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Hear every song sampled on Kanye West’s Yeezus

Your cheat sheet for Name That Sample: Yeezus Edition


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Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail has already sold one million copies thanks to Samsung deal

He really is more than a businessman. Jay-Z’s partnership with Samsung for his new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, is another sign of how musicians are finding new ways to push, sell and promote their music, and how the multiplatinum […]


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An image of the Terezin concentration camp entrance in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, with a sign reading Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes You Free), is projected on a screen during a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. In a concentration camp designed by the Nazis to eradicate Jewish cultural life, among 120,000 of its inmates who would ultimately be murdered, rising young musician Rafael Schachter assembled hundreds of sick and hungry singers, leading t

After 70 years, Verdi concert honours Holocaust-era pledge to defy Nazis

PRAGUE — In a concentration camp designed by the Nazis to eradicate Jewish cultural life, among 120,000 of its inmates who would ultimately be murdered, a rising young musician named Rafael Schachter managed one of the miracles of the Holocaust.


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In this 1978 photo taken by Janet Macoska and released by Devo, Inc., the band Devo, from left, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, kneeling, Jerry Casale, Bob Casale and Alan Myers pose for a photo. Devo spokesman Michael Pilmer confirmed Wednesday, June 26, 2013, that drummer Alan Myers died Monday, June 24, after a battle with brain cancer in Los Angeles. He was 58. (AP Photo/Devo Inc., Janet Macoska) MANDATORY CREDIT

Alan Myers, drummer for the band Devo, dies of brain cancer at 58

Alan Myers, the former longtime drummer for the band Devo, best known for "Whip It," has died after a battle with brain cancer. He was 58.


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Squamish Valley Music Festival capacity increased to 35,000 per day

The crowd of music fans set to settle into Squamish for the upcoming Squamish Valley Music Festival could swell to more than 35,000 people per day after the city’s municipal council approved a bid by Live Nation Canada and brand.LIVE to increase the event’s attendance capabilities on Tuesday.


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Khatsahlano! Music + Art Festival lineup

Take a look at a few of the bands set to take the stage at this year’s Khatsahlano festival.


 
(L-R) Musician Joe Jonas, model Alessandra Ambrosio, actress AnnaSophia Robb, and musician Nick Jonas attend the FIJI Water At Lacoste L!VE Coachella Desert Pool Party on April 13, 2013 in Palm Springs, California.

More fun in the sun at Coachella

Sunday marked the final day of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s first weekend, and it brought more celebrities and sunshine to Indio, California. Take a look.


 
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Sunshine and stars at Coachella day 1

Celebrities are mingling with the little people at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio California, where sunshine, sweat and sound merge for the must-see musical event of the year. Take a look.


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