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May
- Watch Bok Bok's Red Bull Music Academy Lecture
- Modular have announced the FOR festival line-up for 2013
- Stream Mount Kimbie's new album now
- Romanthony (1967 - 2013)
- Kanye West debuted his new single on 66 buildings today
- Hear Arthur Russell play cello with Talking Heads
- 'Random Access Memories' could be the fastest selling album ever
- Hear Giorgio Moroder's phone game soundtrack
- Google have announced their Spotify/Pandora competitor
- You can hear Daft Punk's new album in full now
- 4AD's early years will be chronicled in a new book
- Watch Brian Eno's talk at RBMA NYC
- Lauryn Hill has been jailed for tax evasion
- You can make yourself hear colours with 'Color Play'
- AraabMuzik "alive and well" after being shot in attempted robbery
- Much-loved SE1 club Cable forced to shut with immediate effect
- You can hear Gabriel Bruce's new album now
April
- Goldsmiths University start a record label with Matthew Herbert
- Beastie Boys are writing a memoir
- WU LYF band members start a NU LYF
- Flying Lotus is the busiest man alive
- David Bowie doesn't do interviews, does do word association
- NTS offer up their one-off birthday shows
- Some students are building a Robyn robot
- Is the new Boards of Canada album on its way?
- Brian Eno can literally make you better
- Mike Q, Blanck Mass and more join NTS special today
- SOHN has signed to 4AD
- Why have Twitter hashtagged music?
- Here's a chance to make a track with Theo Parrish
- You can watch a shakily recorded advert for the new Daft Punk album now
- New music excites our brains, literally
- Universal Music Group are being sued for their "pervasive" drug culture
- Manchester club Sankeys to close in May
- Global crowdfunding is on the increase
- Jam City releases a 20+ track compilation of offcuts and unreleased goodies
- Beyonce and Jay-Z are in hot water over their Cuban holiday
- New HMV deal saves 2,500 jobs and and 141 stores
March
- James Blake shares a free live recording through Amazon
- Jamie xx hints that a new EP is on the way
- Hyperdub dig into their archives in celebration of LV's new release
- NTS will broadcast Jamie xx and John Talabot going B2B on Sunday
- Get lost in Chairman Kato's new installation
- Read a report on the hidden cultural capital of Congo
- You can actually listen to Justin Timberlake's new album now
- Hear unreleased Radiohead material in an essential Essential Mix
- You can hear the Space Dimension Controller LP in full now
- James Murphy is suing Tim Goldsworthy for nearly $100,000
February
- The Bible is now on Rap Genius
- Kode9 re-ups a host of classic sets and mixes
- Tupac's mum wants to release everything he ever recorded
- You can stream Doldrums's debut album now
- You can chat to Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich today, thanks to the internet
- The Pirate Bay are suing another website for copyright infringement
- The-Dream has actually released a new song
- Download Hudson Mohawke's 'Slow Jams' Chapter VI Mix
- Kanye's next LP will contain The-Dream, may contain Will Smith and samba
- Bjork has cancelled her 'Biophilia' Kickstarter campaign
- Design a 7" sleeve for Jessie Ware, Nas or Public Enemy
- 1 in 5 music buyers abandon the high street
- Kashmiri girl-band Pragaash quit music after threats
January
- 190 redundancies confirmed at HMV, staff Twitterer goes maverick
- Listen to Blackest Ever Black's first show on NTS Radio
- BBC 6 Music is the country's leading digital radio station
- Bjork launches Kickstarter campaign to expand 'Biophilia' apps
- It's quite hard to make money from Myspace if you're an indie label
- The Knife reveal the tracklist for their new album
- Blackest Ever Black to join NTS radio
- Grimes, Four Tet and The xx to headline Coachella 2013
- Justin Timberlake sneakily reveals album release date
- Spotify and Musicmetric want to watch what you're streaming
- Listen to the seventh episode of Field Day Radio
- Daniel Avery joins Rinse FM
- 93 Feet East is to close
- There's hope for HMV yet
- Emeralds have split up
- HudMo set to sign with G.O.O.D Music?
- Open call for remixes of Tod Dockstader’s "organised sounds"
- Bandcamp is getting a revamp
- Jessie Ware made her debut as a radio presenter yesterday
- Destiny’s Child are releasing a compilation album
- Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé will release a song today, the world hopes
- Small music venues will be less small thanks to the extended Live Music Act
- David Rodigan is joining 1xtra
- Andrew Weatherall, The Chemical Brothers and Underworld donate vinyl for charity jumble sale
- Mark McGuire has left Emeralds
- The Weekend will release a new LP in 2013
- The Olympic stadium could become a live music venue
- UNCOOL fell an uncool $45,000 short of its Kickstarter target
- Jay-Z is helping to score The Great Gatsby
- Bobby Womack has been diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer's
December
- Printers have become so high-tech they can print vinyl
- Kraftwerk fought the law and Kraftwerk won
- Get your own new Myspace today!
- BBC Radio 4 are broadcasting a tribute to Smash Hits magazine
- Odd Future are in trouble again!
- Cuba is going to ban reggaeton
- Chief Keef's gun-range video might land him in jail
- Offshore (1985 - 2012)
- Mary Anne Hobbs is getting a show on 6 Music
November
- Epic Records have dumped Death Grips
October
- Beyonce and Miguel were working together over the weekend
- Simbad, Leif & Outboxx to play at Wholemeal's 3rd Birthday Party
- Jessie Ware signs to Cherrytree Records and announces new EP
- Drake has graduated from high school, and collaborated with Kendrick Lamar
- The BBC are launching an iPlayer for music
- Listen to a brand new Pharrell beat
September
- Musical first impressions fuel new e-book series
- King Krule is taking over Rinse FM (for two hours)
- MySpace is making a comeback
- Brazilian hip hop is as excellent as you might imagine
- Barack Obama sells records
- Find out which artists are the most illegally downloaded near you
- NTS are coming to NYC!
- LOL Boys no more :(
August
- Missy Elliott Is Back, People! Missy Elliott
- Jessie Ware debuts at No. 5 in UK album charts
- The world reacts to Pussy Riot's sentencing
- Azealia Banks is working with Moby, apparently
- Justin Timberlake is literally actually working on a new album Justin Timberlake
July
- James Blake, Airhead and friends launch new London night
- Statistics show that banning The Pirate Bay didn't do much to dent file-sharing
- "His actions will uplift our consciousness" – rap reacts to Frank Ocean's coming out
- Frank Ocean comes out
June
- Pete Hayes, Echo Lake drummer (1987-2012)
- Pop is sadder than it was, according to science
- Boiler Room launches in New York next week
- Music studios open doors to kids affected by gang violence in a nation-wide contest
- One person has been killed and three injured in Radiohead stage collapse tragedy
- Pop-up radio station from NTS co-founder launches in London
- Read Beth Lesser's fascinating account of the roots of Dancehall
May
- Detroit techno legends honoured in museum ceremony
- London's Science Museum has invented a virtual orchestra you can conduct
- John Peel arts centre proposed for Bradford
- Inmates forced to dance to Usher
April
- Pirate Bay will be blocked following a UK High Court ruling
- First 100 discs of John Peel's record collection open online tomorrow
- J Dilla's huge legacy returned to his mother
- Grimes launches new jewellery line
- The Avalanches return with lullaby mixtape
- Detroit record store unearths (and flogs) J Dilla's record collection
- Kevin Martin returns as The Bug with new Acid Ragga label
- Listen to Generation Bass documentary
- Azealia Banks and Missy Elliot are working together
- M.I.A did the theme for Julian Assange's new talk show
- Westway to the world: Rough Trade expands to Brooklyn and Paris
- Win a guest spot on GZA's new album
- 4AD signs Purity Ring
- Charmain Kato plays London art show
- London beats at exactly 122.86 beats per minute, according to David Bryne
- Swedes go clubbing on their lunchbreak, are more fun than you
- It's official: Jay-Z invented swag
- German politicians set up €1m fund to save Berlin's nightlife
- Spotify's new Timeline details 1,000 years of pop music history
- The Ray Charles Foundation is suing Ray Charles' kids
- Original Sugababes sign a £1million record deal
March
- Lana Del Rey and Tyler, the Creator want to work together
- Bubbling to the world
- Miami rapper Rick Ross won court battle over his controversial name
- Songkick adds 100,000 new members through Spotify app
- Azealia Banks releasing new EP in April
- Diplo credits "bubbling" artist behind that great Azealia Banks song
- Actress is launching his new album at Plastic People in April
- Bobby Womack has been diagnosed with colon cancer
- Aretha Franklin is recording new music with Clive Davis
- 4AD signs SpaceGhostPurrp
- The Invisible sign to Ninja Tune
- Clark to hold live-stream 'Iradelphic' workshop tonight
- MIT build a huge modular synthesizer you control through the internet
- Read an interview with Azealia Banks by Will Self
- A$AP Rocky got into a fight with his audience at SXSW last night
- K-Pop is changing the dialogue of the music business, may take over the world
- Clubbers will literally snort anything
- Jon Savage's pictures of 1970s London displayed
- Dozens of 'emo' youths murdered in Iraq
- Play a game that involves bumping Kanye West on the head
- Metallica and Katy Perry are both making 3D movies about themselves
- Gilles Peterson is getting a new show on BBC 6 Music
- Hudson Mohawke and Lunice to collaborate
- Today's breaking news - Friday 2nd March 2012
February
- araabMUZIK is a Hollywood motherf*cker
- Today's breaking news – Monday 27th February 2012
- Seatwave responds to accusations, Viagogo stays quiet
- Google launches new feature that helps you see more gigs
- Music bosses continue to make excuses for Chris Brown
- Friendly Fires and Foals launch new club night at London's Plastic People
- Obama sings the blues, proves he doesn't have the blues
- Lana Del Rey meme roundup
- Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder to perform at Whitney Houston's funeral
- AP to livestream Whitney Houston's funeral
- Joy Division and New Order masters unearthed in cellar by Jamie Oliver
- Adele cleans up at Grammys
- Whitney Houston (1963 - 2012)
- Rustie wins Guardian first album award
- Earl Sweatshirt is back (right?)
- James Murphy collaborates with Gorillaz and Andre 3000 for Converse
- Nile Rodgers: "Daft Punk are hanging at my house"
- Turner-prize winning artist Jeremy Deller makes £100 12" with busker
- BTJunkie gets the heck out of Dodge
- BBC 6 Music had more listeners than ever before in 2011
- Drake is being sued by his ex-girlfriend
- Proto-punk artist/musician Mike Kelley dead at 58, apparent suicide
- Soul Train creator dies in suspected suicide
January
- The Southbank Centre announces year-long contemporary classical music festival
- Jay Z and Beyonce are the thirteenth most powerful people in music
- Drake wants to play Obama on the big screen
- YouTube censors Perfume Genius promo
- As two more music-sharing sites are taken down, who will be next?
- Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom found in safe room with shotgun by NZ cops
- Megaupload raided by feds, geeks go HAM
- Obama kills the Stop Online Piracy Act
- Wandering round the city listening to music on headphones is a dangerous thing to do
- “You can imagine how devastating it is to know you had a hand in that” – man whose iPhone went off during concert
- Teengirl Fantasy sign to R&S Records
- BRIT Awards realise dubstep exists
- Read a story by Oneohtrix Point Never, Robert Wyatt, Ian Rankin, The Horrors and many more
- At 8pm on Thursday in Dalston, a clever man will predict the next 1,000 years of music
- Original Sugababes reform; please remain calm
- Thom Yorke made some music for a fashion label last year, which you can now hear
- Michael Kiwanuka tops BBC Sound of 2012 poll
- Angola in "serious" shock, as his promoter gets kidnapped for Nas's no-show
- Kanye West launches new creative group, DONDA
- You could perform with the Weeknd
- Lady Gaga in "probably doesn't bathe in blood" shock
- How synths and sci-fi are totally linked
- Bloc Party in "back and happy" shock
- Goodbye to all that: Sandwell District and The Studio end operations
December
- The world's oldest temple may also be the world's coolest musical instrument
- The Stop Online Piracy Act: what is it, and how will it affect the music industry?
- Hip Hop is taking a stand against authority in Somalia
- The Design Museum is to host a talk on sound design
- Sam Rivers, influential jazz musician and composer, has died
- Jay Z, P Diddy and 50 Cent are still the world's richest rappers
- 6Music to go vinyl-only on New Year's Day
- Clams Casino gives away 320kbps version of mixtape
- Spend Christmas with Katy B on Rinse FM
- Gil Scott-Heron to be honoured with Grammy
- Beach Boys get back together
- Loud music makes us drink more, says science
- Indonesian police arrest punks
- Alan Braxe thrown out of club for wee-ing against a curtain during his DJ set
- The Wire lists all lists since 1994
- Jazz pianist to release his debut album at 85
- How to set up an indie label market
- 1Xtra radio documentary on UK club culture
- Blur honoured with lifetime achievement award at 2012 Brit Awards
- Dance music shake-up at Radio 1
- Adele: "North American beer is NOT acceptable"
- Live-stream Thom Yorke DJing at Occupy London, right now
- DJ Shadow, King Midas Sound, Cooly G and Scratcha DVA to play Boiler Room
- Massive Attack start radiostation for Occupy movement, Phillip Glass appears in New York
- Nicki Minaj is a doll, actually
- BBC Sound of 2012 list announced
- James Murphy to make his movie debut
- Konx Om Pax preps first exhibition
- R Stevie Moore film in the works
- TLC biopic in the works
- LuckyMe make MP3 advent calendar
- Altered Zones to cease publishing
- Spotify brings in apps to further world expansion
November
- PJ Harvey collaborates with war photographer for film version of 'Let England Shake'
- Breaking news: Vybz Kartel has not escaped from jail, is not Jamaica's most wanted man
- Grooveshark's toothless business strategy revealed in stream of internal emails
- Mark E Smith is with Gaddafi on the whole London riots thing
- Korn invented dubstep, according to Korn
- Jovan Coleman, Drummer with Dam-Funk's Master Blazter, dies
- How the drum machine changed pop music
- Soundway’s musical map of Colombia
- Kanye West closer to Nietzsche than songwriter
- Nile Rodgers interview on NTS Radio
- AraabMUZIK debut live show in London
- London gallery to host pop-up record shop
- Antony Hegarty art show to open in Los Angeles
- Music therapy works
- Former Clash bassist Paul Simonon arrested on oil rig protest
- Rave kills dolphin
- Lil B makes AIDS awareness song
- Jay-Z tries to make a buck off Occupy movement, then hides
- Carl Craig, Friendly Fires, Paul Woolford and Axel Boman to play Boiler Room
- Boredoms and 111 drummers to play Boadrums on 11/11/11
- Heavy D (1967 – 2011)
- "Europe <3 America," says MTV EMAs
- Is the CD era finished?
- A day in the life of Lex Luger, hip hop producer of the moment
- Frankie Knuckles interview
- Behind the scenes and backstage at Jay-Z and Kayne West's Watch The Throne tour
October
- The internet has made a Tumblr out of Saved By The Bell and Kanye West
- Amy R Klein leaves Titus Andronicus in the nicest possible way
- What we hear scares us
- The music industry is officially saved, as digital market set to top $20 billion and vinyl sales boom
- Morrissey attempts to sue the NME
- Kerching! Florence charges £3.99 to stream Hackney gig online
- Rick Ross released from hospital after suffering second seizure
- New York Times even snootier than us about American rave explosion
- Jarvis Cocker to be Faber and Faber editor-at-large
- Occupy Wall Street in music media
- Being hip doesn't pay the bills
- Dam Funk, Wormrot, Omar S and The Melvins sign to car company's record label
- Oneohtrix Point Never to start magazine
September
- Flaming Lips to release human skull and 24-hour long song
- Sylvia Robinson, "the mother of hip hop" (1936-2011)
- Justin Timberlake more likely to star in a movie about music than make any
- Awkward! Bloc Party reform without telling Kele
- How Kanye West's '808s and Heartbreak' changed hip hop with sadness and autotune
- Music and Troy Davis
- REM split
- Actress does an interview
- The Tea Party, Canadian band, sell teaparty.com to Tea Party, wacky Americans for millions of dollars
- The Beatles banned segregated audiences at their shows
- Take a quiz to test your knowledge of grunge
- M83 want you to be in their band
- Nokia totally ripped The xx off
- London Philharmonic Orchestra suspends players for expressing anti-Israel views
- Only the police can sell records now
- Nas is writing an actual autobiography
- DJ Screw's record collection donated to the University of Houston
- More details on the death of DJ Mehdi
- Police hunt alleged rapist after 15-year-old girl reports sexual assault at Bestival
- Kraftwerk to guest edit 3D issue of Wallpaper* magazine
- DJ Mehdi (1977-2011)
- Creation Records boss Alan McGee was in favour of the PIAS warehouse fire
- Pulp might have played their last ever gig
- Grouper is set to play a gig in an 18th century church in London
- PJ Harvey is odds on to win the Mercury Prize
- Berghain doorman interviewed
- Books get soundtracks to become a little bit more like TV
- Police will not face disciplinary action over the death of Smiley Culture
- MOBO nominations are dominated by Jessie J, Adele and Tinie Tempah
- Was the PIAS fire a professional job?
- Dropbox valued at billions of dollars below expected, but is still worth billions of dollars
- David Lynch has opened a nightclub in Paris
- All nominated artists will perform at the Mercury Prize Awards Show
- Jack White produces Insane Clown Posse and Mozart collaboration
- The Bey-by boom
August
- Patti Smith and Kronos Quartet win Polar Music Prize
- Tupac's homeboys smoked his ashes
- Bloc Party return?
- Karen O stops the virgens
- Steve Jobs resigns as head of Apple
- Flying Lotus maps countries yet to come
- Read Nick Cave's polite decline of MTV's offer to be included in "bloody cart of severed heads"
- Richard Turner, trumpet player for Friendly Fires, has passed away
- Tragedy strikes Pukkelpop as tent collapses in storm
- YouTube and music are putting aside their differences and making up
- Independent magazine 'The Stool Pigeon' has more readers than the 'NME' and 'Kerrang!'
- The $5 million monument to illegal downloading
- A James Blake and Bon Iver collaboration might exist
- How a rapper soundtracked the Arab Spring
- Patti Smith is adapting her memoir 'Just Kids' into a screenplay
- Billboards counts 50 best indie labels in America, are big fans of Tri Angle
- The Game is unsurprisingly in trouble with the law after making his 500,000 Twitter followers prank emergency services
- Listen to a 7-minute loop of Trent Reznor's soundtrack for Girl With The Dragon Tattoo while staring at Daniel Craig's cold, steely eyes
- Three teenagers charged over Sony warehouse fire, campaign launched to aid labels effected
- Music helps cancer patients feel better, it seems
- Listen to 'Watch The Throne' in full
- The PIAS fire is really, really bad news
- OFWGKTA's photo Tumblr is to made into an art book
- Fearless, now famous, Hackney woman who told off the rioters is a local jazz singer
- Here's some really dumb stuff people have said in the last few hours.
- Trailer Trash Tracys announce debut LP
- The music world responds to the London riots on Twitter
- R.I.P. Conrad Schnitzler
- Big Boi arrested for drug possession
- Apple might be developing earbuds that charge your iPod
- Al Jazeera's flagship music documentary returns for second series
- The Wire launches a Tumblr of their favourite album sleeves
- As Turntable.fm rakes in Kanye and Gaga's money, an ex-Google engineer releases a copycat open to the UK
- Damon Albarn and co have shared another snippet of their DRC Music project
- John Maus apologises after angering the internet with speech against record stores
- Cee Lo Green is to play Raekwon's on-screen dad
- The Chelsea Hotel closes to guests, rock & roll basically over
- The Clash are being used to promote the 2012 Olympics, weirdly
- A member of Franz Ferdinand has written a puppet show based on Shakespeare's The Tempest
- xxxy, Om Unit and Krystal Klear are going to the Red Bull Music Academy this year
July
- Riot breaks out at LA premiere of a rave film
- US record stores have written a letter of complaint to The Throne
- If you're at all interested in electronic music, you have to go the Science Museum this summer
- Hip Hop Chocolate is a thing that exists
- Damon Albarn and co have shared some music from their Congo project
- The long wait for new D'Angelo material could be almost over
- What we can learn from recent events in Norway
- Brands edge closer to patrons as Converse opens free recording studio in New York
- Damon Albarn is in the Democratic Republic of Congo right now making music for Oxfam with Actress
- Clockwork Orange: The Musical to be performed next year!
- R Kelly undergoes emergency throat surgery, forced to stop performing
- Beloved Brooklyn venue the Silent Barn falls tragically silent
- Prefix explains why DJ Khaled is the best
- Martin Clark explains why Trim is the best
- Hype Williams put USB sticks into apples, apparently, and actually tell the truth sometimes
- Pitchfork throws festival, changes music journalism and books Aphex Twin for Paris
- Mercury Prize nominations
- James Murphy and comedian Reggie Watts are making music together
- Plastikman announces 2011 tour
- Actress drops a ton of new music
- Lil B to play his first ever UK show this Saturday
- Bookie backs PJ Harvey for Mercury Prize, even though the shortlist hasn't been announced
- Soon you will be able to get music from your Xbox and your facebook
- How to become the most successful DJ on Turntable.fm
- Friendly Fires to host 'We Love Art' night in Paris
- Michael Eavis thinks festivals are totally over
- South Sudanese national anthem composer interviewed
- Yoko Ono, Lady Gaga (and Alexis Petridis) on performance art and pop music
- Music sales figures are not as totally terrible as they were
- Bold Tendencies 5 host Fucked Up, Stravinsky, etc on a car-park roof in Peckham
- The 'K' in 'K-Pop' is for Kruel
- Spotify set to launch in the US
- Listen to two great BBC mixes from Washed Out and Jam City
- Google and WIPO team up to help West African countries break into global music industry
- Brian Eno is helping develop a clock that will tick for 10,000 years inside a mountain.
- What Turntable is, why they won't let us in and why we're bummed out
- Swagger Security hackers threaten to take on Bieber and Gaga, make the internet even more fascinating
- Hear a special half-hour set from Ariel Pink
- A James Blake stream and a Zomby interview exist
June
- Jarvis Cocker to publish a collection of lyrics
- Björk's new show – the first report
- Read Myspace CEO Mike Jones's goodbye email, as Justin Timberlake buys slice
- Beck designs Francis Ford Coppola's magazine
- Is there a formula for the perfect hit song?
- Magic Kid arrested for helping teachers
- A James Blake / Drake mash-up is a thing which exists
- iCloud: What it means for your music
- Drinking coffee makes music weirder, say experts
- Scott Walker scores a dance piece for the Royal Opera House
- HMV may be off deathwatch, as £220m cash injection agreed
- Listen to a complete history of Grime Tapes
- YouTube opens the floodgates on Creative Commons remixing
May
- Gil Scott-Heron has died
- Save The Duke of Uke
- Gayngs take bus company to the cleaners
- Hear Drake rapping over SBTRKT and read about him working with The Weeknd
- A new James Blake song
- Free mixes from Flying Lotus, Visions Of Trees and No Pain In Pop
- Dizzee Rascal to curate photo gallery for Bing.com
- Big Boi does the sweetest thing for his daughter
- Amazing online archive of vintage recordings opens
April
- New York Magazine slightly awkwardly asks James Blake (the singer) about James Blake (the tennis player)
- Listen to some stuff that people in the Sahara listen to on their phones
- Listen to a rare Harald Grosskopf live session
- How To Dress Well is remixed by Pariah, wins film acclaim
- Drake's best jumpers
- Mount Kimbie, live at SXSW
- Stream LCD Soundsystem's final show in full, again, at Self-Titled
- Indie label allstars congregate for records fair
- Tri Angle confirms Clams as latest signing
- Don't Die Wondering's "Tumblreality" mix
