Friday's Top 50 Music News & Stories
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The vibraphonist, a formidable soloist, has broadened his work as a composer, bandleader and educator. He takes on standards, performs an original on piano and mashes up Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon.
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Hear the Swedish sister act perform four harmony-rich folk-pop songs from its new album, Stay Gold .
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Polio damaged Haden's voice when he was young, but as a bassist and composer, he helped shape the sound of jazz and spanned country and gospel. He died Friday at 76.
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Every profession has a jargon all its own; musicians are no different. Oboist Alli Gessner and blues musician Brian Brickley offer terms distinctive to music: "crowing" and "good night, Cleveland."
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Ben Watt is a singer and DJ, best known for being in the British pop duo Everything but the Girl. Now, he's back with a new album and a book that gives an inside look at his complicated relationship with his parents.
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As long as there are teenage girls going through huge emotional changes, there will be groups of four to six young men singing pop songs to them (and sometimes dancing).
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From Run DMC’s Dookie ropes to Kanye West’s Horus piece, chains have always been essential part of Hip-Hop culture. But while anyone can rock some gold around their neck and think they’re as fly as Eric B and Rakim, med...
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Cleveland Cavaliers Owner Dan Gilbert Explains How He Got Lebron James To Return
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It's often hard to know when a feature update is newsworthy but Limited Run's addition of SoundScan reporting to their music and merch ecommerce platform is certainly noteworthy as part of a larger trend for D2F and DIY music ecommerce s...
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John Legend's Performance of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" Album To Be Live Streamed
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Only 6 months after the biggest battle rap event of all time (UW’s High Stakes), Eminem and Slaughterhouse up the ante with an even larger scale event “Total Slaughter” going down this Saturday at the Hammerstein Ballro...
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EXCLUSIVE: KID VISHIS TALKS NEW ALBUM, TOP 5 BATTLE RAPPERS, & HAVING TO AUDITION FOR HIS BROTHER ROYCE DA 5’9’’
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CHECK OUT PICS OF HOUSTON HIP HOP HEAVYWEIGHTS AT LIL KEKE'S HENNESEEY V.S SPONSORED EVENT
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EXCLUSIVE: SALVA & NICK HOOK EXPLAIN HOW STAR-STUDDED “OLD ENGLISH” TRACK OFF THE NAS SPONSORED “MASS APPEAL VOL 1” CAME TOGETHER
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She topped the country charts through the late '80s and '90s — and then started her own label and widened her range. Bogguss pays homage to Merle Haggard and discusses her love of American folk songs.
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Q-Tip: Lebron James Will Own Part of Cleveland Caviliers and Kevin Durant May Come To The Knicks
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Brianna Perry "Feelings"
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It would be easy to paint the scenario that SoundCloud has gone so corporate that its primary partners (and co-owners) are now the major labels, its primary users are casual listeners and its primary customers are future advertisers. But...
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“The way that 78s are nothing like LPs has to do with the music recorded on them. 78s are often the only remaining example of a recorded song. Since metal masters were usually not made of 78 recordings, as Petrusich puts it, “if th...
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Franc Grams takes on the 1993, Souls of Mischief classic “93 Til Infinity”, originally produced by A-Plus. Grams’ latest album Lets Start Over is available now on iTunes. The Premonition coming this summer.Filed under: ...
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[UPDATED] Relativity Digital is preparing to sell ArtistDirect and related music sites for a mere $1 million to an undisclosed buyer, according to reports. AritstDirect was one of the pioneer sites in the online music, but in recent year...
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Lebron James Announces His Return To Cleveland Cavaliers
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Dave Chappelle: I Quit TV Because of My Family
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As Tell Me More enters its final weeks of production, producer Frederica Boswell shares her favorite songs for the program's 'In Your Ear' series.
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“Since 1990, it seems that the average song length has sort of stabilized around 250 seconds (over 4 minutes). Maybe that’s because humans prefer 4 minute songs. Clearly there is no technological limit to song length anymore, right...
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Bang'Em Smurf refers to 50 Cent as Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, and Young Bucks' "daddy," says the group will flop.
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TDE songstress SZA delivers a Rodney Pass(C)-directed visual for "Julia." Her album, "Z," is available on iTunes.
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(Reuters) - Country music star Garth Brooks said on Thursday he was coming out of recording retirement and will release new music for the first time in more than a decade. Brooks, who in recent years has been playing concerts in Las Vega...
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In honor of Jaden Smith's 16th birthday, Los Angeles-based producer MVSIC just released his remix of Jhene Aiko(TM)s "The Worst" featuring Jaden.
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Green Label also features cuts from Mobb Deep, Kanye West and De La Soul among its "15 Dopest Hip Hop Remixes Of All Time."
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The top Hip Hop headlines for 7/11/2014.
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Drake and Chris Brown In The Studio Together (PIC)
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Exclusive: The Aftermath staff producer also speaks on his father, Chic bassist Bernard Edwards, and plans to collaborate with Nile Rodgers.
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Our weekly puzzler for careful listeners: This week we have a series of hand-picked drum fills from Daniel Cundiff, percussionist for the band Eternal Summers. Hear the fill and match it to the song.
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BLAC CHYNA ALLEGEDLY SLEEPING WITH MMG RAPPER.
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Jim Jones Says A$AP Mob Wears Kilts and Tight Jeans, They're Not Like The Diplomats
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This week, Busta Rhymes and Eminem turn back the clock and the CIA curiously tweets about the late, great Tupac Shakur.
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In a Virginia sanctuary, the acoustic guitarist sits down with a slide to perform a song inspired by his mental state after a long tour: "slow, exhausted, defeated."
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UPDATE #2: Statik Selektah announces the release date for his "What Goes Around..." album.
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Soundsight Headphones are designed to be high quality headphones that record video based on where the wearer's head is turned that can be livestreamed or edited through a mobile app on a smartphone or tablet. They won't be available till...
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King Louie "F**k You"
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French Montana Ft Fabolous & Wale "R&B Chicks"
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The latest update to iTunes (11.3) adds Extras, or bonus content that comes with HD films on Apple's downloading platform. Extras may be viewed directly through iTunes or on Apple TV and will also be available on iOS 8 starting this...
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Juicy J "THC Believe"
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Gino Marley Ft Fredo Santana "Ya Boi"
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Dice Raw drops off another set of visuals, this time for his track "Animal" off "Jimmy's Back" out now.
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Here's a radio rip from Shade 45 of Chevy Woods' new one with none other than Fatman Scoop.
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Kevin Gates says he "can't entertain words" in response to Game's "Bigger Than Me" record.
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Casey Veggies "The Boy"
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White Gzus [Blanco Caine & Gzus Piece] Ft Chris Crack "Out This Bish"
