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Noel Gallagher Brands Apple Music 'Arrogant' And 'Orwellian'
By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 05 August 2015
The Oasis guitarist has previously criticised Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service.
Noel Gallagher has made his feelings pretty clear regarding Apple’s new streaming service ‘Apple Music'. The former Oasis member has called Apple’s latest venture ‘arrogant’ and added that the service's radio feature was ‘some sort of George Orwell shit’
Speaking to the Varvet International podcast Gallagher said, “Apple Music, world radio: is that some sort of George Orwell shit going on? How can you be so arrogant that you can say, ‘We now fucking own world radio.’”
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Dr Dre To Host New Show 'The Pharmacy' On Apple Music's Beats 1
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 04 July 2015
'The Pharmacy' will go out every other Saturday and will kick off on Saturday (July 4th) at 6pm EST / 10pm GMT.
Following his close collaboration with Apple in the recent past, Dr. Dre has announced that he’ll be hosting a new radio show on Apple Music starting tonight (Saturday July 4th).
The 50 year old former N.W.A. rapper and producer will be hosting a regular fortnightly show called ‘The Pharmacy’, apparently focussing on west coast hip-hop. It goes out on Beats 1 at 6pm EST (or 10pm GMT), and will last for one hour, with DJ Pooh, Eddie Francis and Wyann Vaughn all joining Dre in the studio.
Eddy Cue, a senior executive at Apple Music made the announcement on Twitter, writing ‘Apple will always make sure that artist are paid. #AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming, even during customer’s free trial period. We hear you @taylorswift13 and indie artists. Love, Apple.’
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Taylor Swift Calls Out Apple's New Streaming Service In Open Letter
By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 22 June 2015
The singer has explained why she’ll be holding back her album '1989' from Apple Music in a no holds barred open letter.
Taylor Swift has criticised Apple’s new streaming service ‘Apple Music’ in a lengthly open letter posted on the singer’s personal Tumblr page. In the letter Swift attacks Apple for its decision not to pay artists royalties during the three-month free trial of its new streaming service. It’s not the first time the singer has hit out against streaming companies as last year she famously pulled all of her music from Apple's rival Spotify.
Swift begins the letter, titled ‘To Apple love Taylor’, by telling fans she wishes to explain why she’ll be holding back her million selling album, 1989, from Apple Music. “I’m sure you are aware that Apple Music will be offering a free three month trial to anyone who signs up for the service,” Swift begins.
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Taylor Swift Snubbing Apple Music By Refusing To Let '1989' Be Available
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 20 June 2015
Her hardline stance on streaming will be extended to the brand new streaming service which launches on June 30th.
Taylor Swift is set to give a big snub to Apple Music when it launches officially at the end of the month, with reports emerging that the singer will not be making her current album 1989 available to the new streaming service.
Swift became the most prominent advocate of the non-Spotify model of music distribution at the end of the last year, when she removed her entire back catalogue from the streaming site just before the release of 1989. It didn’t seem to harm her sales – it has sold in excess of five million copies to date, making it the biggest selling album of 2014 and 2015 (so far).
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Apple To Charge Users $10 A Month For Streaming Service
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 02 June 2015
Apple is preparing to launch its streaming service - a direct rival to Spotify.
Apple is preparing to launch its streaming service, a direct rival to Spotify that will cost users around $10 a month. Insiders expect the company to unveil the service at its developers' conference next week.
Apple has been rushing to finish work on the new service though is yet to be close deals with the three biggest global music companies Universal Music Group, Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, however, many in the industry expect deals soon.
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Russian Politician Accuses U2 Of Spreading "Gay Propaganda"
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 30 April 2015
A Russian Duma deputy says that the artwork for U2's 'Songs Of Innocence' is tantamount to "gay propaganda".
A Russian politician has accused U2 and Apple of distributing “gay propaganda” to minors and has called for the country’s attorney general to investigate them.
Alexander Starovoitov, a deputy representing the right-wing LDPR party in the Russian Duma (parliament), believes that Apple is guilty of spamming youths with illegal content when it gave away U2’s recent album Songs of Innocence for free back in September 2014 to all of iTunes’ 500 million worldwide users.
In a report by The Guardian, Starovoitov believes that the album’s artwork, which features the group’s drummer Larry Mullen Jr embracing his son Elvis while shirtless, promotes sexual relations between men.
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Bono Apologises Over Unwanted Downloads Of U2's New Album
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 16 October 2014
'Songs of Innocence' was given away free to iTunes users last month in promotional rollout with Apple, but the stunt backfired.
U2 frontman Bono has issued an apology to iTunes users over the release of their recent album Songs of Innocence. Users of the software had a free copy of the new album automatically downloaded to their accounts as part of a marketing stunt in September that tied in with the release of Apple’s new iPhone.
U2's latest album Songs of Innocence was given away free but the marketing stunt backfired
The apology was prompted by a criticism from a Facebook user during a question and answer session. “Oops, I’m sorry about that,” said Bono. “I had this beautiful idea and we kind of got carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing. Drop of megalomania, touch of generosity, dash of self-promotion and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years mightn’t be heard.”
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Want To Know How To Remove U2's 'Songs Of Innocence' From ITunes?
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 16 September 2014
Don't want U2's album 'Song of Innocence'? Not even for free? Step right this way.
Apple has launched a tool to help iTunes users remove U2's new album Songs of Innocence, which was made available as a free download following a product launch event in California on Tuesday (September 9).
The album was downloaded by 2 million users between Tuesday and Friday last week, though some Apple customers complained that the record was essentially being forced upon them and appeared in iTunes and iOS devices with no easy way to remove it.
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Have LG Blown Apple And Samsung Out Of The Water With The G3?
By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10 June 2014
The LG G3 is achieving tablet level battery results, despite some monster tech under the 'hood'
Apple and Samsung’s duopoly over the mobile phone market space seems to coming to an end, and it’s partly down to their own failings. People want an iPhone with a bigger screen, and the rest of them want a better Galaxy S5.
But this shift has also got something to do with the competition and their determination to step up the quality of the ‘other’ handsets on the market. Step forward the HTC One M8, and now the LG G3, the company’s flagship Android handset.
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Britney Spears and Apple Wednesday 5th December 2007 Britney Spears eating an apple while house shopping in Brentwood Los Angeles, California
Frank Basile and Apple - Frank Basile and Celeste Holm New York City, USA - participating in day three of 'The Big Apple Comic Book, Art, Toy & Sci-Fi Show' held at the Penn Plaza Pavillion Sunday 18th November 2007
Mason Reese and Apple Friday 16th November 2007 'The Big Apple comic book, art, toy & sci-fi show' - day one, held at the Penn Plaza Pavillion. New York City, USA