As on-demand music-streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer and Rdio gouge each other's eyes out to reach the most possible American customers, they've also expanded their battlegrounds throughout the world. Deezer is in 180 countries; Spotify counts more than 50. And it's not as if they can open a local...

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As if the Clueless soundtrack could get any more classic than a house with columns dating back to 1972, the alt-pop heavy compilation will get a fresh vinyl makeover to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary, Entertainment Weekly reports. The LP will be re-released on April 7th via Universal Music, and — with a hat tip to Cher...

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Is that Rayna Jaymes in the latest episode of Nashville? Because she's acting more like a country music Vito Corleone. Got a problem? Rayna will solve it — even if it means (figuratively) fitting an entire record label with a pair of cement shoes and dumping it in the Cumberland...

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The FCC has officially voted in favor of "net neutrality," setting new rules to keep broadband Internet in the United States "fast, fair and open." The hotly debated resolution, which USA Today reports took place in front of a standing room-only crowd, passed three to two. "No one...should control free and...

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Had Johnny Cash lived past the age of 71, he would've turned 83 today.  Cash was one of the original outlaws, a man who spent the first decade of his career shaping the sound of popular country music before choosing to switch gears — record sales be damned — and operate...

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"We're a strange band," admits Steven Tyler as Aerosmith approach the 45th anniversary of their first show, which took place in November 1970. "We're still the same members. No tapes, no synthesized drums onstage. I don't have six dancers with hot-ass booties and titties sticking out. We're true to our Aerosmith-ness." The...

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When he left the University of Kansas, the book on Andrew Wiggins was well-circulated: his infamous on-court timidity would inhibit his ability to muster the full range of his abilities, which made the first phase of his highly anticipated NBA debut a touch predictable. Over the course of his first two...

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Friday will be the new Tuesday beginning this summer, when the worldwide music industry begins putting out new releases on most music buyers' paydays. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the British-based organization that acts as a music-biz United Nations, announced on Thursday that the new plan would go...

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The first trailer for the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy shows the Beach Boys singer-songwriter struggling to craft "the greatest album ever made" and clashing with his bandmates. In the film, Paul Dano plays Wilson in his younger years, while John Cusack portrays the present-day Beach Boy. That portion...

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Paul McCartney's childhood home in Liverpool, England is expected to sell for at least £100,000 (approximately $154,000) when it goes to auction at 7 p.m. GMT today, February 26th, The Guardian reports. Fittingly, the auction will take place at the famed Cavern Club where the Beatles played some of their earliest gigs. International bidders,...

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For most of Sam Hunt's life, the Georgia-born country singer was better known for his arm than his voice. As a teenager in Cedartown, Georgia – the home of an adulterous sharecropper's daughter in an early Waylon Jennings murder ballad – his quarterback skills earned him a High School Heisman nomination,...

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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda opened up for the first time about her father's sudden, tragic suicide this summer, telling Today, "There's no point questioning it and no point blaming anyone for it and there’s no point blaming yourself or the world or whatever the case may be because it happened...

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"It'll be a battle to be match fit for May 14th," Bono confesses, referring to the opening date in Vancouver of U2's impending tour. Asked to describe the state of his health after the bicycle accident in New York last November that left him with multiple injuries, including a facial fracture,...

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Former Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abbruzzese, who was behind the kit for band's 1993 album Vs. and 1994 LP Vitalogy, has two warrants out for his arrest in Denton, Texas: Possession of a controlled substance and failure to appear on a manufacture or delivery of substance charge. The news was first reported by...

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This week, following a shockingly short Divas match – even by WWE standards – on Raw, #GiveDivasAChance began trending on Twitter. On Wednesday night, NXT showed once again why that hashtag would never be directed at its show. On the surface, the match between Bayley and Becky Lynch was nothing out...

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Kim Gordon wants to get a burger at the Apple Pan, a tiny burger joint on Los Angeles' West Side that opened in 1947 and which she began frequenting as a kid. She leans forward on her stool to catch the counterman's eye: "I'll have a hickory burger, no cheese...

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John Legend and Common's Oscar-winning song "Glory" from the film Selma garnered 28,000 downloads to notch its best sales week to date. The spike anchored a massive 184 percent sales gain for all music featured on the 87th Academy Awards for the week ending the day of the awards (February 22nd), according to...

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Ten miles outside town on a two-lane county road, just past the trailer park and across the street from Hank Williams Jr.'s place, there's a driveway with a poster that says "Re-Elect Sheriff Russell Thomas." Beyond a gate, a dirt road winds around a small lake, past a "Don't Feed...

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As of Midnight Thursday, marijuana is now legal in Washington, D.C. However, how long weed stays decriminalized in the nation's capital remains to be seen. After Washington D.C. residents voted in support of legal pot this past Election Day, Congress attempted to block the bill by attaching preventative measures in an...

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If there's one moment that sums up why Empire is the TV blockbuster of 2015, here it is: Aspiring rapper Hakeem is making his new video, rolling on the bed with models and champagne. But he's having a little trouble on the set. His R&B-star girlfriend Tiana just busted him...

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News of Scarlett Johansson's new group, the Singles, is less than a week old, but the band is already facing legal issues. When the actress revealed her new band – which also features Este Haim, Holly Miranda, Kendra Morris and Julia Haltigan – the group's radio-friendly moniker described their candy-coated pop...

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Kanye West debuted the official version of "All Day" Wednesday at the 2015 Brit Awards following the leak of numerous rough versions of the song since last August. After Kim Kardashian-West presented the Global Success Award to Sam Smith, posing for a selfie with the show's hosts Ant and Dec and demanding that...

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Earlier this month, domestic violence charges against NFL defensive end Greg Hardy were dismissed, after prosecutors claim his accuser essentially disappeared. It was an odd, anticlimactic ending to a story that made national headlines, and though the Pro Bowler's legal issues are behind him, he's not in the clear just yet:...

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With the post-Grammys sales surge ebbing away — and no other major debuts to battle with — Imagine Dragons cruised to the top of the Billboard 200, as the Las Vegas arena rockers' second LP, Smoke and Mirrors, grabbed the Number One spot thanks to 195,000 units sold. It's the best sales week yet for the...

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An investigation into sexual assault allegations against 74-year-old musician Sir Cliff Richard has "increased significantly in size," U.K. police recently disclosed. The singer, who is best known for a string of U.K. hits with the group the Shadows, previously faced only one claim against him, but now authorities say he...