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Little Jimmy Dickens, music news, noise11.com

R.I.P. Little Jimmy Dickens At 94

by Paul Cashmere

Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens has died at the age of 94. Dickens suffered a cardiac arrest following a stroke.

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PJ Harvey. Photo by Ros O'Gorman.

PJ Harvey Copies Regurgitator Band In A Bubble Idea

by Paul Cashmere

PJ Harvey is copying the exact same concept Australian band Regurgitator used for their Band In A Bubble idea.

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Duran Duran, SXSW. Photo by Ros O'Gorman.

Duran Duran, Bastille, Ride To Play War Child 2015

by Paul Cashmere

Duran Duran, Bastille and a stripped back Ride will perform in 300 capacity venues for War Child’s Back To The Bars shows in February.

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Donna Douglas, music news, Noise11.com, The Beverly Hillbillies

R.I.P. Beverly Hillbillies Star Donna Douglas At 81

by Paul Cashmere

Donna Douglas, who became world famous as Elly May Clampett in the 60s comedy The Beverly Hillbillies, has died at the age of 81.

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Bono and U2. image by Ros O'Gorman

Bono May Never Play Guitar Again

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Bono may never be able to play guitar again following his bike accident last year.

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Sam Smith and Jonathan Zeizel, music news, noise11.com

Sam Smith Is Checking Out Sydney

by Paul Cashmere

Sam Smith snuck into Sydney last weekend for a quiet harbour side holiday before kicking off a big year of touring.

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SXSW tragedy photo by Austin Police

SXSW Sued For Wrong Death Of Crash Victims

by Paul Cashmere

Families of the SXSW crash victims are now suing the organisers of the event.

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Cloud Control - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Jeremy Kelshaw Quits Cloud Control

by Paul Cashmere

Cloud Control will start 2015 with a line-up change. Founding member Jeremy Kelshaw has quit the band.

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Tim Wheatley, noise11, music news

Tim Wheatley To Play New South Wales January Dates

by Paul Cashmere

Tim Wheatley will return to Australian stages next week for a series of shows in New South Wales.

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Spotify, music news, noise11.com

Pop Will Eat Itself …Streaming Crippled Music Sales In 2014

by Paul Cashmere

Evidence that streaming is crippling music sales in the past year has been revealed in the end of year report by Nielsen Music.

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Paul McCartney and Kanye West, music news, noise11.com

Kanye West and Paul McCartney Collaborate On New Song

by Paul Cashmere

Kanye West has released a brand new song for New Year’s Day with Sir Paul McCartney.

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Chad Gilbert and Hayley WIlliams, music news, noise11.com

Hayley Williams and Chad Gilbert To Marry

by Paul Cashmere

Paramore’s Hayley Williams and New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert are getting married.

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Pink Floyd The Endless River

Pink Floyd The Endless River Was 2014 UK Top Vinyl Album

by Music-News.com

Pink Floyd ‘The Endless River’ was the biggest selling album on vinyl in 2014.

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Clean Bandit, music news, noise11.com

Streaming Doubled In UK In 2014

by Music-News.com

Figures released this week by the BPI show British artists and surge in streaming help to deliver another £1 billion-plus year for the UK recorded music business.

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Pharrell Williams

Half A Decade Of Chart Facts 2010-2015

by Gavin Ryan

January 1, 2014 gets us halfway through the decade.

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Pharrell Williams Happy Was Biggest Song Of 2014 In USA

by Paul Cashmere

Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ sold 6,455,000 downloads in the USA in 2014 making it the biggest selling song of the year.

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Taylor Swift, Etihad, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Taylor Swift 1989 Was Biggest Album Of 2014 In The USA

by Paul Cashmere

Taylor Swift had the biggest selling album of 2014 in the USA with ‘1989’ clocking up sales of 3,661,000 units.

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Taylor Swift, Etihad, Frontier Touring, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

US Digital Music Sales In Steep Decline For First Time Ever

by Paul Cashmere

Digital music sales have stalled at an alarming rate in the USA with sales going backwards during 2014 for the first time ever.

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Ed Sheeran, Noise11, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Ed Sheeran X Is UK’s Biggest Album Of 2014

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Sheeran ‘X’ was the UK’s biggest selling album of 2014 and Pink Floyd better than Taylor Swift in England.

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Pharrell Williams Happy Was UK No 1 Song Of 2014

by Paul Cashmere

Pharrell Williams had the biggest selling song of 2014 in the UK.

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Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Lindsay Buckingham Calls 2015 Last Year For Fleetwood Mac

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Lindsay Buckingham has gone on record stating that 2015 will be the final year for Fleetwood Mac.

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Joe Cocker, Photo: Ros O'Gorman

In Memoriam: The Artists We Lost In 2014

by Paul Cashmere

2014 was the year the music industry lost over 100 of its stars both in front and behind the microphone.

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Courtney Barnett, music news, noise11.com

Courtney Barnett, Seekae Named Amazon Artists To Watch In 2015

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne singer songwriter Courtney Barnett and Sydney’s Seekae have been named Amazon’s Artists to Watch in 2015.

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Peter Asher, music news, noise11.com

Peter Asher Receives CBE In Queen’s New Years Honors List

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Peter Asher, half of UK 60s pop group Peter & Gordon, has been awarded the Commander of the British Empire honor (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.

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Falls Festival, music news, noise11.com

Man Found Dead At Falls Festival Byron Bay

by Paul Cashmere

A 26-year old man has been found dead at the Falls Festival at Byron Bay.

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DJ Sneak, music news, noise11.com

DJ Sneak Replaced With Jamie xx At Sydney and Melbourne Festivals

by Paul Cashmere

DJ Sneak has been a last minute drop-out from the Lost Paradise and Let Them Eat Cake festival in Sydney and Melbourne. Jamie xx will replace him.

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iTunes Logo

iTunes Introduces 14-Day Return Policy In Europe

by Paul Cashmere

Apple has introduced a 14-day return policy for iTunes sales in Europe to come into line with new laws governing online sales in the territory and the changes have the music industry worried.

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Kirin J Callinan, AMP Shortlist 2014, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Kirin J Callinan, Billion Added To Rage New Videos

by Paul Cashmere

Kirin J. Callinan and Billion featuring Maxine Ashley both have featured videos on Rage this week.

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Olivia Newton-John - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Olivia Newton-John To Release Vegas Show On DVD

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Olivia Newton-John has announced that she will release music from her acclaimed Las Vegas stage show, Summer Nights.

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Mick Jones of Foreigner, music news, noise11.com

Mick Jones Says Foreigner Hiatus Was Due To Nervous Breakdown

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Foreigner’s Mick Jones has revealed he took a year off because of a nervous breakdown.

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