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• Taylor Swift, Christine & The Queens and more join Lady Gaga’s coronavirus benefit concert

  14-04-2020 23:58 via nme.com
  Lady Gaga has confirmed more artists for her upcoming coronavirus relief concert ‘One World: Together at Home’.Read More: Coronavirus: every cancelled gig, festival and tour – and how to get your ticket refundThe show, which has been organised by Global Citizen and the World Health Organisation, will take place this Saturday (April 18). Upon its announcement last week, it was revealed that the likes of Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Coldplay‘s 
  
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• What’s Your Favorite Music Video From J Balvin’s ‘Colores’? Vote!

  14-04-2020 23:32
  
  J Balvin hinted new music was on the way when he dropped his head-bopping, deep-bass “Blanco” (White) in the fall. After kicking off 2020 with the reggaeton song “Morado” (Purple) and then releasing “Rojo” (Red), fans began to speculate that a new album was on the way.
  On March 19, in the middle of the global coronavirus pandemic, Balvin dropped his fifth solo studio album Colores, bringing lots of joy and reggaeton to his fans. “Amarillo” (Yellow)
  
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• SOCAN Chief Executive Eric Baptiste Abruptly Resigns After 10 Years

  14-04-2020 23:05 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  SOCAN has just revealed that its longtime CEO, Eric Baptiste, is stepping down after a decade-long tenure. We’re not sure exactly why Baptiste is relinquishing his post after ten years, though SOCAN said it has nothing to do with the current COVID-19 crisis.  “The decision is purely coincidental to the current COVID-19 crisis, and the […]The post SOCAN Chief Executive Eric Baptiste Abruptly Resigns After 10 Years appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• Rosalía says her Billie Eilish collaboration will be finished soon

  14-04-2020 23:03 via nme.com
  
  Rosalía has given an update on her highly-anticipated Billie Eilish collaboration in a new interview.
  The Spanish pop star first spoke about her team-up with the ‘Bad Guy’ artist in March of last year, saying that she “couldn’t wait” to finish the track.Read More: Billie Eilish – Album Of The Year: 2019 was hersSpeaking with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 earlier today (April 14), the singer revealed that the song’s completion was &ldquo
  
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• Rosalía says Billie Eilish collaboration will be finished soon

  14-04-2020 23:03 via nme.com
  
  Rosalía has given an update on her highly-anticipated Billie Eilish collaboration in a new interview.
  The Spanish pop star first spoke about her team-up with the ‘Bad Guy’ artist in March of last year, saying that she “couldn’t wait” to finish the track.Read More: Billie Eilish – Album Of The Year: 2019 was hersSpeaking with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 earlier today (April 14), the singer revealed that the song’s completion was &ldquo
  
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• The Pretenders Drop R&B Slow Burner, ‘You Can’t Hurt a Fool’

  14-04-2020 22:52 via rollingstone.com
  
  Track appears on upcoming album Hate For Sale
  
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• Leaping Frogs & Realistic Dates: Here’s What Went Down During Selena Gomez’s ‘Boyfriend’ Music Video

  14-04-2020 22:51
  
  A magical love potion, three charming dates and a crate full of toads later, Selena Gomez took fans behind the scenes of her topsy-turvy fairytale video for her latest single “Boyfriend.”
  The music video, which premiered last Friday (April 10) as part of her Rare deluxe edition rollout, felt like a whimsical mashup of The Bachelorette and The Princess and The Frog. But the three-minute clip she posted on Instagram today (April 14) flaunted the charming and no
  
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• Bill Withers Has Top 2 Best-Selling Songs of the Week

  14-04-2020 22:51
  
  The late soul giant Bill Withers claims the top two best-selling songs in the U.S., as “Lean on Me” takes over the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart dated April 18 and “Ain’t No Sunshine” lands at No. 2. (The latest chart reflects sales in the tracking week ending April 9.)
  The classic hits, two of Withers’ most famous recordings, experience the sales burst after news of the singer-songwriter’s death on March 30, which was announce
  
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• Pablo Alborán On ‘Cuando Estés Aquí’ Video: ‘I Want People to Reflect on What’s Happening’

  14-04-2020 22:45
  
  Pablo Alborán’s motivating and heartwarming “Cuando Estés Aquí,” a beneficial song with all proceeds going to UNICEF to help fight COVID-19, is accompanied by a poignant music video released on Monday (April 13).
  The song, born in his childhood makeshift studio, and video were created in less than 15 days, says Alborán who is quarantined in Spain. “We were running against the clock so the lyrics, the music, the video were done in two weeks,&rdq
  
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• CeeLo Green Covers Al Green & Oasis With His Son for a Billboard Live At-Home Family Jam Session

  14-04-2020 22:40
  
  CeeLo Green partnered with his son Kingston Callaway for a Billboard Live At-Home family jam session Tuesday (April 14) to raise money for Direct Relief, which equips medical workers with necessary equipment.
  “The Callaway Quarantine,” as dubbed by the 44-year-old hitmaker (real name Thomas Callaway), blended CeeLo’s trademark soul flavor with a taste of British rock, alongside his 19-year-old son. The younger Callaway proposed kicking off the cozy concert with his father&
  
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• ‘American Idol’ Forges Ahead With Remote Live Shows

  14-04-2020 22:36
  
  American Idol is moving ahead with its live shows, with contestants, judges and host Ryan Seacrest all filming from their homes.
  The live rounds will begin April 26 on ABC with the top 20 contestants. Seacrest will host from his home in Los Angeles, and judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan and in-house mentor Bobby Bones will also conference in remotely. The contestants will also perform from their homes.The last member of the top 20 will be revealed on April 19 with the second p
  
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• Paul McCartney Talks Quarantining Without His Wife & Peter Jackson’s ‘Bloody Great’ Beatles Doc

  14-04-2020 22:29
  
  Paul McCartney dialed in to Howard Stern’s radio show on Tuesday morning (April 14) from his home in the English countryside, where he’s hunkered down with one of his daughters. But after earlier noting that he’d gotten up in the middle of the night to scratch down a long list of questions he wanted to ask the former Beatle for fear of wasting his precious time with such an iconic music figure, the SiriusXM host dipped back into one of his signature bag-of-tricks queries to kic
  
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• Dirac Raises $6 Million to Develop ‘Intelligent Audio’ for Video Conferencing

  14-04-2020 22:26 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Swedish sound-technology company Dirac has raised $6 million in funding, which will be used to build upon its “intelligent audio” system for video conferencing and its proprietary headphone-audio optimization system, among other things. Company executives announced the fundraising milestone in a press release, which was shared with Digital Music News. Additionally, the release revealed that […]The post Dirac Raises $6 Million to Develop ‘Intelligent Audio’ for Vide
  
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• ‘Homestar Runner’ creators share 180-song soundtrack to stream

  14-04-2020 22:13 via nme.com
  
  The creators of cult comedy animation Homestar Runner have shared 180 tracks from the show – stream it below via YouTube.Read more: Coronavirus: bingeable TV box-sets to keep you busy during isolationSpanning three volumes, ‘Homestar Runner Original Soundtrack: Songs, Background Music, Jingles, and Worse’ covers 20 years’ worth of songs throughout the show’s run.
  The news was shared via the Twitter account of Homestar Runner character Strong Bad on April 10, as per
  
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• See Liam Payne And Alesso’s Drone-Assisted ‘Midnight’ Performance

  14-04-2020 22:09
  
  Liam Payne and Alesso performed "Midnight" from home on "The Late Late Show," using drones for a creative, transatlantic spin.
  
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• Juice WRLD and Yellowcard legal battle halted due to coronavirus

  14-04-2020 21:57 via nme.com
  Yellowcard‘s legal battle against Juice WRLD‘s estate has been halted due to the coronavirus crisis, it has been reported.Read More: Juice WRLD’s 20 greatest tracksThe US pop-punk outfit filed a lawsuit in October of last year, alleging that Juice WRLD’s ‘Lucid Dreams’ illegally sampled their 2006 song ‘Holly Wood Died’. They claimed that “melodic elements” in the two tracks were “virtually identical”.
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• Rosalía Has Been Finishing Her Billie Eilish Collab, And It’s ‘Almost Done’

  14-04-2020 21:52
  
  Rosalía's highly-anticipated new collab with Billie Eilish will be releasing soon! Hopefully. In a new interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music's Beats 1, the flamenco artist gave an update on its progress.
  
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• Meet the Startup That Wants to Turn Music Videos Into Shopping Malls

  14-04-2020 21:47 via rollingstone.com
  
  "If I can the latest Yeezys at box price in that kid's music video, I'm going to watch that video," says DroppTV CEO Gurps Rai
  
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• Digital Mirage’s Organizers Share Their 5 Favorite Sets of the Online Festival

  14-04-2020 21:47
  
  It was Plato who said that necessity is the mother of invention, and the dance community has put that adage into action by responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with a flurry of online music festivals and streaming events.
  One of the biggest of these shows to happen in the dance world thus far was Digital Mirage, a three-day online event that happened April 3-5 and featured more than four dozen artists, including Seven Lions, Kaskade and Sofi Tukker. Artists performed from their living rooms, offi
  
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• Shania Twain Urges Fans to Stay Home With Some (Edited) Throwback Album Art

  14-04-2020 21:45
  
  Like much of the world, Shania Twain is practicing social distancing and staying home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. The country superstar shared a compelling argument for fans to stay home with the help of her previous single and album artwork.
  “Has anyone else started laughing at their own jokes?” Twain captioned several album images on Twitter with the hashtag #StayHome. In her first post, Twain shared two promo images from her popular 1997 single “Honey, I&rsqu
  
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• Lady Gaga implores world leaders to donate to coronavirus research funds

  14-04-2020 21:45 via music-news.com
  
  Lady Gaga is preparing to headline the One World: Together at Home concert.
  
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• Halsey, Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen & More Lined Up for Jersey 4 Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund Show

  14-04-2020 21:36
  
  An all-star benefit for the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund, JERSEY 4 JERSEY, will take place April 22 at 7 p.m. ET and feature a huge assortment of some of the state’s favorite sons, daughters and supporters. The one-night fundraiser to take on the medical, social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on some of the Garden State’s most vulnerable communities will feature home appearances and performances from Halsey, Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, SZA, Charlie Put
  
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• Sada Baby is Your New Favorite Rapper, And He Loves Nickelback: ‘My Musical Palette is Complex’

  14-04-2020 21:31
  
  Sada Baby is as bored as the rest of us. Just like everyone else, the recent chart-topper of Billboard’s Heatseekers tally and architect of Skuba Sada 2 ― a recently released odds-and-ends collection better than most commercial hip-hop releases―is locked down too.When Billboard calls the Detroit-based MC, he’s in the middle of playing Call of Duty; He prefers NBA 2K, but his extended family is devoted to CoD and Sada is, after all, a family man. He learned about
  
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• Watch Residente, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Discuss Politics

  14-04-2020 21:30 via rollingstone.com
  
  Grammy-winning MC sits down with New York congresswoman to discuss COVID-19, Puerto Rico and the 2020 election
  
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• Madison Beer: A Rising Pop Star Looks Past Her Bubblegum Roots

  14-04-2020 21:27 via rollingstone.com
  
  Singer discusses being dropped from first label contract at 16 and her long-finished debut album, 'Life Support'
  
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• Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Radio Launches From Her Home in New Orleans

  14-04-2020 21:23 via rollingstone.com
  
  Online station officially launches on April 15th with the broadcast of an unreleased concert from 2013
  
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• Paul McCartney calls for ban on “medieval” Chinese markets due to coronavirus

  14-04-2020 21:18 via nme.com
  
  Paul McCartney has called for Chinese wet markets to be banned, stating his belief that they are to blame for the current coronavirus pandemic.
  The Beatles musician referred to the popular theory that COVID-19 originated in a live animal market in Wuhan – known as ‘wet markets’ due to their frequently hosed-down floors – and compared the movement to eradicate them with the abolition of the slave trade.Read more: Paul McCartney: His 10 most unexpected collaborationsSpeakin
  
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• Elvis Costello Posts Lengthy Tribute to John Prine

  14-04-2020 21:17 via rollingstone.com
  
  "These were songs that no one else was writing," British musician says of late singer-songwriter's storied catalog
  
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• Ticketmaster Says Its Refund Policy Has ‘Remained Consistent’ — Nothing to See Here

  14-04-2020 21:16 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  In response to the ample public outcry and numerous fan complaints stemming from its refund-policy shift, Ticketmaster has indicated that its reimbursement-centered fine print has remained consistent amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Digital Music News first reported last week that Ticketmaster had quietly updated the refund-policy text on its website because of the coronavirus crisis. […]The post Ticketmaster Says Its Refund Policy Has ‘Remained Consistent’ — No
  
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• Sam Hunt Takes Fans Inside His Studio With ‘Hard to Forget’ Performance on ‘Colbert’: Watch

  14-04-2020 21:15
  
  Sam Hunt appeared on A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday evening (April 13) from the comfort of his studio to perform his infectious single “Hard to Forget.”
  The country singer-songwriter shared his stripped-down version of the song alone on guitar, with the help of a backing track.
  “Hey everybody. My band couldn’t join me this evening, so I’m going to try to make do here at the studio,” Hunt told viewers. “This is our new song called ‘Hard to
  
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• Listen to Dropkick Murphys’ rollicking new single ‘Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding’

  14-04-2020 21:05 via nme.com
  
  Dropkick Murphys have shared a new song called ‘Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding’ – you can listen to it below.
  The Boston punk outfit, who released their last album in 2017, gave the track its live debut during a live-streamed St Patrick’s Day gig last month.Read More: Dropkick Murphys on their live-streamed St Patrick’s Day gig: “It’s one of the most special shows we’ve ever played”Due to the positive response to the song, Dropkick Murphys have
  
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• Which Mariah Carey Quarantine Performance Will Always Be Your Favorite? Vote!

  14-04-2020 20:58
  
  Mariah Carey has been letting her vocals soar freely throughout quarantine to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The Emancipation of Mimi. But of all the tracks she’s brought back for special performances, which one is your favorite?
  From her 1995 album Daydream, Mimi took over the “iHeart Living Room Concert for America” special at the end of March with her No. 1 smash “Always Be My Baby,” dedicated to Dem Babies staying at home during the coronavirus pan
  
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• Jameson Rodgers Recruits Luke Combs For ‘Cold Beer Calling My Name’: Listen

  14-04-2020 20:24
  
  Newcomer Jameson Rodgers enlisted the help of his former tour mate Luke Combs for the feel-good party song “Cold Beer Calling My Name.” Rodgers penned the song with Hunter Phelps, Brett Tyler, and Alysa Vanderheym.
  On the new track, Rodgers and Combs look to crack open a cold one after a long day. With stomping rhythms, an anthemic chorus and layered guitars, the song is bound to soar in the live setting.
  “It’s a fun, easy song, and I thought it’d be cool to have so
  
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• Lamb of God and BrewDog Debut Ghost Walker Nonalcoholic Beer

  14-04-2020 20:22
  
  Groove metal act Lamb of God has partnered with craft brewery BrewDog to create Ghost Walker, a drink that is being touted as “the world’s first nonalcoholic collaboration beer.”
  Ghost Walker is described as having “a hop-forward flavor with less than 0.5% alcohol. Tropical aromas harmonize with grassy pine notes, all sitting on a solid malt baseline.”
  It became available today (April 14) through BrewDog’s online shop for global shipping. The beer is named aft
  
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• Rebecca Black Covers Nat King Cole, Spins ‘Friday’ into Acoustic Ballad for Billboard Live At-Home: Watch

  14-04-2020 20:19
  
  It may have been Tuesday when Rebecca Black treated fans to a Billboard Live At-Home performance, but she finished things off with her infamous end-of-the-week anthem “Friday.”
  “Grab your friends!” she insisted before jumping into the highly requested song on April 14. Nine years later, she fine-tuned the hit with her quarantine-induced guitar skills into an acoustic ballad that didn’t take out any of the “fun, fun, fun, fun” from the original
  
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• Here’s the Creative Way Carla Morrison Is Raising Funds For Music Workers Impacted by Coronavirus

  14-04-2020 20:17
  
  Carla Morrison is joining forces with Mexican online thrift store GoTrendier to raise money for music workers like engineers, technicians, managers, photographers and touring staff to help them financially during the global pandemic.
  The initiative is called “Volveremos A Tocar,” which loosely translates to “we will play again,” consists of shopping through Morrison’s closet to purchase some of the Mexican singer-songwriter’s outfits and 100 percent of the pur
  
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• Elvis Costello pens lengthy, heartfelt message in tribute to John Prine

  14-04-2020 20:11 via nme.com
  Elvis Costello has shared a lengthy tribute to the late John Prine, who died last week with coronavirus-related complications.
  The US country and folk musician passed away in Nashville on Monday, April 6. He had been hospitalised on March 26 with a “sudden onset” of COVID-19 symptoms.
  Posting to his official Facebook account yesterday (April 13), Costello recalled how he “wanted to be John Prine” when he 19 years old and “pretending to be a songwriter”.
  Later
  
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• DaBaby announces new release ‘Blame It On Baby’ arriving this week

  14-04-2020 20:09 via nme.com
  
  DaBaby has posted a teasing statement on social media about a new release, ‘Blame It On Baby’, as well as revealing its imminent release date.Read more: DaBaby – ‘Kirk’ review: the spirited rapper sounds all grown up on his coming-of-age albumIn a tweet posted yesterday (April 13), the North Carolina rapper – real name Jonathan Lyndale Kirk – simply wrote “THIS FRIDAY!” accompanied by a CD emoji. A new message posted this afternoon confirmed
  
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• Green Day Breaks Record For Longest Span of Alternative Songs No. 1s With ‘Oh Yeah!’

  14-04-2020 20:04
  
  Green Day rewrites the record for the longest span of No. 1s in the three-decade history of Billboard’s Alternative Songs airplay chart, as “Oh Yeah!” rises 2-1 on the April 18-dated tally.
  The song, Green Day’s 12th No. 1, expands the trio’s run of leaders to 25 years, 10 months and one week, dating to its first week on top with the prophetically titled “Longview,” its first entry on the chart, in June 1994.
  Green Day bests Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose
  
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• Fans Are Ready for Concerts Once Pandemic Ends, Though Timing and a Vaccine Are Top of Mind: Survey

  14-04-2020 20:03
  
  With nearly all U.S. states under shelter-at-home orders and concert venues sitting empty, music fans show little hesitation to experiencing live music again. A survey by MRC Data found 59% of respondents are willing to attend a live event again within two months after the pandemic ends or a vaccine or treatment becomes available.
  Among the survey’s findings:
  • 29% of respondents would attend a live event less than one month after the pandemic passes or a vaccine or treatment is avail
  
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• The ‘Tiger King’ Songs are Blowing Up on Spotify – Especially in Denmark

  14-04-2020 19:56 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Joe Exotic’s music career is taking off on Spotify thanks to his music appearing in Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ documentary. Throughout the documentary, Joe Exotic’s music peppers the story – but is it him singing? Musician Vince Johnson says he and the late Danny Clinton are the voices on several of the songs. Show directors told […]The post The ‘Tiger King’ Songs are Blowing Up on Spotify – Especially in Denmark appeared first on Digital
  
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• Rosalia Shares New Details on Billie Eilish Collaboration: ‘It’s Getting Quite Close’

  14-04-2020 19:55
  
  Rosalia is spending her quarantine in Miami, keeping safe while her family is doing the same in Barcelona.
  “As a musician, I feel like we spend a lot of time isolated studying music or producing or recording,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Tuesday (April 14). “We do it a lot, but at the same time, I miss being on stage. I miss being in the street talking to my friends.”
  On March 24, in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, the award-winning Spanish art
  
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• Example claims Ed Sheeran's dad threatened to punch him backstage at a gig

  14-04-2020 19:45 via music-news.com
  
  The 37-year-old music star - whose real name is Elliot Gleave - has revealed he upset John Sheeran when he started playing up backstage
  
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• Social Distancing with Lucinda Williams: Dinner Deliveries, Docs, and (Nick) Drake

  14-04-2020 19:44 via rollingstone.com
  
  "I haven't left the house in like four weeks," says the singer-songwriter, who discusses her revised daily routine
  
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• Chris Hughes is 'convinced' Jesy Nelson still loves him

  14-04-2020 19:43 via music-news.com
  
  The 27-year-old TV star and Jesy, 28, broke-up last week after 16 months together - but Chris is reportedly confident they will reunite once lockdown ends in the UK.
  
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• Lewis Capaldi has claimed he piled on the pounds after going vegetarian

  14-04-2020 19:40 via music-news.com
  
  Lewis Capaldi has claimed he piled on the pounds after going vegetarian and substituting meat for pizza and chips.
  
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• Glastonbury start sharing stage-by-stage playlists of acts booked for 2020

  14-04-2020 19:38 via nme.com
  
  Glastonbury has begun sharing stage-by-stage playlists compiling artists that were booked to play this summer’s festival – you can listen below.Read More: A love letter to Glastonbury – and why next year’s festival will be sweeter than everSet to take place in June, the 50th anniversary of the Worthy Farm event was cancelled last month due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The initial line-up poster for 2020 had been revealed in the previous week.
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• Liam Payne was 'ridiculed' when he first tried to break the music industry in 2008

  14-04-2020 19:36 via music-news.com
  
  The 26-year-old singer found fame when he finished in third place on ‘The X Factor’ in 2010 as a member of One Direction, but had previously
  
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• Record Store Day Launches #RSDFilltheGap to Support Independent Record Stores

  14-04-2020 19:32 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Record Store Day 2020 has been postponed until June, but that isn’t stopping vinyl fans from supporting independent record stores. Before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced a change of plans, Record Store Day 2020 was slated to take place this Saturday, April 18th. To celebrate the occasion and support independent record stores, United Kingdom vinyl […]The post Record Store Day Launches #RSDFilltheGap to Support Independent Record Stores appeared first on Digital Music News.
  
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• All In This Together: Which ‘Disney Family Singalong’ Performance Are You Most Excited to See? Vote!

  14-04-2020 19:23
  
  We’re just days away from The Disney Family Singalong and with a star-studded line-up featuring everyone from Ariana Grande and Tori Kelly to Demi Lovato and the East High Wildcats of High School Musical, Billboard wants to know which performance you’re most excited to see!
  Can you simply not wait for Grande’s pitch-perfect take on “I Won’t Say (I’m in Love)” from Hercules? (Fingers crossed the star rocks a signature high pony that would put Meg’s
  
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