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Want to See the First Lady Drop a Few Rap Bars About College?

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College is awesome. If you don’t believe us just ask the First Lady of the United States and SNL’s Jay Pharoah.

Justin Bieber Announces International Dates Of “Purpose” World Tour

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With a #1 album in over 100 countries, back-to-back worldwide smash hit singles, and a 64-city North American tour that has sold out dates across the U.S. and Canada, global superstar Justin Bieberhas announced the international dates of his PURPOSE WORLD TOUR beginning September 14, 2016 in Berlin.

Fans will be able to see Bieber’s dynamic live show on the 30+ date tour, promoted by AEG Live’s Concerts West, which will travel through arenas across Europe including England, France, Germany, Spain, much of Scandinavia and more.

Fahlo members can purchase tickets for these shows before the general public beginning December 11th at 4pm local time. General public tickets will begin to go on-sale Thursday, December 17, 2015 at www.justinbiebermusic.com. Please see below for complete tour itinerary and check local listings for exact on-sale information.

The hype around Bieber’s new music has hit an all-time high and shows no signs of slowing down. With a global #1 album release in over 100 countries and consecutive #1 singles, the album is shattering records worldwide including a record for having 17 songs in the Hot 100 in one week (beating The Beatles and Drake) and a new Spotify record for global streaming with over 200 million album streams first week.

In addition to the album, orders are flooding in for PURPOSE signed CDs, vinyl and other limited edition items, exclusively via Justin’s online store. Go to: http://smarturl.it/JustinShop.

Justin Bieber – Purpose World Tour 2016 Dates

**All dates, venues and on-sale information are subject to change.

Date

City/Country

Venue

September 14, 2016

Berlin, Germany

Mercedes-Benz Arena

September 16, 2016

Munich, Germany

Olympiahalle

September 18, 2016

Cologne, Germany

Lanxess Arena

September 20, 2016

Paris, France

Accorhotels Arena

September 23, 2016

Oslo, Norway

Telenor Arena

September 26, 2016

Helsinki, Finland

Hartwall Arena

September 29, 2016

Stockholm, Sweden

Tele2 Arena

October 2, 2016

Copenhagen, Denmark

Telia Parken

October 5, 2016

Antwerp, Belgium

Sportspalais

October 6, 2016

Antwerp, Belgium

Sportspalais

October 8, 2016

Arnhem, Netherlands

GelreDome

October 11, 2016

London, England

The O2

October 12, 2016

London, England

The O2

October 17, 2016

Birmingham, England

Barclaycard Arena

October 18, 2016

Birmingham, England

Barclaycard Arena

October 20, 2016

Manchester, England

Manchester Arena

October 21, 2016

Manchester, England

Manchester Arena

October 26, 2016

Sheffield, England

Sheffield Arena

October 27, 2016

Glasgow, Scotland

SSE Hydro

November 1, 2016

Dublin, Ireland

3Arena

November 8, 2016

Vienna, Austria

Wiener Stadthalle

November 11, 2016

Kraków, Poland

Tauron Arena

November 12, 2016

Prague, Czech Republic

O2 Arena

November 14, 2016

Hamburg, Germany

Barclaycard Arena

November 16, 2016

Frankfurt, Germany

Festhalle

November 17, 2016

Zurich, Switzerland

Hallenstadion

November 19, 2016

Bologna, Italy

Unipol Arena

November 20, 2016

Bologna, Italy

Unipol Arena

November 22, 2016

Barcelona, Spain

Palau Sant Jordi

November 23, 2016

Madrid, Spain

Barclaycard Center

November 25, 2016

Lisbon, Portugal

MEO Arena

Brighten a Childhood. Give Play.

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This holiday season, Right To Play invites you to journey back to your childhood and remember the joy of play – an experience that millions of children don’t get to have.

How To Be, Like, A Model In The 1980s Is The Totally Best Thing You’ll See All Week. Gnarly.

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OMG, we earn how to be a, like, you know, hot model in the 1980s, featuring appearances by Denise Richards, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and the headshot of the late Tom Bosley. Those shoes are totally vogue. Gnarly.

Penn Jillette’s Marathon Life in Magic by Alec Baldwin and Here’s The Thing

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At 6’6″ tall, Penn Jillette is a huge character. He’s got a huge frame, a huge personality, and huge appetites. It’s a trait that has occasionally gotten him into trouble; he weighed, until a recent diet change, more than 350 pounds. But his gregarious energy mostly expands to fill every moment of free time with professional success. He’s an inventor, an entrepreneur, a podcast host, a TV show creator, a Twitter celebrity, a comedian. And for more than forty years, he’s been the talking half of stage magic duo Penn & Teller. He talks to host Alec Baldwin about his lifelong atheism, what it’s like to perform the same trick for four decades, and why he’s committed to debunking nonsense.

UK supermarket Tesco to stock range of vinyl albums after huge success of summer trial

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After the huge success of recently selling the latest Iron Maiden record UK Supermarket Tesco will today begin trialling a range of vinyl albums.

Included in the 20 disc range will be the eagerly anticipated new record by Coldplay released last week, the latest George Ezra and David Gilmour albums as well as some all-time classics.

These include Bruce Springsteen – Born In The USA; Bob Marley’s Greatest Hits; Foo Fighters – Greatest Hits; The Beatles – Sgt Pepper; The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers; Radiohead – The Bends and Elvis Presley – 30 Number Ones.

The move is significant as in the last few years the vinyl album revival has been gaining momentum, year on year with sales up by more than 50 per cent in 2014.*

Tesco music buyer Michael Mulligan said:”Our trial selling vinyl this summer was a real success with all our stock selling out and this really proved to us just how popular the vinyl album format is again with music fans.

“Vinyl is definitely coming back with demand growing stronger year by year and we think there will be a big demand in the UK this Christmas as music fans look for trendy gifting options.

“We have brought in vinyl albums for everyone – from new releases for established collectors to absolute classics for younger fans and for mums and dads who might have worn out their original copies the first time round.

“By also selling record decks we are helping customers who are looking to start their own vinyl album collection.”

After bottoming out at just over 205,000 vinyl albums in 2007, UK sales have grown every year since and in 2014 reached almost 1.3 million – the highest annual total since 1995.

Vinyl albums have bucked the downward sales trend in the last year of other music formats such as CDs which fell by 6.5 per cent and downloads which dropped by nearly nine per cent.

The only other music format in growth is streaming which grew by 78 per cent in 2014.

Tesco began selling record decks last Christmas and demand has been so strong that it now stocks 12 different models, ranging in price from £40 to £140.

The vinyl albums will cost from between £12 to £20.

The full list of albums, which will be on sale in 40 Tesco stores across the UK, is as follows:

1. Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams
2. ELO – Alone In The Universe
3. David Gilmour – Rattle That Lock
4. George Ezra – Wanted On Voyage
5. Elvis Presley – 30 Number 1 Hits
6. The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
8. Stones Roses – Stone Roses
9. Various – Guardians Of The Galaxy Soundtrack
10. Nirvana – Nevermind
11. Bob Marley – Legend
12. Guns’n’Roses – Appetite For Destruction
13. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
14. Foo Fighters – Greatest Hits
15. Bruce Springsteen – Born In The USA
16. Fleetwood Mac – Greatest Hits
17. The Eagles – Hotel California
18. Prince – Purple Rain
19. Radiohead – The Bends
20. The Specials – The Specials

Rush’s Geddy Lee on the possibility of a solo album

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Have you ever considered doing a solo album that was all synth?

Geddy Lee: All synth? No. I don’t think I could bear that. Synthesizers are not really good for your sense of humor. It’s like being in front of your laptop for eight hours straight. You don’t really feel very funny at the end of it [laughs].

https://youtu.be/kuZKE6ewTV4

These unsuspecting shoppers got a big surprise while enjoying their lunch

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Even though this first appeared in 2010, it’s worth a second look during the holiday season. Over 100 participants gave unsuspecting shoppers a big surprise while they enjoyed their lunch.

Round Hill Music enters into worldwide co-publishing deal with Rune Westberg

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Round Hill Music is proud to enter into a worldwide co-publishing deal with the accomplished Danish songwriter, record producer, mixer, and instrumentalist, Rune Westberg. Based in Los Angeles, Rune has had recent cuts with Prince Royce (“Extraordinary”), Rachel Platten (“Beating Me Up” on her Fight Song EP), Jesse & Joy (current single “Ecos De Amor”), Colbie Caillat (“Floodgates” on “Gypsy Heart”) , Australian artist Bonnie Anderson (current single “Unbroken”), Sabrina Carpenter (“Stand Out” single) as well as upcoming projects with Rachel Taylor, Australian artist Dean Ray, Canadian artist Kate Morgan, Alvaro Soler, Katy Tiz, Sofia Reyes and many others.

“Rune is a phenomenal talent and I’m thrilled to work with such a versatile songwriter and producer. We are dedicated to helping him take his music to an even wider audience and look forward to having many hits together,” says Patrick Conseil, A&R, Round Hill Music.

Additionally, Rune has written and produced for Adam Lambert, Daughtry, Hedley, Reece Mastin, Nina Nesbitt, Haley Reinhart, Better Than Ezra, Casey Abrams, Kris Allen, Jessica Sanchez, The Saturdays, David Cook, MoZella, and Tyler Hilton, among many others. Along with Chad Kroeger, Eric Dill, and Chris Daughtry, Westberg co-wrote the hit song “No Surprise”, a single on Daughtry’s second album, Leave This Town. The song debuted on American Idol and subsequently won a BMI award.

Rune is managed by David Sonenberg of New York-based DAS Communications.

That Time Danny Elfman And Oingo Boingo Was a Contestant On ‘The Gong Show’

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Before Oingo Boingo shortened their name and became a rock band in the ’80s, they were a proudly weird, truly eclectic group of musicians, employing up to 15 performers at a time and playing covers of everything from Russian ballet music to the jazz hits of Cab Calloway. The group’s appearance on The Gong Show confused and impressed the show’s panel of celebrity judges and won them the strange sum of $516.32. Though it’s difficult to spot Danny Elfman in the chaos (it’s hard to tell for sure, but according to several sources, he’s the trombone player), the bizarre and infectious performance offers a fascinating glimpse into the origins of one of Hollywood’s most important composers.

https://youtu.be/GW0Le-L3DNE

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