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• Strawberries & Creem Festival postponed to September

  06-03-2021 23:12 via nme.com
  
  This year’s Strawberries & Creem Festival has been postponed to September due to the coronavirus pandemic.Read more: European festivals on returning in 2021: “We are only more optimistic for the summer”The Cambridge festival, which will celebrate its sixth birthday this year, will now be spread across two days taking place at its new site at Childerley Orchard on September 18-19.
  Described as “Cambridgeshire’s biggest music festival celebrating youth cultur
  
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• Chad Ochocinco claims Drake and Rick Ross joint album is on the way

  06-03-2021 22:18 via nme.com
  
  Former NFL player Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson has claimed that Drake and Rick Ross are currently working on a joint album.Read more: Drake – ‘Scary Hours 2’ EP review: title defender sounds ready to challenge himself againYesterday (March 5), Drake released his new EP, ‘Scary Hours 2’. The final song on the three-track project hears the Canadian rapper team up with Rick Ross on the Quadron-sampling ‘Lemon Pepper Freestyle’.
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• Louis Tomlinson Announces Plans to Launch New Management Company

  06-03-2021 21:45
  
  Louis Tomlinson is looking to develop some new musical talent.
  The 29-year-old singer took to social media on Saturday (March 6) to announce his plans to launch a new artist management company.
  “I always dreamed of having my own label, having an imprint never really worked for me because I still had to have someone else’s blessing to sign people,” Tomlinson began his series of tweets. “People I believed in massively but unfortunately didn’t fit the traditional pop r
  
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• Fabric announces 42-hour reopening weekend in June

  06-03-2021 21:22 via nme.com
  
  Fabric has announced that it will be hosting a 42-hour reopening weekend in June.Read more: How you can do your bit to help save the future of live musicThe London nightclub is set to reopen on June 25, with its Friday session running from 10pm-10am and its Saturday (June 26) session running from 10pm right through until 4am the following Monday (June 28).
  “As the world unlocks from the covid restrictions we are looking forward to welcoming artists and clubbers back at EC1 with a weekend-l
  
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• Beyonce Pays Tribute to Late Fan Lyric Chanel With Emotional Medley

  06-03-2021 21:01
  
  Beyonce is honoring the memory of her young fan Lyric Chanel, who died Friday (March 5) after a two-year battle with brain cancer and anaplastic ependymoma.
  The 13-year-old girl’s difficult illness was documented by her family on Instagram, which drew more than 600,000 followers and caught the attention of celebrities like Queen Bey and Cardi B.
  Following Lyric’s death, Beyonce shared an emotional video montage on her website in celebration of the girl’s life. In the tribute, w
  
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• Listen to Saxon’s roaring cover of The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’

  06-03-2021 19:53 via nme.com
  
  Saxon have shared a roaring cover of The Beatles‘ ‘Paperback Writer’ – listen to it below.Read more: The Beatles’ split 50 years on: the best songs from the solo careersThe British heavy metal legends are gearing up to release a covers album called ‘Inspirations’, due out on March 19 via Silver Lining Music.
  Recorded at Brockfield Hall, near York, the album will hear Saxon cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Motörhead, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy
  
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• Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell has finished recording his new solo album

  06-03-2021 19:00 via nme.com
  
  Alice In Chains‘ Jerry Cantrell has revealed he’s finished recording his long-awaited third solo album.Read more: Alice In Chains interview: “I can see resistance happening all over the world”The Seattle band’s guitarist-vocalist announced last year that he was recording the follow-up to his previous solo albums: 1998’s ‘Boggy Depot’ and 2002’s ‘Degradation Trip’.
  “It’s time to make the Raawwwkkk !!!,” he caption
  
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• 5 Uplifting Moments in Latin Music This Week (March 6)

  06-03-2021 18:48
  
  From career milestones and new music releases to major announcements and more, Billboard editors highlight the latest news buzz in Latin music every week. Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.
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  This week, Lunay teamed up with clothing brand Pull&Bear for the launch of his basketball-inspired capsule collection “Lu-Lu Athletics Club.” The limited-edition set, which was first introduced in September, was inspired by the arche
  
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• New Model Army's Justin Sullivan announces brand new solo album 'Surrounded'

  06-03-2021 18:33 via music-news.com
  
  On May 28th, 2021, Justin Sullivan steps out from New Model Army to release his second solo album, eighteen years after the first.
  
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• Eminem Responds to Cancellation Attempt With ‘Tone Deaf’ Animated Video

  06-03-2021 18:31 via rollingstone.com
  
  "I won't stop even when my hair turns grey (I'm tone-deaf) / 'Cause they won't stop until they cancel me," rapper says after TikTok controversy
  
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• The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando performs in local supermarket that found his lost wallet

  06-03-2021 18:16 via nme.com
  
  Evan Dando of The Lemonheads recently lost his wallet and after it was handed in at a local supermarket he returned to give a free in-store performance.Read more: The most beautiful lockdown performances, from churches and gardens to GlastoLast month, the singer-songwriter took to Twitter to ask for help in finding his wallet which he misplaced somewhere in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
  “I dropped my wallet with my drivers license and two debit cards in it,” he wrote. “I was wa
  
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• See Julien Baker Perform ‘Little Oblivions’ Songs on ‘CBS This Morning’

  06-03-2021 17:30 via rollingstone.com
  
  Singer-songwriter delivers "Hardline," "Heatwave" and "Faith Healer" from latest LP
  
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• 20 Questions With Danny Tenaglia: The Dance Legend On Paradise Garage, Turning 60 & Life Off the Road

  06-03-2021 16:29
  
  Danny Tenaglia has been into — and influencing — dance music before the genre had really even been fully defined. Growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the ’60s and ’70s, Tenaglia absorbed the sounds and styles of his diverse neighborhood and cultivated a love of rummaging through records as a child into a career that is now well into its fourth decade.
  Starting in the ’80s, when Tenaglia was working for the Billboard charts before signing his first reco
  
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• Richard Ashcroft and Supergrass to headline Nottingham’s Splendour Festival

  06-03-2021 15:10 via nme.com
  
  Richard Ashcroft and Supergrass have been announced as the headliners for the 2021 edition of Nottingham’s Splendour Festival.
  The festival, held on Saturday July 24, is the latest UK festival to announce its intention to go ahead following the unveiling of the UK’s road map out of lockdown.READ MORE: UK Festivals on what to expect from the summer: “Safety is all we think about”Alongside Ashcroft and Supergrass, the likes of Becky Hill and The Vamps will also perform at S
  
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• Watch SZA’s Psychedelic New Video for ‘Good Days’

  06-03-2021 15:01 via rollingstone.com
  
  "I’m a plant living growing and dying .. also on shrooms," singer tweets of video, which also teases new song "Shirt"
  
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• The Cure’s Robert Smith is selling special artwork for charity

  06-03-2021 14:11 via nme.com
  
  The Cure’s Robert Smith is selling a piece of special artwork for the Heart Research UK charity.
  The piece of artwork, entitled ‘I WILL KISS YOU FOREVER…’, was originally created last year for the charity’s annual anonymous heART project, which invites a number of artists and celebrities to create original art on an A5 postcard anonymously, with buyers only discovering the identity of the creator upon purchasing.
  Now, Smith’s artwork created for the project,
  
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• Mitski shares new track ‘The Baddy Man’ from graphic novel soundtrack

  06-03-2021 13:40 via nme.com
  
  Mitski has shared a new song, taken from her soundtrack to a new graphic novel – listen to ‘The Baddy Man’.
  As revealed last year, the singer-songwriter was hired by Z2 Comics to create the score, which will accompany writer Chris Miskiewicz and artist Vincent King’s forthcoming novel, called This Is Where We Fall.READ MORE: Mitski stuns in Central Park as she bows out of the live arena (for now) with artful and emotional farewellThe soundtrack is set to arrive on May 5,
  
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• Record Store Day announce second 2021 event for July

  06-03-2021 12:58 via nme.com
  
  Record Store Day has announced a second drop date for 2021, with events now taking place in June and July.
  It comes after the 2020 version of the annual celebration ended up being split across three events in August, September and October.
  After announcing their initial date of June 12 for 2021’s RSD at the end of last year, an additional date of July 17 has now been added.Big Record Store Day news, we have added a second date to the Summer celebrations! The #RSDDrops are back and now taki
  
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• Alice Cooper: Bob Ezrin is the only other person who understands the character

  06-03-2021 12:47 via music-news.com
  
  The 'School's Out' rocker - whose real name is Vincent Furnier - has opened up on his working relationship with the producer, which started
  
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• Tekashi 6ix9ine hits back as Lil Nas X accuses him of 'sliding into his DMs'

  06-03-2021 12:01 via music-news.com
  
  The rapper was criticised after allegedly making a homophobic comment about the Old Town Road star.
  
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• Watch Holly Humberstone join Glass Animals for version of ‘Heat Waves’

  06-03-2021 11:55 via nme.com
  
  Holly Humberstone has joined Glass Animals for a new acoustic performance of the band’s recent single ‘Heat Waves’ – watch the collaboration below.
  Humberstone and the band’s singer Dave Bayley performed the song for the La Blogotheque series while strolling through Hackney in London.READ MORE: Glass Animals – ‘Live In The Internet’: indie-pop dons re-define the potential of virtual gigsThe new video is the latest alternate take on ‘Heat Wave
  
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• SZA enters a trippy wonderland in new video for ‘Good Days’

  06-03-2021 11:17 via nme.com
  
  SZA has shared a trippy new video for ‘Good Days’ – you can watch it below.
  As with the singer’s recent visual for the single ‘Hit Different’, the new video also ends with a snippet of unreleased material.
  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 new video, directed by Solana, sees SZA heading th
  
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• Joe Strummer's unheard version of 'Junco Partner' revealed from new solo compilation 'Assembly'

  06-03-2021 10:49 via music-news.com
  
  Dark Horse Records is celebrating the upcoming release of its newly remastered collection of solo cuts from Joe Strummer
  
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• Watch Wolf Alice give ‘The Last Man On Earth’ stunning live debut on ‘Jools’

  06-03-2021 09:31 via nme.com
  
  Wolf Alice gave a live debut to their comeback single ‘The Last Man On Earth’ on last night’s (March 5) episode of Later… with Jools Holland – watch below.
  The band shared their comeback single last month, along with details of third album ‘Blue Weekend’, due in June via Dirty Hit.READ MORE: Wolf Alice’s ‘The Last Man On Earth’ is a majestic change of pace from Britain’s best bandThe new Jools performance was led by Ellie Rowsell
  
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• Roger Daltrey doesn't want to overanalyse his special 'chemistry' with Pete Townshend

  06-03-2021 09:09 via music-news.com
  
  The Who musician has opened up on the special relationship he shares with his bandmate and their close songwriting bond
  
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• Drake promises fans 'Certified Lover Boy' is 'in the pot and coming soon'

  06-03-2021 09:07 via music-news.com
  
  The 'Toosie Slide' hitmaker has given an update on the delayed record and teased it's “currently being chef’d in every way possible”
  
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• Kelly Rowland vows to never wear low-rise jeans ever again

  06-03-2021 08:05 via music-news.com
  
  The 40-year-old singer took a look back on her style evolution and was shocked that the 2000s fashion trend was ever a thing as they were so "close to the pubic line".
  
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• Cardi B deactivates Twitter account following doll backlash

  06-03-2021 05:21 via music-news.com
  
  Cardi B has dropped a doll made in her image.
  
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• Morgan Wallen’s “Whiskey Glasses” Crosses 300 Million Streams on Spotify — “7 Summers” Crosses 100 Million

  06-03-2021 04:27 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Despite being partially banned by Spotify, Morgan Wallen is racking up some serious streaming numbers. Morgan Wallen has been removed from nearly every radio station in America for more than a month. But it now looks like Wallen fans are merely shifting to platforms like Spotify. According to details shared with Digital Music News this […]
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• Watch Caroline Polachek perform ‘Breathless’ on ‘The Late Late Show’

  06-03-2021 04:18 via nme.com
  
  Caroline Polachekhas given a stirring performance of ‘Breathless’ on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
  Appearing on the talk show on Thursday night (March 4), Polachek’s ‘Breathless’ is a cover of The Corrs‘ 2000 single. Her studio version – released last December –  will be featured as a bonus track on the forthcoming vinyl release ‘Standing At The Gate: Remix Collection’, due out April 16 via her own label, Perpetual Novice.
  
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• Roc Nation Wins $12M Insurance Claim Over Maroon 5 Manager’s Death

  06-03-2021 03:46
  
  Roc Nation has won a $12 million lawsuit against Texas-based insurance provider Houston Casualty Company (HCC) for failing to pay out a “key man insurance policy” on Maroon 5’s late manager Jordan Feldstein.
  Feldstein, older brother of actors Jonah Hill and Beanie Feldstein, was the co-founder and CEO of Career Artist Management (CAM) where he principally managed Maroon 5 and Adam Levine, his childhood friend. He died unexpectedly of natural causes at the age of 40 on Dec. 22,
  
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• Diddy’s REVOLT Promotes Detavio Samuels, Colin McIntosh

  06-03-2021 03:25
  
  Sean “Diddy” Combs’ REVOLT has unveiled key promotions to reshape the top management at the hip-hop cable network after the departure of Roma Khanna as CEO last year.
  Detavio Samuels, hired as chief operating officer in 2020, is promoted to CEO, while Colin McIntosh adds the COO title to his chief financial officer duties at the Black-owned media company. Samuels and McIntosh started sharing the leadership at REVOLT as co-heads when former MGM and NBCU exec Khanna stepped down
  
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• Bhaskar Menon, Legendary EMI and Capitol Records Head, Dies at 86

  06-03-2021 03:22
  
  Bhaskar Menon, the founding chairman and CEO at EMI Music Worldwide who is widely credited for breaking Pink Floyd in the U.S. and presiding over one of Capitol Records’ most successful eras, died on Mar. 4, 2021, at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 86.
  “Determined to achieve excellence, Bhaskar Menon built EMI into a music powerhouse and one of our most iconic, global institutions,” said Universal Music Group chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge in a statement. “Music and th
  
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• Latest Industry Gigs: Songtradr, BMI, WEA, Exactuals, More

  06-03-2021 03:08 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Here’s a recap of recent executive shuffles — including both hirings and in-house promotions — from across the music industry. If you have a job shuffle to share, we’re all ears. Send us a note to [email protected]. If you’d like to post a job on our Job Board, just send us a request to [email protected]. […]
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• Music’s First Blockchain Ticketer Big Neon Has Run Out of Money

  06-03-2021 02:52
  
  Big Neon was billed as music’s first blockchain ticketing company when it launched at the end of 2018 and announced plans top become a token-based system by 2020 and the eventual “spiritual successor” to Ticketfly. But 27 months after launching, the mobile-based ticketing system has run out of money and is now shutting its doors, co-founders Dan Teree and Ryan O’Connor confirm to Billboard.
  Earlier this week, Teree and O’Connor sent to a note to venue
  
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• Kelly Clarkson Wraps You With ‘These Arms of Mine’ for Her Otis Redding Cover

  06-03-2021 02:46
  
  Kelly Clarkson embraced an old-school classic by covering Otis Redding’s “These Arms of Mine” for Friday’s (March 5) Kellyoke segment on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
  A single spotlight illuminated Clarkson’s silhouette as she walked up to the mic on the blacked-out stage before yellow and purple lights lit up the talk show host.
  “These arms of mine/ They are burning/ Burning from wanting you/ These arms of mine/ They are wanting/ Wanting to hold you,” s
  
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• Evanescence release new album cut, ‘Better Without You’

  06-03-2021 02:40 via nme.com
  
  Evanescence have dropped a new single, ‘Better Without You’, lifted from their forthcoming studio album.
  Released yesterday (March 5), the track is the third official single lifted from the band’s upcoming album, ‘The Bitter Truth’, due out March 26. Upon its release, it will mark the Arkansas rock outfit’s first album of all-new music in a decade.
  ‘Better Without You’ sees vocalist Amy Lee’s project a fierce performance of unapologetic indep
  
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• Metallica donate £54,000 to help victims of Texas storms

  06-03-2021 02:36 via nme.com
  
  Metallica have donated £54,000 (US$75,000) to aid victims of the winter storms which swept Texas last month.
  Through their non-profit organisation, All Within My Hands, Metallica pledged the funds to Feeding America’s Feeding Texas campaign, which is working to assist those impacted.
  Per The Washington Post, last month’s storms left 4 million Texans without power, 15 million without drinkable or running water and at least 30 dead.
  “The winter storm that struck Texas last
  
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• Metallica donate £54,000 to assist victims of Texas storms

  06-03-2021 02:36 via nme.com
  
  Metallica have donated £54,000 (US$75,000) to aid victims of the winter storms which swept Texas last month.
  Through their non-profit organisation, All Within My Hands, Metallica pledged the funds to Feeding America’s Feeding Texas campaign, which is working to assist those impacted.
  Per The Washington Post, last month’s storms left 4 million Texans without power, 15 million without drinkable or running water and at least 30 dead.
  “The winter storm that struck Texas last
  
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• Adam Levine Says There Are No Bands Anymore & Hayley Williams Has Questions

  06-03-2021 02:36
  
  Adam Levine got Twitter abuzz thanks to a new interview in which he lamented a lack of bands in the pop music landscape. As it turns out, a couple of current bands had some thoughts.
  In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, promoting Maroon 5’s latest single “Beautiful Mistakes” with Megan Thee Stallion, Levine talked about how things looked a lot different now than they did when his band dropped their debut album, Songs About Jane, almost 20 years ago.
  “When t
  
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• How Many Spotify Streams Do Artists Need to Earn Minimum Wage?

  06-03-2021 02:07 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Ever wondered how many Spotify streams an artist needs per month to earn minimum wage? The answer to that question depends on where the artist is from in the United States. The federal minimum wage is set at $7.25, while many states have higher minimum wages based on population density. Digital Music News took the […]
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• SZA Takes a Mushroom-Fueled Trip to Wonderland in ‘Good Days’ Video

  06-03-2021 01:23
  
  Magic mushrooms send SZA on a trip to wonderland for her self-directed music video for “Good Days,” which premiered Friday (March 5).
  The Alice in Wonderland-inspired field of larger-than-life mushrooms surround the singer for a visual that encapsulates the enchanting single about good days to look forward to. SZA also takes her moves to the library like Belle from Beauty and the Beast, where she can be found gracefully twirling around a pole while reading a book.
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• Grimes Signs to Columbia Records: Exclusive

  06-03-2021 01:23
  
  Grimes has signed with Columbia Records, a source tells Billboard. This marks her first foray into the major label system, having released albums only on independent labels previously.
  After releasing two albums in 2010 on Canadian indie Arbutus Records, Grimes’ last three albums were released on 4AD — Visions (2012), Art Angels (2015) and Miss Anthropocene (2020). Collectively these projects have earned 736,000 album consumption units, of which 307,000 are in album sales and 55
  
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• Yout’s Aggressive Litigation Against the RIAA Is Headed Towards a Settlement

  06-03-2021 01:20 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Back in October of 2020, Hartford, Connecticut-based stream-ripping platform Yout levied a firmly worded lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Now, some five months later, the parties are working towards a settlement. The underlying courtroom confrontation kicked off after the RIAA sent Google three DMCA takedown requests – two in October of […]
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• Is Turntable.fm Back From the Dead After 8 Years?

  06-03-2021 01:13 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  The DJ chat room experience Turntable.fm may be climbing out of its early grave with help from its founder. Billy Chasen, Turntable.fm’s original founder, is seemingly back and at the helm of the project. Chasen announced the virtual DJ product was shutting down in 2013. Turntable.fm featured rooms where users could curate a music experience […]
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• Dreamville Teams Up With Puma to Re-Release J. Cole’s RS-Dreamer

  06-03-2021 01:11
  
  Dreams do come true! Puma and J. Cole re-released the sold-out RS-Dreamer sneaker on Friday (Mar. 5), a year after its original drop.
  The shoe, a black hoops silhouette with bright red, yellow, green and purple accents along the heel was seen worn by NBA athletes throughout the 2020 season. The RS-Dreamer retails for $125 and is available in adult and kids sizes here.
  In addition to the relaunch, Puma and J. Cole’s label Dreamville announced a Dreamer Contest, starting today (Mar. 5), whic
  
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• Miley Cyrus Cops Another Harry Styles Magazine So She Can Immediately Add It to Her ‘Collection’

  06-03-2021 00:51
  
  Miley Cyrus is making her investment in the Harry Styles fandom well known.
  She showed off her latest purchase, The Ultimate Guide to Harry Styles, via Twitter on Friday (March 5), and Cyrus said it’s just one more addition to her growing “HS collection.”
  “CONSIDER THIS BOUGHT. Adding to my HS collection immediately,” she wrote.
  CONSIDER THIS BOUGHT. Adding to my HS collection immediately. pic.twitter.com/cvd7kn3Lwl
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• K-Pop Is Missing on Spotify, So Fans Launch #SpotifyIsOverParty Campaign

  06-03-2021 00:50 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  K-pop went missing on Spotify in February. Now fans are campaigning to bring it back. Hundreds of K-pop artists from multiple genres and styles were removed from Spotify in February. A complicated licensing dispute between Spotify and South Korean distributor, Kakao M, is to blame. Kakao M is now a direct competitor with Spotify, thanks […]
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• From Drake to Justin Bieber & More, What’s Your Favorite New Music Release? Vote!

  06-03-2021 00:09
  
  Canadian chart-toppers Drake and Justin Bieber are back at it again this week with new music — but which release tops the rest?
  The 6 God plots his return to “the hot one hundo, numero uno” with the Scary Hours 2 song pack to tide fans over until his sixth album Certified Lover Boy comes out this year.
  Meanwhile, Beliebers “Hold On” for another single before the Biebs drops his own sixth album Justice. And Bruno Mars and Ander
  
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