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• Woods share new rarities collection ‘Reflections Vol. 1 (Bumble Bee Crown King)’

  03-10-2020 22:24 via nme.com
  
  Woods have shared a new rarities collection – listen to ‘Reflections Vol. 1 (Bumble Bee Crown King)’ below.
  The “lost album,” as the band label it, came out on Friday (October 2) to mark the latest Bandcamp Friday, where artists get 100% of purchase fees when their music is bought from the website.
  ‘Reflections…’ follows Woods’ 11th studio album, ‘Strange To Explain’, which came out earlier this year, and features material record
  
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• Lucy Dacus joins Hamilton Leithauser for laid-back new version of ‘Isabella’

  03-10-2020 19:54 via nme.com
  
  Hamilton Leithauser has shared a new version of recent track ‘Isabella’, featuring vocals from Lucy Dacus.
  The track originally appears on ‘The Loves Of Your Life’, the Walkmen frontman’s recent full-length solo album.Read more: Lucy Dacus on politics, protests and pandemics: “Trump is an intentionally evil, bigoted man”“I was just playing this groovy riff in my home studio and it suddenly sounded like it might work on my song ‘Isabella&rsquo
  
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• Watch David Attenborough answer questions from Billie Eilish and more famous fans

  03-10-2020 19:16 via nme.com
  
  Sir David Attenborough has answered questions from famous fans including Billie Eilish – watch below.
  The video, which also sees the legendary broadcaster talking to David Beckham, Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams and more, precedes the release of Attenborough’s new Netflix show David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet.Read more: David Attenborough: “Humanity is at a crossroads”Recorded as part of a promotional video from Netflix ahead of the new show, which is releas
  
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• Christine & The Queens discusses sexism in music industry: “Women don’t have to pay for men’s mistakes”

  03-10-2020 18:37 via nme.com
  
  Christine & The Queens has shared a lengthy pair of new Instagram posts, sharing her experiences of sexism in the music industry.
  The posts came in support of the #MusicToo movement in France, who describe themselves as an “anonymous collective against gender-based and sexual violence in the music industry”.Read more: Christine & The Queens: “My last EP was the result of emotional short punches in my face”“I am not surprised to learn that, in the musical wor
  
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• New library in Dallas to be named after late Power Trip singer Riley Gale

  03-10-2020 18:09 via nme.com
  
  A new library in Dallas, Texas is set to be named after the late Power Trip singer Riley Gale.
  Gale passed away aged 34 in August, and will be honoured with The Riley Gale Memorial Library, set to be housed at the Dallas Hope Center, a local establishment that helps homeless LGBTQ+ youth in the city.Read more: A tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale, a self-styled ordinary guy who made a modern metal masterpieceAnnouncing the new library, which hopes to open in December, organisers Jeff and V
  
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• See Brittany Howard Perform Three ‘Jaime’ Songs on ‘CBS This Morning’

  03-10-2020 17:02 via rollingstone.com
  
  Alabama Shakes singer delivers "Stay High," "Goat Head" and "Short and Sweet" from acclaimed 2019 LP
  
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• BTS Close Out ‘Tonight Show’ Residency With Disco ‘Dynamite’

  03-10-2020 15:30 via rollingstone.com
  
  K-pop act caps five-night visit with latest hit
  
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• Kiss’ Gene Simmons wants people to stop complaining about being in lockdown

  03-10-2020 15:20 via nme.com
  
  Kiss singer Gene Simmons wants people to stop complaining about being in lockdown during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
  Read more: Coronavirus: every cancelled gig, festival and tour – and how to get your ticket refund
  Speaking in a new interview, Simmons said he doesn’t think it’s that hard to just stay at home, especially in comparison to a time that saw his mother live through World War II.
  “Right now, the pandemic is not fun,” Simmons told Cana
  
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• Delays to parts of Culture Recovery Fund leaves music venues at risk: “This additional delay has caused huge anxiety”

  03-10-2020 15:17 via nme.com
  Parts of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund have been delayed, leaving some potential grassroots music venues and arts industry professionals at further risk and without much needed emergency financial support.Read More: How you can do your bit to help save the future of live musicApplications for the government’s £1.57 billion Cultural Recovery Fund were due to be informed as to whether their applications for support were successful on October 5, with final decis
  
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• Delays to culture recovery fund leaves music venues at risk: “This additional delay has caused huge anxiety”

  03-10-2020 15:17 via nme.com
  The culture recovery fund has been delayed, leaving many potential grassroots music venues and arts industry professionals at risk and without much needed emergency financial support.
  Read More: How you can do your bit to help save the future of live music
  The recipients of the government’s £1.57 billion Cultural Recovery Fund were due to be announced on October 5, with final decisions on funding for grassroots music venues in England, Scotland and Wales to be confirmed by October 16
  
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• Watch London Grammar’s dreamy live performance of ‘Baby It’s You’

  03-10-2020 14:15 via nme.com
  
  London Grammar have delivered a dreamy live performance of ‘Baby It’s You’ – you can watch it below.Read More: London Grammar – the full NME cover interviewThe trio performed the atmospheric track on Later…With Jools Holland. It comes just days after the group announced details of their third album, ‘Californian Soil’, sharing the title track, artwork and tracklist.
  ‘Baby It’s You’ will be the seventh track on
  
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• Watch London Grammar perform dreamy live performance of ‘Baby It’s You’

  03-10-2020 14:15 via nme.com
  
  London Grammar have performed a dreamy live performance of ‘Baby It’s You’ – you can watch it below.
  Read More: London Grammar – the full NME cover interview
  The trio performed the atmospheric track on Later…With Jools Holland. It comes just days after the group announced details of their third album, ‘Californian Soil’, sharing the title track, artwork and tracklist.
  ‘Baby It’s You’ will be the seventh track
  
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• Less Than Jake announce new album ‘Silver Linings’, share first song in three years

  03-10-2020 14:12 via nme.com
  
  Less Than Jake have announced the release of their ninth studio album, ‘Silver Linings’.
  Read more: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2: My Chemical Romance, Neck Deep, Millencolin, Less Than Jake and more celebrate the remaster
  The band’s long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s ‘See The Light’ will mark their first full-length with drummer Matt Yonker, who joined the lineup after Vinnie Fiorello departed in 2018.
  Set to arrive on December 11 via Pure N
  
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• Big Sean shares haunting lyric video for new track ‘Wolves’ with Post Malone

  03-10-2020 13:29 via nme.com
  
  Big Sean has shared a lyric video for new track ‘Wolves’ featuring Post Malone – you can watch it below.
  Read more: Big Sean: “God has taken away all these special people – there has to be a reason I’m still here”
  The new visualiser, which sees a group of wolves roam the streets of Detroit while one of them transforms into a person, comes after the release of the Sean’ new album ‘Detroit 2’.
  The album is a follow-up to his 2012 mixtape
  
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• Chris Cornell earns first solo Billboard Number One with Guns N’ Roses cover

  03-10-2020 12:43 via nme.com
  
  Chris Cornell has earned his first solo Billboard Number One with a cover of Guns N’ Roses‘ ‘Patience’.
  Read more: Chris Cornell: his 10 best songs
  Recorded in 2016, the cover, which is currently sitting on top of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart, was released on July 20, marking what would have been the Audioslave and Soundgarden singer’s 56th birthday.
  Cornell has had a series of Number Ones with both Audioslave (‘Like A Stone’ and ‘
  
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• ‘Fast And Furious 9’ release date pushed back again amid coronavirus concerns

  03-10-2020 12:18 via nme.com
  
  The release of the next Fast And Furious film has been delayed again.
  Read More: Vin Diesel’s Touching Tribute To Paul Walker At The People’s Choice Awards Will Bring A Tear To Your Eye
  The ninth instalment of the Vin Diesel-led franchise has been pushed back to May 28 2021 as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
  F9 was one of the first films to have its release date pushed back as the pandemic took hold with Universal pushing the first release date back
  
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• Jon Bon Jovi honours friends and neighbours who lost their lives to COVID-19 on new album

  03-10-2020 12:15 via music-news.com
  
  The pandemic also impacted Bon Jovi's plans for a summer tour.
  
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• Elvis Costello and The Attractions to release ‘The Complete Armed Forces’ box set

  03-10-2020 12:01 via nme.com
  
  Elvis Costello and The Attractions are releasing a new box set collection of their classic album, ‘Armed Forces’.
  Read More: The story of new wave in 15 classic albums
  The iconic 1979 album is getting a reissue on November 6 and will include demos, B-sides and seven notebooks with new linear notes from Costello.
  As well as this, the boxset will include handwritten lyrics, rare photos and nine pieces of vinyl. There will be three each of 12″ LPs, 10″ LPs and 7″ singl
  
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• Perry Farrell rules out another Jane's Addiction album

  03-10-2020 11:30 via music-news.com
  
  The 61-year-old rocker reunited with both the ‘Mountain Song' hitmakers and his other band, Porno for Pyros, during lockdown for a livestream
  
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• Justin Bieber announced as musical guest on upcoming ‘Saturday Night Live’ episode

  03-10-2020 11:18 via nme.com
  
  Justin Bieber has been revealed as a musical guest on an upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live.
  Read More: Justin Bieber kicks off another ‘new era’ with vaguely ‘Holy’ new song
  Bieber will appear on the October 17 episode of the long-running comedy show alongside first-time host, Issa Rae.
  On tonight’s episode (October 3), Megan Thee Stallion will be the show’s first musical guest. The rapper will be playing the stage in Studio 8H for the first time, w
  
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• Ricky Martin joins the cast of 'Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey'

  03-10-2020 11:15 via music-news.com
  
  The 48-year-old singer will star alongside Keegan-Michael Key, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Forest Whitaker and Madalen Mills
  
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• Run The Jewels push back live ‘RTJ4’ show due to coronavirus scare on set

  03-10-2020 11:12 via nme.com
  
  Run The Jewels have pushed back their special one-off TV performance of their latest album, ‘RTJ4’ due to a coronavirus scare on set.
  Read more: Run The Jewels – ‘Run The Jewels 4’ review: a modern protest classic and their best work yet
  Originally planned to take place next Saturday (October 10), Killer Mike and El-P‘s Holy CalamaVote event has now been pushed back a week to October 17.
  Amaechi Uzoigwe, the duo’s manager, issued a statement about t
  
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• Jon Bon Jovi says Harry Styles is 'the real deal'

  03-10-2020 11:05 via music-news.com
  
  While the 58-year-old Bon Jovi frontman admitted he usually only listens to the artists he knows, he has been hugely impressed by
  
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• Camila Cabello the inspiration for Shawn Mendes' new album 'Wonder'

  03-10-2020 10:40 via music-news.com
  
  Shawn, 22, admitted he was terrified to write music about his 23-year-old girlfriend, because she is such a talented songwriter, but praised
  
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• Olly Murs can't handle big nights out on tour

  03-10-2020 10:37 via music-news.com
  
  The 36-year-old singer admitted he went wild during his first ever arena tour but lost his voice after some heavy partying and these days
  
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• Watch Travis Scott, Young Thug and M.I.A. perform ‘Franchise’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

  03-10-2020 10:21 via nme.com
  
  Travis Scott took part in a virtual performance of ‘Franchise’ with M.I.A. and Young Thug on Jimmy Kimmel Live! – you can watch the performance below.
  Read more: Astroworld 2019 review: Travis Scott’s rowdy rager goes off with help from Kanye, Megan Thee Stallion and er, Marilyn Manson
  Back in September, Scott released ‘Franchise’ revealing his collaboration with M.I.A. and Young Thug. He released the single alongside a music video he’d di
  
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• Kerry Katona wants Atomic Kitten to become holograms

  03-10-2020 10:15 via music-news.com
  
  The 40-year-old star was thrilled to learn the members of her favourite group, ABBA, had recently reunited to film for their upcoming concerts
  
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• NBA Ratings Crash Could Dramatically Lower Advertising, Music Licensing Fees In 2021

  03-10-2020 08:55 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  A unexpectedly sharp NBA ratings drop could have substantial ramifications for 2021 advertising rates and music licensing fees, according to industry experts. A substantial and sustained drop in NBA viewership numbers is now causing advertisers to recalibrate their budgets for next year, according to details disclosed this week. In turn, those advertisers are likely to […]The post NBA Ratings Crash Could Dramatically Lower Advertising, Music Licensing Fees In 2021 appeared first on Digita
  
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• Watch BTS wrap up their week-long residency on ‘The Tonight Show’

  03-10-2020 07:04 via nme.com
  
  K-pop superstars BTS have wrapped up their week-long residency on The Tonight Show… With Jimmy Fallon – dubbed BTS Week – with a performance of ‘Dynamite’.
  Complete with bubblegum cuteness, tight choreography, colour-coordinated outfits, more than a few disco balls and a roller-skating stint, BTS performed to a virtual audience of nearly half a million during the performance’s YouTube premiere.
  Watch it below:Over the course of this week BTS  – ban
  
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• Watch Jimi Hendrix perform ‘Foxey Lady’ in ‘Live In Maui’ preview

  03-10-2020 07:02 via nme.com
  A new preview for the forthcoming Jimi Hendrix documentary Music, Money, Madness … Jimi Hendrix in Maui has been released, featuring a performance of ‘Foxey Lady’.
  The film is set to include footage of the late guitarist’s outdoor concert at foot of the Haleakala volcano in Maui, including the ‘Foxey Lady’ performance, which you can watch below:As seen in the clip, Hendrix forgets some of the words to the song, compensating with some of his signature tricks l
  
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• Denzel Curry shares furious protest song ‘Live From The Abyss’

  03-10-2020 04:53 via nme.com
  
  Denzel Curry has released a Bandcamp-exclusive single, ‘Live From The Abyss’.
  The track is a furious diatribe on the social and political climate of 2020, sampling a news broadcast on the June Minneapolis protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and clocking in at just under two minutes long.
  “I don’t fuck with my president/ Tried to block all Mexicans/ If he hear this message/ Please don’t send swat to my residence,” Curry raps on the track.
  All ne
  
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• Selena Gomez has released the demo version of ‘Lose You To Love Me’

  03-10-2020 04:08 via nme.com
  
  Selena Gomez has released a demo version of her song ‘Lose You to Love Me’, the runaway ballad that appeared on her latest album, ‘Rare’.
  The demo is previously unreleased, and makes its way into the Gomez catalogue almost a year to the day that the original single was released.
  Gomez wrote ‘Lose You To Love Me’ with frequent collaborators Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, bringing on board Finneas – Billie Eilish’s brother and collaborator &ndash
  
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• Warner Music Faces Its Fourth Class Action Lawsuit Over Credit Card Hacks

  03-10-2020 00:11 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Warner Music Group (WMG) is facing yet another class-action lawsuit – the fourth since early September – over the massive credit card hack that affected its webstores for several months. Digital Music News first reported on the shocking breach last month. Between April 25th and August 5th, an unauthorized (and unidentified) third party (or parties) compromised […]The post Warner Music Faces Its Fourth Class Action Lawsuit Over Credit Card Hacks appeared first on Digital M
  
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