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Paramore have added their own stadium show to NZ's packed summer tour line-up.

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If you're Drake, these days you play by a different set of rules.

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Clarkson says she was given the cold shoulder by many in the industry after American Idol.

Charm. Offensive is a return to form for Die Die Die.

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