-2016 17:33
  
  Hector Babenco, the Argentine-born Brazilian director nominated for an Oscar for his 1985 film "Kiss of the Spider Woman" has died at the age of 70
  
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• Crack some shells at The Great Brooklyn Lobster Boil

  14-07-2016 17:10
  
  Steamed, grilled, dipped in butter–however you like your lobster, summer is just not summer without at least one lobster dinner. And while the ideal setting would be some seaside, New England town, The Landing at Industry City is hosting its own delicious, picturesque outdoor feast on July 31 that will be much easier to get to.
  At The Great Brooklyn Lobster Boil, you’ll get lobster fresh from Martha’s Vineyard, corn on the cob, red bliss potatoes, sliced tomato salad and fresh
  
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• The Latest: Georgia high court declines to stop execution

  14-07-2016 17:06
  
  Georgia's highest court has declined to halt the execution of an inmate set for execution
  
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