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• Tom DeLonge shares footage of Angels & Airwaves recording “epic” new album

  01-02-2021 23:43 via nme.com
  Tom DeLonge has shared behind-the-scenes footage of himself at work on Angels & Airwaves‘ “epic” new album – you can watch the clip below.
  The band’s latest full-length record came in the form of 2014’s ‘The Dream Walker’. Since then, they’ve shared three EPs: ‘…Of Nightmares’ (2015), ‘Chasing Shadows’ (2016) and ‘We Don’t Need to Whisper Acoustic’ (2017).READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N&
  
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• Lenny Kravitz Hopes His Super Bowl Ad Encourages Everyone to ‘Spread Love’ and ‘Invest in Each Other’

  01-02-2021 23:24
  
  Our hearts beat on average 2.5 billion times in our lifetime, and Lenny Kravitz believes that makes everyone a billionaire.
  His 1991 Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 hit “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over” might not have 2.5 billion beats in it, but it sure conjures up music and sports-related nostalgia, and even the feeling of desperately hanging on to a relationship.
  Thirty years after the release of “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over,” t
  
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• Watch Margo Price cover John Prine’s ‘Sam Stone’ with Swamp Dogg

  01-02-2021 23:23 via nme.com
  
  Margo Price has teamed up with Swamp Dogg (aka Jerry Williams Jr.) for a collaborative cover of John Prine‘s ‘Sam Stone’.
  The duet was recorded remotely as part of eTown’s Quarantine Sessions series, with Price performing from Cash Cabin in Tennessee and Swamp Dogg from his studio in California.
  Taken from Prine’s 1971 self-titled debut, ‘Sam Stone’ tells the story of a Vietnam veteran who struggles with heroin addiction after he returns from conflict ov
  
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• Marilyn Manson dropped by record label amid abuse allegations

  01-02-2021 23:06 via nme.com
  
  Marilyn Manson has been dropped by his record label following allegations of grooming, abuse and manipulation made by Evan Rachel Wood and other women.
  Writing on Instagram today (February 1), Westworld actor Wood claimed that Manson had “horrifically abused” her for years. The former couple got engaged in January 2010 after beginning a relationship in 2007, but they called off their engagement in August 2010.
  She wrote: “I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I am
  
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• Warner Music Group Earnings: Streaming Boosts Label to Record Quarter

  01-02-2021 23:03
  
  Helped by double-digit streaming gains, Warner Music Group set a record for quarterly revenue of $1.335 billion in its fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 31, 2020.
  Streaming revenue was up 17.5% for Warner’s recorded music division compared to the same period in 2020, while total revenue grew 6% (4% at constant currency).
  Because Warner’s fiscal calendar runs a quarter behind a standard Gregorian calendar — its fiscal first quarter is the calendar year’s fourth quarter &mdas
  
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• What Is Your Favorite Justin Timberlake Single? Vote!

  01-02-2021 23:00
  
  Over his nearly two-decade solo career, Justin Timberlake has released 22 singles that have reached Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart — but which is your favorite?
  For Timberlake’s 40th birthday over the weekend, Billboard ranked every one of his Pop Airplay-charting singles as a lead or co-lead artist, and his debut solo track “Like I Love You” topped our list. But there are so many other standout cuts to choose from, like his four No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100,
  
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• Marilyn Manson Dropped by Record Label After Abuse Allegations

  01-02-2021 22:56 via rollingstone.com
  
  Loma Vista says it will "cease to further promote his current album, effective immediately"
  
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• Double K of LA Rap Duo People Under the Stairs Dies at 43

  01-02-2021 22:56
  
  Double K, one-half of the LA rap duo People Under the Stairs, died in his home Saturday, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner confirmed to Billboard. He was 43.
  Born Michael Turner, he and cohort Thes One (real name Christopher Portugal) formed People Under the Stairs in 1997. The two went on to collaboratively produce, sample, MC and DJ their own music with their DIY technique.
  People Under the Stairs released and entirely engineered their first album The Next Step in
  
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• As Budweiser Bails on the Super Bowl, Stella Artois Jumps In With Lenny Kravitz

  01-02-2021 22:53 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  With Budweiser having decided against purchasing Super Bowl ad space for the first time in nearly four decades, Stella Artois has partnered with “Fly Away” creator Lenny Kravitz on a 30-second-long spot that will air during this Sunday’s Super Bowl LV. Stella Artois – which first showed a Super Bowl commercial a decade ago, at […]
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• Billie Eilish Breaks Record for Most Alternative Airplay No. 1s Ever Among Soloists

  01-02-2021 22:44
  
  Billie Eilish claims the record outright for the most No. 1s among soloists in the history of Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart with “Therefore I Am,” which rises to the top of the ranking dated Feb. 6.
  “Therefore” is Eilish’s fourth No. 1 on the tally, all logged since May 2019, when “Bury a Friend” ruled for two weeks. Fellow two-week leader “Bad Guy” followed that summer and “Everything I Wanted” reigned for five fram
  
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• Foo Fighters share snippets of new tracks ‘Cloudspotter’ and ‘Making A Fire’

  01-02-2021 22:37 via nme.com
  
  Foo Fighters have shared snippets of two new ‘Medicine At Midnight’ tracks, ‘Cloudspotter’ and ‘Making A Fire’ – listen below.
  Dave Grohl and co. will release their 10th studio album this coming Friday (February 5), having previewed the project with its lead single ‘Shame Shame’, ‘No Son Of Mine’ and ‘Waiting On A War’.READ MORE: Dave Grohl tells us about Foo Fighters’ ‘Medicine at Midnight’: &ld
  
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• Luis Fonsi Joins Kelly Clarkson as ‘The Voice’ Team Advisor

  01-02-2021 22:12
  
  Luis Fonsi is set to join Kelly Clarkson as her team advisor on season 20 of The Voice.
  Fonsi, who has been a coach on Telemundo’s La Voz since 2018 — the network’s Spanish-language version of the singing competition series — is a “natural at giving constructive criticism.”
  “It means a lot to them,” Clarkson told Extra. “I’ve been them, and it means a lot when people actually take the time to invest in your performance.”
  
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• T.I.'s wife accuses woman who claimed rapper held gun to her head of 'harassing' her family

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  Sabrina Peterson took to Instagram on Tuesday to make the shocking claim.
  
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• Snoop Dogg to co-host Puppy Bowl

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  Snoop's own pets will be also feature in the show
  
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• Sean 'Diddy' Combs using COVID lockdown to make up time with family

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  Sean 'Diddy' Combs has spent time with his family, and declared he is interested in returning to making music.
  
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• Sam Smith and Christine and the Queens honour SOPHIE

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  Music stars are sharing their shock over the loss of fellow artist SOPHIE, who passed away suddenly on the weekend.
  
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• Russian punk star arrested for anti-Putin protest involvement

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  Maria Alekhina, a member of Pussy Riot, is under house arrest in Russia for protesting against Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Rag'n'Bone Man 'lived' with new album songs before recording them

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  Rag'n'Bone Man has hyped his upcoming album, which is titled Life By Misadventure.
  
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• Nile Rodgers unable to bury late mum due to Covid

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  The singer says the situation is "breaking our hearts"
  
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• Lenny Kravitz honours godmother and 'Black queen' Cicely Tyson

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  Lenny Kravitz has written a tribute to Cicely Tyson, who passed away last week.
  
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• How Pussy Riot Rushed to Release ‘RAGE’ Video to Support Putin Rival Alexei Navalny

  01-02-2021 22:08
  
  MOSCOW — A Strobe light flickers in a darkened room as a shaky camera hovers over Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot. Behind her a mob of partially clothed youth, some looking like vampires, form an undulating mosh pit.
  “A rat whispered to me in the subway: heretic…In the police [station] they stamped ‘heretic’ into my passport,” Tolokonnikova sings.
  So begins “RAGE,” the eerie video from Pussy Riot that Russian authori
  
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• Gloria Estefan and family score extra Red Table Talk order

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  Facebook bosses have optioned 12 more instalments of Red Table Talk: The Estefans, which will air later this year.
  
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• Coachella 2021 cancelled

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  The annual festival takes place in the Indio desert near Palm Springs in California.
  
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• Carrie Underwood recovering from neck injury

  01-02-2021 22:08 via music-news.com
  
  The singer had taken time out to recover
  
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• Pussy Riot rally for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s release with new song ‘RAGE’

  01-02-2021 22:01 via nme.com
  
  Pussy Riot have shared a video for their new track ‘RAGE’, a political song that calls for the release of Alexei Navalny from jail.
  The Russian art collective’s song arrives days after members Masha Alekhina, Viktoria Naraxsa and Lucy Shteyn were arrested in Moscow after attending one of several mass co-ordinated protest in support of the imprisoned Kremlin critic.
  According to Pitchfork, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Chris Greatti wrote ‘RAGE’, which i
  
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• Sophie Is Gone But Left Behind A Whole New World

  01-02-2021 21:58
  
  Sophie, the visionary electronic musician who helped breathe life into pop tunes from Charli XCX and Nicki Minaj and also created a world of her own, has died at 34. But what she left behind is massive and monumental.
  
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• ‘Soul,’ With 3 Credited Composers, Ruled Eligible for Best Original Score Oscar

  01-02-2021 21:51
  
  Disney-Pixar’s Soul has been ruled eligible to compete for an Academy Award for best original score. The unusual collaboration by longtime collaborators Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste is vying to become the first score by three credited composers in more than two decades to receive an Oscar nod.
  Reznor and Ross composed a new-age score for the metaphysical segments of the animated film, while Batiste composed a number of original jazz songs for the film’s New York Ci
  
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• Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga releasing new album together

  01-02-2021 21:48 via music-news.com
  
  Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga are releasing a new album together, which Tony worked on after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
  
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• Ashley Tisdale Asks You to ‘Thank Your Body’ With New Pregnancy Pic

  01-02-2021 21:46
  
  Ashley Tisdale kicked the week off with an uplifting message about self-love to accompany a naked bathroom selfie of her baby bump.
  “So much of the time we give our love to others. Let’s start loving ourselves and our bodies in every shape and form,” she wrote on her socials Monday (Feb. 1) while proudly showing off her pregnant body. “Our bodies do a lot for us every day and we neglect to acknowledge that. Thank your body and say I love you.”
  Her former H
  
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• Du Blonde to release Ezra Furman collaboration ‘I’m Glad That We Broke Up’ this week

  01-02-2021 21:36 via nme.com
  
  Du Blonde has announced a new single with Ezra Furman, which drops this Wednesday (February 3).
  ‘I’m Glad That We Broke Up’ is “our take on a 60s girl group/glam rock explosion”, Du Blonde wrote in a post on Instagram. The artist, whose real name is Beth Jeans Houghton, added that the song is “about breaking up, regretting it and getting back together”.
  “Ok we can’t keep it in anymore. Me and @ezra.furman.visions have a single coming out on W
  
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• Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ Is All About the Ecstasy of Discovery

  01-02-2021 21:33 via rollingstone.com
  
  The wildly inventive rapper-producer teams up with electronic musician Four Tet to create an album that lives in the space between the past and the future.
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo on track for fourth week at Number 1

  01-02-2021 21:12 via music-news.com
  
  The Official Chart: First Look, which airs on BBC Radio 1 today between 6pm – 7pm, offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead of Friday’s
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Tops Both Billboard Global Charts for Third Straight Week

  01-02-2021 21:11
  
  Olivia Rodrigo has the biggest song in the world for a third week, as “Drivers License” holds at No. 1 in its third frame on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts.
  The song is the first to top both tallies simultaneously for three consecutive weeks, dating to the charts’ September 2020 premieres.
  Plus, The Weeknd’s “Save Your Tears” reaches the Global Excl. U.S. chart’s top 10, jumping 14-10, as it holds at its No. 9 high o
  
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• Rihanna Calls Out Kentucky Attorney General’s Black History Month Post, Demands Justice For Breonna Taylor

  01-02-2021 21:06
  
  On the first day of Black History Month, Rihanna reminded Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron of how he failed Breonna Taylor.
  Cameron posted a video PSA on Twitter Monday (Feb. 1) about remembering and celebrating “the contributions Black men and women have made to our Commonwealth and to our nation,” including himself as the first Black attorney general of the state. But many have remembered Cameron for his office’s failure to charge the Louisville po
  
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• Nancy Sinatra says Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks “gave me the cold shoulder”

  01-02-2021 21:01 via nme.com
  Nancy Sinatra has claimed that Stevie Nicks gave her “a cold shoulder” when she crossed paths with the Fleetwood Mac singer.READ MORE: It’s about time Nancy Sinatra got her due – she’s pop’s original rebel girlSinatra, who releases her ‘Start Walkin’’ album on Friday (February 5), said in a recent interview with The Independent that she thought other female artists “sort of looked down” on her in the ’60s and ’70s.
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• Marilyn Manson Faces More Abuse Allegations – “He Groomed Me”

  01-02-2021 21:01 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Marilyn Manson is facing renewed abuse allegations – from Evan Rachel Wood and other women. Update: Following these abuse allegations, Marilyn Manson has been dropped by his label, Loma Vista Records. She posted about her experience with the singer on Instagram early this morning. “The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to […]
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• Marilyn Manson Dropped by Label as Abuse Allegations Continue – Singer Says Accusations Untrue

  01-02-2021 21:01 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Marilyn Manson is facing renewed abuse allegations – from Evan Rachel Wood and other women. Update: Following these abuse allegations, Marilyn Manson has been dropped by his label, Loma Vista Records.  Wood posted about her experience with the singer on Instagram early this morning. “The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to […]
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• Marilyn Manson Dropped by Label as Abuse Allegations Continue — “He Groomed Me”

  01-02-2021 21:01 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Marilyn Manson is facing renewed abuse allegations – from Evan Rachel Wood and other women. Update: Following these abuse allegations, Marilyn Manson has been dropped by his label, Loma Vista Records. She posted about her experience with the singer on Instagram early this morning. “The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to […]
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• Marilyn Manson Dropped by Label as Abuse Allegations Continue

  01-02-2021 21:01 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Marilyn Manson is facing renewed abuse allegations – from Evan Rachel Wood and other women. Update: Following these abuse allegations, Marilyn Manson has been dropped by his label, Loma Vista Records. She posted about her experience with the singer on Instagram early this morning. “The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to […]
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• Hear Margo Price Cover John Prine’s ‘Sam Stone’ With Swamp Dogg

  01-02-2021 20:51 via rollingstone.com
  
  Cult R&B singer Swamp Dogg previously recorded the song in 1972
  
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• Marilyn Manson Off Label’s Site After Evan Rachel Wood Claims Abuse

  01-02-2021 20:40
  
  Following Evan Rachel Wood’s Instagram post accusing Marilyn Manson, aka Brian Warner, of “horrifically” abusing her for years starting when she was a teenager, it appears that Loma Vista Records has dropped the artist.
  The band’s artist page has been scrubbed from Loma Vista’s website. A reporter for Billboard was able to place a cassette in his shopping cart this afternoon, but by the time he went to check out, the item was gone and Marilyn Manson has been removed
  
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• Marilyn Manson Dropped by Label After Evan Rachel Wood Claims Abuse

  01-02-2021 20:40
  
  Following Evan Rachel Wood’s Instagram post accusing Marilyn Manson, aka Brian Warner, of “horrifically” abusing her for years starting when she was a teenager,  Loma Vista Recordings has dropped the artist.
  “In light of today’s disturbing allegations by Evan Rachel Wood and other women naming Marilyn Manson as their abuser, Loma Vista will cease to further promote his current album, effective immediately,” the label said in a statement. “Due to the
  
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• Judas Priest’s Rob Halford on seeing ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ for the first time: “It was like watching ourselves”

  01-02-2021 20:37 via nme.com
  
  Rob Halford has revealed how much he related to the scenes depicted in classic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.READ MORE: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford: “I tried to throw a TV out of a hotel window once. It was like Mr Bean does Spinal Tap”The Judas Priest frontman recalled seeing the 1984 film with his bandmate Glenn Tipton, which both musicians remarked was a mirror image of their classic rock star antics.
  “I love satire. Glenn loves satire,” Halford told The Ho
  
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• Madison Square Garden Company’s London Sphere Faces Stiff Local Opposition

  01-02-2021 20:36 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  The Madison Square Garden Company faces stiff opposition to its London Sphere project. The project is still awaiting planning approval for a site in Stratford, just north of the O2 Arena. But locals are putting up stiff opposition to another live music arena in the area. The London Sphere project would measure over 295 feet […]
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• Kelly Clarkson Takes Us on a ‘Runaway Train’ to Nostalgia For Her Soul Asylum Cover

  01-02-2021 20:33
  
  Kelly Clarkson boarded up her band Y’all on the “Runaway Train” for her nostalgic Kellyoke cover of Soul Asylum’s hit on Monday (Feb. 1).
  The Kelly Clarkson Show host and her backup singer sang the blues while neon blue lights flashed on the vertical panels around them.
  “Runaway train never going back/ Wrong way on a one-way track/ Seems like I should be getting somewhere/ Somehow I’m neither here nor there,” she charged through the chorus of t
  
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• Sony Music Acquires AWAL From Kobalt In $430 Million Deal

  01-02-2021 20:28 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Sony Music has purchased Kobalt’s AWAL label services and distribution company in a $430 million deal. Kobalt and Sony Music unveiled their “definitive agreement,” which encompasses Kobalt Neighboring Rights in addition to AWAL, this morning. As part of the multimillion-dollar purchase, the former Kobalt holdings “will become a new division within SME’s suite of independent […]
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• 20 Questions With Guaynaa: Puerto Rican Artist on Paying Homage to Mexico in ‘Monterrey’

  01-02-2021 20:28
  
  After making the rounds with the Lele Pons-assisted “Se Te Nota” — and confirming his relationship with the multi-platform star — Guaynaa officially kicked off 2021 with the party-starting single “Monterrey.”
  The cumbia sonidera with hints of perreo, produced by Pain Digital, tells the story of a man falling head-over-heels for an older woman “who is 37 but looks 26,” and who he met in the city of Monterrey in Mexico. But the song is much more
  
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• Scottish Star Sophie Dead at 34 – She Defined the ‘Hyperpop’ Genre

  01-02-2021 20:16 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Scottish producer and performer Sophie is dead at age 34 due to an untimely accident in Athens. Her death was confirmed in a statement from her publicity company, Modern Matters. Sophie had been living in Greece at the time. According to the statement, Sophie had “climbed up to watch the full moon and accidentally slipped […]
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• Funko Pop! launch new Motörhead and AC/DC classic album figures

  01-02-2021 20:10 via nme.com
  
  Funko Pop! has announced new Motörhead and AC/DC figures – check out the preview images below.READ MORE: AC/DC on their explosive comeback record ‘Power Up’: “This album is for Malcolm”The US collectables company has released the ‘Ace Of Spades’ and ‘Highway To Hell’ figurines are part of their newly launched ‘Albums’ series.
  Late Motörhead frontman Lemmy is featured on the band’s new toy, which pays homa
  
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• Tributes paid to Glasgow venue Nice N’ Sleazy’s legendary doorman ‘Big John’

  01-02-2021 19:52 via nme.com
  
  Tributes have poured in for ‘Big John’, the legendary doorman of Glasgow venue Nice N’ Sleazy, who died at the weekend.
  Franz Ferdinand‘s Alex Kapranos said he will remember John for being “very jovial” and “compassionate”, but who was “firm” in his job guarding the iconic Scottish venue.
  “Very sad to hear about Big John, doorman of Nice n Sleazy and loved by many in Glasgow,” wrote Kapranos. “A lovely guy and a presen
  
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