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• Duffy calls rape a “weapon of war” as she shares painful account of kidnapping and assault

  05-04-2020 23:44 via nme.com
  
  Duffy has called rape a “weapon of war” in a painful account of her experience of being kidnapped, drugged and sexually assaulted.
  The singer last released an album with 2010’s ‘Endlessly’, before disappearing from the public eye.
  Back in February, she broke her silence on her decade-long absence, explaining that she had been “raped and drugged and held captive over some days” and that her subsequent recovery “took time.”
  Now, she has posted
  
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• Neil Lasher, Longtime Music Publishing Executive, Dead Following COVID-19 Complications

  05-04-2020 23:16
  
  Longtime industry veteran Neil Lasher has died from complications related to coronavirus on Sunday morning (April 5).
  His passing was confirmed by several of his colleagues. Lasher was 73 and had been in the hospital in Connecticut battling COVID-19 for the last several days.
  Lasher worked both as a label and music publishing executive for more than four decades. He was best known for his tenure at EMI Music Publishing, where, according to his LinkedIn page, he worked for 21 years, from 1986 to
  
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• Ariana Grande Sends ‘Virtual Love’ to Fans With ‘My Everything’ Performance

  05-04-2020 22:48
  
  Ariana Grande served a Sunday surprise on social media: a lovely live rendition of “My Everything” coordinated with co-writer/producer Tommy Brown.
  “tommy n i sending u some virtual love,” she captioned the video, which featured her vocal clip paired next to a separate one of Brown on piano — social-distancing style.
  “hope you’re all staying safe, sane, healthy and as creative as possible,” Grande wrote to her followers, referring to the coronaviru
  
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• Justin Bieber Invited Kehlani, Kendall Jenner & More to Chat On ‘Live With Biebs’: Watch

  05-04-2020 22:45
  
  Justin Bieber has been regularly broadcasting from his living room as he and his wife, Hailey Bieber, embrace isolation and social distancing during the global coronavirus pandemic. This Sunday (April 5), he opted to host an extremely casual talk show of sorts on Instagram, where he livestreamed his chats with Kehlani, Lil Pump, Kendall Jenner and other pals for over an hour on Live With Biebs.
  “A lot of us get held back by our fear and just get in our heads, so I’m going to be
  
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• Listen to Clairo’s gloomy cover of Anna Domino’s ‘Everyday, I Don’t’

  05-04-2020 22:38 via nme.com
  
  Clairo has shared a cover of Anna Domino’s ‘Everyday, I Don’t’ – scroll down the page to listen to it now.
  Read more: The Big Read – Clairo: “I don’t rely on anyone else”
  Domino is an American art-pop singer who found cult appeal in Europe in the eighties. She released her debut album ‘East Meets West’ in 1984 on Belgian label Crépuscule. Domino hasn’t released an album since 2004’s ‘Dreamback: Best O
  
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• The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours’ Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

  05-04-2020 22:15
  
  The Weeknd’s After Hours leads a very busy top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set spends a second week atop the tally. The album earned 138,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 2 according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. That’s down 69% as compared to the set’s first week, when it entered with 2020’s biggest week for an album: 444,000 units.
  The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on&nb
  
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• Watch Declan McKenna play ‘Beautiful Faces’ with four other versions of himself

  05-04-2020 21:43 via nme.com
  
  Declan McKenna performed recent single ‘Beautiful Faces’ on Sunday Brunch earlier today, where he was joined by four different versions of himself.
  Read more: Declan McKenna Interviewed: “A lot of people don’t understand how intelligent young people are”
  The musician appeared on the TV show from his house, but noted that the current coronavirus pandemic made it impossible for his band to join him.
  “Unfortunately because of social distancing I can’t
  
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• Jay-Z and Meek Mill send 100,000 masks to prisoners amidst coronavirus pandemic

  05-04-2020 21:42 via music-news.com
  
  The rapping duo are heads of REFORM Alliance, an organisation set up to reform the criminal justice system by changing laws and policies
  
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• Tanya Tucker Remembers ‘Delta Dawn’ Songwriter Alex Harvey: ‘I Thank God For Him’

  05-04-2020 21:35
  
  Tanya Tucker is remembering the songwriter who co-wrote her breakthrough single “Delta Dawn.”
  The country star shared an emotional statement following the passing of songwriter Alex Harvey, who died Saturday (April 4), according to a Facebook post from his wife, CMT.com reports. A cause of death was not revealed. He was 73.
  “[‘Delta Dawn’] started everything off for me and has kept me going ever since,” Tucker said in her heartfelt statement. “I thank Go
  
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• Laura Marling announces new album ‘Song For Our Daughter’ and explains decision to release now

  05-04-2020 20:49 via nme.com
  
  Laura Marling has announced her new album, ‘Song For Our Daughter’, and explained her decision to release it in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
  Read more: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay on surreal, yeti-fronted project LUMP: “We’ve gotta give him the right cuddles”
  The musician shared details of the new record with fans during her latest Instagram Live guitar lesson tonight (April 5).
  ‘Song For Our Daughter is Marling’s seventh album and fol
  
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• Matt Lucas thanks fans as ‘Thank You Baked Potato’ enters charts

  05-04-2020 20:01 via nme.com
  
  Matt Lucas has thanked fans after ‘Thank You Baked Potato’ entered the Official Big Top 40.
  The track is a reworking of his ‘Baked Potato Song’, which first aired on TV quiz show Shooting Stars 20 years ago.
  Proceeds from ‘Thank You Backed Potato’ are being donated to the FeedNHS campaign, while the lyrics of the song have been changed to reflect guidance from public health officials to combat the coronavirus pandemic. “Wash your hands and stay indoors,
  
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• Drake’s Toosie Slide set for highest new entry

  05-04-2020 19:56 via music-news.com
  
  The new Official Chart: First Look, which airs on BBC Radio 1 today between 6pm – 7pm, offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead
  
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• Victoria Beckham 'humbled' to chat to NHS workers amidst the coronavirus pandemic

  05-04-2020 19:55 via music-news.com
  
  The 45-year-old fashion designer took to Instagram to share snippets of conversations she had had with doctors and nurses in Scotland
  
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• Justin Bieber says he’s “working on ways to help those in financial crisis” due to coronavirus pandemic

  05-04-2020 17:38 via nme.com
  
  Justin Bieber has said he is “working on ways to help those in financial crisis” due to the coronavirus pandemic in a new message.
  Read more: Justin Bieber – ‘Changes’ review: a knackering, loved-up slog lacking substance
  The global crisis has left many out of work, with 6.65 million people filing for unemployment benefits in the US alone last week.
  Bieber shared a new message to fans on his Instagram page yesterday (April 4) to “acknowledge the people wh
  
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• A Timeline of YNW Melly’s Career & Legal Troubles: From ‘Murder On My Mind’ to Murder Charges

  05-04-2020 17:25
  
  YNW Melly made headlines on Thursday (April 2) when his Instagram account confirmed that he had contracted coronavirus while behind bars inside Florida’s Broward County Jail. The rapper’s legal team has since filed an emergency motion for his restricted release to receive better care and treatment for his diagnosis amid the virus’ outbreak.
  “I have filed a motion on behalf of Jamell Demons to have him released to a hospital for any treatment necessary for his diagnosis of
  
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• Tekashi 6ix9ine planning two new albums during home confinement

  05-04-2020 17:06 via nme.com
  
  Tekashi 6ix9ine is planning to release two new albums while in home confinement, according to his attorney.
  The rapper was released from prison this week (April 2) after being identified as being at high risk of contracting coronavirus due to being diagnosed with bronchitis and sinusitis last year.
  6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, will serve the remaining four months of his 24-month sentence at home. Speaking to Complex, his attorney Dawn Florio said that he plans to use that time t
  
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• ‘Gasolina’ Sets the Internet On Fire After Lil Jon, T-Pain Instagram Battle: See the Reactions

  05-04-2020 17:01
  
  Why was Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” a global trending topic on twitter Saturday night (April 4)? It was the result of an Instagram Live battle between T-Pain and Lil Jon, who proceeded to spin the reggaeton smash — and Twitter exploded.
  It’s been almost two decades since the 2004 release of “Gasolina” and 10 years since Lil Jon’s remix, but the original reggaeton mega hit keeps going strong.Here are some of our favorite twitter posts from Saturday ni
  
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• Robbie Williams suffered coronavirus symptoms during three-week isolation from family

  05-04-2020 17:00 via music-news.com
  
  The singer said he kept his distance from his young family for three weeks before returning home.
  
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• Marianne Faithfull hospitalised in London with Covid-19

  05-04-2020 17:00 via music-news.com
  
  The singer had her first breakout hit with As Tears Go By in 1964.
  
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• Justin and Hailey Bieber thank medical staff for Covid-19 response

  05-04-2020 17:00 via music-news.com
  
  The post comes after Justin announced he has postponed his Changes Tour due to the coronavirus crisis.
  
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• Elton John Launches $1 Million Coronavirus Emergency Fund

  05-04-2020 16:59 via rollingstone.com
  
  Fund will "make sure that our frontline partners can respond to the effects of COVID-19 on HIV care for the most marginalized communities around the world," singer says
  
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• Lil Jon and T-Pain Each Dropped New Star-Studded Collaborations in Instagram Live Battle: Watch

  05-04-2020 16:23
  
  Instagram Live turned down for Lil Jon and T-Pain on Saturday night (April 4) when they co-hosted a virtual club night — and dropped some yet-to-be-released music in the process, too.
  Like many other artists, the two rappers took matters into their own hands to deliver a great night in for their fans by livestreaming their DJ sets (and drawing an audience of over 200,000 at one point). They went back and forth with various hits (including a remix of Daddy Yankee’s 2004 smash &ld
  
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• Rita Ora 'falls really hard' in love

  05-04-2020 16:22 via music-news.com
  
  The 'Hot Right Now' hitmaker has previously dated the likes of Rob Kardashian, Ricky Hil, Calvin Harris and Rafferty Law, and though
  
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• Lil Nas X says he planned to “die with the secret” of being gay before coming out

  05-04-2020 16:09 via nme.com
  
  Lil Nas X has discussed his sexuality in a new interview, revealing that he had serious hesitations about coming out as gay.
  “The honest truth is, I planned to die with the secret,” he told The Guardian. “But that changed when I became Lil Nas X.”
  The rapper came out last year after fans started looking for hidden meanings in his hit ‘Old Town Road’.
  “I 100% want to represent the LGBT community,” he continued, “[but] I don’t want t
  
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• The 1975’s Matty Healy shares lockdown playlist featuring James Blake, Radiohead and more

  05-04-2020 15:55 via nme.com
  
  The 1975‘s Matty Healy has launched a new lockdown playlist while self-isolating.
  ‘At Around 6-7’ will be updated regularly, and the first edition features tracks from Radiohead, James Blake, King Krule and more.Read more: Beautiful new song ‘Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America’ is The 1975 at their most fragile and vulnerable“Here is a playlist for you,” Healy wrote on Instagram, launching the new mix, adding that he plans to “keep sharing lots of
  
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• Robbie Williams got down on his knees and 'prayed' after developing coronavirus symptoms

  05-04-2020 15:52 via music-news.com
  
  The 46-year-old singer was struck down with coronavirus symptoms while in quarantine after a cancelled gig in Australia, and Robbie has
  
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• Mabel ready to become a Harry Styles 'fan girl' when she joins him on tour

  05-04-2020 15:44 via music-news.com
  
  The 24-year-old singer is set to support the 26-year-old musician for a number of shows across Australia on his 'Love on Tour'
  
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• My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way has shared a collection of previously unreleased songs

  05-04-2020 15:43 via music-news.com
  
  The 42-year-old singer - who originally planned to release the songs as singles - has announced the news of the new tracks via a post on his Facebook page.
  
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• My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way Shares Four Solo Songs

  05-04-2020 15:34 via rollingstone.com
  
  "I’m calling all of this stuff Distraction Or Despair, since that seems to be the two things I keep shifting between. Probably a lot of other people too,"
  
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• Noel Gallagher has been “panic buying booze” to cope with coronavirus lockdown

  05-04-2020 15:19 via nme.com
  
  Noel Gallagher has discussed how he’s coping with the coronavirus pandemic in a new interview.
  Speaking on the Funny How? podcast, Gallagher says he’s self-isolating at home with his wife Sara MacDonald.
  “I’ve been panic buying booze,” he revealed. “Now that the pubs are shut the only thing to now is to drink your way through it.
  “If you don’t leave the house you’ll be OK. I don’t see anybody anyway, I ride my bike where I live and you
  
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• Taylor Swift says she’s “trying to figure out how to help others” through the coronavirus pandemic

  05-04-2020 15:05 via nme.com
  
  Taylor Swift has discussed how she’s adapting to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, and how she’s spending most of her time trying to help others.
  “I’ve been doing a lot of cooking, a lot of reading, a lot of watching films that I’ve never seen before. But mostly I’ve been online trying to figure out how to help others,” Swift told SiriusXM’s Hits 1.
  She added: “I’m just constantly in awe of our first responders, emergency work
  
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• Fall Out Boy donate $100,000 to Chicago COVID-19 response fund

  05-04-2020 13:58 via nme.com
  
  The members of Fall Out Boy have donated $100,000 to the COVID-19 response fund in their native Chicago, Illinois.
  Illinois is currently has 10,357 COVID-19 cases, making it the 9th-most affected US state. It has the 7th-most deaths, currently sitting at 243. New York remains the country’s outlier with over 115,000 cases and 3,500 deaths.
  The band made the donation via their Fall Out Boy Fund to the to the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund, which aims to “swiftly deploy r
  
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• Elton John launches $1 million fund to protect people with HIV during coronavirus

  05-04-2020 13:02 via nme.com
  
  Elton John has announced the launch of a new $1 million emergency fund to protect those who have HIV during the COVID-19 epidemic.
  The fund has been made available by his nonprofit organisation the Elton John Aids Foundation, and currently open to applications.
  They say they are seeking “solutions that have strong potential to address specific challenges that have arisen for people already living with or at severe risk of HIV/AIDS and who are now at heightened risk as a result of the COVID
  
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• Pantera introduce social-distancing-inspired new ‘Vulgar Display Of Power’ merchandise

  05-04-2020 12:14 via nme.com
  
  Metal veterans Pantera have introduced a new t-shirt inspired by social distancing measures.
  Based on the cover of their famous 1992 album ‘Vulgar Display of Power’, the T-shirt features the iconic image of a man being punched in the face, now with added personal protection equipment.
  Below the image is written some timely lyrics from one of the album’s singles ‘Walk’: “Be yourself, by yourself / Stay away from me.”Limited Edition Social Distancing T-shi
  
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• Erykah Badu is hosting a new interactive Quarantine Concert Series

  05-04-2020 11:53 via nme.com
  
  Erykah Badu has announced details of a new Quarantine Concert Series.
  The singer hosted a live stream for fans last week, and has now announced that she’s hosting a series of new online gigs.Read more: The show must go online: inside the rise of virtual gigs during the coronavirus crisisTonight (April 5) at 8pm ET (1am BST), Badu will host ‘Apocalypse Two: The Rooms’, the second instalment of the new live stream series.
  According to a press release, the event, which costs $2 to
  
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• Travis Barker pays tribute to Mac Miller in new drum cover

  05-04-2020 11:02 via nme.com
  
  Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has shared a new tribute to the late Mac Miller.
  Barker yesterday (April 4) shared a video of himself drumming along to ‘What’s The Use?’ from Miller’s ‘Swimming’ album while in quarantine in his home.Read more: Mac Miller – ‘Circles’ review: posthumous album is a conflicting, tantalising taste of what might have beenMiller died from a drug overdose in September 2018, and at the start of this year a new posthum
  
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• Bonehead asks Liam Gallagher for Oasis reunion: “We really should get back together”

  05-04-2020 11:01 via nme.com
  
  Former Oasis guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs has publicly asked former bandmate Liam Gallagher to revive the Britpop heavyweights.Read More: Tim Burgess on listening parties with Oasis’ Bonehead and Blur’s Dave Rowntree: “They’re a distraction”Tweeting during a listening party for the band’s 1995 classic album ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’, Bonehead said: “We really should get back together. What you saying @liamgalla
  
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• Frank Turner implores musicians to 'give something back' to grassroots venues amid coronavirus pandemic

  05-04-2020 09:19 via music-news.com
  
  Frank Turner has implored musicians to "give something back" to grassroots venues amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Jade Thirlwall admits Little Mix feel a lot of 'pressure' to stay 'at the top'

  05-04-2020 09:18 via music-news.com
  
  The 'Black Magic' hitmakers - which also includes Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock - know that every album they
  
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• Frankie Bridge is worried self-isolation will have an impact on her mental health

  05-04-2020 08:34 via music-news.com
  
  The former Saturdays singer has spoken openly about her struggles with depression and anxiety and she's aware that social distancing
  
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• Marianne Faithfull hospitalised with coronavirus

  05-04-2020 08:26 via music-news.com
  
  The 73-year-old star recently checked herself into hospital, where she tested positive for Covid-19 and has since contracted pneumonia
  
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• Taylor Swift 'trying to figure out how to help others' amidst coronavirus pandemic

  05-04-2020 08:21 via music-news.com
  
  The 'Lover' hitmaker has been desperately trying to help others in the midst of the health crisis as well as spending the time "cooking
  
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• Lil Nas X never 'planned' to come out

  05-04-2020 08:19 via music-news.com
  
  The 'Old Town Road' hitmaker insists he "100 per cent" wants to represent the LGBT community but he doesn't want to force anyone
  
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• Justin and Hailey Bieber thank hospital staff on the front line as the world fights coronavirus

  05-04-2020 08:08 via music-news.com
  
  The couple heaped praise on the medical staff, who are fighting the deadly virus.
  
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• Lewis Capaldi gets panic attacks on stage

  05-04-2020 08:06 via music-news.com
  
  The 'Someone You Loved' hitmaker may have a lot of experience performing but he admits he still gets "anxious" on tour and it makes him feel "sick".
  
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• Justin Vernon debuts new Bon Iver song during Bernie Sanders live stream

  05-04-2020 06:55 via nme.com
  
  Justin Vernon debuted a new Bon Iver song called ‘Things Behind Things Behind Things’ during Bernie Sanders’ live streamed “virtual town hall” event discussing the coronavirus pandemic today (April 5).
  Watch Vernon perform from the 01:02:30 mark below. The new song begins at 1:10:45.Vernon once again endorsed Sanders during the performance, also encouraging viewers to stay safe and stay home.
  Alongside the new track, Vernon performed a Bon Iver standard, ‘Towe
  
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• Listen to Bad Bunny’s new self-isolation song ‘En Casita’

  05-04-2020 06:19 via nme.com
  
  Bad Bunny has shared a new song, ‘En Casita’, about being in quarantine during the global outbreak of coronavirus.
  Uploading the track to Soundcloud, the Puerto Rican star’s surprise song was recorded and produced at home with an iPhone. For the first time on a Bad Bunny track, ‘En Casita’ features the vocals of his girlfriend Gabriela Berlingeri, who the rapper is currently self-isolating with.
  Listen to it below: 
  On the track, Bad Bunny shares a message of s
  
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• Watch Lil Jon premiere new Usher collaboration featuring Ludacris during battle with T-Pain

  05-04-2020 06:14 via nme.com
  
  Lil Jon premiered a brand new Usher record this morning (April 5) during an online battle hosted by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland – listen to it below.
  Read more: Timbaland and Swizz Beatz on ‘VERZUZ’ battle series: “We want to celebrate the architects of good music”
  The king of crunk faced off against T-Pain in the latest edition of the much talked about battle series, which so far has seen the likes of Ne-Yo, Scott Storch and OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder take part.
  
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• Timbaland and Swizz Beatz recruit biggest names in music for VERZUZ battle series

  05-04-2020 06:00 via nme.com
  
  Timbaland and Swizz Beatz have started VERZUZ, a series of online battles with some of music’s biggest names as the coronavirus crisis continues.
  Read more: Timbaland and Swizz Beatz on ‘VERZUZ’ battle series: “We want to celebrate the architects of good music”
  Kicking off last month (March 25) after the pair issued challenges to one another via a series of Instagram posts, the super producers decided that it would be better to take their beat battle to Instagram Li
  
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• Watch Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley cover Lana Del Rey’s ‘Young and Beautiful’

  05-04-2020 04:39 via nme.com
  
  Glass Animals‘ Dave Bayley has shared the next video in his ‘Quarantine Covers’ series, in which he films himself covering songs suggested by fans while self-isolating in his London studio, due to the coronavirus outbreak.
  This time around, the multi-instrumentalist gave his take on ‘Young And Beautiful’, Lana Del Rey‘s 2013 single from ‘The Great Gatsby’ soundtrack.Read more: Glass Animals live in Manchester: a return from tragedy to tropical triu
  
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