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Swift is threatening legal action against Kanye West. Kanye West could face serious legal ramifications for recording a conversation with Taylor Swift and subsequently publishing it.  The recording, initially leaked onto Snapchat by Kim Kardashian on Sunday, eventually made its way to Twitter and then, the entire internet (full report on that, here). Kardashian leaked […]

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Was Taylor Swift in on it all along? This entire controversy surrounds one lyric, rapped by Kanye West in ‘Famous’: “Me and Taylor might still have sex… I made that bitch famous.  I made that bitch famous.” After ‘Famous’ was released earlier this year on Kanye’s The Life of Pablo album, Swift went on the offensive. […]

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M.I.A. just lost a lucrative headliner slot. But did Afropunk go too far? Sri Lankan rapper and singer M.I.A. has now been dropped by the Afropunk Festival after raising questions about the Black Lives Matter movement.  M.I.A., long an outspoken figure in hip-hop, was slated to headline the London-based event and is a major ticket draw. Or, […]

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The vinyl resurgence might be a lot bigger than we originally thought. Back in the early 2000s, the music industry had little idea that a vinyl resurgence was coming.  In the early 2010s, they were slow to understand the nuances between streaming, physical ownership, and retro demand that emerged.  And despite a near-decade of continued growth, […]

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Mick Jagger is now having his 8th child, at 73 years of age. Is that cool? Mick Jagger still has that swagger, and is putting other septuagenarians to shame.  Aside from actively touring the world (above in Rome in 2014, for example), the Rolling Stones icon is also active on numerous projects.   That includes […]

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100% licensing: Another gift from the DOJ to songwriters. The publishers’ press machine has declared that the “DOJ has dealt a massive blow to America’s songwriters.”  But, what they really mean is: the DOJ withheld from publishers a huge windfall. The DOJ rejected the publishers’ plea for direct licensing of digital rights.  This is excellent […]

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He’s been kicked out of the group and shamed, but singer Remigio Pereira is sticking to his guns. For those just tuning into this controversy, Tenors singer Remigio Pereira is now taking serious heat for working the phrase ‘All Lives Matter’ into a recent rendition of the Canadian National Anthem.  The ‘O Canada’ anthem was being sung […]

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Not all hearing issues are fatal or permanent, especially for children. The following moments are brought to you by the Starkey Hearing Foundation, a group committed to assisting children with deafness and severe hearing problems.  Here’s a collection of pictures the group shared with DMN of children hearing for the first time in their lives, which of […]

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