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Justin Bieber has released his new video for the track "Company." The track is featured on the Bieb's most recent release Purpose and was directed by the singer's personal videographer Rory Kramer. The pop icon opened up about the new single with rap-up.com saying, "Personally, I love this video because it's an honest look at my journey."

In the video Bieber is seen spending time with his friends, such as Floyd Mayweather. He's also seen, recording in the studio, rehearsing with dancers, lying in hammock, skateboarding, spending time on the beach, modeling and performing.

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The RIAA has confirmed that Beyoncé has gone platinum for the sixth time with her latest powerhouse album, Lemonade. The tweet released by the RIAA, revealed that Beyoncé is one of the few artists to have achieved this honor, and congratulated her.

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A David Bowie ballet called "Star Dust" is set to premiere on June 18 at Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts. The piece runs about 35 minutes and features all 15 dancers in Complexion Contemporary Ballet. They will be dancing to "Space Oddity," "Changes," "Modern Love" and "Life on Mars?," as well as "Lazarus" from Blackstar.

"It's an abstraction," Dwight Rhoden of New York's Complexion Contemporary Ballet tells Billboard. "We're basically looking at honoring each song and bringing a visual concept in movement and characterization to them. So there's an interpretation going on per song, and there's a thread throughout it but not necessarily a story. I think you'll see a great love for the artist himself, and it's really paying tribute to his incredibly wide-ranging career."

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Janis Joplin's Texas childhood home is on the market for $500,000, according to the Guardian. The home, which is located in Port Arthur, is 1,300 square foot (121 sq m) with a small front porch. The lucky new homeowner who buys the house will also get a historical marker from the Texas Historical Commission and the musician's autograph, which is carved into the timbers inside.

Joplin's Porsche was also put up for auction in New York City last December and ended up selling for $1.76 million.

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Whitney Houston's mother, Cissy Houston, called out Bobby Brown for his "disturbing" interview with ABC's 20/20. "Last night I saw Bobby Brown's interview with Robin Roberts. It was disturbing" Cissy Houston said to People. "There is no value in my challenging all of his statements - point for point . . ."

He also revealed that him and Whitney would be locked in a room doing drugs for hours in one day while a nanny took care of their daughter Bobbi Kristina.

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After her forced exit from the BET daytime show The Real, Tamar Braxton and her family spent the day together at the Finding Dory premiere in Los Angeles. Mother, son, and manager and husband of the songstress and starlet, Vincent Herbert, all were in attendance on the blue carpet laid out at the El Capitan Theatre.

Braxton most recently appeared on The Steve Harvey Show, sharing with fans that a production deal is in place for her newest talk show.

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Soundgarden side project, Hater, featuring bass player Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron, plans to reissue their debut album, according to Audio Ink Radio. The band released their original self-titled album back in 1993. The reissue of the album will be available on CD, vinyl and digital formats on July 15.

Hater parted ways in 1997.

Hater Track List:

• "Mona Bona Jakon"
• "Who Do I Kill?"
• "Tot Finder"
• "Lion and Lamb"
• "Roadside"
• "Down Undershoe"
• "Circles"
• "Putrid"
• "Blistered"
• "Sad McBain"

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Noel Gallagher has revealed plans for what will be his final show of 2016. He and his High Flying Birds members will take the stage at the 02 Brixton Academy in London on September 6 and will wrap up an impressive 121 show tour in 27 countries that the rocker performed throughout the course of the year. The band has already stated that they are about to start a new record.

Producer David Holmes spoke on their progress with Gigwise saying.

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Tom Petty is already looking ahead to next year, revealing his hopes for the release of a new expanded version of his 1995 release Wildflowers followed by a subsequent tour. "I want to take the Heartbreakers and whoever else I need to reproduce every sound in a big way," he tells Rolling Stone. "That album was really about sound in a big way."

"At one point the label really just wanted to put it out as a standalone album," he says. "And then there's the point of view where they want to put both records together. There's also the point of view that wants the box set with the demos and all that. I don't see that as much fun, but other people do."

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Jake Owen professes his love for mini-golf in a hilarious new video created by That's Classic Media. "In case you wonder how crazy we get on the road on our days off. Next level stuff," Owen writes on Facebook with a link to the video called "Putt Puttin'." In the new minute-and-a-half clip, Owen and his crew get off the tour bus for a two-hour hang at a mini-golf course before a recent show. "Man, I'm about to let y'all in on some craziness."

"I might skip the show and play all night," he raps of his love for mini-golf.

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Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard stormed off the stage during a performance at Charleston, South Carolina's Volvo Car Stadium. While the band was performing their song "Soul Meets Body," Gibbard appeared to pull out his earpiece and toss them aside, along with his guitar. He continued the song until the band appeared to lose rhythm. He then knocked down his mic stand and quickly walked off stage.

According to a live report, some drunken fans in the first row were scream-singing along and trying to start a mosh pit.

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Common has shared his words of support for Chance the Rapper, who recently opened up about his position on social issues. Chance is renowned for taking on social topics in his music and Common now says that more rappers should take Chance's lead. Speaking with CNN, Com said that he'd love to see a shift in the hip hop world towards greater social activism.

"I like to focus on the [artists] who do speak up," Common said. "You do have the people like the Kendrick Lamar's and the Chance [the rapper]'s who say things in their music. You have to find the people who have it engrained in them to speak up for different social issues."

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Neil Young's upcoming new album Earth will features 13 live tracks mixed with the sounds of animals Young recorded in the backyard of his Kings Mountain home in California. The new album features crickets, frogs, crows, bees and other animals, which Young says he added as an experiment because they give off a good vibe. "The animals give off a great vibe."

Those songs rose to the top," he said. "They said who they were and we made the record."

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Blake Shelton was joined by his girlfriend Gwen Stefani during his birthday performance at County Jam on Saturday, June 18, according to The Boot. The country singer, who turned 40 this past weekend, sang his duet "Go Ahead and Break My Heart" with Stefani, who he has been dating for the past seven months.

"This is fun!" he said. "Y'all have been so freakin' nice to me on my 40th birthday and I guess if I had one birthday wish for me personally . . . I wish I could rock. I wish I was one of those type of artists that could rock but I can't."

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Missy Elliott has been featured in the new 2016 campaign for designer Marc Jacobs. The hip-hop icon joins actress Sissy Spacek as one of the faces of the brand for this year, and Jacobs himself said he's thrilled to have them. "In a continuing series of portraits for our Fall 2016 ad campaign, the individuals in these photographs represent a collective embodiment of love."

"Missy's music has kept me and my design team happily energized through countless weekdays, weeknights and weekends during those long hours of sketching, fitting, styling and doing looks . . . I am in continued awe of Missy's ability to push the boundaries of the style of music both to the eye and to the ear."

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Led Zeppelin has been found not guilty in their plagiarism trial regarding their classic track "Stairway to Heaven." The jury came back unanimous in its decision. Spirit member Mark Andes filed a lawsuit on behalf of late bandmate Randy California through California's estate in 2014, claiming that Spirit's 1968 instrumental composition "Taurus" includes a similar chord progression as Zeppelin's 1971 song.

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Hozier is at work on the follow-up to his breakout debut release and has opened up about the songwriting process for the release. Speaking with the BBC's Beats 1 radio show, the Irish hitmaker said he's thrilled to bring his new creations to life. "I've never been so eager to make music. I'm itching for it. In a big way."

"There's many times recording on a phone and trying to transfer it into my laptop and into software. It doesn't feel the same."

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Steven Tyler has released "We're All Somebody From Somewhere," the title track from his upcoming debut solo album. "We're All Somebody From Somewhere" follows previously released tracks "Love Is Your Name" and "Red, White & You," which are taken off of Tyler's country music debut, We're All Somebody From Somewhere. Tyler recorded the album in Nashville.

"I believe y'all are gonna listen to this stuff and you're gonna agree with me that it fell from a star," Tyler told Rolling Stone.

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Coldplay's Chris Martin has compared the voice of Rihanna to a "tube of toothpaste." He also called her the "Frank Sinatra of our generation." "Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody," he told the Guardian. "It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste."

Coldplay will headline Glastonbury this year, which has sparked rumors that she could be planning to appear with the band during their set.

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Darius Rucker has released his new track "If I Told You," which is set to be the first single on his upcoming fifth solo country album, according to The Boot. The country singer is asking someone to love him, despite all his various faults. "If I told you all the stupid things I've done / I blamed on being young / But I was old enough to know, I know," Rucker sings on the song's chorus.

The track was written by Ross Copperman, Jon Nite and Shane McAnally.

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Due to popular demand, Lionel Richie has been forced to release hundreds of additional tickets to his upcoming shows in London. Richie is set to perform at London's O2 Arena on July 2, July 3 and July 6 and has released 300 more tickets to the first of his All the Hits live shows after he learned that some fans did not have the opportunity to purchase tickets when they went on sale.

After London, Richie will take his All The Hits live shows across Europe throughout July.

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Gwen Stefani recently discussed the future of No Doubt in an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone. When asked if she would be reuniting with No Doubt any time soon, she doesn't seem to have a clear cut answer. "I don't know what's going to happen with No Doubt," she said. "When Tony (Kanal) and I are connected creatively, it's magic."

Stefani says she wants her bandmates "to be happy and do whatever they need to do to fulfill whatever creative place they need to fill."

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Lady Gaga and actor Chris Pine are among 49 celebrities to appear in a new video honoring the 49 people who lost their lives in the Orlando nightclub massacre. The 18 minute clip, directed by Glee American Horror Story director Ryan Murphy, opens with a black screen and the words: "On June 12, 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others inside Pulse."

"It was both the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman and the deadliest incident of violence against LGBTQ people in U.S. history. The victims live on in our memory . . . . These are their names. These are their stories."

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Paul Simon didn't let some bad weather ruin the last stop on his recent tour. The singer/songwriter closed out his latest trek in a homecoming concert in Queens. The show was interrupted by a downpour, but the singer pushed through. The concert included more than two dozen songs, with tracks from his new album, as well as career-spanning classics like "Homeward Bound" and "The Boxer."

Fittingly, given the weather, he closed his encore with "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

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It was recently revealed that Prince played keyboard on the Mobb Deep track "Thou Shall Not Kill," according to TMZ. While on N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN's podcast, Havoc revealed the Purple One's presence on the song. He also shared a not so positive story of a car accident. "The most memorable session I ever had in the studio was when we was working . . ."

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Drake has topped the Billboard 200 chart for the ninth straight week with his latest album, Views, according to Rap-Up.com. This milestone gives Views the third-most weeks at number one by a hip-hop album, beating out Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, which was released in 2000.

Views was released on April 29 and has produced the singles "Hotline Bling," "One Dance," "Pop Style," "Too Good" and "Controlla."

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Billy Joel was joined by Kenny Chesney on stage for a duet at the former's show in Pittsburgh on Friday, July 1, according to The Boot. The duo came together to sing Joel's 1980 hit song "You May Be Right." Both singers split the verses of the song and harmonized together on the chorus section. Chesney performed in Pittsburgh the following night with Miranda Lambert.

The country singer's tour is set to run through late August.

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Miranda Lambert has sold her Ladysmith Bed and Breakfast property in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, according to The Boot. While Lambert and her ex-husband Blake Shelton lived in Tishomingo, in the state where Shelton grew up, she operated a few businesses, such as a boutique called the Pink Pistol and the bed and breakfast.

"I want to send a heartfelt thank you to all the employees who worked hard to help me bring the store in Tishomingo to life, as well as the patrons who came to experience the Pink Pistol and supported the store. Sometimes you need to close a chapter to build on a new beginning or go back home."

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Frances Bean Cobain's estranged husband is reportedly demanding the last guitar ever played by Kurt Cobain as part of their divorce settlement. Cobain wed Isaiah Silva at an intimate ceremony in June 2014 in front of around 15 guests. TMZ reports that Silva is claiming that Frances Bean had given him Cobain's Martin D-18E acoustic guitar as a wedding present.

Courtney Love confirmed that the item was the last instrument that Kurt ever played, calling it "a treasured heirloom of the family" and saying that it wasn't Silva's to take. She added, "I'm very glad that [Frances Bean is] out of this very dangerous and toxic relationship."

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Eric Clapton's long lost Les Paul guitar "Beano," may have been found. The classic Gibson instrument was a mainstay for Slow Hand in the 1960s and has been long thought lost or destroyed. Now blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa tells guitarworld.com it not only exists but he knows where. "It's a '59, not a '60, it's got double-white [humbucker] in the front . . ."

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Craig Morgan's son has reportedly gone missing following a boating accident. The accident occurred over the weekend in Tennessee and the singer's 19-year-old son reportedly capsized in a boat. Thus far it's unclear if he was wearing a floatation device at the time of the accident.

"It was just as simple as hitting a wave and turning over and not coming back up," Sheriff Chris Davis confirmed. "We're focusing all our attention right now on the point of the accident. We've taken the information from the driver of the boat at the time and we're taking that information and we're focusing our efforts on that area right now."

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Mary Wilson of the Supremes has opened up about the recent spate of police violence. In a statement with TMZ, the soul star said that she is hoping for change in America, but is not expecting it any time soon. "It's one of those things where it takes time for things to evolve," she said. "Things don't change over night . . . things are bad before [they] get better."

"I think we all need to pray for peace and happiness. Back in the Motown days, we were not even citizens," she continued. "It does not even compare. Except we didn't have the violence. We really didn't. You know why? Because we, as black people, knew our place. So it wasn't your Martin Luther King, civil rights, all that stuff where things started changing and we started standing up for the rights. It was a different platform."

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Lorde says after spending three days alone in the wilderness, she made some album "breakthroughs," according to NME. The singer took to Twitter to tell her fans about her recent trip, which helped to inspire her as she's working on the follow-up to her debut album, Pure Heroine. "took a helicopter out into the wilderness spent 3 days alone writing . . ."

"took a helicopter out into the wilderness spent 3 days alone writing and made some of the most exciting breakthroughs on this record so far," Lorde wrote on Twitter.

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Jake Owen has released his newest track "If He Ain't Going To Love You" featuring Chris Stapleton. The funky track is the ninth off of Owen's new release American Love and finds the country star asking if he can step in for a special someone who isn't getting the love she deserves. "Don't want to come on too strong / Don't get me wrong / Girl, I need to talk to you . . ."

"I remember, years back, calling and asking for Chris Stapleton

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Steven Tyler has opened up about the current state of rock music today. Despite his current cross over into the country ranks, the Aerosmith frontman was compelled to share his thoughts on rock and roll and says that honestly real rock is hard to find these days. "Look what happened with the rock world," Tyler told the Arizona Republic. "Look where it went."

"Look what happened with the rock world," Tyler told the Arizona Republic. "Look where it went. It kind of spun off like a supernova and now there isn't really much of it at all. You don't hear anything like the Kinks or the Stones. You won't hear 'You Really Got Me.' Something that when you hear it one time, you go, "f—!" and you know you won't ever forget it. That kind of era is gone with rock."

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Jennifer Hudson has inked a new deal with Netflix to appear in Adam Sandler's upcoming new film Sandy Wexler. Hudson will reportedly play the role of the romantic lead. "The film follows Sandy Wexler (Adam Sandler), a talent manager working in Los Angeles in the 1990s, who diligently represents a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business."

"The film follows Sandy Wexler (Adam Sandler), a talent manager working in Los Angeles in the 1990s, who diligently represents a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business," according to a press release. "His single-minded devotion is put to the test when he falls in love with his newest client, Courtney Clarke (Jennifer Hudson), a tremendously talented singer who he discovers at an amusement park."

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Kip Moore has offered up his cover of a Josh Turner song for a recent St. Jude's Children's Hospital charity. Moore shared a video from his visit to the hospital during which he offers up his version of Turner's song "Your Man." Moore has long been a supporter of children's charities and also recently shared a video of two children of different races sharing a long hug.

"It's a beautiful thing how when kids are born, they don't see color. They don't feel hate," Moore says.

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Marilyn Manson has signed on to appear in the role of a ruthless hitman in the new film Let Me Make You A Martyr. The film is set to premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and initial footage shows Manson's character delivering a frightening ultimatum. "Look, you would have shot me if you were man enough when I walked through the f*****g door . . ."

"Look, you would have shot me if you were man enough when I walked through the f*****g door," Manson's character threateningly shouts. "Let's just get this s**t over with. You know you're dead already."

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Garth Brooks has hinted at possible Australian and European tour dates once he finishes his North American leg of his world tour, according to Taste of Country. The country singer is scheduled to finish up his North American leg in 2017. Prior to his shows at New York City's Yankee Stadium on July 8 and 9, Brooks told the media he may be headed to Europe and Australia.

"The guys from Australia came up and talked to us, they were very sweet," Brooks tells Taste of Country.

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Willie Nelson and Neil Young will headline the inaugural Outlaw Music Festival as it gets underway in Scranton, Pennsylvania this fall. As per usual, Nelson will be joined by his Family Band, while Young is backed by Promise of the Real, featuring Nelson's sons Lukas and Micah Nelson.

The Outlaw Music Festival will be held at the Pavilion on Montage Mountain, the site of the Peach Music Festival and the Allman Brothers Band's annual gathering, on September 18.

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