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• XXXTentacion’s ‘SAD!’ Hits 1 Billion Views on YouTube

  21-01-2021 23:40
  
  XXXTentacion’s “SAD!” reached 1 billion views on YouTube this week.
  The audio for his Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit featuring the ? album artwork — not the official music video that was released after his death — reached this milestone after premiering on the platform on March 1, 2018.
  The rapper wrote and creative directed the music video for “SAD!,” which has racked up more than 140 million YouTube views since his posthumous release. The s
  
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• Native Instruments Sold Again — Majority Stake Purchased by Francisco Partners

  21-01-2021 23:30 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Berlin-headquartered music-hardware company Native Instruments has sold once again, this time to San Francisco- and London-based private equity firm Francisco Partners. Native Instruments and Francisco Partners recently unveiled the sale, which is expected to formally close in 2021’s first quarter, via a formal release. This announcement message didn’t disclose the financial terms of the deal, […]
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• Watch Playboi Carti bring ‘Slay3r’ to ‘The Tonight Show’

  21-01-2021 23:26 via nme.com
  
  Playboi Carti performed ‘Slay3r’ on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night, his first late night appearance promoting ‘Whole Lotta Red’.
  Carti played the track inside a strobe-lit warehouse with a full band set-up — the rapper hanging off a giant ladder, and the stage surrounded by a ring of fire.
  Watch the clip below.The same episode of The Tonight Show also marked Fallon’s bandleader and drummer of The Roots, Questlove’s 50th birthday.
  
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• Watch JoJo Siwa Lip-Sync to Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’

  21-01-2021 23:26
  
  JoJo Siwa can’t get enough of Lady Gaga and her 2011 hit “Born This Way” in her latest TikTok.
  Rainbow lights highlight the viral star’s lip-sync performance, which has racked up more than 17 million views since it was posted Wednesday. She also proudly shows off a rainbow-design sweatshirt from Siwa’s own merch as well as a rainbow-patterned hair bow, a very Gaga-esque accessory.
  “No matter gay, straight, or bi/ Lesbian, transgender life/ I’m
  
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• Rina Sawayama launches new ‘Dynasty’ challenge on TikTok

  21-01-2021 23:12 via nme.com
  
  Rina Sawayama has launched a new TikTok vocal challenge around her track ‘Dynasty’.
  The song features on the London-based artist’s acclaimed first album ‘SAWAYAMA’, which came out last April via Dirty Hit.READ MORE: Rina Sawayama: “I need to get some rock’n’roll lessons from Matty Healy”Taking to Twitter today (January 21), the singer shared a 30-second video to demonstrate how she matches the melody of the mammoth ‘Dystany’
  
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• Morgan Wallen Scores Record-Setting Week on Billboard Global 200

  21-01-2021 23:02
  
  Dangerous: The Double Album has brought Morgan Wallen to a new stratosphere of chart success. The supersized LP is Wallen’s first to debut atop Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and gives the Tennessean his first No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200, while sparking his first frame atop the Artist 100 (dated Jan. 23).
  But beyond the confines of country music or even the top acts across the U.S., Wallen lands 19 songs on the latest Billboard Global 200, the most that any artist has
  
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• Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly share zombie film-inspired ‘Acting Like That’ video

  21-01-2021 22:40 via nme.com
  
  Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly have shared the official video to ‘Acting Like That’, their recent collaborative track – watch below.
  The team-up, which also features Blink-182‘s Travis Barker, appears on Yungblud’s second album ‘Weird!’ (released last month).READ MORE: Machine Gun Kelly: “I’ve been jumping up and down on the table, believing in myself, for-fucking-ever”Tonight (January 21), Yungblud – aka Dom Harrison –
  
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• Eric Church Announces Three-Album ‘Heart & Soul’ Series — And They’ll Be Here Soon

  21-01-2021 22:39
  
  Eric Church has a triple whammy coming this spring: He’s releasing three albums as part of his Heart & Soul collection in April.
  He addressed his fans in a short video Thursday (Jan. 21) and announced he wrote and recorded the project during 28 days he spent in the mountains of North Carolina. The middle album, &, is available exclusively to the Church Choir fan club on April 20, only as a vinyl record. The first and last LPs, Heart and Soul, will
  
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• Katy Perry, Demi Lovato & More: Who Had Your Favorite ‘Celebrating America’ Performance?

  21-01-2021 22:32
  
  The inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday was full of music, but no event was more jam-packed with A-list artists than the Celebrating America inaugural primetime special.
  The broadcast kicked off with Bruce Springsteen performing “Land of Hope and Dreams” with nothing but a microphone and acoustic guitar, and wrapped up with Katy Perry singing “Firework” as pyrotechnics exploded across the Washington, D.C., sky.In bet
  
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• Lil Wayne and Kodak Black thank Donald Trump for pardoning them before he left office

  21-01-2021 22:25 via nme.com
  
  Lil Wayne and Kodak Black have publicly thanked Donald Trump after he granted them a full presidential pardon.
  The rappers were among 140 people who were either granted pardons or had their sentences commuted by the former President before he left office yesterday (January 20).
  Wayne earlier shared his new song ‘Ain’t Got Time’ following his pardon but he has now taken to Twitter to thank Trump.
  “I want to thank President Trump for recognizing that I have so much more to
  
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• Apple VR Headset Plans Leak – ‘An Expensive Precursor to AR Glasses’

  21-01-2021 22:16 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  An Apple VR headset is in development, but you may not see it before 2022 – if at all. The Bloomberg report suggests Apple views the project as a niche step on its way to augmented reality. Apple is pricing its VR headset at a premium, as it has encountered several development hurdles. “As a […]
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• Here Are Billie Eilish & Rosalia’s Melancholic ‘Lo Vas a Olvidar’ Lyrics Translated to English

  21-01-2021 22:02
  
  After creating a buzz for more than a year, Billie Eilish and Rosalia dropped their much-talked-about collaboration “Lo Vas A Olvidar” on Thursday (Jan. 21).
  The slow-tempo, bilingual song has dreamlike, almost hazy melodies that bring to the forefront Eilish and Rosalia’s vocal chemistry and enchanting harmonies.
  A real shocker: Billie sings most of the song in Spanish.
  “Dime si me echas de meno’ aún” (“Tell me if you still miss me”),
  
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• Trump’s Kodak Black Pardon Didn’t Include Sexual Assault Charges

  21-01-2021 21:57 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Kodak Black got a pardon from former President Trump, but it didn’t include his sexual assault charges. Now South Carolina prosecutors want to put Kodak Black back into state custody. He would face charges for sexual assault after being pardoned for gun law violations. Black was among several rappers and prominent figures in the hip-hop […]
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• Kodak Black Pardon Trump Issued Didn’t Include Sexual Assault Charges

  21-01-2021 21:57 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Kodak Black got a pardon from former President Trump, but it didn’t include his sexual assault charges. Now South Carolina prosecutors want to put Kodak Black back into state custody. He would face charges for sexual assault after being pardoned for gun law violations. Black was among several rappers and prominent figures in the hip-hop […]
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• ‘Freaks and Geeks’ Now Streaming on Hulu With Original Soundtrack Intact

  21-01-2021 21:56
  
  Fans of the beloved high school dramedy Freaks and Geeks have something to cheer about this week. The cult favorite TV show is finally coming to streaming, with the entire series available to stream now on Hulu. And while licensing rights for its soundtrack had kept Freaks and Geeks off streaming sites in the past, Hulu says the issues have now been resolved and the show will air with its original soundtrack intact.
  Created by Paul Feig and executive produced by Judd Apatow, Freak
  
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• Chrissy Teigen reacts as new President Joe Biden follows her on Twitter

  21-01-2021 21:45 via music-news.com
  
  Chrissy Teigen had reached out to Joe Biden asking for a follow earlier in the day
  
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• Billie Eilish Wrote the Final English Lyric of New Rosalia Collab With Her Entire Family

  21-01-2021 21:43
  
  Billie Eilish and Rosalía’s tag-team efforts on their highly anticipated Spanish-language collab “Lo Vas a Olvidar” included a few additional collaborators: Eilish’s whole family.
  Although Eilish and her brother Finneas are already known as a hitmaking team with a boatload of Grammys to their name following last year’s big sweep, their parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell semi-officially worked with the superstar
  
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• Bob Dylan Faces $7.25 Million Lawsuit After Selling His Catalog to Universal Music

  21-01-2021 21:41 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  About six weeks after selling his entire catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group, in a deal that was reportedly worth over $300 million, Bob Dylan is facing a $7.25 million suit from the estate of songwriter, theater director, and psychologist Jacques Levy. Jacques Levy’s wife, Claudia Levy, recently submitted the multimillion-dollar complaint against Bob Dylan […]
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• Over 100 British Music Stars Warn Brexit Endangers European Tours

  21-01-2021 21:39 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Over 100 British musicians are warning that Brexit threatens possible European tours. Musicians from all genres have come together to comment on the state of affairs. Ed Sheeran, Sting, Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, and even Simon Rattle have spoken out about the current state of Brexit in a letter to The Times newspaper. The […]
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• Ed Sheeran, Sting, Roger Waters, Other British Musicians Warn of Post-Brexit Touring Nightmares

  21-01-2021 21:39 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Over 100 British musicians are warning that Brexit threatens possible European tours. Musicians from all genres have come together to comment on the state of affairs. Ed Sheeran, Sting, Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, and even Simon Rattle have spoken out about the current state of Brexit in a letter to The Times newspaper. The […]
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• Megan Thee Stallion Blasts ‘Fake News’ Reports That Tory Lanez Charges Were Dropped

  21-01-2021 21:38
  
  After a series of viral tweets claimed that charges against Tory Lanez had been dropped in connection with Megan Thee Stallion’s July shooting, Meg took to Twitter on Thursday (Jan. 21) to shoot down the false reports and blast people for turning her “trauma into a joke.”
  “AT THIS POINT IM GETTING ANNOYED!” she began in a series of six tweets. “STOP BELIEVING EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE MF INTERNET. Imagine how I feel waking every day seeing people LIE and turn
  
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• Mainstream Artists Singing in Spanish: Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, The Weeknd & More

  21-01-2021 21:30
  
  Collaborations are an important part of Latin music, and Spanglish fusions are taking over as of late.
  Many mainstream artists have teamed up with Latin music’s hottest names to drop bilingual tracks. Some artists totally get in the mood by singing the entire song or parts of it in Spanish.
  This isn’t the first time English-speaking artists have experimented with singing in other languages. Backstreet Boys, Drake and Celine Dion, to name a few, have all flaunted their Spani
  
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• TaP Music’s Hannah Neaves & YouTube’s Azi Eftekhari Launch New Creative Agency

  21-01-2021 21:22
  
  With more than 40 years of combined experience in the music and technology industries, Azi Eftekhari and Hannah Neaves are launching a new London-based creative agency called Remedy Inc.
  Eftekhari has left her position as YouTube’s head of label relations (EMEA), while Neaves will continue her relationship with TaP Music (where she was most recently head of artist development & marketing) in the new role of creative director.
  With Remedy, the duo aim to create “cultural
  
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• Bad Religion share new song ‘Emancipation Of The Mind’ to celebrate Joe Biden becoming president

  21-01-2021 21:19 via nme.com
  
  Bad Religion have shared new track ‘Emancipation Of The Mind’ to celebrate Joe Biden becoming the 46th president on the United States.Read more: Fireworks, Foo Fighters and faith: Joe Biden marks a new day in America with hope-filled inauguration partyThe track, which you can listen to below, is a previously unreleased outtake from the band’s 2019 album, ‘Age of Unreason’.
  “The track’s upbeat messaging calls for reason and open-mindedness as a new admini
  
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• Tiësto & Ty Dolla $ign Enter a Joint Venture on Their New Collab ‘The Business, Pt. II’

  21-01-2021 20:44
  
  It’s corporate synergy with a thick beat on the new Tiësto and Ty Dolla $ign collab, “The Business, Pt. II”
  Out Thursday (Jan. 21), the song is a revision of Tiësto’s “The Business,” a dark thumper that’s racked up 204 million streams since dropping in September.
  The new edit features an ultra-smooth feature from Ty Dolla $ign, along with vocals from the original that this time around are pitched up by several octaves.“There is nothing be
  
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• Dolly Parton Mourns Younger Brother Randy Following His Death From Cancer: ‘He’s Shining in Heaven’

  21-01-2021 20:42
  
  Randy Parton, a singer-songwriter and the younger brother to country legend Dolly Parton, died after his battle with cancer. He was 67.
  Dolly made an official statement on her website and social media. “My brother Randy has lost his battle with cancer. The family and I are grieving his loss but we know he is in a better place than we are at this time,” she wrote. “We are a family of faith and we believe that he is safe with God and that he is joined by members of the
  
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• Coronavirus: Home Secretary Priti Patel announces £800 house party fine

  21-01-2021 20:40 via nme.com
  
  Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced a new £800 fine for those who flout the current lockdown rules to attend house parties.
  The fine will be handed to individuals attending illegal gatherings of more than 15 people in private homes, with each additional offence doubling to a maximum level of £6,400.
  Patel announced the move during tonight’s Downing Street press conference (January 21) which she led alongside the chair of the National Police Chiefs Council Martin Hewitt.
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• Foo Fighters say they are glad to “have contributed to the firing of that clown” Donald Trump

  21-01-2021 20:22 via nme.com
  
  Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has said he is glad to see the back of Donald Trump  and is pleased that the band “contributed to his firing”.Read more: Fireworks, Foo Fighters and faith: Joe Biden marks a new day in America with hope-filled inauguration partyThey performed remotely as part of last night’s Celebrating America, the TV special organised to mark the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden.
  For their appearance, the band delivered a stirring rendition of th
  
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• Village People Share Last Word on ‘Bully’ Trump Playing ‘YMCA’ At Farewell Event

  21-01-2021 20:10
  
  The Village People had a pointed response to “bully” ex-president Donald Trump playing their song “Y.M.C.A.” one more time against their wishes at his sparsely attended farewell event at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday (Jan. 20).
  For years Trump ignored pleas from a long list of famous acts to cease and desist from using their music during his rallies and political events, but he did it one more time in his final address, blasting the Village People’s icon
  
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• Eladio Carrión Secures Second Top 10 on Latin Rhythm Albums Chart With ‘Monarca’

  21-01-2021 19:59
  
  Eladio Carrión locks his second top 10 on the Latin Rhythm Albums chart (dated Jan. 23) as Monarca arrives at No. 8. The 14-track set is the follow up to Carrión’s first and only entry up to date on any Billboard chart: Sauce Boyz earned him his first top 10 on both Latin Rhythm Albums and the all-genre Top Latin Albums chart (Feb. 2020).
  “It feels great just to know that more and more people like the projects I put out,” the Kansas-born Puerto Rican-based act tel
  
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• SZA invites fans to “cry, laugh and talk” on new hotline

  21-01-2021 19:55 via nme.com
  
  SZA has launched a new hotline for fans who are struggling with their mental health.READ MORE: SZA: R&B’s dazzling new talent talks living in a commune and new album ‘Ctrl’The singer-songwriter announced the “apocalypse approved” GoodLine service today (January 21) with a vintage-look Instagram video, which is soundtracked by her recent song ‘Good Days’.
  “Uhhh random I made a hotline to cry n laugh n talk w chall 2 days outta the week,&rdq
  
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• The Anchoress shares ‘The Art Of Losing’ video and tells us about her Manics-featuring new album

  21-01-2021 19:53 via nme.com
  
  The Anchoress has shared the video for the title track from her upcoming second album, ‘The Art of Losing’. Check it out first on NME below.
  The follow up to Welsh multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies’ debut ‘Confessions of a Romance Novelist’ deals with the multiple losses and trauma that she has faced over the last few years – including the loss of her father and several miscarriages.
  To launch the new video, Davies spoke to NME about the challenge &n
  
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• New Year, New Taylor Swift Chapter: Here’s the ‘Dropped Your Hand While Dancing’ Collection

  21-01-2021 19:50
  
  Taylor Swift dropped your hand while dancing and a compilation EP of six Folklore and Evermore songs.
  The pop superstar threaded together songs from both surprise albums she released last year, including “Champagne Problems,” “Happiness,” “It’s Time to Go,” “Tolerate It,” “Coney Island (feat. The National),” and “Hoax” for her Dropped Your Hand While Dancing chapter. The title of the
  
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• Bicep say DJs performing raves during the COVID-19 pandemic is “absolutely disgusting”

  21-01-2021 19:46 via nme.com
  
  Bicep have hit out at DJs for performing at large raves during the coronavirus pandemic.READ MORE: Bicep – ‘Isles’ review: trippy electronic tales that transcend the club worldIt comes after a number of high-profile DJs, including Nina Kraviz and Dax J, performed legal sets across Europe but apparently weren’t socially distanced.
  “Seeing these established DJs who have money playing big raves during a pandemic is just absolutely disgusting,” Matt McBriar t
  
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• Lil Wayne & Kodak Black Thank Trump After Receiving Last-Minute Pardons

  21-01-2021 19:27
  
  Lil Wayne and Kodak Black showed their gratitude to former President Donald Trump after he included them in his pardoning spree Jan. 19 in one of his final acts before leaving office.
  Lil Wayne (real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a loaded weapon on a private jet while traveling to Miami in December 2020. Carter is a convicted felon, stemming from a gun charge in 2007, which meant he was looking at 10 years in prison at his Jan. 28
  
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• Eventbrite Missed Warnings About Armed Caravan Headed to Trump Rally In DC

  21-01-2021 19:22
  
  Even after being flagged on ticketing platform Eventbrite for encouraging passengers to bring concealed weapons to Washington D.C., a Pennsylvania man who organized a caravan to the Jan. 6 rally — and died during the riot on Capitol Hill — was allowed to continue selling tickets through the service, new reporting finds.
  Fifty-year-old web developer and Trump-themed toy-maker Ben Philips was one of several Trump supporters offering paid transportation services to rallies contesting th
  
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• Royal Blood share swaggering new single ‘Typhoons’ and announce third album

  21-01-2021 19:21 via nme.com
  Royal Blood have shared their new single ‘Typhoons’ – you can listen to it below.READ MORE: Royal Blood tell us about ‘Trouble’s Coming’ and their new album: “We’re seeing in colour for the first time”The track was premiered on BBC Radio 1 this evening (January 21) as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World, and follows on from ‘Trouble’s Coming’ in previewing the duo’s forthcoming third album.
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• Listen to Royal Blood’s swaggering new single ‘Typhoons’

  21-01-2021 19:21 via nme.com
  Royal Blood have shared their new single ‘Typhoons’ – you can listen to it below.READ MORE: Royal Blood tell us about ‘Trouble’s Coming’ and their new album: “We’re seeing in colour for the first time”The track was premiered on BBC Radio 1 this evening (January 21) as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World, and follows on from ‘Trouble’s Coming’ in previewing the duo’s forthcoming third album.
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• Woody Guthrie’s Daughter Cites Dad’s Scathing ‘Old Man Trump’ in Reaction to Former President’s Updated ‘Heroes’ Garden List

  21-01-2021 19:17
  
  One of former president Donald Trump’s last-minute executive actions was an expansion of his National Garden of American Heroes, which the real-estate mogul proposed as an outdoor statue gallery featuring historically significant Americans.
  The idea was first announced in the summer of 2020 as a 31-statue tribute slated to feature everyone from Susan B. Anthony, John Adams, Davy Crockett, Fredrick Douglass, Amelia Earhart and Billy Graham, to Jackie Robinson, Booker T. Washington, Antonin
  
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• Glastonbury Festival Canceled for the Second Year In a Row

  21-01-2021 19:02 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Glastonbury organizers have officially canceled their five-day-long music festival for the second year in a row. Glastonbury cofounder Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily, who organizes the 51-year-old event, announced the cancellation “with great regret” this morning, via a formal statement. Last year’s 50th anniversary edition of Glastonbury was put on ice in March of […]
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• Fryars announces first new album in six years and shares title track ‘God Melodies’

  21-01-2021 18:46 via nme.com
  Fryars has announced a new album and shared its title track ‘God Melodies’ – you can listen to it below.
  The musician and producer, whose real name is Benjamin Garrett, released his last studio effort ‘Power’ back in 2014.
  The new record will also include last year’s ‘Quail’s Egg No.1 In C Sharp Major’ and ‘Virtual Reality Games’ featuring Rae Morris.
  “‘God Melodies’ is about the purity of how we receive musical
  
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• Billie Eilish And Rosalía Finally Drop Their Long-Awaited Collab ‘Lo Vas A Olvidar’

  21-01-2021 18:44
  
  Billie Eilish and Rosalía sing in Spanish on their long-awaited collaboration, 'Lo Vas a Olvidar.'
  
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• Here’s Why Tim McGraw Felt ‘a Little Apprehensive’ About Taylor Swift’s Song Named After Him

  21-01-2021 18:39
  
  Having Taylor Swift name a song after you feels like an honor, but Tim McGraw had some initial worries about it.
  He told Apple Music’s Alecia Davis in a new interview about how Swift’s 2006 debut single aged the then-39-year-old country star. “Well, when I first heard ‘Tim McGraw’ by Taylor Swift, I mean, I thought it was a good song. I was a little apprehensive about it when I first heard it,” he admitted. “Then I thought, ‘Hav
  
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• Government “must act now to save festivals,” ministers warn after Glastonbury cancellation

  21-01-2021 18:26 via nme.com
  
  The government have been issued with a stark warning to “act now” to save the UK’s festival scene after today’s cancellation of Glastonbury.READ MORE: When and how could festivals and gigs return in 2021? Industry insiders and medical experts speak outAfter the coronavirus pandemic proved devastating for last year’s festival, it is feared that a similar run of cancellations could have a much more longterm impact on the circuit. At the start of January, The
  
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• Billie Eilish Shows Off Her Spanish in Dreamy Rosalia Collab ‘Lo Vas A Olvidar’: Watch

  21-01-2021 18:26
  
  After hinting that a collaboration was in the works back in Spring 2019, Billie Eilish and Rosalia finally dropped their highly anticipated track “Lo Vas A Olvidar” on Thursday (Jan. 21), in which Eilish completely stuns by singing in Spanish.
  “You guys have been waiting for this,” Eilish captioned a teaser video on Instagram Jan. 19
  With dreamlike, almost hazy melodies, the slow-tempo song is a bilingual track that brings to the forefront Eilish and Rosalia&rsq
  
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• Listen to Billie Eilish and Rosalía’s collaborative new song ‘Lo Vas A Olvidar’

  21-01-2021 18:21 via nme.com
  Billie Eilish has released her long-awaited collaboration with Rosalía – listen to ‘Lo Vas A Olvidar’ below.READ MORE: Billie Eilish live in LA: teen superstar builds a brave new world (and has a message for the real one)Rosalía first discussed the joint track in March 2019, saying that she “couldn’t wait” to finish it. Last April, the Spanish singer-songwriter revealed she and Eilish had been working on the song during lockdown, and said th
  
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• Anuel AA & Ozuna Rewrite the Rules of Reggaetón With Joint Album

  21-01-2021 17:58
  
  They were two 22-year-olds from Puerto Rico, scraping by on low-paid club gigs and hoping for their big break. They would play several sets a night, sometimes until seven in the morning. They had no label, no publisher, no major connections. Their music was edgy, but not necessarily in a cool way. Over spare fusions of reggaetón and trap, they sang of gunfights, drug deals and the anguish of wanting a better life — the kind of material the Latin music mainstream dismissed as trashy
  
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• Ryuichi Sakamoto diagnosed with cancer for the second time

  21-01-2021 17:57 via nme.com
  
  Ryuichi Sakamoto, lauded composer and founder of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, has been diagnosed with cancer for the second time in a decade.
  Sakamoto was originally diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, a disease that he reveals is now in remission.
  In a new note posted on his website, the composer detailed his new diagnosis of rectal cancer, stating his ambition to still make music “for a little while longer” while “living alongside cancer”.
  “I was relieved after t
  
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• Petey Martin & Lauren Daigle Land No. 1 Dance/Electronic Debut With ‘Come Back Home’

  21-01-2021 17:52
  
  Producer Petey Martin and singer Lauren Daigle launch at No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart (dated Jan. 23) with “Come Back Home.” The first ruler on the ranking for both acts sold 2,000 downloads in the week ending Jan. 14, according to MRC Data.
  “Home” concurrently bows at No. 18 on the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, also boasting 535,000 U.S. streams.
  It’s the first Billboard dance/electronic chart appearance for
  
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• 20 Questions With Beach Bunny: ‘Hannah Montana’ Memories, Karaoke Must-Haves & Searing New EP

  21-01-2021 17:46
  
  Beach Bunny, the indie-pop quartet led by Lili Trifilio, returned last week with Blame Game, a four-song EP that sharpens the perspective of the group’s 2020 full-length debut, Honeymoon. Whereas the band’s first album was focused on relationship complexities, Blame Game takes on social norms that deserve to be upended: lead single “Good Girls (Don’t Get Used)” dismisses emotionally unavailable partners, while “Blame Game” combats sexism in both general
  
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